"S-Ranked party?" Max repeated, he of course knew what this meant as he had read several mangas about this in his past life, but it felt weird.
"Basically... um... the five of us, through completing several missions and being recognized as strong, have been promoted to S-rank," the man continued talking, almost trying to flex now.
Max remembered that Cheol, the heroes' teacher in Greyburk, was also an S-ranked warrior, and that he was able to defeat him by using his overconfidence, maybe it could work in this case too.
"..." Max, with his emotionless gaze, stared into the long-sword-wielding adventurer, then pointed his rapier at him, "I'm not backing down, if you wanna fight to the death in here, then so be it."
These five adventurers had moved to this kingdom specifically from 'Royalia', which is the royal capital and main kingdom of this continent, meaning that they would need to be extremely strong to be promoted to S-rank.