Guardian Sword

“Your Highness, Olivia is trying to seek a breakthrough through combat with you.”

Flora quickly conveyed the message.

“No problem.”

Sensing the refreshing aura emanating from the silver-haired girl, as well as her pure fighting spirit, Ryan nodded.

He knew a serious match couldn’t be disturbed, so Flora quickly ran to inform the instructors.

“Why are you guys causing trouble again?”

The instructors were speechless.

They had arranged team formations and internal sparring to prevent issues with the Crown Prince, but now this suddenly happened.

“Instructors, it’s just that, His Highness and that Bradley girl are just having a simple martial arts exchange, without any disputes.”

“Bradley again…”

Perhaps recalling something, the instructors sighed, nodded, and agreed, starting to organize the other students to make a wider space for the two.

This wasn’t to say they were giving special treatment to Ryan or Olivia, but rather that once a formal match occurred in class, no one else would be in the mood to do anything else.

Moreover, observing matches was beneficial for practical learning, so the academy’s tradition was to prioritize formal matches over practice.

“What, someone’s having a match?”

“It’s that noisy woman, Olivia Bradley!”

“Her again! Is she going to break someone’s sword again this time?”

“As expected of the silver-haired gorilla, so violent! Directly challenging the Second Prince!”

‘This is good, our people are getting excited.’

Combining the information recorded in the roster and the audience’s words, Flora roughly understood the situation—as an ugly duckling knight who was ridiculed and ostracized by many, Olivia had challenged the school’s celebrities more than once in the past two years.

The result was more wins than losses, and often against upperclassmen.

However, Olivia’s actions didn’t attract more female admirers.

Instead, they invited more contempt and disgust.

Of course, this was more due to the wounded pride of those boys who were inferior to Olivia.

They actually acknowledged Olivia’s strength.

Compared to her, many of those who wanted to attack Ryan felt somewhat ashamed.

So in this battle, they unanimously sided with Olivia.

And prepared to publicize wildly after Ryan lost, that he was not even as good as a female knight…because in other academies, there were also female knights,

But normal female knights, due to physical limitations, were much weaker than male knights, so they would eventually retreat and choose to become assassins or rangers…such as Yuri, the shadow guard who often protected Flora.

Thus, in the eyes of the world, a male knight losing to a female knight was a very embarrassing thing.

[Your Highness Ryan, please be mindful of your actions.]

Flora certainly didn’t think Ryan would lose, but she was worried that he would instantly kill Olivia and cause her a setback, or deliberately hold back too obviously, making Olivia dissatisfied.

[I know.]

Ryan was a bit uninterested.

He originally wanted to teach those shouting guys a lesson, and by the way, test the new skills he had recently learned.

But now that his opponent was the silver-haired girl they were preparing to build a good relationship with.

He could only be as serious as possible, clash with the other party for a dozen or so rounds, and then suddenly knock them down.

“Your Highness Ryan…did you cause the anomaly at the artificial lake yesterday?”

Before officially retreating to a distance, Olivia asked softly.

“Yes,” Ryan said calmly.

“Then, please don’t hold back later…I will go all out.”

Olivia said excitedly, her fighting spirit surging.

“Then we’ll see how much of my power you can force me to use,” Ryan laughed.

The two quickly separated. After the instructor finished explaining the precautions, the silver-haired girl slowly drew her sword—a light azure rapier.

It was wider than a stiletto, but narrower than a regular rapier…somewhat like a ceremonial sword, or a custom sword specially for Olivia.

But the moment they saw this rapier, many knights on the sidelines couldn’t help but gasp.

The nickname “silver-haired gorilla” might have been a bit harsh, but it wasn’t wrong at all.

Olivia’s strength was something many men were ashamed of.

And the reason she used this sword was mainly for speed!

But don’t think she only had amazing sword-swinging speed.

Just from what was known, at least twelve knights’ greatswords and giant swords had been cut by this seemingly paper-thin blade.

Although it was unknown whether that was due to Olivia’s own skill, or the sword’s power…

But the moment they saw Olivia take out this sword, “A light azure sword?”

Ryan was attracted by the color of this rapier.

Even if he hadn’t been inside the Blue Lion family, he could guess that no one inside would falsely use items related to this color.

Even those great families that no longer respected the Yaros family very much wouldn’t be an exception.

And as the daughter of the Bradley family, who were most loyal to the Yaros family, Olivia actually used light azure weapons, plus she had always expressed her approval of that person…

Ryan somewhat understood why Flora’s initial gaze towards Olivia was so strange.

Considering that Flora hadn’t really blamed Olivia until the very end, and he hadn’t been able to do anything to help her…

Ryan gave up on drawing his sword, and instead went to the weapon rack and took out a wooden sword.

Everyone burst into an uproar.

“That’s too disrespectful!”

“Silver-haired miss…ah, no, Bradley, go for it, teach him a lesson!”

“If you win today, you’ll be our goddess for one day only!”

The silver-haired girl didn’t care about these things, but there was a hint of displeasure on her face.

Ryan had a hint of playfulness in his eyes.

“Vice-Captain Rein, she did her best to speak in a calm tone:

“I will work hard to make you change your sword.”

“Go for it.”

Rein rarely encouraged others.

But Rein was still leisurely and carefree.

Olivia took a deep breath and entered battle mode from afar.

She had come to seek a breakthrough.

Naturally, she couldn’t waste too much time while the other party wasn’t serious.

Of course, she knew that the other party was very strong, already a Heavenly Knight, and his understanding of swordsmanship was still above her.

But at the level of a knight, with his strength suppressed, he still thought he could defeat her by holding back…then she could only say that the other party was too arrogant and self-important.

Whoosh!

Olivia heavily stomped the ground and rushed towards Ryan.

In her eyes, the wooden sword seemed to have two lines.

As long as she swung her sword along these two lines, she could split the wooden sword in half.

Of course, a normal wooden sword only had one line. The fact that it had two lines was already a good indication of the other party’s strength.

But if it was a normal iron sword, it would have at least four lines…

The moment Ryan chose to use a wooden sword, this first round of exchange was already destined to be Olivia’s victory—

Swoosh, swoosh.

The sound of cracking that she expected didn’t happen.

Olivia turned her head and was surprised to find that the wooden sword in the other party’s hand still had two lines, and she hadn’t even cut a single one.

This showed that in the previous two sword exchanges, she, who was using a steel rapier, hadn’t even shaken the structure of the other party’s wooden sword.

“The scenery you see, I can naturally see as well.”

Ryan smiled, “But whether you can see what I can see…that’s a different matter.”