7 years old

In the private garden of the sapphire palace, where there are green grasses and beautiful flowers. A boy can be seen practicing alongside a maid.

No matter from which angle you look the maid was clearly a milf but even though she was a maid and a milf she had an aura of superiority that will even put the nobles to shame. She was holding a sword while sparing against the boy. Even though she was wearing her maid outfit she can be seen moving fluently like a veteran swordsman.

The boy seemed to be in the age of 7 with pitch black hair which were darker than night and sapphire blue eyes which resembled true sapphire gems due to them being jewel eyes. Anyone at one single glance can tell that he would be a lady killer in the future.

This was obviously Lucy and Lucas. They were training swordsmanship and even though Lucas was not as natural and fluent as Lucy he was way better than normal swordsmen.

Lucas wanted to go to the dungeons to level up but he received a direct declination by Leon. According to Leon even though Lucas had the theoretical and conceptual knowledge he was still lacking in something called experience.

Yet due to Lucas's constant nagging Leon found a middle way of this problem. Lucas was asked to fight against Lucy and whenever Lucy thinks that Lucas was strong enough she would allow him. It has been two whole years yet Lucas has not managed to even scratch Lucy. In short, Leon has tricked Lucas.

Lucas was angry at first then he also recognised that he was too weak. He has been using dragon eyes alongside training to observe the footwork and techniques more understandably. After two years Lucas had completely learned Lucy's attack pattern but he can't replicate them.

Dragon eyes gives you observation and memorization like no other but that doesn't mean you can overcome your physical limitations.

Yet due to constant training with Lucy Lucas have become a lot stronger than before. He has also been practicing to use dragon eyes in direct battles. Even though dragon eyes are overpowered they are not broken. He will require constant training and experience to be able to multitask using dragon eyes.

Lucas has also been training magic but he refused Leon's offer. Lucy was a physical fighter and she can't use mana except for some specific training. That's why Leon wanted to assign the Royal Archmage as his teacher. Lucas refused it as he was able to understand most of the things through the theoretical part. Secondly he didn't want to trust an outsider by giving him a way to measure Lucas's strength.

Leon understood Lucas's reasoning and allowed him to study on his own. After all, at that time even the maids of the castle couldn't be trusted. All the servants of the castle are either from noble origins or the most talented people in the empire who graduated from top universities in the empire. He also allowed Lucas to ask him any questions he needed. Even though Lucas didn't know, Leon was called as the second strongest emperor in the chronology of past emperors.

" Your highness, his majesty, has asked for your presence for lunch." Lucy said while bowing in front of Lucas giving him a clear view of her cleavage.

They had just stopped training and were sitting at an outdoor table. Lucas with the training of Lucy has become completely noble from his way of speaking to the way of his seating. Even now he was sitting on a chair with such elegance while slowly sipping tea.

Lucy received the call of Leon from her own personal communication bracelet. Lucas at first flustered profusely and asked Lucy to stop this behaviour at once but Lucy retorted saying that it was a part of his training. He should be completely able to resist the temptations of any woman as a prince.

" Fine," Lucas replied. He had gotten so used to Lucy in the past two years that he didn't even give her a glance. Actually he didn't even believe the reasoning that Lucy had given him about the temptation training, he just thought that this mischievous maid needed to tease him one way or the other. And his thinking was right as Lucy pouted a bit by Lucas's lack of interest.

Lucas was thinking more about the reason behind Leon's sudden summon for lunch because it was rare for Leon to even talk to him as he is always busy. Lucas had started to get depressed about the idea of being the emperor but he will find a solution to it, probably.

Lucas simply stood up and started walking towards the entrance of the palace and Lucy followed behind him like a proper maid. The other maids of the sapphire palace barely talk with Lucas due to the difference in status. Lucas always thought about Lucy's origins at that time. Really, how come this maid just not talk freely with an imperial prince but also tease him !?

Lucas changed his clothes to some normal palace clothes with a short pants, shirt and suspender. Except for that he wore a brooch on his pocket and a bracelet he always wears.

Lucas simply stood there while Lucy stood near him. Lucas sent a bit of mana in his bracelet activating it which caused the gem on the crystal to glow. A magic circle with countless runes appeared on the floor and it also started glowing until the circle vanished alongside Lucas and Lucy.

They appeared in the hallway leading to the dining hall of White palace and they started walking towards the entrance door.

Lucas used an artifact to warp from one place to another. You can only travel to specific coordinates set on the bracelet. The bracelet allows you to travel in some specific coordinates within the imperial castle. It is limited to imperial castles only and can only be used by the members of the imperial family who carry their bloodline.