191 Sword Arena (1/2)

Yale obtained a room in the inn for him and Wyba free of charge for the first month thanks to their tokens.

Once inside the room, Wyba changed again to her half-beast form.

”Big bro, Wyba will remain here to train.”

She had just transformed into her human form to avoid problems in Sword City, but if she didn't leave the room, she could be in her half-beast form without problems and Yale didn't have any complaints with that.

”Alright. Then, I will go to take a look at the city. Train quietly, I will be back after a while.”

Wyba didn't have any interest in a city dedicate for swordsmen, but Yale had learned about it thanks to soul-search, and he knew what he needed to do to use the city to increase his level of swordsmanship.

Yale's destination was the Sword Arena in the center of the city that was the same arena which provoked the creation of Sword City; undoubtedly the better place to train swordsmanship in the city.

By battling in the arena, it was possible to obtain Sword Points, but that wasn't the only benefit, by battling it was also possible to obtain reputation and a better position in the city.

Although Yale didn't need Sword points immediately, and a good position in the city wasn't something he targeted at that moment, he wanted to win some reputation for being able to attract strong opponents to battle with him.

Usually, strong people battled against strong people because although there wasn't a rule against two swordsmen with too different abilities battled against each other, the strong ones never accepted such battles because it would be impossible for them to accept all those requests that wouldn't have any benefit from them anyway.

Strong people could reject those weaker, but for people with just an ordinary position in the city, they can just register for a random battle. Although the Sword Arena always tried to make a balanced battle that was easier to say than to do.

When Yale reached the Sword Arena, it was full of people watching the battles, and although Yale knew that the battles were popular, that exceeded his expectation.

”I want to register for a battle; this is my first time in the Sword Arena. By the way, there is always so many people seeing the battles?”

Yale couldn't resist the temptation to ask when we registered for a battle; it was difficult to believe that with so many battles each day it was always that crowded. Yale thought that maybe some particular battle was happening, but from where he was he couldn't see the battle.

”This is your number. You should be new if you don't know because currently, the governor is accepting battles betting his own position in Sword City, so probably you will need to wait a bit time for your battle. You can also challenge him, but I don't recommend that to you because he is at the Expert Rank, and his swordsmanship is at the grandmaster stage.”

Although it might seem that the governor wasn't powerful enough, to govern such a big city, those more powerful than him didn't like to remain in a city, so the governor's power was already considered top class.

Even the governor had difficulties to find worthy opponents due to that, so sometimes he betted his place as a governor in order to attract powerful opponents, but he didn't find anyone who could battle at the same level with him.

At that moment the governor was battling with the second strongest in the city, a woman who was at the peak of the Practitioner Rank and at the master stage.

After hearing about the battle, Yale went to see it immediately because that was indeed a battle worthy of attracting so many people as it was possible to have a sudden inspiration just by looking.

After all, those battling were the two highest placed of the Sword Five, a group formed by the five citizens of Sword City with more power in each rank; all of them had a high position in the city, and the strongest among them is also the one who is rightfully the governor of the city.