"I really can't figure out why, are you so talented that even your father can't teach you?"

Seeing Ryan's sadness, Chi Bone teased him to ease the atmosphere.

It's a pity that it didn't achieve the effect that Chi Bone expected, and Ryan seemed to be even more upset.

"I was my father's only child. Although the Trio family did not have a title of nobility, I was surrounded by many powerful children since I was a child.

My father was very easy-going and never harsh on my cultivation, but I never slackened. I rarely participate in social interactions, and I spend most of my day practicing martial arts and cultivating my fighting spirit.

My father's back was too tall and I didn't want to disappoint him. ”

Ryan had a warm look on his face, and he recalled his father's gentle smile.

"I can understand you, my father was the strongest hunter in the tribe. Even though he died for the tribe many years ago, people still always talk about him. It is precisely because of this that I continue to hone myself, and I don't want to discredit him. ”

Chi Gu also remembered his father, and his father's smile seemed to be yesterday.

"I thought I could be my father's pride, impress others, and make my father proud of me one day. However, the heavens played a joke on me.

I didn't inherit my father's tall and strong genes, which made it impossible for me to have my father's strength no matter how hard I tried. ”

Ryan grabbed his hair with both hands, and he didn't dare remember it for a long time.

Ryan's height is only a little more than one meter seven, which is indeed a small person for people in the Eastern Continent, and his slender bones also mean that he cannot become a strength fighter.

"I don't understand what you're struggling with? I've seen you on the practice pitch, you've got a lot of agility and skill, I guess you're talented enough to make your father proud, right?"

The skull was a little puzzled. Although he is powerful, he is very interested in skill, which must have something to do with the fact that he is frequently frustrated with skill-type fighters like Ace and Gail, right?

In short, he didn't realize how much superiority a power-type warrior could have in terms of skill.

"However, what the Golden Lion Mercenaries need is a strong heir, the kind of warrior who shatters everything with his fists and swords, not a swordsman who looks for opportunities by dodging.

I could never do that, I tried, really tried. In order to increase muscle strength, I tore my muscles several times during intense exercises.

Finally, when I was sixteen years old, I chose Thick Earth Dou Qi behind my father's back, just because it can promote the user's physical strength. ”

Ryan said something that shocked the bones.

"You're saying you didn't choose fire-based fighting energy?"

Chi Gu was indeed shocked, and Chi Gu had heard that the descendants of mutant Dou Qi martial artists had a high chance of inheriting the mutation attribute if they chose the same Dou Qi.

If you decide that the attribute of Dou Qi can no longer be changed, Ryan's doing so is equivalent to ruining the chance to ascend to the sky in the future.

"Yes, you're going to think I'm stupid. I just want to be a power fighter like my father.

He didn't scold me, in fact, I really wish he had scolded me harshly. My father was still as kind as ever, and even found me a few teachers who cultivated the Thick Earth Fighting Qi.

I thought it would all pass, but for the next two years, I could always hear the voices behind it. Even my teacher said that I didn't have a good fit with the earth's fighting spirit, and my future achievements were limited.

From then on, I felt that my father must have been disappointed in me. So I left AXavier with a letter, and thus entered the Imperial Academy. ”

Ryan breathed a long sigh of relief.

Ryan finally picked up the flask placed in front of the bone and poured himself a glass, then drank it all in one gulp.

Grassbone didn't stop him, just reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and continued to listen.

"It's not easy to be a foreigner here, although the classmates don't show it, but it's still very xenophobic. Until I met Slade and Natasha.

Slade is from the kingdom of Zessel, the same man you saw earlier. He was a reckless but righteous friend.

Once I had a confrontation with a few cadets outside the academy, and this hot-blooded guy didn't watch like the others. If he hadn't helped, I guess I would have been beaten up badly.

In this way, we meet Natasha, a warm-hearted girl who practices the magic of life, in the academy's treatment room. Although she is from Orian, she tries her best to help and enlighten us.

The three of us became best friends over the years, until one day Slade told me that he was in love with Natasha and wanted to confess to him. I could see that Slade was serious, and I blessed him with all my heart.

Taking the opportunity of a wild trip, Slade confessed to Natasha. However, it was unexpectedly rejected by Natasha. Slade asks me to find out what Natasha is talking about, and he wants to know why Natasha doesn't like him.

However, to my surprise, Natasha cried and said that she had always liked me, and asked me why it wasn't me who confessed.

I was really confused. My mind is never on this, except for exercising and cultivating every day, I almost never think about emotional matters. But at that moment, I realized that I seemed to like her just as much.

I knew that Slade was hiding behind a big tree, and when he heard it, he angrily came out and questioned us.

They were my only friends, and if I said I liked Natasha, Slade would never forgive me again. If I say I don't like it, it hurts Natasha's heart.

I can only explain to Slade that I don't know about it. However, I had to avoid what seemed to break Natasha's heart, and she left crying. ”

With that, Ryan poured himself another glass.

"You're such a lucky hapless man. ”

Chi Bone didn't know how to comfort Ryan, and if it was him, he would be just as helpless in this situation.

"Maybe it would have been better to just walk away without saying anything at the time. Slater has always been an impulsive person, otherwise he wouldn't have rushed to help me without knowing each other.

He proposed a duel to me, and whoever loses will never be able to be with Natasha. I refused, for the first time in my life, I refused to fight.

Maybe I felt that this fight was meaningless, and I told him that even if he won this duel, it wouldn't change Natasha's mind now. I also told him that I wouldn't fight with him. However, he didn't listen at all and called me a coward.

Maybe I tried a little harder to convince him at that time, maybe the ending would be different, maybe I wanted to be with Natasha too.

Private fights are absolutely forbidden in the Academy, and as long as I keep refusing, Slade has no way to duel me. I don't want to lose this friend, and I'm sure one day he'll understand. But it seems that today is inevitable. ”

Ryan sighed and drank the wine from his glass.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know it was like this. ”

Knowing the cause and effect, Chi Gu also felt that his initial idea was a little reckless.

"No need to apologize. You're right, this is indeed a coward's choice, maybe a fight will have a chance to untie the knot in his heart. Ryan said, shaking his head.

He seems to have thought about it, and blindly avoiding it is not the way.

"How's Natasha?" asked Cheekbone again.

"I haven't seen her in months, she's been avoiding us. Even if I did, I didn't know what to say to her. Ryan knocked on the table in some distress.

"What do you suggest?" Ryan asked, looking up.

"Uh...... Let's talk about it after the fight first. Worm scratched his head, which was what he was not good at.

......

Private fighting is forbidden in the Imperial Academy, and serious cases will be expelled from the school. But in this world of the jungle, strife is inevitable, so the school has set up a special dueling arena.

The reason why the Imperial Academy has set up this place that represents violence in the center of the academy is to inspire all the students that this world is not gentle and peaceful, and only the strong can live better.

It is said that the cost of the dueling arena is quite expensive, and there are several giant magic circles built into it. It can be seen from his high application fee.

1,000 gold coins is only the cost of the application, and he can guarantee that as long as you don't get your head cut off in the dueling arena, even if you are seriously injured, you will not die immediately, but the rest of the treatment fee will have to be paid by the duelist himself.

It's not so easy to cut off the opponent's head, and the automatic guardian formation in the dueling arena can ensure that at such a critical moment, you will be blessed with the highest level of magic armor around your neck.

In the Ninth Arena, Slade arrived early. There wasn't a single spectator in the surrounding stands. The fight was not meant to be shown off to anyone, so he told no one.

Bone and Ryan walked in, Ryan was dressed only in black leather armor and had two two-foot-long swords stuck in his waist.

He used a longsword until he was eighteen years old, and it wasn't until he entered the Imperial Academy that he found a weapon that really suited him. A large part of this credit comes from Slade's enlightenment. It was he who made Ryan face up to his abilities, no longer have low self-esteem, and no longer fantasize about being a powerful warrior like his father.

"Why aren't you wearing armor?"

Ryan asked, seeing that Slade was wearing only a red training leather armor.

Slade's fire-type fighting spirit is not good at defense, but his strong physique is fully capable of handling heavy armor.

"Didn't you bring your throwing knives with you? What nonsense. ”

Slade looked at Ryan's waist. He knew that Ryan's throwing knives were notoriously powerful, and he could even shoot the wings of bees within twenty meters. It's a talent that even their elite mentors envy.

Don't think that throwing knives are an attack method that can't be put on the table. For those of you who really know it, I know that the shooting skills of throwing knives and bows and arrows are completely different.

Although bows and arrows can be far-range and piercing, they cannot be fired from any weird angle in melee like throwing knives.

The two entered the field, but Slade was surprisingly quiet, not sarcastic to Ryan as he used to.

Chi Gu smiled, in his opinion, these two guys didn't really want to separate the winners and losers.

Otherwise, as an elite student of the Imperial Academy's Martial Arts Department, wouldn't they even know what 'go all out' meant? Otherwise, their mentor would definitely rush into the dueling arena and beat the two of them together.

In the magic control room of the ninth dueling arena, two young magicians are preparing to activate the protective shield and various formations in the dueling arena.

"Huh, isn't that Slade and Ryan?"

One of them, a young mage with a little freckles on his face, pointed to the two people in the field.

"It's really them, aren't they good friends? what's going on?"

The other young mage with curly hair also stopped in surprise.

The two looked at each other, and the freckled mage hurriedly picked up the magic communicator hanging on the wall. The spiritual power wrapped around the communicator, and the communicator began to glow slightly white.

"Is it the treatment room? Is Natasha here today?" the freckled mage shouted into the communicator.

"She's on duty today, wait a minute, I'll call her. A voice came from the communicator.

Almost all of the students who practice life magic work part-time in the academy's healing room, after all, only where there are wounded can there be opportunities to use healing magic in the field.

"I'm Natasha, what's the matter?"

There was a girl's voice over the communicator, and the girl's voice was crisp, and there was something cold that shouldn't have existed.

"Natasha, I'm Lai Qatar. Come to Arena 9. You never know who the two people are fighting here!"

Before he could finish speaking, he felt that the other end of the communicator had cut off the magic, proving that the other party had hung up the communication.

"Uh, Fissac, what are we going to do?"

Lycal looked at the curly-haired mage in a daze, still holding the communicator in his hand, which had been hung up.

"How do I know! God knows what the hell is going on with this 'Iron Triangle Combo', or are you asking Natasha?" Fisak said with a shrug.

"Forget it, tell me if Natasha wants to stop it. Besides, the dueling arena has rules for the dueling arena, and we have no right to stop it.

Hey, I can't die anyway, so let's let them fight. Lai Qatar shook his head and said.

Seeing that Fisak also agreed, the two began to activate the magic circle of the dueling arena.

The Bone curiously touched the magic shield that had just risen, as large and transparent as an eggshell. It is said that this shield can withstand the full force of the powerhouse of the Holy Domain, and it is to protect the spectators outside the dueling arena.

"I thought you'd call Natasha. Ryan said suddenly.

"Stop talking nonsense, come on, let me see if you've grown in the past few months. ”

With that, Slade drew his sword from his back and rushed towards Ryan. Ryan also drew the two short swords at his waist and met them.