Weed looked up at the being that was known as the Warrior King, a being according to the quest known as 'The Trial of the Emperor' that needs to be slain in order to complete. This was a quest that determined whether decades of work would be allowed to exist or not.

Releasing his presence among the survivors, there were only ten left after all; the Warrior King descended further from the sky and onto the ground on even footing. Now was the chance, if he would battle now and slay him, the quest would end.

But what was with this immeasurable presence he was feeling?

It was on the same level as those three-no even higher. Weed was extremely tense right now prepared for a fight in an instant.

“Calm thy self o Emperor of this land” said the Warrior King. His voice had a refreshing feeling to it but that only caused Weed, who saw through all deception realise that this appearance was a mask.

The Warrior King was a being that took delight in battle.

But things had a process and now Weed needed to get to the next part of the quest. He placed a proper mask known as a rotten smile on his face and looked at the Warrior King.

“Are you the one called the Warrior King?” Weed asked the man in golden lion armour. Oh how much he wanted to take that armour for himself to sell, it must be made with something expensive so even if he smelts it...

“Yes I am and according to the contract I have made with the Gods, I am to battle thy to determine whether thy are worthy of the prised Divine Fragment that holds part of the powers of the God. An item that is capable to reverse time and repair anything and everything; that was thy choice of item to obtain in this trial correct?”

“Yes.”

Upon the start of this long and troublesome quest that was ranked above 'S', Weed had the choice of over a dozen items, all beyond rare to obtain if he were to complete it. Some of which included legendary weapons that would give him unparalleled powers or armours that gave near invincible protection.

Such things interested him but the Divine Fragment was simply worth more than any of the other items. Even items destroyed can be recovered with it though you need the proper mana to use it at a high rate. He had a plan for that as well....though the other side wouldn't be happy.

Weed took a glance at Eden, Alexandra and Viv. All three of them were definitely not weaker than him. And they were not allies at all but rather closer to enemies in terms of using each other, to exploit each other.

“So should we fight you now or give you time to prepare? Your three servants were taken out by us after all” said Weed in a loud confidence voice, “I would gladly take some treasures from you if it means to give you a bit of time to mourn.”

A wicked smile went on Weed's face. He would try and get money no matter the situation, even now!

However the Warrior King simply smile and raised his hand and let out three streams of light that went to the bodies of his servants and in the next second their bodies were recovered, floating in front of him.

With another flash of light, the three servants, Arthur, Kyoshiro and Solomon were revived.

“Ah...so we were revived” said Solomon looking at his body. The other two did the same and looked at the Warrior King.

“What is it that you wish my king?” they all asked at once in a respectful tone to him.

Everyone in the room held their weapons tightly again. It took the lives of most of them to even take them out and now they were revived? What nonsense was this, was what Weed was thinking, a quest that would revive the powerful minions along side giving you the final boss?

“Ahhh~~~~ what about a light sparing match for now?” The Warrior King let out a yawn which Weed had to admit pissed him off. He was taking them lightly.

“Thunder Birds!” Weed shouted taking the first strike in this battle. Birds of Thunder formed and shot at the Warrior King.

The three servants did not move to defend at all...

BANG!

With a wave of his hand, the Warrior King easily deflected the attacks which once again landed on his palace which made him groan in the thoughts of the repair fees.

“Tch.”

Weed expected this, and he used short distance teleportation, 'Blink' while temporary transforming using Sculpture Transformation to appear behind the Warrior King and attacked from there.

His form changed into the form of a large Chaos Warrior!

His health, strength and speed increased greatly due to this!

“Triple!”

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Even though he called the skill 'Triple' it could go up to twelve hits at once. His ability on using the skill was so high that it pushed the skill to this point. However Weed felt annoyed that the armour that the Warrior King wore completely negated the damage in his attacks.

Else there was something else in place here that negated his attacks. Weed had experienced this before in the past against certain enemies.

“Charge!”

“Kill them!”

“Attack!”

But at the same time, the rest of the players with him attacked the Warrior King at once.

The Warrior King's three servants moved in as well this time as well to battle them.

“““You will not disturb the King!”””

They chanted that all at once like loyal subjects. Weed was disappointed that he couldn't convert them into his own men. They would be worth as much as most of the top players together.

“Coming through!” shouted a man(?) charging through the three while using 'blink' as well. Weed envied that person to be able to use that skill, or one similar to it without needing to turn into a Chaos Warrior.

However without using 'blink' the others were unable to get through the three enemies blocking their way no matter what. It seemed that they had placed some sort of barrier that blocked all physical means of getting through.

Because of this, only the one called Eden could help him now surrounding himself with a Golden Battle Aura and clashed with the Warrior King in front as Weed clashed with him in the back.

“Kaiser Sword!” “Heavenly Slash!”

Both Weed and Eden used their skills at once sending blue light and golden light at the Warrior King on both sides.

BANG! BANG!

Both their attacks hit the Warrior King but it seemed that this was negated as well. Ignoring this, Weed continued to attack and Eden did the same as well.

For another few seconds, 5 seconds in total, the Warrior King continued to block and dodge their attacks as they were using 'blink' to teleport around him and attack in all directions.

“Time Sculpturing!”

Weed slowed down the time around him, at the same time it seemed that Eden also had a time manipulation skill as well, he must make sure that Eden is in his debt after this.

As both of time with the world around them slowed down was about to hit the Warrior King with their attacks, time started flowing the same again at the same moment!

“Wha?”

Taking them by surprise, the Warrior King attacked both of them at the same time when they were attacking from opposite directions. Eden was kicked away while Weed managed to block the swing of an arm that came his way.

The negation ability he had had a cool down which meant he wasn't invincible! Furthermore it seemed to only affect skills and spells.

“Flame Strike!” Eden covered his fist in fire and punched the Warrior King to test this theory. The Warrior King used his negation ability again and that flames disappeared.

Rather than negating attacks itself, it was more like negating skills and spells from working. Plus it seemed the Warrior King's negation skill had a lower cool down than he thought or it's cool down depended on the level of attack that he negated.

Which mean...

Weed stopped using his skills and focused on pure swordplay.

Bang Bang Bang Bang...!

His sword was like a snake in that it twisted and turned in unexpected ways going pass the defences of the Warrior King to hit him.

He took out another weapon and dual wielded it against the Warrior King. However strangely enough, Weed noticed that Eden was doing the opposite of him and was trying to overwhelm the Warrior King using a massive amount of skills and spells at once.

“Gravity Hell!” Eden chanted causing the space around the Warrior King to be press down.

Weed was forced to retreat due to that but realised that there was this strange energy coming out of the Warrior King. It was no energy he heard up, he wondered if he could by chance acquire it.

“That is enough” said the Warrior King.

He sent out a wave of that energy which stopped the spell Eden casted around him. Next a large amount of pressure came from that body, causing Weed to back away even more feeling that even one step closer to him meant death.

That was how fearsome the Warrior King's true power was.

He didn't even attack and he was much stronger than a near level 900 player by simply defending himself.

Was this being level 1000? Or even higher? Can the level you have get higher than that?

“....”

The Warrior King motioned and the three servants returned to his side.

“Reviving you three took a lot of energy” he said to them in a calm voice that ignored everyone else, “As such it will take me some time to recover to my full strength.”

The three hunched their heads lower hearing this. To be told that put shame to their pride though it was all their fault to begin with.

The Warrior King moved his head and looked at Weed and said, “I will be at the place that exist between past and present, between illusion and reality. Come if you wish to strike me down while I am recovering else I will fully recover.”

“And there will be no hope for you.”

The two looked at each other, the Warrior King was looking down on him! Him of all things!

Weed immediately knew that this battle was over and that the next battle would be over there where the Warrior King dictates the rules.

The Warrior King looked at Eden next and then revealed a sword.

Even Weed could not help but to be completely absorbed in looking at that sword. It was so majestic and powerful like it supported an entire Kingdom itself on it's own! He wanted that sword no matter what!

It was even more superior than the Helium Sword that he had which was made by a Grandmaster Blacksmith.

That was how powerful it was! A divine sword could not simply describe it.

However Weed saw that there was fear on Eden's face, paled as he looked at that sword. Eden managed to stumble out the words, “You...that sword...how...?” as if he remembered it from before.

The Warrior King made the sword disappear and then said with a solemn expression, “Thy am a failure that could not become as great as llyfr. Thy could only be a mere Warrior King.”

He looked up in the skies in sorrow as he spoke.

“In the end there was no greater king as him...even now and for the rest of eternity, he remains as the sole Hero King that later fell to become a Tyrannical Magic King like yourself. Facing his back to the Gods.”

“....”

With those words the Warrior King and his three Fallen Warriors left the space in the Imperial Palace as if they teleported.

However rather being a teleport spell...it was more like space was being controlled in it's raw form.

The battle ended, it was a failure. They could not avoid the months and possibly years this quest could drag on with.

Weed felt chills thinking about the battle that will come.

Even the quest to slay the Embinyu Church's God was merely an S rank quest.

As this was a Double S rank quest, it would mean the level of destruction that would be caused if failed to be larger than the continent itself!

However at the same time, they knew of the appearance of the Warrior King now, some of his powers and maybe ways to take him down. He needed a weapon that could cut through that armour of his.

He would need to request information from a God on that matter, most likely from the God that represented Blacksmithing. He would need to use his connection to the dwarves for that.

This was going to be a long quest, it has been a long quest already. Even a few months or perhaps years would no matter that much.

In the end, Weed wondered who or what llyfr was. Eden seemed to know but did not ask since he did not want to step on a landmine and make him an enemy yet.

But in the end he thought of the costs of repairing the palace after this...

“I shall increase the taxes by 1% to compensate for this” he determined, no one would complain if he pocketed some extra gold here and there.

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Author's Notes:

- This is a bit different from the other Arc Prologues, simply due to that this is an extension of the last Arc. Really this originally should have been done at the beginning of volume 6. And now I have three more volumes to play around with.

- The Warrior King is NOT Gilgamesh. He's not as cocky for starters....well I have him a negation ability but no idea on what else he could have...hmm..how to make him overpowered but to the point he can be beaten...