192 Conflict Among the Sword Five (1/2)

For the next two weeks, Yale went every day to the Sword Arena to battle, but he lost more battles than he won. There was nothing that he could do about it because the rules forbid him using any skill and Yale's major prowess was in his versatility with a variety of skills, battling just with pure swordsmanship was just getting rid of almost all his true power.

On the other hand, his opponents were all just warriors, so in a real battle Yale just needed to attack from long range and they wouldn't even be able to touch him. Even battling melee, with just a small teleportation he would win without any effort, and the same applied for a lot of his skills. Thus, those weren't opponents that he couldn't defeat in a real battle, but opponents that just he couldn't defeat in pure swordsmanship.

However, relying on skills to battle wouldn't let his swordsmanship progress as swiftly as battling with pure swordsmanship like he did; in those two weeks he had reached the sixth level of the expert stage, that was a monstrous advance created due to having battled non-stop against more skilled opponents.

In fact, even with his loses, he was already considered one of the fifty best swordsmen in the Apprentice Rank. After all, he only lost with those who belonged to that group, those weaker than that were unable to win against him. For having been in Sword City for just two weeks that was a great progress.

The other surprise to Yale was that Wyba had reached the apprentice stage in Swordsmanship in those two weeks; that wasn't difficult as she was at the Apprentice Rank, but Yale had never seen her training with the sword inside the inn's room, so he deduced that she should have trained in secret.

When Yale asked her, her answer was simple.

”Wyba thought that in this way Wyba wouldn't be a burden to big bro.”

Wyba had changed to her human form and had gone to show her level to the Sword Hall, the place which registers rank and stage improvements in Sword City and received an upgrade in her token and five hundred Sword Points.

A five-year-old girl who reached the apprentice stage had an enormous potential and Sword City wanted her to train well without worries, kids with potential had a lot of chances to be big figures in the future, and Sword City liked to invest in them.

Moreover, the city didn't want to waste her talent due to the lack of Sword points because those below ten had usually forbidden entering in any arena because there was a danger of the opponent suffering a World Law backlash; only in special cases when the opponent was willing to take the risk such battle could happen.

Thus, a little girl like Wyba had no way to obtain Sword Points, and without enough Sword Points she would have a difficult path to train and her talent would be wasted.

When Wyba appeared in the Sword Hall and showed her apprentice stage in swordsmanship, the woman who tested her also investigated Wyba's background. She discovered that Wyba's big brother was on the best fifty among those in the Apprentice Rank, which was very good for him alone. However, in that woman's eyes, Yale's earnings weren't high enough to ensure a good life and good conditions for training to Wyba after their first month with free housing ended and the points they obtained their first day were exhausted.

Of course, as Yale didn't really need the food services, the real need of Sword Points was less than the estimation of that woman. However, it was true that the days where he lost on the first battle, he only obtained one Sword Point and in the good days where he wins two battles he only obtained seven Sword Points; that was indeed too little in long-term if he needed to pay for him and Wyba.

However, Yale had other methods to obtain Sword Points if he really needed them, he could just forge swords and sell them for Sword Points, he was still a smith at the expert stage, so his crafted swords would sell very well in Sword City.

Regardless, Yale thought that it was good that Wyba obtained more Sword Points and that she finally started to train in the sword seriously. In truth, she didn't take it too seriously and didn't plan to improve more her swordsmanship, but she wouldn't tell that to Yale who was happy about her advance in swordsmanship.

Moreover, Yale discovered that with Wyba's new token, she had also obtained a small house for free. That was a small investment the city made into her, and although the house wasn't too big, it was enough for the two of them. They decided to move to that house after their period at the inn ended because in the inn they still have the food paid and although they didn't need it, it was still tastier than Yale's stored food and fasting pills.