546 Minor Divinity (1/2)

The level of the sparring battle between Yale and Awat was enough to become a legend on everywhere else it happened, but what happened inside of the tribe remained on the tribe, so no one outside the tribe would know about that battle.

No one, except for Great God Kroh, who was always observing Yale's journey, no matter where he was.

”His progress in reaching the Minor Sword Divinity is very good, but it would be better if he focused on reaching the Minor Time Divinity that is more important.”

Minor Divinity was how the Gods called the Minor God thresholds, but most people didn't know about that name. Even some Gods didn't know about it because although the name was decided by the Council of Gods, it wasn't something they did to force others to use that name.

They just felt that the standard naming was too confusing, so they created a new one for themselves.

Before reaching godship, most people would have difficulties in obtaining a single Minor Divinity, so the naming wasn't truly a problem, but Great Gods usually had a lot of Minor Divinities, Divinities, and Great Divinities, so the ordinary naming wasn't good for them.

Great God Kroh wanted that someone reached the Minor Time Divinity, which no one had reached before since Great God Kroh was ahead of that level form the start, so he was hoping that Yale would focus more on it, but it also knew that it was extremely difficult.

The battle continued with Yale focusing purely on swordsmanship regardless of Great God Kroh's wishes. After all, Yale didn't know what Great God Kroh was thinking.

The battle lasted for two additional months, in which Yale had been struck in the bottleneck before obtaining the Minor Sword Divinity, so he hadn't improved, but the combat experience he obtained was still very valuable.

However, he had been unable to land a single hit on Awat, and after those two months, he was already on his limits.

He could battle for thousands of years against someone who was at his same level, but it was already worthy of praise that he endured two months against Awat.

Yale's legs trembles as he started to fall to the ground, which made Awat smile.

”You did it well.”

Just after finishing to speak, he had a bad feeling and immediately covered his whole body in a heavy armor that was also a form of his true body.

Less than a second after that, Lar's sword hit the heavy armor.

Of course, Yale was wielding Lar's sword. Immediately after starting to fall, he manipulated the space to appear in the air behind Awat and land his last hit.

However, Awat still managed to block it with the armor.

”I lost.”

Yale fell to the ground at that instant. His control of space had been incredible, and he even made a breakthrough reaching the bottleneck before the Minor God threshold, but Awat's intuition was just too good.

”No, I have lost. I activated my armor when you weren't using any. That is breaking the rule I imposed for myself in this battle, so I lost.”

Awat was just too prideful, so he would rather lose than winning due to skipping his own rules. Losing was bad, but not being able to follow the rules he made for himself was even worse.

Of course, in a real battle, the means didn't matter, but in a real battle, Yale wouldn't have lasted even a second against him, so Awat wouldn't be at ease thinking that as he won that battle, the means didn't matter.

”No, I am really not your match. This is my loss.”

Yale couldn't accept a victory even after his last attack failed. If it had hit, he could have accepted it despite being a sneak attack, but he hadn't even been able to land a single hit on Awat that wasn't blocked, so he didn't feel that he had won.

The chief sighed when seeing the two stubborn opponents that refused to admit victory.

”Alright. Liye was unable to hit Awat even once, but Awat broke the rules he set for the match. Those weren't official rules, but since he acknowledged them, I declare this battle a tie.”

The chief felt that it was the best option since neither of them seemed willing to admit victory.

Yale and Awat considered that they had lost, but they decided to accept the chief's words and publicly consider it a tie.

Of course, in their minds, both considered that they had lost.

Yale just returned to his room in silence without knowing the impact that his battle had on Jika and Dan.

For them, the battle had been something unbelievable and hadn't been able to stop watching it. If it hadn't been because there had been people giving them water and food, they could have died.

They wished to take a humanoid form to wield a sword and ask Yale to teach them.

Back in his room, Yale sighed while lying on the bed.