27 Terradeus Grand Tournamen

After handling Lilith by commanding her to never try to **** him when he's asleep, he went to the library to do some reading. While in the library, he spent half of the day reading about the sword scripture he received, about the job system and the elements he received. The 12 hours of reading managed to enlighten him on these subjects and add more knowledge. About the sword scripture, it is a special path of sword users that are handed down by sword and war deities of the past. The ones he received are the complete scripture which contains all the wisdom instead of the Gods of Anansha continents'.

The sword scripture is similar to the Sword Dao that sword wielding cultivators of the Anansha continent use but it's more complete and there are 7 stages instead of 6. The first stage is flowing, this stage is where one manages to wield the sword in a way like flowing water. Their movements are smooth and more efficient, allowing their techniques and actions to be executed more quickly and effectively. The second stage would be form. This stage is where one must treat and use their sword like its a part of your own body.

By using the sword like it's a part of you, you will move it in a more flexible manner and see it as something elastic, not rigid. This level of mastery allows one to attack with erratic patterns and switch tactics and attack rhythms 3 times faster and without much inefficient or rigid movements. The third stage is known as dimension. This stage is where one must know the exact location of their own sword and the location of the enemy's. One must rely on their 5 senses fully and cultivate their instinct as their 6th sense. At this stage, one can tell the future position of the enemy's sword up to a second before it is done.

This allows the third stage sword wielder to see the enemy's next move and plan ahead. For people of the third stage, half a second is more than what they new to quickly overwhelm and cripple their opponents with strikes and slashes. Third stage mastery is usually attained when one is at least an advanced grandmaster swordsman. Usually only sword kings would have this stage of mastery. Even the top 10 swordsman of Terradeus, not including players are only stage 2s. A stage 3 master had not appeared in a decade, even more so a stage 4 which have not appeared in 2 generations and a stage 5 which had not appeared in centuries.

Although he had a super genius level processing and understanding, the theory could not propel him into the second stage. He trained hard for 3 hours in the library but barely made any progress. Despite using all of the techniques from the sword masteries of all 10 continents, he did not even complete the basics. He found out that even a prodigy took 4 years just to reach this level with daily practices lasting at least 6 hours. Even though he may be a high level peak genius, it would take him at least a month or two to reach that level.

Luckily, his research on time magic is doing well. With the extra increase from the Akashic Mind talent, he easily learned some time magic within a six hour span. The time magic he learned and practice allowed him to create a circular area with a 3m radius where he can speed up or slow down time up to 50× but it could only last an hour at most. At around 4 in the afternoon, a knock is heard from the library door. Sebastian immediately placed the book into a nearby shelf before shouting, "Come in!!"

The large wooden door opened and a red haired succubus in a maid outfit entered. She quickly closed the door and floated elegantly through the air, landing a few feet in front of her master. She bowed politely and greeted, "My Lord, I am Laylah. I bring anurgent message from the king of this human kingdom." After finishing her long bow, she continued, "The king would like to meet you as fast as possible. The best would be today." 'It's only been 4 days, what does he want from me?' He dismissed her and looked at her boobs while doing so.

She had c cup boobs and her cleavage is quite exposed. 'Maybe I can taste her later on after dominating my harem on the bed.' After she left, he transformed into a bat and flew away towards the capital at mach 30 speed. Since the capital is only 500km away from his place, it took almost a minute to arrive there at that speed. He transformed back inside of a dark corner at an empty street. After making sure that no one saw him, he walked towards the palace.

The palace had silver armored guards with the royal insignias holding their red cape together. Before they could halt him, he flashed them his duke insignia and went in undisturbed. He asked the nearest servant, a maid where the king is at. He explains that he was summoned by the king and his glowing duke insignia proved it. When nobility or royals are summoned by the king, their insignias will glow a certain hue, depending on their kingdom or empire's royal color. The maid told Sebastian that the king is at the royal garden with the general and the kingdom's top wizard, Helion.

He quickly made his way to the large garden. The orange and red flowers and shrubbery makes a great addition to the orange turning blue sky. He walked around the clean stone paved path, strolling around the garden until he found them together in a stone pavillion, deep in discussion. "My Lords, I am here." He bowed politely. They immediately turned their attention towards the raven haired youth in front of them clad in black, bowing. "Sebastian, we were just talking about you." The general said.

"So this is the youth who will replace my apprentice for the Terradeus Grand Tournament." The kingdom's archmage said. Helion is a young archmage who's very gifted in magic. At the age of only 29, he had managed to become the kingdom's top mage in all categories. As of now he is 32 years old, he had defended his position as an archmage for 3 years. He had blonde hair, a clean shave and fiery eyes. The archmage wore a red and white robe with golden pauldrons, gauntlets and boots.

If one is sensitive enough, they can sense mana swirling around the archmage like an invisible tornado. "Terradeus Grand Tournament?" He asked with a perplexed face. Sebastian is surprised that he didn't know anything about this. Considering his rapid reading speed and photographic memory, he should know something about this. "Oh you don't know yet. Hohohoho!" The king merrily continued, "The Terradeus Grand Tournament is a special tournament between all kingdoms and empires of the continent to decide who has the strongest people. Each kingdom and empire will only be given three slots. Originally it was my eldest son, the general's son and Helion's top apprentice. But since you easily defeated my son, I switched Helion's apprentice with you."

After the king's explanation, archmage stood up and asked Sebastian, "The King said that you easily defeated the crown prince and claimed to be an Immortal-8 rank. May I spar with you to see whether the king is telling the truth or exaggerating." Sebastian nodded and calmly replied, "Where will we be sparring at?" The archmage pointed up and said, "Let's fight in the air. I will cast a spell to minimise damage to the garden." A gust of air propelled the archmage up and he floated mid air, gesturing Sebastian to come up and fight.

He flew up and stood a few yards away from the archmage. He asked Hirani to determine Helion's rank. "He's an Immortal-4 rank prodigy. He should not be a threat at all." She replied. The archmage announced the start of the spar by firing a large fireball into the air. As it explodes like a firework, the archmage begin chanting. Fiery runes begin appearing around him and he concentrated them towards Sebastian. Fiery magic arrays appeared around Sebastian in a flash, the archmage ended his chant and exclaimed, "Smite!"

The magic arrays release golden blades of the light and holy element. Since he is a creature of darkness, he would take twice the damage. The instant before the blades managed to touch his form, he had instantly teleported in front of the archmage and punched him lightly in the gut. Before he knew it, he had fallen down to the garden, a great pain erupted from his abdomen. If the punch is serious, Sebastian could have accidentally broken his ribcage and disturb his internal mana flow, crippling him permanently.

After seeing his opponent unharmed, he smiled and admitted defeat. He made a short apology to the king for doubting his choices. He is very intrigued of Sebastian. He had never been defeated by a person younger than him yet, even more so a teenager. "So Sebastian, will you accept the honor as a representative of this kingdom for the tournament." The general asked. He nodded and politely replied, "Yes I accept my Lords." "Very well, the tournament will happen in two weeks. Keep preparing until then, we're all counting on you." And with that, the king dismissed Sebastian.

'This tournament is a great way to garner fame.' He planned to train hard for the next two weeks. If he is lucky, he might be able to construct the hyperbolic time chamber so he can achieve stage 2 by the start of the tournament. He flies back to his castle after transforming in a dark corner of the garden. After returning to his castle, he finds Theresa waiting for him in front of the library.