At the age of fourteen, Seiya had already surpassed Shasta, the current commander of the Dark Knight Order, in swordsmanship, and could contend with Iskhan, the chief of the Fistfighter Guild, in hand-to-hand combat. Such achievements were already astonishing enough.
Yet the people of the Dark Territory soon discovered that this was far from Seiya's limit!
Back then, Seiya and Lybia had transported the White Dragon's bones back from the end of the Flaint Mountain Range. After spending immense amounts of time and money, the craftsmen of the Dark Territory finally forged a set of armor and two longswords over the course of three years.
Because the materials were so precious, the armor and longswords forged from them had all reached the astonishing level of divine artifacts, naturally drawing the covetous eyes of others.
Do not forget that they were in the Dark Territory, a place without the restraint of laws, where whoever had the bigger fist was right.
So when the armor and longswords Seiya's group had commissioned were completed, the other Ten Lords of the Dark Territory set their sights on Seiya's belongings as well and moved to seize them outright.
If they had been ordinary items, the Ten Lords of the Dark Territory would not even have spared them a glance, much less lowered themselves to personally snatch them.
But these were a matching set of divine artifacts! The Dark Territory was barren and poor in resources to begin with, utterly incomparable to the Human Realm.
Even the Ten Lords themselves did not possess divine artifacts, so it was only natural for them to be tempted.
Those involved in that battle for possession included Sigrosig, chief of the Giant Tribe; Kachi, chief of the Goblin Tribe; Fi Za, president of the Assassin Guild; and Tiael, president of