8 Finally Stronger

1 year later

The royal palace of the Chlos Kingdom, the study room of the Crown Prince Gurasu

In the study room, Gurasu is surrounded by 4 old men who had long white beards. Each of them had an aura of a scholar. They were teaching Gurasu about the things that a Crown Prince should know.

After Gurasu became the crown prince, his parents arranged tutors who would teach him about politics, literature, how to manage a kingdom, etc. Gurasu wanted to deny this, but when he saw his parents glaring at him, he accepted it.

However, he was glad that he accepted because he did not know a single thing that the Crown Prince should do. Because of these tutors, he was able to understand the responsibilities of a crown prince, and know how to manage a kingdom now.

Gurasu was also trying his best to make Tsunade a peak-knight level. However, it was very hard, and there was only a little progress. This made Gurasu realize how lucky he was to have the Devour ability with him.

As they became engaged to each other, they were able to spend more time together and be more intimate. Because of this, Gurasu and Tsunade realized the depth of love they had for each other. They were now inseparable.

After the teachers taught Gurasu's lesson today, he was able to relax now so he went to his room. As Gurasu walked to his room, he thought 'These days Tsunade is always at home….I asked her about it, she always says that she is practicing something'.

'What could she be practicing at home for this long', thought Gurasu as he sat on his bed.

'Either way, I finally found a way to get stronger', thought Gurasu with a smile. He looked at his stats.

Name: Gurasu Chlos

Race: Human

Rank: Peak Knight level

Strength: 20

Vitality: 20

Agility: 20

Spirit: 0

Ability: Devour

When Gurasu saw his stats, he was a little disappointed. However, he has plans to raise his spirit stats. Yesterday, Gurasu's informant told him that there was an intermediate apprentice mage with a group of bandits in the Chlos Forest. When Gurasu heard this, he was shocked. He was excited and thought that he could finally get stronger.

He immediately told his parents that he should kill this apprentice mage and not anybody else. His parents asked him why. Gurasu told them that he never fought a mage before and this will be a good practice before he goes to the mage academy.

He didn't want anybody else to attack the apprentice mage because whenever there is a news that a mage is in Chlos Forest, the kingdom will immediately send mages to kill these mages that are working with the bandits. They do this because it will hurt the business that the kingdom is doing in the forest.

For example, if there are only bandits in the forest, the merchants can hire people to protect me. However, if there is a mage with the bandits, to make 100% safe the merchants have to hire mages. Because Mages have arrogance, they do not do these guard jobs.

Therefore, with no mages to protect the merchants and if they dare go into the forest with no mages, most likely all of them will die. So if the kingdom wants to protect the business, they immediately send out a mage to kill the mages. When they kill these mages, their body will be sold to other mages.

So with that reason, Gurasu immediately told his parents not to send anybody there, and he will take care of the problem. Gurasu started to get ready and prepare for the battle with the intermediate apprentice mage.

Usually, mages are stronger than knights because of their spells. This is true when a knight battles a Peak Apprentice Mage. Peak Apprentice Mage has a lot of Amg energy in their body than other apprentice mages. Because of that, they can cast more spells and spells that have more destructive power.

Therefore, Peak Apprentice Mage has an almost 100% chance of defeating the Peak Knight level. However, it is only an intermediate apprentice mage while Gurasu is a Peak Knight level. Gurasu is 100 percent sure that he can kill the intermediate apprentice mage.

As Gurasu started to leave the Royal Palace and go to the Chlos Forest, he thought 'Why would an intermediate apprentice mage be in Chlos Forest when everybody knows that if a mage is working with the bandits in Chlos Forest, they will be immediately killed by the royal family?'.

'This is too weird and suspicious', thought Gurasu as he looked at the entrance of the Chlos Forest.

'Wait, can this be those cliches from the novels where a person came to an enemy den because they know that there is a treasure there', thought Gurasu as he started to get excited.

'However, I can't believe these cliches will always happen', thought Gurasu as he slowly started to go into the forest and tried his best not to make any noises. He did not want to alert the intermediate apprentice mage who might know detection spells.

As Gurasu started to move in the forest, there was a camp 10 miles away from Gurasu's location. This camp was in a cave.

This camp was full of bandits. These bandits were with the intermediate apprentice mage. All the bandits were gathered around a bonfire.

"Hey, Where is the lord Intermediate mage?", said Bandit 1. The intermediate mage never told them his name and just told them to call lord.

"He is in the far end of the cave", said Bandit 2.

"Do you guys know the reason why the Lord is in the Chlos Forest", said Bandit 3. The mage just randomly came up to them one day and said he wants to work with them. The bandits wanted to reject him because they know that if the Chlos Kingdom finds out that a mage is working with bandits, they will send mage to kill them.

However, when they were about to reject, their bandit leader said yes to the mage's offer. Because the bandit leader was their boss, they couldn't disagree with his decisions, or else they would be killed.

"No, I do not", said Bandit 2. They were still confused about why an apprentice mage would want to work with them.

As they were about to continue their discussion, they heard a noise. They immediately stood up and said, "Whos there".

Gurasu who accidentally stepped on a twig which caused it to snap made a noise that alerted the bandits. 'Fuck, I hate these twigs', thought Gurasu. When Gurasu realized the bandits were alert now, he did not answer their question but immediately attacked them with his sword.

The bandits were not ready and Gurasu was too fast for them which caused Gurasu to easily kill all the bandits. After he killed the bandits, he saw a burning light coming towards him from the far end of the cave.

When Gurasu saw this, he thought, 'Fuck, it is a fireball'. Gurasu immediately tried to dodge it but the cave was too small so it hit part of his body. 'Fuck, this burning pain is too much', thought Gurasu as he looked at his arm which got caught in the fireball.

However, luckily his arm was strong and did not burn to ashes.

"So you survived", said a deep voice. When Gurasu looked at the direction of the voice, he saw a pale tall man wearing a cloak.

"Who are you", said Gurasu.

"Didn't you come for me…... Shouldn't you know my name…..No, you probably did not get sent by them", said the tall man who muttered the last part. However, Gurasu heard everything and made a speculation that this was the intermediate apprentice mage who came to Chlos Forest and was not looking for treasures but was running away from someone.

However, Gurasu did not care and took this advantage of the man who was pondering something. He immediately used his full speed and used all of his strength to attack him.

When the tall man saw this, he just smirked. He did not move from his position. However, he regretted when he saw Gurasu breaking the passive shield around him and the sword hit him. The tall man thought the shield he cast around him will stop Gurasu's attack but did not expect for it to get destroyed.

Gurasu did not stop his attack and continued to attack him with the intent to kill. After Gurasu made sure he killed him, he finally started to relax.

He was happy that the intermediate apprentice mage underestimated him which gave the chance for Gurasu to kill him.

Gurasu learned two things from this battle. Don't ever be arrogant because the apprentice mage was arrogant and he paid the price for it. Don't ever be too greedy because he could have died in this battle if the apprentice mage did not underestimate him.

Gurasu should have been happy that he already has Peak Knight level strength at his age. Gurasu was just too ambitious and knew that from now before he gets into a battle, he should always scope his opponent.

This was a good lesson for Gurasu. After he looked around him and saw that nobody was there, he used his devour ability on the apprentice mage.

As he absorbed the power from the man's body, he felt a warm sensation going through his body.

After absorbing the power from the body, Gurasu looked at his stats.

Name: Gurasu Chlos

Race: Human

Rank: beginner apprentice mage, Peak Knight

Strength: 20

Vitality: 20

Agility: 20

Spirit: 0.5

Ability: Devour

When Gurasu saw his stats, he was very happy. His spirit stat finally improved. He even saw that he became a beginner apprentice mage.

'The rewards from today's battle were very good', thought Gurasu. Gurasu took the intermediate apprentice mage body so he could show his parents that he killed them.

Gurasu left the cave with the mage body and ran to the royal palace.

When he arrived at the royal palace with a dead body, the guards were surprised. However, they let Gurasu in and knew that this is not their business to know.

Gurasu went to the throne hall room and showed the body to his parents. His parents were surprised when they saw his damaged appearance. They immediately asked what he and Gurasu told the whole story to them.

"So it was because of the small cave that you couldn't fully dodge the fireball", said Glen.

"Yes father", said Gurasu.

"Also, mom and dad….I think he was hiding from somebody or running from someone", said Gurasu.

"We will look into it….Go rest now", said Elizabeth.

"Okay", said Gurasu as he left the throne hall room to his room.

"What do you think of Gurasu battle with the mage", said Elizabeth.

"He was lucky to win and because of his wits, he won", said Glen.

"I hope when Gurasu goes to the mage academy, he becomes a remarkable mage when he comes back to us", said Elizabeth.

"Me too", said Glen.

The next day

Gurasu just had his breakfast and came outside of the royal palace to get some fresh air. He then heard somebody call him.

"Gurasu, I have a surprise for you", said Tsunade as she ran to him with a bag.