The garden of the mansion is revealed when the heavy iron gate opens.
The guardian knight standing in front of him identifies Ren Argen and bows.
“I meet Lord Ren Argen. “My name is Marcia, the guardian knight of Argen.”
“You’re lucky.”
Ren withdrew his sword.
Due to his intense life, the two knights who barely returned from the brink of death quickly stand up and bow down.
“I’m sorry I didn’t know!”
“Please kill me!”
Contrary to their words, the two knights tremble slightly.
Ren, seeing that, clicks his tongue, turns his head, and goes inside.
“The induction ceremony hasn’t started yet, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Even though time has passed, you are still soft.”
Arjen’s mistress, Leonora Arjen, walked toward Ren and looked at Ren with pitiful eyes.
“… … .”
“How dare you not properly punish one of the knights who stood in your way and inherited the blood of the matriarch?”
“That’s none of your business.”
“Not like that. “If you act like that, you’re tarnishing the matriarch’s face.”
Sreung!
She commanded as the guardian knight accompanying her suddenly drew his sword.
“Cut off my arm.”
“yes.”
The two knights gritted their teeth without resistance, seemingly resigned to her command.
Cheaeng!!
Ren, who drew his sword half a beat later, blocked the Guardian Knight’s sword.
“… … “What are you doing?”
“Madam, I have the power to punish these people. “It’s not your wife.”
She was glaring at Ren with sharp eyes that threatened to kill her, but one corner of her mouth twitched up.
“You’re cocky. “Do you think you have a big head just because you gained some vain fame outside?”
“If you still think it was in vain, I am disappointed. “I think I’ve always thought too highly of your wife.”
“… … “Don’t you know how pathetic and callous what you are doing right now is?”
“I would like to ask you something. Since when did Arjen become so ignorant and try to solve everything with a sword?”
“You really crossed the line. “Do you think you have the right to mention Arjen’s name?”
“yes. And I came here to prove it.”
When she made a gesture at his words, the Guardian Knight stabbed his sword and stepped back.
“I will see whether your sword will be recognized by the family.”
“Just watch. “Open your eyes straight.”
She glares at Ren, who doesn’t say a word, and returns to the mansion.
The two knights who received help from him bowed their heads towards Ren.
“thank you. young master.”
“I’m sorry about earlier.”
Ren, who sheathed his sword, nodded.
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“For a prosecutor, his arms are like his life. “If you can protect it, protect it.”
“All right.”
“I’ll keep that in mind. young master.”
The two knights repeatedly bow their heads with touched faces.
Marcia, who was next to him, looked at Ren like that and made a meaningful expression and spoke.
“Let’s go. “Lord Ren Argen.”
“Sure.”
Once inside the mansion, Butler Evchenko took Ren over to Marcia and guided him.
“It’s been a really long time. “Master Ren.”
Deacon Evchenko, whose head is already full of graying hair.
He was one of the people Ren trusted and relied on in his family when he was young.
A butler who looked with pity on Ren, who was leading a difficult life, and helped him a lot. Ren felt fortunate that he was still doing well here.
“This is Master Ren’s room.”
Although the room was already more than ten years old, it was still neatly maintained and not a single dust had accumulated.
“The butler took care of it?”
“I haven’t done much. “It was all done by servants.”
“The butler told you to do that?”
“hahahaha… , that’s true.”
“thank you. butler.”
“no. “I believed you would come back like you did today.”
Ren suddenly remembered his past life and was speechless.
Now, I have returned to the mansion after a dozen years, but in my previous life, I had not even been able to go near the mansion for decades.
At that time, I hadn’t even heard of Evchenko.
Ren felt twice as sorry when he thought that, if it were his personality, he would have cleaned this room while waiting for him even if a dozen years had passed.
“Do you need anything?”
“hehehe, it seems like your personality has brightened a lot. I am okay. young master. “Then get some rest.”
Evchenko went out, and Ren looked into his room for the first time in a long time and fell into contemplation.
A large bed in the corner of the room. A child squatting on top of it and crying.
– Hmm… … .
And his mother comforts him and hugs him.
– Ren, it’s okay. you can do it. I’m fine.
– still… , My mother has a hard time because of me, and Lesia is always ignored… … .
– I believe that although my son may be a little lost now, he will do well later.
– Mom, I will do well. I’m sure one day it will be recognized as the family sword!
– Yes, our Ren is a smart kid, right?
An hourglass on a shelf.
Tuk.
Turn it upside down, and the sand begins to flow down very slowly.
As a child, Ren Argen held a wooden sword in a large room and swung it while sweating profusely.
Huh! Huh!
– Isn’t this it? I think Brother Arhan did this earlier.
I used to practice alone, looking over my shoulder, as no one taught me properly.
He swings his wooden sword without stopping, saying he will never stop until the sand runs out. As soon as the sand runs out, young Ren Argen collapses, as if fainting.
Memories of the past are scattered and disappear.
Ren found a small wooden sword hanging on one side of the wall and grabbed it.
It was too short and light for Ren to use now.
Looking at it now, it’s a sword with a messed up center of gravity.
Lian Arzen once said this in the Holy Kingdom.
Leonora, the family’s mistress, treats anyone with talent.
However, when I think about it now, discrimination existed in more areas than I felt at the time.
You can tell just by looking at this wooden sword in front of you. It is obvious just by looking at the fact that he was given a crude wooden sword like this to be trained on.
In the Arzen family, the best sword family on the continent, there are no wooden swords like this, even if they are for training purposes.
Leonora probably had a hand in it.
Huh!
Vertical slash like young Ren Argen.
However, the sound of the air splitting was different from the vertical cutting back then.
‘It will be different than it was back then.’
Ren hung the wooden sword on the wall again and went out.
As I was walking down the hallway to go to the training area, I met a very familiar person.
“wren? “Are you Ren?”
He frowns as if he saw something he couldn’t see.
Drew Arjen, Ren’s older brother and the 10th direct descendant of the current Arjen family.
In the past, he was almost an enemy of Ren.
“Long time no see. older brother.”
“okay… , long time no see.”
Ren approached Drew Arjen, who stood still with an awkward expression on his face.
“Why are you doing this? “Fidgeting like a dog with something on it.”
“what? “You bastard!”
The fist that reflexively popped out was caught in vain by Ren’s hand.
“It’s still the same. “Brother.”
Drew Arjen’s expression distorts.
“Let go!”
Drew Argen roughly pulled out his hand and glared at Ren with murderous eyes, but there was nothing more he could do.
A look of trying to suppress uncontrollable anger.
Ren snorted as he looked at Drew.
‘really… ‘Nothing’s wrong now.’
When I met Lian and Arhaan, it didn’t really hit me that much.
They were brothers who did not show much interest in Ren even when they were young.
However, Drew Arjen was one of the people who put him through hell.
He is a person who basically ignores Ren and harasses and keeps him in check.
Every day, every time I left my room, I would tremble for fear of meeting Drew Arjen.
At the tomb of the Brillant royal family, when the devil showed a vision of the past with the ‘Power of Jealousy’.
At that time, Drew Argen was merely showing the unconsciousness sleeping in Ren’s head as an illusion.
But the Drew Arjen in front of me now was real, not an illusion.
Even though more than a decade has passed, Drew Arjen has not changed from the insignificant figure in his memories.
“You said you received the stigmata, but why did you return to your family when you were just a priest of the Holy Kingdom?”
“I came back to my house. Is there any problem?”
“Ha, the pathetic guy who couldn’t survive in that house and ran away speaks well.”
“Then, did your brother, who is greater than that pathetic bastard, receive recognition as the family sword?”
“… … “I’m not feeling well this year, so I’m skipping it, but I’ll definitely get it next year!”
“Then aren’t you later than that pathetic bastard?”
“under! “Do you think you can pass the initiation test?”
“Is there anything you can’t do? “I am stronger than my brothers.”
Ren grits his teeth boldly, but stops before putting his hand on the handle of his sword.
“Why are you drinking? Just pull it out. “Just like in the old days.”
Drew Argen’s face turns red despite Ren’s provocation, but he only grits his teeth and cannot draw his sword.
“Still, I guess I haven’t wasted my age.”
Looking at him like that, Ren smiled and passed by, putting his hand on his shoulder.
“It’s good to see that you know the subject. older brother.”
Although the words were outright ignoring him, Drew Arjen could only shake his body and not attack him.
He knows it too. The moment you lose your temper and pull out your sword, one of your body parts will disappear.
And that’s what Ren wants.
* * *
Arjen’s mansion was as large and spacious as the family’s prestige.
There is also a separate training room for all direct staff members.
Ren took up his sword using the empty personal training center exclusively for his lineage.
‘You have to do it right.’
Sword initiation ceremony.
It was safe to say that it was the most important event in the Arjen family.
Ren did not come here simply to be recognized as the family sword.
Therefore, mistakes can and should not be made.
Ren closed his eyes and drew out his first spirit, moving his energy with more concentration than ever before.
Dismissal… .
A blue current flowing over the first soul.
The strands of electric current simultaneously crawled along Ren’s arms and over his body.
It’s so scary!!
Strands of electric current bouncing off the ground with each step.
A clear current of current curled up inside it is pulsating and moving.
Brain energy is fast, lethal, and destructive.
‘Concretize your image and let your imagination bloom.’
This is what my ancestors always said. He said that in order to create new technologies and perfect existing technologies, it is necessary to establish imagery and expand imagination.
‘If it combines with my intuition, anything is possible.’
Pajik, Pajik… !!
Ren’s pitch-black long cannon flutters, and the fragments of lightning soaring into the air begin to spin like crazy.
He gathers all the thunderstorms gathered around Chohon into one point and swings them together with his sword.
Huh! Kwaaa!!
A blue flash of light instantly lit up the entire training ground, and loud thundering noises erupted.
The hard training ground floor broke and bounced, and the shock waves applied to the ground hit the walls on all sides.
If this place were in a forest or a mountain, the fire would spread in an instant and turn the place into a wasteland. It would be so terrifyingly powerful.
It was a sturdy training ground that the Arjen family put a lot of effort into, but it was devastated by Ren’s technique a little while ago and was damaged to the point where it could no longer be used.
The black remnants of lightning left clearly on the floor.
Ren looked at the trace, closed his eyes, and recalled the technique he had performed a moment ago.
‘If this is enough… , that will be enough.’
Ren put his sword back and returned to the room.
The manager who was managing the training ground flinched at the loud thunder coming from inside and checked the place as soon as Ren left.
“Huh… … .”
The interior was completely devastated. Everything was so blackened and damaged that it was hard to understand what was happening inside.
“How should I do this-.”
“What is this sound?”
A silver-haired woman comes in, following the manager.
It happened to be Scarlet Arzen, who was training at the direct training center.
“that is… , Master Ren Argen just came out from training here, and the training ground… … .”
“what? “What did you say just now?”
“yes? Master Ren Argen-”
“Ren came? Here?”
“Yes, yes.”
Scarlett’s eyes widened at the completely unexpected name and she checked the training grounds.
Indeed, the traces of lightning all over the place were clearly similar to the traces of swordsmanship that Ren often used.
If it’s not Eden, there’s only Ren who can make these traces… … .
“Why did you come here?”
“As far as I know, he said he was participating in the sword’s initiation ceremony.”
“Sword initiation ceremony? “Ren, that guy?”
Scarlett tilted her head as if she didn’t understand, but smiled at the fact that this sword initiation ceremony was going to be fun.
“You came with a lot of intention. wren. “It’s going to be fun.”