Return of The Unrivaled Spear Knight

ire to your help… I’m truly grateful.”

At this, Evergrant bowed deeply.
It was a polite and humble expression of gratitude, befitting the most powerful person on the continent.
Evergrant then straightened his bent back and whispered,

“Goodbye, old friend.”

For a moment, Joshua and Evergrant's eyes met.
His eyes were sad but the corner of his mouth stretched into what looked suspiciously like a smirk.
Joshua, having guarded the Emperor's side with Evergrant for a long time, knew exactly what that strange expression meant:

Derision.

Evergrant was mocking Joshua.

Damn it…

Joshua snorted inwardly.

As this happened, the Emperor of the Avalon was watching silently from behind them.

Kaiser tilted his back and turned around.

“I can't watch, but, at the same time, I must see the end of a very close friend.”

Kaiser's voice was quiet and cold.
His face however, showed a hint of sincere sorrow.

Seeing the Emperor made Joshua suddenly nauseous.
The charade was unbearable.

Kaiser von Britten… Joshua muttered inwardly and clenched his teeth.

At the same time, the magic circle on the ground brightened.
Joshua knew this magic circle well: it was a type of explosive magic circle with the power to annihilate everything within a 50-meter radius.

The gradually intensifying light made his heart pound.

At this speed… Five minutes at most.

What nonsense.

The greatest knight of all time?

What a joke.

In the end, he was murdered by his friend in a random forest.
The rage he felt right now defied words.

Kaiser, don’t think that it will end like this.

He stared at the five faces watching him die and committed them to memory.

In the middle of the endless pain, he swallowed and clenched his fists.
He then went into deep concentration.

Magic and divine power.

He desperately tried to control the rampant beast inside him.

Cough

Dark red blood leaked from his closed mouth.
It felt like a decade or two to Joshua, but only a mere three minutes had passed.

His will to live and thirst for revenge finally bent.

Whoosh… whoosh… whoosh…

Hearing the resonance in his ears, Joshua struggled to lift his heavy eyelids.

Lu… gia?

The dark red spear, Lugia, reaper of the battlefield, exuded a terrifying energy.

As if telling Joshua to never give up.

Lugia had rested quietly in the ancient ruins before Joshua found it and grew famous while wielding it.

I knew that it had a special power in it… but I never expected it would show that power at a time like this.

They had been together for decades but the power was never seen.

Joshua became more aware of his surroundings, as if his survival instincts were being awakened.

Like a possessed man, he desperately stretched his hands towards the spear.
Joshua choked down the pain, telling himself that acting now would end the suffering.

He sighed triumphantly when his hands finally met the spear.

Whoosh

And then there was a bright flash accompanied by a thundering boom.
The magic circle exploded with an earth-shattering Bang! With a violent roar, everything disappeared.

A meaningless ending unfit for the Unrivaled Spear Knight.

In the land of Knights, the Grand Duke of the Avalon Empire.

Joshua Sanders.

His memory was left untouched.