SSS SKILL: DUPLICATE

Dan's eyes became watery. He does not cry, even if his body is in extreme pain, but he succumbs to the pain of leaving his family behind. There are tears in Dan's eyes.

"Honey, Rina, I'm sorry. Daddy will not be able to go home."

Flute walks toward Dan with a smile on his face.

"You are not even a peak 3rd level, but you forced me to release my king's field. You astonished me for getting this far. Actually, I already noticed some of your kingdom's plans. Do you want to know why I did not warn them?" asked Flute.

Dan's face looks very shocked.

Flute looks in the direction of Baynard with a reminiscent expression.

"Your kingdom has a very beautiful tune. People are living in peace and prosperity, be it Frannian, Rus, or Baynards. You embraced our people with open arms. The harmony of different races in purple land plays great music to my ear. It even inspires me to compose more music. This musical instrument has a different name in the north, but I like the name given by your people, Zither. Baynard is a great kingdom that fits my tune well, so I decided to join it."

Dan is even more shocked when he heard Flute. Even Carter, who is not far away from them, is shocked. Their fight brought them to the area where the huge aura blade sent Carter.

"D-damn bastard! You should have said that earlier! I even said goodbye to my family. I wasted my dramatic tears!" thought Dan.

Flute pulled his vision back from the direction of Baynard, then looks at Dan again.

"Hmm, you are still holding on? That is not good. You have to pass out. I must show your king that there is someone strong in Fran. I must ensure that all Frannian people will be treated fairly." said Flute.

TNNNG! "Acck!" Dan coughed out blood when he was attacked by Flute.

"B-bastar" Dan did not finish his curse. He started falling to the ground, and his physique is reverting back to normal.

Flop! He fell to the ground and passed out.

Flute looks at Carter, who is not far away. Carter sweats and looks flustered. He doesn't want to experience the attack of Flute that made Dan cough out blood.

"Y-You don't have to attack me. I-I will pass out on my own." said Carter with a sweat on his face.

Flute is surprised when he heard it.

"Fine, go ahead," said Flute.

Carter feels relieved. He closed his eyes and fell to his right side. He did not see the stone where his head is falling.

"Acck! D-damn, I-I should at least apply aura to my head. I-It hurts," thought Carter, then he truly passed out.

Flute nodded when he saw what Carter did.

"That man is really sincere. He even let his head hit a stone."

Outside the capital of Ru Kingdom, Marco is facing a peak 3rd level aura master. There are burn marks and holes in the ground around them. They are marks of their battle.

The aura master has a surprised look on his face as he watches the activated shield that covers the whole capital.

"Who is the damn idiot that activated the shield?! How else can we go back inside?" Lock furiously shouted.

"You don't have to be angry at your people. It is not done by them but by us. That is the signal for our counterattack. Now, there is no need to hold back," said Marco with a smile on his face.

Lock is surprised, then became furious. He activated earth magic in his body. Earth float and move toward him, covering his whole body. As the earth covers his body, runes appear on the surface of the earth, then transform into gorgeous armor. The shoulder guards are big and pointed, the helmet has two horns, and it almost covers the whole face.

Turning earth into whole-body armor is a secret skill passed down to Lock's family. Because of this skill, he is called the Stone General. The armor is tough and light because of the runes.

Lock stretched his arm. The earth started to gather, then it formed a hammer with runes. Lock clad his whole earth armor and hammer with a compact aura as he stares fiercely at Marco.

"I will pummel you into a meat sauce, including your allies inside the capital!"

Lock dashes toward Marco. Marco grins. He gathers more fire element on his both fists, then he rapidly punches them to Lock.

FIRE FIST

Woo! Woo! A big fist made of fire quickly flew toward Lock. Lock flexibly rotate his hammer in his fingers, then hit the incoming fire fists.

Bang! Bang! Bang! The fire fists are easily destroyed by Lock.

GROUND SPIKE

Bang! A ground spike suddenly rose beneath Marco. Marco noticed it and jumped to the side.

Lock jumped and smashed his hammer on Marco, who is still in the air.

Marco steps on earth, then he jumped to his back.

Boom! The hammer missed Marco and hit the ground, causing a huge hole to appear.

Woosh! A fire pillar pushed Marco into the air. Threads fire elements are rotating on his right fist. A magic circle had formed in front of his fist, then he struck it when he started falling from the air.

FIST IMPACT

A huge fire fist, followed by a pillar of fire, rapidly moves toward Lock.

Brrgh! An earth pillar moves Lock into the air.

Bang! The first impact hit the bottom of the earth pillar and destroyed it. The earth pillar started falling down.

Lock moved to the body of the earth pillar. His eyes stares fiercely at Marco, who is in the air. Earth started gathering in front of him, then it turned into a huge boulder. He took a hammer stance and added more aura to his hammer, then he smashed the boulder toward Marco.

Bang! A loud explosion echoes in the air. The debris of the smashed boulder rapidly flew to Marco.

Marco saw the debris flying toward him.

He steps on earth, then he jumped with a somersault.

His whole body is in a diagonal position. His head is facing the ground and earth appears over his feet.

Boom! He charges down toward Lock.

Lock is shocked. He did not expect that his enemy could flexibly change direction in mid-air.

FIST IMPACT

The fist impact is stronger when combined with the force and speed of Marco's charge from the air.

Lock could not dodge, so he attacked the fist with his hammer.

Bang! The earth hammer and fist impact clashed.

"Aaahhh!" screams Lock as he tries to smash the fist impact.

The first impact stopped for a while.

Crakk! A crack starts to spread to the hammer's head.

Bang! The hammer's head was destroyed.

"Acck!" The fist impact pushes Lock to the ground.

Boom! The fist impact and Lock hit the ground.