Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 86
"Your Highness, can you see what kind of sword technique I used just now?" Mugram stretched out his palm and pulled Lucia up on the ground, and said with a narrow smile.

Lucia touched the wound on his chest that had disappeared, thought for a moment and replied: "The first time was Storm Sword Art, but I couldn't see the specific sword skill, and the speed of the sword was far from comparable to ordinary sword skills. The blocked sword is like Rodel's sword technique, but as far as I know, this move should not be the orthodox Rodel's sword technique - Golden Knights and Furnace Knights must rely on shield strikes to make similar defensive counterattacks, you But he did it all with just a knight sword."

"As for the last sword." He pondered, "Is it a variant created by you by fusing Kalia sword skills with some unarmed combat techniques?"

"It's the throwing technique of the wild land," Mugram answered his doubts, "Your Highness should know that His Majesty the Warlord Geoffrey was the king of the wild land before he became the former king of Elden, and the barbarian warriors used Many of the combat skills can also be used in swordsmanship, in addition to throwing skills, ground shaking, boxing, and kicking can all be ingeniously matched with swordsmanship to create excellent skills beyond the scope of swordsmanship."

"Does it come from the combat skills of the wild land?" Lucia repeatedly pondered the sword of the Mugram knight's upswing, slashing, attacking, capturing and executing, and couldn't help but secretly marveled at the opponent's breadth of hunting.

In reality, the "wild land" in a broad sense generally refers to the area where barbarians live outside the major towns at the border. A group of human nomads outside the ruling system of a great dynasty.

Their origins are earlier than the Golden Dynasty and the Kalia Dynasty, and can even be traced back to the ancient times when civilization was born. As early as the period when giants and ancient dragons fought against each other, and the Storm, Ud and other dynasties were just emerging, these tribes lived as chiefs. The breeding nomads have become an indispensable and important role in the borderland.

At the end of the Battle of the Gods, one of the most powerful chieftains of the wild land and the most powerful warrior in the history of the border - Holly Lu was chosen by the Eternal Queen Marika who had just defeated the Queen of Death. After getting married, he was given the name "Gruffleigh" and became the first King of Elden in the Golden Dynasty.

Since then, a large number of barbarian warriors left the wild and ignorant homeland, followed Ge Fulei into the territory of civilization, and became the original members of the army under the command of the King of War, like the mixed race and the furnace knight, and the large area originally belonged to the "wild land" The lands of the kingdom were also incorporated into the territory of the Golden Dynasty during that period.

Today, decades later, both barbarian land and barbarian warriors in the traditional sense are rare, and the most primitive and orthodox barbarian combat skills are gradually dying out with the exile of the King of War and the Eastern Expeditionary Army. Perhaps only the furnace knights are so old. It is only the powerful heroes who retain this fierce combat skill born in the barbaric fight.

And the Mugram knight not only mastered this combat skill to the point of proficiency, but also perfectly integrated it into swordsmanship. What kind of profound accomplishment is this?

At this time, Lucia was completely immersed in the comprehension of swordsmanship. Thinking of this, she couldn't help sighing deeply, and said: "Compared with your swordsmanship, my moves are like children's play. A random assembly and combination of various swordsmanship, combat skills, and prayers may seem to be okay at ordinary times, but once you encounter a real strong opponent, it will be broken with a single poke."

"Your Highness is wrong."

"Ok?"

"Your Highness not only said wrong, but also thought wrong—" Knight Mugram smiled and said, "Please follow me."

Lucia followed his footsteps to a low bank by the lake. Knight Mugram tapped his feet and jumped onto a boulder facing the lake. A standard preparation for drawing a sword.

He closed his eyes, and slowly adjusted his breathing in the breeze blowing from the lake. In Lucia's spiritual perception, the magic power in Knight Mugram's body did not speed up at this moment, but became extremely calm, just like the one in front of him. Calm water.

About ten breaths later, the sound of a long sword unsheathed suddenly broke the tranquility of the moonlit night, and the eyes of Mugram Knight opened again were full of divine light, as if two grand full moons were shining from his pupils. Bottom up!
Draw the sword, unsheath it, and slash, all done in one go!
The edge of his sword seems to have turned into an ink pen, using the sky as a paper to write a solid vacuum sword glow. The starlight illuminated the dim lakeside, and the incomparably powerful magic power was like flowing ink, instantly soaking the sword light into a bright sword-like luster, turning it into a slash that shone with the light of stars and swept away!

The next moment, the entire lake was cut open——

A huge abyss as deep as the bottom of the lake appeared in the center of the field of vision, and the surging lake water on both sides was like cliffs as high as thousands of feet.

Lucia stared blankly at the scene in front of him. He remembered the magical flares left on the ground by the two pyroxene dragons, Adura and Smarag, which he had seen in his previous life. However, in comparison, this The power of the sword is more than a hundred times?
"Your Highness should be familiar with this type of sword technique," Knight Mugram put his sword back into its sheath, and laughed amidst the roar of the lake falling, "That day, His Highness used this move to repel His Highness Lataen for the first time, and Otopi and I Chief Si was amazed."

"Me?" Lucia was stupefied at first, then suddenly remembered something, her whole face couldn't help twitching, "You said this is Dragon Thunder Slash?"

Lucia only felt that his brain was down for a full five or six seconds. Although his eyes told him that this sword and his Dragon Thunder Slash were two-dimensional things, but carefully recalling the details of the Mugram knight's sword, at first it was It starts with the vacuum slash in the storm sword technique, and then integrates other powers at the moment before the sword technique is released.
It seems that there is really no other difference except replacing the dragon thunder with magic power?

Too fake!

"I said Your Highness was wrong because combining sword skills with other combat skills and prayers is not a trivial opportunistic trick, let alone a child's play as you said—" Knight Mugram said in a calm tone, "In the eyes of the Chief Ordopis Knight and I, since His Royal Highness took several months to create this style of Dragon Thunder Slash, your achievements in swordsmanship are destined to be superior to both of us."

"Your Highness may not know that the sword masters thousands of years ago carried out the initial research in a similar way. They wisely combined the storm sword, Wude sword, Tibia sword and even the swords from the black king, the white king, and the rare people. Swordsmanship is combined together, hoping to create a brand new swordsmanship that combines the strengths of hundreds of schools."

"Just now I only explained the origin of the third sword technique, now you might as well tell Your Highness where the first two sword techniques, which are similar to Storm Sword Technique and Rodel Sword Technique but different from each other, come from."

He exhaled slowly, raised his head, looked at the stars and moon above the sky with an almost pious gaze, and said softly: "That is the end of all swordsmanship in ancient times, and it is also the origin of all swordsmanship after the Forbidden War .”

"As descendants of that fallen civilization, we Kalia people call it——Eternal Sword Art."

　ps. There are a lot of things today, and I just finished my work at night, and I only finished writing a chapter in the last few hours. Here, I will definitely resume normal updates tomorrow.

　　
　
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