Emperor of Steel - Chapter 52

Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Operation ‘Move’ 2

‘Huhuhu, good . ’

After a long meeting with the retainers, Luke smiled .

The process made it possible to keep the promise to the princess and the deal with the source of the gold and silver ingots from the mine .

‘And with just another harvest, I won’t have to listen to the retainers telling that they don’t like it when I go to the Devil King’s castle . ’

Up until that moment, none of them were eager with the Young Lord going into the Devil King’s castle again and again .

But, what they had gained was so great that it didn’t even matter if Luke decided to stay there the whole day .

That too, if he had a guard with him and if he would go to his classes .

“Young Lord, won’t you learn fencing?”

Rogers blocked the entrance of the castle and asked Luke .

Before the accident, Luke had learned and practiced to wield a Silver Sword, a sword of the Rakan knights .

Even though the achievement wasn’t so great, yet he worked very hard, however, after waking up from the accident, he didn’t practice even once .

“I now use magic rather than fencing… no . I should learn swords . ”

Luke had said that he wanted to learn magic as much as he could, so he cut down the practice of fencing and used that time for magic .

However, the assassination that happened the other day had occurred to his mind .

At that time, he was about to die because the dark circle had stopped .

Surely, it was because of the curse that someone had placed on the Rakan’s descendants, but they couldn’t be blamed .

‘I also need to learn some swordsmanship . Shouldn’t there be a way to deal with opponents if magic doesn’t work for fighting?’

As Luke decided to change his mind, Roger’s face went bright .

“Huhu, then move to the training camp . ”

Luke followed Rogers to the knights-only training ground in the parade ground .

Everyone had gone to work, and no one was training .

“I will relax a little and see the accomplishments of the others . ”

“Well, okay . ”

When Luke picked up the sword from the stands, the two men took their positions to practice .

Kang! Kkkang!!

It was a sword which hasn’t been raised, but every time it hit the other sword, sparks flowed .

Although Luke was a warlock, he had fought with quite a few knights in his time as Saymon for self-defense .

And as the young Lord, the original owner of the body, who had been practicing very hard before, naturally avoided the attacks of Rogers properly and carefully .

‘Ho, he’s moving faster and stronger than before . In the past, the young Lord had attacked just blindly, however currently it seemed like he was studying his opponent and trying to read their next moves . ’

Rogers seemed to be surprised .

However, unlike his own feelings, he kept pointing it out to Luke .

“In that situation, you need to attack rather than to block with the sword . Like this . ”

“Slow . How will you win over the enemy with such slow moves?”

Luke was getting upset with the constant intellectual and bitter attacks .

As a result, he didn’t realize that he was infusing the sword with magic .

Wooong!

A faint purple aura began to form around the sword .

Rogers couldn’t help but look amazed .

‘This, this is . ’

Luke stuck upon taking Rogers down, began to dig into Rogers’s movements .

“Hut!”

Rogers who began to get nervous barely managed to avoid the attack from Luke .

In addition, his sword was going against a small aura sword of the young Lord .

Kang! Kknag!

The swords that clashed were so much thrilling than before .

In the early stages, a tense confrontation had happened, but in the end, Luke’s sword had drifted far away .

No matter how much he had learned self-defense and practical experience, it was impossible to win and master the advanced expert of the orthodox sword family .

“That is all for today . ”

“Huhu, I can fight a little more . ”

At the end of the class by Rogers, Luke said his will to learn,

“It isn’t good to do that . It is important to know when to take a break and be strong . ”

Soon with excitement, Rogers spoke,

“But, young Lord, when on earth have you been able to make an aura?”

“Aura?”

“Yeah . The purple aura that was seen when you were attacking a while back . ”

“Ah, that…”

He wasn’t aware as he was too engulfed into attacking, but now when he thought about it, he did infuse some Magi into it .

‘The physical transformation of mana . How does that work when the sword is infused with Magi?’

The other day, during the assassination, he had absorbed the aura and the life with the dark magic .

But, no matter how much one absorbs, it was useless when they didn’t know how to use it .

Luke, looking for the reason, got angry with the rebuke of Roger’s and put the Magi into the sword .

‘Aura got made by acting on the emotions?’

As with magic, the mind, specifically the will, was at work when a person creates or accomplishes something .

And that day was surely the same .

Somehow, the wish to defeat Rogers had transformed the Magi into aura .

“I can’t say if it is a finished form in terms of shape or concentration, but if you practice a bit, you’ll be a good expert . ”

When Luke made no response, Rogers knew why he was flustered .

‘I thought he didn’t care about fencing…’

There was a lot of talk among the knights the recent days about Luke’s enormous interest in learning Magic from Mute .

It was fortunate that the young Lord was turning more reliable than before, but he wasn’t a wizard, or maybe he was neglecting the knights for the coming future .

They were proud of the family of Rakan, the brave warriors who established the outstanding standards of the knights .

And their master was going to be a wizard?

‘That will never be!’

Rogers had vowed to prevent that .

So, after completing the silver sword, he pulled out a number of spleens he wanted to teach .

“From today on, I’ll teach you, Gold Sword . ”

“Gold, Gold sword?!”

Luke was shocked for a moment .

How can he ever ignore that?

The sword which pierced through his heart 500 years back, the Gold Sword of Rakan!

But suddenly something popped into his mind .

“The Gold Sword, isn’t it meant to be a family item?”

He knew about the greatness of the sword after waking up . As stated in the genealogy of the family, the principles of the family heirloom .

“Of course, it is . But 250 years ago, an exception had been placed . ”

From generation to generation, the heirs of Rakan were short-lived .

In some cases, their bodies were so weak that some succumbed to death .

As a result, the heirs were troubled with the Gold Sword’s tradition, and 250 years ago, they finally came to a decision .

One of the ancestors feared that the family heirloom sword would cease to be taught to the future knights, and the knight general was to take a pledge not to unveil about it to anyone else .

‘Oh, my god!’

Somehow, despite the sudden death of the first lord, the retainers didn’t even worry about gold sword, and it was such a situation .

And Luke hadn’t known that, and that was why the Rakan viscount hadn’t been destroyed for the past 500 years, even in the hands of other knights .

The knights of the past who had learned the gold sword were deemed to be a strong supporter of the family with excellent skills .

“Would I become a Sword Emperor like Rakan or the ancestors if I learn the Gold Sword?”

“Well, that could be impossible . Because we lost the second half of the sword 400 years back . But you can be a swordmaster by learning with the other half . ”

Seven of the Knights had become Sword Masters .

Rogers was in his early 40s, surpassing the top of the experts’ class .

‘But it is very strange that none of the ancestors had become Sword Masters . Was it because of the Devil king’s curse?’

Rogers shook his head along with his thoughts in his mind and continued to tell Luke about the Gold Sword .

Explaining the history and the main aspects of the gold sword had begun step by step .

“Gold Sword is basically more about mana flow than fencing . Be able to read the flow of mana hidden in the sword…”

At some point, Roger’s sword began to faintly glow with a golden radiance .

Luke clenched his fist without his knowledge .

He remembered the past when he was killed by the Gold Sword .

‘Sh*t! The one isn’t Rakan, and the Gold Sword is just another sword that I will master . ’

Luke calmed his heart and looked closely . With frightening concentration, he began to absorb what Rogers was trying to describe .

‘The flow of mana is important? Yeah, don’t know but it can be easier to control the sword as I am a wizard . ’

However, apart from that, because it was difficult to learn excellent swordsmanship, it would take quite some time .

Luke wasn’t nervous . And he decided to build up the skills one step after the other .

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