Calming Village
The territory went into preparation mode. The war naturally scared the heck out of everyone, but then they remembered they had strong soldiers in the midst.
Even before the war, in fact, there was a training area built, started by Ryan’s father. It was like the seed form of a budding barracks.
With the arrival of Minko and the others, this had been polished and now, half a day before the war, they were training the guards and the citizens to be able to defend themselves well.
"May I join?" Gwen asked, looking gorgeous and fortunately without a spear. Gwen stood next to Ryan, looking pretty and petite.
In fact, Gwen was not even 5’3" in height, which was below average even for women in Terran. People just tended to forget because of her high heels and massive personality.
Her appearance made Ryan blush a bit, but her words made him pale. His eyebrows furrowed and he looked at her with disapproval. "Gwen? You—"
"I want to fight too."
After their first encounter, they entered a texting/online dating phase for the next few months. Ryan was always on missions after all and oftentimes could not be contacted at all.
There were times when Gwen offered to go to him, but their schedules just never seemed to meet. This went on until that fateful mission where they believed they would never see each other again.
Sometime during this correspondence, Gwen vaguely told him her brother taught her some moves, but he didn’t have the impression she could fight.
Gwen could see this. In fact, she relished people’s faces when they get shocked at what she could do. Of course, it didn’t happen often, and she was particularly curious of Ryan’s face. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
"I can! Really, let me spar with someone my level."
"What level are you?"
"I’m peak of level 9."
"Oh? That’s really impressive!" It was Orz, who wrapped his arms around the very reluctant Ryan. "Well, that’s great! I’m sure our men here would wanna see the techniques from another land!"
They knew Gwen was from Eden, a country east of where their countries were.
"Peak of level 9, then…" Orz grinned, looking at the guards with varying expressions on their faces.
"Mart!"
"Yes, sir!"
"You’re also level 9, go spar with her."
"But sir…"
"Don’t underestimate people, idiot. It could kill you."
"A-Ah, yes."
After a few words, the two entered the makeshift sparring ring.
In Calming Village, they couldn’t really detail the rules and regulations so they could only go with the cheaper ’no killing’ policy. There was no problem with placing a sparring ring here, or anywhere else for that matter.
The news of the fight quickly spread around (the territory was small, so it spread faster).
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