Accepting his defeat, he sat on the ground and thought about the battle. “Her moves… they don’t feel like something from a well-trained background. It felt like… street fighting? Though, I don’t know much about fighting anyways,” he scratched his head and looked up at the woman.

She was looking at him back before sitting down, facing to the right before speaking in a monotone voice, “You’re starting to understand my style, good job.”

He smiled wryly, unsure of how to interpret it. Though she most likely didn’t mean it in an ill way, but instead in a more criticizing manner.

Hearing footsteps, Yuu looked toward the right and saw Jebon walking towards him. Behind him, a bit further ahead, Leah was currently taking the handle of a sword into her jelly-like body and somehow “spitting” it out to a dummy, though the sword didn’t really get far.

It probably launched a few inches before falling down on the floor. There were also a few other weapons like a spear or the like, but those were untouched for now. “I guess that’s a form of training. It’ll be useful if she could just launch knives or something out of her body, like those ninjas,” Yuu thought.

Getting closer, Jebon looked at the two before nodding, “Good job! Yuu, you did well, especially for her method of fighting. Do you know why I picked her to go against you?”

“Uh… Besides her being the only one here right now, maybe it has to do with paying attention to tricky attacks?” He scratched his head, thinking that that might be the reason why.

“Yup! When you face a bandit, they aren’t going to be respectable, allow you to prepare your things, give you time, and let you live. They will go and attack with their only desire being winning.

“And especially if you fight a more depraved being, like a higher-ranked goblin, they will use any tactic they can to survive, they may be small, but they are like a mouse, slippery if you aren’t careful.”

Hearing the words ‘higher-ranked goblin’, Yuu asked him a question as he was confused as he only learned the bare minimum of what a goblin was. “What’s a high-ranked goblin? Is that a goblin with a status?”

In class, he learned that the majority of goblins were wild creatures, or lived savage lives even with leaders, but there were a few clans or societies where goblins would be civilized or calm.

One example of this was a tribe nearby of only female goblins, as goblins were a heavily male-dominated species. Their babies will almost always be male and would rather breed with other species, causing the rare female goblins to be cast away or be made into slaves.

Seeing how confused he was, Jebon explained to him what he meant, “Although this isn’t an official term, and is just what I and a few others call goblins that are talented in a field; mostly for fighting. For example, the leader of the female goblins nearby can fight against B-ranked adventurers all by herself.

“While the strength of goblins comes in numbers, a few can stand out on their own. It’s why we’re really preparing for the recent events, if there is what I call a ranked goblin, we might be in some trouble. Though I guess you can call them Solo Goblin, that’s what the guild uses.”

Just as Jebon finished talking, the woman actually spoke up instead of staying quiet, “Never underestimate even the regular ones. Too many females, whether it be human, elf, or whatever, they’ve been captured by them.”

Jebon coughed, trying to not make the atmosphere more depressing, “Yea… there are just too many counts, that’s how they spread. But in terms of being sneaky, it ain't just them. You will face many who specialize in attacking your blind spots, whether that be literal or just psychological.”

After he finished talking he went and grabbed a padded training sword before looking at the woman, “I want you to take notes Yuu. To counter these attacks, it takes experience, but it also takes a lot of thinking. Your body isn’t the only powerful thing, your brain will also be the one that leads you to defeating your enemy. Ready?”

The woman nodded before charging with the spear in hand.

Despite being the one on the defensive, Jebon actually wasn’t standing like he was prepared. He slouched his body and acted like he was a drunkard as his legs kept wobbling side to side. Even though he usually looked like a respectable bald shining leader during class, this time he looked like a sloth who drank way too much.

However, just as she came close, preparing to thrust her spear forward, it missed by a large margin. The instructor was already a meter away from her, yet in Yuu’s eyes, he had barely moved. At most, he had just taken a step away.

Even though the attack missed, this did not mean that she would stop and regain her balance. Instead, she went on an aggressive take, getting closer while using the shaft of the spear to try and hit him while occasionally grabbing any loose dirt nearby and tossing it at him with her feet.

Yet strangely enough, not a single attack touched him. Not even the dirt that was thrown around him managed to land a single speck on him. But he still looked the same as before, a drunken mess that has barely moved.

Knowing that her other attacks won’t work, she gathered the mana around her, causing a small glow around her feet as she suddenly got quicker. While she was running, Yuu could see that she was muttering under her breath, as if she was casting a spell.

As she was getting closer, the padded spear lit up with a faint glow while a strange aura came out of it, as if it was giving Yuu the illusion that the spear suddenly grew in size.

Obviously, the spear wasn’t actually like that, yet when it got closer to Jebon, he merely lifted the sword before all of that disappeared. Even though the spear wasn’t sharp, it would still hurt if it hit someone, but he did not block it with the blade, or in any other way. Only the very tip of the sword touched the spear.

The woman withdrew her spear and she walked back to her original spot, wiping away a drop of sweat coming down her face.

Despite everything appearing calm, every time she swung and thrust, especially at the end, the wind started to get slightly chaotic, even on a tame day, he felt like it suddenly became a chaotic windy day.

He stared at her with a confused look, “Who is she…?” Even though she looked like a poor lady, she was quite strong, far stronger than what he would ever be currently. Even if he fought her for a month, he probably wouldn’t be able to win

Looking back at Jebon, he asked him what that weird drunken style was. With that, he responded, “It’s something I learned long ago, I had a teacher who was a proper gentleman, like a knight in fairytales, but as a graduation gift, he allowed me to learn a style he gave up on long ago.”

“Eh… That’s certainly… interesting,” finding that to be a very odd story, Yuu didn’t question further.

“Hmm, it certainly was a surprise when Teacher taught it to me, but it helped give me a new look at swordsmanship. Oh! The other four are here,” Jebon waved towards Leo and his brothers and Jaleth.

“Sorry we’re late, teach!” Leo yelled despite being only a couple of meters away.

“So loud…” Jaleth plugged her ears while she had to hear his loud voice.

“Haha! Let’s get started already,” Jebon dragged them away from the two, letting them practice in their separate areas.

As the others kept on going, Yuu returned to sparring the woman for the next two hours as class presumed. Even though Yuu wasn’t able to defeat this mysterious woman, he was able to learn many different tricks and even copied a few.

But despite learning so much, time was limited. The class finally ended and both of them were exhausted. He said his goodbyes to the others while carrying Leah.

Remembering to post an ad, he paid the guild to write the ad out as he wasn’t too confident in his writing abilities and didn’t have anything to write with and posted it on the board. Now all that there was to wait for someone to come to the Inn he was staying at tomorrow morning.