A Demon's Journey

Laura's opponent was one of the commanders who led the Dragon Tiger Palace's disciples. This man was William Harvey.

William possessed the twin variant elements. The Metal and Gold Elements. This was the primary reason he could grab Azaroth's attention.

However, even though he possessed rare variant elements, his body was rather weak.

This wasn't always the case, though. William was blessed with divine strength during his birth. However, due to an accident in his early life, his physique was weakened to the extent that he found it difficult to walk.

After some recovery, he began to accompany his father to his training.

His father was a javelin thrower in the Glerian Kingdom's army. Thus, he would throw javelins during his training.

William was extremely happy to watch his father train. He loved how the Javelin would tear the air as it flew forwards.

After his father died, he decided to pick up Spears and followed in his father's footsteps.

It was far for him to throw a spear with his weak physique. Even picking up a spear and maintaining the stance was extremely challenging for him.

However, his hard work began to show results. Slowly, his muscles became stronger as he began to pick up those spears and started throwing them.

His aim improved over time. He continued this routine every day, and slowly his time to get into his stance decreased. Moreover, his throws were getting stronger and faster.

There was a catch, though. William couldn't utilize his strength unless he went into the stance to toss a spear.

Thus, his physique remained his weak point, and he was much weaker than his peers.

He joined the Dragon Tiger Palace through an indirect method. Some warriors of the Dragon Tiger Palace saw him while he was hunting in the forest by using his Spear Throwing Skill.

They were pretty impressed by his Spear Throwing Skill. However, when they found out that William had experienced an accident during his youth and couldn't utilize that strength unless he was in that posture, they couldn't help but be disappointed.

One group of the Dragon Tiger Palace still decided to give him a chance. They recruited him without any trial, and William took various herbs and other pellets to strengthen his physique.

He also learned to utilize his Gold and Metal Ardor. Even though his physique issue persisted, if he could strengthen his physique a bit more, he could begin to train normally with others.

However, William had no idea that he would face utter defeat at Laura's hands in this battle. He would have died today if not for Azaroth's intervention.

Meanwhile, Laura dealt with the other warriors near Azaroth and William.

She soon approached Azaroth and asked him, "Any other orders, master?"

"Don't let any warrior escape. Capture the surrendered ones and kill those who resist. There can't be any third kind of people on this battlefield," Azaroth spoke while focusing on William.

Laura immediately went away to follow his order.

It wasn't too strange since Laura's true talent was not in terms of pure strength but her Ardor Control and possessing an enormous amount of Ardor. She could outlast her opponents who were at the same rank as her. Naturally, Azaroth could be considered an exception because he possessed Triquetra Ardor.

However, Azaroth wasn't going to cure William now. He had to make William realize that he was doing him a favor and would owe it to Azaroth for the rest of his life.

If not for Azaroth, William could never recover from this ailment.

Around this moment, Azaroth turned his gaze towards the sky, where he saw two flashes of red-colored Ardor clashing against each other.

One belonged to Zena while the other belonged to her opponent, the only remaining commander of the Dragon Tiger Palace.

Once she falls, all warriors of the Dragon Tiger Palace would lose their remaining morale and surrender.

Zena had launched Heavenly Thunder, with which she managed to scare the beasts away. The beasts that did remain behind were being dealt with by birds from Zena's flock.

Zena was fighting a woman who was using Blood to fight against her.

Thus, from a distance, Azaroth only witnessed two flashes of red color clashing against each other.

"Lightning Rush!" Zena was surrounded by pure Red Lightning as she dashed towards her opponent.

Meanwhile, her opponent targeted the incoming Zena with lots of blood.

She didn't need to conjure her blood using her Ardor. Instead, she could manipulate the blood of these dead warriors around her and use it to battle against Zena.

Just controlling this blood didn't take a lot of her Ardor. She could fight such a battle for a long time.

Zena's Lightning Rush attack was intercepted by this attack from so many sides. She had to dodge them and then look for another opportunity to attack this woman.

Zena was getting tired of this woman. She then decided to deal with her decisively. Zena suddenly began to fly high in the air.

The woman noticed that Zena was flying high and knew that this bird would probably launch one of her strongest attacks.

She thought it would be best to use this moment to charge up for her strongest attack, "Countless Blood Blades!"

The blood around the woman was solidified by her Ardor. She continued to increase the number of these blades under her control.

Her plan was to strike Zena with all of them. Even Zena couldn't dodge these many blood blades.

Meanwhile, Zena was building up Heavenly Lightning around her body. She then let out a loud screech, and her entire body began to glow.

The Heavenly Lightning around her body was shot towards the clouds.

The clouds above Zena immediately turned Dark. The Red Lightning continued to crackle in those clouds for a couple of seconds before it was shot back at Zena.

Zena endured the pure power in the attack while absorbing the Heavenly Lightning. She then released that Heavenly Lightning towards Zena.

"Heavenly Lightning Pillar!"

This attack immediately created a dense red-colored lightning column that only targeted Zena's opponent.

Zena's opponent knew that her body couldn't move quick enough to dodge this attack.

She instinctively called out for all the Blood near her and created a Blood Shield.

This Blood Shield couldn't resist that Heavenly Lightning Pillar for even a second before it was pierced.

Zena's opponent was struck with that Heavenly Lightning Pillar, and she turned to dust soon enough.

This occurred so quickly that if people blinked their eyes, they would have missed the procedure of that woman turning into dust.

This Heavenly Lightning Pillar was considerably more powerful than the last one since Zena wasn't targeting a big number of soldiers this time. She just had a single target this time. As a result, her Heavenly Lightning Pillar could demonstrate its real might.

This marked the conclusion of this battle with Dragon Tiger Palace.

The remainder of the disciples quickly submitted. Laura apprehended them, while Zena or Noah killed all of the escapees.

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A/N: I hope you all like this chaper.