As bad as it was, he didn't want to lose the only memory he had of his wife.
"Haha"
'I wish he had taken her beauty from her. I seem to see a copy of myself.'
She thought and grinned as she looked at the baby.
"You think too much, Duke."
While he was lost in his own thoughts, a warning came from his forgotten rival.
"Okay, let's get this thing done, I'll think about it later."
''It is not that easy''
The two men quarreled with each other, not compromising their own pride.
And again the swords collided with each other in the air.
Weighing the strength of their opponent, these two men finally came to the final conclusion.
If they wanted to, they'd fight by tearing up a whole mansion.
But this time, they had to fight, paying attention to even the excess mana bouncing off their swords.
What they both wanted to protect was something in common.
That baby, the seed of the person who persecuted an entire continent.
The mana behind the red instantly covered the whole room. At the same time, the man in red disappeared.
While nothing seemed to have changed for a normal person, the Duke realized at that moment that something was stuck inside him.
He tried to break it in his own sense, but it was not enough.
"The harder you try, the Duke, the tougher it will get."
As soon as he heard what Red said, he solved the case.
The area he found inside was a mana-absorbing area. The more he attacked, the more mana was absorbed, and with that mana, the stronger the defense.
The way to cross this place had to either have to be an overwhelming difference in strength, or he had to break it completely with his physical strength.
Although the duke knew he was slightly stronger, he knew that there was not enough difference in strength to practice the first method.
So he immediately turned to the second method.
Finding enough physical strength to break through a mana-made place was actually as difficult as the first method, but after all, the Loredan Family had not been in vain as the guardian family of this empire for centuries.
The duke knew he had to be quick, and it was easy for the other person to suddenly steal the baby.
He straightened his posture and devoted all his strength to his arm. He tensed and made a complete scratch at the barrier.
''What?''
Seeing that he had damaged the barrier with his full physical strength, the man was stunned, how much of an animal strength did he have?
Seeing that it worked, the duke was about to strike once more when he was attacked in the leg.
Knowing that it would be impossible for there to be any outside influence on this area normally, the duke later realized that the red man had created the area in his own sense. So the control was in that man's hands.
Caught defenseless against the attack, the Duke bent over his knees.
The man, who did not miss this opportunity, took the baby and immediately tried to escape from the window, closing the area.
The duke made eye contact with the man, it still had a lot of mana. If he had gathered his strength in his sword and sent it to the man, he would most likely have killed him.
But what about the baby? Could he allow harm to come to her?
In these moments he cursed what is called love. He cursed how much he loved his wife. He cursed that he couldn't damage the only thing that came from him.
And the cursed seed, perhaps the only child he would ever love, fled before his eyes.
The Duke dropped himself slowly to the ground, wanting to get some sleep. Just a little bit.