213 Unexpected Problem in Sword City (2/2)
Ralen knew that Yale was someone who he couldn't predict, but it was still difficult believing that he would be able to end all those bandits. If he followed Yale's plan, there would be only two people battling against all the bandits, Ralen against the leader and Yale against all the others.
”If you don't open the gates I can kill all of them before they manage to enter into the city.”
Yale was completely sure about that because the bandits weren't strong enough to make him fear them since there wasn't any rule to restrict his battle prowess like in the Sword Arena.
”I can jump from the wall, with my rank I will be able to endure it without being injured, but you are only at the Apprentice Rank, how do you plan to leave the city without opening the gates?”
The walls were quite high, and a normal guy at the Apprentice Rank would end injured after jumping from them; battling against a swarm of bandits after being injured wasn't a good idea. However, Yale's defense and resilience were completely different, so he didn't fear that wall; anyway, he didn't even plan to jump.
”I just need to do this.”
Two wings appeared on Yale's back, and he started to fly. At that moment, Ralen understood why Yale was that confident; the aerial advantage was something that could change the course of a battle.
The fact that Yale could fly shocked everyone for a few seconds after they just sighed and thought that after all Yale was the famous Sword Mage and making some unbelievable things was still normal.
”You are surprising as always. Very well, we will act as you say, I will stop the bandit leader while you kill the others.”
Ralen knew that there were skills to fly, and since he believed that Yale was someone who trained in the Magus Path and had some mysterious background, it wasn't that strange that he knew a skill of that type.
Yale's wings looked real because they were real and he didn't need any skill to use them, but there were indeed skills that created physical wings which looked like his own. However, those skills were all high level and far more difficult to learn than the Wind Wings which Yale learned.
While Yale went to the sky, Ralen quickly went to the top of the wall and looked to the bandit leader from there.
”Ralen, do you finally plan to surrender to me? I told you years ago that I will come back to take this city!”
The leader of the bandits was someone who was expelled from Sword City for cheating at the Sword Arena. It was Ralen when he had just obtained his position as the governor who expelled him after beating him in public for disobeying the order to get out of the city.
The cheating of that man was far too obvious; when he saw that he couldn't win using a sword, he took out an enormous hammer and almost killed his opponents. He did that a lot of times, but he was too strong, so nobody stopped him.
However, the governor was stronger than him in a real battle, so after obtaining the position, the first thing he did was expelling that man from Sword City.
That man had never killed his opponents although they were near to dying, so the rules only ordered him to not come again in his whole life to Sword City.
That man had turned a bandit after that day, and when the bandit alliance obtained power, he managed to get enough resources to advance one level more than Ralen even though both had always been at the same realm previously.
”I won't surrender. I will fight to the death to protect this city!”
One of the reasons for Ralen to remain in Sword City when almost all the people of his rank had already left was that he felt that he owed to much to Sword City.
After all, he was also a kid without background the first time he reached Sword City and relied purely on his swordsmanship to obtain all the resources he used before reaching his current level.
He knew that he would have died from hunger like a nobody without Sword City, so he was ready to protect it with all his strength until someone else was strong enough to protect the city and take his place.