Chapter 116 - The Training Gym (Part 2) (1/2)

Livia Strogueher smiled, put her hand on the shoulder of one of the men, who was a bit fat and gave it a firm squeeze. ”I'm not angry. Just stay calm and get back to work. I have to take care of some things here...”

The short, white-haired Elf mostly kept a snobbish smile at the corner of her mouth, almost as if she underestimated everything and everyone.

As they left the gym, the two cooks sighed with relief that they had not been punished. Livia has a bad reputation among the staff for being very demanding.

The other people who were following Nathalia, Luke, and Alexis' training from the edge of the square were surprised when they saw Livia enter the gym.

”Is that Miss Livia?”

”Is she back from her trip already? I heard she was on vacation in the Parato Islands.”

”On vacation? I thought she was on a mission for the Guild.

”You never can tell where she is...she rarely stays here on the estate.”

In Oukiwa, quests are unlike any other town, so it is not uncommon for Adventurers to need to travel. Unlike Vasconcelos, where quests usually vary between just collecting items, aid, rescues, escorts, and investigations.

However, in Oukiwa there are no Tower Dungeons, meaning that Dungeons cannot be divided into levels by Sense Mages. What does this mean? Basically, the chance that a miner is digging a vein of gold and a monster much stronger than him shows up to kill him is much higher.

For this and other reasons, in Oukiwa the biggest Quests are given to Clans that will be able to fulfill them and so it is almost impossible to rise in Rank without being in a Clan.

”On a mission for the Guild? Nah! She knows it's suicide to enter a Dungeon alone, so she would never travel alone on a diplomatic mission either.”

”Why doesn't she join some famous Clan then? I know nobles aren't allowed to have Clans of their own, but she could still join one.”

”I don't know...”

While some off-shift guards were theorizing about Livia Strogueher, she didn't even seem to care. From the moment she entered the gym, she propped herself up on a wall and just watched the practice.

Within minutes, Livia began to be completely shocked by what she was watching. She had heard about her new cousin and her bodyguard, but she had never imagined that they were so good.

Nathalia was practicing new attack positions, while Luke practiced his art of dodging. The half-wolf's goal was to copy the way he had seen Kyor Amakusa dodge his opponents' blows in the 'Luck or Fight' tournament held in Vasconcelos. Even though he had beaten him, Luke knew that Kyor didn't use everything he knew and it still bitter his taste.

Nathalia attacked with the wooden sword, and just as Alexis instructed him to do, Luke did not focus on the movement of the sword as he normally did, but on the body of his opponent.

Nathalia's movements were much more polished now, so it would not be so easy to predict where she would strike, but that was not the intention either.

Kyor didn't predict attacks, he actually reacted with an enhanced reflex to almost supernatural levels and this combined with his superhuman speed, guaranteed him victories without burning too much energy.

Nathalia's sword-wielding was swift and came very close to hitting Luke's face, but he ducked in time and rolled backward.