The Nebula Kingdom was one of the three kingdoms that existed on the southern continent apart from the Feysac kingdom where William was.
On the southern continent, there were three different kingdoms. It was the Feysac Kingdom, the Nebula Kingdom, and the Thousand Beast Kingdom. The Nebula Kingdom and the Feysac Kingdom were kingdoms that belonged to the human race, while the Thousand Beast Kingdom was a kingdom founded by the beast race.
For more than a millennium, the three kingdoms have been trying to annex each other's territory. Especially the Nebula Kingdom, they were the most powerful of the three.
Especially the current King of the Nebula Kingdom, King Elric Nebula. He possessed a peak level 6 Spirit Warrior cultivation base and possessed an extremely terrifying Soul Artifact.
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Back to the previous time.
When he finished his last lyric, the red-haired youth immediately gasped with exhaustion as he looked at the situation in front of him.
Among the several burnt tier 8 Spirit Warriors, there was only one person left. It was an old man who possessed a level 8 advanced Spirit Warrior cultivation base.
Unlike the other Spirit Warriors who had tried to dodge or defend against the attacks of the cherry blossom petals, the old man simply stood still amidst the entire body of his burnt-out subordinates.
If one looked closely, one would see a layer of light surrounding the old man's body.
“Is this the inheritance you have obtained from the ruins?” The old man looked around him with admiration, he didn't care at all about the hurtful screams of the people around him.
When the red-haired youth saw that there was still someone alive, he simply sighed in exhaustion and said, “s**t, as I thought it would be very difficult to kill a tier 8 Spirit Warrior who is nearing the peak. With this power I've just received, even I still can't break the wall of soul energy around his body!”
"Oh? Do you really think you can kill me just by relying on that power of yours? Your Battle Soul Karma Tree's abilities are indeed terrifying, but unfortunately, your cultivation base is still insufficient to be able to endanger my life!”
“Prince Afreed, it's better to just give up. Quickly hand over the inheritance you got from the Ruins!” The old man said with a sneer while shaking his head.
“Old man, it looks like you are really confident in the soul energy wall that protects your body! Didn't you attack me head-on because you were still frightened by my Battle Soul's Karma Tree ability?" The red-haired teenage boy looked ahead with a sneer on his face.
“What a foolish sentence Prince Alfred! You should be grateful for being born as a prince of the Nebula Kingdom! If it weren't for your status as a prince, you would never have gotten that special ability!” The old man slowly walked closer while passing the charred human corpse beside him.
“You said I should thank him for being born a prince?! The man never once considered his son as his own flesh and blood! All that man wanted to do was sacrifice his children's way of life for the sake of increasing his own strength! Among the remaining princes in the Nebula kingdom, of the 15 princes only three were left. That is the first prince, the tenth prince, and me as the last prince!”
“I don't know why the first prince is still alive today, but what I do know is that the man wants to try to transfer his soul to the tenth prince for the sake of regaining his youth!” The red-haired teenage boy said in a cold and indifferent tone.
That's right, what the red-haired teenage boy meant was his own biological father, King Elric Nebula. This red-haired teenage boy is the last and youngest prince among the other princes.
All the deaths that happened around him and what happened to his mother in the past was all that man's doing. To obtain a powerful ability that could rebel against the man's control, Prince Alfred even began risking his life to enter the ruins that people said were impossible to pass.
Then at this moment, the entire aura surrounding Prince Alfred changed drastically. What originally had an aura of loneliness, calm and elegance had turned into fiery, filled with anger and thirst for revenge.
Then both of his hands began to run his fingers on the wooden piano keys. The moment his finger touched the piano key, he suddenly pressed it very hard and moved very intensely. The whole song was filled with anger, like screaming to the heavens about the injustice that had happened to his destiny.
Around his body, faintly a stream of crimson-colored aura appeared. It was like all the anger emotions inside him had overflowed and manifested into the real world,
The cherry blossom petals from the big tree behind him started to fall very fast towards the old man. Unlike the previous cherry blossom petals which were pink, this time it has a very dark crimson color.
Upon seeing the violent aura contained in that attack, even the old man's face immediately turned gloomy as he pointed his finger forward, “Prince Alfreed… You actually used your own life energy source to increase your entire strength?! If you do that then your bright future will be closed forever!”
The old man had absolutely no idea what action Prince Alfred would take. Then the old man coated his entire body with his soul energy. Then a wall of extremely transparent red aura slowly began to appear covering the old man's body.
The moment a few crimson cherry blossom petals touched the walls of the crimson aura around the old man's body, the attack of the cherry blossom petals was quickly ignited by the crimson aura.
“Huh, I told you that weak attack of yours is completely useless… How could this be?!”
Before the old man could finish his sentence, he was suddenly very shocked and frightened when he saw the crimson cherry blossom petals that should have been annihilated by his aura wall, it turned out that the crimson cherry blossom petal's attack still left a few small shards that had penetrated the inside. his red aura wall.
“Didn't you come here to retrieve the inheritance I had obtained from the ruins? Then just do it with your life at stake!” A ghastly smile began to appear on Prince Alfreed's extremely pale face as if the source of his life was continuously being absorbed by the Battle Soul Karma Tree behind him.
“Listen to my song! I dedicate this song to the happiness you have given me!” The aura filled with anger around the red-haired youth instantly extinguished as he said that.
Ding! Ding!
“I can no longer lean on you like that day….” A voice filled with sorrow immediately escaped Prince Alfred's mouth. It was filled with emotions that could make others feel his sorrow.
The moment he said those words, the figure of the beautiful woman in the pink dress that was on Prince Alfreed's Battle Soul instantly flickered out of light. The cherry blossom karma tree behind him was swaying slightly as if it was responding to the emotions released by Prince Alfred.
Then the dark red cherry blossom petals floating in the sky slowly began to glow brightly.
Cracks!
The old man's red aura wall suddenly split apart as the power contained within the cherry blossom petals grew stronger as time passed.
"Damn it, his firepower can continue to strengthen?!" The old man focused all his energy on defending, otherwise, there was no doubt that his internal organs would be badly burned from the attack of the cherry blossom petals.
Just as the old man was trying his best to withstand the barrage of attacks from the cherry blossom petals above him, he heard a very gentle and heartbreaking tone immediately emanate from Prince Alfreed's mouth.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
"You told me never to leave me alone again!"
Ding! Ding!
"But the warm hand of yours that I once held before, I can't feel anymore!"
At the moment when those two sentences were spoken by Prince Alfred, suddenly the trees around him began to rustle. All of that happened as if they were responding to the loneliness of Prince Alfred.
Then the petals of the cherry blossoms above the sky slowly began to glow very brightly as if responding to the emotions of Prince Alfred.
When he felt the sudden strength of the falling cherry blossom petals, the expression on the old man's face immediately turned extremely pale.
Cracks! Cracks!
There was a continuous cracking sound coming from the old man's red aura wall.
Just before the cherry blossoms were about to shatter the walls of the red aura on his body, the old man suddenly gave off an extremely terrifying aura emanating from within his body.
All the flame petals that touched him instantly burst into flames, all the successive attacks heading towards the old man swiftly vanished without the slightest trace.
"Very good! Prince Alfred, you actually forced me to use my remaining source of life energy just to save myself from that attack of yours!” The old man looked at Prince Alfred with a look filled with immeasurable anger.
The difference in the emotions of the two had now been reversed. If previously Prince Alfred had been furious at how unfair his life's destiny had been, this time the old man was truly furious with Prince Alfred because the successive attacks of the cherry blossom petals nearly cost the old man his life.
In the next moment, the old man moved very quickly towards Prince Alfred's body who was still sitting on the ground. In just the blink of an eye, the old man's body had appeared in front of Prince Alfred. The old man began to gather the fire element around him to form a thick lotus flower.
Swoosh!
The thick lotus flower-filled with the old man's full strength began to fly very fast towards Prince Alfred's body.
"Explode!"
The fire lotus suddenly had an extremely hot intensity within it and the fire energy within it started seeping out.
Even so, Prince Alfreed just closed his eyes with a sincere smile plastered on his face, “When we meet again in the future, then I will tell you from the bottom of my heart that I always love you!”
Ding! Ding! Ding!
The moment that last piano key was played, the entire surroundings immediately gave off a mysterious, terrifying vibration. Prince Alfreed's cultivation base slowly began to drop drastically from an early tier 8 Spirit Warrior to an intermediate tier 9 Spirit Warrior.
Prince Alfred's consciousness started to dissipate bit by bit before collapsing. In the last glance before he passed out, he saw a very familiar figure of a woman in a pink dress in front of him standing in front of the explosion of flames.
"Looks like I'll be seeing you again in that realm soon!" Prince Alfred subconsciously smiled with relief.
It was the last glance that Prince Alfred saw before he fainted.
BOOM!