Chapter 42 - Assassination Attempt (III) (2/2)

” Of course not your highness, if you were injured, I am afraid the emperor would have our heads including those of our families,” they answered before they hurriedly left the tent, but before they did, they couldn't help but look at that ravishing young lady that was laying down on the 4th prince's bed.

While shad was wary of that person that tried to assassinate him and was thinking about ways to defend himself next time he attacks again, That person was even warier of Shad.

He was an exalt 7th rank warrior yet he almost lost his life in the hands of a puny 4th rank mage. when he pierced the knife into Shad's heart, he felt as though his hand was being swallowed by a huge beast. He had the feeling that if he had continued his attacks, his whole body would have been swallowed by that void of darkness.

As soon as his first attack failed, he did not dare to stay there any longer. he was even more afraid than shad was of him because he had no idea how to counter that skill. he was a warrior, not a mage, so he couldn't just cast magic spells from the distance to check out his ability, he had to be up close.

He did not know what kind of ability that was as it was the first time he encountered such a weird ability, but it was truly frightening. Being able to absorb any physical attack with your body without any damaged by creating a dark void, what kind of damn cheat was that?. As far as he knows, the 4th prince was just a lightning mage so how come he possed such ability. It seemed like all the information about the 4th prince was not accurate, and was more mysterious than he thought. His mission is going to be tougher than he had expected.

Early in the next morning, before the sun was even up. Shad got off from his bed and went outside on his training clothes. As for Monalisa, she was soundly sleeping on the bed.

When Shad got out, he saw many soldiers were already up and were training. Most of them were 2nd and 1st rank warrior, there were still a handful of 3rd rank warriors but their numbers did not surpass fifteen.

As he was making his way to small mountain ahead, they all bowed to him. Even the four imperial knights were up and were training their swordsmanship skills, however before he left, he ordered them not to disturb his training and wait until he came back.

They wanted to reject him and followed him to act as his bodyguard while he was training, but knowing the attitude of the 4th prince as well as well as how he was able to survive the attack of a 7th rank warrior without a scratch, they did not dare to refuse his request as they quickly nodded in unison.

On top of a small mountain, Shad sat crossed legs with both of his eyes closed. there were many strands of lightning moving all around his body. soon, all the strands of lightning moved and coiled around his hands and wrapped around his fingers until they formed some sort of gauntlet on both of his hands.

With just a thought, the strands of lightning that formed a gauntlet around Shad's hand moved up as they formed a lightning armor around Shad's upper body. He did the same thing over and over, sometimes the strands of lightning turned into a huge lightning spear, a long lightning sword, a lightning ball, a lightning chain. After two hours of training his lightning transformations, Shad decided to get down as the sun was already up and it was time to resume his journey.