Rise of the Legendary Emperor

Chapter 163: Don vs Rodrigo

Don was still holding the fireball with one hand,

"How can you?"

Aster never saw someone stop a fireball created by Rosaline like this, even though it was a quick spell, the spell was created by Sears and it had the power to kill a great master with the right timing and execution.

"Who do you think you are? Do you think I'll explain my actions to you?"

Rosaline raised her voice and asked Don, ignoring what he had just said.

"If you think a parlor trick and that grandmaster girl could save you, think again, I can kill you both with a single spell"

She was releasing her mid-level grandmaster magical fluctuations to frighten him.

The only thing saving these arrogant girls was their background but if they really tried to kill him or any one of his men, he would rather kill them on the spot and face the consequences later because if they wanted to kill him, it would be a kill or killed by scenario.

"Miss Rosaline, forgive King Don, it would be a dark spot in the long tradition of Enarin if a king dies during the gathe..."

Queen Cassia was stopped in the midway as Don showed his real cultivation level.

"Grandmaster...peak level"

"WHAT?!"

Don flicked the fireball with his finger as the fireball flew through the open roof and vanished from their view. King Mattia almost fell down from his throne witnessing him while the nobles who looked down at him before looked at him with an opened mouth and wide-opened eyes.

Rosaline couldn't believe her eyes and stood there in utter shock because she could see that he's just an inch away from breaking through to the heavenly level and reaching a heavenly level at his age, no one ever reached the heavenly level in young age such as his, even she had to cultivate for some more years to reach the heavenly level and she was considered to be a prodigy.

Now King Enrico realized what he meant by 'you should worry more about your son' statement as he began to fear for his son's life. Don planned to reveal his cultivation level in the duel with Rodrigo but this situation with Rosaline required him to do so before the duel. Because he was going to open his borders for the other races soon, revealing his cultivation and his strength would show everyone that he's neither a weak king nor someone who can be pushed around.

The three people who had a smile on their faces were King Edward, Lord Clemo, and Yvonne. She was glad that she already took in the bets or everyone would have betted on Don after seeing this.

"Go on, kill me with a single spell"

He slowly cracked his neck and said.

"Please calm down, King Don, Miss Rosaline, and please forget about everything that happened, the gathering is meant to be a happy and peaceful occasion "

However before Rosaline could say anything, Queen Cassia tried to diffuse the situation as she knew that if they fought, it would destroy the arena and destroy half of the noble district, not to mention the people in the arena.

"Well if you want to fight, King Don, you have to get in the line"

Don noticed Rodrigo walking towards him from somewhere showing his chiseled upper body with a long spear in his hand.

Everyone was surprised to see him coming to challenge Don even after knowing his cultivation level and Rodrigo didn't hide his mid-level great master magical fluctuations.

"Rodrigo"

King Enrico shouted from his throne as Rodrigo aimed his spear at Don

"You have to face me first, King Don?"

"Huh?"

Don was really surprised and confused at the same time hearing Rodrigo.

"Don't think I will back down seeing your cultivation level, King Don? now I'm more excited to fight you, I always wanted to beat someone far stronger than me, draw your sword"

Queen Cassia sighed in relief as Don could finish off a great master like Rodrigo with a single spell or a single attack and the damages would be less than two grandmasters fighting.

By looking at Rodrigo, he did seem excited more than afraid of him.

He had come across a few battle junkies like Rodrigo in the divine continent. They liked to fight and drown themselves in the rush of a fight more than anything, the harder and deadlier the battle, the more they enjoyed it. In simple words, they were madmen who loved to walk on the edge between life and death.

"You really want to do this?"

He turned his gaze away from Rosaline and looked at Rodrigo

"Let's fight"

Rodrigo was swinging around his spear and brimming with excitement.

"How about a wager? Prince Rodrigo, to make things more interesting"

"As long as you fight me"

The battle freak was too deep in excitement and anticipation as he didn't want anything but fight

"If you land a single strike on me,you'll win and get your wish, but if I knock you out, you'll have to give me your warehouse "

Many of them thought of Don being shameless for betting with Rodrigo like there's a chance of him losing when everyone knew that there's no chance for that, not at all.

"You're underestimating me too much,"

Rodrigo felt like he's insulting him by asking him to land one single strike on him.

"what do you say?"

Rodrigo sighed in anger

"Yes, you have a deal, now let's fight "

"Next time if you challenge me, at least have guts to face me alone"

Arrora said looking at Chase who was trying to stand up on her feet and walked away from the battleground.

Chase never felt more humiliated in her entire life, she lost the duel that she declared and she was saved by Rosaline at the end. Her anger turned at Rosaline, she would have preferred death than saved by Rosaline. Chase was a warrior, dying at the hands of her foe in a duel would have been an honorable warrior death for her but she was denied that honor when she was saved by Rosaline.

With one last look at Rosaline and Aster, she retrieved an item that looked like a wooden plank and stepped on it and then flew out of the arena without looking back.

"What are you waiting for ?"

Don called out Rodrigo as he dashed forward aiming the spear at him.

"DRAW YOUR SWORD"

Rodrigo shouted at him while running towards him but Don just stood there without the slightest intention to take out his sword.

Don chose this moment to show off to everyone around here. Aster was looking at him standing there and guessing whether he's going to cast a spell or take out another weapon. When Rodrigo's spear came closer to him, he simply evaded the spear and kicked Rodrigo in the gut that sent him flying with his spear.

"Rodrigo"

King Enrico was on the edge of his throne and praying for his son's life as Rodrigo quickly stood up and brushed off the dust on him.

"Seal of wind"

Rodrigo closed his eyes for a moment and cast a spell on himself as a blue mark appeared on his chest and disappeared.

Unlike Don, Rosaline knew about this spell, it was a spell to boost one's speed. The higher the user's cultivation level, the faster their movements would be. No matter how close their look, even the kings and nobles who were sitting closer to the battleground couldn't see anything but a dash.

However this much speed would have worked in his favor with others, yet for Don, it only looked like Rodrigo was moving just a little bit faster than before, if he wanted to confuse him with speed, Rodrigo had to do much better and he planned to show Rodrigo.

"He hit him"

Suddenly the people shouted when they saw Rodrigo's spear went through Don.

"Too slow"

When everyone thought that he landed a strike on him,Don's figure faded away and he appeared behind Rodrigo.

"after image"

Aster realized that it was the afterimage the spear pierced.

Rodrigo quickly dashed away and swung his spear at Don with even greater speed. Just like before, he could only hit Don's afterimage.

The fight went like this for a couple of minutes until Don stopped moving fast and let Rodrigo take some deep breaths.

"Let's finish this, shall we?"

"Yes"

Rodrigo closed his eyes as his magical fluctuations skyrocketed. Seeing the spike on his magical fluctuations, Rosaline knew that he's going to use the strongest spell in his arsenal and wanted to see how Don was going to deal with it.

"Bolt of god"

When Rodrigo said this, the spear in his hand started to vibrate while radiating a golden light.

The moment Rodrigo released the spear, it made a thunderous sound.

However at the end of the day, the spear was still made of metal and Don had the ability to control metals.

"Not bad"

Don said calmly as he just moved an inch away from the spear's path and caught the spear by its hand handle.

It took all of his strength and power to cast the spell so Rodrigo was lying on the ground and looked utterly confused by what had happened. Not only but the whole crowd was also utterly speechless at what had happened.

"Wow"

Aster said and was taken back by surprise when he simply caught the spear.

 Still, there was no fear to be found in Rodrigo's eyes as he pulled himself from the ground and stood back on his feet.