Rise Of The Dragon Emperor

Chapter 66 Progress

The next few months were nothing short of Hell for Ronan as Karna worked him to the bone.

Not only did Ronan on a daily basis refuse to yield to his limits and have to crawl his way back to the hut they stayed in , but also his muscle soreness never decreased meaning that every other day became even more difficult than the one prior.

However no matter how beat up Ronan was , he refused to give up. It was a behaviour that Karna found most peculiar .

Apart from that Ronan was rapidly progressing under Karna’s tutelage as every single day he pushed his body to the absolute limits and practiced the first form of the martial arts bestowed upon him by Karna as he truly made visible progress day after day.

Every single day , Ronan would wake up at 4 am in the morning , train till the sun was at its peak , rest for 4 hours and then train again until it was time to hunt for dinner.

Karna meticulously trained Ronan in the basics of being a successful hunter , as he taught Ronan practical skills that no book would ever teach him.

– How to determine the wind direction_.

-How to mask one’s scent to not alert the sharp nosed prey

– How to camouflage with the surroundings and lay as still as a rock before launching a surprise attack

– How to skin animals and drain them of their blood

– How to handle the organs of various species.

This was all invaluable Knowledge that could never be learnt through books , hence although Ronan was away from the academy life , he was actually being raised in a much proper manner that was more beneficial in becoming a true warrior.

Even after dinner , Ronan practiced for 2 hours as he tried to understand the nature of his forbidden element , however this was the training that he did in secret as Karna had absolutely forbade him from using his powers.

Ronan realized that whatever his power touched turned to Ash , and that whenever he tried to use his powers , a voice that was not his own began to speak in his mind urging him to loose control and destroy his surroundings.

Ronan had no idea where the voice came from , or why he heard it , but he did not disclose this information to Karna Sensei as although he did trust Karna , he did not trust him unconditionally .

Karna was apparently looking for a method to mask his powers , however it was a very complicated procedure that required him to harvest essence of sundrops everyday. Since the sun was the giver of life , and the only element that could mask the destructive force in Ronan’s body.

However it was not a permanent solution , but only a mask that would allow Ronan to have normal human interaction without being discovered as a forbidden element user , and Karna only needed a few more weeks to successfully create the potion.

Once the potion would be completed he would take Ronan out of this hut in the remote forest and start travelling in the wild again , looking for new challenges however untill then the same training routine continued.

Karna marvelled at Ronan’s progress at learning everything as seldom did karna have to demonstrate things twice to Ronan who grasped everything after studying it once.

Although complex techniques like the Raging Fist needed constant repetitions to be learnt perfectly , in a few weeks Ronan’s progress was akin what Karna was able to achieve in a year when he first started learning the move which made him realize that Ronan might be able to master the move in under 3 months!

It was a ridiculously high speed which gave Karna the chills , as he started to worry about what to teach Ronan next if he continued to consume knowledge at this speed.

However it was a problem for another time.

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( Meanwhile in the nothern barrenlands )

Alexander had marched the army of Avalon into the nothern barrenlands as wherever the Avalonian army passed , only Ash remained.

Augustus and Alexander consumed with rage were the most dangerous men on the battlefield as no nothern warrior could stand their rage .

Every day a village would fall and every week a chieftain would be reduced to ashes. As within the month 3 chieftains lost their life while the army was on the doorsteps of the fourth.

Answers and Reinforcements were demanded from the seven seas organization and the Phoenix clan however both of them did not have the appropriate means to respond.

Leif had crippled the political support for seven seas organization as William was unable to mobilize mercenaries to help the chieftains , while the phoenix clan fled the nothern barrenlands overnight . Choosing asylum in the Central Empire .

This left the nothern chieftains to fend for themselves in a war that was actually provoked by outsiders . However the consequences of the actions of the outsiders were theirs to bear.

The Avalonian army charged with the passion of their king and feeling the rage at loosing their second prince was unstoppable , as casualties on the Avalonian side was minimum while morale was on a alltime high after having a string of overwhelming Victories.

However after the army reached the doorsteps of the fourth chieftain , the rest of the chiefs had understood that should they not put their petty difference aside and fight the enemy under a common front , all of them would be annihilated one after the other.

Hence the other four chieftains formed a coalition army to resist the Avalonian advance.

A huge conflict was hence set in motion , as once the fourth chieftain fell , the advancing Avalonian army was set to meet with the coalition army of the Nothern barrenlands.

/// A/N – Dear readers , a time skip has started from this chapter , as each chapter from hence forward would cover a timespan of few months until Ronan’s period of exile would near an end .

So expect a lot to happen within a few words , however please understand that everything that is happening is still important to the plot.

Thankyou ? ///