His routine for the next few weeks was simr.


    In the morning after breakfast, he would practice with the fierce girl Helia who fought with him until the evening.


    With time, he was able to dodge her attacks andnd more strikes on her. She started increasing the strength used for him which made him understand she was going easy on him from the very start.


    In the evening, he would bathe and sit with Lia in the garden to enjoy the beauty of Moonlight, fairies, and especially his wife.


    She would make him bathe in medicinal herbs and have their dinner before they went to bed.


    As the days passed, Rio improved greatly in sword fighting and gained massivebat experience. He became closer to Lia but felt a distance from Helia as she still gave him cold treatment inbat training.


    On the 27th night aftering to thend of the asura.


    Rio and Lia were walking in the garden when Yami came hurriedly.


    "Your highness, please return to the vi. A prisoner has run away. It''s unsafe here." She said with a grave tone.


    "Who ran away?" She asked with a frown.


    "I don''t know your highness." She bowed to her.


    "Okay, we will return back. You can go now." She said with a cold voice as she remembered her dream from the morning.


    Yami bowed to her and left.


    ''My eyes of destiny gave me another dream.''


    She was contemting and thinking about the dream from the morning in which Yami and His father were talking about a secret n behind her back.


    Rio asked while facing her, "What prisoners do you guys keep here in the castle?"


    His voice jolted her awake but before she could answer him she saw Rio''s eyes flickered with murderous intent who was standing in front of him and facing her.


    His figure disappeared from her sight and she felt a strong gust of wind behind her.


    A sound of flesh cutting was heard in her ears and she turned around to see as a sword pierced Rio''s shoulder and protruded from the other side along with his flesh as well as blood.


    Hot crimson blood spurted from it and sttered on her fairy-like face as Rio took the strike on himself that wasing for her.


    A human was standing there whose sword had stabbed Rio''s shoulder. He was tall and bulky but his body was marked with many cuts. He looked injured andcked energy.


    He appeared behind them out of nowhere and was about to strike Lia when Rio saw him.


    If he wasn''t skilled how could he escape the eyes of many guards and even Lia who didn''t feel his appearance when he appeared behind her?


    She was contemting her dream so she could''ve missed it. But she felt something was fishy behind this whole incident.


    The bulky manughed evilly and pointed his empty hand towards Lia but before he could do anything.


    A scythe enveloped in ck smoke howled in a terrifying voice and struck him vertically as his body split in two.


    Blood came out of his body like a red flower blooming.


    A cloud of ck smoke covered his body and started burning in ck fire.


    Rio, who just used his skill "Judgment of Devlin" after "Devlin Movement Technique", grabbed the de of the sword out of his shoulder and threw it away.


    The bulky man''s body was incinerated by the vicious ck mes of his strike.


    Rio gritted his teeth and fell to his knees.


    "argh!"


    He puked out everything he atest night while tears flowed from his eyes.


    Lia held his body from behind and patted his back.


    "argh!"


    He vomited again and felt devoid of energy from body and mind.


    Executing that strike had taken his 90% of mana but killing a human for the first in his life made him filled with disgust and guilt.


    Lia supported him to stand up. He looked dazed while Lia embraced him from the back to help him walk.


    He was unable to calm his mind and She understood his mental state.


    The ck mes dissipated, and only the badly charred body remained.


    Yami had already run to Lia but she was stopped in her track after seeing Rio''s condition.


    Emperor arrived with guards there as hearing themotion.


    He called for a priest and it came soon after as if already prepared in advance.


    The priest cast a healing spell on Rio and his wound healed at a visible speed.


    Although the physical injury vanished the mental blow was still there which shook him to the core.


    "Young boy… It seems like you have never killed anyone before." Emperor Dn said with some concern and paused to look at the charred corpse to the side


    He continued, "That prisoner was at ck stage. Even if he was injured, It''s praiseworthy that you were able to finish him with only one strike."


    "He needs to rest," Lia said with a chilly voice to him.


    Saying that she started moving towards her Vi while supporting Rio.


    "Let me help you, your highness." Yami came forward to help but Lia ced her hand in front of her and made her stop her footsteps.


    Emperor sighed seeing how his daughter was treating him and Yami after Rio got injured.