Contract and the Demon King

In principle, the martial arts contest held in the city is a super-large event for all urban residents.However, because the competition conditions are very loose, the results also lead to the phenomenon that the strength of the contestants often appears too disparity.

In order to "take care" of the general public participating in the competition, before the official competition, the city will hold a relatively "safe" non-combat preliminaries.In this way, some players with insufficient strength will be wiped out before the official game.As for the competition items in the preliminaries, although they haven't reached the point of being completely different, they are different every year.Due to adequate safety measures, compared with the official competition, the preliminaries feel a little closer to "sports" than "combat".Some of them didn't even have any expectation of "passing the preliminaries" at all, they just participated because they wanted to "try it out".This is also one of the reasons why there are so many applicants for the martial arts tournament in the city every year.

But in other words, if you want to participate in the official competition, you must first pass the preliminaries. With this in mind, Yue started very serious training in the half month before the start of the preliminaries.With the funds donated by the military to the orphanage already in place, the orphanage, which had been in great difficulty, finally temporarily got rid of the state of being on the verge of bankruptcy.The orphans in the orphanage are of course happy, and the director of the orphanage who knows part of the inside story is even more grateful to Yue.

After nearly half a month of serious practice, Yue showed the results of continuous practice in the past half month on the day before the preliminaries.

"That's it, although the detailed principle is not clear. But this seems to be a technique to decompose, analyze, and reconstruct objects through some kind of force. So. As long as this is the case—" Yue skillfully folded his hands on his chest. Palms together, then half kneeled down and pressed both palms on the grass.A current-like fluctuation spread around Yue's palms pressed on the ground. When the people present showed surprised expressions, a soil pillar suddenly protruded from the front of Yue, and stopped after rapidly extending for about three meters.

"You can do this kind of thing." Yue said with a sigh of relief.

"Wait...wait for me!" Fried finally recovered from his astonishment: "How can such a thing be done? How is it done? What is the principle? What is the source of energy consumption? It's not scientific!"

"This reaction...is it magic? But it doesn't look like it. What is it..." Yate, who had already been discharged from the hospital, also had a surprised expression on his face.As for May and Teresa, who were sitting next to Art as spectators, they were not so much surprised as they seemed to be watching a wonderful performance.

"Principle?" Yue recalled for a while, and then said in an uncertain tone: "It's hard for me to describe the specifics, basically relying on the 'circle' formed by the palms together is the basis of the formation. Then the object is decomposed, analyzed, and reconstructed through the cycle of power. However, in this method, an object with a mass of 1 can only be refined into something with a mass of 1, and it is impossible to turn wood into gold. gone."

"So, since there is power circulation, where does the power for circulation come from? Can any power be used? Wing energy?"

Although Yue said these things in a tone as if an ordinary experiment had succeeded, in Fried's view, this was already astonishing enough.

As the only remaining place where humans can live in this dangerous world, the operation of the city depends entirely on the wing energy exported from the city's core.Up to the outer protective cover that protects the city from the pterosaurs.Down to a street lamp on the side of the road, the use of wing energy is everywhere and is inseparable from human life.Wing suits with wing energy as the energy core are the only means for humans in this world to fight against winged beasts.

In other words, like Cang Yan before and the strange power shown just now, the impact on Freed is comparable to the discovery of the New World.

"And what you said just now was technology, that is to say, unlike that terrible blue flame, this 'technology' can also be learned by other people to some extent, right?"

"Well, theoretically speaking, it is true, but the words used by other people seem to be drawn into formations..." Recalling the images witnessed in the dream.Yue said like a teacher answering students' questions.

"Is this true?!" The most violent reaction was Yate who couldn't help standing up.

"Well, but this is not something that can be learned overnight, and there are still many things to pay attention to."

At this stage, this technology is far from reaching the level enough for practical application.Even if it was him, at best, he could only produce one or two soil pillars like the one just now.It is completely incomparable with the exaggerated refinement in the video.However, considering that he is just following the example and learning from the example, it is actually not bad to be able to achieve this level.

After rejecting Freed's offer to teach him this strange technique, Light reaches out to Freed.Freed, who had just been rejected, sighed, and then handed Yue a long package placed on the grass next to him.

"Here, this is the best wingsuit a captain can get with the flexibility of the chief of staff."

"Well, thanks."

After receiving the package, Yue unwrapped the gray cloth that wrapped the contents inside.What appeared in front of him was a pure white one-handed double-edged sword.The blade is about 1.3 meters long.Pulling the sword out of the pure white scabbard, the sharp blade revealed a sharp cold light under the sunlight.

"This sword is not cheap. Be careful when you use it. If someone accidentally breaks it, you will lose three months' salary here."

"Ah."

While answering like this.The right hand holding the sword tightened, and a blue tongue of flame sprang up.Wrapped around the blade like a snake.

"Hey--!"

Fried, who had witnessed the power of the Cang Yan with his own eyes, immediately jumped up, but what made him breathe a sigh of relief was that despite being entangled by the Cang Yan, the sword did not seem to be scrapped.

"Can you bear it?" Yue held the sword lightly, obviously it was the first time holding the sword, but the expected strangeness did not appear.It was as if he had already learned some swordsmanship somewhere.

After extinguishing the Cang Yan wrapped around the sword, Yue put the sword back into its sheath again.Then he looked at Fried who sat down again.

"These are basically the ones that are used so far. Can this level pass the preliminaries?"

"If you talk about destructive power, you can definitely pass," Fried said after thinking about it:

"However, if the preliminaries require the use of wingsuits to pass, it will probably be useless." (To be continued...)

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