Chapter 25 (1/2)

Kurotan came out of the smithy a while later, with a brand new look A sturdy looking steel helmet, as well as a steel plate armor that fit him perfectly as well as a hs His shi+ns were covered by greaves, and his hands were protected byhim a half plate armored look

At his waist were two axes that looked well lance

“Hoonderful It’s so co armor”

How could Kurotan, during his ti armor custom fit? Luke smirked at Kurotan, as beside himself with satisfaction

“I’ll buy you even better equipment if you win the martial tournament”

“Hehehe, really? I’ll crush whoever my opponent is”

“By the way…”

Luke’s face slightly stiffened He couldn’t help but feel a little e’ the truth in front of Kurotan, who despised humans who lie

“I apologize about earlier I know you dislike lies, but we needed the money”

“Don’t worry about it I believe that anything you do is the correct thing to do”

“But…”

“When we give trust, we do so wholeheartedly Besides…”

Kurotan glanced down at his arain and smiled widely

“Didn’t I get a new armor for it?”

Luke smiled bitterly and shook his head Luke was likely the only human to have earned such blind trust from an orc

Kurotan, fully ar starting that very day

“We have to fully engrain the skills of the Belloche sword technique into your body before the finals”

Of course, considering Kurotan’s skills, they wouldn’t have to worry about the preliminary rounds Only if Kurotan won the final round would he be knighted, so Luke trained Kurotan all day in the Belloche sword style

As expected of a prestigious sword style, the techniques of the Belloche sword style were very co

“It’s curious”

“What?”

“I would not have been able to memorize such complicated movements previously”

“Is that so?”

“I wasn’t very ss I learned very quickly”

“It’s probably because you have the brain of a hu power of a human brain and an orc’s”

Luke thought of the original owner of Kurotan’s body, Hal

“He was a clever bastard that kept trying to manipulate me, so he definitely used his brain a lot”

“I think so too Ever since s that I learn”

“You knohat? You’ve changed a lot since you’ve possessed that body Now, you think and act al”

“Really?”

The two continued to converse as they practiced the sword

Luke couldn’t contain his surprise as they continued to train in the Belloche sword style

It was because the Belloche sword style was more profound than he had expected

“This is a better sword style than I thought It’ll be a style to reckon with once we’ve mastered it”

“We’ll find out e do”

After four days of training the skills, the two began sparring By si life or death battles in the spars, Luke and Kurotan were able to further familiarize themselves with the sword style

“You ready?”

“Yup”

“Then let’s begin”

Luke and Kurotan ran at each other, swinging their weapons full force without mercy

Chwang Chaanng Chwang

Sword and axe clashedbesides them couldn’t help but look at the two

“Wha-What?”

“Those bastards aren’t ordinary warriors”

Their eyes widened at Luke and Kurotan’s fierce and hair raising spar

An attack aied, then a counter attack would begin right away Just a little slip up of concentration would result in a critical strike

“Keeuk”

Luke frowned as he grabbed his side His chaineven the leather arrimaced as he looked at the ruined chain mail

“It’s like a rag now”

“Mine as well”

Kurotan put his hand through a hole in his chain mail

“Let’s go to the s is over Even our leather aredy…”

“I have no complaints about that”

Luke and Kurotan continued their bloody sparring until the an

People ished to prove themselves flocked to the martial tournament The citizens of Jabel all set up shop with food and other iteet into their pockets

Because of the positive effect it had on the territory’s economy, the noble lords of Sith Empire tried very hard to open martial tournaments as often as possible

The rules of the prelihts of the Jabel viscountcy set up six rings, fenced off by

In order to participate in the tournament, one needed to purchase a bronze , you would hand it to the referee, and the winner of the match up would collect all the medals once the match was over

You needed a total of ten medals in order to move up to the main matches In other words, one had to win nine times

Those who lost had to purchase a bronze ain Theon the territory, and was used by the stingy noble lords as an attempt to lower the costs of the martial tournament

Fortunately, the medals at Jabel viscountcy were rather cheap, as other places could cost fifty denarins The six rings were surrounded by a large nuhts

The victor was determined by a simple process You would lose if you surrendered, or were incapacitated by injury, or died

Nothe preliminary rounds of martial tournaments In other words, any injuries had to be taken care of privately and in the case of death, it would be as pointless as a dog’s death

Those participating in the preliminary rounds tried their hardest to prepare adequate defensive equipnificantly reduce the risk of their dying, after all

Cooper, the knight captain of Jabel viscountcy, looked down at the crowd of participants that had gathered and frowned

“The level of the participants isn’t that high It seeh the Kaspar earldom’sago”

Kaspar earldoh noble lord, and was rather close in proxiht as he gazed out at the six rings continuously To an experienced knight such as Cooper, the scenes that were being played out in the rings were enough to make him yawn

There were instances where participants would lose their grip on their sword, and others that would sirab the opponent’s collar

“I suppose it’s to be expected, as the preliminary rounds serve to filter out the nobodies”

The truth was that very few people won theup the ladder from the preliminary rounds The winners of the martial tournament were usually those who had a direct pass to the final line In other words, the children of nobles or disciples of knights were almost always the winner of martial tournaments

The participants of the preli coly trained, delinquents that had polished their skills in the back streets, experienced uise

However, none of them were a match for the seeded participants who had all trained syste

“A structured and early education is definitely so to be reckoned with”

Cooper shook his head and turned around at the sight of one participant roll the ground in a pathetic manner

“Drago, how’s the situation in the ring over there?”

Cooper frohen Drago did not respond