Alfonso was nervous, until now he hadn't face an opponent as strong as this one.

"Drakini, use your full power to boost my time power, the restrictions are lifted" Said Alfonso.

"U-U-Understood sir, P-P-Please be careful" Said Drakini.

Alfonso's power soared while he cautiously looked at Amadeus.

"Here he comes" Thought Alfonso.

Just as Alfonso saw Amadeus jumping, something… strange happened.

"?" Alfonso was confused.

Amadeus was moving slow.

Way too slow…

"No, this isn't even slow, is he even moving?" Though Alfonso.

He looked closely at Amadeus and looked closely at the sword.

"He is indeed moving, if you pay attention, you can see the blade slowly moving"

"So, the following question is… what is going on?" Though Alfonso.

He looked at the sides and, everything seemed… slow…

"Mmm…" Alfonso thought about this for some time.

"Drakini"

"S-S-Sir?"

"Stop supplying time soul power"

"A-A-Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I want to verify something"

Drakini do as Alfonso said and, after doing that, everything seemed to move forward and actions recovered a bit of their usual pace.

"But is still slow" Thought Alfonso.

Alfonso saw the blade that was about to cut him in two and he simply tilt his head to the right just to avoid the blade.

"Wait this…"

One after another blades coming towards Alfonso, however, he evaded them with ease.

No, evade was not the exact word.

He just needed to move to the side.

"Hmmm…" Alfonso saw Amadeus who was making a stunned expression.

"Hmmm… so, yeah" Said Alfonso.

"?"

Alfonso deactivated [Oversoul].

"Can you attack me?" Asked Alfonso.

He needed to verify something.

"YOU!!" Shouted Amadeus.

Amadeus attacked in a frenzy, but Alfonso could still see the movements of Amadeus, not so much in slow motion no but he could still see it.

"WHY!?"

"WHY!?"

"WHY CAN I NOT HIT YOU!?" Shouted Amadeus.

Alfonso looked at Amadeus, or, to be more precise, he looked at Amadeus's sword.

"…" Alfonso didn't though much, but his instinct told him what to do.

He stood in front of Amadeus and grabbed the incoming attack with his bare hands.

He felt the blood running out from his hand.

But he didn't felt the pain, instead, he felt a warm feeling.

"This…"

The concepts inside of him were perfecting every second the gas entered his body.

He had already achieved the master level on the concept of fast and slow.

"But it can further improve?" Though Alfonso.

[Its because you achieve what you humans would call a limit]

The system answered.

[However, the concepts of time are beyond what humans can comprehend, that's why, the so-called 'master' level is the max level for human beings to achieve, however, it's not actually the limit]

Alfonso knew what the system meant.

"So you are saying, that now, I am passing the limit?" Asked Alfonso.

[That's right, the time aura of this particular concept is just too pure, so it's refining your other concepts, however, due to you only having one, it has purified so much your concept that it has passed the limit]

"And now…"

[And now is entering the realm of gods] Answered the system.

"Wow" thought Alfonso.

[However, it's not that simple, my dear host]

Just as the system said that Alfonso felt that the incoming power suddenly stopped.

"Hmm?"

[Your concept has reached the utter limit of your human body, now, there is only one way to get the concept to perfection]

"I can already imagine what the condition is"

[As expected of my host~]

"I need to get to the emperor level" Thought Alfonso.

Different from the king level, the emperor level was a huge transformation on body and soul power.

"But there is a long way until I get there" Said Alfonso.

"What have you being talking about all this time!?" Shouted Amadeus with anger.

Alfonso had completely forgotten that he still had the sword of Amadeus in his hand.

"Although I don't feel pain, my body is still my body, it's completely a crippled human body, if not worse than a crippled one, the reason why this sword hands chop my hand in two by now, it's because my soul power is creating a barrier around my body" Though Alfonso.

Alfonso jumped and took some distance from Amadeus.

"Let's see how much my soul power has changed"

Alfonso released all his soul power.

On the other side, the still stunned Amadeus felt a chill on his back

"What is this…" He though.

Amadeus didn't believe what he was feeling.

"I am actually… no… it's not possible… how could I ever…"

"Feel…"

"FEAR FOR A MERE HUMAN!"

"I WON'T BELIEVE IT!" Said Amadeus.

He prepared his sword once more, however, when he looked up.

Alfonso was not there.

"Wher-"

*PUM*!

Amadeus felt a pain on his back, he turned and saw that Alfonso, at some moment had appeared on his back!

"HOW…"

*BAM*!

Amadeus didn't have the time to breathe as Alfonso moved and appeared right in front of him!

"Wha…"

*BUM*!

Amadeus was sent flying once more

"Haha" Alfonso laughed.

*BUM*

*BUM*

"AARG!" Amadeus spat blood.

He fell to the ground.

"Haha"

Alfonso laughed once more.

Amadeus looked at the smiling face of Alfonso, he had never felt so insulted in his life, he even spat blood of anger.

"YOU THINK THIS FUNNY, YOU INSECT!" Shouted Amadeus.

However, Amadeus was wrong.

Alfonso wasn't laughing at him.

He wasn't a sadist like Chrono after all.

No, his laugher was of happiness.

"I haven't this free since I was a brat!" Thought Alfonso.

The real Alfonso's body was a crippled one.

He was almost blind, he couldn't walk properly and even more, his leg hurt every now and then.

To put in simple words, he needed to put a lot of effort every single minute of the day to try to lead a, more or less, a regular life.

This stressed the hell out of Alfonso, he didn't say it so didn't worry Artemis or Demeter, but he was.

But now…

Now it was different.

He could move as freely as he wanted to!

"This is awesome" Thought Alfonso.

He ran once more towards Amadeus.