By the agreement of both side, Daejeon Battle was decided to held between them.
Lawrence opened there gates and came out, and Barco and Lawrence's forces faced each other in the wide open plain.
The Daejeon Battle was decided to be held after a week after the messanger was sent from Lawrence.
The judge, had arrived from capital for the Daejeon Battle, he was standing on the side of the arena where the battle is going to start, he stared the both parties and spoke with a deep voice and made all the people present there attention focused on him.
"My name is Count Ertes. From now on, the Daejeon Battle between Barco and the Lawrence will be held, and two of them will designate there three swordsmen to represent them in 30 minutes and submit the lineup. The Daejeon Battle is a sacred Battle blessed by Valhalla. Whatever the outcome, both the parties must obey the outcome, and if there is any one group that violates rules, they will be judged on the honor of the Kingdom of Cairo."
Count Ertes, he was dressed in a neat robe that did not match the condition of the arena, he was sent by the central government to become the judge in this confrontation.
In the Daejeon Battle, the authority of the person in charge of the place is very important, which is the judge present there.
Therefore, as soon as the two sides reached an agreement, the central government was informed of this fact, and Count Ertes was sent here to become the judge.
Count Ertes sat down on the table prepared for him in advance.
Servants made shade for him, and he sip wine with a relaxed face as he waited for the lineup.
Now both sides, Barco and Lawrence were busy.
Lawrence had already prepared the lineup, but Roman, who was watching Barco's movements, said suddenly.
"I think we need to change the lineup."
"What do you mean?"
Viscount Lawrence asked in a questionably due to these sudden request of change.
A week ago, Daejeon Battle warriors were already decided, and Lawrence had set the match lineup in advance.
There plan was to finish the first battle with Roman taking the lead and securing 1 win, and after that Lawrence's knight was second to come, and Chris was at the end.
However, Barco's movements were unusual.
Although it is said that the distance from the capital to Lawrence is far, it took a week for Count Ertes to arrive in an era when magic technic such as travel through teleportation point was developed.
It was very strange situation.
As time goes on, Barco will be under pressure from interest forming on them, but they didn't look impatient in the slightest.
"It seems that the Barco family deliberately delayed the time for the battle. For them, it would have taken time to invite an outside expert swordsman. The connection of Barco from central government has the power to interpret in there battle time, and the fact that the confrontation took place a week later can be interpreted as meaning that they had used there connection from central government."
"Then, there is chance that an outside expert swordsman might come out as the vanguard of the enemies."
Roman's gaze turned to Barco's camp.
Unlike the bustling Lawrence, they seemed to have already made a decision.
"Barco has no intention of sending out the outside swordman as the first representative. Had that been the case, they would have taken action to entice us to send out the strongest swordsman in the first battle. That's the best strategy they can choose, and if that's the case, then we need to change our line up, to face our enemy in our best condition."
Viscount Lawrence asked, "So what is the solution for it?"
"Chris will secure one win on the first battle, and I will take part in the second turn and face against the card which had Barco prepared for us."
" !"
Everyone looked surprised for a moment.
The secret weapon that Barco had prepared for them.
Obviously he wouldn't be an easy opponent, but Roman said he would face him and take the risk as if he was nothing under his eyes.
They couldn't understand, why Roman was even doing this?
Why would, Roman risked his life for Lawrence.
Unlike Flora, those who did not know Roman's inner feelings, they could not help but be moved by Roman's decision.
Viscount Lawrence said, "I will never forget this grace of yours. If Lawrence wins the Daejeon Battle and overcomes the crisis of extinction, Roman Dmitry will be treated as a distinguished guest for the rest of his life as Lawrence's benefactor.
Except for her Flora.
Everyone showed respect to Roman.
* * *
The time has come.
Barco did not procrastinate, and revealed the appearance of the prosecutor who would immediately take the lead on the first battle.
"I am Jansson from Barco."
"Jansson."
People started to chant his name.
Jansson was a three-star swordsman that Barco was proud of, and he was one of the most talented swordsman in the northeast area.
On the contrary.
Lawrence's representative was humble.
"I am Chris who will represent Lawrence."
Chirs he walked on the arena with a sullen face.
People present there recognized Chris' face immediately.
He was the disciple of Jonathan, who is said to be stronger than Jansson, and he was also considered, the greatest genius in the northeast region.
The problem was that the Daejeon Battle was not a place to compete for the future possibilities.
Although Chris may have the upper hand in terms of age and talent, it was a match between 3 stars and 2 stars when compared with level.
Aura difference very much.
It was an area that could not be narrowed down with only swordsmanship skills.
People who where standing around the arena was thinking with there common sense.
"Why did they let Chris go on the first match?"
' Because of these decisions a talented swordsman would die. '
"This is something Dmitry is going to lament in future. Dmitry's talent swordsman will die for the sake of Lawrence's.
On the arena Chris also heard the people reaction.
He knew he was at a disadvantage, but he didn't thought much about it and entered the arena.
His reason was very simple.
'His master told him. He can win easily.'
The reason for his decision was Roman.
Among the different swordsman, there are swordsman who can ignore the difference in higher rank auras, but it is always an exception case.
And for the common people it was beyond there common sense.
Roman said that Chris could defeat the three-star swordsman by going beyond common sense of other people, so Chris accepted the situation in front of him without thinking.
The day he fought with Kevin.
Due to Roman's teaching, which turned an insignificant child into a fighting dog, Chris started to blindly trust Roman.
He absolute believed in Roman.
Even if he died on the spot, Chris would not regret his choice.
'To become strong, I have to take risks. That's why I left Dmitry and followed his master.'
Jansson he was Barco's swordman, whom he had heard countless rumors about.
He looked strong.
Chris smiled on these situations.
If he defeat Jansson, it means that his choice is right.
The moment the signal was drops.
Start!
Taap!
No matter who came first to whom, Jansson and Chris ran towards each other.
Public opinion on Chirs was not baised.
Jansson was quick.
Aura exploded from his sword, and he swung the sword strong enough to kill Chris at a single attack.
There was a Intermittent difference between them.
Chris dodged the attack.
He tried to attack Jansson's loophole by momentarily doing a side step, but Jansson did not retrieve his sword and continued to attack with the same momentum.
Chris eyes flashed
The blazing aura made his mouth dry, and he knew that he would die the moment he was attacked even once.
Chris quickly stepped back.
Rather than giving and receiving a proper attack, he focused on evading the enemy's attack.
"You bastard! How long are you going to run away?"
Jansson growled.
He tried to induce a head-on confrontation by attacking toward his opponent's heart, but Chris did not lose his composure and dodged the attack.
Confrontation between 3-star aura and 2-star aura swordsman is suicide for 2-star aura swordsman.
Chirs didn't take his self-esteem on these battle.
Even if the appearance of running away was seen as cowardice, he avoided the opponent's attack as efficiently as possible.
'When I first fought with the master. The master at that time defeated me without using the aura. On that day I had a humiliating defeat in front of everyone, I learned one thing. No matter how powerful the aura is, the attack must be successful to be meaningful. And here it's no different now.'
He avoided and dodge again the opponent attack.
As Jansson said before, he was avoiding the opponent's attack like a mouse, Chris stabbed his sword whenever he saw a gap.
hook!
After one flash.
Blood came out from the cut on the Jansson's face.
It was only slightly scratched, but the fact that he had been attacked first made his face horribly contorted.
'This kid.'
His aura explosion.
A three-star aura swelled strongly from him.
From then on, it his attack was not a problem that could be solved by avoiding it only.
A sword infested with an aura split the space, and an area wider than the sword's volume was swept away by the attack made from sword imbued with aura.
3 star aura swordsman are in the different class.
At the attack sweeping through the space, Chris took a deep breath.
Quang!
Khaaa!
Chirs vomited blood due this attack.
Even though he defended it by brushing it slightly, he felt like his inside organ had been completely twisted.
It result was in commonsense.
The reason why people value the powerful people and are distinction highly because even if you play 99 shot well, you can lose in just one shot.
Chris staggers slightly.
Jansson pushed forward, thinking that he had gained momentum.
His steps were not quick due to the internal injury, and it was only a matter of time for Jansson's sword to blow his throat away.
'Damn it.'
Chris, he was different from Roman.
Roman possessed the monster-like ability to overwhelm opponents in the same situation as himself, but Chris was still a human being who had not started to think above common sense.
His stomach made him difficult to walk.
He thought that maybe his leg was torn while defending the opponent attack, but he didn't want to die like this.
He was in a very messy situation and yet he hadn't learned anything from Roman.
Knights of Dmitry laughed at his choice to follow Roman.
He ignored the gaze of hus colleagues who criticized him, as it was really a stupid choice to followed Roman, but he doesn't want died in vain.
Isn't he sloppy?
If he died like this, Chris wouldn't be able to see the faces of his comrades face again.
Roman said, 'Let's go beyond the common sense of the world.'
'Why are you using your aura like that?'
His mind was broken to the point that he was not able to think efficiently, but he still had a way out of these situations.
I had no choice but to do so.
Even his mentor, Jonathan.
Furthermore, even Emperor Alessandro, known as the first aura swordsman, trained in the same way as himself.
It took courage to go beyond common sense of other people.
And now.
Chris, facing Jansson's aura, thought of Roman.
'The indiscriminate burst of mana can't reach 100% of the power of the aura. Just as the master showed tremendous power with a single attack in the process of destroying the flare, let me concentrate the power of the aura on the one point.'
He gulp and try to swallow his dry saliva.
In front of him, he could see Jansson running towards him like a madman.
die!
He swung his sword toward Chirs
There was a strong conviction in Jansson that Chris like before, would not face him head-on.
Chris raised his mana.
He was not bursting out his mana like everyone else.
As he learned while watching Roman, he condensed his aura by collecting as much mana as possible.
His aura manifestation.
The size of the Chris aura was small.
Seeing these Jansson smirked and was sure of his victory.
But something unexpected happened.
Kaang!
" ?!"
Between clash of two swords.
Chris' aura was not broken.
While burning precariously, it withstood the opponent's attack, which was a variable that Jansson did not expect.
At that moment.
A sword flashed.
Shrachhh!
Mana exploded between them.
Due to Chris's fast attack, which is his main specialty, the sword flashed and blew off Jansson's head as it was.
poof!
Blood splattered in the sky.
Jansson's head floated in the sky, his eyes where of those which looked as it were dyed in shock.
In first Battle.
The winner was Chris.
tuk!
Degururu!
Jansson's head rolled on the ground.
Those who looked at it could not believe what had happened in front of them.
'He is crazy.'
'A 3 stars aura swordsman was defeated by a 2 stars aura swordsman?'
'Nonsense!'
It was out of common sense of the people around the arena.
It was a shocking result.
Chris wiped the blood off his sword with a pale face, and just then Lawrence's soldiers cheered.
"Woah ah ah ah ah!"
"Crazy!"
Chris! Chris!
Chris! Chris!
It was really a big uproar.
In the first match that Barco had expected to win, Chris proudly had won the first match.
And now Lawrence only need to win one more time.
At the thought of putting Barco in a corner, Lawrence's soldiers' faces burned as if they had already won.
At such a situation, Viscount Barco was perplexed.
' Jansson loses. With this, the winning strategy I was thinking of was messed up. If Jansson had won, I was going to finish the match in the second match, but now the third match is more important.'
Absurdly he didn't worry about winning or losing the second match.
It was natural.
If he couldn't completely trust the card which he had prepared for his victory, he wouldn't have spent a lot of money to bring him to this battle.
That was then, one person took step towards the arena from Barco.
As if nothing had happened on Jansson's defeat.
Appearing in front of people, he put his hand on his bare sword which was on his waist and revealed his name with a smile.
"My name is Homer and I will be representing Barco."
After hearing Homer name Lawrence's soldiers, who had just been celebrating for their victory, fell into shock and horror.
"Hey, Homer?"
"Why is Homer here?!"
A ranking that indicates an individual's power as a warrior.
The ranking, which the Temple of Valhalla established based on reliable data, was updated every year and are known to the people of all continents.
He was 4 star aura swordsman and he was ranked as the 49th strongest in the kingdom.