The city looked like a warzone, ruins and corpses were all around the place, even the palace was under attack, this was slowly turning into a war against Beodor.

Lothar and Ivan both gathered the last atoms of their power, and went for one last punch.

Both punches connected, but Lothar was the only one who fell on the floor.

"How?... How are you still standing?" asked Lothar in between blood coughs.

"Who knows?" said Ivan, who fell due to the poison spreading to his brain.

"I guess you win then" said Lothar, who was prepared to succumb to his wounds.

"Yeah, i guess so" said Ivan calmly, "You know, i loved fighting against you, shame that we are enemies"

"I feel the same way" said Lothar while pulling out a small bottle filled with transparent liquid from his pocket.

"What is this, rakija?"

"Hah, you still have the energy to joke" whispered Lothar, "It's the antidote to the poison"

"Why do you need the antidote?"

"That ability also injects poison into my system, i'm not safe either"

"But why are you giving this to me?"

"Idiot, even if i survived, i would get executed by them, or caught by your kingdom" said Lothar, as he finally succumbed to his wounds, and died.

"Rest in peace" said Ivan as he drank the antidote and prayed.

Anatoli's body was covered in thick stone armor, and he went to finish Andrej off, but his attacks were much slower and easier to dodge thanks to his armor being heavy.

"Is that all you got? My dead grandmother would give me a better fight" Taunted Andrej, which made Anatoli angrier more and more, which in turn made him spend more and more mana on slow attacks, until his body couldn't move anymore, and he passed out from mana exhaustion, and due to that armor using his life force, his body was nearing its limit, and was close to dying.

Svetislav was shooting fireballs randomly in blind rage, Katarina easily extinguished all of them, which in turn enraged Svetislav even more.

"It's over, you don't need to try anymore" said Katarina while extinguishing more fireballs.

"Shut up bitch! Shut up!" Svetislav raged and threw more fireballs, But Katarina, who was tired of fighting him, appeared behind him and knocked Svetislav unconscious.

"It's over" she said, "That was a pain in the ass"

Magdalena prepared her final attack, she compressed the air around her, and released it as a slash, it was so fast that Anya barely reacted in time to raise her hands covered in stone to block the slash, and was still left with a wound on her arm.

But that attack took a big toll on Magdalena's mana reserves, as such she was panting for air and unable to stand properly.

"Give up, you are running low on mana, at this rate you might die" said Anya.

"Not until i take you down!" maniacally shouted Magdalena as she compressed air around her one more time, Anya instinctively raised her hands to block, but she was met with a loud noise, and Magdalena's unconscious body on the ground.

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Meanwhile at the castle…

Two high ranking agents from the cult were invading the Beodor castle, one of them, a gigantic muscular man with short flame colored hair and a black eyepatch over his right eye, his name was Eric, and besides him, was a really short girl with ash colored hair and green eyes, she held a flute in her hands, her name was Juju.

"Oh my, we have guests, how rude of me, would you like some grapes?" said Triglav tauntingly, which enraged Eric.

"Shut up old man"

"You should respect your elders brat, or you might regret it later down the line" said Triglav which enraged Eric further, "Soldiers, there is no need to worry, i personally will take down this man, you focus on the girl"

"Yes, your majesty!" all soldiers got into fighting stances, while Juju raised her flute to her mouth.

"Just try old man, you will end up buried sooner than needed"

"Don't say i didn't warn you when you go cry to your mother" Triglav opened his palm, and summoned a old wooden spear with a stone head. Triglav threw the spear, which Eric caught in the fly with his palms, but it still left some cuts on his palms, Triglav then recalled his spear back to his hand.

"Juju, shoot at me!" shouted Eric.

"Song of the birds" Juju brought her flute to her mouth and started playing a calm melody, and a bird made out of wind manifested in front of her and flew towards Eric, but Eric's body was like a furnace, the heat of his body would evaporate every spell thrown at him back into pure mana, then absorb it and use that mana for his attacks, that is also what happened with the bird.

After absorbing Juju's spell, Eric thew a fire bomb at Triglav, which exploded near him but he was unscratched, then Triglav jumped and thrusted his spear towards Eric from the air, but Eric dodged the thrust and went to strike Triglav again, which gave Triglav a chance, and he slashed Eric's leg.

"Double wind slice" Juju threw two wind slashes at Eric, who absorbed them and set his fists on fire and attacked Triglav, who managed to slash his right arm with his spear.

"You really are incapable of defeating an old man" Juju said, as she was attacked from all sides with different magic spells, but she played a elegant melody on her flute, and all of the spells were cut into microscopic pieces, and turned back into pure mana particles which Juju took control of and that floated around her, then the soldiers tried to attack her with their various weapons, but she continued playing her flute, and she remodeled the particles into a gigantic hand, which swung down on the soldiers, wounding some and killing the others.

"Want to switch?"

"Hell no, the king is more interesting"

"Aww, Juju wants to play too"

"Aah, why was i chosen? I just want to sleep" Misha, a boy with blue hair and eyes who wore glasses, was laying on the roof reading a book.

"Those two look like they are having trouble, i should help them, or i could read this book, they are capable"

Juju remodeled the mana particles around her into blades and Eric absorbed them all, and his body became engulfed in flames.

"True full concentration: Burning chariot" Eric entered a higher form of full concentration, where his mana output, physical strength, speed and mana absorption were all enhanced.

"You used that?!" Juju shockingly exclaimed.

"Shut up, you are fighting those pussies" Eric said and attacked Triglav at full speed, leaving only a trail of flames behind him, and hit Triglav in the stomach, but Triglav managed to stab him with his spear.

"How did you bypass my barriers??" shouted Eric.

"Ah, you can't even understand something as simple as that" Triglav said, and poured a bit of his mana into the spear, which made several arrays with rune-like symbols appear all over it.

"A curse, no, it's something different" Eric said in fear.

"T-that aura, it's the same as Master's" exclaimed Juju.

"Let's just say that this weapon is fitting for someone who was known as "The god of adventurers"" Triglav said, and released an ominous aura which made Eric and Juju shiver.

"S-Shut up" Screamed Eric from the top of his lungs, and threw a gigantic fireball behind triglav, it bounced off the wall and went to strike Triglav from behind, but Triglav cut it in half almost instantly.

"Do you still don't get it? Let me dumb it down for you" Triglav said, "This spear bypasses all defenses, armor, barriers, clothes, spells, it's attacks phase through them all, until it comes into contact with your skin, always leaving a wound"

"That's not fair! That's cheating!" Juju shouted and pointed at Triglav.

"Little girl, let me teach you something, in battle, "fair" doesn't exist" Triglav said and assumed an fighting stance.

"Grr, Eric, this time we go together" Juju said as she took a stance besides Eric.

"Aah, looks like i will need to fight after all, just need to wait for the perfect opportunity to strike" thought Misha while the other two were preparing to fight with the man who held the title of the strongest adventurer ever.