Sorry for anyone upset about the last chapter, but expect me to do some weird shit.

Also this chapter took a while for some research to make the character canon.

Especially on Wilhelm's strength, there was little info other than the anime fights (that i could do an estimate), and i didn't read the ln yet.


Khan slept peacefully today. Then after 11 hours, he woke up after his Sleep guardian alarmed him of an incoming creature.

His visor and eyes activated, and he quickly unzipped the sleeping bag and jumped in the opposite direction of the creature that was coming.

He looked down and he watched what it was...

It was just Felix and another person, he was exactly 22 meters away, and the Sleep guardian must have detected it at 60 meters but it decided that 20 meters is too close.

"Oh... Kaan-Kyun, apparently you woke up before I could even touch you, nya eh eh" Felix said while teasing with a grabbing motion of the hands, Felix was also surprised at Khan's sudden awakening, Felix was planning to wake him up but it seemed like he woke up by himself up.

"..Good Morning." Khan replied.

"Oh, by the way, you missed breakfast, everyone had already woken up and you were sleeping in that bag the entire time." Felix said, he had a maid by his side with a tray and something on it, Khan assumed it was simply food.

It was just milk and some food that didn't look like meat.

'I can't eat that.' Khan thought.

"Me no eat milk, only meat." Khan said to Felix.

"Is there nyothing you can eat other than meat? You need to eat." Felix told Khan.

Khan thought for a moment...
Then he straightened his back even further and went to his full height, he was now looking around.

He looks and looks, till he found a tree, then another tree, a group of trees, then a forest.
His primal brain had a light bulb on the head.

'Why not hunt the animals in that forest, there must be without a doubt some wildlife to eat.' His primordial brain whispered the impulsive thoughts to Khan.

Then Khan give in to the temptation and he started to roll up the sleeping bag to store it, he then ordered the armor to fly to him and attach itself to his body.
The armor that was on the ground in a shape of a cube, started to float and it started eject some armor plates, then these armor plates flew to their corresponding places of Khan's body, and so they attached themself to Khan.

After every part of the armor plates was attached to Khan's body, it wasn't ended there, as those armor plates started to become larger and started to wire to other armor plates and pieces, eventually forming the fancy and expensive-looking armor Khan is used to.

However, it wasn't quiet the process of all that work that the armor was doing, as it was making loud constant hydraulic, metallic, and pressurized air-spewing sounds, everything sounded very mechanical.

'Ah, it's pretty satisfying to know that all that brain-melting on that math book still works, had to learn for 15 years that crap for each aspect of it for this to work.' Khan thought to himself while observing for who knows how many times, his armor deploying.

In the meanwhile, all that earrape alerted everyone, as the unusual and loud noise made everyone's attention towards the source of the noise.

"Kaan-kyun-What are you doing?" Felix asked Khan in slight discomfort, the maid kept her professional look

"Me go in forest, find some.. wild.. life, to eat." Khan replied.

"Forest? there are no forest Kaan-Kyun, we're in the capital.." Felix said.

"What? Here is no forest?" Khan asked incredulously.

"Obviously we are in the Capital, there are no forests. Are you sure that your stomach didn't suddenly came out with the idea to eat the forest?" Felix joked.

Khan then thought for a moment...

'Wait, how far I set my eyesight to look?' he then controlled in the visor how far he set to be able to see.

'Holy shit I set my sight at 10km, maybe I should turn off the auto adjustment when looking elsewhere, I didn't even notice that there was actually no forest nearby me.'

"OH... right." Khan said, he was now feeling slightly embarrassed.

"So, if you are not gonna eat this breakfast, what do you want to eat? You can't go on with the day without breakfast." Felix told Khan.

"Uh.. I only eat meat, no vegetable or fruit." Khan.

"No vegetable? Kaan-Kyun, you can't be picky other wise you won't grow" Felix teased Khan like yesterday.


[Later]

"Spa..ring?" Khan said, Felix never taught him this word.

"I wished to do a spar with you, Kaan-dono." Wilhelm repeated.

"What is sparing?" Khan asked Wilhelm.

"It's when two people practice each other's skill without seriously fighting." Wilhelm explains briefly.

"Practice?"

'Ah I see, probably a training like 800 years ago or so when I was first introduced to a combat program from the elders.' Khan thought.

"Okay." Khan answered Wilhelm's request.

"Oo-kay?" Wilhelm repeated, seemingly not knowing what it means

"means approve" Khan said.

"Alright, then we will spar in the backyard." Wilhelm said.

So they went to the backyard, however, then they forgot there was a slight issue.
There was no sword big enough for him to wield in the armory.

"There is no wooden sword for Kaan-dono?" Wilhelm asked

Then a guard said "No, I'm sorry Wilhelm-Sama, there is no giant sword as it was never had the need for a sword that big."

"Alright." Wilhelm said ignoring the disappointing feeling.

Then he turned to Khan and told him.

"Well, seems like we will need to have to do-" Khan cut off Wilhelm's sentence

"Wait a moment, big wood, have big wood?" Khan questioned.

"Big wood? Do you mean some spare logs in the utility room? Kaan-Dono." Wilhelm asked.

"Yes, one tree log. Bring to me." Khan said to Wilhelm. (idk if they store reserve wood, but I think they should since they are in a medieval setting)

Wilhelm was a bit curious about what he wanted to do, so he did.
So the old man went somewhere, assuming he went where they stored tree logs, soon after he brought a tree log on his shoulder, and then placed it down in front of khan.

'This old man must be stronger than I expected, because he can carry a large tree log that looks likes about 3 meters long and 30 cm in diameter, and he did everything so quickly.' Khan thought

Wilhelm after he dropped the tree log, he walks backward and looked at Khan, waiting for what he will do.

Khan took the tree log with a single hand and placed it horizontally, he kneel down and then drew his sword out and raised it on top of the tree log.

Wilhelm looked at the blade, it was a particular design, the start of the blade there were three spikes from the biggest to the smallest, the biggest is nearer to the handle, the smallest is nearer to the point of the blade, in the middle of the blade instead of being smooth, it was layered in kind of fashion of his armor.
But he continued to observe what he will do, the guard was a simple one, it was of a gold color, and the pommel is yellow, but it had an unusual accessory, an eyelet.

Khan then cut clean most of the side of the tree log, but then stopped when he reached a certain point, about 85cm, he then slid out the sword and cut at the side of where he stopped cutting, removing the wood part, he then did the same to the other side.

He continued to do his thing, when it started to take slowly take shape, after 20 minutes, it had a clear shape, it was a sword on a scale of Khan, but there was like an eyelet at the pommel, an unusual accessory

'Well, good thing I learned swordsmith and trained in wood carving, it was always useful and fun making random stuff with wood, including swords.' Khan thought.

It was finally done, after 20 minutes came out a wooden sword, the shape of the 'blade' was simple, thick and long, and pointed, the guard is a simple rectangular guard, the handle is just that, a cylinder but the pommel was long and had a circle that stood upwards, like an eyelet, it was big enough to fit each finger because Khan tried to fit each of his fingers into the eyelet.

After Khan was satisfied, he put his sword back in the sheath, Wilhelm was now sitting on a chair, observing Khan for the past 20 minutes.
Khan turned around and removed his scabbard from his thigh, his scabbard was attached magnetically to his thigh, however, there was needed some anti-magnetic barrier, so it couldn't pull the sword and possibly damage it or make it difficult unsheathing the sword.

'How did Khan pull the scabbard without untying some strings? Now that I think of it, there never was any string that held the scabbard... He used magic?'
Wilhelm thought, he never could think of anything that could hold it without using a string to keep the scabbard attached to the body.
'Well, magic was never my forte after all.' Wilhelm thought

Then he saw Khan that was looking directly at him, with the sword he freshly made recently.

"Ready sparing" Khan said to Wilhelm.
Wilhelm nodded, then got up and walked to the opposite side of Khan, he sheathed his wooden sword.

Now Wilhelm wasn't in combat stance, rather, he was standing upright with just the wooden sword in one hand.

Meanwhile, Khan has his sword dragging to the ground, as if it was just a bag that was too heavy to carry.
Wilhelm seeing such mistreatment of the sword, wanted to reprimand him for such lack of respect for the sword, even though it was just a wooden one, but he suppressed it and focused more to spar with Khan, who looks like he wasn't even in combat stance.

"Show me what you can do, Kaan-dono." Wilhelm said to Khan.

So Khan complied, and he started just walking at full height toward Wilhelm while still dragging the sword to the ground.

'He's just simply walking towards me?' Wilhelm thought.

And after closing the distance, Khan just tried to kick Wilhelm out of the blue (Khan's kicks aren't kicks like Felt's kicks, those are kicks that an elephant would do.), obviously, Wilhelm dodged such an amateur attack, but soon after there were sounds of metal grinding, hydraulic and motors working, and then Wilhelm saw Khan's sword swinging at large radius at much faster speeds than that kick, while it would be easily dodgeable such attack, his range being that of a spear it was harder for even an above-average knight, however, even though he's an old man, he's way stronger than he looks, and Wilhelm just dashed backward enough to be totally out of reach. He also saw that Khan over-extended himself, leaving him exposed.

So Wilhelm used this moment that he's wide open to striking, and so he dashed forward to Khan, to which khan responded by doing a return swing with his sword since his sword is a double-edged blade. But Wilhelm just ducked because he swung too high, so he readied his sword to strike him.

However to his surprise, the same mechanical sound from before was activated, now Khan from an over-extended swing went back to his full height in an instant, Wilhelm was kind of surprised since his target suddenly disappeared because of how fast it was erect and now Khan was in a comfortable position to attack, but instead of receiving an attack as Wilhelm expected, he got something else.

Now Khan quickly stepped backward with the same mechanical sounds following him, he's now starting to twirl the sword with the eyelet that he made at the pommel, he placed the left foot forward and the right foot behind, his shoulders are now to the side facing right, his left arm is in a shield position and the right arm was opposite to Wilhelm, and in his right hand, the sword was twirling thanks to the eyelet.

'I have never seen such an unusual combat stance for a sword, it looks like the same combat stance that someone with a morning star would use' Wilhelm thought, noting the new and unusual combat stance that Khan was showing.

Now Khan started to attack Wilhelm by twirling his sword like a nunchuck, the attacks came swinging left from right, and if it missed, the spinning of the blade would place it in a position to be able to swing it seconds after the miss, in the meanwhile, Wilhelm started to connect that the mechanical sound equals a speed boost, and in fact, it lacked that sound, but clanking armor and materials rubbing to each other.

But coincidentally when he thought of that, he started to hear the mechanical sounds coming from Khan, so he noticed the sped up and now it was just a blur of a blade. However, he was still spinning the sword in the same attack pattern.

However, after a while, he started to notice a slow but steady slowing of the attack, and then Khan eventually stopped doing the twirling attacks, wielded the sword like a normal one, and held it in one hand and other than standing still, it didn't look like a stance at all, He just stood there with a sword.

And Khan closed the distance by simply running, although, it was a bit sluggish to be called running, and after Wilhelm was in the range of Khan's sword, Khan just swung a wide attack from right to left, Wilhelm knowing his repetitive attacks, dodged again.

'Isn't he gonna try to some other attacks than just swinging wide? As long I noticed, he never used a jab, a stab, or anything else other than that spinning attack and the wide attacks.' Wilhelm thought

'Although I think looking at his impressive size, he must be pretty confident that there's no opponent that truly reaches him.'

Then Wilhelm in the sequence of Khan's attacks went through a gap of his attacks, and he jump high enough to reach his face, and tried to stab his face, however, the wooden sword slid on Khan's sloped helmet because it needed to also host the snout.

However, it did not end with just a single stab, he then strike him multiple times to the head, neck, shoulders, and every part that looked like the least armored or had no armor at all, however, Khan didn't even flinch at all or grunt in pain.

Khan was surprised at the sudden change of pace, but he reacted by throwing an uppercut in front of his face, where Wilhelm was supposed to be, however, for Wilhelm the fist was just a stable platform to jump away from Khan, however, Khan already experienced opponent jumping away like that.

So Khan dropped the sword, the mechanical sounds were there, and in a quick movement, he successfully grabbed Wilhelm's leg, and now Wilhelm was hanging upside down like holding a mouse from its tail, now the upside down Wilhelm was in front of Khan's face, obviously not so close that Wilhelm could attack him.

Now Khan kneel down to grab the wooden sword that he dropped and slowly went back to his full height, now observing Wilhelm dangling.

However, to Khan's dismay, Wilhelm just simply used the wooden sword to break free by just simply getting his sword in between the two fingers holding his leg and then slipped his leg in the space of the two fingers, and Wilhelm fell to the ground, however, Khan counter-attacked by kicking in the direction that Khan predicted where Wilhelm would fall, however, Wilhelm turned around mid-air to land on his feet, but this time he would land on Khan's kick, and so he jumped along with the power of the kick that made him fly even higher, and now he was very high up in the air, and thanks to gravity, he started to fall back to Earth.

Khan just observed Wilhelm falling to the ground, as he made an impact to the ground, Wilhelm was squatting to reduce the force of impact.

'Any human would have died at that height, this old man is pretty tough, however..' Khan thought

Before Wilhelm could even stand up, he noticed Khan was charging at him holding with both hands the sword above his head pointing at the skies at unbelievable speeds, it was almost like a blur, and Wilhelm was in no comfortable position to get out of the situation by dodging or dashing away because he was squatting to reduce the impact, so he did the best thing he could think of in such short window of time.

Wilhelm raised his sword and tried to deviate from the impact of the sword by sliding it to the side with his sword, and Khan's sword came down like a clap of thunder, and Wilhelm used the sword to deviate the sword to the side, however, it wasn't enough, as Khan's giant sword broke Wilhelm's wooden sword in half thanks to the sheer and enchanted power from Khan's two limbs, and Khan's wooden blade went through the sword, hitting Wilhelm's shoulder so hard, that Wilhelm swears that he heard a crack in his shoulder, and then he got pushed to the ground from the force of the strike, he didn't even have enough time to even scream in pain.

Obviously, Wilhelm did not die because the sword was dull, and it wasn't Khan's intention to kill, but he swore that he would have seen his death door open in front of him in that instant if Khan's sword wasn't dull, In the meanwhile Felix, Crusch, and many others were spectating, they were watching everything from the start, at the end of the spar, everyone could tell Wilhelm was injured, so naturally Felix and other healers came in aid to heal the injured Wilhelm who was on the ground groaning because of the shoulder pain.

Meanwhile, Khan was hyperventilating apparently, each breath was clearly audible, and not only, each time Khan exhaled, a visible white cloud of carbon dioxide always accompanied it, and he was also kneeling down with the sword impaled to the ground to support himself, but it was also pretty clear the two exaggerated and are now tired, and some soldiers even questioned if this was a spar or a mock duel.


Later

Wilhelm is now completely healed thanks to Felix's and other healers' water magic, and Khan wasn't anymore gasping for air.

Now the condition of both is perfect, however, while Wilhelm wasn't traumatized, no, he was actually quite impressed, and he now respected Khan as a warrior, being able to injure the sword demon wasn't an easy feat, even though he's not in his prime anymore, he was still a skilled swordsman to not mess with.

Even though Wilhelm didn't demand any forgiveness from Khan, Khan got insisted by Felix to apologize to Wilhelm for his injuries, so Khan did anyways, after all, it's the right thing to do if you injure someone without intent to kill or badly injure according to the common sense of this world.

However, a certain Crusch was rather happy to know that another skilled sword man that was on par with the sword demon was under her banner, another powerful ally to have by the side.

'I have Felix being the best healer in the whole kingdom, The sword demon that had the reputation of being merciless in battle, and lastly, this demi-human who came from beyond the waterfall and he's on par with the sword demon' Crusch thought

'Ill without a doubt win the Royal Selection, Felix's unwavering loyalty will always make me happy, and Wilhelm is a knight that had already pledged his loyalty to me, and lastly, I don't know if Kluai Kaan-sama will stay with me, however, I must keep him with me no matter what.' She continued to think.

'And if he happens to join another camp, then it will be a great loss, because he comes directly from Beyond The Waterfall, and probably he has knowledge that no one has, and I saw his spar with Wilhelm, he's shown to be also very powerful, being able to injure Wilhelm is nothing to laugh about.' Crusch finalized her thoughts.

After everything was settled down and now Wilhelm was healed and she got a peek at Khan's strength and skills.


Later the sword man gave his opinion about Khan's fighting capabilities to Crusch, they were still in the backyard, Crusch was sitting on an outdoor chair, and Wilhelm was standing right in front of her, keeping his butler composure and pose, in the meanwhile Felix was beside Crusch keeping his cutesy pose.

"Kaan-dono is quite a warrior, a unique one at that. He's not very agile and doesn't have the sharpest swordsmanship, and it felt like fighting against a mabeast with a sword rather than a demi-human with a sword, however," Wilhelm paused to think.

Crusch continued to listen to Wilhelm's opinion about Khan

"Kaan-dono also showed me to be very resilient against attacks, as when I stroke him in the worst spots that I could imagine that would cause him the most pain, but I never got a glimpse, groan or reaction of pain, he just reacted by trying to keep attacking me."

"And, he also showed me despite the fact he's not very agile and additionally slow, he could use some kind of magic or something, that would speed him up to cover up his weaknesses, and every time that happened, a distinct sound of spewing air, metal sliding to each other, I couldn't exactly understand where the sound came from, expect the fact it came directly from Kaan-dono."

"But lastly, his strength is the most powerful I ever experienced in my life, with a single strike I thought that my old self would have gone to Od laguna." Wilhelm finalized his opinion.

"That's... Some high praise coming from you Wilhelm-san." Crusch said to Wilhelm.

"Indeed, such a warrior needs to be recognized Crusch-sama." Wilhelm said.

"Anyways, I have heard Khan speaking Lugnica, while it is now understandable compared to before, he can be quite vague about what he's speaking about, I wish to ask him about what's beyond the waterfall, however, Kaan-Sama speaking like that, It's possible that we get the wrong idea because his wordings can be quite vague. So once Kaan-sama speaks fluent Lugnica language, I will be eager to ask Kaan-sama about beyond the waterfall." Crusch told to Felix and Wilhelm.


That's it, end of the chapter.

Also, I have a Deviantart account, here's the link : therecklessbravery/gallery/all (its also written in the profile, there you can just copy and paste) Because also, I'm a lot more active on the drawing side than the writing side.