From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman

Beryl Gardenant runs a small dojo in the countryside and tells anyone who asks that he is nothing special. A visit from former pupil Allucia Citrus changes that. She is now a commander of the Liberion Order and wants him in the capital as a special instructor. He accepts and finds his old students scattered across the kingdom as knights and top rank adventurers who still use the forms he taught. Drills turn into real calls when trouble hits markets and alleys. Beryl reads an opponent in a glance and answers before a blow lands, and the city learns why his village called him a master. Guild requests pile up. Court schedules grind forward. Assassins probe his door and force him to step outside and settle things with clean cuts and simple rules. Old bonds bend but do not break. Allucia pushes him to stand where he belongs. A rival disciple refuses to yield. By the end he has a roof in the capital, a line of students at dawn, and a quiet admission that the years he spent far from the spotlight were the training that mattered.