The next moment, Rod suddenly lowered his sword, looking relaxed.
Liliya's gaze unconsciously followed Rod's sword downward.
Just as doubt arose in her heart, she suddenly saw Rod simply stamping his foot, and a wall of wind and sand completely blocked her view!
“Wh-what?!”
It was actually intermediate magic?!
Didn't His Majesty just start reading the textbook last night?
And it was even a chantless instant cast!
Could His Majesty actually be a magic genius?!
While feeling happy for Rod, Liliya focused her attention, alertly pricking up her ears.
Don't think you can solve me that easily!
Even with her vision obscured, a skilled swordsman can use their hearing to judge the enemy's direction!
However, strangely, Liliya couldn't hear even the faintest footstep!
The next moment, she suddenly felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.
It was as if the hand of death was gently stroking her neck.
A sense of imminent death rose in her heart!
Bad!
Whizz—
Liliya awkwardly rolled to the side to dodge the attack from behind, looking back in fear at Rod who had arrived behind her at some point.
“Huh? I thought I would hit that one.”
Rod shook his head in disappointment after missing his blow.
Liliya wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and swallowed hard.
What exactly happened just now?
There was a feeling like I was going to be beheaded the next moment!
Liliya watched the helpless smile on Rod's face, the horror in her heart gradually fading.
Maybe I was just feeling wrong...
But she had another question in her mind.
“Your Majesty, what was with your footsteps just now?”
“Huh?”
“I couldn't hear any sound at all, it was as if you completely disappeared.”
“Oh, you mean that, I learned it after taking a look at the assassin who came to assassinate me last night.”
Rod quite liked this kind of underhanded skill, proudly demonstrating the technique called Silent Step in front of Liliya.
Clearly stepping on the ground, yet not making a single sound.
“How about that? Pretty good for ambushing people, right?”
Liliya's mouth twitched slightly.
There were too many things she wanted to say, she didn't even know where to start.
The other person came to assassinate you, yet you took the assassin as your teacher?
And the skill the other person focused on honing for over ten years, you learned it just from a glance?
Liliya was truly struck.
Could this be what a true genius is like?
“Sigh.......Your Majesty, let's continue!”
“Good!”
Rod ran a few steps, leaped into the air, and slashed downward with his sword.
A flash of brilliance appeared in Liliya's eyes, she slashed back with a counter-attack.
You underestimated me, Your Majesty!
You have to know that you can't dodge in the air!
It seems that even geniuses are not without weaknesses before they fully mature!
However, Rod twisted his body in the air in a strange posture to avoid Liliya's swing, almost catching her off guard.
“???”
Liliya blocked Rod's attack while asking hesitantly.
“Just now.......”
Rod looked indifferent.
“Well, that was also a technique taught by that assassin teacher of mine.”
“.......”
A quarter of an hour later.
Liliya lay on the training ground with a vacant look.
The training session unexpectedly ended in a draw.
After praising Liliya with a “You're truly Liliya,” Rod hastily went to take a bath after retrieving a box from Rita.
Rita smiled at the dejected Liliya.
“Liliya senpai, isn't it a good thing that His Majesty possesses a talent beyond common sense?”
Liliya moved her lips, sighing deeply.
“That's true, but......”
During the training, Rod had indeed used almost his full power to fight Liliya.
For example, he would expel wind to increase the speed of his sword swings, or release shockwaves to make his body suddenly turn around, or even create mud on his opponent's feet to prevent them from moving...
Liliya didn't feel that this was cheating, after all, this world also had the profession of magic swordsman.
In fact, being able to come up with such clever ideas to make up for his lack of wrist strength, physical strength, and height made Liliya genuinely feel amazed, and she felt that their Majesty might be a natural-born Beishen-ryu.
The key problem was that towards the end, Rod had almost completely learned the techniques she had spent over ten years honing through hard work!
If not for the difference in their physical hardware, Liliya even felt that in terms of swordsmanship alone, Rod had already surpassed her.
And all of this in just one day!
A five-year-old advanced swordsman, it was simply unheard of!