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Prince Egone already knew about her since she participated in Melromarc's previous war against Siltvelt, alongside his father. It seemed that Prince Egone knew all the people who participated in the war, which amazed both Elrasla and Morsan.

The Hengen Muso Style is a legendary fighting style that relies on manipulating life force in combat. It was born out of the desire to save the world without having to rely on the Heroes.

It is said to have never been lost on the battlefield. Elrasla Ragnarok said that the style was no longer needed in this world and planned to take it with her to the grave.

In her youth, a martial arts prodigy proclaimed that her talent in combat made her destined to rule the world and go on a destructive rampage. Sadly, some of Elrasla's comrades lost their lives while battling this individual. As a result, Elrasla vowed to be the final practitioner of the art and refused to teach it to anyone else.

At that moment, Egone acted as a mediator and helped Elrasla and Morsan share their martial arts and body-strengthening techniques. Despite her initial refusal, she changed her mind thanks to Morsan's long relentless pursuit and her interest in 'Adi Mara'.

Strangely, no one seemed to question where Morsan had learned his techniques from.

Tizona claimed that by practicing 'Adi Mara' over a long period, one could increase their life force by several times. Elrasla regretted not knowing about this technique earlier.

To understand Hengen Muso and life force, it usually takes about ten years of training in the mountains, although some naturally talented individuals can learn it in a month. However, mastering the techniques at a deeper level requires special aptitude. Morsan learned the basics of 'Adi Mara' much faster due to his long-term practice of the technique, which uses the same power as life energy.

Despite her initial reluctance, Elrasla began to show new enthusiasm in her teaching as Morsan learned at a faster rate.

Hengen Muso is a style that does not require a specific weapon or medium, but anything can be used as a medium. It can be used to enhance weapons, magic, and skills. However, each attack style uses life force [Ki] differently.

For instance, life force can enhance the eyes to see flows of power. Instead of Tizona, Morsan used an alternative short sword he had bought due to Tizona's ominous presence.

Egone was an exceptionally skilled user of fire and water magic, but his leisure hunting had to be put on hold on the fifth day due to yet another assassination attempt.

Despite being prepared for another assassination, royal knights who were guarded prince were pushed back by hooded people, in that chaotic situation, Morsan, Elrasla, and Prince Egone were forced to flee to the forest. Both Elrasla and Egone got wounded as they escaped.

At that moment, Morsan deeply regretted choosing to come with the prince to that island. But he can't do anything about that even if he came to know things would change like this before all of these happened. 

He couldn't have turned down the offer directly from the prince of the country where he resides. Even if the prince hadn't gotten offended by his refusal, it wouldn't have been the same for the fraction that supported the prince.

Plus, it costs an insane amount just to come to this island at this particular time of the period, and who would have thought they would try to assassinate him again while tightly guarded by royal guards?

He had confidence that he could level up without any help from Tizona in this event since he became insanely strong in two years of practice. Tizona also leveled up to 20 and unlocked two new skills named [Skill Fusion] and [Soul Break].

By using [Skill Fusion] Morsan fused skills of the same uses such as [Super Acceleration] and [Brute Charge] which both increase his speed for a while. Hundreds and hundreds of skills were fused and created new overpowered skills.

Three of them concealed their appearance for a weak inside the forest.

Thanks to his [Herbal Detection] Skill, Morsan was able to treat the wounded prince and Elrasla easily, since he couldn't take out his recovery potion from the inventory before them.

In that week, Egone came to trust Morsan a lot, and both started calling each other without any honorifics. But Morsan still maintained some distance from the prince.

From Prince Egone, Mosan came to know that the people who trying to assassinate him right now had nothing to do with the person who tried to assassinate him before, which shocked both him and Elrasla. According to him, the people who are trying to finish him off must be the church of three cardinal heroes and corrupted nobles who getting benefits through the war between Melromarc and Siltvelt.

Egon didn't seem to be afraid of them even a bit, even in this situation, which made a positive impression on them. But when the private moment with Morsan, Prince Egone told him about the person who tried to poison his food, that's his sister, Malty S Melromarc.

Prince who wasn't afraid of either the church or the corrupted noble trembled a little bit when he talked about his 12-year-old sister.

When he asked him about the reason for his fear, Egone just told him "T-that thing.... is not my sister anymore... my sister... she is gone.." That statement raised a lot of questions for Morsan, but he didn't ask anything since Prince Egone didn't want to talk about it.

By the end of the week, instead of guards, hooded people found their location. Which greatly disappointed Prince Egone with his guards.

The intense battle erupted in the middle of the forest, The alternative sword Morsan brought with him was broken, and Elrasla also couldn't fight due to a certain illness after some time. So, Morsan was forced to use his [Blood Manipulation] that he hid along with the existence of Tizona.