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Valerius pulled his hand away. He looked at his fingers. They were covered in his own bright red blood. He stared at the blood. His brain could not process the reality of the situation. He was the Patriarch of the Saint-Aurelius Clan. He was a Peak Sovereign. He was a half-step away from becoming a living god. He had spent two hundred years making his body absolutely invincible. And a young boy, an exiled prince from the graveyard, had danced through his ultimate attacks and cut his face as easily as slicing a soft piece of fruit. "I... I am bleeding," Valerius whispered out loud. His voice carried across the silent stadium. He looked up at Lucien. Valerius’s eyes were no longer angry. They were no longer arrogant. They were completely, totally empty. The massive, unbending pride of the oldest master in the Empire had been shattered into a million tiny, irreparable pieces. He had lost everything. He had lost his weapon, he had lost his magic, and he had lost his dignity. He ha
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Down in the dirty Coach's Box, Seraphina watched the magical screens. Her pale blue eyes were wide with awe. Her heart beat rapidly in her chest. She saw the exact movements Lucien had taught her in the private courtyard. She saw him sliding into the empty spaces. She saw him relaxing his shoulders just a fraction of a second before dodging. “He is showing me the perfect form,” Seraphina realized, her hands trembling. “Even now, locked in a cage with an army, he is still teaching me.”Out in the center of the arena, Patriarch Valerius was running completely out of breath. His lungs burned. His heavy golden armor felt like it weighed a thousand pounds. The glowing golden fire on his broken axe handle began to flicker and dim. He was bleeding heavily from his mouth. His life-force was almost totally gone. "I will not lose to a shadow!" Valerius screamed wildly. The old man decided to use his very last, desperate attack. He poured every single drop of his remaining magic, his blood,
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Lucien stepped softly to the left. He did not dodge by a wide margin. He moved exactly one single inch out of the way. The massive golden blade sliced through the empty air right next to Lucien’s helmet. The intense heat singed the dark magic around his armor, but the physical blade missed completely. Valerius’s eyes widened in shock. The attack was perfect! How did the boy dodge it so smoothly? Valerius pulled the heavy weapon back and swung again. This time, he slashed horizontally, aiming to cut Lucien in half at the waist. "Sun-Severing Slash!" Valerius roared, releasing a wave of burning golden holy fire. Lucien did not block. He leaned his upper body backward at an impossible, physics-defying angle. The golden fire passed directly over his chest. While leaning backward, Lucien spun his pitch-black iron sword in his hand. He flicked his wrist casually. The flat side of Lucien’s dark sword hit the side of Valerius’s golden knee. It was a fast, annoying, painful strike. Val
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The giant, circular cage of black iron shields was completely closed. Fifty thousand Imperial Soldiers surrounded the center of the arena. They stood shoulder to shoulder, stacking their heavy metal shields three rows high. Ten thousand sharp silver spears pointed inward. They created a solid, inescapable wall of steel and fear. Inside the cage, the air was incredibly hot. It smelled of old sweat, melted glass, and dark magic. Patriarch Valerius knelt on the ruined floor. His heavy golden armor was cracked. His long white beard was stained with dark red blood. He had dropped his broken battleaxe. He looked at the iron shields around him. He realized that his own grandson, the Emperor, had locked him inside this cage to die. The old man bowed his head. He was ready for the execution. He was ready for the Graveyard King to cut his head off. Lucien stood in the center of the cage. He wore his terrifying, pitch-black [Abyssal Armor State]. The dark, jagged crystals pulsed with glowi
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The shields fit perfectly together like puzzle pieces, creating a solid, unbroken wall of dark metal. Then, a second row of soldiers stepped up behind the first. They raised their heavy shields, resting them on top of the first row. Then a third row. In less than three minutes, an impossible, terrifying structure had been built inside the arena. The Imperial Army had formed a colossal, multi-layered shield-wall. It was thirty feet high. It completely surrounded the center of the arena in a perfect, inescapable circle. From the gaps between the heavy iron shields, ten thousand long, sharp, silver spears were thrust forward, pointing directly inward at Lucien. The spears bristled like the deadly quills of a giant, metal porcupine. Lucien and Patriarch Valerius were completely, totally trapped. They were locked inside a cage of solid steel, surrounded by fifty thousand elite, mindless, obedient soldiers. It was a literal coliseum built entirely out of men and metal. The crowd in t
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Serephina stepped backward off the wooden railing. She landed softly on the dirt floor of the pit. She lowered Winter’s Howl. "Stand down," Seraphina ordered her students. Her voice shook, but she forced herself to sound strong. "Do not jump into the ring."Kai looked at her in total shock. "But Sect Master! They are going to surround him! We have to help!""No," Seraphina said firmly. She wiped a tear from her cheek. "We hold the perimeter. If any guard tries to attack our box, we kill them. But we do not step onto the sand. This is his fight. We must let him finish it."The disciples looked sad and confused, but they obeyed. They lowered their swords and formed a tight circle around the edge of the pit, watching the arena with wide, terrified eyes. Up in the Royal Box, the Emperor was having a complete mental breakdown. The Emperor saw the mercenaries drawing their swords in the stands. He saw the Silver Wolf Clan rebelling. He saw Patriarch Valerius bleeding in the dirt, complet
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