Time skipped and three of us walked away toward the sparring place.
Grel : "Hey Fasmel ."
Fasmel : "Yes?" She's leaning and looking at me from behind.
Grel : "Do you want to bring your weapon?"
Fasmel : "Hmmm... Maybe not, because I want to train my speed for now."
Well to be honest I want to check her weapon though. I never inspect their weapons close.
Then after a moment, we arrive at the sparring gate, and we are entering it. We walk on the brick street, and the hallway also builds up from a brick. There's a room inside the hallway that is connected to the supporter seat above, a changing room for a man and woman, and weapon equipment for sparring purposes. There are also some kinds of medicine items whenever we get unexpectedly small wounds or injured during sparring.
In short, we separate and change our clothes to avoid scratching our daily clothes. After that, I'm going inside the weapon equipment room. I see many training weapons, and some of them are real weapons. I'm looking at the real sword weapon and picking it up. It's long almost the same from my upper body to the end of my head.
Grel : "Hmmm... The edge is not sharp, this has probably been used a lot." While I'm touching the edge of the sword and looking at it from the bottom to the top. Then I put it back again.
Then I look at a real bow and pick it up. The bow is not that big, it surely can only be used for arrows at low to medium distances.
Grel : "Might kingdom did not care about the other user other than the sword? This kingdom name is indeed born because the majority of the users are sword users. But is it not important?"
Ahri : "It's important sometimes."
I heard the voice coming from my left side from the door to enter this equipment room. It's Ahri and Fasmel going in.
Fasmel : "I will take this and go to the arena quickly. I need to warm up a bit." She grabs the real sword I inspected before. "I'll wait for you there whenever you are ready." Then she left just like that leaving me and Ahri alone.
Ahri : "She loves using a sword isn't she."
Grel : "Yea, she is." She indeed loves training with a sword. People never saw her real strength behind her clothes. It's well covered and at the same time, she's still fashionable.
Then I look at the bow again and inspect the string.
Grel : "I wonder why people only focus on maintaining their majority equipment but not with the other equipment."
Ahri : "If I were born here and blessed as a bow user, I'll probably go to the rose kingdom. Since there is more space and suits the bow user to train."
Grel : "Hmmm..." It makes sense. Having two or more arenas for all users is kind of not worth it.
Then I look at the shield right beside me. It's big enough with a circle shape. It's the normal shield we've been using for training. Then I put back the bow and take a look at the shield. Well, this is the only shield here, I don't have any choice. The size is big enough to cover half of my body.
Then I tried to lift it with my left hand.
Grel : "Whoops. This thing is heavier than I thought. Maybe around 70kg?" I tried to lift it up and down with my right hand. "No, it's around 65kg."
In the Bulwark kingdom, the training shield we had is around 70kg. It's still a training shield. The real shield is around 90 to 100kg. I've been used to training with a training shield back then, so I remembered correctly the weight of that 70kg shield. Then beside the shield, it's side-hand equipment for shield users, the normal sword. Compared with the might sword, the normal sword is way lighter. The length of the normal sword is the same as another sword. The difference is their width. It's smaller. Then I lift it with my right hand.
Then we got out of the equipment room.
Ahri : "I'll go upstairs and watch from there."
Grel : "Sure..." She's going upstairs, seems like she is not interested in joining sparring here.
Then I entered the arena hall in the middle. I see Fasmel already here, holding her sword, swinging it in the same pattern over and over while I keep walking to the middle. She notices me here and then stops her warmup.
Fasmel : "You ready?"
Grel : "Hold up for a second." I warm up for a bit. Lifting my shield with my left hand up and down multiple times until I feel it's become part of me. Then I swing my sword with my right hand and remember its size and length.
Grel : "Alright, I'm ready."
The distance between me and Fasmel is pretty far. We both stood straight. Then we both lifted our weapons.
Meanwhile Ahri sits down watching from above us.
Ahri : *growling "Haah... I'm hungry... Glad I brought this with me." She lifts the waterskin. And drinking it.
Bruh, I heard it. She doesn't even care about the sparring.
Fasmel laughed hearing her saying it kind of loud.
Fasmel : "After this let's just eat shall we."
Grel : "Yea, why not."
Then she smiled at me. I wonder last time we spar.
She suddenly dashed toward me so fast, the sound she made sounded like the wind but with bass frequency. She's already in front of me in just a second and about to swing her sword toward me. The sword is about to swing from above her head. And her position is a bit off the ground.
I quickly cast my power into my shield and lifted it to protect myself from getting hit.
Grel : "Level 1... shield enhancement." The shield was infused with a blue aura from me.
Then the sword hit my shield. It makes a loud sound like an iron has been forged. And the wind from Fasmel after she dashed finally made a sound coming toward me. Our clothes were blasted by it. Then she quickly dashes back to first place and makes distance again.
Fasmel : "You look surprised."
I realize her sword does not infuse with her power yet.
Grel : "Please take all you have. I know that's just a little power from you." I tried to taunt her.
Fasmel : "Hahaha... You ask for it." Then she lifts her sword again.
Fasmel : "Level 2... sword enhances" Now her sword has a red aura surrounding it.
I'm not sure, should I use level 2 shield enhancement? She is still not attacking yet.
Fasmel : "Level 8..." She quickly dashed toward me again. "Power enhances" her body infused with a big red aura from her. Her speed doesn't change but this time I can sense her body becoming tenser than before. I can see the veins on her hands.
As expected, she wants to bait me to waste my power, glad I didn't fall from it. This time is not a joke.
Grel : "Level 8... Greater shield enhances" My shield has a big blue aura this time, combined with level 1 shield enhancement.
Her sword hit my shield again for the second time.
But this time, it sounds really loud and breaks the barrier of sound, and the wind from her dash blasts toward me again. I can feel her sword and her body pushing me. Then quickly she dashed back again like before. I noticed her pattern of the fight is different from another sword user. She keeps charging and backing up. Now she has a sword enhanced and her body enhances aura.
Fasmel : "Level 6..." She quickly dashed toward me again. But this time she is really faster than before. And she swings her weapon not from above her head, but from the right side of her body. "speed enhance".
My eyes are wide open surprised at how fast she dashed toward me. I need to be quick.
Grel : "Level 6!!!" her weapon hit my shield again for the third time. "defensive aura" My body was surrounded with a blue aura.
The sound was more blasting than before and the wind blasting me kept me really hard. Her sword and body are pushing my shield and my body to the ground. It makes the floor below me cracked a little bit to the ground. She is so strong. Then she quickly dashed back again. Now she has a speed enhancement with her body. I think she can't cast any higher-level power now, her power must be on the edge right now.
I have only 8 power left.
Fasmel : "Level 10..." She quickly dashed toward me again with fast speed.
What? Level 10? This is dangerous. My eyes are wide open again.
Her sword is above her head again right now. This time, her eyes and her murdering aura really burden me.
Fasmel : "Sword Ultimate..." Her sword aura becomes firing really hot, the aura size is really big. It is almost 10 times the size of her body.
What should I do? I can't stack my buff, and my lower shield buff will not help me with this. The only power I can use is that one... But...
The sword is now swinging toward me.
This is bad... Her sword is about to hit my face.
It's too late, I can't dodge.
I feared my dead really sure at this point. Then suddenly her sword-firing aura is gone and disappears. Her body aura also disappears.
What just happened... Her body fell toward my body. I grab her and prevent them from hitting the ground. Her hand lost its grip and the sword fell off to the ground. Her eyes are closed. It seems she fainted.
Ahri jumped into the arena from above and then checked Fasmel 's hand.
RAhri ose: "She overused her power."
So that's what happened. I look at Fasmel 's eyes closed. I don't understand when she sleeps. She is really beautiful. O... This feel... *Her breath pressed her chest to my body. This is not good at all.
Grel : "Can you help me real quick Ahri ?"
Time skipped ahead and we went back to my rented inn and put Fasmel on the bed and let her sleep.
Grel : "She had a strong blessing from God."
Ahri : "Yea, that's why I don't want to teach her to control life's essence power."
We both look at her sleeping deeply.
Ahri : "She does not even count carefully when you fight before. *sigh"
Grel : "Did I miss something?"
Ahri : "Remember she cast level 10 power before?"
I flashback it and remember it correctly. She cast level 10 power and said "Sword Ultimate" enhances her sword aura into a big fire, her power.
Grel : "Ah... I also wonder about that too."
Ahri : "Her age is 23 now. Same as us. We were born in the same year and we know that. She is casting a power way too high than the total of her age."
Grel : "Now I see that."
So the first move she made was casting level 2 enhancement for her sword. Then the second move is level 8 enhanced for her power limit. Then the third move is level 6 to enhance her speed limit. The total power she has used is 16. There is only 7 power left inside her body. But then she got to level 10 power. *Looking at Fasmel 's hand. Is she used to using her weapon?
Let's put that thing aside first. Her combat pattern thought. *Flashback when Fasmel 's firing sword about to hit my face. So this is what my father mentioned. If she is really old enough or uses that sword, any normal shield user or someone will not be able to evade it.
*Looking at Fasmel 's face while sleeping while smiling. She must have a huge reason to obtain such a blessing from her God. If I'm not trained by Mr. Kim and my father well, I would really lose to it.