Her Graceful War Song by Summer's Blaze

Chapter 917

By the time Kevin turned 13, he still wasn't formally apprenticed to a mentor. Every time he tried, something went wrong. Either he fell ill, or the mentor he found had bad luck.

In the end, Ernest gave up.

*Just keep learning what you can," he said. "Whatever you manage to learn is enough."

Violet listened to Kevin's story with mixed emotions. Was this guy some kind of bad luck magnet? His life was one misfortune after another, and it seemed like he even brought bad luck to his mentors.

She couldn't help but wonder-would that affect her too?

Based on his past experiences, it always seemed like something would go wrong before he could formally apprentice. Now that he had finally managed to find a mentor and things were going smoothly, maybe it was a sign that his luck had finally turned. Since he managed to apprentice without issues, perhaps it meant his bad streak had come to an end and everything would start going well.

Kevin had officially met his senior apprentices. Seeing his sincere and respectful attitude, none of them made things difficult for him.

However, Carissa asked him, "You're from the Nightsteel Guard. Aren't you worried that apprenticing directly to a mentor like this might make it hard for you to rise in the ranks there?"

for myself. But if I don't hone my martial arts skills, even if the king values me, I won't have the ability to perform. It'd be even worse if I'm removed from my position later. I'm still young. I

his perspective. His persistence was rare-he hadn't let his bad luck push him off course,

seemed Rafael's faith in

Unlike before, he didn't rush over to inspect them. Earlier in the year, he had returned to his guild. Every last bit of

balm, and rouge. His mentor scolded him for wasting money and gave him a good thrashing. The next day, all the senior apprentices of

and seen more of the world. They told their mentor, 'All girls today take the time to make themselves up. It's not a big deal for them to dress up once or twice. After all, it's

it was easy to fall into luxury but hard to return to frugality, she gave up on

before Travis left the mountain to return to the capital, his mentor spoke with him for two

should come with dignity. If someone offers you a gift, you must thank them. If they don't offer one, don't take it by force, or you'll lose your

was deeply moved by these

ask, "When I was a kid, did you purposely send me to fight Cari? And when I lost, did you go to them to ask for reduced rent? Wasn't

him

promised to be good, to listen, and to be a person of culture-someone who could control his emotions and behave

staring but hadn't approached the

you want to take a

some rude person," Travis