with john and mike passing out sky won the match.
"sky wins" albert announced astonished. even he was not confident enough to defeat the two fighting together yet the little girl had done so! she was simply a monster!
"now its your turn" shiva spoke breaking the silence and bringing everyone back to reality.
shiva was smiling at faes which even gave her goosebumps. she narrowed her eyes at shiva as sky came to stand beside her.
"who am i fighting?" faes asked the question many were wondering. they all had just witnessed a little kid defeat the two strongest knights herself in a matter of minutes. if the little girl was this powerful then her elder sister should be stronger. they all wanted to know who was strong enough to fight faes.
"ofcourse me" shiva laughed as he walked in the ring picking up mike's sword and giving it a few swings.
"alright" faes agreed as she too stepped in the ring stretching. she had rested enough to fight again.
meanwhile the watching knights were shocked still. they then excitedly fixed their eyes towards the two, even albert was watching them curiously wanting to see if faes can put up a fight with shiva.
"the rules are similar~ no magic is to be used, and if either one of us falls down or passes out they lose" shiva spoke to which faes nodded calling her longsword.
"lets begin then" albert announced the begin of the match but neither of the two attacked only observed each other. faes was trying to find a weak spot on shiva was couldn't find one hence she instantly activated zin, auzi cherio and voir. they were not magical skills but rather her senses. once activated she had complete control of the domain around her.
faes took a deep breath, the wind blowing, the leaves rustling in the wind around her, the smell of sweat, and various flowers, the sound of knights training inside the battalion, wild animals roaming in the nearby forest, the slight squirming of the knights near her and even the excited jumping of sky; everything was registered by her brain.
she suddenly jumped backwards slashing her sword in front of her. the surrounding knights only saw a flash and heard sound of metal clashing against metal as shiva appeared in the place faes slashed before.
they glanced between the two shiva only to see the one at the distance vanish.
'an afterimage!' albert noticed but when he turned to faes and shiva who were watching each other once again he was astonished 'she blocked his attack!'
despite everyone's astonishment faes was focused on shiva using her senses. their strength wasn't much different as both were elemental strengthening stage cultivators. only faes held the advantage of her high cultivation stage but shiva made up using his high combat strength and skills.
faes can even say that shiva was stronger than her!
shiva who just failed at attack faes smiled slightly as he moved again leaving afterimages in his place while faes also moved blocking his attacks using her senses. she even used void steps to attack him but the attacks were blocked.
they continuously clashed for nearly half an hour before separating. while the surrounding knights could only know that the two were fighting after hearing the swords clashing and dust rising around the ring. they simply cant follow either of their movements at all!
"your swordsmanship is lacking! you have many excess movements while attacking and blocking! try to reduce the excess movements" shiva spoke to the faes before attacking once again this time his attacks were slower and faes could see them better and react faster.
after exchanging few more blows faes understood what shiva was trying to say. when she attacked her arms and body moved too much which made it easier to leave few weak points easier to attack. hence faes tried to move her body as little as possible. her muscles began to contract and relax better than before and faes felt her compatibility with her sword rising. but she still need to rely on void steps to attack shiva along with her senses.
despite the two fighting slowly this time others were simply not able to follow the two at least not anyone other than sky. the two were still too fast for them
after another half an hour they separated again. faes had began panting her stamina depleting after constant usage of her senses skills and focusing on shiva while also improving herself at the same time. while shiva who only seem slightly tired was smiling excitedly.
"that's all for today; you will be escorted to your chambers, i want you ready at six in the morning" shiva spoke before turning to everyone else "dismissed! everyone back to work!"
faes blinked at his sudden change but she smiled excitedly the next movement. this means shiva accepted her as his disciple along with sky!
as she sighed sitting down tired and drank water that sky gave her she couldn't help but smile.
"sister faes we did it!" sky too exclaimed happily jumping around her not much tired at all.
"yes we did it!"
when shiva and albert noticed faes and sky celebrating their success they too smiled. despite being prodigies they were still little girls. they decided to keep their innocence safe and protect them at all cost while they are here.
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in vietra royal capital of kingdom altai; royal palace
king augustus got a message from faes while he was working. he instantly checked what message was and the moment he read it he was gripped by shock.
the message stated that faes and sky were now lord shiva's direct disciples and will train under him for the time being at the battalion in village farcas.
"just how did they made him accept them as his disciple?" king augustus couldn't help but ponder. he knew that shiva was elemental strengthening stage 2 cultivator and was even stronger than him; even he have to give lord shiva respect. one could say he was a battle maniac!
shiva was a cold-hearted soldier who respected powerful beings and was not much interested in politics otherwise he would have long since became the king of altai. he only wanted to stay in army and keep the kingdom safe. meanwhile it had only been few hours since he last talked to his daughter faes.
faes was in city sea point at that time, even if she used a teleportation array to get to the battalion they couldn't possibly make shiva accept them as his direct disciples. this really made him wonder what secrets his daughter was hiding.
...
meanwhile in the whole kingdom altai news of lord shiva accepting two direct disciples quickly spread. though not many knew where he was or how he looked they had spies everywhere to keep an eye on their competitors. specially the dukes and commanders of army who could become the rulers.
though because of the information regarding faes and sky being most confidential they only got to know that lord shiva had accepted two direct disciples. who the two were, their age, strength names and other things were not mentioned leaving the nobles in kingdom altai at a disadvantage.