The training ground was scattered with snowflakes, but at this mont, Lei Kai and two Bear Eater Army soldiers had a chill in their deanor, facing the approach of a ten-sothing-year-old brat, they actually felt a clear sense of discomfort.
It was a sensation of skin contracting, pores closing tight, and the body feeling threatened.
The instincts honed on the battlefield made the hands holding swords involuntarily tighten, bodies slightly bent.
But soon, they realized that they were not facing barbarians, but a noble youth who had just turned thirteen.
The youngster’s stature wasn’t even as tall as any of them... in fact, he had never even seen bloodshed.
Thinking of this, the three of them felt sowhat amused at their own reactions.
Lei Kai’s deep brown eyes stared at Li Chengyi, emitting a mocking laugh.
"What’s the matter? Little baron grew wings, ready to chirp at his elders? Do you know what you’re doing? A little thing that hasn’t even seen a dead person?"
He would never admit that he had been scared earlier; a thirteen-year-old kid, simply by stepping closer and closer, had managed to spook him, a knight who had been in over a dozen battles.
That was sothing he would definitely not admit.
"Uncle, you ca here this ti, and no one else knows, right?" Li Chengyi suddenly said.
Lei Kai was stunned. He indeed had just co out from a tavern, drank all night, grew increasingly angry, and then rushed over with two brothers who had been drinking with him to question.
If it weren’t for the liquid courage, he wouldn’t have been so impulsive.
"So? What do you want to do by asking that?" He sneered twice, his gaze fixed on Li Chengyi.
"You can’t possibly be thinking of laying a hand on ?" All around him were his people, his soldiers; just a little boy, he didn’t think he could cause much of a stir.
"Of course I wouldn’t dare..." Li Chengyi looked around and saw a total of eight Black Castle Soldiers guarding the training ground, all baring their teeth at him.
"After all... there are so many people watching..." Before he finished speaking, suddenly there was the sound of a sword being drawn.
Clang!
Li Chengyi had already burst forward unexpectedly, drawing his sword, bending over, charging towards Lei Kai who was less than ten ters away.
"You!!?" Lei Kai completely didn’t expect him to actually make a move, his face changed instantaneously, and he drew his sword to slash forward as well.
Clang!
The swords struck each other in an instant, but the strength of the opposing youth’s swing caused his face to change once again. That was not the strength that belonged to a youth, even a barbarian’s giant strength was no greater than that.
The double-edged sword was pressed so that it tipped quickly towards him, then it pressed against his forehead, slamd hard onto the helt, emitting a muffled buzz.
Lei Kai staggered backwards, losing his balance. Before he could steady himself, the hangover dizziness struck at the sa ti.
He fell backwards, and with a puff, a black practice sword pierced through the gap in the armor into his chest.
Thud.
The man convulsed as he fell into the snow, the blood staining the white red.
In a re two seconds, everything had already been decided.
Li Chengyi stood up straight, drew his sword, and looked at the two dumbfounded, bearded soldiers of the Bear Eater Army.
They had only drawn their swords halfway, looking dazed at what had just happened in front of them.
All around, silence reigned.
Heavy breathing, incessant from the helts of the two Bear Eater soldiers, filled the air.
Panicked, they watched as the Milton Knight, coming to his senses, began to back away step by step.
"Just finish them off, Milton teacher," Li Chengyi said indifferently.
Since it was a trap set by Blind Spot against him, he had to strike first to gain the upper hand and completely clean it up.
Schwing!
Milton snapped back to reality, charged ahead, catching up with the two retreating Bear Eater soldiers, and after several crisp sword clashes, both n were easily cut down to the ground.
The advantage of a knight’s weaponry and equipnt was too great. Against their blades, it only took one strike to break their weapons.
Against a knight, only heavy shield bearers could ignore the gap in weaponry to so extent.
After all, a thick shield was just a mass of material, very effective against the sharpness of double-edged swords.
As the dust settled, Li Chengyi took a look around at the circle of Black Castle Soldiers.
"To whom do you swear allegiance?" he asked casually.
The soldiers around him were all at a loss, not expecting everything to change so quickly. Before they could react, knight Lei Kai was on the ground, bleeding without getting up.
At first, when they saw him fall, they thought Lei Kai was just pretending to fall, or had montarily slipped due to carelessness.
But the subsequent sword thrust to the chest, piercing into the breastplate, made them realize that sothing was wrong.
"I’ll handle things here," Milton said, also removing his sword from a body, turning to look at Li Chengyi, his eyes still filled with an unshakeable tremor.
Those couple of moves earlier, he admitted to himself, if it were him facing them, he definitely couldn’t have evaded that sword thrust to the chest either.
The power and speed Carlos had displayed were in perfect harmony with impeccable timing.
This sense of seizing fleeting opportunities in combat made it impossible for him to see the moves as those of a youth who had never been on the battlefield.
Genius!
The word erged once again in his mind, not for the first ti.
"Okay, teacher," Li Chengyi nodded indifferently.
The crisis was now resolved, and with no new threats erging in his surroundings, his emotions relaxed.
Perhaps he was mistaken and Lei Kai was not the inherent threat from Blind Spot, after all, it was too weak. But no matter, better to kill wrongly than to let go, after all, for him, it was just a matter of taking action.
Wiping the blood off his sword on the snow, Li Chengyi turned calmly towards Black Castle.
His current strength wasn’t very strong, but combined with special techniques, he was able to greatly amplify his strength.
And as for swordsmanship techniques, he had practiced them for a long ti under Panguang, and it included quite a lot.
Lei Kai’s death caused a huge uproar in Black Castle, and afterwards, no one spread the word that it was Li Chengyi who had killed him, but rather rumors circulated that Lei Kai died suddenly from falling to the ground while drunk.
Several people testified, and there were also two soldiers from the Bear Eater Army present.
Death from heavy drinking was not an isolated incident, in these icy and snowy regions, drinking was the most favored entertainnt activity, and death caused by high levels of alcohol was a common case.
Before anyone else could verify, Lei Kai’s body was hastily cremated, eliminating any possibility of re-examining the cause.
That evening, lissa hurried to Li Chengyi’s room and asked him about the incident.
Li Chengyi did not hide anything and answered directly.
"How could you do this? He was your uncle!!" lissa staggered back two steps, leaning against the wall with a pale face, after learning the truth as if she had been struck by lightning.
"He wanted to kill to inherit the territory. You should be clear about that, right?" Li Chengyi calmly flipped through a new volu in his hand, without even glancing at her.
"But you can’t just kill him! You could have imprisoned him...." lissa let out an incredulous wail.
"Sorry, let correct you, I didn’t kill him. I am only thirteen years old this year, how could I possibly kill a battle-hardened knight? It was just an accident," Li Chengyi said.
"...Accident... your maternal grandfather... won’t take it as an accident... he won’t let you go..." lissa said, her face deathly pale.
"It doesn’t matter. It takes ti to send ssages back from here. Investigating the case also takes ti. Even if they find out the truth, we will have enough ti to consolidate everything," Li Chengyi said, unconcerned.
After personally experiencing the strength of a formal knight, he knew it was just a bit stronger than the limit of ordinary people. Even in armor and wielding weapons, they couldn’t pose more of a threat to him than the Reinforced Humans of the Earth-Moon era.
Weak, crude, like weeds.
Such opponents were not worthy of being called so; they were rely insects.
What then, within this Blind Spot, posed a real threat to him?
He pondered.
The Blind Spot that could forcibly remove him from Silent Oblivion City, he did not consider would be so harmless.
Nor did he believe that the danger was so trivial; if it were that simple, then Blind Spot Individuals wouldn’t be dying in such numbers.
Therefore, he must be extrely cautious.
By this ti, lissa had co back to her senses and looked at her son, who under the candlelight, appeared indifferent and calm, and a deep sorrow suddenly filled her heart.
Her son had killed her brother....
Was there anything more sorrowful in the world?
"Carlos... you’re not like your father, nor like ...." With deep sorrow, lissa left the room.
Li Chengyi did not comfort her. lissa was just an ordinary person; whether it was Lei Kai or Carlos who died, she would have reacted this way.
Did lissa really not know about Lei Kai wanting to kill him before?
No, she knew. She just hoped to delay the inevitable, thinking that things had not yet reached such a dire stage...
The illusion of peace had numbed her.
That is the hope that springs eternal only until faced with the ultimate reality.
Gathering his thoughts, Li Chengyi continued to look through the volu in his hands.
Now that his knight training was on a formal path, he was consuming a large amount of at every day, and his body was developing normally.
The bloodline of the Divine Dark Dragon, though restricted and unable to fully manifest, still underwent subtle transformations extending into his body.
After all, even Glint Flash could leave so sparkle, and the bloodline of the Divine Dark Dragon, being an Ultimate Form originating from the Flower Language Technique, even with world restrictions, could still exert a bit of its effect.
It was just a matter of how much could be utilized.
Ti passed, and soon the death of Lei Kai quietly spread, reaching Saul Territory thousands of miles away.
There was no response; the Earl neither sent anyone to pursue the matter nor gave any reply.
But several weeks later, the stationed Bear Eater Army soldiers quietly departed, leaving not a single one behind.
Clearly, after the death of his son, Old Buck chose to accept the outco.
He only had two sons and a daughter—if he killed his grandson over this, it would inevitably cause his daughter to beco estranged, effectively cutting off his own bloodline.
Now that the deed was done, he might have been hesitating for a long ti, but he ultimately chose acceptance.
Li Chengyi did not care about these things. The Milton Knight helped him consolidate all of the Black Castle Soldiers, and with the assistance of the recovered Old Buck in charge, he quickly took over the duties of the district’s peace officer, becoming fully Li Chengyi’s man.
lissa indulged herself daily in alcohol, salons, and small banquets.
She completely ceased to concern herself with Li Chengyi’s affairs.
Ti quickly passed another two years.
Li Chengyi’s body beca more robust and burly. He donned custom-made heavy armor, and his rapidly growing strength soon surpassed the limit of an ordinary adult male, reaching the level of specially trained knights, not much different from Milton.
With such strength, combined with sophisticated power-release techniques, he was already able to defeat a fully ard and fully committed Milton within three direct moves.
Compared to initially defeating the negligent, drunken Lei Kai, such strength, in Milton’s view, was utterly inconceivable.
Skill can be learnt and comprehended, but innate talents such as strength, speed, and explosive power are entirely dependent on natural ability.
And Li Chengyi lacked none of these, indeed he was the perfect warrior.
It was spring in the year 774 of the Empire.
Viscount Tislan, near the Okra Domain, hosted a large youth salon for his two daughters who were about to co of age.
He invited eligible young n from all the nearby noble territories to co and interact.
Viscount Tislan was a noble superior to Baron Okra, and had been the nominal liege many years ago.
Due to the most basic order and rules within the nobility, Li Chengyi, the Baron, naturally had to show courtesy.
Upon receiving the news, Old Buck went to look for Baron Carlos imdiately.
The cool air of early spring entered through the corridors’ windows.
Old Buck ignored the maids bowing to him along the way and grabbed a patrolling Black Castle Soldier to ask for the Baron’s whereabouts.
"Baron should be in the study reading," the soldier answered.
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