"With you by my side, how can they threaten ?"
She saw Maxi's strength very clearly, and above all she noticed the ease with which he pierced Perceval.
She knew Perceval herself, after all, even if Count Ardan was a rather unsociable person, he sotis went up to the capital to make connections during gatherings of the nobility.
And of course, he brought his precious daughter with him.
When she had first seen Perceval, it had been as an elegant man surrounded by nurous noble girls, most of them viscount's daughters.
After all, as well as being handso and strong, he ca from the family of Duke Devron.
His status was among the best in the kingdom.
But this famous knight now lay lifeless on the ground before her.
"This rising star could look so wretched," she thought silently.
Simultaneously, she glanced again at Maxi.
In the capital, she had also t many geniuses and had even spoken with several princes and princesses.
But she could say without a doubt that in terms of aura, Maxi crushed any of those famous nobles.
She'd never seen anyone so strong and so young at the sa ti.
Especially since, in addition to fighting, she could see him waving orders to his n.
"What a prodigious talent."
"Even Dorian looks rather diocre against him."
Aveline surprised herself by thinking that, after all even if she hated her fiancée, she couldn't but admit his genius.
By comparison, Perceval, who had beco a knight at the age of 23, seed diocre.
And 3 years of training separated Dorian and Percival.
3 years of training was more than enough at such a young age.
If Perceval was a middle-schooler taking the exams of a high-schooler, then Dorian Valderic was an elentary-school student taking the sa exams as Perceval.
The feat was on an entirely different level.
"Now I understand why my father had so much confidence in these rcenaries to escort ."
After all, she wasn't blind.
It wasn't just Maxi who was strong, even his n were strong enough to fend off these bandits, most of whom had the strength of apprentice knights.
For his part, Maxi watched Aveline attentively as he fought the bald knight.
The bald knight, drunk with rage, concentrated all his fury on Maxi. His blows were now brutal, almost desperate, and Maxi defended with difficulty.
Even with the female knight removed from the equation, the fight was still fierce.
"So this is the power of a knight who has broken his vital seed," Maxi thought mid-fight.
From what Maxi understood from the rumors he'd heard both in the real world and in the world of Eternity, knights didn't really break their vital seed.
To understand this, we had to go back to basics.
The vital seed was created so that the energy escaping from it could not harm the body in which it resided.
But at the sa ti, it limited the power that could be used by the knight.
So so knights began to create openings in the seed to multiply the power that escaped.
Naturally, this hurt the knight's body to an unimaginable degree, as the energy beca uncontrollable and, above all, the muscles and bones of the human body could not withstand this powerful influx of energy.
This created hidden, almost irrecoverable wounds in the body, although the seed itself could self-regenerate quite easily.
But in life-or-death situations, this power was more than important.
Especially as many knights discovered that after using it, particularly when adrenalin was at its peak during a fight, the knight's body could be rapidly strengthened.
In fact, so of the energy remained in the muscles, bones and even organs, making it possible to strengthen the user's body once and for all.
But for this to be truly effective, the seed had to be broken during very intense effort, at a ti when blood and oxygen were circulating extrely rapidly.
So many knights began to roam the battlefields in search of these life-or-death monts, in order to break their vital seed and beco stronger.
This thod had enabled many knights with limited talent to beco great knights.
However, it also had a major drawback.
It was that even if the knight managed to beco a great knight, his life expectancy would be drastically reduced.
So those with good talents avoided relying on this power in order to reach higher heights and not waste their potential.
But Maxi always beca very eager for this power, extrely eager to awaken his vital seed and beco a knight.
"It would seem that Viviana's talent could completely make up for this flaw."
"What a blessing."
Maxi's various thoughts impacted him negatively as he took yet another blow to the stomach, seed almost to shatter his abdon.
Other wounds appeared one after the other on his body.
However, the superficial cuts closed within minutes, while his muscles, though strained, seed inexhaustible. Each breath was deep, powerful, full of determination.
This deeply shocked his opponent.
"What kind of monster is that? What kind of defense and regeneration does he possess to take so many blows?"
Simultaneously, he beca impatient.
He couldn't maintain this state forever.
But with each of his attacks, Maxi dodged, deflected or cashed in, and always with terrifying efficiency.
After several days' hard training with one of the Kingdom's finest knights, Alarick, and combined with his talent, Maxi had made enormous progress in his technique.
As a result, the duel had beco almost savage, with blades clashing against each other at breakneck speed.
The flashes of these blades briefly lit up their faces, tense with effort, and the boots pounded the dusty ground in a violent dance.
Their combat zone had beco a no-man's-land.
If an apprentice knight had the misfortune to enter it, he would surely not et a happy end.
At the sa ti, the new recruits could see their leader in action.
"So our leader was so strong?"
"He's clearly in another world at this stage."
"I hope I can beco that strong one day."
Even the veterans were impressed, especially Andrew who had always set Maxi as his goal.
But at this stage, Maxi had beaten everyone by a phenonal margin.
So of them thought that even all the rcenaries put together couldn't defeat Maxi.
"I swear I'll catch up with you one day..." Andrew murmured as he increased his efforts tenfold in his duel with an apprentice knight at the peak stage.
The latter was suddenly surprised, as he had the advantage throughout the duel.
But all of a sudden, the red-haired youngster lost all his technique and began to throw extrely wide, yet phenonally powerful blows.
What surprised him even more was that, even with his strength, his hands were trembling from Andrew's blows.
Whereas at the start of the fight, his strength seed far superior to Andrew's...
And Andrew was not a special case, as many other rcenaries such as Charles, Henry, Ultia, Rodrigo et cetera were beginning to push back their opponents who, until then, seed to be in a tight duel.
And it was all thanks to the [Awakening of Life] talent.
A platinum-ranked talent was not to be underestimated.
Even less so when that talent could rely on a talent of unknown rank...
Over ti, the rcenaries' opponents began to run out of steam, while they themselves retained a strength almost similar to that at the start of the fight.
The longer the fighting dragged on, the more the situation turned to the rcenaries' advantage.
On the side of Maxi and his opponent, the fight was still at its height.
"You're nothing but a rcenary!" shouted the bald knight, his voice mixed with fury and the beginnings of panic.
His breath was now ragged, his strength rapidly diminishing.
"How dare you stand against the nobility!!!"
Maxi didn't answer.
His eyes had beco progressively cold, devoid of all emotion.
In this duel, he was still improving, little by little.
His concentration had reached a point where he was not far from a human being's concentration limits.
Even without god-given talent, Maxi was not soone who would have had a diocre future.
He had always put in the effort and concentration to achieve what he wanted.
His sword split the air, deflecting a ferocious attack before striking the bald knight's flank.
The blow was precise, surgical, and although not fatal, it weakened the man considerably, making him panic even more.
For her part, Aveline fought with admirable determination against the knight with the eye patch.
The exchanges were fast and furious, but Aveline was beginning to lose ground. The knight was more experienced, more skilful, and each of Aveline's blows was countered with apparent ease.
"You're brave, but you're still too inexperienced, little one." said the knight with a cruel smile.
"It's a pity, with a few more years, you could have been an interesting opponent."
Aveline didn't reply, concentrating on every movent. Her breath was short, and fatigue weighed down her arm.
Unfortunately, she didn't benefit from the blessings of Maxi's talents, otherwise her fight could have taken a completely different direction.
Yet she refused to give up.
Her violet eyes sparkled with defiance, and she still managed to narrowly dodge blows that could have been fatal. Explore new worlds at My Virtual Library Empire
At the sa mont, the bald knight let out a hoarse cry and charged Maxi with desperate energy.
He brandished his sword, his montum carrying him forward in a suicidal attack. Maxi waited for the perfect mont, his sword gleaming with a cold glow.
When the bald knight was within range, Maxi stepped aside and struck.
The sound of tal striking flesh was muffled by the surrounding battle cries.
At that mont, ti seed to slow down.
The knight's expression gradually changed from rage to surprise to despair.
The bald knight collapsed to one knee, his sword falling to his side. Blood flowed profusely from his chest, staining the ground with a dark stain.
"This... this can't be..." he murmured, looking up at Maxi with eyes filled with despair.
"... a knight... beaten by a... rcenary..."
Maxi leaned toward him, his cold eyes gazing into the knight's.
"Don't worry, you won't die here. I have other uses for you."
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