Mage Veigar

Chapter 30: Grave Guardian Family
The Nelson family is a family of grave keepers.

Although they are not nobles, they have their own surname 'Nelson'.

The Nelson family has a history of more than 600 years in the city of Kareni. They guard the Western Suburbs Cemetery, the aristocratic cemetery, for all the nobles of Kareni. Hundreds of years ago, when the nobles were still the most powerful force in the empire, they were also prominent in the city of Kareni for a time, and their status was even above that of ordinary lords and barons.

Time passes.

When the power of the nobility gradually withdrew from the stage of history, the status of the Nelson family also became a thing of the past. Today, there are less than twenty gravekeepers in the entire family, and the only professional is Oak Nelson, the head of the family.

Oak Nelson is over fifty years old.

This family of tomb-keepers is about to lose their inheritance. Once the high-ranking military officials take a fancy to this place, they will be powerless to stop them. At that time, his family of tomb-keepers will lose its original meaning.

When a monk strikes the clock one day.

If only a lieutenant like Vega wanted to enter here, then he was not so old that he couldn't lift a sword.

For fear of retaliation from the army, he did not dare to kill Vega or even any soldier, but it was easy for him to expel a level 3 apprentice and a group of ordinary soldiers.

Level 5 apprentice professional.

This is Oak Nelson's true strength. He has already stepped into the realm of lower-level professionals, and is one of the most core figures even in a regimental-level army.

With such strength, it is not difficult to keep everyone out without hurting Vega and the other soldiers. The level gap is not so easy to make up.

"Everyone put down your weapons and stand back."

To be on the safe side, Oak Nelson ordered his people to give up resistance. Even if the army really wanted to pursue the matter, it would be his personal responsibility and would have nothing to do with his people.

The sword points at Vega.

Oak Nelson said with full vigor, "It's easy to find a pretext to accuse someone of a crime. My family of grave keepers has been loyal to the empire and the nobility for generations. How can a mere warrant officer like you arbitrarily accuse me of anything? I admit that I dare not kill you, but as long as I am still alive, you will never set foot in the Western Suburbs Cemetery."

"It was not me who convicted you, but the imperial law." Vega's words were flawless.

He waved his hand and ten guards charged forward.

boom.

A strong magical power burst out.

Oak Nelson stood there and let the soldiers stab him with their spears. He killed one guard each with his hands, and in less than five minutes he had knocked out all of Vega's guards and thrown them aside. His moves were clean and neat, and his control of size was almost perfect.

Oak Nelson did not cause any actual harm to any of the soldiers, he merely made them unconscious. If Vega wanted to break through here, his fate would be the same as his subordinates.

"Level 5 apprentice?"

After asking the guard to test it out first, Vega could probably sense from the old man that his magic power was at least three times higher than his own. With his strength, even if the other party did not fight back, he could only cause minor injuries to the old man.

Things are in trouble.

He had been here under the pretext of a top-secret mission, and had a legitimate reason to force his way in. If anyone tried to stop him, Vega wouldn't mind making an example of them to frighten the monkeys, letting the nobles behind the tomb-keeping family know that his relatives were buried here. Anyone who dared to disturb Leah's peace would suffer his crazy revenge. The only miscalculation was that a tomb-keeping family actually had a level five apprentice professional.

Still not strong enough.

At this moment, Veigar was eager to improve his status and strength. If he was wearing the Imperial Wings Medal or had been promoted to a lower-level professional, how could the grave-keeping family dare to stop him? What could they do to stop him? But he was unwilling to retreat.

From the opponent's performance, it can be seen that this old man seems to have no intention of being an enemy of the military, and he only knocked his men out.

This means that even if he takes action personally, his life will not be in danger.

After realizing this, Vega decided to attack the old man. Even if he couldn't defeat him in the end, at least he could understand the strength of a level 5 apprentice. This opportunity to gain combat experience doesn't come every day.

Draw out the short knife.

The dagger that Vega had just seized was a top-grade magic weapon. Not only was it extremely magical, it also had a poisoning effect once it hit the enemy. The dagger was very poisonous. If the opponent was an ordinary person, it would almost kill him with one blow. If it was a professional, it would also allow the opponent to use up a large amount of magic power to fight the poison, thus weakening the opponent's magic power reserves.

Veigar strikes first.

When facing an opponent who is stronger than you, taking defensive measures is the wrong choice, because you may not be able to withstand a single attack from the opponent and be killed instantly. Therefore, the only way to have a glimmer of hope of winning is to seize the initiative and prevent the opponent from attacking.

boom.

Hand in hand.

The short sword's advantage lies in flexibility, while the long sword's advantage lies in strength.

Vega used his light body and flexible dagger, as well as the killing techniques taught by the army, to attack the old man's vital points with every blow. The old man had no choice but to defend himself temporarily. After all, Vega's attack power was enough to break his defense and cause him minor injuries.

It can be said.

If it was a life-and-death fight, Vega wouldn’t be able to survive even one move.

Unfortunately, Oak Nelson could only subdue Vega but did not dare to hurt him at all, which made the difficulty of the whole battle more difficult.

This was probably the most frustrating fight Oak had ever had in his life.

Because of this situation, Oak Nelson was unable to use many of his family's martial arts skills. He was afraid that he would lose control of his strength and kill Vega on the spot. Therefore, he could only passively take the beating, while symbolically resisting a few times, and finally wait for Vega's magic power to run out so that he could knock him out and throw him out.

Of course, Vega discovered this.

Only after the fight did he realize that there was indeed a world of difference between the strength of a third-level apprentice and that of a fifth-level apprentice. Although he could break through the defense to a certain extent, the opponent's combat awareness and strong magic power made it impossible to use his strength. After fighting for most of the day, not only did he not even touch the corner of his clothes, but he also used up most of his magic power.

Vega already understood.

It is completely impossible for him to enter the Western Suburbs Cemetery today. It seems that the only way is to wait until the awarding ceremony is over and use the Medal of Imperial Wings to force the nobles behind the tomb-keeping family to give up a piece of cemetery.

To put it bluntly, the nobles are a group of bullies who only care about the strong and bully the weak. If they can make friends with Vega, the rising star, by giving up a piece of cemetery, then even a fool would know what to choose.

But Vega did not intend to end the battle.

With every extra minute of fighting, he felt that he was becoming more and more proficient in using the magic power in his body.

After making sure that he could not enter the Western Suburbs Cemetery, Vega instead focused on mastering the use of magic as a third-level apprentice professional, and completely treated Oak Nelson as a training opponent.

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