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Chapter 255: Excelsior

The elites divided themselves into three groups. One group led by Ed to attack Poison sect. his group had Emilia, Bella, and the Sword sect members along with Edmund. The second group was led by Arthur and was going to attack another stronghold of Blood sect in a different continent. The last group was led by Hayato and was going to attack another continent. Each group had only one thing to focus on, which made it easier for them to complete their assignments.

Arthur's group consisted of the nine Elders of Avalon, Elizabeth, Sebas, and other disciples of the sect joined as an extra force as well. As for Hayato's group, he led the forces of both Ryuu kingdom and Scale kingdom. Eric joined him as well, as they proved to be quite a good combination in the last war.

The leaders of each group met up and led their troops. They bought teleportation items for all of their troops and decided on a strategically important position beforehand. The teleportation items were the same one used by No-bō two years ago. Small round ball with no defining color.

"I wish you luck," said Arthur as he turned around and headed to his group. He and his army were the first to teleport away.

"No time to waste, huh?" Hayato said as he looked at the dust raised by the disappearing mini army. "I guess we should head out as well. All the best to you, Edward!"

"Same for you…" Ed softly spoke as he waited until Hayato's group disappeared as well. "It's time for us to leave as well. Everyone prepare yourselves!"

Ed addressed his group, but there was no need to say anything. All of them were ready, with the greatest morale, and the most important goal. Nothing could make them more prepared than their current state. Since Ed was able to teleport, his group didn't need any teleportation items. Instead, they kept extras, in case they needed to escape.

However, these items were considered a waste of space by everyone. No one thought about escaping. No one ever thought about living after defeat. They were going to fight until death. They were either going to emerge as victorious or lay dead amongst their comrades.

The three groups that teleported were met with a colossal army each. One week ago, their plans were found out by Blood sect, which gave it enough time to prepare for countermeasures. However, Avalon and its allies realized this in time and prepared themselves as well. This was one of the reasons why they chose to send only the elites. In order to lessen the amount of blood spilled on their side, their strongest fighters would release devastating attacks at the very start of the war, which would kill most of the weak enemy soldiers.

This plan was exactly what the three groups did.

Ed, Arthur, and Hayato each stepped in front of their respective groups. Ed withdrew his favorite sword, Shusui, while Hayato used Asmodeus. Arthur had no choice but to use the weapon made by Ed, which was more than enough for him.

Hayato gathered up QI in his sword and filled it with elemental magic. It was his strongest technique, the 'Void Slash'. The slash took the enemy soldiers by surprise, as they didn't think they would be attacked so quickly. And since this technique devoured anything in its way, it filled the enemies with terror. Hayato took this chance and shouted, "Chaaaaaarge!"

After which his group started its assault on the Blood sect's stronghold.

Arthur channeled Lightning through his sword. The silver bladed sword turned yellow, gradually, as lightning bolts crackled around it. The enemy soldiers were quick to react on this battlefield, as they moved in to attack Arthur, but it was to no avail. Just as fast as a lightning bolt, the electric attack decimated the thousands of minions in front of him.

Arthur pointed his sword towards the army in front of him, and shouted, "No return!"

His comrades released their inner anger as they all shouted at the same time. The enemies froze from fear, and couldn't do anything in the face of the rampaging Avalon forces.

In the case of Ed, he didn't need to do much. He simply filled his entire sword with KI, clad it in Haki, filled it with the elements he could control, and charged it with his Hatsu, 'Final Countdown'. Right after finishing his preparation, Ed disappeared. The enemies in front of him were taken aback and kept staring at their two sides. They heard about Ed's teleportation abilities and were afraid he would pop up from behind one of them.

A minute passed, and everyone started to get cocky. The soldiers started to march forward, towards those that remained behind Ed. However, just like that, Ed appeared in front of them once again. His sword crackling with black lightning around it.

"Providence Blade," Ed said calmly, as he slashed his sword sideways. Dark light blinded his enemies, leaving them defenseless, as they raised their hands to protect their eyes. Yet, what they failed to realize was, even with their hands, and their defenses, there was nothing they could have done in the face of Ed's strongest technique.

Ed didn't simply disappear. He teleported into his own dimension, where he set the time for a 1:10 ratio. He had charged his sword for ten minutes, the same amount of time it was needed to kill the twelfth-floor dragon from the Tower of Origin. No one among the lowly soldiers stood a chance. But, they didn't suffer. Just as quickly as the black light took their sight, the sword slash took their lives.

The black slash kept decimating the enemies, as if it was a hungry grim reaper, looking for souls to feast upon. In five seconds only, the enemies' army lost its middle portion completely. Only the left and right wing remained. The enemies remained motionless, as they couldn't believe their eyes. One attack. Their greatest force was decimated, and all it took was one attack. Needless to say, their morale was broken.

Ed stuck his sword in the ground, raised his KI, and shouted, "EXCELSIOR!"


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Shigun Shigun

Hello everyone!

Excelsior is the catchphrase used by the late Stan Lee, the forefather of Marvel. Since I've always been a fan of his work, I found it appropriate to pay him tribute in my own way, by using his favorite word in my novel. it means 'onward and upward to greater glory', which is quite fitting in this scenario.

I hope you enjoyed the chapter

Chapter 256: Easy to Slash

What followed was a one-sided massacre. Ed, without lifting a single finger, killed everyone in front of him. How did he do it? Well, it was rather simple actually. Ed's companions were the ones to enact the attacks. All Ed had to do was redirect their attacks towards the enemies. Ice, Lightning, Shadow, Poison, Fire, Blood, Sword Slashes, Light…thousands of attacks, in the span of a couple of seconds, and Ed managed to follow each and every one of them.

The Space magic portals that appeared in the sky numbered more than the attacks themselves. Ed's concentration was never better. The attacks rained down, and Ed's companions moved into the enemy lines. No one ran, no one hurried their steps. They walked like kings. Fear had set into the hearts of the enemies, and no one dared to approach them. Of course, this was the case of foot soldiers, whose duty was simply to gauge the strength of Ed's group. The true enemies lay behind the army.

Ed and the others stood behind the enemies, and in front of their leaders. A large man moved in front of them. He was filled with muscles and had so little neck, he looked like a turtle. His body looked like a normal human's, except for one thing. His veins were purplish and black. It gave him a sinister look, much like a demon's.

"So this little pipsqueak is the one challenging our sect," he said, with a voice as deep as his neck was thick. "How you've fallen, O' great Sword sect!"

"Those words…The one you sent last time said those same words," Ed looked at the man, who was right in front of him, straight in the eyes. "Do you know what happened to him? He became a splattered mess on our luxurious sect rug. I had to burn it in order to get rid of filth like him. Such a shame…it was such a good rug."

"You…" The man's lips curved into a frown as he raised his hand. His hand looked like a mountain, slowly descending as it approached Ed's face, who continued to make eye contact with the man.

However, something happened that made the leaders behind the man frown. The man's fist continued to slow down, instead of picking up speed. And, at the same rate of slowness, his yellow skin was covered by a white-blue layer of frost. The man's fist stopped short of Ed's face before his whole body became frozen.

"He was frozen?!" a woman, one of the leaders, shouted as if she couldn't believe her eyes. "Who could have done such a thing?! Not even the Ice Empress is capable of such a thing!!"

"Oh, it's not the Ice Empress. It's the one that inherited the weapon, the spirit, and the life of that Empress…Edmund," Ed said, as he looked at Edmund who approached him. "Make this ice sculpture a bit more…fitting."

"As you wish!" Edmund brandished his jet black spear. Like a hungry python or a multi-headed Hydra, the spear struck dozens of times in a single second. Bits and pieces of the man flew into the sky, as his jet black flood, which was frozen, turned into a decoration in front of Ed. Edmund transformed the entire man into ice shavings.

"You people enjoy poison, don't you?" Ed said as he raised his hand and put it in front of him. "Enjoy this, then." He released a wave of wind that sent the obviously poisonous blood towards the twenty…nineteen leaders of Poison sect which remained. All of them jumped away in order to dodge the man's remains. All except one.

"I see," the master of Poison sect remained still, with a glass filled with a purple liquid, seemingly poison. "The little girl that couldn't lift a single finger when I killed her mother, chose to bare her fangs at me today…HAHAHA, how fitting!" The incoming ice particles melted into nothing before coming into contact with the man, Sarin.

One of the leaders switched direction and flew towards Ed. However, someone else stood in front of him and blocked him from his target.

"You can't get to our master so easily," Asem said as he knocked the man away using his Katana, which was previously Alexander's.

"Tch!" The leader grunted as he re-established his balance.

"Suika, go with him," Ed said, to which Suika replied, "Suu!" as she transformed into her ball form and hung on Asem's shoulder.

"Everyone, choose your opponents however you see fit. None of them are stronger than Immortal Establishment level 5. The strongest one is their leader, and he is level 10," Ed said as he grabbed his Shusui. Every one of his companions turned to look at him, as they were worried after hearing the cultivation level of Sarin. Ed smiled, and said, "Leave him to me!"

"And me as well," Emilia interrupted Ed's step in. "It is my duty to fight him. You won't say no, right?" Emilia smiled with her sword giving off a visible chilly air, which remained after freezing the man from before.

"Of course not. Then, I hope you'll support me from behind!"

"I'd be glad to!"

"Uhm," Goburou's blood clone came from behind Ed, tapped him on his shoulder, and said, "You two can flirt later, but you should fight for now."

"Hahaha! What a funny group. It would be a shame to kill you all," Sarin said as he gulped down the liquid inside his glass in one go. "Now, shall we begin?!"

"Certainly!" Ed blasted his KI, by activating 'Berserk', to Immortal Establishment level 7. Just as the gust of wind, which erupted from his body, cleared remains of the poison ice particles, he activated his Ren. His aura became so concentrated, that even those with no Nen, were almost able to see it.

He crouched down and held Shusui with both hands near his waist. He stepped in toward Sarin, and with an immense power, slashed at him. However, Sarin reacted normally, as if it was a normal day for him, and withdrew his sword. After which he simply…blocked Ed's katana.

"I'm not so easy to slash, young Avalon," he claimed.

"I see…Then allow to try it once more," Ed said with a smile on his face. He teleported away, back to his original spot and took the same stance once again. Ed's companions, and Sarin's companions. Both of them remained fixated at the two, forgetting their own fight.

Then, as if repeating the same thing as before, Sarin blocked Ed's katana…or so he thought. The katana disappeared from Ed's hand for a moment, the moment where it would have been blocked, and reappeared after passing the sword. Ed slashed Sarin's abdomen and drew blood.

"Indeed, you're not easy to slash."


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Shigun Shigun

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