Ch 20

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Chapter 20 

The group came to the swordsman training ground in the first district of the east, the field was about twenty meters long and wide, the ground was covered with a soft rag carpet, and the four corners were placed with protective magic rune stones.

Arthur, Ace, and Victoria sat in the waiting area, and Nock walked to the center of the training ground with Tina and Alana.

Nock: "Alana, have you read the manual that was given to you?" 

He was referring to the Nightwatcher Basics Handbook, which was delivered home with his uniform.

"Yes," the booklet was thin, and it took Alana only ten minutes to read it.

"Tell me, why do most transcendents choose swordsmanship as their basic weapon?"

Alana said unhurriedly, "For a junior transcendent, the gun can outperform other weapons in terms of speed. However, the gun has a fatal flaw when dealing with otherworldly creatures, that is, the wound is too small and requires high accuracy.

"For example, when dealing with smaller spiders and basilisks, it is very difficult for a bullet to hit the vital point in one shot. However, when dealing with the larger chickens, snakes, and Chimeras, it is difficult for bullets to deal substantial damage even in the mission.

Nock continued her words, "Yes, so no matter what career path you are, you'll learn basic weapons other than guns. Such as swords, bows, sickles, spears, battle axes, etc. 

Swordsmanship, on the other hand, is flexible and universal, and is the basic skill of the group chosen by our night watchmen. After you have learned swordsmanship, you can choose to learn others.

"Since you're still a newcomer, you'll use a wooden sword for training, and then switch to a knight's sword when you're proficient."

Alana took the wooden sword he handed over.

It is modeled after a knight's sword, with an acute isosceles triangle with a blade of about 80 centimeters long and a hilt of 20 centimeters long.

"Tina, over to you."

Nock is an elemental magician, and his swordsmanship is not bad, but he has never been in the habit of bringing newcomers, and happily chooses to be the shopkeeper.

The others on the basement floor were originally pretending to be training, but when they heard Nock's words, they all stopped their movements and moved towards the east area 1 secretly.

Tina felt the gaze coming from all directions, and her heart pounded.

With so many people watching, she must not disgrace the captain and Alanna.

Still, she has faith in herself. In terms of swordsmanship strength, of course, she is not as good as Ace, a magic swordsman, but in terms of speed and quick thinking, she will not lose to any of her peers!

She straightened her back and cleared her throat.

"In the future, your training will mainly include two aspects: one is to improve the proficiency and accuracy of sword moves through repeated practice, and the other is to enhance the power and speed of sword moves by exercising your body and improving your spirituality."

"I'll use the normal speed of the exercise tier to show you the first set of introductory sword moves in its entirety. It doesn't matter if you can't see the movements clearly, I'll take the sword moves apart later and take you to practice them in groups.

"Okay, I see." Alanna took two steps back and moved out of the way.

The next second, Tina moved.

The movements of her hands are extremely fast, making it difficult for people to catch with their eyes, and the sword that splits out has changed from one to a net, and the energy collision is like a firework exploding, which is simply cool.

There was a commotion among the onlookers.

"Oh, this speed is so strong, is she really exercising strength?"

"I'm also exercising my strength, but I can't see her sword moves at all."

"That's embarrassing, isn't it? How to learn the tricks as soon as you come up?

"Well, could it be that the seventh squad wants to give the newcomers a dismount? That's a little embarrassing.

"No, no, no. You didn't come to the assessment site that day, and I can see it very clearly, they are very supportive of Alana.

In Andrew's eyes, this sword move is naturally not enough, but he will not compare his strength with the team members. Turning her head to look at Vanessa beside her, "What's going on?"

"The speed was so fast that I could only see the first three moves, and the back couldn't keep up at all. Even if it's just a reproduction of these three tricks, it will take me a day.

"Tsk," Andrew knew that her swordsmanship talent was average, and deliberately nodded, "The strength is still too weak." This is not seen with the naked eye, but sensed by the spirit.

"But Tina's swordsmanship is indeed excellent, I hope our future necromancer lady can keep up with her speed, otherwise today's scene will not be good, heh."

At the end of the move, Tina slowly withdrew her sword.

Alana lowered her gaze and thought back to what had just happened.

When she was engrossed, a small but unignorable warm current emerged from her heart, washing over her thinking veins, making everything in her vision clear and slow.

Tina's first sword swung out, and the golden arc stopped in the air. Then she slashed her wrist diagonally with a second sword, the new arc crossed the old arc at sixty degrees, and then the third......

Finally, the sixty-four sword moves form a complex pattern on the plane, but from the horizontal perspective, each arc of light does not touch, but is neatly spaced, flowing with a beauty that is both powerful and wild.

"That's amazing," Alana complimented sincerely.

Tina's heart was relieved, and the roots of her ears were a little hot, "This is my best level at the moment." You're just a late starter, and in time, you'll be much better than me!

"Now I'll slow down, group presentations, and you follow me along."

"Yes," Alanna cleared her mind, calming down, and struck in the same stance as her.

This time, Tina split this set of sixty-four sword moves into sixteen sets of four moves each.

At first, she was worried that Alana would not be able to keep up, but later she discovered that Alanna was a very good learner and could reproduce her moves without pause.

"After the first round of demonstrations, I'm going to show you every two combinations, and you can see if you can keep up."

"Wait," Nock called Tina to a halt.

"Captain?" Tina thought she was teaching something wrong.

"No need to repeat it, let Alanna directly practice the full set." Nock threw out a sentence flatly.

Everyone was in an uproar and looked at each other.

"Uh," Tina stopped talking, not knowing how to respond, and quickly gave Ace a look.

Ace immediately understood and leaned over to Nock's side, "Captain, I know you think this set of sword moves is very basic, but it is not easy for novices.

"It took me seven days just to memorize all the moves, and nine days for Tina."

"There are so many people here...... "In case Alana only used two sets and got stuck,It's going to be ridiculed by the crowd.

Andrew was originally sitting on the sofa, boring through the newspaper, and when he heard Nock's words, he immediately stood up with interest, "Vanessa, this set is also your basic sword move, right?" How long did you study in the first place?

"It took five days to jot down the movements, and eleven days to master them."

She is a dependant of the god of dreams, and her spiritual power surpasses that of ordinary transcendents to reach this speed.

Andrew raised an eyebrow and laughed at the stupidity of the nock. It's just that he was in the limelight once, and he was praised by everyone, and he even slapped his subordinates in the face in public.

If Alanna really made a fool of herself on the first day of training, then tomorrow all Night Watchmen will know that this future necromancer is nothing more than a façade.

However, Andrew will not dissuade him. On the contrary, he wants to add fuel to the fire.

"I think Captain Nock has a point. Alanna is a future necromancer, and she cannot be trained in conventional ways, and the requirements must be raised appropriately.

Ace secretly said that it was not good, and Andrew really didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement.

The rest of the squad was whispering as well. Alanna has been rated as "the strongest newcomer of all time" by the Night Watcher, and it would be unrealistic to say that they don't have the slightest bit of jealousy.

Although they all say congratulations and envy on the surface, if they can make the newcomers suffer a little and walk the way they did back then, everyone will only feel dark.

"Okay," Alana agreed, not thinking it was a deliberate embarrassment on the part of Nock.

Everyone stopped discussing and fixed their eyes on the training ground.

Alanna cleared her mind, leaving only the same set of sword moves as she had just been.

The angle, rhythm, and speed of each swing are incomparably clear. It's like following a slow teaching video, and the difficulty is mainly in body control.

The wooden sword draws a beautiful arc in mid-air, with strength, softness and toughness. Although lacking an explosion of spiritual power, in terms of action, it is almost impeccable.

Tina's and Ace's eyes gradually lit up at first, and they couldn't help nodding.

But after arriving at the first eight groups, their expressions began to be wrong, their eyes slowly widened, and their hearts continued to "lie down", and finally calmed down, revealing a certain numbness after the impact of faith.

Andrew vividly expressed what it means to "turn from joy to sadness", the eyebrows that were originally raised drooped down, and the lips pursed into a line.

He didn't need to ask Vanessa again, after all, he couldn't do it just by looking at it once and writing down the whole set of tricks.

Alana retracted her sword lightly, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on her body from the continuous fierce movements.

"My goddess, am I right? Did she write it all down?

"I didn't go to the newcomer assessment site that day, and I didn't think it was right when I heard you blow it to the sky, but now it seems that your description is still conservative."

"Didn't you say the future necromancer? As for the swordsmanship talent so good? What else are the rest of us doing?

"I thought Captain Nock was deliberately teaching the newcomer a lesson, but I didn't expect him to get it again. Damn, he knew that Alana was so strong, and he deliberately let her perform!

Nock was unfazed on his face, and his heart was overturned.

In the illusion that day, Alana was not affected by the cold, which he believed had to do with her demonic constitution. But through Mr. Spencer's recommendation, presumably other talents are unusual.

That's why I tried it, who knows...

"Captain," Alanna asked, seeing that no one was silent, "how should I train next?" For a moment,

Tina felt as if she had returned to the day when she was weird.

Alanna lightly pointed out that there was a problem with the captain's glasses, and said "It's very simple", which made them speechless for a while.

Did she even know that she had completed a normal week's study task in just ten minutes?!

How else is this taught? Her sets of sword moves, it is estimated that Alana will learn them in two days. Huh, her path to temporary master is too short!

"Why don't you let me come?" A straightforward female voice sounded.

Alana tilted her head and noticed that it was Fifth Captain Sorela.

Tina hurriedly ran over and whispered: "Sorella is a Holy Envoy-level Demon Swordsman, and her parents are also Demon Swordsmen, and their family education is first-class.

Sorela chuckled and walked over to Nock, "Seeing that your little friend is so talented, he wants to show his hands for a while." No comments, right?

Nock had known Soreira for many years, so he knew she wasn't intentionally provoking. But instead of agreeing immediately, he left the decision to Alana.

"My pleasure."

Alana knew that Sorela and Nock had always been "difficult brothers" among the Night Watchmen, and their friendship was not ordinary.

"Don't worry, I'm not here empty-handed," Sorella had already figured out.

"I have a lot of excellent quality knight swords, broadswords, and swords at home, if you can learn my sword moves, I will choose one for you."

As soon as these words came out, Ace and Tina, who were secretly worried, suddenly revealed, "And this kind of good thing?!" Expression.

Sorella is not a warm and generous person, and hoarding swords is comparable to hoarding food. I haven't seen her give a handle to the chief or any captain for so many years, and now she's willing to take it out!

God knows how long they've been hungry!

The members of the fifth team are even more "jealous beyond recognition", obviously they are the closest people to Sorela, but this opportunity fell on Alanna's head first.

Although, they also know that their qualifications are mediocre and difficult to match the "sword".

The rest of the scene, including Andrew, certainly wanted to continue watching the excitement.

The one just now was a little unrealistic.

Although they were all familiar with Nock's personality, there was a small corner of their hearts that raised questions. Could this be a rehearsal by the Seventh Squad in advance, deliberately raising Alana's prestige and attracting customers, right?

So, Sorela's test came at the right time.

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