204 Training in Sword City (1/2)
The next morning Yale cleaned all the belonging from the previous owner of his new house. The mansions of the members of the Sword Five were all situated in the same area, and there weren't any other buildings there; it was an exclusive zone for them.
If anyone without the permission of a member of the Sword Five entered in such area, the punishment would be unavoidable.
After having cleaned his new house, Yale managed to flee from Wyba and Lar and changed his appearance before going to the Sword Arena.
Yale had used his authority as a new member of the Sword Five to create few normal citizen tokens. That function existed to let the members of the Sword Five bring their family and friend into Sword City skipping all procedures, but Yale used that to create a few fake identities.
Being a member of the Sword Five he would catch too much attention in the Sword Arena, and that was something Yale didn't wish. Yale's swordsmanship was too strong with the style he learned from his past life's memories, but he still wanted to practice some normal swordsmanship and develop Sword Qi with his own strength.
The level of that casual sword style surpassed him, and he feared that only relying on it would be bad for his future as it was like starting the house by the roof. Moreover, he didn't want to kill his opponents because they were unable to withstand that sword style; he wasn't someone who was delighted killing others without reason.
Yale had created five fake identities, and with them, he could battle at least five times each day in the arena; without using that sword style, he wasn't that strong with pure swordsmanship, but he noticed that he improved a lot since before learning it.
Just learning a sword style from a powerful expert wasn't enough to turn into a great swordsman, but it was enough to provide a huge boost for anyone.
After all, any style created by someone who was at least a Law Master was incredibly powerful and could disregard stages. However, relying only on that would end up turning into a lack of foundation in the future. The problem wouldn't happen if Yale had all his memories regarding swordsmanship, but he just had that fragment he remembered while he started seeing Lar's battle.
Yale's strategy to battle more times in the same day with different identities would be impossible for anyone who wasn't proficient in something like Shape Shift; Yale guessed that he should have been the first in doing something like that because such skills were difficult to learn at low ranks.
When Yale returned to his new house, he found Wyba attacking Lar with a wooden sword. It wasn't that those two finally were unable to restrain themselves and started a fight, Lar had decided to teach Wyba a bit because she was bored after Yale left and thought that since Yale valued Wyba, it would be better having a good relationship with her.
”Lar thank you for helping Wyba in sword training. She wouldn't attack me even if it is for training and the golems aren't as good as a real opponent.”
Lar blushed at Yale's words, and at the same moment, the wooden sword hit her head. Yale was her weak point and lowered her guard when he spoke to her; Wyba was just a little girl, but she knew to make use of the moment when her opponent lowered the guard.
”Wyba! I was speaking with your big brother! Attacking me at that moment isn't fair!”
Wyba had just smiled; she had also experienced battles in the past and wasn't naive enough to stop attacking because the opponent was distracted.
”You said that any distraction is fatal in a battle, this isn't Wyba's fault.”
Wyba said those words as a retaliation because Lar had been too cocky when starting to teach her. Lar was embarrassed after hearing that while Yale laughed at the situation.
”That's right Lar; you made a mistake by lowering your guard before finishing the training battle.”
Although Yale called it a training battle, the only one battling was Wyba because Lar didn't dare to hurt her as she feared the retaliation of doing it; Lar had only avoided her attacks.