BUILDING MY OWN EMPIRE - My Journey from Nothing to Overwhelming Power-Chapter 96 - 95 – Moon and Sword

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The wide silver wings carried Louis’s body, soaked with wounds...

It seemed as if the wings moved and flew on their own... while Louis lowered her head in the sky, unconscious.

The Third-Rank Lady shot upward...

Suddenly.

The two wings wrapped around Louis... as if forming a sphere...

Then from the sphere... two more wings burst out...

Louis disappeared within the silver protection...

The Third-Rank Lady arrived... raised one of her rods... and struck—

BOOOOM...

She retreated quickly...

Then rushed again...

Struck...

Then once more...

No reaction came from the silver wings...

The Lady’s strikes targeted multiple directions...

Then she stopped...

"20," the Third-Rank Lady whispered... then silence fell.

After a few moments... she finally understood...

"No effect," she snarled... a trace of anger quickly appeared and began to take over her expression...

Her powerful strike had failed... without her understanding anything.

Suddenly...

The wings covering Louis began to open... suddenly there were four wings...

One of them moved... it shot toward the Lady.

She did not flee... she raised her rods and received the strike—

BOOOOM...

The sound thundered violently...

The Lady blocked the strike firmly...

Then another wing rushed forward...

The girl blocked it... the third wing did not delay.

Suddenly...

The wings began to grow more aggressive and more violent...

The Third-Rank Lady began to be pushed back...

Many heavy and fast strikes surged toward her with full force...

Drops of sweat began falling continuously from her forehead...

Not a single strike hit her... she blocked them all...

But the flow of the attack was clearly visible...

The wings did not retreat...

Every strike... was stronger than the one before it...

After a while...

The Lady fled... retreated many meters and abandoned defense...

The wings stopped attacking...

Suddenly...

Louis raised her head... she woke from her unconsciousness...

Suddenly...

The wings quickly returned to Louis’s body...

As if they had never existed...

Louis stood alone in the sky...

She moved right and left...

Suddenly...

It seemed as if small wings were emerging from her forearms...

Then... they disappeared again...

Louis’s body began to descend...

She looked at her feet... small wings emerged from both feet...

They flapped at tremendous speed...

Louis rose again into the air...

She raised her right hand... a small wing appeared... it did not flap, but from its center a silver metallic feather shot out...

The feather settled in Louis’s palm...

She turned toward the Lady...

Moved her hand slowly... then threw the feather lightly and simply toward the Lady...

The moment the feather left Louis’s hand...

SWOOOOSH

The Third-Rank Lady’s eyes widened...

At maximum speed...

She raised both rods at once...

Placed them in front of her—

BOOOOOOM

The Lady was pushed back dozens of meters by the impact...

"What the hell is this?" she snarled in anger...

Louis’s movement was light and slow... as if she was playing with the silver feather...

But the moment it moved slightly... it became extremely fast...

The Third-Rank Lady barely managed to raise her rods and block it...

The Lady raised her head toward Louis...

A faint smile appeared on her face... her eyes were still silver...

But her smile was clear...

She raised her right hand again... held another feather...

She did not release it... instead, she released her words—

"Shifting Silver," Louis whispered.

Finally... she used her new mastered weapon.

Meanwhile, those around continued to watch with eager eyes... toward her and toward Jo...

At the very moment Louis mentioned the name of her weapon...

The white threads of Jo’s weapon were surrounding his opponent...

Weaving around him like a cocoon...

Louis moved her hand...

Another silver feather surged forward...

It began slowly... and after moving a meter... it accelerated greatly...

Again, the girl blocked it... but she snarled in anger...

Her ancient weapon... then a part of it—

Her eyes widened in great shock...

Never before had her weapon faced such a situation...

Suddenly...

Louis moved her arms to the sides...

Two massive silver wings burst out from her back... opening in the sky, extending beyond ten meters...

Suddenly...

All the feathers contained within the wings...

Detached...

They surged toward the Lady...

Surrounded her in a circular formation...

Then four new wings appeared from Louis’s back...

When they were fully formed... their feathers scattered again into hundreds of pieces and moved to complete the encirclement...

After many repetitions of formation and transformation into separate feathers...

They formed a circular sphere... more than five thousand metallic feathers...

It became as if the silver moon itself had fallen onto the battlefield...

Everyone’s eyes turned toward the new metallic silver moon...

At its center... stood the Third-Rank Lady... her face lit with growing concern...

She did not understand at all how that subordinate could possess a weapon of such power...

Many Third-Rank Lords she knew... possessed weapons weaker than ancient weapons...

The few Lords who possessed ancient weapons... had great power...

Even for her, as a strong Lady... she was not among the strongest of Third-Rank...

Before this massive metallic assault...

The Third-Rank Lady was absolutely certain...

No Third-Rank Lord would survive this attack...

"I must find a way out," she thought quickly...

She looked right and left... up and down... the metallic feathers surrounded all paths...

Suddenly...

A massive metallic sound rang out...

Electric threads began moving between the feathers...

Then...

One feather shot toward the center... where the Third-Rank Lady stood...

Quickly, the Lady raised her rods...

The feather struck them violently...

Then deflected...

Then moved toward the far inner side...

Another feather came from a different direction...

It rushed toward the girl...

She blocked it and deflected it aside—

Then a third feather...

And a fourth...

The girl kept blocking...

Then she finally understood what was happening...

Each time a feather moved... another followed...

After a while...

The number of attacking feathers became very large...

With every attack she blocked...

The number of feathers increased...

What made it worse for the Lady...

Was that the feathers did not break...

Even when she tried to strike them...

Not a single feather broke...

Then...

Another phase began...

For the first time since her transformation...

The Third-Rank Lady was hit...

On the other side...

Four white lines extended... carrying a massive cocoon...

The Snow-Haired Third-Rank Lord was suspended, completely helpless...

He pushed his energy... increasingly...

Each time...

The cocoon became stronger...

Suddenly...

A fifth thread surged forward...

Then began coiling onto itself...

Forming a large white cross...

The cross was completed...

Then... the thread began weaving another shape... connecting to the cross...

Suddenly the true form became clear...

It was not a cross...

But the hilt of a massive white sword...

Loud sounds erupted from within the metallic moon...

It seemed the Third-Rank Lady was being struck heavily...

One of her pink rods... broke...

The other was nearly broken...

At the same time...

The intensity of the metallic feather assault did not lessen... it only grew more violent...

In the sky...

A massive metallic moon roared with heavy impacts...

Hundreds of meters away... a massive cocoon floated... before it stood an even larger white sword...

Suddenly...

The sword surged forward violently...

The Third-Rank Lord could no longer see anything...

But he felt a massive attack pushing the air toward him...

Helpless, suspended in the sky...

He closed his eyes...

SWOOOOSH

The massive sword struck the cocoon violently...

A huge sound crushed the battlefield...

The cocoon split into two halves...

The Snow-Haired Third-Rank Lord...

His body split into two parts... thrown dozens of meters apart...

After moments...

A massive scream erupted...

More than three thousand metallic feathers...

Surged violently and struck the Third-Rank Lady—the young girl...

Then...

The number became four thousand...

Then...

Many blood abilities burst from Louis’s mouth...

She raised her hand...

All five thousand feathers moved...

One attack... like a raging wave...

Fell violently... brutally... fiercely...

From the first thousand metallic feathers... the Lady’s ancient weapon shattered...

The thousands that followed...

Turned the Lady’s body into scattered dust...

In a moment...

The feathers stopped...

They vanished...

Then Louis fell toward the ground...

At the same time...

Jo was falling as well...

From afar...

Two shadows rushed forward...

One caught Louis’s body... preventing impact...

The other caught Jo... preventing impact...

I smiled...

A feeling of joy and pride appeared on my face...

Two of my commanders...

Were able to bring down two Third-Rank Lords with the peak of their power...

My eyes quickly turned... toward the problem that had faced us from the beginning...

The blond Fourth-Rank Lord...

He stood smiling...

None of Louis’s or Jo’s attacks surprised him...

Instead of showing any amazement...

His words came simple—

"This increases the gains for me... hahaha," he laughed loudly...

Then he looked at me...

Rolled up his sleeves... then said—

"The last chance... either complete surrender... or complete death."

"The last chance," I whispered...

"What were the odds of mere subordinates defeating powerful Third-Rank Lords like them?"

A mocking smile settled on my face...

"You might be strong... your chances of winning might be high... but let me tell you something."

I paused for a moment...

"Your defeat... was decided the moment you stepped into my domain, you damned blond."