While time has stopped for an hour I stared at the boy who held the first piece of the blade. He seems to be too overconfident and said.

"You can stop time huh that's quite a unique ability miss. Would you like to join our rebellion, We can't guarantee your safety but If your this strong then there's nothing to worry about. So please consider on joining forces with the rebellion."(Boy)

"I refuse!"(Kyouko)

I can't afford to join forces with this boy. But I don't know his reason on joining the rebel army so I must first beat him then ask him his reason.

"Then you'll just suffer the same fate as the people in this village."(Boy)

"Let's just stop this talk it's really getting us nowhere if we're going to fight then let's just fight it's getting a bit too annoying."(Kyouko)

I quickly drew my sword and dashed towards the boy with ten percent of my speed but.....

Clang!....

He managed to intercept my attack with his staft. Then he leaped back and prepared to chant his spells. "Fireballs!"(Boy)

He casted the spell fireball and fired seven balls of fire towards me but....

"If you think that these fireballs will stop me then your wrong! This is useless against me!"(Kyouko)

I intercepted every ball of fire with me sword and everytime my sword hits the ball of fire it explodes.

"What!?"(Boy)

I summoned my bow and fired an arrow of perdition towards him.

Boom!!!

The arrow explodes when it hits it's first target. And it also penetrates defense. With the current firepower of the arrow it can easily destroy a barrier that can protect a person from a catastrope spell. So I don't think that he managed to block it with low level protection magic.

"Wow you're far stronger than I taught miss but don't you realize that it's futile to fight me this way?"(Boy)

He managed to cast a magic barrier that can withstood something stronger than catastrope? So does that piece really gave him this much power? But no his hand was injured by the blast does that mean that my attack still dealt damage? Then I can resume my attack. He was quite far away from me about 200 meters so I ran as fast as I could in my current state.

He casted a defensive spell that surrounded his body. Then he quickly casted another spell.

"Flame rain"(Boy)

Then the sky became black and balls of fire started to rain towards me and the soldiers. Since he casted the spell while he can move at stop time so I think that his spells can also move even if the time has stopped.

"Protect the unaware come fourth Sacred Protection!."(Kyouko)

Then magical energy started to surround the village everyone in the village can't move because of Istopped time so she has to protect them while fighting his mysterious boy. The boy looked at me and said.

"You have the ability called Ruler over all don't you miss? My other abilities aside from invasion seems to be has been disabled so you're really something are you miss. My name is Joseph and I'm here to destroy this country. I demand you to tell me your name."(Joseph)

"You really want me to tell you my name? Am I stupid enough to tell my identity to my enemies? Who's the idiot that would do something too stupid?"(Kyouko)

"........."(Joseph)

The young boy seems to be irritated with my actions and said.

"Fine then if you really wanted to continue on irritating me then I guess I have no choice than to end your life miss. And my ability Invasion allows me to alter the nature of a person's ability which allowed me to move in your stopped time. Too bad that I can't alter the abilities of Ruler over All. But that's not a problem."(Joseph)

He leaped towards me while holding his staft. It's been enchanted with magic and his body was also strengthened by reinforcement magic so it's become even more sturdy than before. It also improved his physical abilities by at least ten times.

Clang!... Clang!... Clang!... Clang!... Clang!...Clang!...

The boy fought against me in close ranged combat. Is it to prove that he's superior than me? But no matter how good he is in close range combat there's no way that he can beat me.

Clang!... Clang!... Clang!... Clang!... Clang!... Clang!...

His staft continued to clash against my sword and I can finally see that his attacks are getting slower and slower so I decided to increase the speed of my attacks.

"What!? You can go faster?"(Joseph)

Clang!...

His weapon was disarmed and he was shocked by this and leaped back. Thanks to his reinforcement magic his physical abilities was also improved and he managed to leap 100 meters backwards. He was shocked and said.

"This is impossible how can I lose to such a person! There's no way that I could lose to an inferior being like you. Manifest my powers and create a new weapon Materialization arts!"(Joseph)

He gathered his magical energy to create a sword made of pure energy. I prepared for his attack but I can see that his movements are getting slower and slower but why?

I see since he lost his staft his ability invasion which came from the staft was lost and he's slowly losing the ability to move within stopped time.

"Let's end this!"(Kyouko)

I leaped towards him closing the gap of 100 meters easily and preparing to attack he was suprised that I had his much speed. He tried to block my attack with his sword but....

Clang!...

"What!?"(Joseph)

His whole body was pushed backwards by my attack. As his body continued to fly backwards his speed started to slow down until he also froze like everyone else.

"I guess that you only managed to move in stopped time because you possessed the piece of this blade. But without it there's no way you could move in stopped time huh?"(Kyouko)

I approached Joseph and when I reached 3 meters near him he suddenly swung his sword made of energy towards me.

Clang!...

After it he froze once more in my stopped time ability.

"How did he move in stopped time when he's already lost his staft?"(Kyouko)

I decided to get the staft first and when I approached it something happened. The staft became brighter and brighter until it became nothing but energy. And later on it fused with my sword and I can feel like my power have increase several times from before. But it's still on a level that can be achieved by a normal human.

The power increase on my powers was about twice of my current limit. If we're talking about my maxinmum power then it's at least 0.1% of my maximum power but I can't use most of my powers because Fina-chan sealed them to prevent me from using too much power.

"Time begun to move?"(Kyouko)

And I felt like time has returned on moving. And the rebels are all preparing to attack me. About three thousand bolts were fired towards me.

Clang!... Clang!... Clang!... Clang!.. Clang!... Clang!...

After deflecting the boltsthat were fired using my sword I heard a very familiar voice and she said.

"Kyouko-sama Rose Arcadia is reporting for duty."(Rose)

And I saw Rose-san standing before me with a few thousand soldiers with her.