The Peace In A Beautiful World
Chapter 145: A Hunch

Next morning.

As Irene said, she woke up first and waited for me to exercise together.

"It turns out that what you said yesterday was real" I said.

"Do you think I'm just kidding ? let's quickly wake up Rid, we sport around the city," said Irene.

After that, we both came out of the inn and began to run around the city, even though it was only around the inn.

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When running together, we sometimes chat to break the atmosphere of the city.

"When we see soldiers who patrol, we better hide and avoid them. I don't want to be asked a lot of things by them" I said.

"All right," said Irene.

"Today I met the woman who was wearing the same soldier uniform as those patrolling soldiers. The difference is that he wears a long robe with a picture like a peacock on the back of his robe. He also carried a large sword behind his robe" I said.

"Woman wearing a long robe with a picture of a peacock on the back of her robe ? Looks like you met someone important yesterday, that woman is the Commander of the 'Silver Peacock' Squad" Irene said.

"Commander of the 'Silver Peacock' Squad?" I said in surprise.

"Yes, 'Silver Peacock' is the name of the troops from the kingdom who served in San Minerva. They were tasked with maintaining security and order in the kingdom of San Fulgen, especially in San Minerva where they served. Each region has its own army including San Estella which is the capital of the kingdom. The leader of their army is referred to as the Commander of the Army and they are directly under the Supreme Commander of the Kingdom,"

"Seeing from the description you described earlier, the woman wore a long robe that distinguished her from the other soldiers. That indicates that he is the Commander of the Army of 'Silver Peacock', because usually the Commander of each army has a different suit to distinguish it from other soldiers. Not only the commander, other members who have high positions in the army also wear different suits. Well even though I have never met in person, but I'm sure the one you met yesterday was the Commander of the 'Silver Peacock' Squad" Irene said.

"So yes, it seems that what I met yesterday was really the Commander of the Army because of the aura it emitted alone had indicated that he was very strong," I said.

"What did you do to meet her?" asked Irene.

"I just ran like this while avoiding the soldiers who were patrolling. But he suddenly appeared from behind me without me noticing and started asking about what I was doing here at this hour. It looks like he suspects me of being a frequent criminal in San Minerva at night" I said.

"It seems so, cases of crime that often occur in this city seem very serious until the Commander of the 'Silver Peacock' Army must intervene" said Irene.

-

In the afternoon, we returned to the Duke's residence to conduct the second day's examination. We immediately gathered at the Duke's training ground to begin the examination.

"On the second day of the test, you will still be conducting the test with the soldiers chosen to fight you. But the exam on the second day is different from the first day exam. If during the first day of the exam you are required to inflict wounds on the soldiers you are fighting, in the second exam this time you must avoid the attacks made by the soldiers who are your opponents,"

"You are free to dodge attacks or resist attacks with your weapons and magic. But you must not attack the soldier who is your opponent,"

"The time given for the second day exam is the same as the first day, which is 1 minute. You will be considered successful in completing the second day exam if you manage to avoid or withstand a soldier's attack without suffering any injuries. Instead, you will immediately fail if you are injured by an attack carried out by the soldier for one minute,"

"Do you understand?" asked Mr. Alan.

Many of the restless students knew that the second day of the exam was something like this. They were agitated because they seemed to be no expert at dodging or defending from attacks. Even so, all the disciples understood Mr. Alan's explanation.

"Understand master" said the disciples.

"Do any of you want to ask?" asked Mr. Alan again.

"Nothing, sir," said the disciples.

"Alright, then let's start the second exam,"

"Just like during the first exam, 5 classes will carry out the exam at once and start from the 1st rank of each class, please progress," said Mr. Alan.

Me and the others advanced to the middle of the training ground to do the second day's exam.

"The soldiers please come forward as well" said Mr. Alan.

The soldier who was chosen to fight us also advanced to the middle of the training ground. I was surprised because the soldier who was my opponent yesterday will be my opponent again in the exam this time around.

"We meet again yes" said the soldier.

"An honor, sir," I said, bowing.

"Yesterday I was defeated by your attack, but this time you will be defeated by my attack" said the soldier.

"I look forward to it, sir," I said.

"Ready," said the students.

"Are the soldiers ready?" asked Mr. Alan.

"Ready," said the soldiers.

"Then the exam begins!" said Mr. Alan.

-

After master Alan started his test, the warrior I was fighting immediately turned his sword into a sword of fire. After that he quickly attacked me with his fire sword at close range. But I instantly resisted the attack with my sword and caused our swords to clash with each other. When our swords clashed, the soldier seemed to be increasing his strength to throw me in this swordfight, but I could still hold him back.

"You're strong too yes, you didn't even move a bit" said the soldier.

I just kept quiet hearing her words. Since he couldn't hit me in the sword fight, he pulled back his sword and continued attacking me. But again I managed to withstand his attack. Despite being successfully restrained, he continued to attack me with consecutive slashes from close range. I managed to withstand all the attacks with my sword.

Meanwhile, the students from the other classes who were doing the exam with me one by one started to get hit by the attacks of the soldiers they were fighting and caused them to fail this second exam.

Only I am left to survive.

The soldier continued to attack me with successive slashes. I still managed to resist the attack but I realized there was a strange thing about the attack. Those successive attacks over time became even stronger. Then suddenly the soldier stopped making consecutive attacks and chose to make a strong attack on me.

"Taste this ~Flame Explosion Slash~," said the soldier.

He pointed that slash at me but I managed to resist the attack. But the moment the fire sword touched my sword, there was a considerable explosion that sent me crashing a few meters back.

"Hehe, it looks like I won this time," said the soldier.

He thought so because he managed to throw me back with his attack.

"Time is over, Rid managed to complete this second exam because he managed to survive without injury for 1 minute," said Mr. Alan.

"What?!?!," said the surprised soldier.

He only realized because he had not found any injuries to my body after launching his attack just now. Not only him, the other disciples and soldiers were also surprised to see me succeed.

Even though I managed to clear the exam this time, there was still something stuck in my mind.

"The previous consecutive slashes and the explosive slashes just now, I had a glimpse of the killing intent from the soldier when he launched the attack. Is that maybe just my gut feeling?" I thought.

-

About an hour later, the second test was completed. My other friends managed to clear this exam easily, especially Irene, Lily, Leandra and Julie whom I had trained a lot in the past to avoid attacks.

For this second day's exam, quite a number of disciples had failed in completing this exam. The number of those who failed was more than during the first day of the exam. It seemed like the reason why many had failed was because most of them had never trained a way to dodge and defend against attacks, they had more often practiced their attack techniques.

Then after the second day of the exam, we left the Duke's residence and returned to the inn. Mr. Alan didn't come back with us because he said he wanted to survey the location for the final day of tomorrow's exam. It seems like tomorrow's exam is a difficult test because the points obtained are very large.

After arriving at the inn, we also as usual chose to tour the city until late at night.

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At night, in the suburb of San Minerva.

It appears that the Demi-Human Jaguar has just killed a number of people.

"They suddenly came attacking me for no reason, it seems like they are the ones who often commit crimes in this city,"

"Stopping them makes me lose a lot of time, I have to leave immediately to finish the target" she said.

The woman rushed to leave the location. But just as he was about to leave, there was a female voice that prevented him from leaving.

"Wait a minute, what business do you have to rush so?" asked one woman.

That woman was the woman Rid met yesterday morning. The woman who wore a long robe with the image of a peacock behind her and while carrying a large sword behind the robe.

"When was he here ? I was not aware of her existence" said the Demi-Human woman.

"I have a question for you. Seeing you finish off those people tonight, are you the perpetrator of the crime that always acts in this city?" the long-robed woman asked.

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