Chapter 272 - Evidence Of Training

Once hearing the story of the single man which stood above all others, the man known as king that was said to be so powerful that he needed a rank of his own to show how much more powerful he was compared to all his comrades and even enemies, Julius was ready to start to focus on his training more than ever. During this short period of time, he had reverted back to his ways of training with Jun where he could do tasks while being relatively u conscious. It was as if it was part of his muscle memory. As such, most of the time, Julius simply got lost in his own thoughts as he thought about different things and topics. 

One of the things which he had spent so many hours thinking about was the King who was the man he was trying to reach. This was because to get a winning edge over everyone else that was partaking in the new heaven emperor contest, Julius would need to be exactly like the person who is already known as the strongest then improve upon what he learned from and about that man to surpass him. That had been the strategy he had used in the past and would do once again.

"Seriously though, how am I supposed to defeat a man who is said to be so strong that he doesn't need to block the attacks of others? The main question isn't even if I can defeat him, it's if I can even touch him. Judging by the way he's been described to me, it'll take me quite a while to reach his level of strength and even if I do, I'll need to kill him with a single stroke since if I do not manage to accomplish that it'll be the end for me. He's said to have 100% link with his blade all the time. If he's able to sustain that state for so long, I will truly be facing a demon. Even the monsters from the dungeon which I had spent 3 years in pale in comparison to this man," said Julius as he thought to himself while following through with his work out sessions.

"Oh, I didn't realise how much I was sweating," said Julius to himself as he took a look at his grey t-shirt which was completely drenched and had become tight due to the sweat which was a liquid causing the fabric to shrink.

"Well. I guess that'll be it for the day. I would have to say this was rather a productive training session. Although I would have preferred to train some more and attain a higher level of power sooner than later, I understand the importance of rest. I need to give my muscles time to rebuild," said Julius to himself before going to sleep in his designated room inside the second floor of the guild building which he hadn't left for quite some time as he was too busy training the majority of the time.

Julius had been so caught up in his training that he had even forgotten about Lyla which was still inside the same building which he was living in; however , she was being trained to work at the front desk of the guild. She needed to make one way or another of getting to earn a living and also needed to stay at the side of Julius so she decided to do as the guild wanted just so that she would have a place to stay and could also stay near Julius and the two would make their move when the time was right.

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"Hey guild leader! Where has that kid been? The newcomer I mean. We haven't seen him for so long, stop hogging him to yourself. Are you scared we're going to bully him?" a drunk member from the guild said while laughing when everyone began to nod in agreement as he was technically right. Ever since the guild leader had taken Julius in as his own student after the two had that fight between them, the rest of the guild had not been able to see Julius as he was too busy training.

Due to the ways in which the guild leader usually acted, the guild members just assumed that he would simply ignore their comments and head back to train Julius which was why they were laughing. However, instead of that, a simple thing unexpectedly took place as the guild leader began to smile.

"Hmm let's see here, which one of you thinks that they're up for a little challenge against our newest member huh? I mean he's still pretty inexperienced but he's been putting in the effort," said the guild leader as he tried to downplay the progress which Julius had made over the past weeks.

This plan of his worked perfectly as everyone in the guild began to laugh their hearts out.

"Come on leader, this has to be a joke right? Most of us have been here for years and you think that some random kid with no experience is strong enough to even pose as even a challenge to a single one of us? You know what, I'll humour you, I'll be a volunteer to test this little game of yours. Don't be mad if i hurt him too much though," said one of the guild members who was sitting around as he got up from his seat to take Julius on in a fight.

The challenger was a giant man which looked to be at least 7 feet tall to which he dwarfed everyone else in the guild. He was also quite muscular and large. He resembled what a Viking would look like and even carried a short handed axe.

As for the guild leader, he had gone upstairs to grab Julius who was busy training by doing push-ups with only one finger on his right hand.

"You can stop now. I have a fun game for you," said the guild leader which seemed to have caught the attention of Julius as he had leapt up in the air before seamlessly landing on his feet to converse with the guild leader.

"What is it that you have planned?" Julius asked as he didn't know if the guild leader was trying to sabotage him.

"Just a little challenge. Let's see how far you've come and to test that, I want you to fight one of my members from this guild. It might seem quite tough as your opponent is quite large but I have faith in you," said the guild leader as he gave Julius a thumbs up which just left Julius with a confused look on his face.

"You do realise that I need much more than pure faith to win a battle right?" Julius asked before following behind the guild leader where they headed down the stairs to start the battle between Julius and the guild member.

"Hey newbie, I'm a B class in this guild. I'm sorry if I accidentally kill you. I just need to prove to the guild leader and to be frank, it would be beneficial for me since I can argue that the guild leader is not competent enough time let me move up a class into class A which is also why he was not smart enough to give you a much weaker opponent than myself," said the guild member as he simply just went on talking and talking however seeing as there was seemingly no end to this, Julius decided to intervene and stop that from continuing any longer than it already had.

"Hey can we just get started already?" Julius asked with a rather bored expression as if he didn't see any value in battling his opponent.

"You've got quite the nerve don't you? I'll teach you a thing or two!" the guild member said in an infuriated tone as he grit his teeth and clenched his fist as if he was ready to knock Julius out.

"Go straight to hell!" he never yelled as he teleported right in front of Julius and brought his fist close to Julius' face in nothing but a blink of an eye. Right as he almost made contact with Julius' face and he was about to knock him out, a sudden figure stepped in by leaping forward and pushing the guild member out of the way.

"What the hell was that for?! I almost got him! Do you really feel that much pity for him?" the B class member said in an annoyed tone as he was upset that he was stopped from doing what he had wanted to.

"Guild leader please demote him to C class, he's been blinded by his own power, so much so that he didn't realise that another instant of that interaction would have ended with his head rolling on the floor instead of being on his body," said the member who had saved the B class member. 

All while this went on, Julius had an odd expression on his face, one that was fully in the zone.. If another instance had gone along, he would have been able to draw out a 100% link with his blade.