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Chapter 69: Honor of A Knight

"Well, now that's disappointing."

I jumped down to the ground,

"I told you it's useless."

I looked at the prince and asked him, "You know I have a question, why is the existence of the sword hidden?"

"What?"

With a sharp gaze, "I always wondered, why even hide the existence of the sword? Well now that its protection is gone, it's pointless, but before, when the sword was still active, why hide its existence? From the way I see it, for the kingdom it would have been more advantageous to reveal its existence at least within the kingdom, and next thing why were there never any candidates selected for lifting the sword? If you choose people from within the kingdom and let them try to lift the sword, then in all these years there would be a high probability that someone would have lifted the sword, then why?"

He hesitated but replied after a moment of silence, "There were candidates, when a prince is about to ascend in the position of the king then he is granted the permission to try and lift the sword, but none of the kings succeeded till now."

"Only the king? Why not others? Oh, wait I see, the reason this kingdom formed was because of the sword, so if anyone other then the king lifted the sword, especially nobles or commoners then he would guess I wasted my time thinking about it, in the end, it was simply human's foolishness, whatever, I will get going", I replied

"Eh? Where are you going?", the prince asked

Looking back, I answered, "To meet the king, of course."

With a panicked expression, he replied, "Wait, you can't meet him."

"But why?" I asked

He hurriedly replied, "Umm, He is sick and currently resting."

"Then I should definitely meet him, I am a doctor after all."

"No, you can't."

Taking a sigh, I replied, "Very well, then, the competition you might want to arrange it."

The prince relaxed, "Very well."

I disappeared within the shadows,

And returned to my peaceful house,

Next day,

The letter of challenge had arrived,

"Hehe, interesting."

The location was in the knight's academy,

It was a giant sparing ring, there were even audience, most of the audience were students and some officials,

This incident had spread throughout the kingdom,

Someone had just challenged, one of the head knights,

Students were whispering,

"Hehe, did you hear, someone, challenged teacher?"

"Really who?"

"I do not know who I hope he wins, I mean I hate the arrogance teacher has, he is too strict, I was just waiting to grow up and beat him myself."

"Yaa, yaa me too, I don't like him too, he took away all our freedom, only says to train, I hope he gets beaten."

Most of the students expressed hatred towards the head knight present in the middle of the stage,

This was relatively common,

Knights training was hard, and most present were nobles, spoiled by their parents until age 12 they were spoiled, but after joining the knight's academy, they would face harsh treatment,

The treatment was not bad or discriminating if a commoner or a slave had entered the academy, he would appreciate the treatment provided in there as it would be way better then their previous environment, but it was the opposite for royals and nobles,

Only after learning about the value of power and knowledge, they would start respecting their teachers, but right now they were simply arrogant teens,

"Look, the challenger arrived."

"Wow, he arrived"

The audience started cheering,

"Isn't that guy handsome?"

"he is good looking, but he doesn't look strong."

"Yeh, I don't think he will win."

"What a disappointment!"

"But haven't we seen him somewhere before."

"I feel the same, I feel like I have seen him before."

The whispering continued,

With his sword point towards the ground, the head knight was standing tall in the ground

He had a muscular build,

He was not wearing any armor, just light black clothes

He had green eyes and white hair

Neither arrogance nor hatred he stood there merely for the honor of a knight,

Azrael arrived in the battlefield

The head knight stood there and looked at him, with a voice that represented gratitude, he spoke, "I see, so, you are the Divine Doctor."

The audience again started whispering,

"Wait, divine doctor, yes I remember, he went around the kingdom healing people."

"Yes, he healed my parents, I finally remember."

"Wow, so that's the divine doctor."

"But why did he challenge the head knight? Isn't he a doctor?"

"Yes, why would a healer challenge a knight?"

The head knight spoke, "You once saved this kingdom, I am grateful for that, you even made contributions for this kingdom, I understand the reason, you challenged me, but as a knight how can I let my apprentice's get snatched by someone else? Where would my honor be if I let that happened? But I would also not want to limit the growth of my apprentices because of my honor, so if you beat me right now, then I would believe that you would be able to give them a future better than the one I would give them, So, now let us clash swords."

"Nice, now I feel bad that I am going to snatch your apprentice."

The head knight thew a sword towards me,

"Eh? A wooden sword", I was surprised

"Yes, a wooden sword, if I fought seriously with a healer, then that itself would indicate the fact that I was defeated, we will fight using wooden swords, I won't use sword aura or awakening, if you manage to break my sword or injure me then you win", the head knight exclaimed

"Hehe, How interesting."


Chapter 70: Duel

The ring was silent,

2 people present in the middle of the ring,

There was a distance of 10 m within them,

The crowd was silent,

Both of them were maintaining eye contact,

The head knight aka Carolus took his stance, "I will let you have the first strike, come", he exclaimed with confidence,

Rather than rushing in front, Azrael took a step back, dashed to the side, and started circling him,

Carolus stood there following his moments with his eyes, soon afterimages of Azrael began to appear,

"From behind", Carolus saw him rushing towards him, he dodged and counter sliced,

Clank! Clank! Clank!

Few thrusts of swords occurred,

"This just looks like an old-fashioned sword fight, neither arura nor magic, its no fun at all."

"Come on, used some flashy techniques, then it will be more interesting", the audience shouted

Both of them paid no heed to the noise,

Carolus used a vertical slash, Azrael dodged and replied with a horizontal strike,

His could not stop it with his sword, and decided to bend a bit back,

In standard cases, the range of the sword would not have been enough to reach him, but this time the sword extended slightly, and struck his face,

"EH, it hit him"

"Wow, it hit him, does that mean the fight is over?"

"What? that was no fun at all", the audience shouted

The strike had done little to no damage at all, Afterall it was just a wooden sword, but Carolus was in a bind, "Did I misjudge the range of the sword", "No, I could not have made such a mistake, did the sword extend, it not rare."

He then looked at the sword Azrael was holding,

A standard sparing long sword's length is around 45 inches,

The sword in his hand had the same length,

"His sword looks normal, but without a doubt, it had extended", he thought

"So, does that count as an injury", Azrael asked

"It was just a scratch, it's not enough to prove your worth". Saying that he rushed forward, this time his speed soar in a rapid rate

His speed and strength both rose, pushing Azrael back,

Like a rapier, he lunged his sword, Carolus stepped back, but again the sword extended and struck his stomach

BAM!

This time little damage was inflected,

"Again, I see you can somehow extend your sword", Carolus spoke

"Yes, it's a simple magic trick, I am not just a simple healer you see, you can use your sword aura, if you want, after all, I don't want people to think I won because I used magic while your hands were tied", Azrael replied with an indifferent expression

"Yes, use your power's" "Don't hold back, make it more interesting", the audience screamed

"Very well, then", Carolus replied

The atmospheric pressure around his sword started to increase,

A colorless aura surrounded his sword,

Their swords clashed in a parry

That clash created an incredible shockwave throughout the ring,

The sound echoed throughout

"Too loud."

The students covered their ears while screaming in agony,

"Sir, the barrier seems to be ineffective, should we evacuate the students?."

"Humph, no need, they were the ones yelling and demanding a serious fight, now they can see one, only their ears are injured it could be healed, later on, they should be able to endure at least this much if they want to be knights", the senior professors discussed

"Impressive, being able to stop my attack with a wooden sword", Carolus praised

"But can you stop this", the pressure increased by folds, the audience struggled to even breath

He used a vertical slash targeted around Azrael's neck

Azrael didn't even try to dodge or did he move, he just stood there.

Before, the sword could reach his neck, it disintegrated into tiny particles,

Only the grip was left,

Hence not reaching his neck

"You got too excited, your sword had already reached its limit, it's a wooden sword, there is no way it could have withstood such pressure, so, now, your sword's broken, does that mean I win?", Azrael asked

Carolus stared at his sword, only its grip was now remaining, "To think I would be this careless", he whispered

"Very Well, I admit my defeat you win", After saying that he turned behind and immediately left

"Well, guess now it's time to head to the Sorcerers/Magic Tower", Azrael also immediately left

.

The senior professors started is discussing,

"Sir, what do you think?", many professors asked this question, to an old man, he was the most senior of them, also was the principle, he had a long mustache and beard, his eyes brows were thick and had white eyes,

"Hoho, it was an interesting battle, though both of them were holding back, and none got serious, I would have liked to see an all-out battle", the old man replied, he had a wavery voice

"How do you think he stopped Carlos aura attack with just a wooden sword? Strengthening a sword using magic to such extent during battle should not be possible", one of the professors asked

"I don't think he used magic, he used sword aura", the old man silently replied with a solemn expression

"Huh what?", the professors asked in confusion

"Hoho, never mind me, being old, I must be seeing things", he shook his head and changed the topic, "So, how are the children's?"

"Sadly, most of them are unconscious, the damage is not too severe, there should not be any problems."

"Well, that's disappointing, the potential of knights is decreasing with every generation, it would be nice to see a new hero being born from the new generation", saying that he left,

.

"Now then where exactly is this magic tower", Azrael whispered in confusion

I wanted to get there as soon as possible, but why are there 8 magic towers? And which one is the one I was invited to? Damn it they should have given better instruction, well then guess, I need to visit them all and find the right one

There were precisely 8 towers in the kingdom, all of them were built around the edges of the kingdom, each of them had their purpose,


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
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As for why the chapters were sometimes delayed? it was because my classes started around 2 weeks ago, with the classes came assignments, notes to make, and pressure 

But still, i shall try my best to upload new chapters regularly

Have a good day!

And thank you for reading

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