24 Swordsmanship and Archery (1/2)

Their wooden sword clashed and both stepped back two steps.

Yale and George were at the peak of the 1-star rank in all the body stats, and both of them were skilled with the sword.

Their battle grew more intense as the time passed, even the instructor started to pay more attention to them.

”I knew that asking to battle with you was the correct choice; you are the first from my generation who can compare with me in Sword Skills.”

”I could say the same.”

As both were at the same level of skill with the sword, both were quickly improving in battle, ten minutes after the sparring started Yale's Sword Mastery reached level nine.

When the class was about to end, George spoke again.

”There's no meaning in restraining ourselves, let's use our Sword Battle Skills!”

George liked to battle against strong opponents and disliked restraining his power. However, against the other students, he would need to control himself to avoid hurting them too much.

Battling with Yale who was at the same level as him, George not only used full force, he also wanted to use Battle Skills.

There was no rule against it, but no one used a Battle Skill in the previous classes, mainly because the students had a low control over them and using them was dangerous for both parties.

On the other hand, George was able to use his Sword Battle Skill without problems, and he believed that Yale could do the same.

While George was focusing his Inner Qi on using his Battle Skill, Yale did the same with his Origin Qi.

Of course, Yale had no problem in using his Battle Skill as he also wanted to test it against an opponent of his level. Yale wanted to see how awesome Tri-sword was compared to other Battle Skills.

Both launched their respective attacks at the same time, and the swords clashed again but with much more power than before.

George smiled as he executed the second hit of his Battle Skill. Usually, the Battle Skills that a 1-star stage could master were only of one strike, but George learned one with two, and that was his trump card.

However, Yale's skill was even better with three full strikes.

The second attack clashed again, and George was surprised to see that Yale's skill also hit for the second time.

”I didn't expect that you also mastered a Battle Skill with two strikes. I never expected that I would found a rival like you in the Nacesai Academy.”

However, as he finished to say his words, his face changed as a third strike was directing towards him.

George tried to block the incoming attack, but he just finished using his Battle Skill and couldn't execute it again in time.

The Tri-sword third strike impacted on George's wooden sword breaking it and pushed George back more than ten meters.

A Battle Skill shouldn't be interrupted, or the energy would backlash and harm the one who executed the Battle Skill.

Thus, Yale didn't stop his last strike even if that could hurt George's pride. Yale liked to have someone who could battle against him and didn't want to scare him but getting self-injured wasn't an option either.

Before the last clash, Yale decided that even if George didn't know a three strike Battle Skill, he wouldn't restrain himself.

Giving your all battling an opponent is also a show of respect and George was the only one in his generation who won Yale's respect as a swordsman.

The class ended after the clash of the two Battle Skills which all the classmates saw with baffled expressions.

George neared Yale again to spoke to him.

”I never expected that you had mastered a three strike Battle Skill. I lost the battle, and I have no regrets. I thought that I wasn't underestimating you and that you were at my level, but in the end, I underestimated you.”

George looked at the sky and continued.

”I always thought that my talent with the sword was the best and that no one would master a better Battle Skill than me, but I was wrong. Now I understand that the world is big and some people can be as talented as me or maybe more than me.”

Then he looked at Yale again.

”Thank you; you opened my eyes, I was too arrogant before and in a real battle that could have lead to my death. You are stronger than me right now, however, I will train harder from now onwards, and I will continue challenging you until I win!”