Bellato’s first princess, Medea Bellato, was a princess trusted by the Duke and was the most influential person as the next successor. At the age of ten she became a Black Bellato, at the age of eleven she became an apprentice knight, and at the age of twelve she was granted the knighthood of Bellato. And it was that year that she was sent to the Imperial Knights, and she single-handedly subdued a group of goblins, earning her recognition as a regular 9th grade knight.
It was unusual.
The Imperial Knights were divided into classes. Based on apprentice knight standards, after passing 9th grade and 1st grade, you become a regular knight and start again at 9th grade. People with outstanding qualities usually become ninth-class knights around the age of twenty. But Medea passed all of her apprentice knight courses and immediately became a regular knight.
Numerous news outlets at the time covered this fact.
<The youngest 9th grade knight is born!>
<12-year-old Bellatu becomes a 9th grade knight.>
And a year passed. Every corner of the continent was shaken again.
Newspapers scrambled to cover the incident as a scoop.
<Is this the dignity of Bellatu!)
<Subdue the group of gray wolves alone!>
Because of that, Medea became an 8th-class knight at the age of thirteen. In one year she has been promoted super fast. This was also a first in history.
<1st Princess Bellato. break the world record.>
<Medea. How far is her genius?>
Her genius did not end there.
<Rescued residents of Garon.>
<The 1st princess of Bellato who happened to pass by, subdued the troll.>
From trolls onwards, they were classified as high-level monsters. A predatory species that could never be dealt with by ordinary people other than level 7 knights or wizards. Medea accidentally killed twelve trolls on the spot. By the time the reinforcements arrived, the situation had already ended.
Henser, a 4th-class knight who led the reinforcements, recalled:
‘When we arrived, everything was already over. The only thing that lives there is a predator on top of a prey. There was only Princess Medea.’
In the end, Medea was recognized for her contribution, and she became a 6th-class knight at the age of sixteen.
<She is a 16-year-old regular knight.>
<The first in history, the first in the world to acquire the rank of 6th grade knight.>
And she became a 5th class knight at the age of 17. In other words, at the age of 17, she had reached a level that most gifted children from knight families would achieve in their 30s.
It was often said that from the 5th grade, it is not the realm of effort. It was the orthodoxy that she could not rise to the top without great talent and luck. She became a 4th class knight at the age of 18, and a 3rd class knight at the age of 19. And when she turned twenty a great event hit the continent.
<122 West Continent Express Assassins were massacred.>
<122 highly trained assassins from the West Continent were found massacred.>
It was estimated that each one of them was capable enough to be a second-class knight. Among them, some were even skilled at the level of first-class knights. It was said that the supervisor who was looking at the scene at the time exclaimed. Coincidentally, that investigator was Henser, who had been sent to Medea’s reinforcements a few years ago.
Henser, who was a 4th class at the time, was also promoted to a 1st class knight in recognition of his genius.
‘I got hit by one. That too, helplessly.’
One did not hide his skills.
‘Bellatu’s most destructive swordsmanship. 3 Traces of the sword. There are only two people who can handle the 3 swords so freely: the Lord of the Winter Castle, and his shining first daughter, Princess Medea.’
It was revealed that Medea was responsible for the massacre of 122 people.
<Princess Bellato. Granted the status of a 1st class knight!>
<Medea. ‘Received the 32nd star.>
She was bestowed with one star by ‘Nellach’, who was praised as the Emperor of the sword. This was called ‘star’, and it was a special title that only first-class knights could receive. There were only about 500 first-class knights across the continent, and among them, only about 30 knights received stars. She was the first person on the continent to reach this level at the age of only 20. People admired this wonderful record and praised Medea as a ‘white wind’.
That was already 3 years ago.
She was now twenty-three years old and a 1st class knight bestowed with 1 star. And the one that had caught her attention the most lately was the youngest of Bellato. So she went to meet her.
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Viola couldn’t take her eyes off Medea.
Shaggy ebony hair, red eyes like jewels.
This was expressed in the novel.
⌠Weird rumors spread to the West Continent. A beautiful witch with black hair and red eyes lives in the Central Continent and a rumor spreaded.
“Never make eye contact with red eyes. You will be horribly eaten.”
The reason why these rumors spreaded in the West Continent was because of Medea.⌡
‘They call her such a terrible witch… They shouldn’t leave out the modifier “beautiful”.’
That’s right. Looking at her red ruby eyes, it felt like falling into a deep lake. As soon as she saw the 1st Princess, who people dared to call the absolute, she felt a sense of awe.
‘Sister…!’
That sister… she liked her. After all, the candidate for the next Duke should be like that.
‘Sister, I’ll never do anything bad, so please help me. please.’
“Will you have a cup of tea with me?”
“Great.”
“I thought you would say no.”
“Why?”
“I came to you suddenly without a promise.”
‘Ah. It’s okay, you’re the 1st Princess, sister.’
Her sister was all right.
“That’s only when I don’t want to be visited.”
“Did you want to?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“I wanted to actually experience the white wind.”
Medea chuckled.
“The rumors must have been greatly exaggerated.”
“No.”
They were never exaggerated. Medea was born with the best talent among her coworkers, and she was a genius who competed with the strongest among the strongest. She had always been and always will be.
“I remember the welcome dinner three years ago.”
“It was fun.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
Medea only stared at Viola for a while. Just in time, Zenon brought strawberry milk and black tea. Viola drank strawberry milk, and Medea drank black tea.
“Did you come because you had a business?”
“More or less. I heard you hurt Kundo.”
For a moment, Viola was startled.
‘Eh? Me? I hurted him? When?’
There seemed to be some misunderstanding.
“It was Lord Hickson, not me. Even at the gymnasium.”
“Well. I guess so.”
Mediah’s eyes narrowed. She had been badly hurt by Hickson. However, she clearly had injuries from Viola as well. She had hit the inside of his body using a very difficult technique.
‘Do you want to hide your power? In front of me?’
Hiding power wasn’t bad. It’s a kind of wisdom to hide your claws until you’re strong enough.
“Do you have the desire to hide your power?”
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