Max went out alone without any guards or anything. Even if they took them, it wouldn’t make much difference as Max was already able to hold himself against a veteran two-star mage, so it wouldn’t make any sense to take a bunch of novice mages with him.
This time he didn’t go to the market and went toward the public martial square where young mages of Claymore town compete against each other. You can simply go up the arena and challenge anyone for a friendly duel, or if you have any enmity with anyone, you can even ask for a duel of life and death. And once a year, a town competition would be held here.
This type of martial squares are everywhere in the Green Leaf Kingdom; they keep the younger generation competitive, which motivates them to train diligently and become stronger.
The royal family had to do this because after the kingdom was formed. People got a sense of security as it was now the duty of the kingdom to protect them from magical beasts and other kingdoms’ and empires’ cruelty. People started to get lazy and stopped fighting or cultivating, which resulted in lessening the Kingdom’s overall strength. Therefore, to motivate and entice the populace, they had to build and regulate martial squares and occasionally hold competitions on the town, city and kingdom scales with juicy rewards.
It proved to be effective as most of the noble families started to compete with one another through these fighting competition, and many commoners who wanted to pursue greater strength or simply wanted to have enough power to protect themselves from random beasts attacks or noble’s oppression started to cultivated diligently and fight on various competition to get resources to push their strength to new heights or earn a good living by showing their talents and join any noble family as guards or knights.
Max walked at a slow pace enjoying the different scenery along the way. Not every house or shop was built well; in fact, only nobles and wealthy business families had luxurious dwellings, shops, etc. As for the commoner majority, they lived in one-story houses without any adornment.
‘It’s the same as earth; only influential people have rights to most luxury.’ Max sighed with relief that he didn’t reincarnate in a commoner’s body, or he wouldn’t have such an easy life that he has been living for more than a month.
After walking around for more than one hour, he finally got bored by the same sight and headed towards the martial square to watch some fights.
Claymore martial square was situated in the northern part of the town. Apart from the market, at the martial arena gathered most people. Some simply enjoyed watching the fight, some would set up bets if any famous person were to fight to earn easy money while enjoying the fights, while others were gathered to fight to earn both money and reputation in the town. All in all, the martial arena was always bustling with activities.
When Max arrived at the venue, the martial arena was surrounded by people, both young and old were shouting and cheering two young men in their mid-twenties fighting.
One of them was the fire element user just like him, while other one was the earth user. Both had awakened their elements which was a rare sight, and this was also why the atmosphere was hyped.
“Fire Arrow!”
The fire element user shouted, and an arrow made of fire appeared above him. Arrow was five feet long and three-four inches thick; it radiated intense heat. After conjuring the arrow, his face turned pale, and his breathing became a bit erratic, which means that it was his strongest attack, and he poured most of his mana into forming it.
“Triple Earth Wall!”
Seeing that the fire user was using his ultimate attack, the earth user didn’t delay and used his most powerful defensive spell. Similar to the fire user, his face also turned pale but not as much as his. It seemed that he still had some mana left. Three giant walls grew out of the ground one after another.
“Let’s see if I can demolish your turtle shell by my attack.” He shouted and launched the arrow at a breakneck speed toward the walls.
Whoosh!
The fire arrow flew toward the earth walls. Leaving people gasping at the domineering air it was emitting.
“This arrow seems very dreadful. I bet these walls would crumble in a second after the arrow collides.” A spectator commented.
“Yeah, it’s his strongest attack. I’ve seen him use this fire arrow to defeat many mages who also had awakened their elements. But even after they did all they could, the arrow was still unstoppable.” Another spectator added while recalling the scenes.
“Hehe, What do you know? Earth mages are famous for their outstanding defence. I bet it will be earth mage’s victory this time.” Another one sided with the earth element user.
“Hehe, you must have bet your money on the earth mage, right? That’s why you are siding with him.” The former man remarked.𝔬𝓥𝐿xt.𝑪𝓞𝓂
“So what? Aren’t you doing the same for fire mage because you’ve also bet on him?” The latter retorted with a frown.
“I don’t care, don’t care who wins. Stop bickering, and let me watch the battle in peace.” An old man with a white beard snapped at them and focused on the battle.
Others also stopped talking and focused on it.
Earth user didn’t respond and focused on defending himself, but Max shook his head at the arrogance of the fire element user, who was a one-star mage just like the earth element user. Although the fire arrow looked quite powerful, it wasn’t enough to pierce three walls erected by the earth user.
BANNGGG!
When the arrow collided with the first walls, with a loud explosion, it shattered, and broken chunks of wall flew through the air.
BOOM!
Crasshhh~
The second wall was also shattered into pieces, but after it crashed into the final wall, it could only damage it ever so slightly and dissipated.
Max nodded his head in satisfaction. While who bet their money on the fire mage lamented, and those who bet on the earth mage cheered loudly.
After them, the other two people went onto the arena and fought. Max continued to watch their fights for some time but eventually lost interest as all of them were only novice or one-star mages.
He turned to walk away when he heard a peal of mocking laughter “Oh! Isn’t this young master Max? Why are you going away only after watching? Why don’t we also spar for a bit? Let us see the true might of Sir Viscount’s son!”