Generally, during their spars and training, except mandated, both parties were not allowed to empower their bodies with spirit energy to boost their physical capabilities, so they fought purely based on their physical capabilities.


    This was one of the reasons why Khal didn''t take much interest in guiding Desmond, the young man Ingrid introduced to the family. He couldn''t even develop his physical strength properly.


    It seemed to be a problem rooted in humans of this lower world, as for whatever reason andws guiding their world, they didn''t seem to be able to increase their body''s natural strengths past a certain level and could only reach a certain level before it bes impossible to go past that limit.


    At that moment, Sigmund''s research was also tackling the issue, so everyone waited eagerly to see positive results on how to fix this problem, after all, Aldritch had quite a few people from this world, and bing vampires didn''t fix their issuepletely, it only lessened the restriction.


    There was also the possibility that once they went to the higher world, this would cease to be the case, but there was no guarantee as there was no way to confirm the theory.


    As for Khal and Desmond, the former only showed consideration as thetter showed determination.


    All this meant was that during Lodestar''s and Aldritch''s bout, both parties only relied on their physical and natural body capabilities and strength, not utilizing any spirit energy to reinforce their bodies.


    Whilst being of higher level than Aldritch, Lodestar soon found it tasking to continue keeping up with Aldritch. Like a fighting machine made and tailored specifically towards hand to handbat, Aldritch, on his own, had adaptedpletely and even coined his very own technique to fight in hand to handbat, making rapid improvement as the spar dragged on.


    At first, Lodestar only spent his energy minimally, dodging and parrying Aldritch''s attacks, but once the former got used to his new strength, he began attacking more intensely. Even then, Lodestar didn''t need to exert himself as he still was superior to Aldritch, but that was only in stats.


    Aldritch had been moving in normal speeds to Lodestar, so avoiding his attacks and blocking them was way too easy for him, he was basically training a baby on how to walk through trial and error, but Aldritch also armed with that knowledge started altering his patterns and making adjustments, managing to catch Lodestar off at various times, surprising thetter each time.


    Despite the superior stat difference, it didn''t factor in well once fatigue kicks in.


    After three hours of sparring, Lodestar started feeling a little exhausted, slowing his speed considerably and dampening his edge. It was clear that Aldritch knew this, so his advances grew even more intense, but even then, Lodestar was still able to keep up.


    The former might have the physique and uniqueness of a vampire, but Lodestar had the blood of a powerful dragon running through his very veins and arteries and within every capiry, both of them were superior creatures at the apex of evolution and power chain.


    Well, in hindsight, one of them was a pure creature of his kind, while the other was a descendant and diluted… it started showing five hours into their spar, and very much clearly.


    While Aldritch was still able to keep up the pace and intensity without any problems, Lodestar had gotten so worn out that Aldritch who was pretty much moving like a normal man running in his eyes had begun to blur out at times and catching him off guard.


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    Sometimes he would see the attacking from a mile away, but his body would just respond so slow, not being able to keep up with his own thoughts, and Aldritch would undoubtedly get the upper hand.


    ''Damn! What''s he made of?! Doesn''t he at least get even a little bit tired?!'' Lodestar fused in his mind while gritting his teeth and trying to predict where Aldritch would pop out of as he had just disappeared once again from his ''keen'' sight.


    ..


    After sparring for six hours, the sun had already gone down and the night was fast approaching as the ce was getting progressively darker.


    Ingrid had remained in the mansion after visiting a day prior, so she had just woken up in her private quarters.


    Opening her eyes and feeling refreshed, as vampires really woke up sleepy if they get a good amount of sleep it seemed, she proceeded to take a quick bath that had been drawn for her beforehand by a personal maid. Since the maids and other workers were mostly humans, they maintained the house during the day and preparing a warm bath before those who needed it woke up in the evening was no trouble.


    After taking her bath, Ingrid was still putting on her clothes when she heard a loud and aggressive knock on her door; *knock! *knock! *knock! *knock!, in an entuated manner.


    Before she could curse the person at the other side, Lina''s voice tore through her ears as she pretty much shouted, "Ingrid, are you around! I think there''s trouble! There''s intense fighting going on within the yard!"


    Understanding Lina''s words, Ingrid rushed her dressing, leaving some extra clothes on after putting on the necessary fits and rushing out with a serious expression on her face, considerably more worried than Lina was.


    Unlike Lina who was just concerned an intruder had broken, in, Ingrid was aware of the recent ve market problems, and though she had already entrusted it to Lada as it was Lada''s jurisdiction, she very much knew of the possibility of Lada''s n failing and they, being found out.


    ''If they really havee, then they''ve chosen the wrong time to attack.'' She resolved, seeing as night had pretty muche.


    As they ran through the mansion swiftly, Ingrid found herselfcking when it came to speed whenpared to Lina, but she didn''t beat herself about it, since the limitation on them was already clear, and she was never a physique reliant fighter either, at least for the most part.


    In a few seconds, they had reached the main door of the mansion, only to find that a couple people were already standing there, pretty much all the other vampires.


    ''Everyone''s already here.'' Bothdies thought to themselves.


    "What''s the situation? How much is their force?" Ingrid enquired with all seriousness.


    Well, everyone seemed to have the same expression on their faces or at least simr, but it wasn''t one of seriousness or one ready for war…


    "You guys too, huh?" Rindher turned back to look at Lina and Ingrid with sleepy eyes.


    "Apparently, our Lord and Lodestar have been having a ''friendly'' bout for the past six to seven hours now… those sounds you heard? It was actually them sparring…"