In the training hall of Sword and Roses University. 0

The moment Sonya stopped her training, time itself seemed to freeze.0

The apprentices watched her in awe. They glanced down at their wristbands and saw that it was only nine o'clock in the evening. She has only been training for an hour. Why has she stopped already?0

Sonya had been training in the hall for just two weeks, but in the eyes of the sword apprentices, she had already become their brightest spectacle. She had even earned the nickname Queen Selby. Her nightly two-hour sessions had no breaks. Every moment was spent in complete focus, and she executed every movement with perfect precision. Simply watching her sweat through each strike was a spectacle in itself.3

Her swordsmanship was extraordinary. Many apprentices would steal glances during their free time and occasionally gain small sparks of insight from observing her. This aided them in deepening their understanding of techniques and enabled them to strike the training dummy with greater precision. Watching her train was both instructive and mesmerizing.0

Sword and Roses University boasted many swordsmanship prodigies, like Leona, Lorian, and even Felix, but none of them captured the apprentices' attention like Sonya. This was partly because others'...0