Blood continues dripping onto the stone floor from both of us.

Yet, neither of us feel the need to say anything right now.

The wind blows throughout the destroyed courtyard as pieces of the castle continue falling apart around us.

Even after all the damage each of us has inflicted on one another, no one is backing down from the fight.

King Albus slowly rolls his shoulders before wiping the blood away from his mouth.

"Honestly this is about what I expected from you. The stories I’ve heard about you don’t even compare to the real deal," King Albus says with a serious tone.

His words frustrate me for a moment as I think for a second.

"What stories?" I question.

"Of course you wouldn’t know about the stories. How stupid of me to assume you did," King Albus responds while running one of his hands through his hair.

His aura isn’t really changing anymore... This must be where it remains after everything that occurred during the fight. I don’t think it’ll change very much again.

"The stories of a dragon rising up throughout the realms is something that I could never miss. Though I heard you were in the mortal realm where humans reside," King Albus continues on.

I don’t respond this time as I don’t really have it in me to talk with this asshole.

All that matters right now is that I have the strength to fight against him. This same strength is what I’m going to use to end his life as well.

I don’t see a reason to waste anymore time on useless chatter.

BOOOOOM!!!!!

The ground beneath my feet explodes apart once again and within an instant I’m already in front of him.

WHAM!!!!

I swing towards his head.

King Albus leans back just enough for the punch to miss before immediately driving his knee towards my stomach.

BAM!!!!

The attack lands.

Yet I barely feel it so I respond with an elbow towards his jaw.

CRACK!!!!

His head snaps to the side.

This is exactly how I expected it to continue since he isn’t weak by any means. He is just a lot more durable, just like I am.

FWOOSH!!!!

King Albus suddenly disappears from in front of me.

Wait, where did he just go? I didn’t think he was going to just disappear out of nowhere.... Wait.

Without thinking I twist around.

WHAM!!!!!

A fist crashes into the side of my face before I can completely turn around and the force sends me sliding backwards across the courtyard.

CRRRRRRR!!!!

Stone breaks apart beneath my feet but I force myself to stop before looking back up.

He didn’t just disappear out of nowhere or anything, he planned it. He’s been planning every move in this fight since the beginning.

"Tch."

I can’t believe this asshole has really been planning everything out this whole damn time.

It feels as if he fought lots of strong people like me before... Maybe that is exactly why he can plan everything out like he is. It would make sense since demons age a lot differently than we do.

I’m sure he’s fought a lot of strong people in his time.

"Hahahaha."

King Albus laughs once again.

"You finally noticed," King Albus says with less of a serious tone now.

I don’t say anything as I just stand there for a moment.

"You don’t want to speak to me anymore? Well, so be it," King Albus says before disappearing.

Within the blink of an eye he appears in front of me again but this time I manage to block in time.

CRACK!!! 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

It feels like my arms want to break from the amount of force behind his punch but I manage to withstand it before getting back into the swing of things.

As soon as he throws another punch I dodge to the right and immediately swing my fist towards him.

POW!!!!

A left hook right to his face that catches him by surprise before I immediately hit him with a right hook after.

Left, right, left, right. I manage to keep this up for a minute or so before I finally do something different. Without any hesitation I jump up and kick him in the chest, knocking him back a couple of feet.

He doesn’t tumble or go across the floor this time... Just breaks more of the floor.

This place is definitely getting a nice remodel in the future or it’ll become a gravesite for the King and all his men.

He remains quiet this time as he disappears yet again.

CRACK!!!!

I block another attack as I start to slowly realize what’s happening every time he disappears.

He is using it as a way to catch me off guard but if I just focus hard enough I can sense where he will attack from. It isn’t easy by any means since he is moving pretty damn fast.

But it is doable.

I watch as his fist goes right past my face this time and I immediately use the opportunity to break his arm again.

CRACK!!!!

His bone immediately breaks as I slam my fist into the center of his arm, forcing him to back up.

Blood spills out from where the bone is popping out as he stares back at me with more anger showing on his face.

I don’t think he expected me to read that attack or the one before. It is probably starting to piss him off that he might potentially lose this fight.

I’d be pretty pissed off too if I was going to lose a fight against someone like me.

Only because I am definitely way less experienced than him. That alone would probably piss me off the most about the whole fight.

Rokuro!!!

I slightly look back towards the girls to see the bubble around them is almost completely cracked. It won’t be able to withstand much more from the clashes we keep having.

What is the right call to make for them right now?