Yale didn't lose any time and started his attacks towards Ronragruk. Although Yale wasn't expecting to beat Ronragruk, at least he wanted to use the battle to make a breakthrough in his swordsmanship as it wasn't easy finding a chance to battle against a Law Master to fulfill the conditions told by the system.
Ronragruk was obviously a bit lazy while battling as he was just using his claws and tail to block Yale's attacks and didn't use any Law while battling, which would have been a great advantage.
After all, the battle wasn't due to some life and death grudge and given their difference in power, Ronragruk felt that it would be too much bullying using his Laws against Yale.
However, even battling just with his body, he still had the absolute advantage in the battle because a body of a divine beast who had become a Law Master was already stronger than a normal Law Master and far stronger than someone at the Grandmaster Rank.
Yale knew that Ronragruk wasn't battling seriously, but he was already feeling a lot of pressure battling in that way, so he guessed that he wouldn't be able to battle if Ronragruk decided to go all out in the battle. The gap between a Grandmaster Rank expert and a Law Master was too huge.
In less than a minute since the battle started, Yale had already summoned thousands of swords to attack Ronragruk. Although the profoundness using them couldn't be compared with the one that he had while just using the Space-time Judgment Sword, it was still a good way to increase the number of attacks.
After all, it didn't matter the attack if it didn't hit the target, so Yale decided to rely on the numbers to look for an opening.
Yale's group was looking at that battle seriously because none of them had the guts to battle against a Law Master divine beast even if they had the chance.
Lar just looked helpless to Yale because she wasn't even able to endure battling against Yale, so against someone who was even putting Yale at a disadvantage, she didn't have any chance for the time being. Of course, she felt confident in beating any law Master after recovering all her power, but she still needed more time.
Shirk was just feeling amazed by the battle because although Yale's power was lower, his battle senses were still top class, and Yale was managing to drag on the battle relying on tactics. The same applied to Nurvey who was hugging Wyba since Yale started the spar against Lar. However, it was more difficult to detect Nurvey's emotion on her face.
Not even Swordmad and Sebe felt that they would be able to last a minute in front of Ronragruk even if Ronragruk restrained himself to use only his body like he was doing against Yale.
Both were stronger than Yale in terms of pure strength because they were at the Sage Rank, but their difference wasn't that great either. However, neither of them could fly as skillfully as Yale nor change strategies so quickly in real time.
After all, Yale could fly naturally while Sebe and Swordmad needed to rely on their Sage Rank to do it, and there was a qualitative difference that was very important in a match against someone as strong as Ronragruk who in addition, could also fly naturally with his wings.
Moreover, Yale's experience might still be lower than Swordmad's due to their huge difference of the number of battles in their lives, but when battling, Yale could rely on some of his past life's battling experiences which were far more valuable than Swordmad's experiences.
The members of the Dragon Race were also quite shocked seeing Yale's performance. Without counting Ronragruk who was a divine dragon, the Dragon Race tribe had three Law Masters who were the chief and the two great elders of the tribe, but even those three needed to admit that they wouldn't have been able to battle as smoothly as Yale against Ronragruk even though they didn't doubt that Yale would lose.
They were Law Masters and had lived for an extremely long time, but they hadn't ventured too much outside their tribe, so their battle experience was far lacking compared to Ronragruk who liked to sneak out with his human form to travel each time he told them that he was entering into seclusion for training.
Moreover, the innate fear and respect that the members of the Dragon Race felt for Ronragruk complicated the things even more for them in case they tried to battle against him.
"As expected of someone who the boss treats with respect, he isn't ordinary."
The chief of the Dragon Race was serious while looking at that battle, but he couldn't avoid muttering seeing the everchanging sequence of attacks of Yale, who managed to remain battling for already more than five minutes.
Moreover, there was something that everyone noticed, Yale was only using his swordsmanship in that battle.
No one could say anything when Ronragruk decided to use only his body as it was pretty normal that he decided to be a bit lenient towards Yale, but no one understood why Yale was just using swordsmanship as no one believed that he didn't have any other means.
Especially, those who had seen Yale battling in the past doubted about Yale's intentions because even if Yale wanted to impress everyone, going all out in the battle, it would still be impressive enough. However, they also knew that Yale wasn't a fool who would decide to act like that for something as foolish as pride, so they decided to see what Yale was planning to do by acting like that.
"The user mastered the Passive Skill [Sword Mastery]. From this moment, the user can train the Sword Law actively."
Just after that notification appeared in Yale's head, Ronragruk noticed that Yale had turned stronger than before.
Strictly speaking, training swordsmanship and other weapons weren't as efficient as training other laws for pure destructive power, but they had great advantages at two points, especially after becoming a Law Master.
First was that the Sword Law and other laws related to weapons were easy to combine with the elemental laws, which provoked a big increase in power.
The other one was something that affected since someone reached the Apprentice Stage in swordsmanship, the bonus to the stats.
There was an absolute limit to the stats once one became a Law Master, and they couldn't improve more just by training, the only way to improve them was with the bonuses obtained from training swordsmanship, archery, and others of that kind.
The bonuses after reaching complete mastery and obtaining the capability to start training the law actively were of a ten thousand percent, and the biggest benefit of reaching mastery was that the bonus would apply permanently even if the weapon weren't being used.
Of course, before the breakthrough, Yale was already using a sword and had already a nine thousand percent bonus from his Sage Stage level nine Sword Mastery, so the difference after the breakthrough hadn't been monstrous, but it was still important.
That kind of effects was extremely attractive, so it was usual for Law Masters to train in a lot of weapons to obtain the boosts even if they didn't plan to train the law afterward. However, the turning point to reach the complete mastery was quite difficult and usually relied on enlightenment, so although having the proficiency of the favorite weapon mastered was still common, it was hard reaching that level on several kinds of weapons.
It was quite usual for experts at the Sage Rank to have at least one weapon at such level, so it wasn't overly surprising the fact that Yale being considered the Demon Lord was at that level while being at the Grandmaster Rank.
Needless to say, Swordmad was already at such level of swordsmanship from before, Aiwai reached it in archery short after reaching the Grandmaster Rank, and that Sebe also reached it with his favorite weapon some months before starting his travel with Yale.
However, Ronragruk couldn't avoid being surprised when he felt that Yale advanced in the battle because at that moment it was clear that Yale had been using that battle to polish his swordsmanship and making a breakthrough.
It wasn't only Ronragruk who was surprised, all of those who were able to notice Yale's breakthrough in swordsmanship was equally shocked. After all, restraining the battle prowess against someone like Ronragruk just to hope to make a breakthrough was far too crazy.
"You are still not my opponent, but to think that you were using this match to make a breakthrough… this has surpassed all my expectation. I can consider that you have won his exhibition of talent, but before finishing… I want to battle against your full power."
Yale had impressed everyone enough to give him the victory in the exhibition even if he didn't have any chance to win that battle against Ronragruk, but the contest wasn't about battle strength but about showing talent and impressing others, and in that area, Yale had won against Ronragruk.
After all, Ronragruk's dance seemed difficult to learn, but others could still think in trying to learn it, but no one had the guts of doing the same as Yale and battling Ronragruk only with swordsmanship to try to make a breakthrough.
"Alright, I will show you all my power. However, we shall stop after one minute. Do you agree?"
