The Deputy-Chieftain had died, and the chieftains of the other tribes who had been conspiring with him had all had their left arms torn off in a show of camaraderie. A section of the city walls had also collapsed, and some of the warriors who had been lining the walls nearby were also caught up in the collapse and had been injured.

Even with all that, none of the warriors of the tribes thought to rebel against Ivatar. Even the elders of the tribe, who had most likely sided with the Deputy-Chieftain in his absence, politely greeted Ivatar and the rest of the party.

This was all because Ivatar had crushed the Deputy-Chieftain in a head-on duel before killing him, as well as tearing off the arms of the other chieftains.

While this might not have been the case if this were any other country on the continent, the tribes of this forest valued strength above all else. So once Ivatar, who had earned the right to be the Chieftain’s successor, showed his strength by killing the Deputy-Chieftain, who possessed a similar level of legitimacy, it was only natural that there wouldn’t be any backlash against his rule.

‘He’s strong,’ Cyan thought as he reconsidered Ivatar.

Though in the first place, Cyan had never thought of Ivatar as just a simple native with only his huge size going for him. Cyan possessed a skilled enough eyesight that he could evaluate an opponent’s ability. So he had recognized that Ivatar possessed enough skill that, even when compared to the Lionheart Knights, he would be able to rank as one of the Captains — no, not just an ordinary Captain, but one of the strongest among them.

However, now that Cyan had seen a true display of Ivatar's skills, he felt he needed to rate Ivatar even higher than he already had.

Even among all of the knights of the continent that Cyan had seen during the Knight March, how many of them would be able to say that they were stronger than Ivatar? Even the tribal chieftains who had conspired with the Zoran Tribe’s Deputy-Chieftain would have been able to earn a place as the Commander of a country’s knightly order if they were to move to the continent….

‘He might be built like a brick shithouse[1], but he’s actually the same age as Eugene and I,’ Cyan recalled.

When he also took Ivatar's age into consideration, Cyan felt like even more of a waste in comparison.

Yet the reality of this was unavoidable. After all, Eugene was a monster who had been evaluated as the most...