The wrong transmigrator assigned by the system

However, just because he didn't have it doesn't mean others didn't. For example, Yusahar's mother, Countess Luianali Sach, the lord of Niflheim.

Just as Lu Ming and his companions were helping Yusaha and Lily, who had difficulty walking, out of their room and heading to the hotel lobby for something to eat, they encountered the lord's guards who had been waiting in the lobby for a long time.

"Governor Lu Ming, the lord requests that you, Lord Yusaha, and Lily Helas return to the lord's manor. We have also prepared a carriage and breakfast; please do not delay your journey any further." Upon seeing Lu Ming and his companions, the guard who had been waiting for a long time approached and spoke to Lu Ming.

Seeing his words, Lu Ming and the other two didn't say anything more and had no choice but to get into the carriage. They ate the breakfast prepared by the lord's mansion inside the carriage.

Meanwhile, in the lord's manor in the noble district, Countess Luianali was receiving the knights of Grand Duke Hedist and the Grand Duke's son, Saldallo Hedist.

“Countess, I think you'd better stop protecting Viscount Hatu. After all, my father has known for a long time that he's plotting something wicked!” Saldallo still held the Countess in high regard for certain reasons. However, Luyanali's consistent efforts to protect Viscount Hatu had gradually made him less polite.

"Viscount Saldallo, I hope you can think this through. This isn't just about Hatu's family. If Hatu is investigated, the entire Erebos could be implicated!"

"Hmph! That's just sophistry!"

"Whether it's just sophistry or not, we'll find out soon enough. The most important thing right now is for Viscount Hatu to defeat that commoner named Lu Ming!"

"Lu Ming? Isn't he your son-in-law? Why don't you want this kind of son-in-law?"

"Son-in-law? If Yusaha hadn't wanted to use him, would he even be with Yusaha? It's nothing but exploitation!"

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Chapter 21 - On the Eve of the Duel (Please recommend and follow)

"Crystal Rapier: The Crystallized Elder's defensive rapier."

Legend has it that this treasure was forged from the souls of tens of thousands of tiny diamond fragments. Anything pierced by it would be crystallized by its contained energy. Furthermore, in Farron Keep, there are tales of it slaying formless vengeful spirits. However, due to the vast antiquity of these accounts, there is no concrete evidence for any of them. The only certainty is that it possesses magical destructive power.

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Sitting in the carriage, Lu Ming and the others quickly passed through the commercial district and the commoners' district, and arrived at the noble district.

From departure to arrival, the carriage driven by the guards took only about twenty minutes.

"Whoa!" Upon arriving outside the lord's manor, the guards immediately stopped the carriage and helped Lu Ming and the other two get off.

Looking at the unimaginably massive lord's mansion before them, Lu Ming and Yusaha felt uneasy. After all, Luyanali wasn't on their side, but rather on Viscount Hatu's side!

"Officer Lu Ming, in order to prevent you from disgracing our city of Paris, the lord has invited a highly skilled swordsman to teach you some basics of aristocratic dueling." Before Lu Ming and his companions could say anything, a servant from the lord's manor came over and forcibly took Lu Ming away.

However, some of the things he said made Lu Ming very uncomfortable. Yusaha, who overheard these words, sensed something fishy was going on.

Even if Lu Ming didn't understand Miracaissa's aristocratic etiquette, he was still far better off than ordinary commoners. Besides, a duel is a duel; I've never heard of aristocratic duels before! Even royal duels are nothing more than standing in front of each other, exchanging greetings, then a chaotic fight, with the loser bowing to the winner at the end.

This so-called swordsmanship teacher is very likely a tool used by the Countess to test Lu Ming's abilities!

If Lu Ming is incapable, let him lose to Viscount Hatu. If Lu Ming is capable, secretly manipulate things to prevent him from defeating Viscount Hatu.

To warn Lu Ming, Yusaha hurriedly followed.

But before she could even warn Lu Ming not to go, a maid stood in her way, stopping her.

Watching Lu Ming's retreating figure as the servants led him away, Yusaha gritted his teeth, silently turned around, and took Lily to his room in the lord's manor.

Following behind the servants as they walked through the lord's manor, Lu Ming also thought of some of the things Yusaha had mentioned. So, upon arriving outside the room where the servants said the swordsmanship teacher was, he took out his crystal rapier, just in case he was surrounded and attacked.

The servant glanced at the thin sword that Lu Ming had taken out at some point, then pushed open the door to the room, revealing a huge and empty room.

Like the other rooms in the lord's mansion, this room was luxurious to an extreme degree. The floor was marble, and the walls were adorned with paintings framed in gold. At the far end of the room stood a weapon rack, filled with high-level enchanted weapons that were impossible to buy elsewhere. Although Lu Ming couldn't understand their magic, he could sense the magical power they contained.

"You've come!" In the middle of the room sat a burly knight with a bushy beard and hair. As soon as he saw Lu Ming, he slowly stood up, picked up a longsword from the weapon rack, and then looked at Lu Ming coldly.

"I'm here!" Carrying his crystal rapier, Lu Ming walked into the room step by step, looking at the knight as well.

As for the servant who had led the way, he had already closed the door and hurried away, as if he were afraid that Lu Ming and the knight would kill him!

"What should I learn?" Lu Ming asked his nominal teacher after glancing at the door that had been closed by the servant.

"You don't need to learn anything. Just fight me!" The knight sneered, gave a knightly salute, and then prepared to attack.

In response, Lu Ming could only return the Undead Squad's salute, and then took the initiative to attack the knight with his crystal rapier.

Meanwhile, shortly after Yusahar brought Lily back to his room in the lord's manor, the countess sent someone to summon Yusahar to her place.

Reluctantly, Yusaha had no choice but to follow her. It just so happened that she was also planning to ask the Countess what she was up to.

Following the maid, Yusaha quickly arrived at the Countess's room.

She hadn't expected there to be other people present, and for a moment she didn't know whether she should ask the Countess what she thought of Lu Ming.

"Yusaha, are you and that girl from the Hellas family both planning to marry Lu Ming?" Perhaps noticing that Yusaha's gait was different from before, the Countess asked in a somewhat cold tone.

“Yes! Lily and I both intend to marry him!” Yusaha replied to the Countess with a similarly cold tone.

In the past, she might have changed her mind based on a single word from the Countess. But now, after being flatly refused her request for help, Yusahar has decided to give up on the position of Countess of Niflheim. Since the Countess wouldn't even consider her, she can certainly find another way. Isn't that right?

Luyana, who hadn't expected Yusahar to say that, was speechless after her plan to present him as a gift to the Grand Duke's son, Saldallo, to prevent him from investigating further, fell through. However, she quickly came up with another solution.

So she changed the subject and asked Yusaha, "Yusaha, who do you think has a better chance of winning, Lu Ming or Viscount Hatu?"

Yusahar was caught off guard by Luyanali's sudden change of tone. But she quickly replied to the Countess with great arrogance, "I don't think Viscount Hatu can defeat him from the Irithyll of the far north!"

The countess, unperturbed by this answer, asked directly, "Then, how does he compare to the Knight of Ricard in the city?"

"What!?" Upon hearing the name Likat, Yusaha was startled!

Like mages, warriors are also divided into six levels!

They are warriors, fighters, swordsmen, sword masters, dragon slayers, and dragon-blooded heroes of the same rank as the spirits of magic.

The Knight Ricard, whom the Countess mentioned, was one of the few swordsmen Niflheim possessed. She was simply not comparable to Lu Ming or a magic apprentice like herself!

Seeing Yusaha's astonished expression, the Countess smiled happily and said to him, "Do you really think a nobleman would duel a commoner? Don't dream! I can tell you, the one who's going to duel Lu Ming isn't Viscount Hatu at all! It's Li..."

Just as the countess was speaking, a loud noise suddenly interrupted her!

"That sound is... a grating cannon!" Upon hearing the loud noise, Yusaha recognized it as the sound of Lu Ming's grating cannon exploding and immediately rushed out to the source of the noise.

Seeing this, the Countess and Viscount Saldallo, who had been watching the show without saying a word, also followed Yusaha and rushed over there.

When they arrived there and pushed open the door, they saw a scene they had never dreamed of.

A magic apprentice, wielding a blue rapier, was dominating a heavily armed knight of the fighter rank, who was wielding a highly enchanted weapon, in a sea of ​​crystals.

"We, the mages of the Piheim Dragon Academy, are proud dragons, far beyond the reach of a knight like you! In Piheim, you are nothing but a lowly insect! So retract your pathetic words!" With three sentences and three swings, Lu Ming's crystal rapier crystallized the knight's weapon, then shattered it with a final swing!

At that moment, Yusahar and the Countess suddenly noticed several crystallized and broken weapons scattered on the crystal-covered ground. The sight filled them with heartache; those weapons were worth a fortune! They might even be equivalent to one to three years' worth of taxes from a viscount's territory!

The unarmed knight was relentlessly pursued by Lu Ming and forced to retreat. Finally, he was cornered against the wall, looking at the Countess in terror, hoping she would save him.

Unfortunately, the Countess had no such intention. A fighter couldn't even defeat a magic apprentice and destroyed so many enchanted weapons. Even if Lu Ming didn't kill him, she would have hanged him!

In the end, Lu Ming didn't kill the knight. Instead, he carried his crystal rapier, walked towards Yusaha, took her hand, and left. He didn't even acknowledge the Countess.

The Countess, her eyes filled with icy anger, watched Lu Ming pull Yusaha away. She clenched her fists, her teeth clenched, clearly furious. But Viscount Saldal, standing beside her, was completely different. He actually seemed to admire Lu Ming, this seemingly arrogant magic apprentice.

Little did he know, Lu Ming's words were only meant for them. He wasn't some magician from Piheim; he was just a reclusive person who had transmigrated here. How could he possibly say such things?

Walking down the corridor of the lord's mansion, Yusaha looked at Lu Ming, who was holding her hand, and for the first time, she truly felt love for him. It was no longer about using him, nor a transaction, but genuine love. All because Lu Ming had given the countess, who had always looked down on her as an illegitimate daughter, a resounding slap in the face.

Yes. Yusahar is an illegitimate child, conceived by mistake during a deal with a powerful figure to exchange titles before the countess became a count.

Growing up unloved by both her parents, she gradually developed an intense craving for attention and validation. But in the end, she remained the same. It wasn't until Lu Ming appeared that she saw a glimmer of hope—a hope to prove herself as a useful person, a hope to escape the shadow of being an illegitimate child!

Moreover, because of Lu Ming, she finally understood the principles of the soul magic that suddenly appeared in her mind, and could finally start recruiting apprentices!

"Hey! Lu Ming!"

"Huh? What's wrong?" Hearing Yusaha call his name, Lu Ming turned around to look at her. Instead, he received a kiss from Yusaha.

"It's nothing. I just wanted to kiss you..."

Chapter Twenty-Two - Duel One

Before evening, Lu Ming, with the help of Yusaha and Lily, put on the Black Knight suit, which had been washed several times, in Yusaha's room in the lord's mansion.

"How do I look? Not bad, right?" Holding the Black Knight's helmet, Lu Ming stood in front of a huge mirror and asked Yusaha and Lily behind him.

Yusaha looked Lu Ming up and down, then shook his head and said, "It's alright. It's just that the armor looks a bit strange. It's not as cool as some of Miracaiser's high-level armor."

"Wow! This isn't cool? Then I'll only be able to get a Farhan set from now on." Hearing Yusaha say that the Black Knight set wasn't cool, Lu Ming was taken aback. He looked at himself in the mirror with some frustration and said unhappily.

"Stop fooling around. The duel is about to begin!" Lily, who had been watching from the side, walked up to Lu Ming, looked at him, and asked with some concern, "What are your thoughts on facing a swordsman?"

Hearing Lily's question, Lu Ming frowned slightly. He glanced at the dueling platform already set up outside the window and the mages adding barriers to it, and said with some annoyance, "To be honest, I have no idea what a swordsman is. After all, I don't understand how warriors are ranked. Is it based on those colorful, flashy battle auras, or their own swordsmanship...?"

"I wonder how the warrior ranks are divided?" Yusaha paused slightly upon hearing Lu Ming's question, then smiled and began to explain to Lu Ming: "The division of warriors is actually quite easy to understand. Furthermore, it's based on qi!"

"罡气?"

"Yes, it's internal energy. I don't know what you mean by battle aura. However, Miracaiser's warriors are ranked by the internal energy they acquire after mastering a particular weapon to a certain level!"

"When a warrior without internal energy cultivates a weapon to a certain level, he will generate internal energy. At this point, the warrior becomes a second-tier fighter! And when the internal energy condenses to the point where it can be attached to a weapon and unleash sharp sword energy, the fighter will achieve the great feat of becoming a swordsman!"

"Furthermore, 'swordsman' is just a general term. If a swordsman uses a spear, he is called a spearman; if he uses a hammer, he is called a hammerman; if he uses a whip, he is called a whipman, and so on. So 'swordsman' is just a term; the actual title depends on what weapon the person is using."

"Finally! There are two things that make swordsmen terrifying. First, their fierce aura. Relying on this aura, swordsmen can unleash powerful sword strikes. Ordinary armor can be easily torn apart! Second, their formidable swordsmanship! Warriors are experts in their weapons; martial arts are something they always cultivate. They are not mages, not archers; face-to-face, bloody combat has always been their favorite! So remember, you are a mage, never compete with a warrior in swordsmanship. Even if you possess an unimaginable treasure like a crystal rapier!"

Listening to Yusaha's explanation, Lu Ming fell silent for a moment.

With 120 mana points, the number of spells that can be cast is limited. If the swordsman is truly unable to engage in close combat, as Yusaha claims, he might be overwhelmed by the opponent's fierce swordsmanship to the point where he can't even use his Elemental Ash Bottle! Therefore, each spell must be carefully calculated before it can be used. But will the opponent give him that time?

"Officer Lu Ming, the duel is about to begin. Please proceed to the duel area!" Just as Lu Ming was pondering these matters, a maid from the lord's manor came to Yusaha's room, knocked on the door, and called out to Lu Ming inside.

Lu Ming then kissed Lily and Yusahar, downed a bottle of Elemental Ash, put on his helmet, and, holding the Viheim's magic staff in one hand and the crystal rapier in the other, followed the maid out of the lord's mansion. Lily and Yusahar followed at a distance, watching him being led by the maid to the dueling platform.

When Lu Ming walked out wearing the black knight armor, the nobles around the platform began to whisper among themselves.

"The material of that armor doesn't seem to be ordinary!"

"Although it looks like it's been blackened by some kind of flame, you can tell it's a very good set."

"If it were put up for auction, it should fetch tens of thousands of gold coins!"

"It's probably more than that. Judging from the marks on the armor, it's at least tens of thousands of years old!"

"No way?" "How is that possible?!" "Could such a wonderful thing have existed tens of thousands of years ago?"

Having never seen that armor before, almost all their conversation revolved around the black knight's armor. As for the magic staff and the crystal rapier... almost none of these nobles truly understood appraisal. Therefore, they couldn't discern the true power of such an invincible treasure as the crystal rapier!

Standing at one end of a platform that was dozens of times larger than the one in Helas Village, Lu Ming ignored the nobles' conversation about his black knight armor and focused intently on a young knight on the other end of the platform. He was about the same age as him, with blond hair and blue eyes, wearing expensive armor and holding two longswords.

It has to be said that Lu Ming still felt some pressure facing such a genius-level swordsman.

One is a genius admired by all, while the other is a reclusive magic apprentice who transmigrated from another world. The difference between the two is simply too great!