If there exists those who are in joy, there’re bound to be others who are in agony.

A couple more years passed in the blink of an eye. In those few years, Damian had brought out Arche to play with his subordinates.

Damian had also instructed his subordinates to teach Arche. Unfortunately, Arche only wanted to learn Damian's spear arts. But Damian said,

"No Arche, you are not physically ready for the training required for it yet," he said while stroking Arche's hair back and forth.

"Okay dad," Arche responded while he sulked.

"Come on Arche, don't sulk. …how about this? I'll teach you Lunaria when you are proficient in at least 3 of the guards' arts, no matter how insignificant they might be," compromised Damian.

"You promise?" said Arche with beams of light in his hazel eyes.

"Yeah son, I promise" replied Damian with a huge smile on his face while he patted Arche.

After the two's conversation, Arche then began observing the guards. Every time he was at the training grounds, he observed all the arts the guards used.

He observed the shieldsmen, the spearmen, the bowmen, the swordsmen, and the scouts. After a week of observation had passed, he decided on the three. Although they were low-tier arts, they were still useful in certain aspects.

The first was called the Bison art. Which is a type of body enhancement. This art allows the user to strengthen certain parts of their body.

The second art was a punching art called Roo's punching art. This art boosts the user's punching prowess upon impact.

Lastly, number three. He chose a movement art. He partially learned the art from the scouts before. The scouts named their art The Black Mamba.

This art is especially very useful in ways of dodging. It also has been proven to help the user's flexibility. This, in turn, will help when the user is in need to escape.

When Arche had decided to learn those three arts. He began his training on the three of them. The first art Arche learned was the Bison art. The shieldsmen had a hand in helping him on learning the art.

They mentioned that if he wanted to increase his proficiency in the art faster, he had to wear little to no clothes whenever he was outside. All that while he also had to move a big stone from place to place for hours.

Next was Roo's punching art. It was simple yet complex art to master. All Arche had to do was punch a straw dummy for a couple of hours. But that wasn't all.

He also had to further strengthen his punch's impact upon contact with the dummy. One sign of the increasing proficiency of the art was whether the user had left a mark with the shape of their palm or their fist. Even better if they left a burn mark.

Then there was the Black Mamba art. Although simple to learn, it was fairly hard to increase its proficiency. Arche's task was to dodge the scouts' chain of attacks one after another. All without taking a single break.

The scouts prepared a second drill. The second drill they assigned Arche was completing a training course.

In a rush, they had made it in the shortest amount possible. Completing it was fine. Yet in addition to that, Arche had to complete it in less time than in his previous runs.

When Arche had the required proficiency of them all, Arche informed Damian. And his instructors were there to help him testify.

Damian was taken aback. How did a child, let alone a child that was yet to be 9 years old, master three arts in a year? Although reluctant, he decided to keep his promise. He then taught Arche Lunaria. His signature spear art.

Before he taught Arche Lunaria, he had to tell Arche the tale of Lunaria and its creator.

Lunaria was created by Damian's ancestor, Aibek. He was born a triplet, with two other brothers.

The three brothers all participated in what was called the forgotten war. He was a spear user. And inspired by the serenity of the moon, he created Lunaria. A serene yet powerful spear art.

Meanwhile one of his two brothers created Sol. A sword art that when used, the intensity of it can be felt throughout the battlefield. The other brother was the youngest of the three, he manifested the power of the stars.

The youngest's art can be classified as a body enhancement art. Theirs can only be passed to those who meet the requirements to wield it. He later named the art, Celestial.

Though Lunaria and Sol were powerful arts, only those who have the blood of the progenitor can use it to its full power.

At the time Aibek had realized it. His younger brother had married his childhood sweetheart. And they already had an inheritor to the Sol art, yet hadn't.

Realizing that Aibek will eventually meet his end on the battlefield. He used his vacation time to get married. Reluctantly, it had to be a political marriage. He had no other choice. He didn't have time to fall in love since the war was still ongoing.

Aibek married into an unknown noble family in the kingdom. The noble family was his subordinate's. Who unfortunately passed away on the battlefield. This left their family without an heir.

But Aibek had a choice in who he could marry. The eldest or the youngest. He decided to marry the eldest. They then had their first child who was a boy.

It was perfect! He now has an inheritor to Lunaria. But his vacation was short-lived. It was then time to go back to the battlefield. Although he had to go back and forth to the battlefield, he still found time to teach his son.

Unfortunately, Aibek could not pass down the full version of Lunaria. As he passed away on the battlefield. Fortunately, before he passed away, Aibek took out the enemy's highest-ranked general with the help of his two brothers and ended the war.

While only a portion of it, his son made Lunaria the family's art thrived with it. He, along with the second brother's family, had been made dukes by their kingdom. The youngest brother rejected the king's offer and decided to wander around the galaxy looking for an inheritor.

Disaster struck again. In the far future, Aibek's descendants would only produce disappointments.

One was a tyrant who only knew violence yet did not have the strength to back it. Then later down the line, useless trash whose only need is to indulge in carnal desires.

At that time, the second brother's family had enough. They planned out the eradication of the moon family. Which they nearly succeeded in doing so.

But the remnants of the family survived. And the survivors had already been taught the first and second forms of Lunaria.

Though it is unfortunate what had happened in the past to the Moon family. It was not the trigger on Arche's emotions. Especially the emotion that wanted him to go and avenge his fallen ancestors.

A reason is that he saw the point of why they did that. And he'd likely done the same thing as the second brother's family.

Although Lunaria is an amazing art, Damian, like the survivors, only knew of the first and second forms.

Lunaria's 1st form consisted of piercing into the opponent. While the 2nd form is parrying your opponent.

Though Damian only knew two of Lunaria's forms, it was enough to still make Arche eager to learn Lunaria.

Arche's training for Lunaria had begun. Damian said the first thing Arche have to learn was the basics. Because, without the foundation for it, Lunaria won't work as it is intended to.

Because of that, Arche started on the movement of the feet, the grip strength required to execute the forms, and lastly the stamina to last while executing Lunaria.

The first objective was to learn the movement of the feet. Damian had also told Arche to continuously observe his feet's movement. Even to the smallest moves. While continuously observing, it made another positive outcome. It helped improve his memory.

Damian told Arche that when he could finally execute the correct movements, they'd move on to the next. Fortunately for him, Arche had already mastered Black Mamba. The art helped Arche execute the correct movements.

For the following course, Damian would tell Arche to hang on a pull-up bar he had installed in one of their house's doorways. Though it did make Sunny a little mad.

Damian had also made a tool that can help improve grip strength. Arche was required to use it every day. Even while eating dinner. This also made Sunny upset.

Since Arche was still around 9 years old, the strict Damian had no choice but to tone down the original way of the last exercise. In which was climbing cliffs.

Damian had changed it to run until Arche's stamina had run out, and whenever Arche's back was lying on the ground, Damian kept Arche going until he was completely exhausted and could no longer move.

All those exercises were done within a year, and by the next year, Damian had begun teaching the first form to Arche.

The exercise was quite simple, he'd set up a couple of planks stuck together with nails then told Arche to pierce the plank through, the hard part was because Damian had made the planks with the toughest tree available.

These exercises took Arche another year to finish, but even then, Arche still could not compare to what Damian could do.

For the second form, Damian and Arche would have a sparring session and Arche had to try and parry all of Damian's attacks although cruel, this exercise helped improve Arche's reaction time and his judgment ability.

It was then a year later that Arche's training could be declared finished. By the time Arched had finished and is 12 years old, Damian said to Arche.

"That's all I could teach you, from this point on, only you can improve yourself."

Now that Arche had finished his apprenticeship with his father, he took the chance to rest in his house. Come night, everybody in town was lively, they celebrated Arche, for reaching heights even ordinary adults could not reach in their lifetime.

Little did they know, this was the joy before the sorrow.