Volume 32: Dark Clouds Overhead, Chapter 5: Who Can Compete?

Komer felt for the first time that the power he possessed was exceptionally mighty.

The Rock Corps and Furious Wave Corps, dense and immovable like two square blocks of cast iron, stood steadfast to the right of the Review Platform. Their wild momentum required no pretense to be displayed, and the frosty, solid atmosphere was intense enough to give the wilderness a feeling that frost could be scraped off the air. In the morning's thin sunshine, their pale blades glimmered with a chilling coldness.

Unmoving as mountains! That was Komer's demand of them. The lazy yet restless Half-Beastmen, the irascible yet staunch Barbarians, under his iron fist, were like iron ore in a furnace—easily forged into malleable iron. And when the heat dissipated, what was presented to the world were blades ready to draw blood!