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The Fake King seemed to observing Shin closely when she felt that the pressure that was coming from one of Shin's domain skills was starting to lessen its partial effects. Feeling that, he suddenly smirked at the guy in front of him and readied himself for his counterattack.

But that was also the time when he realized that he gone completely wrong.

When the final minute of the domain skills arrived, the 'Monochrome Field' released its final pressure and restricted the fake king even further. And that was when the fake king discovered that he was being silenced by that domain skills.

Realizing the severity of the situation, he immediately decided to get away from Shin as soon as possible. But unfortunately, that was also when he noticed two silhouettes rushing at him from his peripheral vision.

And when he took a quick look at them, the pupils on the eyes of the fake king suddenly contracted when he saw the incoming pair while his face couldn't help but turn weird as he clearly understood that he was currently in trouble.

Then he braced himself when things reached this point, the fake king quickly move away from Shin, planning to get away from the latter as soon as possible to escape his current predicament.

Or at least that was what he wanted to do, but it didn't take long for him to realized that it was an impossible feat. Because what happened next was something that was unexpected for him.

Aside from the Shin who was closely coming after him and throwing some attacks from time to time, the pair of Simba and Zero were also following closely behind the former.

On the other hand, Zero was observing Shin while running. From what Simba had told him, this guy was supposedly in 'Being the Sword' attainment when he lost himself. But from what he could see, it was very unlikely.

And from his perspective, the currently swordplay that Shin was currently showing suddenly turned from being so-so into a crap. All he could see was Shin randomly swinging his sword at the fake king and nothing else; no pattern, no link, not even a purpose. Just pure swinging of sword without objective.

Seeing that, Zero couldn't help himself but frowned his eyebrows. Then he felt getting tricked, and that was why he threw a fierce look at Simba who was currently running on Shin's other side.

And when Simba felt that gaze, he turned head at Zero before saying.

"Don't worry, Sword God. The thing that you are long for was about to come. For now, coordinate to what this guy are going to do.

"

But Zero couldn't help but doubt Simba's words this point of time. And knowing about that, all Simba could do was to show it in action than to explain himself. With that thought in mind, Simba accelerated forward, forcing the fake king to change his direction.

And on the exact moment when the fake king changed his course, Shin suddenly accelerated forward while throwing a quick thrust towards his front.

Seeing the incoming sword, the fake king was forced to block it with his sword.

Clang!

He redirected the trajectory of Shin's sword using a simple turn of his sword. But by doing that, he unintentionally gave an opening for Simba who was rushing from Shin's other side. And without having any other thoughts, the War God swung his battle-axe at the fake king.

Shin couldn't see Simba who was coming from behind, but out of instincts, he immediately hopped backwards to moved out of the way and let the latter to get a wide-open attacking window.

Bang!

The fake king was smashed on the ground for a moment after getting hit by that heavy strike. And when Simba swiftly jump to his right immediately after throwing that attack, the body of the fake king bounced back in the air. But on that very moment, Shin was already rushing forward while throwing a multiple slash at the poor king; and each of those strike was stronger than the other.

And after the final sword strike landed, Shin suddenly kicked the fake king to push the latter backwards and for him to create some space for his next moved. On the very next instant, he quickly swung the Yamato on his front and released a very powerful sword wave that flew towards the fake king.

Swoosh!

Bang!

The fake king was sent fly backwards due to the strong impact of that attack. But that also give the give fake king enough room to catch his breath.

At least, that was what he thought. Because on the very next moment that he raised his head, what he saw was a rapidly rotating battle-axe that was coming towards his way.

Bang!

The battle-axe pushed the fake king further backwards. But even if that was the case, Shin suddenly materialized above him while descending with a great speed and swinging one of his swords powerfully.

Shing! Bang!

And when that sword landed on the body of the fake king once again and sending him at the ground for another time.

But it looked like Shin was not satisfied yet. Because after landing a hit at the fake king, he quickly hopped in the air while switching his grip on the Yamato into a reversed manner. At the same time, a bunch of fire elemental mana was attracted to that sword.

And when Shin was descending on the ground once again, the accumulated fire elemental mana further strengthened the power of the Black Sun stored on that sword. And without further ado, he quickly thrusted the sword on the ground together his descend.

Boom!

Then a pillar of black flame was summoned from the ground and shot upwards with Shin being the center. That black flame pillar extended up to seven meters in the air together with five-meter radius.

The fake king was devoured by that black flame on its first appearance, but due to him being too unprotected from that attack, he was carried by that erupting flames upwards.

Zero couldn't help but took a double take at Shin when he saw that perfect coordination with the War God. He also couldn't help but became doubtful if this guy was really not on himself. Especially when he saw that Shin's swordsmanship suddenly turned into something 'decent' from being a crap.

But the Sword God was still not impressed.

"Hmm… quite 'OK' but still not a true swordsmanship. He is still too reliant on the energies on his surroundings.

"

And while muttering about that, Zero finally saw an opening that was left for him.

When that black flames finally subdued, the fake king was revealed in the air, few meters high above Shin.

Seeing that, Zero leaned his body a little forward during his run. And when he thought that he had the enough distance, he suddenly leaped forward to greet the fake king who was currently descending from air.

When that two of them were about to reach each other, the Sword God didn't give the fake king enough time to regain himself as both of his arms suddenly turned into a blur while also creating a bunch of sword silhouettes on the process.

Those sword silhouettes cut through the body of the fake king and made him even more helpless at the current matter.

What he didn't know, the hell like torture was just began.

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