It had already been mentioned before that, during the Second World War, Japan, a small country, had been able to join the ranks of the victorious nations and preserve its international standing before the world's great powers because of the existence of a single Blade-Breaker.
That Blade-Breaker was named Kurogane Ryoma, and he was known as "Ryoma the Samurai."
He was a hero of the Far East. The Kurogane Family to which he belonged had produced outstanding talents in every generation. Aside from Ryoma himself, it had also produced quite a few exceptional Blade-Breakers. It was a prestigious Blade-Breaker family that had existed since the Meiji era and remained renowned to this day, wielding considerable influence in the knightly world and holding great power within the "Alliance."
The only A-Rank Knight in Japan who had previously been mentioned as still being enrolled in school was also born into the Kurogane Family. He simply was not at Hagun Academy, but at another knight academy, and people still often brought up his name.
From this, it was clear how much the surname "Kurogane" represented in this country.
When Luo Zhen had asked, "Could he really be that Kurogane?" he had been asking Ikki whether he had come from the Kurogane Family.
The answer Luo Zhen received was affirmative.
Kurogane Ikki was indeed a Blade-Breaker from the Kurogane Family.
However...
"His magic power..."
Luo Zhen furrowed his brows slightly.
Only now did Luo Zhen sense that the fluctuations of magic power around the boy before him were actually almost imperceptible.
And when Luo Zhen used Spiritual Vision to observe him, he discovered that Kurogane Ikki's magic power was pitifully weak.
Aside from ordinary people, Luo Zhen had never seen magic power this weak before.
"How can his magic power be so weak when