CHAPTER 371: CHAPTER 371: KLAUS’S TRUE STRENGTH

BOOOOOOOM!

CK’s mana exploded out of his body as he walked back to Klaus slowly.

The calm look on his face was long gone. A dark expression has replaced it instead.

His own soldiers who saw this stepped back in fear.

This made Klaus’s men want to step forward and defend their leader. But unfortunately for them, they were getting crushed by CK’s aura and couldn’t move.

And so, they could only look on in terror as the man walked closer to their leader who also seemed to be stuck.

And even that took a lot of effort as even breathing was hard to do in front of the overpowering aura.

"Good good. I should have known that the brother of an ungrateful dog is also an ungrateful dog. I shouldn’t have wasted my time extending a hand to dogs. The only way I can wash myself of this dishonour is by ending your pathetic life right here and now. But I will first make you watch as I kill all your people one after the other. And the women will first serve as the playthings of my soldiers before they are killed too. I want to experience ultimate pain before I send you on your way" CK spoke calmly but ruthlessly.

Soon enough he was back in front of Klaus. At that point, his black eyes had turned red. This matched his hair.

At this point, Klaus and the others finally understood why he was called the Crimson King even before he did anything.

They could even guess his power from how the surroundings were quickly heating up.

In fact, they had gotten so hot that anyone lower than R3 would quickly die without even being directly attacked.

The soldiers from Tactoa were only okay because of their suits...

"Soldiers, what are you waiting for? Didn’t you hear m..." CK was addressing his soldiers after seeing that Klaus wasn’t saying anything.

Which he assumed was his way of submitting to him. And so, he decided to move on to the punishment.

However, before he could finish giving his orders, something shocking happened.

Klaus who shouldn’t have been able to move calmly raised his hand and placed it on CK’s shoulder. Which pretty much recreated a certain meme.

"So this is the power of an R5 huh?... Well, at the very least that’s what I wanted to say right now. However, this isn’t the power of an R5 is it? You’re close but far at the same time. At most, you’re a bit over Peak Pseudo R5s in strength. But we both know that a legit R5 would dog walk your ass. Your energy signature is nothing but a farce. I’m glad my brother left Tactoa before it completely ruined his body and talent. Even if it did harm it a bit without him noticing it.. Well, aren’t you going to say anything?" Klaus said what he wanted to, to the shocked CK.

In fact, it wasn’t just the CK who was shocked. Everyone present was shocked. After all, none of them understood how Klaus was resisting CK’s aura so easily.

After all, he had never done anything which suggested that he could. Even though he had proved without a shadow of a doubt that he was the strongest among them.

In hindsight, he managed to punch CK away before. And even if it was a surprise attack, it was still hard for a lower rank to do that to a higher rank.

And there was how he was disrespectful and unbothered by CK’s presence from the start.

It was only now that people were starting to see the light. And that was the likely fact that none of them actually knew the limit of Klaus’s power. From the looks of things, he was way more of a beast than they thought he was...

"You... How are you doing this?" CK asked a question instead of attacking like everyone else expected.

The reason for this was that Klaus was spot on when he said that CK wasn’t a legit R5. After all, just like Lewis Smith, his strength was enhanced by the Monarch...

But that wasn’t the problem. The problem was that Klaus could tell. And it only made sense that anyone who could tell was of the same level, if not stronger.

"Don’t you think we’ve spoken enough? I feel that people want to see a fight now. Plus I only touched your shoulder instead of attacking before I wanted you to see it coming. Jumping you didn’t seem fun. So, now... Take my punch..." Klaus replied then...

BOOOOOOOM!

He gut-punched CK. However, the blow was blocked. But the force generated still pushed CK back.

He looked down at his aching hands then back up.

He was met with an interesting sight. And that was seeing Klaus’s body double in size and muscle. Pitch black marks appeared on the right side of his body while pure white ones appeared on his left.

He looked quite weird and majestic at the same time. It was also the first time anyone from Klaus’s group, including his brother saw the transformation.

And to their surprise, his aura climbed to the peak of Pseudo-R5 just because of the transformation.

Which was completely unheard of. Transformations gave people power, but it was never so dramatic as moving from not even PR4 to Peak Pseudo-R5. That should have been impossible from what they knew... Fortunately, they didn’t know Muku or they might have gotten heart attacks.

"Finally, someone who’s worthy of my true power... " Klaus spoke calmly.

As black and white mana swirled around him...

"That mana... Whatever. Die!" CK could feel that there was something wrong with Klaus’s mana but he couldn’t place it. So he gave up on that and decided to end Klaus’s life first.

He felt that he had been too chatty that day. It was time to take care of business.

And so, with an explosion of red flames behind him, CK exploded forward.

He simultaneously deployed his mana armour. Which wasn’t something humans normally around them and they hadn’t developed the instinct for it yet.

Some could keep it on most times, but CK who wasn’t that talented couldn’t. So he only deployed it during battle, like now.

BOOM!

Klaus was hit dead centre and flew away into the distance.

CK immediately pursues as he wanted to kill Klaus as quickly as possible to make up for the time he lost.

Plus Klaus was so weird that he didn’t want to give him any more time to pull something weird out of nowhere.

Anyway, soon enough, the two were a distance away from the rest of the group.

A s or was only then that CK noticed that Klaus wasn’t actually getting hurt despite all the beating he took until they got there.

"So you just wanted to get me away from the other huh?" CK asked as he sent fire attacks at Klaus.

"No talking" Klaus immediately shut him down.

He really disliked chatty opponents. Which was odd since he was chatty himself.

Anyway, this time he didn’t tank the attacks and dodged them instead.

After that, he flew toward CK and the two were soon entangled in a magic and fists battle despite the option of using long-range attacks.

Though CK wanted to use long-range attacks, just that Klaus wasn’t letting him go too far from him.

And so, he could only fight it out and sneak in long-range attacks when possible.

It’s not like he had a reason not to accept close range... After all, it was soon apparent that despite the transformation which put him infinitely closer to CK in power. He was still weaker.

And so, he was soon bruised, buttered and bleeding. Which was all to CK’s pleasure.

The redhead quite liked the feeling of beating down the disrespectful Klaus....

...

More than thirty minutes later...

"Just give up and die trash... I’m way out of your league!" CK arrogantly declared to Klaus who was now practically half dead.

His skin was burnt off in many places, and his hair was also a mess. And his left hand was hanging loosely on his shoulder as it was broken...

His face was also beaten black and blue. And yet his fighting spirit didn’t decrease. Even his expression was still calm after everything...

"Why would I give up when I’m winning?" Klaus asked the craziest question in the world.

"Ha! Hahahahahaha. You’re winning? Okay, sure. You’re winning then. Let’s make you’re win official by ending your life!" CK replied mockingly at the man who had clearly lost his mind from the beating he had given him.

"Of course I’m winning. You’ve literally thrown my way everything you could throw. You used your mana armour, domain, and even your strongest attacks, and yet you still couldn’t bring me down..." Klaus replied calmly...

"Hoho. You think I used my strongest attacks because I used my domain and mana armour? Let me show you my real strongest attack before I send you on your way!" CK replied angrily.

After all, it was a sore spot for him that he hadn’t been able to take out Klaus after everything he did.

And so....

BOOOOOM!

His flames turned an eerie pitch black. He almost moaned from how good the new strength felt in his body.

He was so focused on his power that he didn’t notice the small smile which appeared on Klaus’s face.