Became The Son Of The Final Boss [EN]: Chapter 25

25.

The wind surged.

Before I knew it, I had moved a step.

Pshew-!

The sound of the wooden sword cutting through the air sharply pierced my ears.

If it weren’t for the Flow of Wind and Earth skill, the wooden sword would have struck my face directly.

Trying to manage my expression, I called Sylph once more and created distance between Ken and me.

‘Get out of the wooden sword’s range.’

The range of the spirit skill was much longer than that of the wooden sword, and naturally, it was advantageous for me to distance myself from Ken.

Swish-!

As I retreated, Ken continued to surge forward, continuing his attacks.

The wooden sword moved so fast that it felt like it was scattering in all directions.

I bit my lip tightly.

Was yesterday all a lie?

Ken’s eyes were coldly fixed, and his wooden sword exuded a sharp energy as it pressured me.

The illusion of my body being torn apart was because Ken’s momentum overwhelmed me.

To escape Ken’s momentum, I calmed my breathing through the Wind Breathing Technique.

The spirits were also empathizing with my pressure.

Undine appeared even without being summoned.

Undine clung to the area near my heart, and Gnome burst up from the ground.

Gooooooo-!

Ken’s pupils shook slightly.

He seemed shocked by the fact that the spirits were naturally pushing back his momentum.

I was somewhat relieved from the pressure and moved incessantly to avoid giving Ken any distance.

The training ground was a limited space, but I could still spin around to maintain distance.

In an instant, Ken’s figure disappeared once again.

‘It’s a skill.’

I guessed it was one of the sword techniques Ken had mastered.

Mana rapidly drained from my mana hole, further enhancing the Flow of Wind and Earth.

‘Right side!’

The Flow of Wind and Earth made me feel Ken’s momentum even more sensitively. Thanks to this, I was able to predict Ken’s attack in advance, and naturally twisted my waist to avoid the wooden sword.

The moment the wooden sword narrowly missed, I shouted loudly towards Sylph.

“Sylph!”

Sylph read my thoughts and became a blade, ambushing Ken from behind.

Ken quickly turned and swung his wooden sword.

Clang-!

I had contracted with two Sylphs.

The Sylph, who had been secretly guarding me without revealing its presence, flew towards Ken.

This time, Ken failed to block the Sylph attacking from behind and allowed the attack.

Cough, a scream erupted from Ken’s mouth.

At the same time, I collapsed on the spot, coughing up rough breaths and bright red blood.

By using the Flow of Wind and Earth while forcibly implementing the Chains of Wind, the mana flowing through my meridians damaged the meridians themselves.

“Your Highness!”

Soris hurriedly approached me.

At the same time, two Shadow Walk guild members who had been watching also approached Ken.

I stopped Soris and said.

“It’s okay. Our sparring will have to wait.”

I immediately began to calm the surging mana with the Wind Breathing Technique.

Ken, also treating the wounds I had inflicted on him, spoke with a look of exhaustion.

“If this were a real battle… I would have been dead meat.”

Having become quite accustomed to the Wind Breathing Technique, I was able to speak even while operating it.

“No. It’s not that I succeeded in controlling my strength and only caused a scratch, but rather that my mana was insufficient, so it ended at that level.”

I used the Chains of Wind with all my strength, but the amount of mana was absolutely insufficient, weakening the skill’s attack power itself.

I had already consumed most of my mana in the Flow of Wind and Earth skill to avoid Ken’s techniques.

Ken shook his head.

“Even after seeing and experiencing it with my own eyes, I still can’t believe it. Soris too, right? It hasn’t even been a month since Your Highness contracted with the spirits.”

Soris, who was standing next to me, nodded.

“There has never been a spirit master like Your Highness in history.”

The two guild members were looking at me with disbelief.

I smiled brightly.

“I’ve calmed down to some extent, so after lunch, I’ll spar with the two of you in turns.”

Certainly, training through sparring was greatly contributing to improving my skills.

Through sparring with Ken, I became accustomed to the act of fighting itself, and my skill operation also greatly improved.

‘Let’s see.’

I secretly turned on my status window.

First, I checked the changes in my status window.

The levels of Chains of Wind and Water Barrier remained the same, but the level of Flow of Wind and Earth had become 3.

It had risen by 2 levels in one sparring session.

I felt very proud.

I reviewed the sparring session and speculated on the reason why the skill level had risen by 2.

‘It seems that my proficiency increased a lot at once because it was a sparring session like a real battle… and the fact that I implemented the skill so intensely that my mana got tangled also had an effect.’

Of course, this is just my speculation.

It’s not without basis.

One of the settings I used when I wrote Hero Karen was that real combat is the most helpful in improving skills.

The protagonist, Karen, grew to the point where she could face the final boss through a fraudulent system called the status window, as well as constant real combat.

Based on that, I came up with a good idea.

“Both of you are more skilled than me and have gauged my skills, so it would be good to spar with both of you at the same time in the afternoon.”

Soris was startled by my words and replied.

“Your Highness, that’s impossible.”

“There’s no rule that there’s only one assassin. To protect myself, I need capable people like you and your guild members, but my own skills are also naturally necessary. There’s no harm in preparing.”

Ken chimed in with my words.

“That’s a good idea. It would be good to have a format where I’m included and we spar with three people at the same time.”

I smiled and replied.

“Good.”

-Arun Karl Leord (Lv15)

-Low-Rank Spirit Master

-Crown Prince

-Current Bonus Stats 0

Talents

-S Companion of Wind (Lv3)

-S Guardian of Water (Lv2)

-S Friend of Earth (Lv2)

Skills

-S Wind Breathing Technique (Lv10)

-A Chains of Wind (Lv5)

-A Water Barrier (Lv5)

-A Flow of Wind and Earth (Lv5)

Currently in Progress Quests

-F Get Gale to Acknowledge Persistence

-F Starting is Half the Battle

-B Spring Evaluation Tournament Results

-A Liberation from the Invisible Hand

Looking at my status window in the mirror in the bathroom, I smiled brightly.

All skill levels met the target of level 5.

Even though there were no additional contracts with spirits, the talent levels of Companion of Wind and Guardian of Water each rose by one.

Through the status window, I was certain that I had the highest affinity with the wind spirit.

Both talent and skills related to the wind spirit rose much better than others.

In using skills, Chains of Wind was the most comfortable.

“The two F-grade quests will be completed soon.”

I had been training by sparring with three people at the same time for over two weeks.

The results were slowly beginning to show. At first, it was difficult to block the attacks of the three, but now I could occasionally deflect, evade, and even counterattack.

Of course, it was still a long way off for me to beat those three, including Ken, but it was a great achievement just to have improved my skills significantly.

And finally, tomorrow I’m going outside the palace.

Since coming to the Calpheon Empire, my radius of action had been limited to the Crown Prince’s Palace.

The only time I had left the Crown Prince’s Palace was to visit the Emperor’s office.

I didn’t feel particularly stuffy, but I was looking forward to going out.

I would be able to see the streets of the capital of the Calpheon Empire, which I had written about, and also see the lives of people in the medieval fantasy world with my own eyes.

‘Don’t get carried away.’

I calmed my mind.

I wasn’t going out to play.

‘My life could be in danger… I think I’ve become too complacent as my level has risen. Complacency is forbidden.’

I resolved myself, closed the status window, and left the bathroom.

Ken was still staying in the room next to mine.

Gale and Ken occupied the rooms right next to my bedroom, and Soris took the room one space over.

I had come to trust Soris quite a bit, because the abilities of his guild members were better than I thought.

The Shadow Walk guild members found the gazes watching the Crown Prince’s Palace, and even accurately identified their affiliations.

In fact, finding the watching gazes themselves was not difficult.

Most of the forces related to the princes who were aiming for the position of Crown Prince were paying attention to the Crown Prince’s Palace.

Of course, they didn’t come into the training ground to directly watch my training, or even loiter near the palace.

What surprised me was the ability of the guild members to implement Ken’s plan.

The reason for going outside the palace was for Gale, the only known subordinate to the outside world.

The reason I was going outside the palace was to present Gale, who was returning after completing the mission given by the Emperor, with a famous sword.

The Crown Prince going outside the palace was also an event, so I needed to report it to my father.

I made an excuse about Gale, and my father gave permission without much suspicion.

‘It would be more accurate to say that he doesn’t care rather than that he doesn’t suspect.’

I was still far from meeting my father’s standards, so there was no way I would receive his attention.

Anyway, there was the best blacksmith in the empire in the south of the capital, and I was planning to visit there.

There were more than ten places along the route from the imperial palace to the smithy where assassination attempts were likely to occur.

Soris’s guild members narrowed it down to two places.

The past week was spent training in preparation for the assassination.

‘The practice is enough.’

The fact that the gamble of risking my life was tomorrow made me feel like my chest was being crushed.

The pressure from reading in a novel, watching in a video, or imagining it.

In other words, the pressure from vague thoughts about things that wouldn’t happen was on a different level from the pressure given by reality.

I grabbed my trembling hand.

‘It’s to survive. Let’s calm down.’

Haven’t I already escaped safely from one assassination attempt?

I trusted myself, and I trusted Ken, Soris, and the Shadow Walk guild members.

I opened the window wide.

It seemed like it would be difficult to sleep tonight.

I wasn’t trying to be conscious of it, but I was very nervous.

Looking at the moon, which was several times larger than Earth, I took a deep breath.

The now completely cold winter wind felt very refreshing.

‘I can do it.’

As the son of Ron Karl Leord, the confrontation with the protagonist Karen of the main story is unavoidable, and he becomes a strongman who cannot be compared to the Snake Venom Guild or Chen.

Because both his own skills and power grow to the point where they can threaten the huge empire.

I don’t have the power to stop Karen right now, so the best thing to do is to prepare for the future step by step and develop my own abilities.

Swish-!

A very faint sound brushed past my ear through the wind.

‘What was that?’

I instinctively moved away from the window frame.

Swish-!

This time the sound was a little clearer.

The first thing that came to mind was the assassin.

‘Could it be?’

I’m going outside the palace tomorrow, so instead of taking that opportunity, are they thinking of doing something directly in the Crown Prince’s Palace again?

If so, Ken and I have been caught off guard.

I immediately lay down on the bed.

Swish-!

The sound faded slightly.

‘It’s not my room?’

Carefully getting up from the bed, I approached the window frame.

Several shadows flickered in the moonlight.

There were at least ten people.

‘This is crazy!’

Assassinations are usually carried out by a small number of people, but if there are more than ten people, it’s not an assassination. It’s an all-out assault!

More than ten shadows headed towards Ken and Soris’s rooms in two groups.

I shouted loudly.

“Ken! Soris!”

I don’t know who they are, but climbing the walls of the Crown Prince’s Palace in the middle of the night is suspicious to the point where I can be sure of their impure intentions.

At my shout, several shadows immediately approached my bedroom window.

The moment three masked men quickly crossed the window, my consciousness connected with the spirit, and at the same time, words burst out.

“Sylph!”