Chapter 189 (1/2)

On the hill overlooking the houses and complexes which were just constructed.

Was a large castle built of black rock.

In the third floor of the castle was a study room, with a young man in his twenties with platinum hair looking out the window.

Luke was his name, looking down at the new estates which was built.

‘Time passed by so fast.’ He thought to himself.

It seemed like it was just the day before when he was killing time with the Imperial Army, however, two years had passed by.

After the monster wave was done, Luke had to stay a lot of time in the Navarre Duchy region and look for any monsters.

Although he didn’t like Princess Margareta who was obsessed with Sebastian and the king who desperately wanted Luke to tie the knot with the princess, the duchy didn’t seem so bad.

However, the emperor had no thoughts of letting Luke stay there, and after a span of 6 months, Luke was asked to return.

After coming back, whenever there was a problem, either home nation or the foreign ones, the Emperor ordered Luke to go.

He was used to crushing down the rebellious barbarians in the eastern mountains and to clear the world from the warlocks.

The problem was that the Emperor and his clerk men had blocked the information about the enemies Luke could be facing. It was all sorts of despicable conspiracy, distorting the truth or withholding information about possible allies.

But Luke wasn’t going let them take him down with that, so he managed to see things through.

He took the trials and crisis as an opportunity to train himself and his subordinates.

As a result, the white magic, dark magic, and his sword skills had increased sharply. Philip along with Kaper, Alex, Hobart, and Anna, grew brilliantly.

Philip was on the top with his Expert training, while Kaper was upbeat, Alex, Hobart, and Anna were good.

The improved knights became the retainers of the Rakan estate after they had been discharged from the Imperial Army and developed strong relationships with their families.

Meanwhile, every time Luke had increased his merit, his fame had risen and many young knights wanted to come and see him as his subordinate.

Luke picked out the useful and reliable ones from them and assigned them to the Knights of Territory.

‘But, the biggest achievement is definitely this.’

Luke pulled out the sword which was dangling from his waist and fused mana into it.

Srrrrr!

Golden aura began to form around the sword.

The aura grew till two meters and then slowly receded again.

No, rather than receding, it condensed.

The condensed aura began to take a clear shape and light, Luke looking down on it couldn’t help but smile.

‘Woah, will the Emperor jump out if he knows that I am able to make Gold Aura?’

Every time that he went to the Imperial Palace for getting merits and rewards for his actions, he could see the face of the Emperor twisting more and more.

He was irritated, but he had to laugh and appreciate Luke who had performed the task he had asked.

If the Emperor knew that Luke could form a Gold Aura, he would have a very different look.

“That is good, if you can form the Gold aura, you have taken a step closer to being a Sword Master.”

Knight General Rogers said that once, Luke finally managed to make a Gold Aura a few days back.

Originally he thought that it would take around 5 years to build a Gold Aura.

However, there was no better training plan than practice, so as he went around to the battles, his sword skills had increased much faster than expected.

“But where the second part of the Gold Sword which needs to lead to the Sword Sage?”

The Rakan territory had lost the second part of the Gold Sword which had to be in the family after the long decline of their riches.

The first half was more than enough to be a Sword Master but to become a Sword Sage, the second part was required.

The problem was that no one knew how or when it had disappeared.

Smart.

Luke was deep in his thoughts about the Gold Sword.

Along with the sound of a knock on the door, the voice of Hans greeted him. As soon as Luke had returned back, he immediately went down his title of deputy lord to a deacon and remained faithful to his role.

“Lord. It is time for the meeting. Please come.”