Chapter 34, Chapter 27, Transfer of Hatred
“Miss Verafia, I am very sorry that my team member has displeased you. If you don’t mind, we will add another ten percent to the reward after the fact.”
Helia also stepped forward to apologize at this time, and the leader of the Cyclone Wing Adventuring Party paused, observing the girl’s expression.
“However, what Reske said is not without merit. The Setting Sun Forest is indeed a dangerous place. With the strength of the young man beside you… even if you are deliberately protecting him, it is not considered safe. Look…”
“Tch.”
Verafia crossed her arms, put on a stern little face, and had the expression of “This young lady is not negotiating”.
Helia gave a wry smile, feeling even more troubled.
He did want to build a good relationship with this girl, but if he alienated all his teammates because of her, it would be more than the loss.
One should know that it was not only Reske who was dissatisfied with the girl’s previous words.
“Miss Verafia.”
Just as Helia shook his head and was about to say something else, a gentle and jade-like young male voice came.
The girl turned her eyes and saw the Paladin Ronald, who was armed with a long sword and dressed in military attire, smiling as he approached her.
“I can understand your persistence, but after all, we don’t know the strength of your attendant, so it’s inevitable that we have concerns. I believe you can also understand this.”
Verafia unhappily raised her little face, and just as she was about to retort, the young Paladin smiled slightly again.
“I just heard you say, Miss Verafia, that you want your attendant to vent your anger, right? How about this, why don’t we let this young man Ig have a spar with Reske? If your attendant wins, we naturally won’t have anything more to say.”
“Eh? This way of saying it… sounds good. It’s decided!”
Upon hearing the Paladin’s suggestion, Verafia’s angry eyes lit up. She blinked and thought about it, without asking for Ig’s opinion, and turned to him very seriously and said.
“Ig, use the sword technique that this young lady taught you, and teach this ungrateful mere Silver a lesson!”
Ig thought, “Young Lady, we’ve only been together for three days. Even the most talented person can’t learn your sword techniques, and what do you mean by mere Silver?”
“Let me fight a Silver swordsman, it’s better to have you burn this person to ashes back then! This way, I’ll at most be a subordinate of a murderer, which is much better than being beaten to death.”
Ig felt more and more that this was probably the girl’s revenge for him stopping her earlier.
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In the Adventurers’ Guild, where mercenaries and adventurers often gather, there are naturally places for them to spar or resolve disputes.
Originally, Ig would rather be beaten to death than accept such a suicidal act.
However, after Verafia urged him a few times, her little face quickly showed impatience, and she pouted and shouted, “Afraid of a mere Silver, how can you be worthy of inheriting Lothel’s legacy!”
Ig took a deep breath, and under the girl’s encouraging gaze, he picked up his long sword, End, and walked onto the dueling platform with a stiff upper lip.
The swordsman Reske on the opposite side was also waiting. Because he had been repeatedly humiliated, his face was terribly ugly, and his eyes filled with ferocity fixed on Ig, who was entering the arena.
“Young Lady, to you it is indeed ‘mere Silver’, but to me, a Bronze-ranked loser, he is a high-and-mighty Silver-ranked powerhouse!”
Looking at the opponent’s sinister expression and the oppressive aura emanating from him, Ig felt his legs tremble, and he wanted to cry without tears for the hatred his young lady had incurred.
The word “Silver” seems to be only one level higher than Bronze, but in reality, there is a gap as wide as the heavens!
If Black Iron and Bronze can still be considered within the mortal realm, then Silver-ranked powerhouses, whose Dou Qi has undergone transformation and tempered their entire bodies, can truly be considered the starting point for metamorphosis in life force.
Silver-ranked Dou Qi professionals not only possess life force and power far beyond mortals, but their bones and muscles, after countless purifications by Dou Qi, are difficult for ordinary swords and sabers to pierce. On the battlefield, the combat power of a Silver-ranked individual is enough to offset a hundred ordinary soldiers!
Not to mention that the quality of Silver-ranked powerhouses’ Dou Qi is absolutely not comparable to Bronze-ranked swordsmen like Ig!
Ig estimated that even his full-strength sword strike might not be able to pierce the opponent’s Dou Qi defense.
Ig couldn’t help but blame Verafia’s young lady-like temper. Suddenly, Paladin Ronald’s voice echoed in the air.
“Rex, don’t forget what I said earlier. For the sake of fairness, during your fight with Ig, remember to keep your Dou Qi strength within Bronze.”
Ronald once again emphasized what he had said earlier. It seemed that he could not bear to watch the young man in front of him be forced to his death by the spoiled young lady.
“Hmph, I know, it doesn’t make any difference. Lord Ronald, don’t worry, I won’t hurt him, I’ll just let this ungrateful kid know the consequences!”
Rex’s voice was sinister and filled with great resentment.
Ig wore a difficult smile, and he didn’t think Ronald’s words would make much of a difference compared to before.
Merely limiting the strength of Dou Qi could not reduce the quality of his Dou Qi, physique, perception, or the Silver-ranked martial skills he had learned… At most, it would ensure that he could be saved by his young lady before being beaten to death?
Although he thought so, Ig also understood that if he defied the little phoenix’s wishes, the outcome might not be much better than being beaten soundly by a Silver swordsman.
“Lord Rex, I am Ig, please guide me…”
However, the young man’s voice faded before it could finish, and the gloomy gaze of the swordsman Reske opposite him turned vicious.
Ig confirmed that the hatred his young lady had drawn was not so easily eliminated!
Verafia obviously didn’t care what the young man was thinking. At this moment, the girl’s delicate little face, tilted upwards in excitement, already showed the joy of revenge being achieved.
“Ig, come on, help this young lady deal with this guy!”
Verafia waved her pure white little fist to encourage her attendant.
Before Ig could complain to the girl again, the swordsman Reske on the opposite side snorted with a bad expression, drew his sword, and poured Dou Qi into it, emitting extremely powerful ripples!
“Kid, die! Let your young lady see that I, Rex, am not someone like you Bronze trash can bully!”
