190 Sword City (1/2)

Yale was worried by those wanted posters. Although he knew that anyone would prefer the bounty offered by the Larken Clan and thus his life wouldn't be in danger, he didn't want to be sold to the Larken Clan either.

”Wyba, we will go to a nearby city because going will help my training, you can choose to go in your current form or the human one. I don't know how people will treat you in your current form, but as long you don't change to your beast form I don't mind.”

Yale knew that Wyba didn't like her human form because Yale wouldn't also like a form where all his power was sealed, so decided to be more flexible with her.

”Wyba will go in this form. Wyba wants to train, and Wyba can't do it in the human form.”

Yale nodded, and both started to walk towards the nearby city.

The nearby city was called Sword City and was a place that anyone who liked swordsmanship would want to visit as it was full of people with knowledge about swordsmanship, and a lot of duels were made on a daily basis, even just by looking, it was possible to learn something.

Yale had just learned about such city from the memories of those bandits; although the city was rather famous, Yale's knowledge about the Empire's geography was too low before having used Soul-search on those two.

Sword City was founded about a thousand years ago by a young member of the Larken Clan who had left the clan to train in the outside world.

At some moment, that member of the Larken Clan wanted to battle against a lot of opponents to polish his swordsmanship, so he constructed an arena and started to have duels of swordsmanship with all the opponents who wanted to battle against him.

With the time, the arena turned extremely popular because that member of the Larken Clan was too strong, and all his opponents ended improving after battling with him, even spectators benefited.

When the popularity increased, betting houses appeared in the arena, and more people started to use that arena to battle when the Larken Clan member wasn't battling.

Due to that popularity, a whole city started to be constructed surrounding the arena calling it Sword City, and that member of the Larked Clan was considered its founder and the highest authority there.

In the end, that member of the Larken Clan returned to his clan after finishing his training and left the newly constructed Sword City, but the people living there continued the tradition of battling in the arena and with the years its popularity only increased.

The status in that city was only decided by one thing, swordsmanship. Even someone with an incredible level of power would be considered just a peasant without a good level of swordsmanship. Moreover, those who just reached a stage of swordsmanship thanks to their rank instead of hard training were always looked down, only those who really put an effort in swordsmanship were recognized.

Usually, any city with such rules would end destroyed by someone with a high level, but who was bad in swordsmanship who didn't like that system, but as the city creation was related to the Larken clan, no one dared to break those laws.

In truth, the Larken Clan didn't have any more relationship with the city after the city founder left the city, because they had their own internal system for training created by the same person who created Sword City, so they didn't need to go to Sword City to train.

Sword City was just what Yale needed to improve his swordsmanship. Anyone would think that he had a lot of luck to awaken near that city. However, Yale knew that he wasn't lucky because he was sure that Liye had gone there just for that reason.

”Please, stand in the queue. tell us your name and show your swordsmanship to obtain an identification token of Sword City.”

A man was shouting to all the people who were queuing to enter Sword City, which was a very important procedure and would determine how everyone would be treated afterward.

Yale and Wyba had just ended the end of the queue when they heard that. Yale was worried by his name, and Wyba just transformed to her human form hoping that seeing that she was a normal mortal she wouldn't need to do anything to enter.

After half an hour they reached the gate, they had seen some people who had even been rejected to enter; Sword City was a city for swordsmen, those without any relationship with swordsmanship weren't welcome.