Chapter 100 - Interruption after Successful Bid (1/2)

Ch. 100: Interruption after Successful Bid

After looking on for a while, Loren started thinking that they were lucky not many people used the training ground.

It was because the bidding between Klaus and Ivy was getting quite heated up.

Loren didn’t care what the results were, but to the ones who were bidding, the one who couldn’t knock it down would be in a very unfavorable position, so they were that serious about it.

What started at copper coins soon moved to silver, and the amount of silver coins increased rapidly was well.

Loren thought that it would keep going, but because Lapis had limited to what was in the contesters’ wallets, the one who had more money would be the winning side, so Ivy successfully bid at twenty silver coins.

“I had a bad feeling about today…”

Ivy said with heavy breathing, as if the excitement hadn’t left her yet, as she looked at Klaus droop his shoulders in the corner of her eyes.

“Good thing I trusted my instinct and held onto more money than usual.”

Loren honestly thought that she was lucky.

It was because Loren thought that although there were many felt intuitions, only a few could follow it and be successful.

“If you’ve had enough of this, don’t bet the keys to your room so lightly.”

“Are you interested Loren? The keys to my room?”

As Ivy asked him, not seeming like she had enough, all Loren could do was shrug lightly.

Realizing that Lapis was glaring at her very coldly, Ivy quickly retreated from the spot.

“Loren, I guess I have no choice but to beat you to get her keys.”

“You’re not giving up either, huh…”

Loren sighed as Klaus raised a wooden sword used for mock fights with newfound determination.

Getting serious for his own desires so straightforwardly was something that could be respected, but his motivation was too impure.

“Alright, let’s start this!”

“I guess…but what about my weapon?”

When Loren asked Ivy, she made a startled face.

Since it was a training ground, there were of course a selection of weapons that could be used for mock fights.

There were swords of many different shapes and sizes, as well as things like maces and staffs.

There were different kinds of bows as well as arrows with blunt ends.

But there weren’t any great swords that Loren could use.

Loren’s weapon was so large and heavy that ordinary people couldn’t use it, so there was no way someone would want to use something similar for mock battles.

“Wouldn’t Loren be at a disadvantage?”

Ivy made a difficult face when Lapis asked that.

There were adventurers that used unique weapons.

In that case, they would usually be allowed to cover the blade to kill the sharpness.

If it were a blunt weapon, they would allow the use of it and if heavy injuries were suffered the guild would treat it, but the lethality of Loren’s weapon wasn’t something you could get rid of by putting a cover on it.

But if Loren used something else, he would be taking the exam on an unfamiliar weapon, so he would be in an equally unfavorable position.

“So would this mean we’ll reschedule this after we think of some way?”

As Ivy stayed silent with a difficult look on her face, Klaus lowered his weapon, thinking that there wasn’t a way to make it work.

Even Lapis thought of cancelling it and there was no other way that redo it, but with conditions that made it more favorable for Loren, but Loren took off the great sword from his back, leaned it against the wall, and casually took a wooden two handed-sword that was hanging from it.

“I’m not that confident on these, but I guess it can’t be helped.”

“Are you sure?”

It seemed that Loren was going to go against Klaus with that sword.

As Ivy asked him, worried that it would be too difficult for him, considering that Klaus used long swords on a daily basis and was quite an experienced iron rank adventurer, but Loren nodded.

“It’ll be hard to find a replacement for Klaus, anyway, so the conditions won’t change much whether it be now or later.”

“Are you looking down at me a bit, challenging me on an unfamiliar weapon?”

To a swordsman like Klaus, Loren using an unfamiliar weapon meant that it was enough for the likes of him, so a steepness mixed with his frivolous expression.

Loren, on the other hand, checked out the sword by swinging it around lightly a few times, faced Klaus, and told him.

“The chances of you winning goes up, you know?”

“Loren, I’d like to thank your consideration.”

As Klaus attitude turned around immediately, Lapis and Ivy’s shoulders sunk.

It meant that the keys to a girl’s room came before his pride as a swordsman, but since it was so much like him, they didn’t even feel like complaining.

“Alright then, please start and get it over with.”

“Well, looks like you just threw everything a them.”

Lapis pretty much left everything up to them, as if she didn’t care anymore, and Ivy signaled for them to begin.

As they looked on, Klaus raised his word with one hand, but Loren did something strange.

Although he had been holding the sword normally, he suddenly turned it upside down, directed the tip towards the ground, and pushed his hands, which were on the handle of the sword, and pushed in against his chest.

“What’s that?”

“Don’t worry about it. It’s something I learned from the person who taught me how to use the sword that helps ease the mind.”

After answering, Loren quickly gripped his sword properly again, and aimed it at his opponent.