[ The system of ranking comes from the Valhalla Empire.
Nested at the southernmost tip of the continent, they created their own culture in a barren and closed environment surrounded by tropical jungle.
Valhalla is known as the holy land of warriors. People of Valhalla Empire thinks those who die a honorable death in the battle field are taken to Valhalla, so they always risked their lives in the battle field to have chances to go to Valhalla. ( TN -- i think all of you know what is Valhalla, and those who don't no what is Valhalla come on man what u doing here : ( ,,, )
In particular, children born in the Valhalla Empire have a coming-of-age ceremony in which they have to deal with monsters regardless of their gender male or female both have to do the ceremony, because of these they are considered a fairly aggressive nation to the point that their parents will be delighted when they win a fight against a very strong fighter or a very strong monster even if they are crippled in the fight. ]
[ In Valhalla people always wanted to prove how powerful they are.
It didn't just end up with the fact that they had won against a powerful opponent, they will document the result of these battle and make a list of powerful warriors.
That was the beginning of the ranking system in Valhalla Empire. At first, it was only a culture of Valhalla, but as the Empire of Valhalla expanded its power, the ranking system spread as a culture throughout the continent. ]
Rank's in the ranking system of warrior are organized by the Valhalla Temple.
49th ranker Homer.
His appearance in the Daejeon Battle between Lawrence and Barco was of course, shocking.
'Barco send Homer as there representative in the Daejeon battle.' after confirming the person representing was Homer Viscount Lawrence showed a look of despair.
There was no one in Cairo who is unaware of his fame, because he roamed across the different kingdom, to fight against a strong opponent.
Because of these he was began to be called Wandering Swordsman.
Homer was also a class A mercenary like Berge, but unlike Berge, who built his reputation in a group, but it was not the case for him since he was recognized as an individual force.
As a three-star aura swordsman, Homer built his reputation through numerous duels, and achieved the achievement of ranking on 49th place in the process.
[ If only his story had ended there.
Viscount Lawrence would not have been so desperate after seeing him.
Homer recently faced off against a four-star aura swordsman who is called the number 30 rank gate keeper.
He showed the limit of three stars aura swordsman, but he lost that confrontation, but at the end of the duel, he achieved an enlightenment and progressed one step further, and became a 4 star aura swordsman.
When the news of Homer becoming a 4 star aura swordsman struck the kingdom.
Everyone coveted him and wanted to recruit a four-star aura swordsman, due to which Homer's value skyrocketed day by day.
Now such an existence appeared in the Daejeon Battle.
Even if it was Homer of the past, some people would have already surrender by hearing name, but the current Homer is an invincible swordsman who has no rival in the northeast area.
In an instant atmosphere around the people of Lawrence who had there joy of first victory cooled down.
People unknowingly checked a person's at the same time, even though no one told them to do it.
Roman Dmitry, his expression was showing his curious.
Lawrence's warrior, who will face Homer's, is practically dead, people around the arena thought.
People naturally assumed that Roman Dmitry would raise the white flag and abstain from this showdown.
Roman did not know who Homer was.
But regardless of people's reactions, just by seeing Homer's momentum, he knew that he was strong. ]
'It's fun.' ( TN -- yeah it's funnnn,, : ) )
He started to laugh.
This is why he thought life is unpredictable.
Roman investigated Barco's actions through the Intelligence Guild, and found out that they had borrowed money from the Golden Bank to hire the Bergue mercenaries.
That was also the information revealed to the outside people.
With Roman's current ability, he couldn't investigate about the Barco hidden trump card.
And now Barco had showed there hidden trump card.
Not only they had enough money to mobilize a flare, but no one expected that they would have also have enough money to hired a four-star aura swordsman.
'Just like the opponent who liked to hid their strength, they also did not realised what kind of existence I am.'
Ahead of the war, Roman had fully prepared himself.
So that there is no problem even if he meet a strong people like described in the book.
He pounded steel countless times in the flames, and trained himself in that heat and flame.
For Roman it was an opportunity to fight against a strong person.
If he was strong enough to face a 4 star aura swordsman and defeat him, then for Roman he was definitely have strength from these world's standard.
' It was time for me to introduce myself. '
As he was about to move, suddenly someone grabbed his wrist from behind.
"Abstain now."
It was Flora hand.
Like Viscount Lawrence, she knew they had fallen into a trap as soon as they discovered Homer's existence.
"Your opponent is Homer who is ranked 49th. Besides, he is not a simple ranker, but now he had became a 4 star aura swordsman, and now he is considered a strong swordsman who will rise to 30th or higher position in the ranking in the future. Do you think you can beat someone like that? Our plan is completely wrong now. You forced Lawrence's to make sacrifice, and now it's our turn to pay the price due to the variable. So go back Even if you abstain, they will spare your life, and I earnestly pray that Lawrence's Knight will win a second victory in the next duel."
Flora feelings for Roman were complicated.
Although Roman was loathed by his selfish desires for his own gain, she couldn't just let the person who helped Lawrence die.
This battle was a clearly defeated for them from Flora perspective.
There was no reason for Homer to spare Roman's life, so Flora wanted to be realistically and asked Roman to abstain.
Roman said, "I don't like to abstain from any fight." And waved away his hand.
Flora was about to walk, but after listening Roman reply she cried out urgently.
"Then you will really die! This is definitely Lawrence's job to pay in the fight due to variable. There's no reason for you to risk your life in a fight you can't win! "
Roman continued walking and entered the arena, he looked at Homer without looking back at Flora.
It was Roman attitude from when he became absolute in Moorim. And now after seeing Homer who is looking down on the people, Roman's desire for victory became more overwhelming.
"These is my own choice. I don't want to explain everything to you, so from now on, don't get in my way.
He didn't know what Flora's expression was.
His relationship with her end's here.
Roman took a step.
Facing Homer, who looked at him with interest, he spoke differently than people had expected.
"I am Roman Dmitry, and I will be representing Lawrence's next."
After deciding to participate in these battle suddenly Roman crossed a river where he has no way to return back.
* * *
flutter!
The flag signaled the start of the battle.
There was no aggressiveness showed from the both side, like the first confrontation.
Neither Homer nor Roman rushed in, and waited for the opponent to make a move with a calm expression.
'I have to deal with this little dwarf.'
Homer was not interested in this showdown.
He had also heard about the rumours of Roman.
At one time, he was ridiculed for being Dmitry's nerd, but now he is evaluated to have completely changed as he subjugated Blood Fang and intervened in this battle.
He had also enough destructive power to destroy a flare, Homer could tell that Roman was an aura swordsman with at least 2 stars aura swordsman capability, but that alone did not attract Homer's attention.
'If it wasn't for personal reasons, I would have challenged Fernando right away.'
Fernando is a 4 star aura swordsman.
He is called the 30th rank Gate keeper ( or Guardian).
Homer was defeated in the last confrontation with him, but now he rose to the level of 4 stars aura swordsman. Now Homer thinks he had gained strength to face Fernando.
Homer was preparing for the ranking match immediately after he rose to 4 star aura swordsman, but at the request of the mercenary guild to which he belonged, it was delayed for a while.
"Homer. I have agreed to receive a large sum in return for sending one participation in the Daejeon Battle. I know you are looking forward to the fight against Fernando, but please consider our position this time. The opponent is from a family on the outskirts called Lawrence, who doesn't even have a 3-star aura swordsman, and it must be a really refreshing fight from which you would be able to do a warm up."
There was no reason for Homer to refuse.
Homer did not receive a proper mission after earning an A-class mercenary title.
He wandered around the kingdom and was busy fighting with strong people, and the funds for it was resolved from the mercenary guild.
Homer had a give and take relationship with mercenary guild.
Homer did what he wanted, and the mercenary group built a reputation through Homer.
As Homer, who reached the level of 4 stars aura swordsman, he could not turn away from the guild leader's request.
It was a really boring for Homer.
The fact that he had to come all the way to the outskirts and deal with a guy he didn't even know existed, and because of these his expression showed he was bored.
'Let's finish it quickly.'
He had no intention of giving his best.
He will just do, that was enough to get paid.
Homer slammed the ground lightly and swung his sword towards his opponent.
His movement was very fast.
Obviously, it was not that fast by Homer's standards, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it was incomparable to Chris and Jansson's speed.
To the people around arena ranker have heaven and earth diffrence compared to the common aura swordsman.
People thought that Roman would not be able to resist Homer's attack and his head will be send flying with a single blow.
Kaang!
But Roman completely blocked the attack.
Seeing these Homer immediately took a step forward and launched a chained attack, Roman responded to it without retreating back.
Kang!
Kakakan!
In an instant, they exchanged veries moves.
Homer thought that power of 3 star aura would be enough to subdue the opponent, but Roman showed no sign of being pushed back even when the his sword imbued with aura clad with Roman sword.
It was an absurd scene for Homer.
Roman's sword had only showed weak auras that made him doubtful whether it was an aura, but even his 3 star auras power were blocked by it.
Look at this it was strange for Homer and a unconventional situations.
His interest turned around.
He was curious about how Roman manifests his aura, and for the purpose of testing, he raised his 3-star aura.
Homer thought it would be enough subdue opponent on full power of 3 star aura.
Kwareung!
Curlcc!
The temperature around the arena started to rise.
The power of mana raged and his aura exploded from his sword.
Homer aura was different from Jansson's aura.
While Jansson was a swordsman who managed to reach the 3 stars aura, Homer was different firstly he was experienced 3 star aura and now he had reached 4 star aura swordsman level.
People opened their eye wide.
Due to Homer's overwhelming presence, they thought that Roman would avoid the attack this time.
At that moment Homer heard a ferocious voice.
When Homer looked at him, Roman looked down at him with cold eyes.
"It's time to stop these battle."
And a flash occurred in the arena.
That was Homer's last memory.
A confrontation with a 4-star aura swordsman, excited Roman, his blood boiled .and Roman thought he would be able to fight properly after a long time.
But the reality was different.
Homer was not active in this confrontation, and although he did not understand the level of his opponent, he showed disrespectfull attitude.
'I'm happy with this now.'
But Roman thinks now it is common between people who had big reputation.
But recently, he met people who ignored the opponent and showed a hasty attitude.
They are also the kind of human being that Roman could not understand.
' In a situation where you risk your life to fight, how can you show your confidence that you blindly trust yourself even though you don't even know your opponent? '
For this match he was fully prepared.
His foundation was laid by the Heavenly Demon god art and now it is possible to use the first three move of the Heavenly Demon Sword Technique.
It was still not enough
In a situation where he could not recover even his 10% of his original strength, Roman was constantly whipping and trying to develop his strength.
Homer looked down on him.
Roman didn't come here to get people's approval.
As a swordsman, he wanted to fight Homer, and his ultimate goal was to take revenge on Barco, and he was fighting in these battle to make his first steping stone.
Roman changed his mind.
If the other person looked down on him.
There was no reason to keep the fight long.
Roman raised his mana.
It was different from the other people.
His mana rose from the inside like a gentle wave, wrapped around the sword and the sword strongly absorbed the mana around it.
'Third move of Heavenly Demon Sword Technique.'
The Heavenly Demon Sword Technique has no form so it was denoted by no.
In addition to an anomalous attack that cannot be predicted by the opponent, its power increases and multiples depending on performer of the technique.
Roman was a person who conquered Moorim.
If he survived this attack, he would recognize Homer's confidence and fight for his life.
With a flash Roman swung his sword
That was the end.
Homer didn't even respond.
Homer sword and body was split at the same time, and blood spewed out from his body.
Whoops!
With a single blow.
Just like the Berge Mercenary Leader.
Again, the winner of the match was decided in an instant.