This is indeed the Labyrinth City Purgatory, gold and silver treasures everywhere you look, adventurers and rogues seeking fame, there are few cities that have grown so quickly as this. Several parties formed of a majority of Yara Beastmen went back and forth around the town square.
The struggles and riches gained from the Labyrinths within are a great temptation to almost anyone.
It was still early in the morning. The sun had yet to rise. I walked past one of the Guild halls within the city [[[Purgatory]] Guild Branch].
The training field there is open to all adventurers, free of charge. There, you can see a mass of different species present, a Yara Beastman with bushy hair equipped with full plate armor, an old woman with a cane wearing a robe, a young boy and cat girl warrior carrying swords, a female human thief practicing her knife throwing.
I'm always for studying different fighting styles; that said, in the Labyrinth city, there are many such combat enthusiasts.
Even if you were to guess just at a glance, there had to be over sixty people gathered in the training field.
It seems that they all have come to accept a quest from the guild to challenge the Labyrinth. When I had spoken with one of the adventurers on the matter, I received an invitation to participate. Apparently, quite a few of the present adventurers had seen our training session the other day when we arrived in the city, and we received an official invitation to use the training ground.
When thinking about it, I suppose that it would be possible.
After all, seeing our party, since I'm an [Extinct] species, I'm being grouped in with the [Lords]. Regardless, the combat strength of our present group is quite high, even if I was simply an Ogre, that fact would remain such.
Currently Dhammi-chan has strength, she has power similar to that of Redhead, and both are able to defend themselves properly. The issue lies within the lack of overall speed that Dhammi-chan has currently.
Well, while I was doing some training in the Training ground with the group, several adventurers stopped their own training to watch. After several minutes some of them came over to offer to spar with us. After pondering this for a moment, I thought it would be a good idea to allow some of our members to practice against the adventurers, while building up our reputation as well. Since I'm an Apostle Lord, an extinct species, most of them probably took me as a powerful lord class as even I received several challenges.
After some quick thinking, I thought to make a game out of the unique atmosphere. Though I left Dhammi-chan out of it since there were no individuals willing to go against someone that beautiful, even the other women were intimidated.
Well, I suppose it's fine for now, but Dhammi-chan won't be gaining any experience from this situation. I'll have to manage something later for her.
Since being able to fight against a multitude of different opponents is a rare opportunity, it will be good to gain some experience for the future. I decided to make things more interesting and set up a reward system.
If you managed to defeat Wind Lord-chan or Fire Lord-kun, you would receive a thousand gold coins. If you won against Illusion Lord-kun, you would win a Silver Plate, worth ten thousand gold coins.
As soon as I said that, the gathering started to get lively. The eyes of the adventurers changed, and all of them are fully motivated by money.
Although I don't have how easy it is to manipulate some people with money, there is a time where it just feels too easy.
I charged an admission fee for each bout.
I also added a special reward that if someone would be able to defeat all three, they would receive a prize of one hundred thousand gold coins.
Well, to make the long story short, even though the three that I had participate on our side had become exhausted, they never once lost a single bout. Our training methods paid off, no matter who the opponent was, each of them knew exactly how to deal with the attacker's movements and defeated them.
After all of the minor fighting, some of the higher ranked adventurers thought that it would be amusing to challenge me. I charged triple the fee and let them all come at once. It was over in an instant.
This was quite the profitable venture, not only did we get in our morning training, but also managed to earn quite a bit of money too. It's killing two birds with one stone.
By the time training finished, it was close to noon.