Chapter 3: Sparring(1)
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Metal hitting metal sounds could be heard in an arena especially made for the Imperial family and Imperial guards where two youths, one with pink hair and red eyes and the other with purple hair and purple eyes were sparring with each other using swords.
They were Ares and Noah.
Over a hundred Imperial guards were surrounding the arena and watching with excited expressions since the level of swordsmanship that Noah used was very elegant and countless times better than their own.
Noah has refused to be 'trained' by the Imperial guards since he was not interested in being 'trained' by newbies.
Although Sword was not Noah's main weapon, his accumulated experience was still countless times higher than these mortals who can at most increase their lifespan to 10000 years after cultivating mana.
Thus he has been teaching Ares for the past 2 years about swordsmanship.
Interestingly she was a natural and started using double swords.
Ares' swordsmanship was fine and graceful yet ruthless and cruel at the same time but despite giving her all she never managed to defeat Noah.
Noah would give her pointers from time to time like an experienced veteran and her swordsmanship increased by leaps and bounds compared to training with Imperial guards.
Eventually, she also stopped training with Imperial guards and trained with Noah only.
Noah was suppressing his cultivation to D-rank and Ares who actually had a cultivation of C-rank was suppressing her cultivation to D-rank to make the fight 'fair'.
Cultivation is common in all the worlds with mana but the way they call different ranks of cultivation is different and unique.
On Earth, they simplify ranks by giving them letters.
It goes from F,E,D,C,B,A,S,SS,SSS. Noah with his superior knowledge and higher-level cultivation technique especially suited for him rapidly cultivated to SSS+ rank.
His mana was much thicker, purer, and quantitatively much higher.
But-
To [Immortals] like him, showing off power against mortals is the lowliest of things a [Immortal] can do.
No [Immortal] who visits a world shows off their power in front of mortals.
It is something extremely Immature and one of the unwritten rules engraved in the minds of [Immortals].
Although Noah showed off his superior swordsmanship that was because he was not interested in being 'trained' by a human who has spent less than 10000 years honing their swordsmanship.
Noah's experience in using all weapons was much higher than mortals.
Although some [Immortals] show off their power and enjoy getting praises and are called 'geniuses'... but that is something they do when they are extremely bored and want to live a new life as a so-called 'genius'.
It is nothing but a kind of roleplay that entertains them.
At that moment some Imperial guards made way for a handsome young man in his early twenties with black hair and black eyes with a height of 1.85 meters.
Looks are deceivable in the cultivation world, even a 1000-year-old person can look young.
This young man was 27 years old.
"Prince Noah is sure as amazing as they say. Worthy of being called a Weapon Lord" said the young man while grinning mockingly.
It was widely known that Noah was proficient in using most weapons.
Hence he was given an appropriate title in his honor after defeating many Imperial guards who came to 'teach' him in their own choice of weapon in the past 2 years ever since he started training with Ares.
Noah already knew about his arrival but feigned ignorance since the start and even now didn't give a single look to the newcomer.
Ares did the same, she was more interested in sparring with her brother than paying attention to the blabbering of a 'passerby'.
This 'passerby' was none other than Prince Luke.
Noah, Ares, and Luke were all children of Emperor Ryan Irwin who still rules over one of the three Human Empires named Delos.
Emperor Ryan Irwin has one wife and two concubines.
Royals are officially allowed to have one wife and two concubines according to the laws of the Delos Empire.
Luke is the son of Empress Mary Irwin. Emperor Ryan Irwin has a single child with Mary, a pair of twins with Valentina(Mother of Noah and Ares), and a daughter named Eve with Adah.
Seeing that he didn't manage to gain their attention Luke's eyebrows twitched and he frowned.
The expression on his face kept getting uglier as time passed by and his aura started going rampant after 10 minutes of watching the spar between the pair of twins.
All the nearby Imperial Guards who were below B-rank rank moved as far away as possible from Luke.
After all, the aura of a B-rank practitioner creates natural pressure for those who are below their level of cultivation adding to the fact that he has gained insight into one of the Advanced laws-[Metal].
So when his aura is unrestrained it will contain traces of sharp metal.
Some of the Imperial guards scoffed and laughed sneakily at the utter disrespect of Luke.
It is human nature to enjoy other peoples' misery but the guards didn't dare to make a single sound because their status was still much lower than Luke's.
Seeing Luke's expression from the corner of his eye Noah smirked while still giving pointers to Ares.
Noah already knew Luke was coming to the training arena even before he tried to gain his attention with a superior technique that he developed himself over the years called [Horizon Vision] but still feigned ignorance.
[Horizon Vision] works using [Gravity] law as its base and tears through everything in its path in a sphere of a particular radius determined by Noah while his soul acts as the center.
Anything that enters or moves inside this spherical field is immediately detected by Noah even if he is asleep.
Right now he was using a weakened version of [Horizon Vision] with a much lesser radius of activation because he doesn't have the need to go all out.
After 5 more minutes, Noah finally stopped the sparring session since they have been sparring for 4 hours already.
Noah turned around and saw Luke still standing there like an idiot.
"Prince Luke, to think you'd come to watch our sparring session and 'politely' wait for it to end is something that I would never think of. It is our honor to provide you entertainment." said Noah with an exaggerated expression of surprise and amazement with a hint of contempt.
Luke was not an idiot and he didn't miss the subtle jeering in Noah's choice of words but still feigned ignorance.
A sharp glint flashed through his eyes and he forced a smile "I was just passing by and thought of exchanging pointers with Prince Noah hoping to hone my own skills." replied Luke humbly.
Ares scoffed and replied with a tone full of annoyance "Prince Luke what is the meaning of this?!"
Hearing this Noah also frowned deeply and looked at Luke in rage but still replied with a respectful tone "It would be my honor Prince Luke" he turned towards Ares and asked her to leave the arena.
Ares nodded and got off the arena unwillingly and in the meanwhile, Luke went to one of the corners of the arena where training weapons were kept.
He picked one of the blunt swords and he swung it a few times to feel the weight distribution and without further delay got on the arena.
Noah looked at Luke full of rage but on the inside, he was completely calm.
Luke just smirked and said to Noah with full of confidence "Whenever you are ready Prince Noah..."
Noah nodded and took a deep breath and looked towards Ares who just smiled but was worried on the inside since she knew they have sparred for a long time and Noah should be tired and running on fumes now as his cultivation was only D-rank.
Noah was slightly shorter than Luke as he was only 1.8 meters tall.
Noah and Luke lowered their stance simultaneously and Luke suppressed his cultivation to D-rank.
"Very well, Here I come!" Luke shouted and immediately darted towards Noah.
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