The One Who Will Become King (88)

Akasan and Judah were ready. They'd been raring to fight for months. And now, hordes of massive magic beasts were running their way.

Judah flew straight into the action. He cut up several beasts in one hit each, his large cross slicing them in half.

Akasan was beating them in one hit as well, only with punches and kicks.

Annya was also capable of defeating the beasts in one hit, using large scale fire magic, she could obliterate several at a time.

Gin looked confused. "W-Who are you all? This isn't fair!"

Annya never looked his way. "You should've trained more."

Gin growled. "Don't patronize me!" He clapped his hands together. "Magic Art: Mana Rounds!"

Red mana shone at the tips of Gin's index and middle fingers. He pointed them like guns and started firing at the creatures. He only hit headshots. He killed 30 magic beasts in seconds. "I train plenty." he said. "Nori, a little help?"

The silver-haired guy behind him sighed. He placed his hands on the ground. "Magic Art: Silver Serpent."

A giant silver snake-like dragon came out of a silver magic circle. It roared as it strangled several magic beasts at the same time.

Kawa wasn't doing anything. She looked out of place.

Judah looked back at her. "Kawa! I need your help!!"

She looked at him. "R-Really? You need me?"

Judah cut another beast in half. "Yeah!"

Kawa blushed as her heart raced. "O-Okay! If y-you say so!"

Akasan flew closer to Judah. "You really need her?"

"Nah. It just helps get her motivated. She's shy."

Akasan grinned. "You have a way with women huh?"

Judah frowned. "Stop it."

Kawa sheepishly placed her hands together. "Magic Art: Weather Control!"

Everyone couldn't help but look at the giant magic circle on the battle field. It was under all of the magic beasts.

Lightning struck every beast on the battlefield and killed them.

Everyone's mouth hung wide open except Judah. He looked at Akasan. "Kawa thought she was eighth-tier, but I taught her how to use tier nine spells."

Kawa felt the stares and her face turned red. "Stop looking at me!!"

"She's... awesome!"

Kawa blushed harder and clapped her hands together quickly. "Magic Art: Camoflage!" She turned invisible.

Gin sighed. "Even invisibility? I swear, talent is wasted on some people."

Nori lightly smacked him on the head. "Don't talk like that."

"You act like you're my dad or something!!"

Nori's expression remained neutral. "But I'm older than you."

"Yeah by a year! Get a hold of yourself for once!"

Just then, thousands of yellow magic circles appeared across the land.

Out of the circles, came gray beings that were over 500 meters tall, with gray feathered wings instead of arms, and faces with no features. White aura wafted from each and every one of them.

"You've gotta be kidding me..." Gin said, dropping to the ground on his knees.

Even Nori was speechless.

Judah was shaking. His eyes were as wide as they could get.

Akasan looked at him. "Judah?"

Judah tightened his fists. "Nephilim."

Annya sighed. "The soldiers of the Supreme God Baphomet. Each one is stated to be able to wipe universes clean."

Akasan's eyes widened. "What?!!"

Judah grit his teeth. "We're currently in a dimension created by Merlin... therefor those aren't the actual Nephilim. They can't be."

Akasan looked out at the horde of towering winged giants. "So how strong are they?"

Judah closed his eyes. "If they have even a fraction of their original power, immensely."

Gin looked hopeless. "So it was all for nothing... how unfair life is..."

Kawa came out of her invisibility. "Judah? What should we do?"

Judah opened his eyes. They gave off a green glow. "We fight. What else can we do."

Akasan went into his Crimson Fire form. His one Kamigen glowed with intensity. "Couldn't have said it any better!"

Gin looked at them angrily. "Don't you idiots get it?! We're gonna die in here!! Stop trying to be heroes!!"

Annya pulled out her wand. "Gin, shut up. Third-rate talents have no right to judge the strong!"

Gin stood up. He was furious now. "Third rate?!! You think you have the right to talk, you-"

Before Gin could utter another word, one of the Nephilim had already made its way directly above him. It happened in an instant. A gigantic hand came down upon him.

Judah reacted quickly enough. He got to the spot directly under the hand and raised his arm. "Magic Art: Kiloplane!"

A golden-yellow two dimensional square formed between the giant's hand and Judah's. The Nephilim made contact with it, but couldn't get past.

Judah looked at Akasan. "Some help over here?!"

Akasan was already on it. He bounded into the air and held his arm straight behind him. Crimson flames engulfed the entire arm until it was several times larger than normal. The flames' glow grew brighter than usual, and Akasan balled the fist. "Giant Crimson Fist!!"

BOOM!!!

Akasan made contact with the giant's torso. The force was enough to completely obliterate it.

Akasan remained in the air with his giant fist still intact. He zoomed towards the horde of Nephilim.

Seeing Akasan bolting towards them, the Nephilim all focused their attacks on him alone.

As Akasan continued to knock out more and more giants, eventually they became too much.

Before Akasan could be grabbed by a giant hand, Judah intercepted to cut the arm off. His golden cross made easy work out of the giants.

Annya flew into the battle as well. She pointed her wand. "Magic Art: Ignio Inferna!"

whoosh!!

Roughly fifty Nephilim caught fire at once. The red-orange flames sparkled like glitter on the inside, as the flames attacked the Nephilim on a cellular level.

In seconds they burned to a crisp.

Kawa used Weather Control to strike lightning down on as many giants as she could. She could also summon earthquakes to knock them off-balance.

It took the four of them several hours to defeat all of the giants.

After the last of the Nephilim fell to the ground, Akasan, Judah, Kawa, and Annya, all touched ground catching their breath. They huffed and heaved with great difficulty.

Gin and Nori were amazed. It's not a stretch to say that they were useless in that battle. All they could do was watch helplessly.

Gin couldn't even say anything.

"Everyone... good... job..." Judah said between his breaths.

"You... too..." Akasan said back.

When the smoke on the battlefield died down, a man was sitting on the ground. "I didn't expect the giants to be wiped out."

The man was muscular, with wild spiked orange hair and a beard. His eyes were a sharp yellow, and his skin resembled that of a volcano. Dark and cracked with lava.

He stood up. "Well that was a record time."

Judah saw the man's profile when he stood and his eyes glared with anger immediately.

Akasan stepped forward, but Judah blocked him with his arm. "Don't... bother. He's mine."

Akasan looked confused. "What are you talking about? Aren't we all in this together?"

Judah looked back at him. "Sorry... but that man is Ares. A god. All of Zeus' children are mine." He walked towards the god.

Kawa looked at Akasan. "Zeus is responsible for killing Judah's family. Only his grandfather was left alive. Judah lived up to this point for two things, to take his grandfather's place and to avenge his family."

Akasan watched as Judah walked up to Ares.

Ares smirked as he stared him in the face. "I know you. But I can't remember where from."

Judah's hair and eyes glowed green. "It doesn't matter for you."

Judah waved his hand and Ares was knocked over at blistering speed by a streak of golden light too fast to see.

"Stand up." Judah said.

Ares started glowing with fire. He pushed Judah away with a strong gust of wind and flame.

Judah flipped mid air and stuck his cross into the ground to hold his footing.

Judah waved his hand again, which hit Ares in the face and made him stumble.

Judah stood up, waving his hand faster and faster.

Thousands of golden strikes were hitting Ares in all parts of his body at the speed of light.

"What's going on? I can't see anything!" Annya exclaimed.

Kawa smiled and blushed. "Hand of God, Million Strike. He hits his opponent with strikes that they can't see coming, so it's impossible to dodge. Isn't it beautiful?!"

Judah was constantly hitting Ares with speed of light attacks from a distance.

Kawa squirmed out of admiration. "The hits take out the opponent's nervous system so that they can't move!"

Akasan smiled. "He's strong. Even though Ares is probably more powerful, if he can't dodge Judah's attacks, then it's all pointless."

Judah stopped waving his hand. He quickly stepped towards Ares, who was frozen from shock, and swung his cross. "Holy Sword: Judgement Cross!!"

*boom!*

 The cross cut Ares cleanly in half.

A shockwave of wind blew past the others.

Judah's cross dissipated, and he got down on one knee and bowed his head. "That's one down, mom." he said to himself.

A chime sounded in the air, and everyone was teleported to another waiting room.

Merlin awaited them, sitting down at a small round table with a cup of tea in hand. "Ah. Welcome back. That god wasn't put there by us, somehow he got in and didn't leave. We decided it would be a good exercise for the examinees to engage in battle with a god. For experience purposes. But it seems that only one of you was needed for the task."

He looked at Judah. "Tell me, Judah, where did you get your Holy Sword? Is it made of magic?"

Judah held his hands up. A small black cross appeared in each of his palms. "As a child, I was given this mark in my sleep. It's a blessing of Holy Blaze."

Merlin took a sip of his tea. "Ah, Holy Blaze. A truly rare sight. No wonder you could use it even with the block on your energy."

Gin took a step forward. "Have you been watching us this entire time?"

Merlin nodded. "You could say that, yes. But I am truly disappointed in your performance Gin. The same goes for you as well Nori. But because of these four, there are six survivors here. The regular number after completion of the second stage is no more than three." He sipped his tea again. "I will now start the third stage."

Merlin snapped his fingers and the entire room became white. But it wasn't really a room anymore. It stretched endlessly in all directions, but somehow they were standing on some invisible platform. "The Third Stage, is about patience. You all will remain here... forever."