MONOCHROME: Choice Of Destiny
Chapter 46 The Peak of Sword Science

This place had been very spacious since the beginning so it didn't take long to find a fighting location.

I immediately took out one of my swords and was ready to fight at any time.

"Before that I wanted to know you fought by relying on strength, speed, endurance, or magic?"

"I prefer to rely on strength and speed at the same time in combat, whereas my magic uses it more often to enhance physical abilities."

Belvina seemed to think for a moment before looking at the person standing behind her.

"Fenrir you will be his opponent."

"certain."

Fenrir advanced without another word and directly mounted the horse empty-handed.

"The rules are simple fight with all your strength but it is forbidden to kill just that, Start!"

I instantly cast magic all over my body to strengthen it to the limit and instantly continue with the unification.

"Heeeh I seem to be underestimating you a little bit then I'll also be a little serious."

Instantly a yellow electric current burst from Fenrir's body and began to gather in his hands forming a gauntlet with long claws.

"I'm starting!"

Fenrir attacked with a straight line making his movements easy to read, I intended to dodge his attack and counterattack but when I moved to dodge the attack Fenrir did not come, instead he was already standing behind me.

I just realized that it turns out that in my chest there was a wound that appeared due to the Fenrir attack just now, it was not deep and only scratched my skin but still it would be a fatal wound if it went a little deeper.

"If I'm an enemy you're dead now, son, your movement just now was already good enough and it was indeed the right move to do if fighting with most people but it was useless against a figure who had lived for thousands of years."

Fenrir attacked once again with the exact same movement, this time I did not dodge but instead directly charged towards him.

I swung my sword right where Fenrir was about to appear but again it didn't hit him, Fenrir paused right at the end of my sword and immediately attacked my cheek.

"Heeeh you are quite fast in learning, right the best way to fight the enemy at high speed is to limit the space of his movement or hold him with a strong defense."

We did the same thing many times but every time I did something Fenrir could always avoid it and give it a scratch on my body.

"You have a lot of potential but you're too limiting yourself, son, does the light magic in you exist only to be a barrier? is light magic that low in your eyes?"

"In terms of strength you're stronger than I know it but you don't know the best way to harness your power."

I listened to Fenrir's words seriously, I knew that this was not the time to be selfish.

I released all my magic reinforcement and put it back on but this time it was pure light magic.

The armor covering my body slowly turned bright white.

As soon as it felt like my body had become very light and my senses had become sharper, it had been a while since I had used this form so I felt a little nostalgic.

At first I felt that as long as I flowed it inside my body I would still feel the effect but it seemed to be true that it made it ineffective.

"Hahaha if you have that much light magic why don't you use it in the first place!?"

That way the second half started, I only relied on the speed here because the light magic was quite weak when compared to the dark magic in terms of strength.

Fenrir advanced once more in the same motion, I just stayed there waiting for him to get closer.

When the claw had been swung to a few centimeters from my cheek I moved a little backward and immediately slashed it horizontally at full speed.

But it only slashed through the air because Fenrir was already standing a few meters in front of me.

"Good, I'm tired of teaching kids so it's time for real practice."

I just realized that everything was getting darker so I looked up at the sky and there was already filled with dark clouds and thunder where.

"JGEEER!!"

The yellow lightning fell and hit right where Fenrir was standing, the lightning burst violently but did not destroy anything and disappeared just like that.

Fenrir stood there like before but now his body was coated with black lightning armor with a yellow lightning streak.

The electric current hasn't dissipated until it makes me tingle a little.

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In the distance Carolyn and the others were watching while standing.

"Umm isn't this just an exercise? why do they both look so serious?"

Carolyn asked in a worried tone while closing her hands like she was praying.

"The best practice is a real fight, it would be great if this became a fight to the death but it was impossible so at least he had to feel what it was like to be pressed into a fight."

Belvina answered Carolyn's question without turning around and continued to see the fight between Ryu and Fenrir.

"Will this be okay."

Carolyn muttered to herself and continued to see the fight.

In the eyes of a normal person this was a very fierce fight and it was impossible for the eyes to follow because the two of them were moving at an incredible speed.

But here there was nothing like it so they could all see it clearly even Carolyn as she could see what her subordinates saw.

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Fenrir moved so fast that I couldn't think so I could only rely on my instincts to dodge and counterattack.

I dodged Fenrir's attack and carried out the attack but before my swinging sword Fenrir had already appeared behind me and carried out another attack forcing me to dodge.

In a panic I jumped to the side and lost my balance for a moment.

Damnit damnit!!

I know it was a fatal mistake because the gap was so big.

"Gfra!"

Blood spilled from behind me because I used light magic so my defense was weak enough to make the attack go deep enough.

It was not a single attack but rather two or maybe three attacks in such a short amount of time.

Without waiting for me to recover Fenrir launched another attack towards my neck.

Fenrir attacked in a straight line, without waiting for me to directly swing my sword with all my might, responding that Fenrir jumped backwards with a face filled with astonishment.

It was because in his chest there was a sword slash that was quite deep despite not being a fatal wound.

It is true that my attack missed but at that time I extended my sword blade with a fairly thin magic.

The concept is the same as the saber sword I made but this time it's thinner so it can't be seen.

Its strength might weaken and it would only be a small scratch if it attacked wyverns or dragons but at least this was effective against monsters at high speed but with weak defenses like Fenrir.

"Heeeh you've got a very nice little trick, it sounds very simple but I'm sure it's not an easy thing to do if one doesn't have good enough control over which one."

I myself do not believe the magic I made because the prank turned out to be very useful at a time like this.

Since then Fenrir started to be careful because I kept changing the shape of my sword with magic so Fenrir had trouble predicting the range of my attacks.

Even so I can't launch a counterattack either because Fenrir can always avoid it.

It continued for a while until Fenrir stopped attacking.

"That's enough, I give up."

I was surprised to hear it because I had always been a desperate party so I never expected him to give up.

I lowered my sword and sat on the ground while healing my wounds with magic.

Fenrir approached me and I realized that the wounds on his body had healed.

"Good work, son, I think the training is enough for now at least you should remember our fight."

"I'll remember, thank you very much."

"Haha it doesn't matter anymore if you're too weak you won't be able to protect our Queen."

He's right my experience is too lacking.

I think I should practice swords with Lucy when I get home.

Because until now Lucy was the person with the most powerful swordsmanship I know.

"What do you think he's doing now?"

I stood up and started walking towards Zep and the others.

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In the Imperial capital or rather in the palace.

At the training ground Ana was sitting on a park chair with Astarte sleeping on her forehead.

Astarte had just finished his daily training session so there were still enough soldiers left to train the rest back home.

"Good job, baby, should I massage your shoulders as usual?"

Anna was the first to speak.

"No need, the last time you did it you asked for the reward of playing all night and making me unable to work the next day."

"Don't make it sound like it's my fault, you don't know when to stop when it starts so I'm just being a nice, quiet woman."

"Haha sorry I couldn't help it when I saw my very beautiful fiancee."

"Fufu I can't stand every look at your manhood either."

All the soldiers stopped their training due to hearing the conversation between Astarte and Ana.

They both really don't know when and where the right place to talk about it is, it made the soldiers very disturbed but most of them were envious of Astarte for being able to obtain such a beautiful woman.

Initially there were many who opposed Astarte as an instructor because he was so young so many underestimated him and challenged him to a duel even though they were all defeated easily.

There is also a reckless tease Ana in the empty time and ends with the person coming home with a dying state, there are some cases where there are people who dare to touch it and the next day a yellow flag immediately fluttered in the house of the person.

At least they know that Astarte is a great instructor and also good so they can not protest, Ana also often participated in training soldiers how to use magic.

"Well, by the way, has there been no news of Lucy?"

Astarte's expression turned more serious and looked straight at Ana.

"I'm worried too but we don't have a clue, you know that even Lucifer doesn't know what this is about, last time he just asked me to stop being a waitress and help with magic development so I thought he already knew about this and asked us not to look for him."

"I hope he's okay."

"You're right, I hope so."

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In a place far away, it was a mountain so high that its peak reached the sky.

There is no way anyone can live in this place because you will be very difficult to breathe plus the wind pressure is very strong to be able to crush your bones to ashes.

But there was someone or maybe two women.

One of them was swinging the sword very gracefully whereas the other was sitting while drinking tea very calmly that person was not even bothered with the extremely strong wind pressure and kept drinking as it was there in-house.

"I was surprised when you came to me and immediately asked to be taught swordsmanship when your own father didn't know what it was, but I was very happy to know that he told you."

"I myself did not expect that you are a legendary demon sword master because according to your records you are dead in the hand of the sword saint."

"I was the one who made up the story to fake my death but I can't believe I really became a legend haha."

The two talked while doing their own activities.

"Why did you choose to walk the path of Lucy's sword? you should be able to follow the path of your family who are very skilled in magic let alone you are born with such a big magic in you not to mention new events that should make your magic increase many times fold it from before."

"No, if you talk about magic sooner or later he will reach me because in terms of magic the boy is much more talented than me and the amount of magic is very unreasonable, so I need something she doesn't have."

"It's true that the boy has an amazing talent in magic so just wait for the time until he can defeat you, But believe me if you can master my swordsmanship no matter what magic it is you can definitely slash it to the level of a god will be afraid of a single slash of your sword, I think that's enough for today to try to cut this apple using your mental sword."

The woman throws an apple at Lucy and before reaching her it stops in the air for a while then breaks into small cubes and is cut again to become as small as dust after it flies off in the wind.

"Good, I didn't expect you to reach this level in a very short time of rest and tomorrow we will continue to the next stage."

The two sat down and started drinking tea.