347 Yale VS Ronragruk (2/2)

No one could say anything when Ronragruk decided to use only his body as it was pretty normal that he decided to be a bit lenient towards Yale, but no one understood why Yale was just using swordsmanship as no one believed that he didn't have any other means.

Especially, those who had seen Yale battling in the past doubted about Yale's intentions because even if Yale wanted to impress everyone, going all out in the battle, it would still be impressive enough. However, they also knew that Yale wasn't a fool who would decide to act like that for something as foolish as pride, so they decided to see what Yale was planning to do by acting like that.

”The user mastered the Passive Skill [Sword Mastery]. From this moment, the user can train the Sword Law actively.”

Just after that notification appeared in Yale's head, Ronragruk noticed that Yale had turned stronger than before.

Strictly speaking, training swordsmanship and other weapons weren't as efficient as training other laws for pure destructive power, but they had great advantages at two points, especially after becoming a Law Master.

First was that the Sword Law and other laws related to weapons were easy to combine with the elemental laws, which provoked a big increase in power.

The other one was something that affected since someone reached the Apprentice Stage in swordsmanship, the bonus to the stats.

There was an absolute limit to the stats once one became a Law Master, and they couldn't improve more just by training, the only way to improve them was with the bonuses obtained from training swordsmanship, archery, and others of that kind.

The bonuses after reaching complete mastery and obtaining the capability to start training the law actively were of a ten thousand percent, and the biggest benefit of reaching mastery was that the bonus would apply permanently even if the weapon weren't being used.

Of course, before the breakthrough, Yale was already using a sword and had already a nine thousand percent bonus from his Sage Stage level nine Sword Mastery, so the difference after the breakthrough hadn't been monstrous, but it was still important.

That kind of effects was extremely attractive, so it was usual for Law Masters to train in a lot of weapons to obtain the boosts even if they didn't plan to train the law afterward. However, the turning point to reach the complete mastery was quite difficult and usually relied on enlightenment, so although having the proficiency of the favorite weapon mastered was still common, it was hard reaching that level on several kinds of weapons.

It was quite usual for experts at the Sage Rank to have at least one weapon at such level, so it wasn't overly surprising the fact that Yale being considered the Demon Lord was at that level while being at the Grandmaster Rank.

Needless to say, Swordmad was already at such level of swordsmanship from before, Aiwai reached it in archery short after reaching the Grandmaster Rank, and that Sebe also reached it with his favorite weapon some months before starting his travel with Yale.

However, Ronragruk couldn't avoid being surprised when he felt that Yale advanced in the battle because at that moment it was clear that Yale had been using that battle to polish his swordsmanship and making a breakthrough.

It wasn't only Ronragruk who was surprised, all of those who were able to notice Yale's breakthrough in swordsmanship was equally shocked. After all, restraining the battle prowess against someone like Ronragruk just to hope to make a breakthrough was far too crazy.

”You are still not my opponent, but to think that you were using this match to make a breakthrough... this has surpassed all my expectation. I can consider that you have won his exhibition of talent, but before finishing... I want to battle against your full power.”

Yale had impressed everyone enough to give him the victory in the exhibition even if he didn't have any chance to win that battle against Ronragruk, but the contest wasn't about battle strength but about showing talent and impressing others, and in that area, Yale had won against Ronragruk.

After all, Ronragruk's dance seemed difficult to learn, but others could still think in trying to learn it, but no one had the guts of doing the same as Yale and battling Ronragruk only with swordsmanship to try to make a breakthrough.

”Alright, I will show you all my power. However, we shall stop after one minute. Do you agree?”