Swordsmen

A **Swordsmen** are the main combatants and profession in the world, who practices swordsmanship and other forms of combat. The masculine form is **Swordsman**, and the feminine form is **Swordswomen**.

## Description

In the world, swordsmen have much greater prominence in the world, being the main defense and combat force of multiple countries and kingdoms in the world, thus making them the most valuable profession and asset. As such, their greatest asset is the particular sword styles that they learn and train in, most of them being taught in certain **"Schools"**, having great histories in the world such as the Sakura Blossom One-Sword Style taught in the Valencia House, having been around for two-thousand years, the Rain Style, and High King Style. Because of this, those who're **Self-Taught** in the modern era are treated as being pathetic and often made fun of by swordsmen and civilians alike.

### Rankings

Most notable, inside of the Ringard Imperial Kingdom, there are two different professions for swordsmen:

**Magic Swordsman** (魔剣士(まけんし), *Makenshi*), are swordsman who takes requests from people and merchants, living off the rewards. In the past, Magic Swordsmen suffered a bit of discriminated, for using their *Sacred Swordsmanship as a tool for making monkey*. However, it lessened nowadays as 30% of the graduated students now become Magic Swordsmen.

**Holy Knight** (聖騎士(せいきし), *Seikishi*), are more official swordsmen who works under the Holy Knights Association, thus working for the people and earns a stable salary.

## Powers & Abilities

Almost all swordsmen using their own particular fighting styles, whether learned from their own schools, if not exceptions who had trained under the same school or self-taught. Among them, there are multiple deciding factors that determines their strength and abilities compared to others, most notable being their talent or potential, which is most often than not better than most. Certain swordsmen such as Allen (who also has special cells) and Sid, who are born with a special constitution that can assist them combat, the latter assists him in making him much stronger, while the latter assists in making him much faster and agile than most.

The most important factor that decides whether or not swordsmen could become more powerful, if not stronger than most swordsman, is their Spirit Core, Soul Dress, and Spiritual power. First, human, thus swordsman has a **Spirit Core** inside their soul, which is a mass of power within them that can result in the manifestation of their **Soul Dress**, a weapon that can take on different forms and have abilities depending on them; and spiritual power, being in essense their "mental energy" and something that allows them to continue using their powers, but it increases little by little as time passes.

Of course, a common thing is that training can close the distance between talented and talentless swordsmen. Under special conditions, such as the 100 Million Years Button, swordsman can train within that set span of time, without aging, but retaining the strength and skills gained inside of that Prison of time in their current state. Because training inside of the Prison of Time puts a heavier train on their minds, this can result in a substantial increase in their spiritual power depending on how long one has trained there, more so if the time ranges from 1000 to 2000 years, and an exception being Allen who spammed it at least 10 x, thus gaining immeasurable spiritual power.

## Trivia

* Despite being called swordsmen, people such as Idol and Leia, who's actual fighting style focuses on spears and fists respectively.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 18.2 - . Magic Swordsman and Black Organization [1] – part 2
2. ↑ Chapter 17.3 - Thousand Blade Academy and the Big Five Holy Festival [7] – part 3