The Rise of the Black Plain

In the blink of an eye, the third movement of the Divine Sword reached the 6th attack, with Minos dancing with his sword, moving against Vico in an increasingly sharp and powerful manner.

Meanwhile, Vico was already demonstrating the speed of a God as he flew to dodge Minos' attacks, recognizing the great power of Emperor Stuart.

If he weren't a God, he would have been hit and seriously injured by the blades that were chasing him faster and stronger!

But he kept moving, waiting for the right moment to act and end Emperor Stuart's hopes.

In the midst of it all, Starclaw couldn't help but look at Minos with a gleam in her eye, feeling the power of her master.

"Maybe he can win!" She commented as she clenched her fists, thinking about how powerful the attacks that were chasing Vico were.

She didn't know what was happening, but in fights, there were always winning and losing sides. Seeing Minos' powers and not seeing Vico using all of his, she thought this God was somehow limited, which would give her leader victory.

But as she spoke excitedly, she drew Maximilian's comment.

"Don't get your hopes up so quickly. The winner will be decided when Minos' movement reaches its final attack." He said as he saw hundreds of blades flying faster and faster toward Vico's vital points.

But until the 10th attack formed, Vico was still unharmed, having only been hit by the first four blades of the first attack.

By the time the 10th and final attack formed, 4,088 blades were flying around space, carrying so much power that an 'ordinary' level 99 Demigod would die if they were at the center of that movement.

When he felt Minos' peak, Vico stopped moving, determined to withstand all of his opponent's attacks before taking this young man down with a single blow.

'Come on!' He thought, smiling as he saw the thousands of blades coming closer and closer to him.

Minos saw the confidence in Vico's eyes as he felt exhaustion take hold of his body.

'If this doesn't make you use your technique, this other thing will!' He closed his eyes as he dropped his supreme weapon and sat in a lotus position in the air.

Bringing his two hands together at the level of his navel, Minos circulated his attack technique based on the immortal energy in his body.

After months of cultivating the immortal techniques developed by his group and absorbing a lot of energy from the giant bones, he achieved several successes and mastered two offensive techniques based on immortal energy.

As soon as he started to use this alternative method, Henry and Maximillian noticed a disturbing sensation forming around Minos.

Henry thought. 'This feeling... It's similar to what I felt in the Spatial Kingdom years ago.'

Meanwhile, Maximillian saw fog forming around them. At the same time, thunder rumbled, and the clouds seemed to hide a giant watching them from the sky.

Vico received Minos' many blade attacks and had no time to pay attention to anything but his body.

But he could feel the disturbing sensation coming from Minos' direction and immediately lost the smile he had.

Minos ' attack had fully formed before the last few hundred blades hit Vico's body. A cloud giant formed in that space, looking up at that God while a flute formed in its mouth.

The giant closed its eyes and blew into the flute, causing the surrounding space to tremble as the sound waves from the flute became powerful weapons heading toward Vico.

Swooish!

"Shit!" This time, Vico felt something that could hurt him and couldn't help but change his strategy, no longer wanting to defeat Minos with one final attack after withstanding all of his opponent's attacks.

"No more games, Minos. You've lost!" He said as he crossed the space and appeared behind his target, moving one of his legs as he planned to knock his opponent out with this quick attack.

"It's really over..." Minos muttered as another giant appeared beside him, and the powerful sound of its flute reached the position where Vico had appeared.

One of the powerful weapons formed by the sound of the flute found its way to Vico's heart, scaring him considerably and leaving him no time to dodge or change his movement.

Feeling that the weapon would pass right through him, which would be very problematic for him to recover from, given the lack of resources for Gods in this world, Vico shouted a long "no" as a powerful energy shield formed around his body.

Then, Vico used one of his defensive techniques, showing everyone how in danger he felt, using one of his techniques against a mere level 91 Demigod!

Minos felt his body go numb as he no longer had the energy to fight. But he smiled anyway because beating a God at anything would be very pleasant, of course.

"I won!" He said as his special attack gradually lost its form, and Vico's shield withstood the weapon thrown a moment ago.

The look on Vico's face was terrible at this point, while Henry and Maximillian looked surprised, not expecting Minos to be the winner of this bet.

"Hahahahahah, I knew it! Minos is still the best! He can't lose!" Starclaw yelled in delight as the two Gods moved to Vico's side, sensing that this man was not in a good mood.

Gulp!

"Vico, you made a promise," Henry said as Starclaw stopped beside Minos to support him.

Maximilian continued to stare at Minos but commented in a teasing tone. "Tsk! You've lost. Your advance to level 100 seems to haven't made you strong enough. I'm afraid we will have problems in the war."

"Fuck you, Maximillian!" Vico glared at the leader of the Spiritual Church. "If you're so good, let's fight a little! I'll put you in your place!"

"You must be exhausted after entertaining young Minos..." Maximilian laughed.

"You wretch!"

But then Henry said. "His Majesty Stuart has won this challenge. What will you do now, Vico? You have gambled away your freedom. Now, it belongs to our friend here." Minos leaned against Starclaw and said. "Your Majesty Travisani went easy on me. That's why I won. But it's a fact that I won, so let's not pretend otherwise. That would only diminish the honor of someone of your caliber."

"Tsk! What do you want?" Vico asked.

Minos replied with a smile. "Nothing much. Just help me to stay out of trouble with the other Gods. Other than that, you can do whatever you want and go on with all your freedom."

And so their bet was decided!