Chapter 491 The Strongest Pt. 4
?On the other side of the room.
Zadkiel laughed in amusement as he pushed Moriarty back with the fast and unstoppable strikes of his Sai's.
Moriarty barely stopped the attacks with the sturdy shaft of his spear, but his body had visible blood stains from the hits he had taken.
Meanwhile, Zadkiel looked clean—not a single dirt in his white robes.
"What's wrong, Moriarty?" Zadkiel moved fluidly, like he was dancing. "I thought you wanted to defeat me. Prove me wrong that you aren't the same loser as back then!"
Moriarty scoffed and stabbed his spear powerfully forward, but then Zadkiel easily sidestepped the attack and countered with a swift kick to Moriarty's chest. New novel chapters are published on
The kick sent Moriarty flying across the room, crashing into the wall made out of black rock.
"Ptui!" Moriarty spat out blood from his mouth as he struggled to stand straight.
'Calm down, Moriarty!'
The soul shouted inside his mind.
'Zadkiel is only having the upperhand as his mind is on the right place. Do not let him provoke you or he will defeat you!'
Moriarty gritted his teeth angrily.
He knew more than anyone that if he let his emotions take over, he would again lose to Zadkiel. It had been a trick Zadkiel had used on him multiple times.
In one of the swimming tournaments in middle school, Moriarty was the fastest swimmer and was a clear candidate to win, and he would've won most likely.
However, on the day of the tournament, he found his childhood sweetheart cheating on him with Zadkiel behind the bleachers. It happened only an hour before the start of the tournament.
Of course, when the tournament started, his mind was completely distracted, and he ended up in second place. The winner was Zadkiel.
In the basketball tournament, they ended up on different teams as they were in different classes at that point in time.
They met again in the finals, and at first, Moriarty's team seemed stronger, but they lost 61-29. It was annihilation.
After the defeat, Moriarty saw his teammates talking fondly with Zadkiel, laughing and giggling. He believed that they allowed Zadkiel to win as they played incredibly poorly in the finals, but he had no way to prove that.
Crumble!
The room started shaking again as another potion of the black rock vanished.
Moriarty felt another sinking feeling in his stomach and struggled to defend against Zadkiel's strikes. He was forced to back off after each attack.
'Moriarty...?' The knight's soul inside him spoke with a strange tone.
It could feel that something had changed inside Moriarty.
'They believed him so easily because they already liked Zadkiel more than me. Now that I have discovered that, I shouldn't care about them or anyone else!'
Moriarty masterfully twirled the spear around him and lashed at Zadkiel, but he managed to sidestep and dodge the attacks.
In that instant, Moriarty dashed forward and started pushing Zadkiel with sharp and accurate spear strikes. Each strike was aiming for Zadkiel's vital points.
Zadkiel frowned and struggled slightly to deflect the strikes. It felt strange to him, as he felt like there was something wrong.
Moriarty didn't move very fast, but still, he managed to force Zadkiel to move defensively with each strike.
Zadkiel's brows creased, and he constantly backed backwards, trying to somehow move back to offensive, but couldn't.
At that moment, he felt rising heat behind him, and when he glanced over his shoulder, he noticed that the lava pit was nearing.
"Oh, how cute."
Zadkiel laughed, and he backflipped over the lava pit, landing on the other side.
At that moment, Moriarty threw the spear as if it were a javelin across the air.
Zadkiel tilted his body sideways, dodging the spear narrowly as it whizzed past him, missing his head by mere inches.
"Hmph."
Moriarty then reached out his open palm towards his spear, and it materialized back into his hand with a swift motion.
He twirled it in his right hand, spinning it with his fingers with practiced ease before launching it back towards his opponent.
Zadkiel swung his Sai's up and deflected the spear up towards the ceiling.
Again, Moriarty reached out his open palm towards the spear and made it materialize back into his hand.
"Enough!" Zadkiel jumped over the lava pit and smashed his weapons at the spear.
A loud clang sounded as two weapons released scarlet-red sparks.
"What were you even trying to achieve?" Zadkiel asked with a ridiculing smile.
Moriarty looked coldly at him, but then his lips curled into a giant smile as he revealed a scary, sinister-looking smile.
"I stopped caring about you."
"Huh?" Zadkiel frowned and didn't understand what he meant by that.