Chapter 15: Massacre
The battle was a massacre. The first knight to meet Lucien wasn't even ready for him. He had heard that Lucien wasn't even an apprentice, just perhaps a bit stronger than a normal human. So when Lucien leapt up at him, his body first and agile, he wasn't ready.
Lucien's sword swung powerfully, catching the knight with a full blow to the chest. The sword carved through his blade and armor, digging into his chest and causing massive damage. There was no surviving that.
Selene stopped and closed her eyes. The other two knights stopped too, more in shock this time. Wasn't it said that this guy had no power at all, that he was a cripple and a shame to the Aureville bloodline?
What a joke. If this was a cripple what were they? Bedridden?
Lucien didn't pay any mind to their thoughts. He hacked over unrelentingly. The second knight was more cautious, He covered his sword in aura and defended with a cross guard. Lucien's sword hit his with force, cleaving the aura apart and almost cutting the sword into two. The force of the blow launched the guard back, giving Lucien the chance to block the other knight's strike.
He riposted and pushed the guard's sword back, overpowering him and leaving him open to attack. Lucien's sword caught him in the chest, cleaving the armor open and digging into flesh. The knight collapsed in agony.
Lucien turned to the final foe, the knight's eyes were turning side to side, looking for a chance to escape; there was none. Lucien chased over, and with a single slash, it was over. All the foes were down.
Lucien noticed that ever since his swordsmanship had reached level four, something seemed to have changed. He perceived a special feeling in his strikes, it was like his strikes were assisted by a certain force. A force that he could only call sharpness, it was like he could perceive the sharpness and momentum in his and his enemy's strikes. He could imbue this momentum into his strikes and almost increase the force of his strikes by half.
Or if the enemy didn't understand the momentum he could lower the sharpness and momentum of their strikes by half. No wonder he had been abused by that champion ranked knight so badly. A difference of one in skill level required at least two times stronger attributes to overcome. One had to train their skill levels, or level them up in his case.