Knight and Wand

Chapter 145 Sword and Magic
Only when Olivia gradually reined in her horse and lowered her spear blade to end her exploration of riding and horse fighting did Leon stop teasing the griffin in his opponent's hand.

Putting down the ball of fur, he patted his butt, stood up from under the tree, walked to the wooden target on the girl's side, and pulled out the two practice swords that were stuck in the ground.

Olivia turned over and dismounted, and greeted her lover not far away: "You are here, Leon, have Lord Elliver and the others left?"

After learning about her bloodline, the girl understood some of her father's concerns. So unless she had no choice, she would take the initiative to avoid the nobles and try to avoid appearing in front of the lords as much as possible.

"Let's go. Lonka can't accommodate so many war horses. Add to that the pastures of Selva and Pleton, the grasslands and supplies of the three territories, and it will be difficult to feed our own thirty-odd horses." Leon said, throwing out a blunt practice sword.

call--!
The blunt sword flew out of her hand with a whoosh, piercing the air like a giant arrow and flew towards the girl.

Looking at the blunt blade flying in front of her, Olivia raised her hand to deflect the attacking blade, and knocked the blunt sword horizontally in the air. Then, without waiting for it to rotate due to the force, she waved her hand and grabbed the hilt of the sword.

The girl swung the sword twice, making a playful sword flower, with a slight smile in her eyes.

Although she is willing to improve all kinds of martial arts, due to her preference for weapon form and personal aesthetics, she still likes the standard-shaped Feru longsword the most.

Unlike the use of other weapons, only when she held the sword did she feel that the sharp blade in her hand was like a part of her soul.

"Are we practicing attacking like we did yesterday? Or are we practicing counterattacks?" The girl raised her sword and asked the other party what kind of training he needed.

"Come on, let's combine them today." Leon swung the blade, relaxed his body, took a step, and stood sideways in a key position with both hands holding the sword.

"Then get ready, I'm coming!" Olivia's eyes focused and she raised her voice.
As soon as she finished speaking, the girl took a step and flew away.

He moves forward with an indomitable posture and his sword is as sharp as a blade.

Leon instantly changed his position and launched a counterattack.

Bang!
The knight's power caused the ground to collapse into dust. He suddenly faced the sword light that the girl was stabbing at him and also stabbed out his long sword.

——Clang! Chiz! Sparks flew everywhere.

The intersecting steel blades entangled and bit at a subtle angle.

Leon turned his sword and attacked Olivia in the face with the same threat.

But the girl's stabbing did not stop. The blade continued to fall along an undulating and delicate trajectory, pointing towards Leon's chest and abdomen.

In an instant, it seemed like a double kill situation, but Leon had already noticed that the girl was slightly twisting her hips.

Knowing that this sword would not be able to pierce the girl and that he was about to be "ripped open", Leon stopped his attack, moved his lower body backwards and moved his entire upper body backwards, and pulled back the long sword to deflect the girl's sword that was almost going to pierce his abdomen.

Without a pause, Leon felt the opponent's fierce sword blade that failed to hit him, and it seemed like it was about to wrap around his arm like a python, so he immediately raised his wrist and turned the blade, and at the same time as he stepped back and landed on the ground, he raised the sword and broke the girl's combo.

There were two crisp metal collisions, and Olivia took two steps back, raising the sword to the side, with a hint of emotion in her eyes.

"Why did you stop?" Leon steadied his posture, remained alert, and asked in confusion.

Normally, the girl's sword moves were so continuous that she didn't have time to catch her breath until the end of a round of fighting.

"Nothing, I just feel happy that you are making rapid progress."

The girl felt inexplicably relieved as she watched her lover holding his sword steadily, waiting for an opportunity to find her weakness.

Among the three, except for Azerien who was slightly inferior, even Lohak's martial arts had improved significantly.

But Olivia felt that, although the big man was brave enough, he was still used to relying on his instinctive reactions during practice in combat, and lacked the consideration and instant judgment required to deal with changes like she and Leon did.

As for Leon, whose transformation was the most exaggerated, compared to the first "playful" sparring under the windmill tower, when she couldn't even block half of her own playful moves, now she is as strong as those Kantadar knights she faced at the beginning.

It required her full concentration, and even when she got serious, it took some effort to defeat it.

It took only four months for such a leap in growth. Although the mysterious magic training later contributed to it, Olivia sincerely felt the satisfaction of watching her proud "disciple" gradually achieve success in learning martial arts and experiences personally taught others and witnessed their increasing strength.

She actually did it, using her martial arts as a gift to repay them for their help.

Hearing the girl's praise, Leon smiled and said, "That's right, I haven't forgotten. If I want to take Miss Olivia back to the castle as my wife, I have to defeat you first. That's what I said at the beginning, right?"

Olivia's expression fell when she suddenly heard the other party mention her past joke. She glared at the guy angrily and muttered, "How dare you mention this when we clearly skipped this requirement."

"Hmm? Isn't this a bit like the thief crying thief, Miss Olivia? I remember that night, the one who didn't give me a second chance to propose was..."

Before he could finish his words, Leon caught a glimpse of the girl flying towards him, swinging her sword down like a silver fan.

With a start, Leon quickly drew his sword and blocked the attack.

Clang——! !

The sword blade vibrated and his palm went numb. He barely managed to block the girl's powerful noblewoman-like slash. He felt that the practice sword in his hand seemed to be groaning in pain.

"Since Master Leon still remembers this request, we must not let down our guard!" Olivia exerted her full strength to press down on the sword blade, almost forcing Leon to grit his teeth and crouch down to bear the force.

"As my husband, you are a real man but your martial arts skills are not as good as my wife's. You will be laughed at by others, right?" The girl used a dangerous smile to cover up the shame in her heart when it was revealed that she took the initiative to sign the contract that night.

Before he could reply, Leon felt the force from above suddenly withdraw, and then he lowered his sword to block again, covered in a cold sweat.

There was a burst of ping-pong noise.

The immense force of the Knight of Arms and the swordsman girl smashed the poor steel blade so hard that sparks flew.

Fiercely intertwined silver light surrounded the two of them like a violent storm.

"What a flirting sword, it's so corny, don't you think? Little Goethe~" Corvis, who was watching the fight under the tree, sighed while holding the chirping little griffin in his hands.

In the open space, the sparring continued for a long time. The knight and the girl fought for countless rounds until suddenly, there was a crisp sound.

The practice sword in Leon's hand finally couldn't withstand the metal fatigue caused by months of long-term training, and broke into two pieces by a heavy blow.

Olivia's sword suddenly stopped.

Fearing that the leaping steel blade would injure her lover, the girl accurately knocked the broken blade away with the tip of her sword.

Watching the sword spinning out and then falling into the ground, Leon had to put away his stance.

"How about I go back and get another one?" Olivia asked apologetically.

"No, take a break. I might as well use your spear to practice my gun skills." Looking at the broken sword in his hand, Leon shrugged.

He felt more and more that the iron weapons in his hands were not durable.

It's not just because of the broken training weapon in front of him.

And his noble sword, which was worn and damaged in the battle with Cannis.

Unlike most games in the previous life, the equipment in the inventory will not change no matter how many battles you go through.

No matter how well maintained and repaired they are, as long as they are weapons made of ordinary steel, whether they are swords, spears, swords or halberds, they are essentially consumables. The only difference is how many times they can be used.

Moreover, in this world, I can see that the damage that weapons need to endure is far greater than that of the Earth in my previous life. All iron swords and knives are subjected to the long-trained muscle strength of the Knights of Martial Arts in this world. Long-term hard use will damage them faster. No wonder in Journey to the West, after Monkey King learned this, he immediately went to the Dragon Palace to find the old Dragon King to pick up a handy weapon.

Alas, where is my old Dragon King?

Thinking of this, Leon envied the knight-errant he had met recently in Selva.

After temporarily clearing the other party's suspicion that night, out of curiosity and his love for cold weapons, he was fortunate enough to receive a demonstration from Larian and admire the gorgeous long sword named "Moonlight".

According to Larian, his sword is a magical weapon passed down from generation to generation that can ward off evil and break witchcraft. It has been passed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years.

After such a long time, not only is it not damaged, it also looks as new as a newly made weapon. It seems like a magical weapon with infinite durability, and Leon is envious of it.

The improvement that an excellent weapon brings to a warrior is self-evident.

Just like Garron, who was briefly summoned during the Battle of Longka, in front of the flaming halberd of the Sun Guard, the heavy plate armor of an ordinary knight was as fragile as tofu.

It’s a pity that such a magical weapon is hard to come by.

Even including the rune battle axe in the hands of the unknown knight next to Count Trosa, Leon has only seen three magical weapons that look extraordinary so far.

Of course, if the wands in the hands of wizards like Miss Lola are not counted.

The image of the Thorn Blade that he had returned to Baron Elliver flashed through Leon's mind.

Although the sword forged from dwarven steel had no magical properties, it at least looked much stronger and sharper than ordinary weapons.

He thought that since he didn't have a magic weapon, he might as well get a dwarven steel weapon as a second best option.

However, I heard that most dwarven steel is out of stock and this precious steel originating from the dwarves is rarely circulated among the people. And if you really come across it, you will definitely not be able to get it without spending hundreds of gold crowns.

If you think about it carefully, if it is so expensive and can't fire light cannons or emit light waves, then as a tool, Leon would rather continue to use ordinary iron weapons, at least to save some money.

When people are poor, they have low aspirations. Sighing in his heart, Leon turned his hope to Miss Lola.

Our last name is Pendragon. As the great Fairy in the Tower of Avalon, if we don't have the Sword in the Lake or the Sword in the Stone, it wouldn't be too much to give us the entire Sword in the Tower, right?
Thinking about how he could act as a disciple and ask the almighty teacher Laura Amen to make a "curry stick" for himself next time he went to the tower, Leon looked at the broken sword in his hand.

Since I have asked the young teacher to reward me with a holy sword, I cannot do the same as this time, where I neglected to practice magic skills and made the other party pull my ears and get angry.

It just so happened that this practice sword was damaged, so he didn't feel bad about burning it, and he didn't have to go back to look for scrap iron sticks.

"I'll practice combat magic for a while, Olivia, you sit down and rest for a while." Leon turned to the girl and said.

Olivia shook her head: "It's okay, I'm not tired yet, can I take a closer look?"

The girl also wanted to see what the combat spells described in the magic book looked like.

She had seen Dodson's necklace and Corvis's spell to manipulate objects.

However, the former's effectiveness is amplified by the human body, so the spell effect is not so intuitive, and the latter's object manipulation cannot even be considered offensive magic. Corvis is now learning real lethal spells from scratch.

"Okay, then you stand away. I'm afraid I can't control the elemental reaction well and hurt you by accident." Leon nodded and warned.

Of course, he was also afraid that the magic field on Olivia's body would interfere with his still immature magical power.

When she took a few more steps back, Leon held the broken blade with both hands.

Concentrate your mind to mobilize the magic essence, slowly output it out of your body, and transform the life energy into natural magic power.

(Gulorelite)
".Omulos is restless, leaping, gathering, and sublimating for me."

Leon silently chanted ancient spells to help himself drive his mind to manipulate magic power, using several sophisticated magic structures to interfere with the movement of natural elements.

Even though it was just a small spell for an apprentice to learn, he was not very skilled in it. In his mind, it was very difficult to accurately control the energy that was invisible to the naked eye.

It feels like closing your eyes, holding a pen with a pair of scissors, and drawing detailed paintings on paper with different colors.

On the half-broken sword, magic patterns flashing with orange-red light extended from Leon's hand.

The fiery orange-red hazy magic pattern slowly crawled from the point where the hilt met the palm, over the sword guard, and towards the blade.

But not only was the process slow, but progress would occasionally stop unexpectedly and regress due to unstable errors.

This is not the worst case. When the magic pattern that is covering the object with difficulty is in the process of advancing and retreating, if the extension speed is too fast,
bang~
A small ball of flame suddenly ignited on the magic pattern line where hot air was rising.

Leon couldn't help but move some away to avoid his hair being set on fire.

But then, the out-of-control magic caused a chain reaction, and magic flames exploded with bangs at the turns and curves of the magic patterns.

The scorching heat seeped into the steel of the sword blade, and cracks flashing orange-red light soon covered the broken sword.

Knowing that this attempt was irreversible, Leon had no choice but to remove the spell he was maintaining, and saw the magic patterns covering the objects in his hands disappear in an instant.

"Did it succeed?" Olivia asked curiously.

"No, I failed. I'm not that talented. I've been so busy in the past half month and haven't practiced this much." Leon shook his head.

He came to the river, squatted down, and plunged the red-hot broken sword into the river water, which cooled down with a crackling sound.

Then take it out and repeat the exercise.

This was one of the spells he learned under Laura's guidance during his last trip to the Mage Tower when he successfully summoned Garron.

After demonstrating the magical impact that she had accidentally comprehended, Laura taught him two magic application techniques that were not so difficult for him at the moment.

One is an airflow and air pressure manipulation technology that is very similar to magic shock.

One is a simple magical technique to create high temperature and flames.

The magic in this world is not exactly what Leon remembered, like in the games of his previous life, with fixed game skills like fireball, ice arrow, chain lightning, etc.

Although there are many spells with similar effects in the magic book, in fact, the casting process of these spells is also a combination and guidance of a series of magic application skills.

This also means that a magic ritual can be divided into multiple magic application processes.

Just like the technique of creating high temperature that he was practicing at this moment, its simplest application was ignition.

Thanks to this, he no longer needs to carry a flint in his pocket.

Of course, simply igniting a fire is not the ultimate goal of this project.

Miss Lola assigned him two apprentice-level elemental combat spell assignments.

One is called "Wind Hammer", which is a kind of striking magic.

One is called "Molten Sword", which is a kind of shaping magic.

(End of this chapter)