"Can I ask what that just was?" Arthur asked in a subdued voice.

Drip. 

On his cheek, there was a drop of blood.

“That right there was…” Lee Jun-Kyeong said with a gasp.

He stood upright, suppressing the boiling mana and flames. He had succeeded in wounding the brat’s body, and he had succeeded in giving him a blow.

The thing that had made his wish come true was simple.

“The First Flame.”

The First Flame was the skill of the Demon King, and it was the skill that he had obtained from Reign of Fire reaching level 10 and the authority evolving.

He was only able to use it after acquiring Monarch of Fire. It required him to draw upon all of his mana with the mana stream and focus it all into the flames, which would then be focused into a single point.

That skill had succeeded in wounding Arthur’s body.

“The First Flame…”

Arthur laughed.

It was the first sincere smile Lee Jun-Kyeong saw on his face.

"That's a good technique."

Squelch!

As Arthur swung the fake Excalibur, blood and flesh splattered about. However, the boy only had a single scratch on his cheek.

“...”

On the other hand, Lee Jun-Kyeong's appearance was nothing to laugh at. All of his clothes were torn, and where they were torn and exposed, one could see split flesh and spewing blood.

“I got too excited,” apologized Arthur.

Even though it had been a spar, he still apologized for using excessive measures.

"You son of a—"

However,...