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Chapter 560 - Five Kings

🕑 Added 2025-02-20 09:45:49 +0000 UTC

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Johnny

Idk how you got that no one’s taking it seriously…what’s supporting that? Seems pretty intense to me

Dm Dd

Cerim is in such a good flow right now thanks for the amazing work rate 😍

Charles Lash Jr

He is still early in the tournament it is pretty common in martial arts novels to not show all your trump cards early . He need to hold back some for later stages of the tournament . Even then it’s important to never show all your cards as he might need them years from now for all he knows .

Nick

I mean none of them can really die so it would never be as high stakes as an actual fight to the death would be.

RingoSeto

most beyonders actively avoided whitey for a good reason... but nat killed him solo after being beaten up alot.... so no i doubt many if any could kill whitey

Sir Supports Alot

I called it! Nathaniel the "ancient monster" slayer

Jimmy Wright

Damn, stabbing a dude with his own arm… noice 👌🏻

Vinnie

Thanks for the chapter!

Woojoe

It feels like strategy to me. He knows everyone is going to underestimate him in this one event. After this no one will take him lightly. So he’s learning as many Kings skill sets as possible before the real challenges appear. If he gets jumped by 8 Kings next event at least he’ll know how to quickly kill some of them. But if he doesn’t take the time to learn what they can do now while it’s nearly without risk, then he’s putting more risk to Tess’s life later by not preparing when he could have.

Borbino the great

Also it makes sense everyone else’s subclasses is cocky they think they’re all the strongest cause they won their tournament and they haven’t seen what someone can really do after this they won’t mess around again

Borbino the great

Well yeah you can still learn from them and beat the fuck out of them and the best way to beat them is to watch for a second and learn how they fight and go in for a one hit kill like he does overwhelming doesn’t have to require just blowing everything up and one hitting kings and stabbing them through the chest with their own arms seems pretty overwhelming to me

Zaim İpek

Because he could be doing a lot better, and so could everyone in this fight tbh. They just aren't for some unknown reason. It's like nobody is taking this seriously. Which makes sense for everyone EXCEPT Nat. He should be taking this much more seriously and not fight the way he normally does with minimal effort to get the job done. Nat likes to prolong his fights to learn from them. That is a very consistent behavior from him. He isn't quite doing that, but he isn't fighting like Tess' life depends on it. That's the point of Liss' challenge. I think his Focus skill is to blame or author is up to something. . .

Johnny

Agreed. They all went thru hell as we see with Maya dying a handful of times- already psychologically damaging. But Nats lost count. Theres other examples to show him going way further, but the Cockroachssandra and evil orb training can’t be underestimated either. There’s a difference between exceptionally driven and a pure sociopath…plus I’d argue these battles aren’t “easy”. Like how he wouldn’t feel confident in melee against Lily, not like he’s unstoppable yet

Johnny

Those are my all time fav scenes

Johnny

That’s what I’m looking forward to most. The other POVs of Nat being a sociopath are my favorite

Borbino the great

Yeah that’s going to be crazy they’re all going to shit themselves especially with him and his sister both being monsters

Borbino the great

Yeah bro got no diffed

Borbino the great

That would be so nice it makes sense especially since I feel like everyone else’s subclasses are almost based around how they feel towards Nat he needs to level his up so they can follow almost but that’s just my theory

Borbino the great

Why? I mean kinda crazy considering how hard he just stomped all of them

Borbino the great

That is going to be such a crazy moment they’re going to be like wtf even is this guy

Arcanum

Tftc! Wonder when everyone realises Nat doesn't have his Passives up.

Alex O'Connor

Man Cerim you’re really a Boss!! Thanks for this amazing chapter!🔥🔥🔥

ZaA

Because, unlike nat, she understands the intricacies in extremely minute mana control. If skill level represents.. actual skill, then when he gets better, she know he leveled up. If she knows mana as well as it seems, she even knows the way a mana skill would be controlled based on the level, so is basically assigning levels like the system does, I'd assume

Zard

I imagine its his domain mixed with his empyrean lance effect

Joseph Jenkins

Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of my power!

Zaim İpek

If I was Lissandra, Nat would already have failed this round. Hopefully Liss has low standards during this tournament.

WhiteLeeopard

Liss has skills of minimun 90 (absolute starts at 90), likely closer to 95, he's sadly far from getting his revenge in a clean fight. What I want to know is how she can track his skill levels, like she is peeking into his status!

WhiteLeeopard

Sophie hasn't been declared a champion candidate, although if that's because of her skill or prejudice against mind blenders, who knows.

Max

Tftc! Lissliss is in for the surprise at the end of the Tutorial when Nat with lvl 80 skills Kills her.

John Doe

Nats strength has always been that he's willing to take what others see as massive losses for small victories. Losing his entire arm just to not let his attack be interrupted. Constantly dying in the common area. He's the strongest here for a reason. Even his time on beyond showed that he's pushing the limits faster and farther than others that should supposedly be around his power. And there's always the idea that people don't realize that they rely on the system too much for skills. Maybe they use those tokens that Nat just sells for a couple shards. He doesn't take shortcuts and learns his skills the hard way. If you forget everything that led here then yeah, it seems like others should be his equal, but there's plenty of ways Nat has shown us that he's different

John Doe

That's usually the best part of this kind of story. The reactions to the MC. One punch man, solo leveling, etc. We don't know how he'll win, just that he will and it be will entertaining to watch through others' eyes

CJ Tamberella

Thanks for the chap! Love seeing Nat compared to the other Kings and beyonders, somehow I knew it would go down this way haha

Gwalmeich

Something tells me that sub-classes are a lot more powerful than anything else. I think cockroachsandra is trying to force Nath to unlock the next level.

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

So a 2v3 With Nat vs 2 kings, and 4 other beyounders, a Vic against Jean (King) and some others. Nice

jax rammus

Yeeaaah you a bitch, and ya died like a bitch

ramir

U guys forget that nat has mentioned he'll steamroll lily and tess if he gets serious(they'll be unconscious if he really releases/use all his mana), also group 4 has basically 5 champion candidate, 4 + biscuit. That's basically like 4-5 king levels there and they regularly spar each other. Their speed of growth is simply incomparable to other groups. Nat can now dumpster whitey zombie without any legit damage taken(as he can fight real and improved whitey toe to toe) so I don't think we can say that these guys can't kill whitey zombie.

Borbino the great

She’s going to take the lily approach to making friends I feel like lol

Obie

Nat’s fucked lmao, nice to see what our MC does to other people near his level. Derick would’ve been badass dying on his feet.

Fred Mwilima

Its eclipse

Val the mysterious Jedi

Nat pulling off a "get an ambulance" while surrounded by enemies and then whispering " for yourselves"

CptJimmy42

Wait till they learn he was fighting with a handicap.

Sloth

Pretty sure the golden orb was just a thermal bomb. There was no Empyrean lance. They might not be dead yet, as we were just shown one king getting sent to the common area while the other’s status was left unconfirmed. This leads me to believe Cerim has more planned for that last King.

William Johnson

I agree that the other Beyonders need some love. Unless the tutorial system tailors Beyond to the individuals there's no way I can imagine these dudes handling Whitey's zombie or any of the other stuff Nate has barely been able to handle in Beyond or the various levels of Hell. If Nate was steam rolling the PvE content it would make more sense how much he dominates PvP, but how the heck are these guys surviving the stuff Group 4 has to deal with outside of the tournaments?

William Johnson

Eclipse, he merged it from Infusion and Resonance back in chapter 501. Most recently in chapter 553 it's described as draining colors from the area and it lets him take over mana constructs, like a certain jobber's mana armor and sword.

William Johnson

Korean king's all like "time for the hero to enter the stage!" Gets the 100% no-sell from Nat. Thanks for the chapter!

Andrew

Thank you!

TBONEMAN

Da wae

Kelto

So... Nat without Black Mana, healing marks, Fracture or his passives, has obliterated 2 kings and 4 beyonders. I suspect that only his sister is at the same level.

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

Behold, I have the head of your queen furiosa. Or something lol

Woojoe

I think we may have just met Izzy’s new BFF. Concentration specialist who’s as “normal” as Noname. Great chapter.

Poutine Au Syrop d'érable

Yeah, but more mental power will solve that too.

zoarian

I think it's hard to "balance" the other Kings. On one hand, they're very strong and I've no doubt there's areas where each is better than Nat. On the other, Nat is extremely talented, has crazy work ethic and he's had a lot of unique opportunities. I think the other Kings are more "standard" attendees - talented and strong but without encounters with Rulers, etc. We saw a similar thing in Beyond where you had B ranks who'd also be owned by Nat/group 4. I know everyone (including Nat) likes shitting on his talent but he's clearly in a league of his own. Dude has two primordial energies, 3 super busted skills (Eclipse, Lay Line and Lance), he's extremely good at manipulating mana and he's covered his biggest weaknesses: melee and the cursed sneaky attackers.

Death56

I love when we get the pov of people fighting nat

Kelto

I mean... The fight is basically over right?

RingoSeto

this is the way

Cody

Thank you sir, may I have another.

tishane Imperial MageKiller

Just wanna say again your fight scenes read like a high speed DBZ fight mixed with solo lving, Surgeon lv ish.

tishane Imperial MageKiller

That's deffer the vibe this chapter gave, like he jumped on the roof and said" nice more victims "

Claro reyes

Tftcccccc!!! Didn't even need fracture for these chumps.

zoarian

Very nice of Derick to reach out and give Nat a hand against other Kings! Not gonna lie, Nat casually destroying the Korean Kings armour was some funny shit. Same with fobbing Jean off to Victoria. I think it'd be a funny gag to do that every time Jean asks for a duel. The whole fight, Nat was like: "You think I'm trapped in here with you? You're trapped in here with me!"

David McCreight

Ooh does Savant know he has that yet?

PoeticSaint

Nah she's a queen in her own right

M van Dongen

An arm for an arm. 'Tis the Way.

PoeticSaint

Their round is kinda exceptional and group four is the craziest.

PoeticSaint

I internally cackled despite being alone

PoeticSaint

Pretty sure it's eclipse

David McCreight

I think you’re right it’s [Eclipse].

ramir

Nat also has whitey, an excellent melee fighter who he’s fighting every day to the death with no consequences. Whitey was considered hot shit and even a rival on beyond’s number one guy in the rankings back when he was still alive. The only guy that has the possibility to top nat’s opportunities is gonna be the beyond guy.I mean come on, even if savant has better talents than nat, ure not gonna beat a guy that is being personally trained by The absolute and have daily multiple deathmatches with a king level guy my dude

vEnviouz

Oh mighty Cerim! Why do you torture us so!?

Kelto

[Eclipse]

ramir

Bro they dont have the cockroach as their personal trainer. Thats the main difference between them. Nat has his own absolute trainer, THE absolute, giving him far more opportunities than the rest, like, ignition heart for example, or just even the mana training hes getting from liss, that shit’s worth so much I bet that champions would pay for it

mitchell kaiser

Mana domain I imagine

David McCreight

What is the black and white field Nat creates?

David McCreight

We never see Derick’s new fragment/energy right?

Funny guy

Danks fur da chappie! And the funny thing is.. Nat's not even using his passives XD

David McCreight

Come on Nat, 1v2? Lis isn’t going to accept anything less than 1v4 next time.

Max Vidal

This is cruelty cerim, just pure unabashed cruelty.

Thunderhoof

Kendrick? Kevin Lamar?

WhiteLeeopard

I found it funny that the Korean group was killing people who visited their camp, as if they were such hot shit, just to last the least amount of time. I'm correct in assuming the Korean king and his tank are dead as that was an empyrean lance?

Oaktree

I think almost enjoy the other pov’s look in on nat cause I forget when reading nats pov that he’s kicking everyone ls butts while showing the emotion as if just taking a walk through the park.

WhiteLeeopard

Nah, I'm pretty sure Tacita and Savant are king level opponents already.

Oaktree

Its 1:30 am and I about woke up my family laughing at “and you think this will be enough”.

Sergei Hartwig

That was a Kings worthy Chapter Cermin!

Tsorov

He only uses them one at a time at the moment because all his passives are out. He already has a passive strengthening his mind, which enables him to do just that.

Edmund Dillon

Sooooo fricking good. Tftc!!!!🔥🔥

11335577

Nat needs a lot more mental power. He has his mana, kinetic and thermal energy and basically always only uses one of the three or some simple combinations. If he could use all at the same time, at his current level, he could've killed all groups solo in a few seconds.

Tee

I hoped it would be different, but this fight was nothing but a joke. All those “kings” went through as much as nat, if not more, and that’s all they can offer? I hope that I’m wrong and they held back for whatever reason.

WhiteLeeopard

Nooo. Can't stop mid fight! Sniff. Derrick pov was cool, specially as it highlighted how easy it looked for Nathaniel, while fighting 2 prepared kings and 4 more beyonders.

Keith

My sleep deprived self can now sleep peacefully- or not. Next week's work is dreadful but the tutorial beckons!

Venno

Oh yeah my bad, I wasn’t counting her. I misjudged one of the beyond people as an extra king. 3 peasants and 2 kings. Full house 🤣

Elijah helewa

TFTC

tost

of course its a Thursday ....

Augustus

FOOD!

frankie doerr

3 his sister can’t be a peasant if he’s king maybe princess

Shawn Treants

Nice of Derick to lend Nat his arm after taking Nats hand. Lol. This was an awesome chapter!! Ty!! I totally had a burning crusade moment. You are not prepared! (Enough) lol

frankie doerr

Damn Nathaniel all this with no shoes on

Scraser

At the end of the tournament, he will stand there, with the severed Head of his enemy in hand, raising it high and shouting: "My name is Nathaniel Gwyn. And I will be Earth's absolute."

Browx

Absolute peak

Ansordia

... The fact that he is without his passives... Its not even funny how out classed they are... And he will only grow in strength... Like wtf? Also amazing writing as allways Cerim... Can't express how amazed I am by your talent.

Belmont Igneul

It’s always the left!

Doip

Pretty peak can’t wait for Sunday

mitchell kaiser

Fantastic chapter!

Leyphelio

When the Pov changes during battle, you know it's gonna be good

Venno

4 peasants and 1 king

FoodFood (Hell, group 4)

Sustenance.

Belmont Igneul

It’s always the left

Scraser

Finally! I've been refreshing for 10 minutes!

BlackRazaras

Thanks for the chapter


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