On the training field, snowflakes fell, but at this moment, Lei Kai and two Xiong Shi soldiers looked grim. Facing the approach of a child who was only a teenager, the three of them actually felt a distinct discomfort.

It was a special feeling of skin contracting, pores tightening, and the body sensing a threat.

The instincts honed on the battlefield made the three of them grip the swords in their hands tighter, and they bowed slightly.

But soon, they reacted. They were not facing barbarians here, but a noble teenager who had just turned thirteen.

The opponent was not as tall as any of them, and he had probably never even seen blood.

Thinking of this, the three of them found their reaction somewhat laughable.

Lei Kai's dark brown eyes fixed on Li Cheng頤, and he let out a mocking laugh.

"What? Little Baron, have you grown wings and want to squeak at your elders? Do you know what you're doing right now? Little thing who hasn't even seen a dead person?"

He would never admit that he had been frightened just now. A thirteen-year-old kid, simply by approaching step by step, had actually managed to scare a regular knight who had been on the battlefield more than ten times.

He leaned backward, and with a *poof*, a black practice sword pierced into his chest through the gaps in his armor.

The surroundings were silent.

At this time, the surrounding soldiers were all at a loss. They didn't expect things to change so quickly. Before they could react, Knight Lei Kai had fallen to the ground, bleeding and unable to get up.

This was something he would never admit.

*Bang*.

This grasp of fleeting opportunities in battle made it completely impossible to tell that it was being used by a young man who had never been on the battlefield.

Carlos's strength and speed were coordinated extremely perfectly, and the timing was also grasped just right.

"I'll handle things here." Milton also pulled out his sword from the corpse at this time, looked back at Li Cheng頤, and his eyes were also full of lingering shock.

"Okay, Teacher." Li Cheng頤 nodded lightly.

*Clang!*

Li Cheng頤's figure suddenly rushed forward, drawing his sword and bending his waist, suddenly charging towards Lei Kai, who was less than ten meters away.

Everything settled, and Li Cheng頤 looked around at the Black Fortress soldiers.

Just now, he asked himself, if he had been facing that sword thrust to the chest, he would definitely not have been able to dodge it.

Li Cheng頤 straightened up, drew his sword, and looked at the two bewildered, bearded Xiong Shi soldiers beside him.

But the next sword thrust into the chest, piercing through the breastplate, made them understand that something was wrong.

The weapon and equipment advantage of a regular knight was too great. It only took one strike against a saber to break their weapon.

After all, a heavy shield was made of solid materials and was very effective against double-edged swords with high sharpness.

The man fell to the snow, convulsing, and the white snow was stained red with blood.

"Uncle came here this time, probably without anyone else knowing, right?" Li Cheng頤 suddenly said.

The double-edged sword was pressed, tilting quickly towards him, then slammed against his forehead, making a muffled *buzz* sound.

The phrase that had appeared more than once surfaced in his mind again.

"You!!" Lei Kai never expected that he would actually dare to attack. His expression changed, and he drew his sword and slashed forward.

"After all...so many people are watching." Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of a sword.

They looked in horror at Knight Milton, who had reacted, and retreated step by step.

*Chih!*

Milton came back to his senses, charged forward, caught up with the two Xiong Shi soldiers who wanted to retreat, and after a few crisp sounds of swords, the two were easily cut down to the ground.

Heavy breathing sounds were constantly coming from the helmets of the two Xiong Shi soldiers.

The two swords clashed instantly, but the strength of the young man's swing made his expression change again. That was not the strength that should belong to a teenager. Even the brute force of the barbarians was no more than this.

They had only drawn their swords halfway and looked at the scene in front of them with a dazed expression.

Genius!

Lei Kai was stunned. He had indeed just come out of the tavern, having drunk all night. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and then he brought two brothers who were drinking with him to question him.

If it weren't for the alcohol, he wouldn't have been so impulsive.

Lei Kai staggered backward, losing his balance. Before he could stand firm, the dizziness of a hangover hit him at the same time.

*Clang!!*

In just two seconds, everything had been completely decided.

When they first saw him fall to the ground, they thought that Lei Kai was just pretending to fall, or that he was careless for a moment and his hand slipped.

"You don't think you can attack me, do you?" All of his people, his soldiers, were around him. He didn't think a mere little boy could make much of a splash.

Since it was a dangerous situation with a blind spot targeting him, he had to strike first and deal with it completely.

"Dispose of them all, Teacher Milton," Li Cheng頤 said lightly.

"What? What do you want to do by asking that?" He sneered twice, his eyes fixed on Li Cheng頤.

Facing a knight, only heavily armored soldiers could somewhat ignore the difference between weapons.

"Of course not daring." Li Cheng頤 looked around and saw a total of eight Black Fortress soldiers guarding the training field, all staring at him intently.

The crisis just now had been resolved. After confirming that there were no new sources of danger around, he relaxed.

Perhaps he had mistaken Lei Kai as a dangerous threat that came with the blind spot; after all, he was too weak. But it didn't matter. It was better to kill by mistake than to let go. Anyway, for him, it was just a matter of lifting a hand.

Wiping the blood off his sword in the snow, Li Cheng頤 turned calmly and walked towards the Black Fortress.

His current strength was not strong, but combined with special techniques, he could amplify his strength a lot.

And he had practiced swordsmanship techniques in Pangguang for a long time. The basic swordsmanship contained a great deal.

Lei Kai's death caused a huge sensation in the Black Fortress. Afterwards, no one spread the word that Li Cheng頤 had killed him. Instead, it was rumored that Lei Kai died suddenly after falling down drunk.

There were multiple witnesses, and two Xiong Shi soldiers were present.

Death from alcoholism was not an isolated case. In this cold land of ice and snow, drinking was people's favorite entertainment activity. Death from high alcohol content was a common occurrence.

Before anyone else could verify, Lei Kai's body was hastily cremated, eliminating the possibility of repeated investigations.

That night, Melissa rushed to Li Cheng頤's room and asked him about the matter.

Li Cheng頤 answered directly without hiding anything.

"How could you do this? He's your uncle!!" After learning the truth, Melissa staggered back two steps as if struck by lightning, her back against the wall, her cheeks pale.

"He wanted to kill me and inherit the territory. You should be clear about this, right?" Li Cheng頤 calmly flipped through the new book in his hand, not even looking at her.

"Then you can't kill him! You could have imprisoned him..." Melissa wailed in disbelief.

"Sorry, to correct one point, I didn't kill him. I'm only thirteen years old this year. How could I kill a battle-hardened battlefield knight? It was just an accident," Li Cheng頤 said.

"...An accident...your grandfather won't think it was an accident...he won't let you go..." Melissa said with a pale face.

"It doesn't matter. It takes time to send a message back from here, and it takes time to investigate the case. Even if the investigation is clear, it will be enough for us to integrate everything," Li Cheng頤 said, unconcerned.

After personally experiencing the strength of a regular knight, he knew that it was just the limit of a slightly stronger ordinary person. Even wearing armor and carrying weapons, the degree of threat to him was not comparable to the modified humans of the Earth-Moon era.

Weak, rough, like weeds.

Such an opponent was not worthy of being called an opponent at all; they could only be considered vermin.

In that case, what was the real threat to him in this blind spot?

He pondered.

A blind spot that could forcibly pull him out of the City of Annihilation, he didn't think it would be so harmless.

Nor did he think the danger would be so small. If it were really that simple, then so many dead-enders wouldn't have died.

So he had to be extremely cautious.

At this time, Melissa came back to her senses, looking at her son, who had a indifferent and calm expression under the candlelight, and a strong sense of sadness suddenly rose in her heart.

Her son had killed her brother...

What could be more sad than this in the world?

"Carlos, you're not like your father, and you're not like me..." Filled with deep sadness, Melissa left the room.

Li Cheng頤 did not comfort her. Melissa was just an ordinary person. Whether Lei Kai or Carlos died, she would show this kind of reaction.

Lei Kai wanted to kill him before. Did Melissa really not know?

No, she knew. She just wanted to delay, just felt that the situation had not reached such a serious point...

The illusion of peace had anesthetized her.

This was not giving up until one was at the Yellow River.

Collecting his thoughts, Li Cheng頤 continued to flip through the book in his hand.

Now that knight training was on the right track, he was eating a lot of meat every day, and his body was developing normally.

Although the bloodline belonging to the Dark Dragon God was restricted and could not be fully exerted, it could still transform and extend into the body in a small way.

After all, even brilliance could leave a bit of flash. The ultimate bloodline of the Dark Dragon God came from Hua Yu. Even if it was restricted by the world, it could still play a role.

It was just a matter of how much it played.

Time passed, and soon, Lei Kai's death quietly spread, reaching the Saar Territory, thousands of miles away.

There was no response. The Earl neither sent anyone to investigate nor gave a reply.

Only a few weeks later did the stationed Xiong Shi army quietly leave, leaving no one behind.

Obviously, after his son's death, the old Earl chose to default on the result.

He only had two sons and one daughter. If he killed his grandson because of this again, it would inevitably lead to his daughter's alienation, which would be like severing his own bloodline.

Now that the matter had been settled, he may have hesitated for a long time, but he still chose to accept it.

Li Cheng頤 didn't care about this. Knight Milton helped him integrate all the soldiers of the Black Fortress, and with the assistance of the recovered Director Old Buck, he quickly took over the position of territorial security officer, becoming completely Li Cheng頤's man.

Melissa indulged herself every day, indulging in alcohol, salons, and small banquets.

Completely ignoring Li Cheng頤's affairs.

Time passed quickly for another two years.

Li Cheng頤's body became more and more robust and burly. He put on custom-made heavy armor, and his rapidly growing strength allowed him to quickly surpass the limits of ordinary adult men, reaching the level of specially trained knights, almost on par with Milton.

With such strength, combined with profound force exertion techniques, he was already able to defeat a fully armed and all-out Milton within three moves in a frontal confrontation.

Compared to defeating the drunken and careless Lei Kai, such strength was completely unbelievable in Milton's eyes.

It should be known that while skills can be learned and comprehended, talent, strength, speed, and explosiveness are all dependent on innate abilities.

And Li Cheng頤 lacked nothing, he was simply the most perfect warrior.

Spring, Empire Year 774.

Viscount Tisilan, near the Okra Territory, held a large coming-of-age salon for his two daughters who were about to come of age.

He invited all the eligible youths from the surrounding territories to come and interact.

Viscount Tisilan was the superior noble of Baron Okra, and also the nominal master of the conferment many years ago.

In accordance with the most basic order and rules within the nobility, Li Cheng頤, as a baron, naturally had to give face.

After receiving the news, Director Old Buck immediately went to find Baron Carlos.

The slightly cold air of spring poured in from the corridor window.

Old Buck ignored the cleaning maids who bowed to him along the way, grabbed a patrolling Black Fortress soldier and asked for the baron's location.

"The Baron should be reading in the study," the soldier replied.

(End of this chapter)