Chapter 46: Training

Hello there.

So, after some gearing up that Igraine did, using her usual battle dress, we started to go to the training field of my palace casually conversing with each other and catching up with the things that I missed in my busy days in the past month.

No, I mean, the time gap between we first met for two hundred years is already closed by us for a long while already, but what I am saying is the casual times right now, her school days, her love life and many more. It seems like the guys in the academy are afraid of her.

First, she's powerful, second her mother is powerful, her aunt is powerful and lastly, her father is powerful. Yeah, in short her relatives are the powerhouse of the nation, so who would have the confidence on themselves to approach her?

And she also have quite the high standards, atleast from what can I see.

Well, I am really not that good in romance, after all, even though I have met many women and made them wet,  our relationship at the start is purely because of lust and I will just develop feelings for them after I had sex with them, so this topic is quite agonizing for me.

Good thing we finally reached the yard after walking casually for around 30 minutes, actually this field is being used by Libra and Vega normally, but right now they are training in the forest of death so we are the only ones here.

"Ahem... So Father... How would we start?"

Igraine immediately went and asked a question. She's really raring to go, after all she did her best to train so that she can live up to my expectations, though my expectations is too high and she honestly is a step lower to that of what I want to see from my children, but like I said, it's not like it is her fault, so of course I will not be too hard at her about my expectations.

Though, I have to be hard to her so that I can wipe out her budding superiority complex and make her realize that their is always someone better than her elsewhere.

"Well, how about a little sparring?"

I immediately pointed the rapier that I grabbed in the armory of the training field beforehand  on her, I straightened my back and spread my other arm a little to my side, smiling in front of her with the same confidence as her usual demeanor when fighting someone.

She seems confused about my gesture and carefully probed a question.

"... Sparring?"

I nodded, still holding the position I have a while earlier.

"Yes, sparring."

She seem more confused and locked her brows.

"With the same weapon as me...?"

Woah, woah, wait. Did my own daughter just implied that I do not have a chance on defeating her if we used the same weapon?

Dude, my sister is a master of this weapon!

"Yeah, and also you can use your Bloodline Magic while I don't use mine. Hell, you can even try to make me disappear while we are talking right now."

My eyes turned cold as I saw Igraine's turn angered, her head started to have veins and she immediately pulled out her rapier from its scabbard coating it with the void magic she have, a black energy similar to my own Bloodline Magic with a little sleeves of gold coming out of the sides of it.

"Ah?"

I made a smile full of mockery as I waved my blade in front of her, she couldn't bare my taunts and she finally lose it.

"This will hurt a lot, Father."

Her voice was rigged and is filled with void, nothingness, making it sound cold as if she didn't cared about me being her father or about her being my daughter, but I know that its the opposite, after all, I can use that voice without any magic or any kind of crap.

Now, let's see.

Igraine suddenly disappeared and appeared once again in front of me, her rapier stabbing in the direction of the shoulder in which my arm that is holding my rapier is held, furthermore she didn't used her magic and its just a simple stab.

I knew it, this person is too soft for me.

The analysis went just for a fraction of a second as I immediately intercepted her stab with the tip of my blade. Yes, the tip of my blade successfully intercepted the tip of her rapier making the two tips kiss each other.

Her anger filled eyes turn to a shocked one, of course, all people will be shocked if they saw this. After all, its not normal to see a rapier fighter use the tip to block a stab, usually they will use the side in a dancing like manner to send the stab to a different trajectory.

Like my sister for example, if she fights, atleast most of the time, she's like someone who is dancing the most beautiful of dances. If I'm not a family oriented person, I would grow a sister complex to be honest.

Don't look at me like I'm a trash!

Anyway, Igraine looked in my face as I grinned. If she's confident, I also am, confident than almost anyone on this Kingdom and surely, she is not the only one who is looking down on people all the time.

"H-how i-in the..."

I didn't even waited for her to finish her question and immediately pushed the rapier forward, causing her to be pushed back forcefully to her initial position.

She immediately brushed off her confusion after this, after all, I am her father, so she guessed its normal for me to do something impossible for normal people but she still didn't believed that she will lose. This is the reason I like the Igraine from before more than this one, she wants to improve and will always take the variable of losing to heart and will do her best not to lose.

Sometimes, in order to win, you just have to believe that you will lose.

We continued our spar with obvious results, she started to move around in circle with agile movements trying to atleast graze me, but to no avail, heck I didn't even moved from my spot nor moved my eyes in front and is just facing the wall while blocking all of her stabs that, after sometime of being desperate and frustrated because of her inability to touch me became slashes of reckless abandon.

"WHY!? WHY!? I TRAINED SO HARD TO REACH YOU! I TRAINED SO HARD FOR YOU TO RECOGNIZE ME! WHY!? WHY CAN'T I LAND A HIT!?"

She finally snapped and knelt in front of me with both of her knees, she dropped her sword in front of me that made some little metallic sounds as drops of tears appeared and dripped in both of her eyes, the daughter of the Devil that have absolute confidence towards herself is now nowhere to be seen and just a little girl who is disappointed towards herself because of her failure of living up to her father's expectations is visible.

Oh shit, I seem to have gone too far. I just want to teach and analyze her weaknesses so that I can preach and fix it properly for her, but it seems that I destroyed her heart instead.

However, I won't budge to this, after all, I am not a gentle person and honestly cannot make any gentler approach than this and second, this is for her own good, I don't want her to fight people who can go toe to toe with my race when she have strenght that just barely upper than that of humans, if so, then she will die a horrible death and I naturally don't  want that.

I slowly walked forward and approach her but she just walked away by slipping her butt into the floor.

"I... I have failed you... Don't touch me..."

She muttered in between sobs, in which I just let out a sigh.

"Failed me? Who are you to decide? Don't touch you? Who are you to decide?"

I walked in front of her, smiling a genuine one as I offered my hand in front of her.

"The one who will decide, is me. Get up, you're power have potential, potential to compete with the world. The point is, for two hundred years, your standards cannot make that potential bloom."

She looked at me and then in my hands, slowly reaching her palm into mine as she wiped her tears with her other hand.

"Do you know why the Rulers have you under their monitor? Or do you even know that void is not just about making things disappear in your whim?"

I reached out my other hand into her hand that accepted the help of my hand earlier as I smiled.

"I bet you don't. Now let me show you, how underdeveloped and dangerous you truly are."

I forcefully made her stand up by pulling her hand with both my hands, she looked at me shocked while having her lips shaking as it opens and closes continuously and wanted to say something and after thirty or so seconds of being gaped and ungaped, her mouth finally uttered words.

"You... You are not disappointed?"

I just looked at her with my ever so confident smile as I replied.

"Why would I? You are my daughter that I am forever proud of."

And after saying that, I immediately pointed out her flaws, this flaws includes her not poor but just insufficient foundation on how to use her Bloodline Magic, she just relied on the common knowledge that void means nothing so her bloodline magic can make things disappear, which is not the truth.

There are many things that is a master of the void can discover with the word "void". Though she have to discover that things herself, so what I did is I scheduled a personal study time between me and her to teach her the basics of her Bloodline Magic.

We actually have a whole library full of magic that can possibly be inhereted from the Darkbringer bloodline, yeah not just a library section but a whole ass library, so yeah, no problem with that.

Second,of course lack of knowledge about your genetic ability will result to the lack of control in abilities that can be trained, in short, Elemental Magic, she doesn't even know a single one, its honestly stupid. So I also arranged Virgo to have lessons with her, the only reason why am I teaching bloodline magic to Igraine and basic magic will taken care of Virgo is that, I found the Elemental Magic so basic and I will assume that everyone also is the same.

Second is that, I can't obviously let someone else study our heritage, that would be extremely dangerous.

Third flaw is that, inexperience when facing an opponent stronger than her, that's understandable the moment she started to go berserk facing me despite her being a more refined type fighter.

All of this and just an overhaul on how she perceives the power scaling of Valentine so that she can work harder is needed.

"I see, so I just have to change the way I see things..."

She nodded as I also did, and so after that day I let her rest and specially made the arrangements for her training myself.

Igraine will quit the academy and will be  given home schooling course by the one and only me, of course because she have friends in that Academy, I will give them special exemption to enter my palace so that they can interact with Igraine in her breaks, there will be classroom training and lessons every weekdays and Saturday will be practical tests, so they have the whole sunday to let it loose.

There is also a bonus night long conversation with Loki-Sama if that friend of Igraine is a lady, and that conversation will happen on my bed of course.

And so, making those arrangements the very next day we restarted a full day of training, I will not do anything in the next days other than train my daughter so I can rest assured that she will be a different person in just a few months.

I specially made her prioritize the teleportation like ability of Void Magic and I am sure that she will learn it immediately.

After all, my girl is a genius.