205 Great Improvement and Challenge (2/2)

Although talent was important to practice and turn stronger, the mindset and resources were also important. With the system of Sword City, those with a better talent and perseverance were able to obtain a luxurious treatment that would let them use their potential without problems without the need of selling themselves to a big clan or some other influential power.

As there were a lot of investors in the city, the expenses of each one weren't too great, and most of the resources were also concentrated on the Sword Five, avoiding the resources to disperse too much. As long a power was able to obtain a member of the Sword Five, those resources invested were repaid.

When training a young kid, it was difficult to know if the investment would be worth or not, investing in Sword City gave them a better success of investments than focusing themselves on training those members of the younger generation.

Of course, that only applied with those who were good in swordsmanship, to recruit people with other talents they needed to use the traditional methods and without a background like the Larken Clan, such type of city wouldn't be able to exist.

Since most people in Sword City lacked background, the position as a member of the Sword Five was extremely important to them, and they would love to join any power after leaving, which was just what those powers wanted.

However, there were exceptions that provoked loses for them, like the current situation; three of the current members of the Sword Five hadn't any intention to join anyone, so those resources invested would be wasted.

It was unavoidable that sometimes the talents didn't want to join or they were noticed by the Larken Clan and taken away, but usually, at least those members would have a good impression of those powers who supported the system of the Sword Five in Sword City.

The Larken Clan didn't control Sword City, but when they heard rumors of some super geniuses appearing it wasn't strange that someone were to investigate; they loved to recruit sword geniuses no matter where they were and Sword City wasn't an exception.

Of course, their standards were extremely high, most members of the Sword Five although they would be recruited if they wanted to join, they weren't talented enough to make the Larken Clan move.

Those powers would just sigh when a genius was taken by the Larken Clan or left without joining anyone, as they at least contributed to them with their resources, and having a good relationship with the Larken Clan or with those geniuses who left on their own was always good. However, Yale didn't even feel grateful for those resources as they were still worse than the food Aiwai cooked for him. For Yale, those were low-quality resources that were barely acceptable; there was no way he would felt indebted or grateful for them.

After all, the was no way any clan could have a chef of Aiwai's cooking level every day with the best ingredients for all the members of the young generation. Such kind of treatment was strange even for the ultimate geniuses of the noble clans; they might obtain it for one or two days as a reward for accomplishments to the clan, but such treatment would be impossible to sustain every day.

Few people bothered on learning cooking to such levels, and those who did it wouldn't cook for free. Thus, if there weren't some deep affection between both parties, the situation that happened with Aiwai, Yale and Wyba wouldn't happen to others.

That day, Yale was finally determined to reach the master stage on swordsmanship; he felt that with so little resources he would need to rely on the rewards of the system to increase his power and to continue with the sub-quests he needed to reach the master stage in swordsmanship.

Normal battles wouldn't have any effect to Yale, so he had directly challenged Selenia in the Sword Arena. That challenge made the arena be bustling with people like in the first day Yale reached the city when Selenia Battled against Ralen.

Yale didn't feel confident in his chances of winning that battle, Selenia was at the peak of the Practitioner Stage, more than a whole rank ahead of him who was just a 3-star Apprentice. Moreover, although Yale doubted Selenia was at the peak in her physical stats, there was no way she was weak like those fellows Yale had beaten before due to their lack of body training.

”Thank you for accepting my challenge.”

In the Sword Arena, Selenia Smiled after hearing Yale.

”I had also been wanting to test that weird sword style of yours.”