Book 14: Chapter 1 (5)
Namsaar judged Fagall unable to continue and announced the end of the duel. After that, Shin’s group returned to the room they had first been shown to.
Shin was worried that he had gone too far and wanted to leave the training grounds as soon as possible, so he was relieved.
“Honestly, I went pretty much all out there, but…sir Shin, you are really…something else.”
“Ahaha…I’m sorry, I overdid it a little.”
“Well…yes. I thought I was in real danger there.”
Fagall had witnessed a power large enough to ignore the Sponge weapons’ supposed non-lethality, so his smile was a bit strained. Even without Shin’s last powerful attack, Fagall knew he couldn’t have won, or so he thought.
Shin was unfazed from start to finish: Fagall figured Shin was likely to be superior to him in every stat.
Fagall’s attacks never put Shin on the spot. He always reacted with ease.
It wasn’t just because Shin’s reactions were good, or he was more nimble, since he reacted in the same way to magic too. The only possible conclusion was that his stats were superior.