Chapter 19-Battle of Saints Continues

"Awesome!"

"Amazing!"

"Lord Ernst already defeated two Saint's, with just one move."

"Even the personal disciple of War God, was still unconscious."

"This is the real Saints battle. Defeating two Saints easily, Is he already a peak stage Saint?"

A lazy middle age man drinking wine thought. "His attacked just now is different from the before. It contains another elemental profound mystery. He is still hiding his strength. Interesting!"

"This Grandmaster Ernst is really strong. Even though, he is still young, he can defeat Saints who trains for centuries. I must make him closer to our royal family. Damn, that Jeff, I might already lose the chance to get closer to him." Emperor Johann murmured his praise for Ernst and anger for Marquis Jeff.

"Young master is mighty, he already defeated two Saints." Andrea murmured.

James and Sarah were also praising Ernst in their hearts, the stronger their son was, the prouder they get.

Meanwhile, in the sky above the river, Ernst was looking at Olivier who is now eager to fight. When Olivier was about to fly, Ernst stop him. "Wait!"

"Before we fight, I need to take care of somebody who wants to harm me in the past. This person is not from O'Brien Empire, but secretly preaching at the different cities of the empire."

Olivier nods upon hearing Ernst words. He was not in hurry anyway, and was affected by his attack earlier, that makes his blood boils. He would like to see if Ernst stills some hidden tricks that he did not show. Before, he was not interested in fighting with Ernst, but he saw with his own eyes that he defeated the two Saints easily. His fighting spirit begins to kick in.

The spectators were curious as who has the guts to preach in their empire. It did not take long as Ernst begins to speak.

"Stehle, Come up!"

"I and your Radiant Church have a grudge that needs to be settled. Four years ago, when I just graduated from Ernst Institute, your Radiant Church sent people to six 9th rank experts to abduct me. They were ordered that if I resist, they will kill me on the spot. Was your Radiant Church teaching includes abducting and killing geniuses? If so, then there are many dead geniuses in the past that reject your church."

"Despicable!"

"Get out from our empire."

"Radiant Church is really not a good group of people. Thankfully, we have War God O'Brien to protect us." The citizens of the empire were angrily looking at Stehle.

Stehle's face was getting redder and redder due to anger. "Ernst, don't smear our Radiant Church. What we preach was benevolence, love, and equality to all mankind. We did not abduct anyone as you claim to be."

Stehle soared in the sky, he keeps his distance from Ernst by one hundred meters. Face with the Radiant Church enemy, as recall the order from the Holy Emperor, he can't help to show his murderous intention.

"Tell me, are you the one who killed our people four years ago?" Stehle ask in fury.

"Yes I did. Your people wishes to harm me, so I killed them. Anyone who intends to harm me and my family will suffer the same consequences." Ernst nonchalantly replied.

"You are really the murderer. I will kill you."

"Haaargh!"

"Die for me!"

Stehle suddenly shot towards Ernst like a release arrow. The long sword in his hand, covered with golden light, chop towards Ernst. A cold aura permeated the surroundings making the air freeze.

Ernst observes Stehle incoming sword strike. On the outside, Stehle sword's strike seems slow, but in reality it was very fast. He prepares himself.

"Slash!"

Stehle's long sword split the air, increasing the speed tenfold. In the blink of an eye. It arrives near Ernst body.

"Whoosh!"

Ernst vanishes, Stehle's sword only hit his shadow.

Ernst appears above Stehle's head with a punching motion. Stehle wants to avoid the punch, but it was too late. The punch is too fast.

'World Breaker'

"Bang!"

Stehle's head exploded, while his body begins to disintegrate, then turns to dust. The only remaining is his sword and interspatial ring.

"For an enemy, I will not show any mercy." Ernst casually said and collected Stehle's sword and interspatial ring.

"Wooaaahhh!"

"Another Saint was defeated. But this time, the Saint is dead and nothing remains."

"Is this Ernst real strength? Even my defense, if that punch hit me, I will definitely die." Haydson thought of Ernst attack just now.

Olivier also looks solemn, he was excited to fight. In his mind, Ernst was far more powerful than Haydson.

Kenyon regains his consciousness and saw what happen to Stehle after he was hit by Ernst attack. Remembering his battle with Ernst, his body turns cold. If he was hit by that attack, nothing shall remain on his body.

McKenzie also sigh in relief and thankful that Ernst did not use that attack during their battle.

"That's the technique Master use to instantly kill the Saint-level Savage Worldbear in Fenlai City." Nadia said to Ernst family.

Every spectator watching the battle was astonished. They are cheering Ernst name loudly.

"Ernst!"

"Ernst!"

"Very strong. My brother is powerful." Anna jumps and also cheers.

James, Sarah, Steward Greg, Andrea Douglas, and Roger also begin to cheer.

"Now, we don't need to fear the Radiant Church and similar powers. Ernst now has the strength to fight them." James said to his companions.

While the spectators were cheering, Ernst closes his eyes and begins to replay the battle with Stehle in his mind. Stehle was a peak stage Saint-level combatant he fought, and his understanding of the Laws was also good. He reviewed the fight with Stehle to see if there are places he can improve himself. After some time, he opens his eyes and happens to see Olivier.

"Olivier, ever since I arrived at the O'Brien Empire, I always heard people praise you as a genius. They even called you the 'Prodigy Swordsaint'. I want to know if you deserve such title." Ernst releases his fighting spirit.

"Come up!"

Olivier shook's his head on Ernst provocation. He slowly rises in the air and face Ernst.

Olivier spokes arrogantly. "Honestly, I'm not interested in fighting a nobody like you. I came here to challenge Haydson. But seeing you defeat three Saints easily, you are now qualified to see my true strength. During my travels in different parts of the continent, I battle many Saints and won. Unfortunately, not a single one of them can match my speed. If you can't match my speed, you will definitely die."

"Olivier, strength is shown through battles. You can't win by just opening your mouth." Ernst opposes Olivier's statement.

Hearing the exchange of words between the two young geniuses, the spectators cheered in excitement. For a month, the people are discussing who will win if the two fight. Today they will know the answer.

Olivier couldn't wait any longer. "Ernst, are you ready?" He gave a warning to Ernst.

After speaking, a white light began to flash repeatedly. With each flash of white light, a shadow-Olivier will appear. In the blink of an eye, 108 shadow-Olivier appeared in the sky surrounding Ernst.

Every spectator was shock and speechless.

A sudden white light, piercing to the eye. Olivier's Lightshadow sword covered with white light reached Ernst head, piercing directly through it.

"Boom!"

"Aaaah!"

Everyone let out a simultaneous cry of alarm. They did not see any blood from Ernst head.

When Olivier's Lightshadow sword was about to pierce his head, Ernst just tilted his head to the right side, avoiding the piercing strike with ease.

"Too slow!" Ernst said to Olivier.

Olivier stared at Ernst, his face was getting serious. He attacks Ernst again with astonishing speed. He struck his sword at Ernst head a hundred times.

"Swish!"

Meanwhile, Ernst only moves his body with minimum effort to dodge Olivier's piercing attack. In Ernst eyes, Olivier is moving very slowly, so he can distinguish where Olivier's strike trajectory and evade it in advance.

"Do you only know to dodge?" Olivier provokes Ernst.

"You are just too slow and can't even hit me." Ernst replied.

The spectators watching the battle in the sky only saw shadows and blurs. They couldn't tell which one of the shadows is Ernst and Olivier's true body. Their speed had reached such a terrifying level.

"Olivier, I suggest you use your other sword and attack me in full strength. Don't waste my time." Ernst draws his Blackshadow sword from the sheath on his back and pointed at Olivier.

"Then so be it." Olivier replaces his Lightshadow sword with his Obsidian sword. The 108 shadow-Olivier combine into one. Olivier's body was now covered with gloomy cold black light that seems to devour all things.

"Swish!"

A ray of devouring black light tore through the sky, striking directly at Ernst.

"Haaargh!"

"Haaargh!"

Ernst shouts and meets Olivier sword strike with his sword.

'Profound Truth of the Earth-256 Layered Waves'

"Bang!"

The swords collided, causing sonic booms in the air.

"Puaaahh!"

Olivier vomited a lot of fresh blood. His internal organs are all damage. He wanted to say something, but loss his consciousness. He falls in the sky and landed on the river.

Ernst receives Olivier spiritual attack, but he did not feel anything. It seems he can barely use the spiritual attack using his Obsidian sword.

Many onlookers jump to the river and retrieve Olivier's body.

"Hurry bring Olivier here, Light-style magus heal him quickly." Emperor Johann orders his magus. He doesn't want a genius like Olivier to die.

"Don't worry, your Majesty. Olivier will be fine." The Light-style magus assures Emperor Johann.

"What a bizarre attack. Their sword just collided, but Olivier almost died from internal injuries, while Olivier attack appears to be ineffective." Haydson looks at Ernst, pondering about his attack earlier.

"Ernst!"

"Ernst!"

The spectators start to cheer loudly again.

Personal disciples of War God who trains for centuries are thinking if they will fight Ernst or call their senior apprentice brothers.

"Big brother!"

"Big brother, please wake up." Blumer worriedly looks at the unconscious Olivier while glare hatefully at Ernst.

"Don't worry about your brother. All his internal organs are now healed. You just wait for him to regain his consciousness." The Light-style magus comforted Blumer.

While the spectators are cheering on the side of the river, Ernst replayed his battle with Olivier. He recalls Olivier spiritual attack, its effect was frail, almost negligible. His technique was only at the basic stage of profound mystery. During his six months of stay in the Mountain Range of Magical Beast, he fought Saint-level magical beast who uses a spiritual attack more powerful than Olivier's attack.

Ernst had finished reviewing his last battle. He now focuses on Haydson, a fellow practitioner of Law of the Earth.

"Haydson, come up!"

Haydson excitedly looks up and flew in the air while maintaining a distance from Ernst.

Presently, none of the millions of spectators on both sides of the river made any noise. It seemed as though they are holding their breath. They felt the heavy pressure coming from the two Saint-level combatants.

The publicly known as the most powerful Saint in the continent against the youngest Saint in the continent.

Haydson draws his earthen-colored heavy sword from the sheath on his back. "I've seen your sword attack you used against Olivier, which is similar to mine. I want to test whose attack is stronger, yours or mine?"

Ernst also draws his Blackshadow sword. "That's what I expect from you. I hope to experience the battle prowess of the so called most powerful Saint in the continent."

Ernst and Haydson stood in midair, they stare with each other from few hundreds meters apart. They used their battle Qi to speak to each other, their voices are very loud. The people below could hear their words clearly.

The heartbeat of millions of viewers increased in speed as they watch the two Saint combatant building up their power.

Both of them were surrounded by earth-colored energy.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Sonic booms can be heard as both Ernst and Haydson moves at the same time. The two Saint combatants looks at each other in the eyes while they are charging.

"Haaaaaaargh!"

"Haaaaaaargh!"

Two loud roars rang at the same time. The Blackshadow sword carrying a powerful force as it hack down towards Haydson. But Haydson heavy sword seemed to carry the force of a mountain as it swung towards Ernst.

"Profound truth of the Earth-256 Layered Waves!"

"Worldquake!"

Their sword collides.

"Bang!"

It was though it was a mountain had collided. The terrifying power of the collision produced a powerful shock waves. The water on the Channe River creates a huge wave heading in every direction.

"Everyone, be careful!" The spectators were all in shock.

"Retreat!"

"Retreat!"

Shouted by the soldiers as they saw a giant wave of water was about to hit the audiences.

The power of the collision were simply too powerful.

After the collision, Ernst remains in his hacking motion, the same with Haydson. Both of them did not retreat.

Ernst was not injure, he just feels a little numb on his arm holding the sword. He perceived that Haydson's 'Worldquake' technique was similar to his Profound Truth of the Earth-256 layered waves' but Haydson focus on the 'Strength' of profound mystery. Sadly, Haydson only scratches the basic understanding of the 'Strength' profound mystery.

Haydson looks at Ernst carefully, suddenly. "Puaaahh!" Haydson body trembled heavily and vomits a large amount of fresh blood. He was heavily injured. He stared at Ernst with pain shown on his face.

"Now I know what Olivier feels when he received your attack. Fortunately, I came prepared after seeing your battle with him or else I will definitely die. I can't believe my proudest defense was ineffective against your attack. You have tasted my 'Worldquake' technique, but you are not injured. It seems your defense were stronger than mine. Your attack was indeed terrifying as it ignored my defense and attack the internal organs."

"I want to fight more, but my injuries are very heavy. I will challenge you again."

"I admit my defeat."

Haydson continued vomiting blood. If the fight resumes, he will really die. For him, it is not shameful to admit defeat.

He flew downward with still trembling body.

"What a great fight! I almost pee on my pant when I saw the huge water wave coming to our way."

"Though Lord Haydson lose, he was still my idol."

"Ernst!"

"Ernst!"

"Haydson!"

"Haydson!"

The millions of spectators at the Channe River both cheered Ernst and Haydson. Though Haydson loss, the citizens of O'Brien Empire still respects him as a powerful Saint.

Ernst and Haydson battle has a greater impact than the earlier four battles.

"What a good battle. I wish I could watch this kind of battle in our empire regularly." Emperor Johann praise the battle between Ernst and Haydson.

"Son!"

"Little darling!"

"Brother!"

"Young master!"

"Master!"

The Dawson family had teary eyes. Their family member just defeated the well known powerful Saint in the continent.

Ernst was still standing in midair, reviewing his previous battle with eyes closed. As he finished, he open his eyes and look around the cheering spectators. He said, "I have many insights about the previous battles. I will digest the insights first then tomorrow, I will return to this place to fight the remaining Saints of O'Brien Empire."

Ernst flew downwards and landed in front of his family, he smiled at them and said. "Let's go home."

Every member of the Dawson family were joyful as they walk away from the river. The spectators make way for them as they watch and cheers him.

On the second day, Ernst was again standing in midair above the Channe River. The battle continues for six days. Ernst challenged every Saint that shown on the Channe River and defeated them all. He even defeated a personal disciple of War God who trains for thousands of years.

"Damn! There are so many Saints more powerful than Haydson who is known throughout the continent as the most powerful Saint. Are they the hidden experts of the empire?"

"For the last few days, more powerful Saints comes one after another. We did not even know them. Where do these guys come from?"

Every spectator wonders why there are so many Saints more powerful than Haydson, but eventually, they just forget it. They celebrated to have witnessed a historical battle between the youngest Saint in the continent battles many powerful Saints in the empire.

While the spectators were still wondering, Ernst who stood in midair open his eyes and looks at the personal disciples of War God. He speaks to them in a loud voice. "I heard there is the first disciple of War God who trains for five thousand years by the name Fain. Please tell Fain, I want to challenge him. We shall battle in Mt. Tujiao after seven days."

After saying his message, Ernst flew down to his family, and they went home together.