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Chapter 4 - Breaking point

A crimson red radiated from Ares' eyes, which at maximum speed cut Arthur's neck. But in the end it didn't.

— "What the hell happened?" commented Ares in bewilderment.

— "Hey... You almost killed me." Arthur answers him while making a pitiful face.

— "Can't you see I'm a mere human... You see your technique is a bit robust and old-fashioned."

— "Old-fashioned? I am the god of war, I know every combat technique you can imagine." He replies angrily.

— "For that very reason, excess is bad. You must opt for a simple and efficient one like mine." He makes several cuts suddenly.

— "Eh..."

— "My technique is superior to yours. But in brute strength, endurance and power you are far superior. In short we are on terms of conditions."

— "I understand, even if you have better technique. I don't think you will resist long, or be able to receive without some damage one of my techniques."

Arthur prepares with his sword Excalibur to receive an attack, the finger that was cut from his left arm did not bother him, but he felt a strange sensation.

Ares with a powerful axe breaks the earth and makes a smoke screen, and in turn appears behind Arthur.

Arturo turns as fast as possible to block Ares' attack, but Ares manages to connect the blow.

After that, Ares uses one of his techniques.

— "Raging Storm!"

A storm of slashes reaches Arturo who repels with his fencing skill. And after more than 30 seconds of slashes Ares stops.

Arthur had several cuts on his light armor and clothes.

— "You managed to hold that technique, eh." Ares was excited.

— "I wasn't expecting it simply, but, it wasn't enough to do any significant damage to me." Arthur said with laughter.

Ares was staring at Arthur's leg, so he decides to kick it and avoids the kick.

— "Oh... I'll have an easier time of it, I see."

— "My dear Brother-in-law, get ready for my counterattack." With a relaxed look.

— "Brother-in-law? Do you want to die in the worst way?" Ares' gaze changed to a murderous one.

— "Heroic Cut!" shouted Arthur with all his might.

The slash cut through Ares' armor and made a large gash, and successive slashes followed to wear down the god's battle axe. Ares as a counter measure to the attacks uses the tip on top of both blades of the axe to push it away.

— "You almost got me through." With a mocking tone, while looking in the distance to Athena, who was worried about her brother.

Arturo smiles relaxedly as he looks at Athena; an axe cuts him.

— "I got scared, it was just a scratch, hehe." Arturo's smile was that of a deranged man.

— "How did you dodge that cut?" asks Ares.

— "You see, your heart beats for half a second before attacking, this is to know precisely where to strike. Typical of a novice, getting nervous about attacking someone superior to you in fear." Ares' eyes burned with Anger.

— "I see, then I have a question for you."

— "What is it?"

— Why don't you use more powerful attacks? Don't I deserve to see your full power? Or is it... Does it affect your body, since you don't resist them?"

— "Tshh... I've had enough of you."

Arthur strikes a pose that simulates a snake, and at a speed similar to a 300,000 km/h lightning bolt, he cuts off one of Ares' fingers.

— "You moved, gross." Arthur coughs and falls to his knees.

— "Thank you, you made my job easier." Ares can't move, and he is shocked.

— "Yuck, for not killing you with one blow, because I just paralyzed you." Arthur with Excalibur makes an X-cut in Ares' chest. And with a kick sends him flying.

From the stands, — "Brother!". Arthur flies off likewise and crashes into the wall. Both are on the ground, barely mobile.

Red-eyed Ares stands up, ecstatic with the power of war, with the pleasure of death and a fight. In the blink of an eye he grabs Arthur by the neck and begins to drag him across the floor.

Arthur breaks free, but Ares grabs him by the leg and sends him flying again.

—"Fuck..." says Arturo coughing blood "Yes you are a Monster... But, I can't lose" he grabs his Excalibur and goes straight for Ares' Eye. Ares with a punch knocks Arthur to the ground, Arthur with his Excalibur in his hand, barely conscious.

Arthur thinks "Why, am I going to lose? Can I lose? No, I must win for mankind, I may lose my whole body, I may die after the battle, but... I must give victory to mankind."

Ares raises his axe as high as possible "Die!". Arthur with a smile and his reflexes dodges it and attacks his ankles. Arthur escapes.

Ares falls to the ground again, looking determinedly at Arturo, and asks him "Why are you fighting? For whom? Does it make any sense to try hard?" Arturo looks at Athena "I guess for her" "My sister?" "I guess, though I don't know".

A long time ago on the west coast of Britain, in a so-called coastal village called Tinganel, a child was born. His father was Uther Pendragon and his mother Igraine.

A wizard, Merlin intervened so that this child was born blessed, although his family was not a wealthy one, the boy named Arthur Pendragon grew up without any problems.

One day while playing with some boys his age, a boar attacked them and they were running away from it, but a girl named Lyonors fell to the ground wounded.

— "Lyonors!" Arthur shouts and goes to the rescue pushing the boar. He tries to lift Lyonors, but the boar charges him, Arthur with the dagger his father gave him, stabs him and he dies on top of him.

Merlin from afar was watching him. "It looks like it will soon be time. Maybe the Saxons are already attacking" Merlin smiles.

— Thank you, Arthur," he thanks Lyonors with a smile.

— "Don't worry, I'm glad you are well".

Merlin approaches little Arthur, and scares him "Oh, boy, I'm sorry, I just wanted to tell you something" "What?" "Your duty in this world is to protect everything you love, so your first assignment is to follow the sun, until you find the great river of life, and thus reach the pedestal of the chosen one" when Arthur blinked Merlin disappeared.

After talking with his father, he supported him. His father, himself, his older brother, Lyonors, and four of his friends accompanied him on the journey.

In a forest in the middle of nowhere, there was a rock with a sword stuck in it. It said 'Only the chosen one can pull this sword from the pedestal'.

His older brother greedily decided to try and could not pull it out; his father, thinking that being the strongest he could pull it out, couldn't either; one of his friends proudly tried and couldn't either.

Lyonors motivated Arthur to pull out the sword; Arthur with little hope and with a blank mind thinking that if he pulls it out he should be the one to protect his loved ones, he lifted the sword and pulled it out of the pedestal. Arthur obtained the Excalibur.

After that, his father trained him, made small orders and in the future he would be the one who would lead the Britons, he would become King; King Arthur, with his round table, which were also part of his childhood friends.

His wife Guinevere, a beautiful lady, would betray him some time later with Lancelot, Lyonors would try to defend him but would be brutally murdered in front of Arthur. Arthur out of anger searched for the holy grail, and when he finally found it.

Arthur died.

— I... I... I fight, to protect what I love! So Ares I will fight with all my power!" back in the fight, Ares ecstatically attacks him with a super attack. 

— Berserk Axe" then Arthur saw it, the breaking point. He breaks Ares' axe and gives him a big cut.

— "Not bad, Arthur, you're a great opponent. Maybe I thought wrong about being a brother-in-law, but, I'll only accept it if you beat me fair and square" "If I ever defeat you, which I will. Your sister, Athena, will hate me," says Arturo.

— "Maybe so."

— "Yes."

— "Athena, pass my spear!" a great spear with a sharp point that shone like the very sun falls from the sky. "I will fight with all my power."

— "Me too, get ready Ares. Miss Athenea!" he looks at Athenea and she is surprised.

— "Eh..."

— "I promise to take care of her and protect her for her brother!" Ares laughs out loud.

— "Athenea, win or lose Arthur never forget him. He's a great man!"

Arthur strikes his legendary pose and Ares with his great war pose with his spear. Spear vs. Sword, which one will win? Arthur thinks 'Scream at the top of your lungs' and Ares thinks 'Give it your all.'

— "EXCALIBUR!!!" "BRESERK!!!"

Both blades clash, it is a fight of strength and resistance where Ares has total advantage although he is weakened. Arturo retreats little by little due to his lack of strength, but he does not give up.

— I won't lose!" from afar he hears shouts from both sides, but Arthur recognizes some voices. They are Lyonors, Brock, his brother, his father, his mother, all his old friends and allies.

Motivated Arturo pushes harder, and with a beam of light that arrives, he matches it in speed. He reached the speed of light.

Ares' spear breaks, and Ares without an arm and broken in two, smiles.

— "I lost..." Ares is dead.

The gods are shocked, Athena shouts "Brother!". Zeus is annoyed, the humans cry out gratefully.

— "The combat... The first combat... The first combat of gods and humans is over. The winner is... Arthur Pendragon!" the Arbitrator, has declared the winner.

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Winner: Arturo Pendragon

Time: 15 minutes and 10 seconds

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