192 Conflict Among the Sword Five (2/2)

Two weeks after Yale reached Sword City, Yale went to the arena like every day, but that day the arena was crowded again because there was another battle between two members of the Sword Five. However, that time the reasons were that both of them had a conflict and both parts didn't concede.

The battle was between the Sword Five at Apprentice Rank and the one at the Novice Rank.

As far as Yale heard, the guy at the Apprentice Rank despised the girl at the Novice Rank due to her appearance and after discussing he ended saying that she was just a newbie in swordsmanship and that she should treat him with respect and acknowledge that she was inferior to him calling him boss.

That girl was famous for being proud and stubborn, so she was enraged by such words and ended asking for that battle in the Sword Arena with that man.

That girl had appeared one year ago in Sword City and in just one month she become one of the Sword Five, but after that, she had never put much interest in the Sword Arena as if she was disappointed about having weak opponents. Although she had never asked a battle with someone at the Apprentice Rank, everyone thought that it was normal because the difference of strength would be too much due to the rank difference.

When Yale saw those two members of the Sword Five, he was quite shocked because although the man looked in his twenties, which was pretty normal, the girl looked twelve at most.

Obviously, she was older than that and was just that she had reached the Novice Rank with such young age because she was already at the peak of the Novice Rank, but she showed a shocking talent having reached the Novice Rank at such young age. In fact, Yale would also look like a kid if it weren't for the fact that his body had matured faster for external reasons.

Yale checked the bets for that battle; almost everyone betted for the man at the Apprentice Rank, that was quite an obvious bet due to their difference in strength, peak Novice Rank and peak Apprentice Rank had a strength limit difference of ten times.

All the ones who betted for the girl were thinking that maybe the man would be unable to attack such a little girl and would lose due to that; he wouldn't be the first having problems due to the opponent's looks in a battle. However, that thought was just from a minority because that man was famous for being merciless and it was difficult to imagine him holding back because his opponent was a little girl.

Yale had never betted in any battle before, but he decided to do it that time betting fifty Sword Points for the little girl; that was a lot for him, but he felt that the girl would win, and he would obtain hundred times his bet in that case.

That wasn't a baseless feeling; Yale thought that as that girl was the one issuing a challenge for the battle and she was someone who had been able to train at such speed, she should have some confidence before challenging someone who was more powerful in rank and stage.

Of course, Yale wasn't completely sure, maybe that girl was just overconfident, but if he lost the bet, he would just start crafting swords to sell; he didn't plan to ask for Wyba's points in case of losing.

Yale wanted that the little girl won the battle because that would be an expert stage beating a master stage, and Yale felt that if he saw that, it would be extremely beneficial to him in the future.

The usual thought was that in a battle of pure swordsmanship surpassing stages wasn't possible with both sides battling in the same conditions unless the one with the weaker stage had a body far stronger than the other.

For example, in a battle between a peak Practitioner Rank at the apprentice stage and a Novice Rank at the expert stage, the victory would be for the one at the Practitioner Rank because just one hit would be enough for that. That would be a win due to the difference in body strength and not swordsmanship. However, that was the only known possibility to beat someone of a higher swordsmanship stage in such kind of battles.