"Please, take a look."
Perhaps unable to bear Riezel's strange gaze any longer, Merlot gave a dry cough and changed the subject.
She pointed toward where the knights were training, awkwardly brushing aside the previous topic.
Seeing this, Riezel found it slightly amusing, but he still followed Merlot's finger and looked at the knights in training.
At that glance, Riezel's eyes flickered slightly.
He discovered that the knights of this world were of a very high caliber as well.
On the Akasha Continent, whether they were knights from a kingdom's direct Knight Order or family knights assembled by great nobles, ordinary knights were at most equivalent to Lv.4.
That was because Lv.5 was already the level of a True Swordsman, someone qualified to receive a True Swordsman Medal from the kingdom's nobility.
Knights of that level would become highly valued elite combatants no matter which faction they joined.
Even within a kingdom's direct Knight Order, True Swordsman-level knights would at least be Knight Captains or vice-captains. The only ones above them would be the Knight Order's captain and vice-captain.
The requirement to join Shadow, the Ginas Kingdom Royal Family's direct Assassination Unit, was to possess at least the combat power of a True Swordsman. Otherwise, one would not even be qualified to serve the royal family or the king.
As a marquis house of the Ginas Kingdom, the Franzer Family had only three True Swordsman-level combatants within its ranks: Marilyn, Ain, and Ian. This showed just how coveted True Swordsmen, whose combat power was at least equal to Lv.5, were on the Akasha Continent.
The same went without saying for the DanMachi World. Lv.5 was already a First Class Adventurer, and there were fewer than forty of them in all of Labyrinth City Orario.
Yet on the deck of this