The smoke was slowly dissapearing, as the smoke slowly dissapearing. A silhouette of man can see, he was standing like he never got hit by a strong attack.
"H...how did you survive my attack?!!" The knight leader ask, because he was in shocked when he saw that lucien was still standing and untouched by the strongest attack of him.
Lucien, who still standing at the same spot where he got hit by the attack his enemy attack.
"Hmm? Is that your strongest attack?" Lucien ask him, as if the attack was so boring.
"W..what did you do?! You're supposed to now!" The leader can't believe what he was seeing. 'A ordinary man who didn't even reach 'Knight Initiate' survive my attack' The leader said in his thoughts
"Since you are done... I guess it's my turn to attack" Lucien said in calm voice. And then he placed his sword in his side next to his belt. His feet slid apart. His stance lowered. His breath steadied. And a small white smoke comes out in his mouth, and the lucien unsheathed his sword a little.
(AN: Zenitsu-kun)
After lucien did that move, he was seen behind of the five knight, as if he just teleport from behind them with his sword fully unsheathed.
And suddenly the five knight collapsed without even aware on just what happened to them.
On the otherhand, lucien who just killed those guys, suddenly kneel with his one knee. And then suddenly lucien start to puke a blood.
Grayne, who just saw his young master collapsed, suddenly rush towards him. And then he carry lucien on his back
"Young master!... Don't die please.." Grayne said with worry face. And then he quickly rush back to their camp while carrying lucien on his back.
A few minutes past, and they finally reached the camp where the healer is "I need a healer here!!! Fasterr!!" Grayne shout looking for healer.
"Hey grayne, what happened? why are you shouting?" Someone said from behind, he was a middle age man, he was tall and muscular, he looks like he was a leader of a group of knight, but the difference is he wasn't wearing any armor just a normal clothes and a sword that was beside him.
"Captain i need a healer quickly!!" Grayne said to his captain
"Hey brat, did you do what i ask you to do?" The captain said while looking at grayne, then he added "did you find the young master corpse?"
"I couldn't find his corpse!! But i need a healer quickly.." Grayne replied to his captain. And then his captain ask in angry voice "who the hell is that guy that you..." The captain paused from what he was about to say when he suddenly recognized the young man that was on bed.
"I couldn't find his corpse because he was alive captain!" Grayne said to his captain, and then.
"Quickly!! We need medic here!!" Captain shouted trying to find a healer and suddenly a healer appeared and he start healing lucien.
One hour passed. The captain was still in the tent where lucien is, he was watching the healer in case something bad happens to lucien.
The captain was a loyal knight of the Valtair family, and his looks are like a middle aged man, he was serving lucien family for 20 years. He was a very loyal knight, his family was in debt, and thanks to valtairs family they can pay their debt. His name was Kalios, he's at the peak of Swordmaster, and his Aura is at the middle stage of 'Channeler'. He placed 1,788th ranks in the entire Western Frontiers, so basically he was very weak to the eyes of the other rankers.
"He was fine now. He exceeded the limit of his body capability, and that cause his muscle to to tear apart" The healer said to kalios, and then he added in a curious tone "Just what did the young master do to cause him this? And anyway i gotta check the other survivor captain, call me if something happen"
As kalios watched the healer leave, he looked at lucien "I'm very sorry young master, I wasn't there when it happened" He said in a sorry voice, and then he saw grayne entire the tent.
"Captain was he fine now?" Grayne asked in a worry voice.
"Yes, hey just what happened to the young master" Kalios asked to geayne in a curios tone.
"Ahh... About that.." Grayne explained to kalios just what happened back then, how lucien pushed his own body to his limit.
Kalios was in shocked cannot process the story he just heard from grayne "I guess he was really from the bloodline of valtair" Kalios said like he was proud.
On the otherhand, a knights can seen walking in the hallway of valtair castle, they are the veridane knights. And then, they stop at the corpse that was on the floor. They analyzed the body, and they knew that this body was also from veridane knights. And then suddenly a knight from the back, he was wearing a gold armor, and the aura that he eminates are far stronger from kalios, he was the commander of the knights of veridane.
"Hmm?! Did one of the commander of valtair family got back?!" The commander asked his soldier in a surprised voice 'T...this cuts is so clean that even me who's a Grandmaster cannot detect the swordstyle used!! Is this the swordstyle of valtair family?!!" The commander thoughts with a worried face.
After an hour. The sun is now rising, a man can see inside a tent, he looks like he just woke up, but his body was full of bandage, it was Lucien.
"Young master are you okay? Do you need something?" Kalios said when he saw lucien wake up
Lucien just looked at him with a calm face and said "Food, I'm hungry"
Kalios rush outside to get him a food, and then after he got so many food for lucien he rush back to give lucien the food he ask, and then kalios rush again outside to get the healer.
"Hmm? I didn't expect you to wake up so fast young master, because when i saw your condion earlier, it was far worse than the other survivor" the healer said to lucien, and then he start using magic to help lucien on his fast recovery.
Lucien didn't say anything he just watched the healer use his magic to heal him, after the healer help him recover a little, he continued his food, he eat like he didn't eat for a whole year.
"Young master, were you hiding your skill this whole time? I just heard from grayne about what you did back then" Kalios asked lucien because of his curiosity "what rank are you now young master" a sudden question from kalios.
Lucien just looked at him with calm face and said "i just used a normal attack, i still don't know how aura works" .
Kalios who was flabbergasted what he just heard "it's impossible?!! to blocked an aura attack your aura needs to be more higher that the attack" kalios added "so don't joke around like that young master".
Lucien slightly tilted his head and looked him with cold eyes and said "do i look like I'm joking?"