Explosions were heard in the distance.
'BOOM, BOOM, BOOM ...'
A man in black armor,with dark blue hair and red eyes is being pushed back by a huge being. That huge being with the body of a titan was the black God. The knight tried to make an opening to use his final move, but he needed to be cautious for a possible next danger.
'This is my chance!'
'Crak'
The unknown man tried another hidden swordmove, but failed completely and broke his sword, it was then the God began speaking.
"Arthur Von Reinhardt!!! Your arrogance knows no boundaries, but I will put an end to it."
The God created a black spear and launched it into Arthur's heart.
Arthur fell down after the fatal hit and was recalling old memories. He saw his siblings, parents, friends and small kingdom evolving into a galactic empire.
The only thought kept repeating in his head was, if he trained and maintained his body better he could have slain the Dark God. Before he had reached the age of twenty he had already destroyed his own body.
While he kept falling down his sole left his body and was sent back in time to when he was born.
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Arthur Von Reinhardt, the firstborn of King Marcus Von Reinhardt and Queen Eleanor Von Reinhardt from a small kingdom called the Zenon Kingdom from the central continent. The King and Queen had five children and ruled in a peaceful era. Before regressing, the second child, the second prince Aiden Von Reinhardt became the king because their parents and the council thought that Arthur would destroy the kingdom.
Two years after becoming the crown prince he died with all his younger siblings the first princess Sarah Von Reinhardt, his twin sister, the second princess Luna Von Reinhardt and the third prince Roman Von Reinhardt after a terrorist attack. So Arthur became the king and started a conquest and became the emperor of the whole galaxy in thirty years and in the meantime he married and had three children.
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On the 23th of June 1782, you could hear a newborn baby crying in a giant beautiful palace.
Arthur was being held by his mother in bed. After some time he calmed down and saw his father standing next to the bed. He was crying tears of joy.
"Eleanor, what should we call him?"
"I think we should name him Arthur, because he looks like your father."
"Yes, he does."
After some hours when everyone except the guards were asleep Arthur woke up and looked at his body and tried to remember what happened.
'Ah yes, that stupid Black God had launched a spear into my heart, but how am I here?'
It took some time to process and to realize that he reincarnated to the time he was a newborn.
'This life I am going to make him pay for killing me. Let's start with forming a dantian.'
A dantian can absorb mana from the planet and strengthen the body. The dantian can also make an aura on the sword or on the owner's body. A dantian is divided in six stages: Expert, Master, Grandmaster, Transcendent, Absolute and Supreme Ruler. Each stage is also divided into four stages: beginner, intermediate, advanced and peak. The differThe last stage Supreme Ruler is a stage when you become a demigod.
Arthur sat down in his bed concentrated and started to absorb the mana in the air. All the mana in the surrounding entered his mana-veins and started to fill the dantian.
The next week they celebrated his birth with family and nobles from the kingdom and other countries.
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On the 8th of August 1784, Arthur is now two years old and has opened his dantian and is now a beginner Expert who will soon become an intermediate Expert.
While Arthur was in his thoughts, his father Marcus was carrying him to meet his mother and new born siblings. When they arrived at the door the guards bowed and opened the door. As the door opened, they saw two children in the arms of the Queen sleeping. The boy in her right is the second child and the second prince from the Zenon Kingdom, Aiden Von Reinhardt from the Zenon Kingdom. While in the other arm lies a girl and her name is Sarah Von Reinhardt, the third child, the first princess and Aiden's twin sister. They were both sleeping peacefully in the arms from their mother.
As Arthur saw his parents smiling and his younger siblings sleeping he got one thought and that was to protect everyone dear to him.
The next week they celebrated their birth with family and nobles from the kingdom and other countries.
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On the first of September 1787, Arthur, now 5 years old, became an advanced Expert and will soon become peak Expert. After becoming 5 years old his parents had a teacher for him coming four times a week and relearned to write, read and maths. When he wasn't learning, Arthur was training his body by running for more stamina, squads, sit-ups, pumping and other exercises for more strength while carrying weights all the time.
"339"
"340"
"341"
"Good afternoon first prince!"
While doing pull-ups a young boy greeted him.
"Good afternoon Viktor."
Viktor Vermius, blond hair and green eyes, the oldest child and son from the Vermius dukedom. He will later become 8th strongest being from the kingdom.
Arthur let go of the three branches where he was doing his pull-ups and swept the sweat from his forehead with a towel, which laid on the ground. After drinking some water he took his stuff and they began talking while returning to the royal palace.
"In exactly five years we will both be entering the royal academy. There we will be taught how to use multiple weapons, etiquette, how to control and use mana and other things."
"My father said that after I reach the age of 7 the Commander of the Royal Knights will teach me the Royal Swordsmanship at the palace until I enter the royal academy."
"Really, the Commander of the Royal, Marquis Aegon Reddragon, strongest sword of the kingdom, the tenth Sword of the central continent. Will he really be your teacher? If so, I want to ask him to also teach me."
"Why do you care? I thought that your father would teach you the swordsmanship taught in the dukedom? Am I right?"
"You're right, but who wouldn't want the tenth Sword of the central continent to be your teacher."
"My father said that his son will also enter the academy, so he said we should become great friends."
The boys kept talking even after entering the palace and kept imagining how the academy would look like and how they would be living there.
In the evening nobles entered the palace to celebrate the birth of Lune Von Reinhardt, the fourth child and the second princess from the Zenon Kingdom.
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On the 24th of June 1789, Arthur and Viktor wearing a black training uniform, were waiting in the Royal training grounds to receive swordsmanship training from the strongest sword from the kingdom and eight strongest sword from the central continent. In the past two years Marquis Aegon Reddragon had challenged the eight strongest from the central continent and won with his own special swordsmanship move Galactical Drive.
Arthur had kept repeating a routine of learning and training and is now beginning Master.
After ten minutes the Commander entered the training ground, wearing a blue uniform, red cape and a golden badge with 'I' on his left chest showing he was the commander of the army, stood before Arthur and Viktor and bowed.
"Greetings to the First Prince Arthur Von Reinhardt and first young master Viktor Vermius."
'How is that possible, how did the first prince reach a beginner Master? Even some beginner knights find it difficult to reach that level.'
Swordsmanship in the Zenon Kingdom is divided into seven stages: trainee, beginner, intermediate, advanced, high, upper and royal. Depending on your aura, potential and loyalty, how more advanced the swordsmanship is you will learn.
Arthur greeted him back as his mother had taught him, but Viktor stumbled over his words and blushed.
"Greetings Commander of the Royal Knights."
"Uuuh, greetitings Commander of the the Royal Knights."
"The King has asked me to train you in the basic Royal Swordsmanship of the kingdom. "Is that right?"
The prince and young master answered in unison.
"Yes, commander"
"That's the spirit. For the first half year you will be taught the footwork of the Royal Swordsmanship and the basic movements with the sword. Next you will be learning the Royal Swordsmanship up to and including the intermediate stage and now that the first prince dantian is open, I will help youngmaster Viktor try to open his dantian for the coming two years so that he also can reach the intermediate stage."
'As expected of Marquis Aegon Reddragon, he saw it directly even when I was hiding it.'
"First prince, how are you already a beginner Master?"
"How should I know, I only did my normal training."
"Please tell, how to reach it?"
"I already said that I don't know"
"Stop talking you two, so that we can start the training."
"Sorry Commander."
"Sorry Commander, it won't be happening again."
"Okay, let's start. The Royal Swordsmanship footwork is about making difficult moves so that the opponent can't understand them, it's the same as fire becoming hotter, after it is put on. That energy you build up as flame will be used as a destructive, fast slash or stab like thunder. So both of you should try to copy my movements and try to memorize them. And first prince you should try to refrain yourself from using aura or it will hinder your progress"
"Understood commander
After memorizing the first four parts of the footwork for six hours, Arthur and Viktor returned to their homes and continued practicing for the whole week. In the next four weeks they practiced the other sixteen parts of the footwork and at the end of the five weeks the two boys were both able to use the Royal Swordsmanship footwork.
The next day on the training ground the Count gave the next instructions for the training teaching them how to do horizontal slashes, vertical slashes, diagonal slashes and trusts.
"Starting from today you will start swinging your sword upwards, downwards, to the left, to the right and diagonally for the coming 18 weeks. Every slash will be repeated 100 times with the same amount of strength. After every week you will add 50 times by every slash until you reach a thousand times.There is enough time to take breaks because this training method is for trainee knights of 15 years old."
"We won't disappoint you Commander."
"The prince is right, we won't fail you.
"That's good to hear, because once you both have reached thousand I will open your dantian and refine your aura, so that I can teach you both how to channel aura in your swords without breaking it."
"Did you hear that First Prince, I will also soon be able to use aura and I will catch up on you."
"I don't think that you will surpass me who already has aura?"
"You will see with your own eyes in the future how I will become the strongest sword of the kingdom."
" Prince and young master, less talking and more training"
"Understoond Commander."
"Yes Commander."
For the first six weeks the prince and the young duke kept progressing at a steady pace after that it became more and more difficult for their bodies to keep following the pace of their progress.
.Two months later Viktor ran screaming from happiness to the garden of the dukedom.
"Yes I finally did it, woo hoo!"
'I hope that father and mother will give me a present and that the prince will take me more seriously. I'll wait for tomorrow for his expression.'
The next day at the training ground before the Marquis arrived.
"Proficiat Viktor, you finally did, you're now also an aura user, how did your parents react?"
"My parents are thinking about hiring a top blacksmith to make me a sword."
"I'm jealous, my father said I should wait until I graduate from the Royal Academy."
Arthur and Viktor kept talking until The Commander entered.
"Good morning, first prince and young duke."
"Good morning sir."
"Good morning Commander, yesterday afternoon I opened my dantian and am finally also an aura user."
"Proficiat, young duke, so it means that we can upgrade the training."
"No, that's not what I meant, pffhh."
'Why did I say that now I will really die this time.'
Viktor sighed and wanted to punch himself until the commander started laughing.
The two young boys looked at the commander with their questioning eyes.
"I was just messing with you two, we are going to meditate for the coming 10 weeks and five days. The first thing you will do is repeating the thousand slashes and in the next first 5 weeks you will refine your aura once you've finished your physical training everyday. After that you will refine your mind to stay true to yourself and not become consumed by the sword. Understood."
"Yes, Commander!"
They shouted in unison and started the last 11 weeks from their preparations to learn Royal Swordsmanship.