Hero of Darkness-Novel

Chapter 444 - The Atonement

In the middle of a dense forest, on an open ground… a heated battle began between two powerful fighters. Shockwaves and tremors filled the battlefield as a demonkin and a three-meter-tall human clad in red armor fought in a deathmatch.

While the former was faster and more flexible because of his fighting style with a scythe… the latter was powerful and more perceptive of the battlefield as both entities fought.

Clang!

Clink!

Sparks flew across the battlefield as Victor's scythe clashed against Jugram's new giantsword and was repelled after the clash.

Swoosh!

Victor's figure flickered and he evaded Jugram's vision.

Shing!

Just then, Jugram used the broad side of the sword and quickly plunged it into the ground on his right-hand side.

Clang!

Victor, who just appeared a second later in that same place had already swung his scythe in order to take off Jugram's right arm and both of their weapons clashed.

[Nonsense! It hasn't even been a minute and he can already predict my next attack.

Even for a human who is under 40, he is far more experienced.] thought the demonkin.

As soon as their battle started, Jugram went into a defensive mode and allowed Victor to attack. But in just a minute, he was already predicting Victor's next location based on the latter's footwork like a true veteran.

Kahn, who was seated on his throne, chuckled as if this was something bound to him.

[This fool doesn't even know who he's fighting.

Although Ceril and Omega are the most relentless among my forces when it comes to training their skills and abilities…

No one has ever been able to surpass Jugram when it comes to adapting to the battlefield and his opponent.

He's the fastest and most efficient one to find flaws in his enemies and their techniques.] thought Kahn.

All the generals and Omega had inherited a part of Kahn's personality in their own way. And Jugram was the one who inherited Kahn's quick wit and adaptability to completely turn the tide in a battle.

Like a simulation running inside his head… Jugram only needed a few exchanges to gauge the opponent's skills and their strength.

And now that the battlefield was even under Kahn's dimensional domain which brought Victor's strength on the same level as Jugram… it was more about the real experience on a battlefield.

Compared to Victor, Jugram had more real-life battle experience than the enemy because unlike the demonkin who only trained under the care of his clan and factions… Jugram on the other end fought every battle in a do-or-die situation.

Even Kahn considered him as the One man army because Jugram had the skills and mindset to even fight a couple of thousand enemies regardless of their strengths and numbers.

His previous battle against the frost giants when Kahn went to The North was already a testament to how great of a battle-hard warrior Jugram was.

In a way, the match was already fixed and Victor didn't even know it.

As for the main reason why he said that he'd let Victor go…

He didn't intend to let Victor go with his sanity intact after what he did.

First, he wanted to psychologically break Victor who thought that he was above other people and their lives didn't matter because they came from a poor background or part of the society.

Physical pain was already due… but Kahn wanted to make this bastard realize how little did his heritage, his clan and the so-called fake prestige mattered in the end when no one was coming to save him.

And as the battle continued while Victor used skills after skills by infusing his man with his scythe attacks and created a few dozen copies of the weapon using his aura…

Jugram successfully defended against them from time to time and after 10 minutes passed…

He finally used his power boost skills such as Inferno Domain and Demon's Rage skill to overpower the opponent.

And in just 15 minutes… the once presumed to be the 3rdmost strongest prodigy of the Rakos Empire was reduced to a punching bag by the Hell Berserker general.

"Arrhhh!!" wailed Victor as Jugram kicked Victor and broke his left shin with a single kick.

And he dislocated Victor's right shoulder with a single punch. At this point… he wasn't even using his giantsword but only his bare fists.

And with his epic rank weapon that was shattered in half by Jugram out of the equation…

Victor couldn't even properly defend himself and charged like an idiot in front of his enemy.

"Tch! Such a disappointment. He doesn't even know any other fighting techniques other than his scythe skills. Hasn't he heard the saying….

A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one." spoke Kahn as he enjoyed a glass of wine while Victor screamed in pain.

"Go heal him. We are going to take time on this one." ordered Kahn to Armin.

Armin healed Victor's shattered bones instantly now that he was a legendary rank being and had plenty of SSS Rank healing skills. keep shattering his bones while Armin keeps healing him instantly.

"No!! Stop!!" pleaded Victor but Jugram shattered his wrist and all the bones in the hand under his feet.

Soon, a vicious cycle of Jugram breaking bones after bones in Victor's body repeated while Armin kept healing him without even breaking a sweat.

Kahn had already left a doppelganger in his castle who was Kahn himself and shared the affairs as the Sovereign of the fiefdom through the Telepathy Link.

So all he did in the meantime was to watch Victor suffer while he himself was counting the number of broken bones.

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TWO DAYS LATER.

Kahn had been having a great time as he saw Jugram break Victor's pride till the point the semi-saint started to beg to let him live.

And finally… a figure of this once overly prideful demonkin with hopeless eyes lay on the ground as Jugram ripped apart his left arm.

"And that is number 20 thousand! Hurray!

Congratulations Victor! You've survived the punishment." spoke Kahn with a charming smile as he clapped excitedly.

Meanwhile, Victor couldn't even scream in agony at this point.

"Plea.. se.. j.. ust.. ki.. ll… me." spoke Victor who was completely broken at this point.

He had suffered an immeasurable amount of torture and heartwrenching pain in the past 2 days at the hands of Kahn's executioner aka Jugram.

"My my… did you really think I'd let you die so easily?

If you want a swift death… you should offer me something compelling.

After all, you're more worth alive to me than dead." spoke Kahn in a casual tone.

"What…. do.. you… want?" asked Victor.

"Isn't it obvious?" said Kahn and revealed his terms…

"The real truth."