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Gawain also led his brothers and sisters to stand up, and bluntly instructed the maids lined up behind him:

"Prepare afternoon tea and move to the training ground."

Saulos had long ago instructed his family and servants that whenever Gawain came as a guest, they should treat him as one of the hosts. The two, with similar personalities and values, actually had a good personal relationship, even though they had only known each other for a few months. This was also one of the things that frustrate Philip; after all, if he and Saulos shared similar interests, it would be impossible for him to be liked.

Soon, everyone arrived at the training grounds. The maids set up the outdoor tea party in the corner Gawain had designated. There were two small round tables. Gawain and Saulos sat in the middle, Sylphy sat in front of Gawain, and Rudy, in a special situation, stood to the side, though he also had a chair, behind Gawain. At the other round table, the situation was like this: Philip sat behind Saulos, Alice sat in front of him, and Hilda, Philip's wife and Alice's mother, had just arrived, on the outermost side.

"Rudy, let's strengthen the ground together. You take care of the soil, and I'll take care of the brick surface and foundation."

Everyone had already started drinking tea, eating snacks and chatting, and Gao Wen also stood up and gave orders.

Philip wanted to stop it:

"Isn't it unfair to use up your magic power before a battle, Rudeus?"

Saulos turned around and glared at his son. He probably wanted to beat his son and scold him for being petty, but considering that he had just been refuted by Rudius, he barely held back.

Rudeus explained with a smile:

"This consumption is basically nothing to me. It won't affect the battle."

In order to avoid interference between their magic powers, he and Gawain arranged the order, each extended their gloved hand, and used huge and sophisticated magic to completely reshape this huge training ground that could accommodate thousands of knights for training. Even the soil ten meters underground was compacted and improved.

This castle is actually a relic of the last war between humans and demons more than 400 years ago. It is the end point of the demons' unstoppable march, so it is normal for it to have a training ground of this size.

After improving the venue, Gawain and Rudy walked back.

Gao Wen explained to everyone:

"I'll take care of safety, everyone. Don't worry. Rudy, you also have to control the situation. No maiming or killing, no flying or escaping underground, no huddling tactics, no quick-kill tactics, no splash magic, no large-scale magic, and no high-damage magic. In other words, you're only allowed to use small-scale, low-power magic to mark victory, or to win by binding the enemy."

Even Sauros couldn't help it now:

"Gawain, you might as well just let Rudeus admit defeat."

Rudeus smiled and tried to smooth things over:

"Lord Saulos, that's not true. Brother Gawain once led us in developing tactics that guarantee a 100% chance of winning in relatively fair environments like arena battles. If we don't ban these pre-prepared winning strategies, then fairness will be completely lost. Also, spells like flying and burrowing that leave swordsmen completely defenseless are also unfair, aren't they? As for large-scale spells, while they may not necessarily defeat Miss Gilenu, they could easily harm the spectators, right?"

Alice jumped out dissatisfied, pointing at Rudeus who had a confident smile on his face, and said angrily:

"If you say that! Then Gileno is doomed to lose! Gileno is very strong and powerful. There is no way he can lose to a kid like you with such a disgusting smile!"

Rudeus was not at all shocked. He just calmly turned his hands behind his back and looked at Alice, saying lightly:

"Miss Gilenu, the only way to defeat me is probably to chop off my head while I'm soundly asleep. Unless I'm attacked by the Sword Emperor, there's no chance of me losing against the Sword King of the Sword God School."

He even felt that he was being very modest. If he flew, the Sword God might be ruthlessly slaughtered by him. However, that would not be a battle, it would only be killing.

Alice was so angry that she wanted to rush forward, but Gilenu held her back. Facing such remarks, Gilenu was not angry, but smiled and said to Rudeus:

"No need to add Miss, just call me Gilenu, Rudeus. Your parents and I are old friends."

Rudeus looked at her apologetically:

"I'm sorry, Gileno, but I will prove with my actions that what I just said is not an insult to you. Please use all your strength and fight me with the determination to kill me."

Gawain handed Rudy the box he had been holding.

Facing everyone's curious gazes, Rudy placed it upright on the ground and took off his coat, revealing his well-trained young body wearing only a short-sleeved shirt.

"Brother Gao Wen, I've been thinking about how to solve the problem of quickly donning magic armor. This is the first version of the plan."

"Henshin!"

The lid of the box opened with a sound, and Rudius inserted his arms into the box. When he pulled them out, his forearms and palms were covered with matte black armor. The box also opened up. He stepped onto the fixed part of the box, and the black leg armor immediately spread to his calves along with the fluctuations of magic power.

After putting on his armor, Rudeus stretched out his ten fingers, making a crisp metallic clang. He then took off a pitch-black headband from his left arm and put it on his forehead.

"First game, let's begin."

Chapter 7 Weak

Gileno took off the blindfold and handed it to the eldest lady who had always trusted him.

Then, he stepped onto the "ring" with a designated area.

The two were only 20 meters apart, a very arrogant distance. Let alone 20 meters, even being fifty meters away from a Sword King would make pure magicians of almost all levels feel unsafe, right?

If I go at full speed, how long will it take me to cover this distance?

The answer is: not even 0.1 seconds.

"start!"

Gawain fired a fireball as a signal.

0.108s

The next moment, perhaps only Gawain in the audience saw the whole process clearly, Gilenu's figure had already appeared behind Rudius. She took a bow stance, her hand already grasped the scabbard, and the sword of light was ready to be drawn.

0.162s

Draw the knife.

The target was the enemy's side chest, and the tip of the knife scratched the skin as a victory mark, and the victory had already been won.

How long would it take for a slash at over ten times the speed of sound to travel this small distance?

This question doesn't even need to be considered.

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Gileno's sure-hit slash was dodged in an instant.

It wasn't even a narrow escape, but he leaped forward a meter at a speed that even Gileno couldn't see clearly. Almost at the moment he stopped, a large area of green light lit up on Rudius's body. This instantaneous acceleration must have put an extraordinary burden on his body.

He didn't even turn around, but immediately captured the enemy's position using the previous attack as an anchor and counterattacked with reasonable force.

Gileno only saw a stream of magic power injected into her clothes and shoes, and then she was thrown into the sky uncontrollably.

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Just as Gilena was confused and wondering whether she should fight naked, she fell down again, but in response, Rudius also turned around and faced her with both palms.

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The Sword God Style requires both feet to touch the ground and gain enough grip to exert full strength. Gilenu was not in a hurry, but immediately reorganized her stance after landing. She remembered the opponent's magic form just now, and wrapped her clothes with fighting spirit so that she would not be disturbed by it again.

But Rudius just clenched his left hand, and Gilena's body immediately sank. She felt suffocated all over her body, but this suffocation was not because she couldn't breathe, but a terrible feeling brought by the air becoming thicker and heavier, even the movement of her limbs was affected.

Rudeus swung his right hand backwards, and his toes touched the ground as he drifted backwards, moving away from Gileno at an acceleration he could bear.

Gilena held her breath and rushed forward, but her movement speed was obviously affected. She only felt that the air resistance in front of her was getting stronger and stronger.

Rudius waved his left hand forward, and Gilena immediately felt a huge amount of high-speed airflow in front of her blowing her backwards. However, the air behind her, which had become thick, did not play a blocking role. Instead, it seemed to disappear completely. Even if she tried to breathe, she could not get a breath of air.

The distance between the two immediately widened to about 100 meters.

1.347s

Gilena thrust her sword into the ground and forcibly regained control of herself. She injected more fighting spirit into the soles of her feet, connecting them to the ground, and regrouped.

But when she wanted to pull out the sword, she felt a clear blockage. Because the ground had been solidified, even with her magic eyes, it was difficult to see the situation underground through the bricks that were already emitting excessive magic power.

Just as she was about to exert force again, a large number of slender rock pillars quickly emerged from the ground and stabbed at her from all angles, trying to lock her in place.

Knowing the horror of joint skills, Gileno gave up drawing his sword and decided to destroy the rock pillars with his fists and feet first, then drew his sword with all his strength and got away, moving at a speed fast enough to prevent the opponent from having time to generate magic.

He wrapped the hand knife with fighting spirit, and with one cut, the rock surface shattered, revealing the thick steel core wrapped inside.

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Feeling that he had been attacked, Gileno could only draw his sword with all his strength, and then use the sharpness of the blade to quickly cut off the steel pillars that were only covered with a thin layer of rock. He didn't even have time to observe Rudius's movements and could only focus on these steel pillar shackles that were still being generated. But he must have tried his best to make such a tough material, right?

next moment.

A light bright enough to temporarily blind her filled Gilena's eyes, and then unspeakable numbness and pain spread throughout her body.

It was lightning, and this lightning was repeatedly jumping, conducting, and bombarding Gileno's body, which was gradually emitting black smoke, on the surrounding steel pillars.

But the king-level swordsman's body, which has been tempered through thousands of trials and tribulations, is far from being that fragile.

Gilenu roared and re-energized his fighting spirit throughout his body, suppressing all pain and discomfort and forcibly regaining his consciousness.

She rushed towards Rudeus with the aura of a mad lion.

Then, I saw a boy holding a small ball.

"boom--"

3.175s

A super alloy bullet that was refined and manufactured in advance and always kept in Rudeus' pocket passed by Gilena's ear at sixty times the speed of sound. Even with her full fighting spirit protection, the high-temperature air stirred up by the bullet when it passed through burned half of her ear and part of her skin.

But Gilenu didn't dare to move at all.

At the first glance, with the instincts of a swordsman and a beast, she understood that if she chose to believe that Rudius would be fine, she would most likely be killed instantly if she resisted.

But even if you choose to believe in your own feelings.

He chose to believe Rudeus.

But until the moment Gawain announced the result of the competition, she was frozen in place, not daring to move an inch. When she came to her senses, the black and gray marks on her chocolate-colored skin had been washed away by sweat.

Gilenu stood up straight and smiled with relief:

"Rudeus, that's amazing. I'm completely defeated."

Rudius untied his arm armor, walked over and shook hands with Gileno, rubbing his head embarrassedly:

"You too, Gilenu. If you were any closer, I might not have been able to react to the first strike. If this were an actual battle, I'd probably have to plan my strategy based on leaving him disabled, right? I think I underestimated the Sword God Style a bit before. I'm sorry."

But Gawain came over and hit Rudy on the head:

"That last move was a foul. You could have won with any magic, but you had to pretend. Remember to make it up to Gilenu afterwards."

Rudy timidly defended himself:

"I've calculated that it's absolutely safe to attack at this speed from this distance. Even Gileno's sword speed wouldn't be able to intercept the projectile in time, let alone his body speed! And I've also confirmed the safety factor within the trajectory."

Gawain pointed to the wall where a large hole had been scratched, and was too lazy to scold him:

"Fix it afterwards."

The victorious Rudy came back dejectedly to unload his equipment.

Everyone present except Sylphy, including the servants serving in the back, were looking at Rudeus as if he were a monster.

In three seconds, the strongest swordsman in the Fitoya Territory was crushed and defeated, and it seemed that the opponent had given up a lot of high-winning and even sure-win tactics.

And they only had time to see clearly:

Gilena suddenly came to Rudius's side, Gilena suddenly flew into the sky, Rudius fled, Gilena chased him, Gilena was pushed away, the two men kept distance, Gilena was busy dealing with the rock pillar, Gilena was struck by lightning, Gilena was frightened by Rudius's attack and lost in sweat, and that attack not only set off a strong wind, but also easily left a big hole in the castle's solid wall.

In short, isn't it:

Can’t you chop it down, can’t you catch up with it, and can’t you beat it?

Chapter 8 Explanation

"Kilenu! Are you okay?"

Alice ran over worriedly, clutching her eyepatch.

At this time, Sylphy came over and said to the two of them:

"Don't worry, Miss Alice. Miss Gillenu, let me help you heal."

Even Alice knew not to hinder the doctor, so she immediately stood aside. Gileno knelt on one knee and said with a grateful smile:

"Excuse me, Miss Sylphiet, you can just call me Gilena."

Sylphy smiled gently and said:

"That's what we should do. Thank you for sparring with us, um, Gileno."

As she spoke, Sylphy's palms lit up green, and the lightning accumulated in her body was channeled out in an orderly manner.