Birthday Banquet 5

Derrick answered with a brilliant smile, which made Luke Ravenshood smile as well, his plan was going extremely well, it was even better, it was the idiot who took the bait.

"Excellent, your son is a more braver man than you Baron Dark" duke Darion said with a click of his tongue, he seemed dissatisfied with Baron Dark, and was unhappy with him.

"Well, well, I should probably rest on my chair with a wine on hand to watch this show, hold back on the kid, he is still an Earl's son" Zazel spoke to Derrick, who seemed to ignore Zazel's words most of the time, due to the stupid things he usually says.

"Son are you sure?" Baron Dark asked looking at his son, who only nodded his head "Alright make sure to be lenient" Baron Dark only said that and ushered everyone to the training grounds.

"Do you need a weapon or you came with yours?" Phill who was mostly healed asked the young Luke, who replied "I have my own weapon, no need for you to bring me another one" Luke replied the old looking man while bringing out his sword that looked like a saber than a sword.

The training grounds were packed, a barrier was made around it, the two contestants were facing each other, one had a sword and the other was without any weapon.

"How do you want to lose, a total beat down or a narrow loss" Luke asked with a calm face as if he wanted to show mercy to someone beneath him, Derrick totally ignored him thou, his huge smile was still there as if everything was amusing to him.

'He is an Earl son, so I should still hold the beating in front of a crowd, this is annoying nevertheless' Derrick thought after looking at Luke before apparently sighing.

"I will be your ref, the battle ends when I decides there is already a winner, the battle ends when any of you gives up, the battle ends when any of you lose consciousness, is that understood?" Phill asked looking at both Derrick and Luke, which both of them nodded.

"Alright, let the duel begin" Phill said while leaving the training ground.

Luke immediately dashed forward with his sword covered in aura, the sword was glimmering with the black aura of Luke, 'the weakness of mages was their speed' he thought he could quickly end Derrick before he could make any spells, but to Derrick, Luke who thought he was fast looks slow, so Derrick decided to play a prank on Luke, don't forget Derrick is also a swordsman reaching the 3rd stage.

Derrick waited for Luke sword to get to him, meanwhile the onlookers were looking at Derrick like he was a gunner.

"why is he standing there doing nothing?"

"hahaha he became petrified our of fear"

"is this the god of war, the Darks were probably lying to all of us" the whole onlookers who couldn't wait to see the downfall of Derrick.

The sword came from the top towards Derrick who dodged it by a few breath, another slash came again, Derrick dodged it again with only a few inches, within how 10 seconds Luke has already thrown about seven slashes, all missing Derrick within a few inches.

This amaze the onlookers, who started jeering, especially the younger boys "you only know how to dodge" "yeah fight like a man" "is this how the god of war fights, am not impressed"

Meanwhile the adults who were already in their own leagues, could understand that Derrick was purposely dodging that way, using less energy to dodge all Luke's strike and seems like he was taunting Luke.

"Is this how you fight? you just want me to expend my energy and finish me off" Luke shouted angrily towards Derrick, forgetting his good boy facade.

"hehehe I am giving you a chance to win by not attacking but you still can't touch me, you are a warrior and am a mage, is comical that am faster than you don't you think?" Derrick said with the huge smile still plastered on his face, he wanted to teach Luke a good lesson.

"Shut up I will strike you down" Luke roared "Sword slash" Luke slashed forward with aura, the dark sword aura slash towards Derrick cutting the ground in the process, this didn't faze Derrick either.

"Water clone" Derrick said, the sword aura slashed through Derrick water clone cutting it in half, the whole audience was dazed in shock, thinking Derrick was dead, Luke smiled sinisterly thinking he has won, forgetting it was only a duel, the next moment the split clone splashed water to the ground revealing Derrick at the training ground again without a scratch on him.

"wow isn't that the high tier magic spell water clone"

"yes it is, I have seen it before"

"impossible is he already an elder mage at such a young age?"

"hmm the battle is not over yet, let's continue watching" the audience who were only there for the show quickly ushered.

"It seems you do have some skills, but I won't miss the next time" Luke said angrily, he was currently being humiliated, and Derrick hasn't even fought back.

"Alright, I want to be generous towards you, I will give you an opportunity to attack me three times before I end this duel" Derrick said, the smile finally gone from his face, 'time to end this farce'.