Chapter 52 (2/2)

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Arriving at McDohl clan training ground, a blonde haired boy that resembles Leo could be seen

[Hi Luther It's been a while]

[Brother Ares! Long ti ith Julius]

[No, Julius is such a great friend It's only natural]

Leo's eldest son Luther is one of Julius' peers Like birds of the same feather, the two quickly became fast friends and Ares heard that they frequentlybuild, Luther has a rather girlish slender body Coupled that with his good look and you got yourself a pretty boy His outer looks truly has nothing to do with reat departure from his first division commander father But Ares are of his hidden talent

[Even I, his father, was fooled too At the moment, only myself, you and your vassals are aware of his talent That's why I don't want him to be a bad leader in the future I will personally teach hi valor… If he can become someone like you, all the better]

Luther's talent is that he's adept in both y But not only that, he's actually most excellent at swordsmanshi+p He would soether with Julius and learn swordsard to swordsht hiht, Luther Today I want you to spar with Ares I want to see how long you can keep up with hi swords to both Luther and Ares

[It's no use, Ares You better take hi like hell nowadays]

[I don't think you need to brag about your son like that…]

Ares took the sword and faced Luther

[Brother Ares, let's do our best!]

Luther also brandished his sword

[Well then…begin!]

At Leo's signal, Luther infused his le shout, he charged at Ares with unstoppablesword technique To think he and Leo, who had taught hi like this, there is no word to describe it other than a)

If one looked closely at Luther body, they'll notice scratches, cuts, and bruises Perhaps it's the result of practising with his father everyday

Ares received Luther's attack and parried it But Luther wasn't going to stop there His next attack cale unbroken flow

[Not yet!]

When Ares received the attack this tith so as to push Luther back Then, before Luther regained his stance, Ares already attacked him once, twice, and thrice Luther, his stance completely broken, fell on his butt

[Yes, that's it]

All that only took less than 10 seconds But Luther ended up out of breath while Ares had remained steady and calood job]

Seeing this, Leo approached the You've developed your sword arm even further compared to when you sparred with Julius back at Schwarzer territory]

That said, Ares grabbed Luther's arave a response

[Why of course I've been training hile day]

Now that hesword in hand

[Well, this time, allow me to spar with you]

And so, those three practiced swordsround for a while

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After that, Ares practiced swordsmanshi+p with Leo until sunset Then he had dinner in the McDohl ht ti the dinner

[McDohl clan is bound to our duty to protect the royal capital so we can't participate in this upco happened, I proht already know this, but the capital is currently ablaze in factional conflict Your presenceis bound to happen So be careful]

[Especially…Prince Carlos and Archduke Rozenheim, their factions are currently the most committed to take up the throne You need to be careful around those two Archduke Saxon is currently in cahoots with that stupid Randolph in building upsome imperial clans too That old coot Lo suspicious, and I don't really knohat Prince Joseph is up to Duke Hoover is also up for so shady Those are the people that you need to watch out for]

Hearing those various inforht

In these past few years, the capital had truly become a hell's kitchen embroiled in internal strive

That's why

He had to make himself lookin front of power, be honorable and showing his high aspirations

Whilst looking back at Leo…Ares thought so