Nobilis of War novel Chapter 39

The Life and Death Valley was, in fact, a low ridge with an area of about two hundred and seventy thousand square meters, surrounded by towering mountains over thirty meters tall. At this moment, hundreds of people were watching Darren's suicide challenge.

Five people stood in front of Darren in the valley.

"William, please give me this opportunity. I have never killed a man in person," a disciple from the School of Blade Skill said.

"Andy, please give it to me. I have just broken into the Spirit Realm, I want a try," another disciple called Norbert Wang blurted out.

"Well, you kill him." William nodded to Norbert Wang, giving him permission. He thought he had given much respect to Darren by sending a Spirit Realm master to kill him.

A happy look crossed Norbert's face now that he had William's consent. He leaped onto a raised platform called Death Platform.

"Norbert, you will be a disgrace if you can't kill him."

"Nonsense, killing him will be a piece of cake." "Lad, how many swings would you prefer to be killed in?" Norbert shouted softly.

"Stupid dog, soon you will know who will be killed!" Darren sneered at Norbert.

"A scum of the Primary Realm, I will kill you in a second, you bastard!" With a sudden shout, Norbert lifted his saber and rushed at Darren.

Darren's face turned cold as ice as Norbert's aggressive aura of the Spirit Realm surged into him. It was much more powerful than that at the Primary Realm.

Quickly, Darren's imposing aura also surged out as he hacked at Norbert with a broadsword.

The sound from the fierce clash immediately echoed through the Life and Death Valley as heavy dust was blown backward.

After the dissipation of the dust, everyone in the valley was openly astonished. Darren had survived that violent attack!

"The lad. He managed to survive, how could it be possible?"

"Even a heavy blow from a Spirit Realm cultivator failed to kill him?"

While all the crowd was talking about the matter, Darren was mulling over something in his mind. 'There is only one-millionth of an inch between my realm and the Spirit Realm, but I am falling far behind in physical strength. Perhaps I can make up the difference if I use my blade and sword internal force.'

In the previous clash, Darren used only his pure physical strength rather than the blade and sword internal force to counterattack Norbert.

"Ha ha ha, you are such a disgrace, Norbert. You are of about the same level as him. I have doubt whether you have broken into the Spirit Realm really," Andy Zhang sneered.

Andy's words embarrassed Norbert.

"Scum, I will show you the real strength of a Spirit Realm cultivator!" Norbert scowled and hacked at Darren violently with his blade martial skill.

"Why did Norbert bother himself to use the martial skill to kill a rubbish warrior? What a disappointment!" Andy said, continuing to shake his head.

Darren mobilized his blade and sword internal force and lunged at Norbert.

With the Grand Thirteen Blade Skills, a tremendous vital energy wave gushed out of his body and pushed back against Norbert. It was even stronger than Norbert's momentum.

"Damn it. Why is his blade force so overpowering? What the hell is that?" Norbert's face changed. Darren's sudden overwhelming breath and force stirred fear in his heart.

'Illusion, it must be an illusion, ' Norbert told himself.

"Die." Norbert mobilized his vital energy to his saber. "Sky Cut!"

This was Norbert's best martial skill, an illusion of a saber fell from the sky with unparalleled power behind it.

Darren waved his broadsword and exercised the first move of the Grand Thirteen Blade Skills to answer Norbert's saber attack descending from the sky.

At the same time, Darren sprang forward and exercised the second move of the Grand Thirteen Blade Skills with enough force concentrated on the edge of the broadsword's blade that it could split the heaven from earth.

BOOM!

The earth shook as the two forces crashed into each other.

Both Darren and Norbert were lost in the dazzling saber brilliance. When the light cleared, Darren stood alone against the wind, while Norbert was covered in blood.

"You, you, you." Norbert gazed at Darren in great disbelief. He could not believe he had lost the duel.

"Blade internal force!" He recognized the overwhelming power.

An uproar spread through the crowds standing on top of the Life and Death Valley. They never dreamed that Darren would survive this duel, not to mention his victory. It was too incredible!

"It is my loss." Norbert had to give up. Unbearable pain through his body made him as weak as a newborn lamb.

"Do you think giving up is enough?" Darren shouted, putting ice in his voice.

"You bastard, don't be a fool to reject a face-saving offer. How dare you kill me in front of William?" Norbert swore.

"Make a guess!"

Darren moved swiftly and in a split second Norbert was beheaded with a flash of the broadsword light, his head rolling sickeningly off the Death Platform.

A yellow ball of light floated into Darren's head.

"A talent of the ninth stage of the Yellow Degree will be useful to me after assimilation."

With the assimilation of Norbert's talent, Darren felt some increase in his own talent and a breakthrough of his realm.

With a flash of white light across his body, he had reached the Spirit Realm. He felt as if all his bones and energy meridians were transformed, his physical strength was also greatly improved.

William and his followers were all watching in astonishment. They didn't expect Norbert would fail, nor did they have time to save Norbert because of Darren's quick and decisive decapitation.

"Fuck! I will kill you."

Accompanied by roaring, Andy and another disciple from the School of Blade Skill leaped onto the platform. They had all achieved the first stage of the Spirit Realm long before.

On the other hand, Karl slipped behind Darren.

"Hum, I must kill this scum from behind when the attacks from the other two converge," Karl gave a sly smile.

Karl's each and every move was clearly known by Darren, who was with extraordinary perception.

Facing the two masters lunging at him, Darren jerked forward, pretending he was going to confront their force with force.

But actually, when jerking forward halfway, he stamped onto the ground and flew back like an arrow, the Grand Thirteen Blade Skills already carried out.

At the same time, an overwhelming power locked Karl tightly. Panic was written across his feminine face.

"Die!"

Karl's eyes shot wide open. A second later, his head was split into two.

"Brother!" William could have never imagined for his brother to die as well.

Having killed Karl with a single slash, Darren turned back to the other two disciples without any hesitation, his right hand drawing out an icy sword.

Inside Darren's body, the blade and sword internal force condensed together wildly rather than turned against each other.

This time, Darren exercised the Profound Nine Sword Skills and the Grand Thirteen Blade Skills simultaneously from his right and left hands respectively.

With the overwhelming blade and sword waves, clinks of steel echoed through the Life and Death Valley. Swiftness and fierceness of sword skills were shown in the movements of the sword while the violence and intensity of blade skills were displayed in the sword blade!

Under his continuous attack, the two Spirit Realm masters' flesh and blood vanished inch by inch. Even their bones turned into powders and disappeared like smoke.

"Good god!"

"What the fuck!"

"Oh my god!"

Darren's attack made the crowd on top of the valley go wild. Their cries of excitement echoed above the Life and Death Valley for a long time.

"What sort of martial skill is that? It is so powerful!"

"Too amazing, is he a genius?"

William, who had reached the third stage of the Spirit Realm, also took hasty steps backward due to the strong internal force.

He was shocked when he halted.

The power was a threat to him!

His hostility grew stronger than his caution, and William rushed to Darren with his saber in hand.

Silence fell over everyone standing on top of the Life and Death Valley as if they were waiting to witness a miracle!