''Doesn’t the Kingdom also have a female warrior that is of the highest adventuring rank? How good is she?''
''Ah, that 'Boob-less Big Chest'. She’s quite strong indeed. However, I heard that she lost to the Warrior Captain during the tournament.''
''…I seem to recall that she had almost beaten an adventurer to death for calling her that. Hya, hya, hya... Such a scary woman!''
''At the pace we’re going, it’s getting more and more difficult to name more. Let’s see, the one referred to as the Dark Knight of the City Alliance, Serabright the 'Flash' from the adamantite rank adventuring team 'Crystal Tear' and Optics the 'Crimson' from the worker team 'Great Blaze of the Crimson Lotus', both from the Draconic Kingdom. Also, hailing from the Kingdom… Brain Unglaus.''
The conversation stopped for the first time.
''Brain Unglaus? Who the heck is that?''
Parupatra inconceivability asked Greenham in a surprised manner.
''Does elder not know? He’s also a famous swordsman of the Kingdom… how about thee?''
Hekkeran shook his head. It was a name that he did not know.
''I see, thou knew it not…''
Unable to hide his disappointment, Greenham used an unreliable tone as he tried to recall what he knew.
"Although this was from before, back during the time when I entered the tournament held by the Kingdom, he was the opponent I faced during the quarter-finals. The me of that time couldn’t even reach his ankles."
"Wasn’t that the tournament where Gazef Stronoff also participated in?"
"That’s right. The result was that Brain Unglaus lost to Gazef Stronoff. However, a match between the strong can truly be described as spectacular. It was almost like a perfect textbook play for swordsmen, how they deflected and parried each slash, how they decided the angle of one’s swing based on the given situation at hand… et cetera. Those can only be described as eye openers truly showing you the depth of swordplay."
For a man like Greenham to be saying this, it definitely showed just how skilled that Brain Unglaus must have been in order to be able to fight evenly against the strongest warrior known in the Kingdom. His skills would definitely be first class.
Hekkeran sighed. It appeared that there were still plenty of strong guys out there that he didn’t know of.
"Fumuu… Well then, between Unglaus and Uzruth, which one would be stronger? Tell us your thoughts."
"Uzruth." Greenham answered "If compared against the Unglaus of that time then the winner definitely would be that guy. It was only recently that I watched some of his battles in the arena, so I’m sure of it."
"So in other words, Uzruth would have been able to match evenly against the Kingdom’s Warrior Captain of back then? Is he really that strong!? Otto!"
Due to over excitement, Hekkeran accidently raised his voice and had to suppress himself.
"I see. Unglaus huh. Looks like I was able to gain a bit more information about the Kingdom… Oh that’s right, have you guys heard? Doesn’t the Kingdom now have its third adamantite ranked adventurer team?"
"Of course, I’ve already heard, elder."
"Ah, sorry. I haven’t heard."
"Hekkeran… Thou ignorance could bring much harm to thy team. "
"I already know that. However, it’s really difficult to gather information on those of the same profession as us within the Kingdom. It’s also a waste of money."
"Hya hya hya. So courageous. This old man does not dislike that!"
"Elder, I wish to hear thy opinion on this. I’ve heard lots of rumours about Momon from ‘Darkness’, but some of them are just ridiculously outrageous. For example, being able to successfully subjugate a Gigant Basilisk with only two members and without the support of any healers."
"Uwah, aren’t those simply false rumors?"
Even for adamantite adventurers, to be able to defeat such a strong opponent like the Gigant Basilisk with only two people was simply near impossible.
"Does thou also agree, Hekkeran? The more information I gather, the more dubious the whole thing seems. Even regarding the information on the event that happened within the Kingdom’s capital, the rumors were that they defeated a demon with a difficulty rating of over 200 in just one hit. In my opinion, it seems more likely that the Kingdom’s Adventurer Guild deliberately spread wrong rumors out of personal interests, just to gain additional adamantite ranked adventurers.”
"That’s possible. The appearance of new high ranking adventurers is definitely an amazing thing. However, would the Guild really do something like this? They’re very strict on certain things, that’s why they’re called a guild."
"In that regard, it’s a bit different in each city depending on the Guildmaster who’s in charge. Back when this old man was still an adventurer, the Guildmaster that was in charge of my city was the absolute worst. I ended up punching him straight in the face. Hya hya hya! I’ve been a worker ever since that incident."
Parupatra laughed happily.
The story behind why Parupatra became a worker was extremely well known. It might be reasonable to say that there shouldn’t be any workers within the Empire’s capital that didn’t knew it. This was something that was often brought up by Parupatra after he gets drunk.
"Having said this much, I don’t think it’s likely that the Guild would do this kind of stuff."
"In that case, you think it’s true then?"
"It’s hard to believe. Even when I try to think about it rationally, a difficulty rating of 200— it’s already hard enough to imagine just how terrifyingly strong that would be, to be able to defeat that kind of opponent in just one hit is simply impossible. Even if that was possible the probability would have to be extremely low. Could it be that the event happened more like this, a super high difficulty rating demon appeared and countless teams tried to subjugate it, and the final blow was delivered by the 'Darkness'?"
"If you say it like that, then it sounds a lot more believable."
"I think it’s possible. It wouldn’t be that strange for someone within the adamantite rank to be that strong. The skill range between adamantite rank adventurers can be extremely big."
"So Hekkeran and I are of the same opinion, but elder thinks it really happened as told, is that right?"
"Hya hya hya. I do think of it that way."
"Seeing in person beats hearing a hundred tales. Now I want to meet him at least once… yet at the same time I don’t."
Just as the two of them were about to agree to what Hekkeran had said, the sound of someone getting hit, followed by the cries of a woman, interrupted their conversation.
The workers that were present quickly focused their attention on the source of the disturbance. Some had already drawn their weapons and entered their battle state.
The source of the scream, which came from Eruya’s direction, was one of Eruya’s female companions, who was laying on the ground. Considering the situation, it seemed that Eruya was the one who had sent her flying. His face was distorted with rage, while a fearful expression could be seen on the woman as she begged for his forgiveness.