Plans

In a dimly illuminated path, the sounds of a hammer striking the forge echoed through the air. Yes, as you've guessed, it's Orion in the forge, tirelessly working for hours on end.

"Another failure! -Sigh- Is it because I'm not as talented as dwarves in this craft? Maybe, but still, one day I will forge a weapon of my own."

Orion walked back to his room to take a shower, his clothes drenched with sweat. Afterward, he headed to the training grounds to find Evangelion sparring with the butler.

I took a seat in the shade beside a tree and watched the fight while sipping on a milkshake. Yeah, milkshake. What do you think I've been doing all these years? It took a lot of time to perfect this beauty.

"Slurp Smooth. Hm. Looks like the butler is teaching her the family's footwork. It's a bit too aggressive. Not that I'm suitable for judging it, but I feel it is utilizing the core vampires' characteristics: stamina and huge frontal attack power. Sister awakens an SS Rank talent in Fire element, same as my father. *Being Offensive is her forte*."

The butler, ever graceful and composed, demonstrated impeccable defensive maneuvers. He effortlessly countered Evangelion's strikes with precise blocks and well-timed dodges. With each move, it became evident that his mastery of combat was not to be underestimated.

As the spar continued, Evangelion's frustration grew palpable. Her strikes became more aggressive, fueled by a desire to land a decisive blow. However, despite her relentless onslaught, the butler remained unfazed, calmly deflecting each attack with graceful fluidity.

Then, with a sudden shift in strategy, the butler transitioned from defense to offense. In a swift motion, he closed the distance between them, launching a series of rapid strikes that left Evangelion struggling to keep up. With unparalleled speed and precision, he executed a flawless combination, ending the match in a blink of an eye.

Evangelion fell to the ground, feeling severe exhaustion, breathing heavily. "I need to learn a lot. Albert and Orion, stop slacking and come spar with me."

"Nah, do your thing. I was just curious," I said as I left the training grounds.

The butler internally felt puzzled. "Why is this young heir not showing any interest in swordsmanship, and instead spending time in either the library or that rotten basement in the forge?"

"Butler, no need to be puzzled. My brother is one of the weird ones. One day I asked him why he was so obsessed with the forge. Do you know what he replied?"

"No idea," the butler replied bluntly.

"To harness a weapon's true potential, you have to become the weapon itself."

"That's a very deep way of looking at things, madam."

"Or maybe he is just trying to act cool in front of me only. The future will tell. --Sigh-- Kids these days grow so fast, don't they, butler? I still remember the first giggles I had with my brother."

"True, kids do grow up too fast," the butler mused at those words.

After months of trials and errors finally, Finally I was able to make my first masterpiece *Jade Blades*.

=These are a set of long, curved, and razor-sharp blades made of jade, a precious stone highly valued in across the Duskendale continent. The Jade Blades are conductors of aura so they can be imbued with users energy, reflecting holders true aura nature. They are formidable weapons that requires the wielder with great skill and power, capable of cutting through almost anything with ease. The blades are also insulators of mana making their defense quite strong.

The final thing that he needs is a growth type soul seed so that the blade is capable of devouring souls and grow even stronger.

"Soul seed, it wasn't explicitly mentioned as for where to find it, it's a dwarven secret as they are the sole supplier and manufacturer of all the world arms including soul weapons. I guess i have to wait until Kutuck returns and give me his work."

"--Sigh--I will go out and test these bad boys."

As I walked into the training hall for some reason the butler and my sister were talking very deeply about somethings

"Oh! Orion you've arrived, I just wanted to inform you that i will be leaving to the capital for Mana awakening, until then you can train under butler. Is your weapon still ready?"

'Guess its time' "All the best sister, don't worry I'll train with the butler using my new weapon."

I displayed my masterpiece in front of them,

My sister took it and started examining it closely "Its quite weird Orion, you do realise that using jade limits yourself to aura and mana users deem it as a waste metal."

"Yeah, I plan to awaken aura and utilize this, I don't really care about what others think."

"Brother, are you planning on walking the path of knight even before knowing your mana awakening."

"Yup pretty much right."

My sister was looked at me with a dissapointed look,

The butler intervened "Mam, the patriarch is waiting in the carriage."

"We'll talk about this after I return, take care of yourself until then Orion"

"Bye sisters hope you awaken a great talent" saying so she took her departure.

"Young master why don't we start training?"

"Yes, let's start it then, what do we do first?"

"A spar you can test out your new weapon as well, it must be your first spar its my honor."

Air hummed throughout the training ground as I faced against the butler, he took a wooden sword from the barrack and looked me in the eye with an obvious smirk in his face.

'No matter how I see it he is open from all direction, or that's how it looks like he is trying to get into my mind.'

I took the chained jade machetes and threw at him while maintain my distance, 

--kacha--kacha--

The two weapons rebounded back as if they hit a wall but I couldn't even see him moving an inch from the position.

I continued to maintain my distance and increased the pace and angle of each of my strike to find out the rhythm of his sword, but it didn't even leave a scratch on him less move him from his position.

I threw the swords like a boomerang to attack him from behind but he evaded it by jumping high, but the position still remained.

"I must say that was an interesting move down there, you perfected the parabolic shot but the power and speed still fall behind, you might need more practice in honing the move."

'Strange it's like he has eyes in the back, is it what I think it is?'

"Butler are you an aura user?"

"No am actually using mana to detect your attacks."

"But I haven't imbued any mana into your weapon then how are you able to detect the attack pattern."

"Just my battle experience helps me to evade most of the attacks, as for random attack patterns I use mana to detect my surroundings."

"Then how about this one?" I rotated both of my blades like a tornado on each hand and started attacking him.

-Klang--klang--

Several blows were exchanged but the butler didn't even flinch for once but instead his master over swordsmanship was quite interesting, most of the time he simply touched the tip of the machetes to change the projection and saved any unnecessary moves.

'Guess its time for close ranged battle, I took the two daggers and went closed range, with each hit I felt shockwaves down my bones as I rebounded by the sheer momentum.

He stood like a mountain, I then attacked relentlessly without a care in the world like a wild beast, my wrists were shaking my head started spinning due to the mental drain.

My jade swords edges were chipped away, what i thought as a masterpiece crumbled in front of sheer force of a beast.

"I guess that's enough for today, Sir" the butler came behind me holding the sword.

"Yes" I crashed to the ground.