Some time before the start of the fight between Yukimaros and the ruler of the wolves, Yolvin...
"So, you still want to fight her after all these centuries and years?"
Yukimarus spoke calmly as he watched Reinhardt's fight against the Black Ruler Asurin.
Azaris Noazaki looked at Yukimarus for several seconds, before he pulled his sword blade out of its sheath slightly, while light smoke billowed from his mouth, forming from his aura.
"More than 600 years have passed since that incident. Do you want me to forget my revenge and my enemy before me?
Azaris Noazaki's tone of voice carried a degree of killing intent.
However, Yukimarus's facial features did not change even slightly, as he watched the battle.
"I have to go fight the wolf lord Yulven. "Ice Wolf vs. Forest Wolf... It's going to be a fun fight."
Yukimarus charged toward the Wolf Lord's location, ignoring Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki's gaze that held a slight amount of killing intent.
A deep sigh escaped the mouth of Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki, as he looked at his sword blade that was glowing with a cold glow.
"It's time to take revenge on that one-eyed bastard, the ruler of the snakes!"
He then set off towards the place where the Snake Lord Nagazis was leading her soldiers.
During the fight, Nagazis' eyes narrowed as she stuck out her tongue repeatedly, like a snake.
"There's an enemy coming... um, it's Sword Saint Azaris Nozaki. Very interesting!"
Nagazis spoke maliciously, as she threw the mercenaries and soldiers with her tail, turning them into a pile of blood and flesh.
Then she cried out loud:
"Kkkkkkkkkkk!"
Her scream was so loud that she blew the heads off all the mercenaries and soldiers in Uspeckers City, as well as her own followers, and then swallowed them all in order to increase her strength.
A malicious smile appeared on Nagazi's face as she looked towards Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki, who was several meters away from her, holding his katana in his right hand.
"We meet again, Nagazis, the ruler of the serpents. Which do you prefer me to call you, male or female?
Azaris Noazaki's tone of voice was cold, as he looked at her.
A hysterical laugh came from the ruler of the snakes, Nagazis, as she looked at him.
«Ha-ha-ha-ha! Call me whatever you want, Sword Saint Azares Nozaki!"
Azaris Noazaki closed his eyes for several seconds, before opening them again.
"Well, bitch, you're going to die one day, no matter what it takes!"
The Nagazis Snake Lord's eyes narrowed as she looked at him, then she pointed her tail at him without saying anything.
The speed of its tail's movement was like sound, and its power was capable of destroying multiple universes. However, Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki did not move an inch.
He spoke in a mocking tone, while pushing away the tail of the Snake Lord Nagazis with the blade of his sword:
"Is that all you got? "You're really pathetic!"
The Nagazis Snake Lord gritted her teeth as she regained her balance, launching a poison ball the size of an adult elephant towards Azaris Noazaki.
The poison was so powerful that it was able to erase the concept of life in the places it passed through.
This made Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki feel shocked and become even more cautious; One attack would be enough to kill him or prevent him from using his inner strength, which would lead to his death after several minutes.
This is because the life energy contained in the Primordial Sea, Datian Roots, Mana Cores, and Gates is the life energy that allows the entity to live, and running out of it directly means death.
"Its venom is very dangerous, and this will make things complicated if you decide to attack it at close range."
Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki spoke in his heart, while avoiding Nagazi's poison ball.
He then delivered a single strike with his sword blade, enhancing it with his aura, ether, ki, and chi.
He spoke in his heart in a calm tone:
"To reach true enlightenment, one must refine one's soul and body internally and externally. Therefore, there is qi and qi, but there is still a third thing that even Zhao Li has not used, and yet, its trace is still there."
"It seems that the time to use it has not yet come."
Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki was talking to himself, while avoiding Nagazi's attacks that had grown more intense as time passed.
Then he calmed down again, quietly, and a thick mist came out of his mouth and headed towards his sword.
His movements changed completely, from fluid and coherent to staggering movements, while a gray mist rose from his mouth.
"What is happening? Where did all this thick fog come from? I can't see anything!
Nagazis' face showed signs of shock, as her previous attacks came back to her.
Boommm...! Boommmmmmm...! Boommmmm!
More than one energy ball filled with poison exploded, capable of killing 100 Monster Emperor rank monsters with ease.
"Do you like the taste of your own poison, Nagazis?"
The Sword Saint's tone of voice was full of sarcasm.
This made Nagazis' anger increase with every second; Her attacks kept coming back, and she couldn't pinpoint his whereabouts.
Additionally, he was capable of attacking her at any moment.
"That bastard, Azares Nozaki!" Looks like the Noazaki family is full of scum!"
Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki gritted his teeth in anger, directing a surprise attack aimed at the heart of the Snake Lord Nagazis.
As Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki was close to her, a malicious smile appeared on her face, as she smoothly dodged his attack and delivered a blow that sent him flying several meters into the air at great speed.
Blood was flying from his mouth, and the bones of his body were shattering, yet, thanks to his healing ability and regenerative immortality, he was able to heal all of his injuries within seconds.
However, if it weren't for the Nagazis Snake Lord being of the same level as him, he would have had difficulty treating his injuries; The damage inflicted by an opponent who is one or more ranks stronger than him is not treatable with immortality, so that immortality becomes useless as the difference in power expands.
"That bastard tricked me!"
Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki gritted his teeth, while rebalancing his body.
But the ruler of the snakes, Nagazis, did not give him the chance, as she attacked him with her tail and plunged him into the ground with great force, with a smug smile on her face.
"I am the ruler of the serpents, Nagazis!" Do you think your fault will affect me? You arrogant fool!"
In the ground, Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki emerged from the hole that was only 34 centimeters deep, with a blank stare, while his katana remained stuck in his right hand.
"The Art of Spring Breeze, First Form: The First Breeze of Wind."
Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki muttered, as he pointed his sword in slow motion towards the Snake Ruler Nagazis.
The looks of the snake ruler Nagazis were full of sarcasm, but they did not last long, because a wound appeared on her body, in the form of writing in Japanese: "Revenge is a willow tree."
She showed signs of shock as she looked at the writing on her body, and blood flowed abundantly from the wound and her mouth.
"The land is a willow tree... the place where the Noazaki family lived more than 600 years ago. Still want revenge? Ha-ha-ha-ha! Humans, you are so hypocritical!"
The Nagazis Snake Ruler's tone of voice was full of sarcasm, as she treated her injury.
She then fired several blades filled with a poison that was stronger and more dangerous than the previous one, to the point that it actually disrupted reality once it touched the ground, and they were all directed at Azaris Noazaki.
But the countless blades made reality itself become dysfunctional, which made fighting extremely difficult for the Sword Saint.
He cut the blades and repaired reality at the same time, but the Nagazis Snake Lord took advantage of the opportunity to deliver a treacherous blow to Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki's waist, throwing him several metres.
However, his goal had been achieved, and reality had been fixed once again.
As Azaris Noazaki was heading towards the Snake Ruler Nagazis, he was stopped by the rain that suddenly began to fall without warning.
"It's really raining... spring rain! It's so cool and refreshing!"
This was the tone of Azaris Noazaki's voice, as he ran and attacked the Snake Ruler Nagazis at times, and at times dodged her attacks.
He was in an almost unconscious state; His body no longer responded to him, and he was just fighting as if he was created for this, while his mind recalled his old memories, and his heart tried to prevent those memories from coming out.
Speak in a questioning tone:
"Why did you attack my family? My family was peaceful!"
The Nagazis Snake Lord kept looking at Sword Saint Azares Noazaki, while listening to his words, before she burst into hysterical laughter.
"Peaceful family? Ha-ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha-ha! Peaceful family, you say? "To you humans, the Noazaki family might have been peaceful, but from my point of view, and from the point of view of all the alien entities, your human family were monsters, Azars Noazaki!"
The body of the snake ruler Nagazis began to shrink, and she appeared in human form, with blackish-green hair and snake-like eyes.
She was extremely beautiful, carrying a coal black whip with a pointed end, and her facial features were so cold that it made the ground freeze around her.
"Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki, you are truly pathetic!"
The words of the Snake Lord Nagazis, her human form, and the falling spring rain were bringing back memories of that fateful night to his mind, shattering his heart's defenses.
In a destroyed house, rain was falling heavily from the sky, and the sounds of animals and the smell of dirty corpses and blood with a pungent metallic smell made the scene extremely terrifying.
In the midst of all this chaos, there was a young man who was not yet sixteen years old, looking around with looks full of fear, shock, and confusion, with tears flowing abundantly from his eyes.
"What the hell happened?!" How could one person kill all the elite masters of the Noazaki Family so easily?!"
Azaris Nozaki spoke in shock, as he looked at the bodies of his cousins and nieces, his uncles and aunts, his full brothers and sisters, and the rest of his family, including his mother and father.
He didn't say anything after that, but just walked around with a blank look, his katana dragging on the ground; Because he didn't have the strength to carry it, it was too heavy.
This was the first time he felt the weight of the sword in his hands, so he let out a powerful scream that was enough to make all the animals run away.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki kept screaming at the top of his lungs for so long, that he vomited blood due to his vocal cords almost being torn.
He turned his gaze to his left hand, to find the ruler of the snakes, Nagazis, looking at him with a beautiful smile. If it were not for the crimson blood that was covering her entire body, and the lightning that was striking the place, allowing him to see her features, he would have thought that she was a human who had come to help him.
"So, you're the murderer...why did you do that? Why did you kill my family? Why? Why? Why did you do that?! I didn't do anything to hurt you, but you killed my family! Why the hell did you do that?!"
Azaris Noazaki spoke calmly mixed with fear, before his voice suddenly turned into anger and a questioning scream.
This made the Snake Ruler Nagazis's smile grow wider, turning from a beautiful smile to a malicious one, as she touched his face.
"Why did I do that? It's unfortunate that your grandfather is dead; If he were alive, I would tell you why I did what I did."
Nagazis' tone of voice was regretful, before she skinned Azaris's right cheek.
The skin fell to the ground, as Azaris held his face, warm crimson blood flowing profusely between his hands.
The pain was unbearable; A feeling of intense burning, rapid breathing, a feeling of fainting, and a desire to vomit. It was an explosion of sensations that his mind could only output in a scream that shook the forest and the ground.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
The Nagazis Snake Lord's facial expression remained unchanged, maintaining that malicious smile, but she did not realize that tears were flowing from both of her eyes.
She did not realize this until a short time later, when she wiped her tears and then said:
"It's interesting to see how the last member of the Noazaki family is being tortured. It brings back memories of my childhood. Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
She then coldly ate the skin on Azar Nozaki's right cheek.
This made him feel extremely shocked, so he moved away from her while his body was shaking, and kept covering his right cheek.
The Nagazis Snake Lord kept looking at him without saying anything, then she sat down at his level, and spoke with obvious sarcasm, but behind her words there was something that he could not understand; Pain, sadness and a desire to die.
"Azars Nozaki, so you wanted to avenge your family? "You have to become stronger than you are, and then you will get your revenge, my dear."
The Nagazis Snake Lord stood up again, and left the place.
Azaris Noazaki tried to go towards her, but after several steps he fell due to losing a lot of blood.
"When we meet again, I will kill you, Nagazis, the snake-ruler!"
He then fell unconscious.
Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki opened his eyes, finding himself among the ruins of the Noazaki family home. Seconds passed before he closed his eyes and opened them again, to find the Nagazis serpent ruler looking at him with the same beautiful smile.
Sword Saint Azaris remained silent for several seconds, only to be surprised by Nagazis' words:
"Azares Nozaki, whoever sees you will think that you are in your thirties, but you are already over 600 years old!"
Azaris Noazaki looked at her in surprise, while listening to her strange and ridiculous words. However, he felt that something was missing.
Although the ruler of the snakes, Nagazis, was described as cunning, malicious, and scoundrel, he had never met her before, nor heard anything about her, as if she had completely disappeared.
But why did you decide to kill his family? Why was she crying? Why did he feel that she was suffering?
These questions were running through his mind as he looked at her, examining her every movement and breath.
He broke the silence by saying:
"Do you remember that day? "I've told you, and I'll say it again: When I meet you again, I'll kill you, Nagazis!"
The attractive smile remained attached to Nagazis' face as she looked at him, then she spoke in her heart in a calm tone:
"My little boy has grown into a strong man. It seems that..."
"And my life is about to end on Friday, May 29, 675, at the hands of Sword Saint Azaris Nozaki, who 600 years ago was a crying child fighting and training hard to seek revenge."
The Nagazis Snake Ruler spoke in her heart with sadness and satisfaction.
As for the Sword Saint Azaris Nozaki, at the present time, he was imagining what he looked like on that day, Friday, May 29, 045. Time returns again as a circle that refuses to be erased or disappear.
However, Nagazis directed her voice at him, which he easily blocked and moved away just in time before the voice wrapped around his sword.
"So, you don't want to answer my question? You haven't answered him yet.
His tone was calm as he wiped the blood from his face.
The Nagazis, the ruler of the serpents, repeated her voice, her face adopting an expression of feigned ignorance.
"What are you talking about? "I don't understand what you're getting at."
Azaris Noazaki's face grew colder as he looked at her.
"My question is: Why did you kill my family? "Why did you kill the Nozaki family?"
A trembling appeared in her irises and in her hand, and this made him suspect that something was wrong, but he did not understand it yet.
He directed a blow at her, taking advantage of her absent-mindedness, and kicked her in the stomach.
She was thrown backwards several meters, colliding with a giant rock that caused her to spit blood from her mouth. However, nothing stopped her from showing her smile.
She spat out blood and tooth on the ground, but she didn't care, but wiped her mouth and walked off the rock indifferently.
"Why didn't you keep attacking me? If you wanted revenge, you would have continued to hit me while I was stuck inside the rock, but you waited for me to get out. "That makes you contradictory, Mr. Azaris Nozaki!"
Azaris Nozaki did not pay attention to her words, as he looked at her with eyes trying to understand the truth: who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed?
He came to kill the snake ruler Nagazis, but found himself playing the role of lawyer, detective, victim and fighter all at the same time.
Azaris Nozaki wanted to laugh at himself, but he didn't find anything funny.
But unlike him, Nagazis, the ruler of the snakes, smiled lightly, sometimes malicious, sometimes beautiful and attractive. However, he felt that behind that smile there was pain and sadness; One used to hide his suffering by laughing.
The monster rulers were no exception to this.
But why? What's the reason? He is here to cut off her head and end this farce, so why does he find himself in a dilemma that he is unable to solve?
This was what Sword Saint Azaris Noazaki was thinking, as he carefully watched the Nagazis' movements.
He was surprised when a voice appeared behind him, before he received a treacherous blow to his back that made him fall to the ground, with blood flowing from his back.
"What the hell is going on?!" I lose so easily? Very annoying!"
As he was trying to get up, the ruler of the snakes delivered a kick to his face, sending him thrown several metres.
"You're still trapped in the past, Sword Saint Azares Nozaki! You can't fight; Your body refuses to show its strength. You are afraid deep down, and you are still that little child crying calling for his parents and siblings among the ruins of his destroyed house!"
"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! You're still pathetic! Azaris Noazaki must die, and the Noazaki family must be wiped out. You are the last member of your family, so killing you will give me relief from my suffering!"
«Your suffering? Does my family have anything to do with your suffering? So, my hunch was right! There is an old connection between you and my family!"
Her face showed signs of shock and confusion at her slip of the tongue; She got excited in her speech, which made her say something she didn't want to say.
A smile appeared on his face as he looked at her, then he spoke while wiping the blood from his face:
"So, the Snake Lord Nagazis is still suffering from her past. Pathetic, hahaha!"
Sword Saint Azaris Nozaki drew the sword of the