212 Sword Mages Fame (1/2)

”Have you heard about the Sword Mage in Sword City?”

In a well-lit room, an old man with a stern face asked a middle-aged man who was kneeling in front of him.

”Yes, the rumors reached Imperial City a week ago, I doubt that anyone who practices swordsmanship didn't know about him. It seems that some months ago that Sword Mage being just a 3-star Apprentice won against a 9-star Practitioner in a battle of pure swordsmanship. However, I also heard that he advanced consecutively until the 6-star Apprentice in the same battle.”

The middle-aged man had obtained a lot of information about the Sword Mage since the rumors about him reached Imperial City.

”Do you think that making three consecutive breakthroughs is normal? Even if he had been at the 6-star apprentice from the start, beating someone with more than a whole rank of difference is still something that even our younger generation is unable to do. Moreover, that girl is a member of the Sword Five, the strongest of her rank in Sword City, and not any random girl.”

The middle-aged man nodded his head; he understood that very well, but he hadn't chosen his words very well due to his nervousness in front of the old man.

”We must try to recruit such a great talent to our Larken Clan; his talent seems even higher than that Yale who Durgan told us about. In fact, we can't discard that both of them were related or they were even the same person. The descriptions and real names are different, but there are a lot of ways to modifying one's appearance, and the Sword Mage also trains the Magus Path like that Yale. After all, that guy has disappeared for too long, and it is difficult for such a talented kid to remain unnoticed forever.”

That old man was someone who had reached the Grandmaster Rank and was one of the higher-ups in the Larken Clan, given his experience he didn't want to discard any possibility. Of course, he didn't believe that Yale and the Sword mage were the same; he just thought that as Yale was disappeared for such a long time, there was still a chance.

That old man had never meet Yale personally, but he knew that although Durgan was young, he had an extremely good eye for talents, and Yale should be top class since he dared to offer his little sister to him. The world wasn't a place for weaklings and someone with talent wouldn't be low-key enough to be bullied, so it was difficult for talented people to remain in the shadows for too long.

”Probably they are two different individuals, but we should still bring Durgan with us in the travel to Sword City just to confirm it. In any case, it may be good for Durgan to battle to some talented individuals outside the clan and Sword City have some of them.”

The elder had lived a long life and saw a lot of things, so he didn't dare to be negligent with anything. Yale wouldn't be the first faking his identity to avoid the Larken Clan finding him; even Swordmad had faked his identity and disguised for a lot of time to avoid the members of the Larken Clan pestering him.

Although the Larken Clan never forces anyone to join them, they were always extremely persistent, and a lot of their targets got annoyed and tried to disappear. Of course, the Larken Clan didn't hold a grudge for that; they would just try to find those who were hiding hoping in convince them to join.

”What should we do with Lar? I hear that a talented girl called Lar was also a member of the Sword Five and her description matches to our Lar. There is no doubt she is in Sword City, and she seems to be in good terms with that Sword Mage.”

The middle-aged man discovered that while investigating the Sword Mage; usually if a rumor like the one of the Sword Mage didn't appear, the Larken Clan wouldn't bother with Sword City. Only someone capable of spreading his name as far as the Sword Mage was someone worthy of making the Larken Clan move.

”I have always known where that lass was, I just wanted her to have some freedom as her temper is difficult to control, but she is the biggest talent of our clan and my granddaughter, there is no way I would let her go out without knowing about her whereabouts. However, we should try to tell her to come back as we are already going to Sword City.”

The middle-aged man nodded and smiled, but he was internally cursing the old man because he knew that regardless how that old man spoke, he wouldn't go personally. Thus, the almost impossible job to convince Lar to come back would fall in those who went to Sword City, and the middle-aged man knew that he would be one of them.

”Oh, remember to pick some members of the younger generation to go with you besides Durgan. Although we have our own methods to train them, it may be good letting them test other opponents from outside the clan.”