Nameless King

Clap. Clap. Clap.

Wain slowly clapped while looking at Frigus with a dazed look.

"That was just incredible, wasn't it?" Wain said as he turned to Zero.

"Yeah... So beautiful and so powerful... It only took you one attack to freeze hundreds of monsters, you certainly know how to control that element." Zero muttered with sparkling eyes.

"You overestimate me. I still have a lot of work to do as this skill has spent almost all my strength..." Frigus muttered before dropping to one knee as he leaned his hand on the ground.

A trickle of blood flowed from the corners of his mouth that fell to the ground in drops.

"Frigus... Are you all right?" Zero asked in a worried manner.

"Sure... I'm just a little exhausted." Frigus nodded.

"Well, you've already done your part. Zero and I can easily deal with this huge piece of meat, so just rest." Wain muttered as he patted Frigus on the shoulder.

"Whatever you say..." Frigus smiled, snapped his finger, and an ice crystal appeared behind him, against which he leaned.

"Fine. Zero, let's go, it's time to deal with this 'little' problem." Wain pronounced with a devious smile on his face before heading forward.

"Yes!" Zero, with a serious look, followed him.

Flesh ball was in a panic as its hundreds of eyes stared now at the monsters and then at the approaching Wain and Zero. Flesh ball could not escape, so it had no chance of survival without protection.

"Well, well, looks like those monsters were the last trick. What a pity." Wain shook his head as he thrust his hands forward with directed energy into his gloves.

Two small gray spheres appeared in front of his palms that merged into one large one. With each passing second, the sphere became more and more energy as the pressure emanated from Wain's.

"Hahaha, I'm just going to blow you up! I'm sure it'll be a great sight to see your jaws and eyes flying off to the side!" Wain uttered with an insane look as the sphere abruptly grew larger.

Tremble.

The flesh ball shuddered in fear as the jaws suddenly flew out of it. They, as though hooks, broke through the Frigus' ice and drew all the monsters to themselves, then the jaws began to grind them with tremendous speed.

"What the fuck..." Zero muttered while in disbelief, "What is it going to do?"

"I don't know, but I'm not going to find out. It's going to end right now!" Wain exclaimed as he launched the orb.

"Huh, turns out I did all this for nothing...?" Frigus muttered while looking at the empty blocks of ice, then his gaze fell on the orb, "Well, either way, it's already solved."

Crackling.

Suddenly, from the flesh ball, a creepy creature burst through the bones and meat, a few meters high with a strange three-petal flower-shaped jaw. On each of the petals were hundreds of teeth as though on a shark.

"Roooooaaaaaaarrrrrrr!!!" The monster roared furiously as it opened its jaw wide.

The monster swallowed the sphere, then it exploded as the monster's jaw swelled hard as though on a ball.

"No way... This monster is trying to absorb your attack?!" Zero exclaimed with a dazed look.

"I doubt it can do it. I didn't hold back and used as much energy as possible." Wain uttered in a confident voice.

Crackle.

There was a deafening explosion as the left side of the monster's head was completely destroyed. Streams of blood flowed from its jaw, turning into a large puddle.

"Nice try, but it's not enough." Wain muttered with a dangerous smile on his face before summoning Gladius.

At the same time, the monster touched his hands to his head as though it was trying to figure out what had just happened, then the monster turned to the flesh ball and ran up to it.

Crackle. Crackle. Crackle.

The monster began to devour the flesh ball, regardless of what was in front of it, eyes, meat, or jaws. The flesh ball did not try to resist as it was its only chance to win.

"Huh, what a bastard, no honor, but I like it!" Wain said with an excited smile before turning into a dark flash.

Wain found himself behind the monster with his blade raining down on the monster. The blade hurtled toward the monster's head, but it suddenly turned around.

Whoooooosh.

The monster's arms became a blur as razor-sharp claws sliced through Wain's coat, leaving deep cuts on his chest. Blood rushed out of the wounds as Wain's face contorted in pain.

"Roooooaaaaarrrrrr!" The monster roared as its jaw was already fully repaired while saliva splashed onto Wain's face.

"Wain!" Zero exclaimed before running to his aid.

But, suddenly, Wain stopped her with a gesture.

"Stay there." Wain uttered in an ice-cold voice that sent shivers down Zero's body, then he stared at the monster with a deadly look and said, "I'll take care of this bastard myself. Don't you dare get in my way."

Tremble.

Wain's aura repeatedly intensified as a dark crown appeared on him, and gray energy enveloped his arms.

"You have quite an appetite, don't you? Then, how about trying to eat me!" Wain exclaimed as he attacked with a furious look.

The monster opened its jaw wide as it intended to devour Wain's attack, but suddenly the monster's left chest and arm were gone, they simply disappeared. In their place was left a phantom silhouette of the jaw that quickly dissipated.

"That's not all!" Wain exclaimed before creating two piranhas that pounced on the monster.

The monster jumped aside as it began to devour the flesh ball, but the piranhas' sharp teeth had already sunk into its flesh.

"Argh!" The monster screamed out in pain as Wain appeared before it.

'Unbelievable... It's Wain's Beyond, right...? Zero inwardly muttered with a dazed look, 'Now I understand why this area is like this... Those creepy jaws, piranhas... it all makes sense now.'

For a while, Wain and the monster continued to fight. Wain dealt serious damage to the monster with each attack while the monster absorbed the flesh ball and tried to counterattack, but eventually, the piranhas devoured it.

Wain removed Beyond, looked at what was left of the flesh ball, and his eyes went wide.