Not only the chief priest of the swans but most of the watching priests had already discerned the stronger from the weaker.
Leaving aside whether this prince could defeat the agile Piegel priest, just considering the constraints of dueling a priest, Prince Richard had no chance of winning at all. To challenge a priest was to simultaneously challenge the priest's followers and Magical Beast..............................This was a dueling convention set by the kingdom to protect its scarce priests.
Of course, under the god of war, everything was just. If a duel were indeed to happen, the number of followers a priest could bring to the fight, like the third cycle of the Olympiad, could only be up to fourteen people.
