“No way! I can’t just die here!”

*Smash*

The sound of breaking glass and metal hitting the ground was heard from the limousine. It was from the door beside Woss was sent crashing to the ground with his punch enhanced with a spell then he wasted no time there and started running in the middle of the chaos. The old king just casually watched his great escaped while slouching in his seat.

“Run all you want Woss, I will still find and crush you like a damn bug you are then put you inside a coffin.”

After the swift escape of Woss, King Roa also did the same, he blasted the other door beside him with only his fist. He slowly stepped outside of the car to see what was currently happening. He looked around the area and saw a lot of dead bodies rained with bullets on the ground.

“Not bad, these mercenaries are sure experienced when it comes to this kind of thing. With me rigging some of those armored vans with bombs before escorting me surely helped them with the ambush.”

This explained why the armored vans suddenly exploded upon the start of the ambush. The king really planned this ambush himself and trying to fake his death to disappear from the face of everyone. Those poor soldiers being sacrifice just for the sake of making his death look genuine is just too cruel for a king to do.

“Your majesty! You need to get away from here! We can’t establish communication through radio as signals are jammed. They even managed to set a barrier to let no one out.”

“Woah! Did you hear what was I saying before?”

“No your majesty, what was it?”

“Oh right… I was telling you guys to regroup as the enemies managed to breach our defense, we need to form a barricade with the remaining soldiers to bolster our forces.”

“Affirmative! Are there any other orders your majesty?

“No, there is nothing left for me to say, go now and help the others.”

“Understood, I apologize for not hearing you earlier, your majesty. We will quickly regroup and re-strategize! So please escape now as we will hold the line here.”

“Right.”

(Whew… Another lie for you soldier, damn I will get rich for every lie I said for my whole life. Now then where is Woss? I need to finish him off myself.)

At that moment, In the midst of continuous gunfires and explosions from each side, A single bullet aimed at the King’s head was traversing through the blood-soaked battlefield and about to hit him but...

*Clang*

“Not too shabby but at the same time, that’s not nice you know, I’m still thinking where Woss ran off and need to have a nice talk with him. I’ll deal with you guys later but for now, I need to find that guy.”

He raised his mechanical left arm to deflect the incoming bullet. No one knows how he did it but definitely, he has something that detected the bullet as it came from his blindspot. Perhaps Sixth sense, or [Soul Arts]? Whatever it was, he was just proving them why he was the ruler of Stygia for a whole damn 108 years. Another soldier approached him and said,

“Your majesty, this place is no longer safe please escape now before we are surrounded.”

“Your right, don’t worry I can take care of myself. I’m already leaving right now so please stay on guard for any attacks from the rear.”

“Understood.”

Amidst this, the fierce battle between the two sides as explosions intensified. Almost all of the armored vans were now burned down to ashes along with those dead bodies.

“Aaaarrghhh”

“Die!!!”

“Over here help us”

More screams pleading for help and cursing their enemies continue to echo all around the battlefield, Obviously, the military was losing this fight but they couldn’t retreat as long as King Roa was not safe but they didn’t know, The king has no intention of surviving at all via fake death.

“Hey you there, did you saw where Woss ran off?”

“Sir Woss? I believed he ran southwest from here into the woods.”

“Southwest woods? Got it I will head to that direction too and run.”

“Very well, We will hold the line here to make sure you will escape safely. It’s an honor for me to give up my life serving you until the end your majesty! I will fight with everything I got.”

“I’m really grateful for that and I will never forget what you soldiers bravely have done here. I will make sure your deeds will be known to the whole country but never lose hope, fight and survive. This is an absolute order from me so don’t die so easily!”

“Yes, your majesty!”

(Man… This is just sad when you know they are bound to die and yet you keep lying to them to protect me. All of their efforts and life sacrifices will be in vain because I really plan to disappear from Stygia. I just hope the new ruler will compensate to families of these soldiers properly but enough of that, time to get serious.)

King Roa’s eyes started to shine and the aura surrounding him also started to distort. The soldiers around him know what this means and moved back while they fend off the enemy attacks. The enemies also noticed this and became more cautious.

*Inhale*

*Exhale*

“After all of this mess, I’m gonna go on a grand journey just to flirt with women all around the world and maybe, I’ll also pay a visit to that stupid goddess too.”

A very fancy idea coming from the king even in the middle of bloody chaos. He even said about meeting a goddess since finding a Godkin these days is really rare as they almost driven to extinction last 1000 years ago. Nevertheless, King Roa started his preparation for battle.

He removed his upper clothes only leaving his tank top and his necklace. You would expect a scrawny old body from him since he’s very old but that’s not the case here. His entire body maintained a fairly muscled build with multiple scars around his body then he used a very different kind of technique.

“[Internal Soul Arts - Body Manipulation].”

This technique is very different from as it utilizes your [soul] instead of a foreign energy called but for now, let’s focus on this technique. This technique allows you to control how your muscles and other parts of your body behave. Be it your looks or the functions of your body. In King Roa’s case, it’s his looks that slowly changed.

“It’s been a long time since I’m in my original form. Heck, I even matched my body’s capabilities to my looks to be an old man who looked weak. Now I can move better and faster.”

Steam came out of his body. His face was slowly turned younger as those wrinkles disappeared. His ash gray hair remained but this time, A very fresh King Roa appeared, with no beard and just smooth skin. After his transformation, He looked into the southwest to look for his prey and kill him.

“There you are. It’s hunting time!”

*step*

The young king made a giant leap with a single step into the woods without any kind of effort. Soldiers around him saw this and intensify their defense against the enemy forces. Now, the entire battlefield is nearing its climax and nobody knows what will happen next except for one thing, and that’s the death toll will just keep rising up.