"This happened six years ago. I was ten years old. I had a phenomenal sense of love-" Kai interrupted Jace in surprise.

"But you have fear. How could you have a sense of love back then." Jace smiled. Those memories didn't hurt him anymore. Kai's words had made him realise what he should have realised long ago.

"I reached green lightning when I was ten, but I started training when I was four, so at sixteen I should have been in orange lightning at most. Of course, with my genius at the time. I loved Lena back then. She was the daughter of a friend of Michael's who had died in the war. Michael treated her like a father. That's how I met her. That's why I became so strong. I fell in love with her. I was a little boy at the time and I wasn't supposed to know what love was. But I was very talented. 14-year-old geniuses didn't like me. Still, I was extremely arrogant. No one could take that arrogance away from me. Not even Lena. "

"My mum died giving birth to me. I lived with my father. One day my father went on a mission. My father was not a young man. He was not a young man at all. He was 83 at the time. But as you know, age is very different with us. The stronger you get, the less you age. Still, my father wasn't a great genius. He was just very smart. He was just a man at the head of the purple lightning, but his intelligence saved him from people who took his second sense. He had a sense of peace. How could he get stronger? "

"Still, he was determined. He never gave up. That's why Michael took him on as a young apprentice. In 83 years of life, the most he could do was purple lightning. If he could get his second sense. He'd be a genius in the heavens. A genius on my level. "

"I was arrogant. At 30, I could have been purple lightning. I could have been as powerful as my father. My father went on a mission one day. A very special mission. It was about a very gifted little boy. He was from the royal lineage of hunters and had run away from home with his older brother, but his brother died halfway and he went mad. But he was still very talented, and with his insanity came problems with his memory, so the developers wanted him to join their ranks. I secretly went with my father. It was the biggest regret of my life. "

"We got there. I separated from them. I moved to a remote area. I saw one of the royal guards there. He saw me instantly. I attacked him. Hmph, it was no use. He slapped me. Broke every bone in my face. And when I flew through the air and hit the wall, I broke every bone in my body. When my dad came round, he saw me. He attacked without thinking. His sword was known as the sword of hell. Even though the blacksmith who made it had a sense of peace, the sword had extraordinary power. The man who made it gave his life making it. He made flames come out of it. But no one ever saw that sword. Those who saw it never lived. "

"He fought him. The man was on the cusp of Purple Lightning. He was almost half a step into the second sense. But my father fought him as an equal. That's the difference between a real weapon. That's the difference with a mana weapon. " Kai's eye shifted for a moment to the sword on his back. If his sword was really good, then with his current strength he could take on the top of the green lightning. The sword on his back should have been a mana weapon.

"After my father fought with him, I was slowly closing my eyes. After a while, death came to get me. I couldn't stand it and closed my eyes. When I opened them again, my father was standing in front of me. There were surprised people around. My father was bleeding everywhere. I felt different. My father kissed me on the head. Then suddenly he started to age. The sword wounds had killed him. He used his sense of peace to save me. No one knows how he used it, but it had completely drained his life energy. That day I was free of love. My body was completely filled with fear. I levelled up one level after another. Every scream I screamed for my father was levelling me up.

After half a foot of orange lightning, I fainted. They say that on that day, six rings appeared in my father's eyes. That moment awakened his true potential. There were many people who had awakened their true potential in the feeling of peace, but none like him. Although no one knew it, he gave me his potential. He gave it to me with his life energy. That was the real power of peace. That was the effect of his peace energy. He was able to bend the life energy. " Kai didn't know what to say. He couldn't even find a word for it.

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"I changed a lot after that day. I was still able to continue my progress after a while. But I was stuck at the peak of the orange lightning. I was only half a step. So I thought I'd break through at the world tournament. I guess I didn't have to wait until the world tournament.

They took my dad away and buried him. Michael took care of me. Even though I was in Zone 2.

I didn't care about it. I never entered any competitions. Everyone saw me as a loser. And when I won this year, they saw it as pure luck. They don't know the real importance of the world tournament. This year will be very different. But they were still half a step above some geniuses at the peak of the green lightning. Still, Lena crushed them all. I was left with the losers. And at the end, she left me without a fight. "Kai smiled. The others thought he'd done it by sheer luck. So it seemed normal to him.

"And the sword? Where's the sword?" said Kai. He had a very good idea if Jace would let him.

"I have the sword. I can't use that sword because I'm a repellent. But I haven't found anyone suitable." Kai smiled.

"You've seen the fights. There's a boy called Quentin. Could he really be worthy of the sword?" Jace thought.

"It's better for me to have a user for it. I was thinking of giving it to you, but you already have a sword. Even though I can't feel anything from the sword, I know you're not a normal person. Do whatever you want with it." Jace suddenly pulled a sword from his back. What, does he walk around with it all the time? And he was able to endure it quite impressively.

"Just in case," Jace said. Kai laughed. Jace laughed with him. The two of them talked like that until morning. Then Jace went to his class at dawn. Kai sat down to breakfast while he waited for Emma to wake up.

"I haven't eaten in a long time. Just because we don't need to eat, doesn't mean we shouldn't eat." Kai ate breakfast and watched TV while waiting for Emma to wake up. He didn't want to meditate so soon.

Melony had noticed Kai on her way out. But she pretended not to see him. She thought Kai hadn't seen her. She was going to make fun of him again, but she thought it wasn't worth it and went to the academy. Kai continued to wait. After a while, Lena hurried out too. She realised she was late. Two sets of footsteps came from upstairs and Kai knew who they were.

After Jack and Kevin came downstairs, they didn't leave like Melony did. They came up to Kai. Kai never looked at them. He just kept watching the telly.

"Kai, I'm sorry-"

"Shut up! Don't act like you don't do the same thing every year and sit down and have breakfast. I really can't deal with this. If you keep forgetting our promise and leaving me behind, I'll feed you to the tigers. "

Jack and Kevin didn't say anything. They sat at the breakfast table. They knew they did the same thing every year, but it was usually due to stress, girls, fights, etc. They didn't expect that supernatural things would join their lives to continue the series.

That's when Jack saw the sword on Kai's back. The shiny metallic sword.

"Is this a mana sword? Is this your mana sword?" Kai looked at the sword as he turned in that direction. It was a really beautiful sword. Jack and Kevin could feel that it was very powerful while looking at the sword. But they could not distinguish the feeling.

"No, it's not mine. I'm going to give it to someone." While Jack and Kevin looked at him in shock, he laughed and showed them the sword on his back.

"That's good enough for me."

"Why don't you use this one, it's better than that piece of junk. Come on, don't use a normal sword, and someone who uses the sense of peace won't be very strong, it's better if you use it." Kai shook his head.

"There is someone really suitable for that sword. When Emma gets up, we'll train." As they both shivered, Kai could tell they were really struggling with Ariel's training. He couldn't help but pity them.

After Emma also got ready, the group of 4 people left. When they quickly arrived at the academy, everyone was looking at the sword Kai was holding in his hand. While those with a sense of peace were drooling looking at the sword, others were upset that the sword was not suitable for them. Even if the sword was suitable for them, Kai would not give it to them anyway.

Since Kai was holding the sword like a trust, everyone realised that he was going to give it to someone and everyone was wondering who would be the lucky one.

When Kai and the others arrived at the garden, all the students had arrived. Only Ariel had not come. Everyone was looking at the sword Kai was holding and drooling. But there were only two people here for that sword, and one of them was already holding it.

Quentin had only glanced at the sword. He knew the sword was beautiful, but he didn't think it would be given to him.

When Kai saw Ariel coming slowly in the distance, he stood up quickly. The others stood up with her. Everyone could see that 5th class woman. Kai smiled as he looked at the flaming sword in his hand.

"QUENTIN!!!" As Quentin looked at Kai, Kai threw the sword in his hand at Quentin.

Quentin could feel the power entering his body as he caught the sword in the air. Suddenly there was a half step as a cracking sound came from his body.

While everyone was looking at him in shock, he was looking at the sword in shock.

"W-who was the previous owner of this sword? Why are you giving me this sword?" Kai laughed. Then he spoke in a way that Ariel could hear.

"That sword is the sword of the first energy master to successfully use his skill at the academy in 200 years. The reason I gave it to you is because I believe you will become an energy master too. " Ariel's eyes widened in shock as she stared at the sword in disbelief.

"The energy master's sword. So Jace really gave it to him. "