Volume 5 Chapter 102

It was the first day of the War God’s Strength Tournament’s preliminary rounds.

We proceeded to the royal palace’s battle ring, which is shaped like a dome. This is where the preliminary match for tomorrow’s main event took place.

Anyone can join, regardless of nationality or race, as long as they are confident in their own skills. As a result, the number of people who have signed up for the event has already reached 1,000. Merdie, Ryuushin, and I would participate as planned.

By the way, the War God vanished.

「I’ll make it so, Daughter of the Beastman King, that you can fight with all your power. Let’s keep my manifestation a secret okay?. Well then, I’m off!」

He left with those words.

We were the only ones inside the shrine, along with the Beast king soldier.

There was no way we would ignore the command of a god of this world, so we decided to act as if the War God had not manifested.

I was curious as to what the War God had in mind, but we could only do what we could at this time.

The qualifying rounds were about to start, but there was no announcement that magic prohibition was lifted, so we had no choice but to follow the ‘magic is forbidden’ rule.

The War God’s Strength Tournament included both qualifying rounds and real competitions.

The number of people who could advance to the real was about 500.

It was quite difficult to participate in the real fighting rounds, but doing so would be a great honor, and they would also be popular with the opposite sex.

If you could become part of the best 8, then you could also build your harem, it seemed.

By the way, as long as there was consent, both men and women could have their bigamy acknowledged.

There were also powerful female beastmen, making up around 30% of the tournament competitors.

The female beastman who came in fourth rank in the past tournament apparently welcomed several male beastman as her husbands.

「Man, there are a lot of people in here.」

The sheer number of people overwhelmed Ryuushin.

The dome-shaped arena was considerably huge, but with about a thousand burly beastmen gathered here, it seemed quite cramped.

With this many people, I figured it was only natural that the well-known Isekai Reincarnation thingy would be here.

Because I was the only weak-looking human amid the muscular beastmen, I was a natural target for that thingy.

Yeah, there would be brats who thought the reincarnated person from Isekai was a weakling in the event, and they would then try to assert dominance by picking a fight.

Those brats would then learn how powerful that reincarnated Isekai was, and they would be shocked,—that thingy referred to those series of events.

Actually, I was a little bit excited.

People who looked down on me would be stunned if they saw my power during the tournament—I was looking forward to seeing their reactions.

However, that did not happen.

To make sure that we don’t get into trouble with any weirdos, ten of the country’s strongest soldiers, the Beast King’s soldiers, are surrounding me, Merdie and Ryuushin.

The king of the beastman did not order them; instead, they volunteered, and so they looked like they were escorting us.

They were not as big as the Beast King, but they were a size larger than the beastmen around us. These beast king soldiers were silently intimidating the people around them, so the common beastmen kept their distance.

Because of that, this part of the dome arena remained noticeably less crowded.

However, some people ignored the pressure from the Beast king soldiers and approached us instead.

「Haruto-sama, thank you very much for the other day. Thanks to you, I could fight once again!「

「I am the person with the right leg you regenerated. Being able to join the tournament like this; it is like a dream」

The soldiers we had saved the day before came running toward us to thank us.

「If I am able to demonstrate my power in this tournament, if you may, please take me as Haruto-sama’s subordinate, meow!」

The person who said that was a cat-type beastman female soldier.

Subordinate… I was not in the position to accept subordinates, though…

By the way, in Vestier, the special ending word was only found in the sentences of cat-type beastmen.

A transferred hero was claimed to have rescued a cat-type beastman, and as thanks, he requested that they end their sentences with “meow”

The cat-type beastman that the hero had saved was no other than the princess of this country at that time.

The princess expressed her thanks by ordering that all female cat-type beastmen should use the word “meow” as their ending words.

「From that point forward, all the female cat-type beastman would end their sentences with ‘meow’ apparently」

That ending word had me curious, so after the female soldier left, I asked Merdie, and she told me this story.

「Huh, is that so」

So that’s how it was. In other words, the perverted influence of that transferred hero was passed on to this generation…

Ex-transferred hero, nice! You did great!

I gave thanks from the bottom of my heart toward that ancient hero.

As I thought, cat-type beastman should have ‘meow’ as their ending word.

He really gets it.

While I was thinking about that stuff, the War God’s Strength Tournament’s preliminary round has started..

It seems that in the old days, the preliminary rounds used to be a battle royale with dozens of people fighting at the same time, but as the number of participants has increased over the years, the selection method has gradually changed.

In battle royale, if the strongest competitors are in the same group, only a limited number of them can advance to the main tournament, reducing the number of battles the audience can enjoy in the main tournament.

The venue became exclusive for the tournament participants of the preliminary round, so there were no spectators.

It became one of the reasons why battle royales were no longer held.

This year’s preliminary round was based on how much damage one could deal to the target that was installed in the arena. You could destroy the target if you could.

Apparently, this target was the same type as the one I blasted off during the capital entry inspection.

However, the targets installed in this arena were all new, so I don’t know just how stronger this is compared to the tattered target I blew off.

We were divided into several blocks, and the beastman gathered in the arena all took turns attacking the target.

The use of weapons was acknowledged, but the majority of the beastman used their bare hands to attack.

Thunderous roars echoed everywhere, but no beastman was able to completely destroy the target yet.

In the midst of that—

「Whoa, seems like that beastman will use a sword, huh」

Ryuushin saw a beastman who looked like he would use a sword.

That black panther beastman was carrying a sword that looked like a Japanese katana.

He stood in front of the target with his sword still sheathed, and then he lowered his body and crouched.

Afterward, there was a flash.

The katana was swung with lightning speed, and it cleaved the target.

The diagonally sliced target’s upper half slowly fell on top of the pedestal.

At the same time, cheers from the surrounding beastman rose.

「Whoa, that beastman’s strong, it seems!」

「Yeap!」

There was no blemish on the cross-section of the target that was cut in half.

It was like the work of an Iaido expert.

Besides, that Japanese katana…

This was a guess, but a hero transferred from the other world must have passed on the katana’s manufacturing method and techniques.

And it’s likely that the black panther beastman inherited this.

If I had to fight the black panther beastman in the main battle round, I expected it to be a tough fight.

After that, the beastman continued to attack the target, but no one else managed to defeat it save the black panther beastman.

By the way, our group of three, the Beast king soldiers, and a few other beastman were scheduled for the last slots.

It was not because we were to attempt on a weaker target because it was already torn apart.

It was difficult to mass-produce high-strength targets, and there were only the targets prepared on the arena and a few spares, the exam could not be completed if a strong person struck first and destroyed the target.

That’s why those people who had the potential to destroy the target were positioned to strike last.

Many beastman were already done with the challenge.

It will be our turn soon.

Merdie was the first one to be called.

Alright, show me the progress of your training!

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