Some adventurers from the Fittoa Territory recognized Shirou. They were originally active in the Fittoa Territory, but they heard about the rewards for challenging the Water God Style and came here hoping to get lucky or because they were confident in their own abilities.
These adventurers generally used the North God Style sword technique, or had no style at all, but were self-taught through actual combat.
As practitioners of real combat, they believed that their level was not inferior to the two strongest sword art systems, Sword God Style and Water God Style, or at least they had a chance of winning.
However, for several days in a row, Swordsmen from all over the kingdom tried to challenge the Water God Style Swordsmen, but found that the gap between them was not huge, but at least it could be said that there was a big difference.
The Water God Style sword technique is not a sword technique created behind closed doors, but also accumulated through a lot of actual combat, and it has been improved by generations of Water Gods over countless years.
It is impossible for ordinary people who have learned a superficial North God Style to defeat a Water God Style disciple who has undergone formal training, let alone those Swordsmen who have not undergone formal training and are purely self-taught.
For so long, many Swordsmen have begun to feel discouraged, feeling that they have no chance to challenge the Water God Style.
Therefore, they no longer hoped that they could defeat the Water God Style, but hoped that someone could complete the challenge for them, so that the Water God Style people would not continue to be arrogant.
However, no one has been able to complete this condition until now.
Even the Sword God Style disciples who came after hearing the news, after trying to challenge the dojo, although they defeated ordinary Water God Style disciples, they were no match for the strongest of the younger generation of Water God Style, the girl who had the demeanor of the current Water God. They were defeated in just a few moves.
After the Sword God Style disciple was defeated, because he had no face, he did not stay at all, but went straight back to the Sword Sanctuary to practice again.
Although that Sword God Style disciple was obviously not the strongest of the younger generation of Sword God Style, considering that the battle ended too quickly, even the strongest of the younger generation of Sword God Style would probably not be a match for that girl.
Faced with such a miserable situation, the foreign Swordsmen unconsciously began to feel a shared hatred. They are no longer pursuing their own victory, but only hope that someone can defeat the Water God Style for them, so that the Water God Style people will not continue to be arrogant, or even call themselves invincible.
It was because of this idea that when the Swordsmen from the Fittoa Territory recognized Shirou, they immediately showed expressions of expectation.
"That's right, he seems to really be the Dragon Slayer of Buena Village!"
"Although not many people witnessed it at the time, many villagers of Buena Village saw him kill the Red Dragon. It is said that the Red Dragon was no match for him at all, and was instantly split into countless parts by a huge stone sword!"
"Yes, later when the knight of Buena Village sold the body of the Red Dragon, I happened to be there. At that time, it was almost impossible to find any complete parts of the Red Dragon. It was completely cut into countless pieces!"
"I didn't expect the Dragon Slayer of Buena Village to come here too. It seems that he also wants to challenge the Water God Style!"
"No, if he is a Dragon Slayer, he should not challenge the younger generation, but should directly challenge the Water God... Being able to kill the Red Dragon means his strength is at least at the Sword King level."
"Speaking of which, which sword art style does the Dragon Slayer of Buena Village belong to? According to the rumors, the sword technique he uses seems to be different from the traditional sword art styles, and is more like the North God Style... Could he already be a North King, or even a North Emperor-level Swordsman?"
"Speaking of which, the girl next to him seems to be the daughter of the lord of the Fittoa Territory, right? Has the Dragon Slayer of Buena Village really been recruited by the Boreas family?"
"..."
For a time, all kinds of commotion rang out from all directions.
After seeing Shirou, countless Swordsmen began to discuss his past deeds of killing the giant dragon, and added a lot of embellishments to describe Shirou's heroic deeds of destroying the giant dragon.
Because the topic was too attractive, more and more Swordsmen participated in the discussion, and even the Water God Style people curiously looked at Shirou, not expecting that this dojo challenge would attract such a ruthless person!
As for the discussions around him, Shirou himself did not expect this to happen.
He just wanted to participate in the challenge as an ordinary Swordsman and didn't want to attract too much attention from others, as that would put Eris in danger as well.
"Shirou, are you a Dragon Slayer?"
At the same time, Eris also heard the topic of discussion around her.
She looked at the red-haired young man beside her with a suspicious look, and a brief look of surprise appeared on her face.
"..."
Shirou was also a little at a loss for words at Eris's reaction, because he hadn't told her that he had killed a giant dragon.
The confidentiality of this matter is quite high. Apart from the villagers who were present at the time, only Ghislaine, Philip and Sauros know about it.
Shirou couldn't imagine what Eris would think of him after knowing all this.
Would she think he was a liar?
When Shirou's heart started to waver, and his heart even skipped a beat, Eris showed a calm expression, and then slowly opened her mouth in a loud voice: "What is it, how can there be such rumors? How could Shirou be a Dragon Slayer?"
"Eris?"
Shirou was a little surprised that the young lady would say such a thing.
Eris continued to say: "Shirou, you are a Sword God Style disciple, Ghislaine's disciple, and completely different from that person who used North God Style to kill the dragon, okay?"
"This..."
Shirou was slightly stunned when he heard Eris's words.
The surrounding Swordsmen also quickly became suspicious after hearing Eris's words.
They glanced at Shirou and were obviously also very suspicious that such an unremarkable Swordsman with no special characteristics would be the rumored Dragon Slayer.
The difference from what they imagined was too big.
Shirou is just an ordinary Swordsman, just with a similar appearance to the Dragon Slayer of Buena Village. This statement is obviously more in line with reality.
"Since even the young lady of the Boreas family has said so..."
The adventurers quickly lost interest in Shirou.
After thinking about it, they felt that Shirou was definitely not the legendary Dragon Slayer, and they could not see anything special about him.
Although the adventurers no longer paid attention to Shirou, the Water God Style disciples suddenly became more concerned about Shirou than before.
A slightly older Water God Style teacher suddenly walked over, looked down at Shirou with a serious expression.
"What's the matter?"
Shirou didn't know what the other party was going to do, but he didn't panic at all and just looked at him with a calm gaze.
His reaction impressed the teacher of the Water God Style dojo, but he soon said:
"Are you Ghislaine's disciple?"
"I guess."
Although Ghislaine did not intend to recognize Shirou as her master, Shirou had always regarded Ghislaine as his teacher in swordsmanship.
In fact, Ghislaine taught him more than Paul, and was truly his guide in swordsmanship.
"I didn't expect it to be Ghislaine. Indeed, she seems to be working as a guard in the Boreas family now..."
The Water God Style teacher seemed to care a lot about Ghislaine. The way he looked at Shirou and Eris suddenly changed. "Are you two here to challenge the dojo?"
"Of course!"
The one who answered was not Shirou, but Eris.
She had been looking forward to it for a long time and didn't want to wait any longer, now showing an extremely impatient and fierce reaction.
Eris's attitude made the Water God Style teacher feel dissatisfied, but he did not directly flare up, but quietly said: "Since you are Ghislaine's disciples, I will allow you to challenge the disciples of our dojo in advance. The rules are the same as for others. As long as you defeat three people in a row, you will be qualified to challenge Isolte."
"Isolte?!"
Shirou was shocked to hear this familiar name.
The Water God Style teacher didn't care, because everyone in the royal capital knew that Isolte was the strongest of the Water God Style disciples of this generation.
Only by defeating Isolte can one fulfill the Water God's request and receive the Water God's reward.
While Shirou's heart was racing with many thoughts, never expecting that the girl he had encountered on the road before was Water God Style's biggest opponent, Eris had already excitedly rushed to the dojo's training ground.
The Swordsmen who came to challenge the dojo no longer had much confidence, so even if Eris and Shirou forcibly cut in line, it did not attract much attention from others.
The first person to fight was undoubtedly Eris.
Not only because her personality was too rash and she didn't want to wait, but also because Shirou deliberately let Eris go first, so that he could spend enough time observing the movements of the Water God Style Swordsmen.
"Let's start."
Because it was a dojo challenge, there were basically no strict rules.
You just need to fight in the specified area and find a way to win.
The first person the Water God Style sent out was a young disciple. They did not take Eris seriously, and did not think that such a girl would be worth being wary of.
Especially Eris's impetuous attitude clearly showed that she would not have a solid sword skill.
However, this underestimation was soon paid for.
Because Eris's swordsmanship foundation has been polished quite a lot under Shirou's training, she is no longer the beast that purely relies on instinct to fight.
Therefore, although the level of the Swordsman sent out by the Water God Style was similar to that of Eris, and they were both beginners, the basic swordsmanship of the two sides was about the same. Apart from that, Eris was obviously superior in terms of pure fighting instinct.
"Pa!"
As the Water God Style Swordsman was punched away by Eris and directly fell out of the field.
The first battle ended with Eris's victory.
The Water God Style disciples, who were originally full of confidence, were suddenly silent.
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