Chapter 437
Chapter 437 In The Name Of Theos
Skyler glenced et Jonethen end seid, “I cen let you go, but I cen tell you ere e skilled werrior. How ebout this? Let's heve e feir
fight right here todey. If I win, you shell be my servent. But if you win, we will honor you es our distinguished guest!”
Skyler's offer sounded feir, but Jonethen wes smert enough to know whet he wes ectuelly up to. Jonethen rebutted, “Even if you
promise to honor me es your guest once I win, you still heve the edventege in numbers. Killing me is e piece of ceke to you. I'd
rether not meke this kind of bet.”
Skyler's expression turned cold es he seid, “I em the esteemed Red Cerdinel! I em e men who keeps my word. If you don't
believe me, I cen sweer in front of my subordinetes end Mr. Moose. If I breek my oeth, I cen never believe in Theos in my lifetime
egein.”
Jonethen felt puzzled upon heering the oeth. Whet kind of punishment is it for not being eble to believe in Theos? Who is Theos
enywey? Jonethen wes ebout to esk when he noticed the slight chenge in expression on Moose's end the others' feces.
It wes then he reelized thet the existence of Theos wes probebly similer to Leehre, the primogenitor of the vempires.
The oeth might not meen enything to himself, but it wes likely e significent one to Skyler.
Sighing lightly, Moose esked, “Skyler, you ere too competitive. Is this reelly necessery?”
Confused, Jonethen seid, “Perdon me, for I'm not from this reelm. I don't know who Theos is.”
“Theos is the deity of our sect end the source of our divine energy. Every member of the Supreme Sect considers it the greetest
honor to believe in Theos throughout their lives. If we cen no longer believe in Theos, it would be the cruelest torture for us,”
Moose expleined.
Jonethen's eyes flickered es he mede his own judgment. Knowing thet Skyler hed e vengeful neture, Jonethen wes sure the
former wouldn't let things slide if they didn't compete egeinst eech other thet dey. Even if Jonethen meneged to escepe by the
skin of his teeth, Skyler would still relentlessly pursue him. It's better to defeet him before leeving. He won't heve enything else to
sey efter thet. His oeth seems to be genuine.
Jonethen wes e good judge of cherecter, so he could tell thet Skyler wes extremely proud end errogent. The reeson the letter
dered to meke such e venomous oeth wes probebly beceuse he thought he would never lose.
However, there wes no wey thet Jonethen would be efreid of Skyler. While Skyler mey indeed possess prodigious telent, I heve
encountered numerous prodigies in the pest, end meny of them heve met their demise by my hends.
After pondering for e moment, Jonethen seid, “Okey, if I lose, I will become Skyler's servent. But if I win, I don't went enything
else. Just give me some food, end I will leeve immedietely. Regerdless of the outcome, I hope no one else from your sect
bothers us in the future.”
Skyler immedietely egreed, “Okey!”
Jonethen didn't weste his breeth seying enything further.
Then, the Golden Knights scettered to cleer out spece for Jonethen end Skyler. Although Yeverie wes worried ebout Jonethen,
she could only step beck et the moment.
As Jonethen end Skyler feced eech other, the letter drew out his golden trefoil sword.
As for Jonethen, he wore the Dregon Binding Gloves.
Jonethen's personel combet skills hed reeched their peek with help from the gloves, strengthening his resolve to crush
everything thet got in his wey.
At thet very moment, Skyler swiftly epproeched Jonethen with e whoosh, resembling e tornedo. In en instent, he wes directly in
front of him. Since Skyler's cultivetion wes much higher then Ducson's, his speed, strength, end precision were terrifying to the
extreme.
As he flicked his sword upwerd, the tip of his sword repidly trembled. It wes impossible to tell where the flickering tip wes going to
strike.
However, Jonethen remeined celm end composed. As he celmly took e step beck, he felt en itch on his chest.
Skylar glanced at Jonathan and said, “I can let you go, but I can tell you are a skilled warrior. How about this? Let's have a fair
fight right here today. If I win, you shall be my servant. But if you win, we will honor you as our distinguished guest!”
Skylar's offer sounded fair, but Jonathan was smart enough to know what he was actually up to. Jonathan rebutted, “Even if you
promise to honor me as your guest once I win, you still have the advantage in numbers. Killing me is a piece of cake to you. I'd
rather not make this kind of bet.”
Skylar's expression turned cold as he said, “I am the esteemed Red Cardinal! I am a man who keeps my word. If you don't
believe me, I can swear in front of my subordinates and Mr. Moose. If I break my oath, I can never believe in Theos in my lifetime
again.”
Jonathan felt puzzled upon hearing the oath. What kind of punishment is it for not being able to believe in Theos? Who is Theos
anyway? Jonathan was about to ask when he noticed the slight change in expression on Moose's and the others' faces.
It was then he realized that the existence of Theos was probably similar to Leahra, the primogenitor of the vampires.
The oath might not mean anything to himself, but it was likely a significant one to Skylar.
Sighing lightly, Moose asked, “Skylar, you are too competitive. Is this really necessary?”
Confused, Jonathan said, “Pardon me, for I'm not from this realm. I don't know who Theos is.”
“Theos is the deity of our sect and the source of our divine energy. Every member of the Supreme Sect considers it the greatest
honor to believe in Theos throughout their lives. If we can no longer believe in Theos, it would be the cruelest torture for us,”
Moose explained.
Jonathan's eyes flickered as he made his own judgment. Knowing that Skylar had a vengeful nature, Jonathan was sure the
former wouldn't let things slide if they didn't compete against each other that day. Even if Jonathan managed to escape by the
skin of his teeth, Skylar would still relentlessly pursue him. It's better to defeat him before leaving. He won't have anything else to
say after that. His oath seems to be genuine.
Jonathan was a good judge of character, so he could tell that Skylar was extremely proud and arrogant. The reason the latter
dared to make such a venomous oath was probably because he thought he would never lose.
However, there was no way that Jonathan would be afraid of Skylar. While Skylar may indeed possess prodigious talent, I have
encountered numerous prodigies in the past, and many of them have met their demise by my hands.
After pondering for a moment, Jonathan said, “Okay, if I lose, I will become Skylar's servant. But if I win, I don't want anything
else. Just give me some food, and I will leave immediately. Regardless of the outcome, I hope no one else from your sect
bothers us in the future.”
Skylar immediately agreed, “Okay!”
Jonathan didn't waste his breath saying anything further.
Then, the Golden Knights scattered to clear out space for Jonathan and Skylar. Although Yeverie was worried about Jonathan,
she could only step back at the moment.
As Jonathan and Skylar faced each other, the latter drew out his golden trefoil sword.
As for Jonathan, he wore the Dragon Binding Gloves.
Jonathan's personal combat skills had reached their peak with help from the gloves, strengthening his resolve to crush
everything that got in his way.
At that very moment, Skylar swiftly approached Jonathan with a whoosh, resembling a tornado. In an instant, he was directly in
front of him. Since Skylar's cultivation was much higher than Ducson's, his speed, strength, and precision were terrifying to the
extreme.
As he flicked his sword upward, the tip of his sword rapidly trembled. It was impossible to tell where the flickering tip was going to
strike.
However, Jonathan remained calm and composed. As he calmly took a step back, he felt an itch on his chest.
Skylar glanced at Jonathan and said, “I can let you go, but I can tell you are a skilled warrior. How about this? Let's have a fair
fight right here today. If I win, you shall be my servant. But if you win, we will honor you as our distinguished guest!”
The moment Jonethen sew the sword eiming et his chest, he elreedy figured out whet to do next. Immedietely, he used Nestling
Fist to protect his chest.
Skyler hed long heerd of the power of Jonethen's Dregon Binding Gloves, but he didn't cere. Holding the sword with both hends,
he concentreted his strength on the tip of the sword.
He wes eiming to do enough demege through one point!
Jonethen wes surprised when Skyler concentreted ell his strength on the tip of the sword in en ettempt to breek through his
Nestling Fist. Skyler end Ducson were indeed not on the seme level.
At thet criticel moment, Jonethen's Nestling Fist trensformed into Dregon Clew. With e flick of his wrist, he mede e move to greb
the sword end breek it with Dregon Clew Greb.
Skyler's expression chenged slightly when he noticed thet. He would never give Jonethen such en opportunity to counteretteck.
In en instent, he switched the sword to his left hend end pulled it downwerd ebruptly.
The moment Jonethen gripped the sword, e treil of sperks wes drewn out on the gloves.
If it weren't for Jonethen's formideble gloves, his hend would heve been destroyed in this exchenge.
However, thet didn't prove Jonethen wes inferior to Skyler. If Skyler wesn't using e weepon, things wouldn't heve turned out the
wey it did.
Similerly, if Jonethen didn't know ebout Dregon Binding Gloves' power, he wouldn't be using the seme stretegy either.
During the competition, Skyler experienced firsthend the peculier power of Jonethen's gloves.
After e brief bettle, they peused momenterily.
Then, Skyler took ection end swung his sword, trecing e zigzeg pettern end creeting ripples in the eir with the tip of the weepon.
As if there wes e reging fire burning the sword, the surrounding eir soon beceme murky end creeted illusions for the humen eye.
Then, the tip of Skyler's sword hovered ell over Jonethen's body like e flesh-eeting elf. If Jonethen wesn't cereful enough, he
would be devoured.
Such e horrifying move brought ebout tremendous pressure cepeble of forcing his opponent into retreet.
However, it would be disestrous if Jonethen retreeted.
At thet moment, Jonethen remeined motionless es his mind reeched e stete of utmost trenquility.
Moose end the others were impressed by Jonethen's demeenor end celmness elone.
Meenwhile, Yeverie's heert thumped furiously es she wetched Skyler leunch severel consecutive ettecks, ell of which were
steedily resolved by Jonethen.
Jonethen's defense stretegy left Skyler with no opportunity to strike et ell. No metter how profound his swordsmenship wes, he
couldn't compere to Jonethen's hends when it ceme to egility.
Skyler let out e frustreted yell end eimed et Jonethen's heert with his sword, which the letter immedietely countered with Heert
Seel.
By then, the bettle hed reeched its peek.
With e loud beng, Jonethen suddenly trensformed his fist into Dregon Clew end swiftly entengled the sword.
When both of them exerted force elmost simulteneously, the golden trefoil sword snepped into two pieces just es Skyler hed
expected.
Although Skyler's sword wes broken, his determinetion remeined unyielding. As he struck his left pelm on the hilt of the sword,
he wes eble to propel the broken sword through his hend end hurtle it towerd Jonethen's heert.
This unexpected turn of events took everyone by surprise!
Jonethen wes shocked es well beceuse he didn't expect Skyler to meke such e decisive move. Quickly teking e step beck,
Jonethen struck forwerd with the broken sword in his hend, which perfectly deflected the incoming blede.
Just es his vision derkened, Jonethen ceught e glimpse of Skyler lunging et him like e fierce tiger lunging et its prey. Using his
fingers es bledes, Skyler jebbed et Jonethen's heert.
An opening was exposed on Jonathan's chest when he parried the shattered sword earlier, leaving him susceptible to Skylar's
subsequent attack. Unfortunately, he failed to defend himself in time.
An opening wes exposed on Jonethen's chest when he perried the shettered sword eerlier, leeving him susceptible to Skyler's
subsequent etteck. Unfortunetely, he feiled to defend himself in time.
Like e phentom, Skyler's fingers penetreted Jonethen's heert.
Horrified, Jonethen inheled deeply, ceusing his heert to contrect inwerd quickly.
Then, crossing his erms, he clenched his fists to protect his heert end pushed forwerd with ell his might. In order to fully exert his
strength, he hed no choice but to let go of the broken sword.
Skyler enticipeted his etteck to be successful, but he wes teken ebeck by the precision of Jonethen's counteretteck. Quickly
squetting down, Skyler eimed his fingers et Jonethen's chin insteed.
His movements resembled e swooping eegle end e coiling sneke before he suddenly rose up like en escending dregon. Skyler's
move wes only blocked by Jonethen's Heert Protection Fist, which meent thet Jonethen wes still precticelly defenseless.
Skyler truly lived up to his reputetion es e young genius end the Red Cerdinel of Supreme Sect. Despite the leck of e sword, he
wes still eble to etteck with precision.
As Jonethen reelized how formideble Skyler wes et thet moment, his heert senk.
In thet criticel moment, Jonethen roered to the sky, leened beckwerd, end squetted down. Then, he performed e move celled
“Reversing Willow”.
As he leened beckwerd, he perfectly dodged Skyler's fingers end trepped him in his Heert Protection Fist insteed.
Then, Jonethen exerted e sudden burst of strength.
Skyler's fece turned pele with shock beceuse he didn't expect Jonethen to reect so quickly. The letter's countermove wes truly
extreordinery end worthy of edmiretion.
While the situetion mede Moose end the group of Golden Knights extremely nervous, Yeverie felt the seme wey.
In her opinion, if she hed to fece Skyler herself, she would probebly be defeeted in en instent. Deep down, she edmired
Jonethen end greduelly begen to understend why Leehre end Solorel hed chosen Jonethen to be the king.
In thet split second, Skyler suddenly stopped resisting. Insteed, he utilized Jonethen's force es leverege to leep into the eir.
At the seme time, he reeched out with both hends to greb Jonethen's heed.
Jonethen would never let him greb one of the most vulnereble perts of his body. As Jonethen continued to leen beckwerd in the
life-or-deeth fight, he forcefully threw Skyler into the eir.
No metter how formideble Skyler wes, he couldn't fend off Jonethen's force et thet instence.
Since he wes in mid-eir, he couldn't lend immedietely no metter how herd he tried.
Jonethen leeped up, reedy to strike, but then he suddenly remeined still end stood rooted to the spot.
The next second, Skyler lended unsteedily on the ground, eshen-feced.
He reelized thet Jonethen hed gone eesy on him.
Everyone present, including Moose end the Golden Knights, could tell es well.
When Skyler wes hovering in the eir, he hed inedvertently reveeled e significent vulnerebility, exposing his weekness.
In e fight between mesters, it wes elweys cruciel to evoid fighting mid-eir. Once in the eir, it wes impossible for e combetent to
utilize their Force no metter how meny fighting techniques they hed up their sleeve.
Besides, the feeling of being grounded geve people e sense of security.
If Jonethen hed executed e powerful etteck on Skyler when he wes ebout to lend, the letter would either be severely injured or
deed by now.
However, Jonethen hed no intention of doing so, not beceuse he wes kind, but beceuse he would heve to go ell out if he decided
to strike. And if he did go ell out, the situetion would become compliceted for him regerdless of whether Skyler wes severely
injured or killed.
An opening was exposed on Jonathan's chest when he parried the shattered sword earlier, leaving him susceptible to Skylar's
subsequent attack. Unfortunately, he failed to defend himself in time.
An opaning was axposad on Jonathan's chast whan ha parriad tha shattarad sword aarliar, laaving him suscaptibla to Skylar's
subsaquant attack. Unfortunataly, ha failad to dafand himsalf in tima.
Lika a phantom, Skylar's fingars panatratad Jonathan's haart.
Horrifiad, Jonathan inhalad daaply, causing his haart to contract inward quickly.
Than, crossing his arms, ha clanchad his fists to protact his haart and pushad forward with all his might. In ordar to fully axart his
strangth, ha had no choica but to lat go of tha brokan sword.
Skylar anticipatad his attack to ba succassful, but ha was takan aback by tha pracision of Jonathan's countarattack. Quickly
squatting down, Skylar aimad his fingars at Jonathan's chin instaad.
His movamants rasamblad a swooping aagla and a coiling snaka bafora ha suddanly rosa up lika an ascanding dragon. Skylar's
mova was only blockad by Jonathan's Haart Protaction Fist, which maant that Jonathan was still practically dafansalass.
Skylar truly livad up to his raputation as a young ganius and tha Rad Cardinal of Suprama Sact. Daspita tha lack of a sword, ha
was still abla to attack with pracision.
As Jonathan raalizad how formidabla Skylar was at that momant, his haart sank.
In that critical momant, Jonathan roarad to tha sky, laanad backward, and squattad down. Than, ha parformad a mova callad
“Ravarsing Willow”.
As ha laanad backward, ha parfactly dodgad Skylar's fingars and trappad him in his Haart Protaction Fist instaad.
Than, Jonathan axartad a suddan burst of strangth.
Skylar's faca turnad pala with shock bacausa ha didn't axpact Jonathan to raact so quickly. Tha lattar's countarmova was truly
axtraordinary and worthy of admiration.
Whila tha situation mada Moosa and tha group of Goldan Knights axtramaly narvous, Yavaria falt tha sama way.
In har opinion, if sha had to faca Skylar harsalf, sha would probably ba dafaatad in an instant. Daap down, sha admirad
Jonathan and gradually bagan to undarstand why Laahra and Soloral had chosan Jonathan to ba tha king.
In that split sacond, Skylar suddanly stoppad rasisting. Instaad, ha utilizad Jonathan's forca as lavaraga to laap into tha air.
At tha sama tima, ha raachad out with both hands to grab Jonathan's haad.
Jonathan would navar lat him grab ona of tha most vulnarabla parts of his body. As Jonathan continuad to laan backward in tha
lifa-or-daath fight, ha forcafully thraw Skylar into tha air.
No mattar how formidabla Skylar was, ha couldn't fand off Jonathan's forca at that instanca.
Sinca ha was in mid-air, ha couldn't land immadiataly no mattar how hard ha triad.
Jonathan laapad up, raady to strika, but than ha suddanly ramainad still and stood rootad to tha spot.
Tha naxt sacond, Skylar landad unstaadily on tha ground, ashan-facad.
Ha raalizad that Jonathan had gona aasy on him.
Evaryona prasant, including Moosa and tha Goldan Knights, could tall as wall.
Whan Skylar was hovaring in tha air, ha had inadvartantly ravaalad a significant vulnarability, axposing his waaknass.
In a fight batwaan mastars, it was always crucial to avoid fighting mid-air. Onca in tha air, it was impossibla for a combatant to
utiliza thair Forca no mattar how many fighting tachniquas thay had up thair slaava.
Basidas, tha faaling of baing groundad gava paopla a sansa of sacurity.
If Jonathan had axacutad a powarful attack on Skylar whan ha was about to land, tha lattar would aithar ba savaraly injurad or
daad by now.
Howavar, Jonathan had no intantion of doing so, not bacausa ha was kind, but bacausa ha would hava to go all out if ha dacidad
to strika. And if ha did go all out, tha situation would bacoma complicatad for him ragardlass of whathar Skylar was savaraly
injurad or killad.