I must draw my sword immediately!

Chapter 21 Magic
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Mary enjoys gambling and considers herself good at it.

The core of gambling lies in calculation.

From the moment she saw Shugus, she had already foreseen the outcome of the battle. For a professional magician who could count at least five decks of cards, this was not a difficult judgment to make.

Although I don't know why the heir to Britain is someone who isn't even a professional or a magician.

However, the abilities this guy displayed shocked even Meryl, who considered herself well-informed.

From never having ridden a horse, to mastering the skill of riding warhorses, and even elevating it to a combat technique known as "riding,"

This guy only took less than 5 minutes.

What Suya lacks is only the physical advantages that come with a profession and some common sense that everyone knows.

His combat skills, or rather, his eyesight—

Whether it was taking down two scouts, learning to ride, or traversing an army of ten thousand, it all proved that this most basic yet most difficult skill to improve...
Suya possesses the highest level of talent.

His eyes are even more powerful than the legendary Demon Eyes!

He seemed born for the battlefield, yet for the past fifteen years, his talents had been hidden by the royal family and the archmage Merlin.

Therefore,
Meryl's judgment—

As long as Suya can touch the sword, she can use the concept of the sword to enhance Suya and make up for the last shortcoming Suya lacks.

Therefore, the outcome of this battle was predetermined.

Just like this moment.

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puff!

The thief's dagger slashed at Suya's shoulder, the tip of the blade moving like needlework beneath the flesh, seemingly trying to slice through the muscle and cut the tendons.

Seeing blood spurting from the enemy's shoulder, Xiu Gus showed no sign of relief; instead, his expression subtly changed.

The next moment,
The sword swung in a wide arc, forcing Xiu Gu Si to abandon this opportunity to attack. He retreated swiftly, using a quick, flat-footed movement to create distance.

And a subtitle quietly appeared in front of Suya:
You have already mastered: Quickstep (beginner level).

Using the unusual technique he had observed from the red-haired assassin before him, he successfully avoided the blow that was supposed to strike his wrist and sever his tendons, and thus roughly mastered this combat skill.

This footwork is somewhat similar to the ninja footwork that Suya saw in movies and TV shows in her previous life.
That is, a unique way of walking quickly and nimbly on tiptoe on creaking, old, and dilapidated wooden floors without making any noise.

It has a unique visual appeal that combines techniques such as the horizontal stepping of the stock opening, the difficult wave walking, and the double breathing method.

Suya had practiced by watching videos in her previous life and had mastered several footwork techniques long ago. All she needed to do now was arrange and combine them and imitate the movements of the person in question, trying to find the feeling of connecting the various footwork techniques with her breathing.

Other than that,

Suya also knows floating feet, dog walk, fox walk, deep grass rabbit walk, eight-step cicada chasing, water walking, triangle step, nine palace step, eight trigram step, shock step, Fiore system footwork, and German master reverse footwork.
They only scratch the surface and are not experts, but they can roughly understand the principles and make simple imitations.

In other words,
Suya didn't learn on the spot like the Uchiha from Naruto, using his Sharingan to replicate the techniques one-to-one. Instead, due to his interest from his previous life, he possessed a vast and diverse collection of martial arts techniques, from which he could quickly find similar skills and combine them.

This is similar to how modern people frequently watch short videos; each person actually acquires a massive amount of fragmented knowledge due to their own interests.
What Suya can truly be called a talent is his ability to assemble these fragments at the physical level.

now,

Because of Merry's enhancement magic, her physique became so strong that it was close to the limits of human capabilities.
As a result, many techniques that Suya had replicated in the past but could not use were now able to be performed smoothly!
He used a style that resembled wild, unorthodox punching to execute various sword techniques and footwork.

Advance, thrust, turn and slam into a spinning slash, horizontal thrust, return blade horizontal parry, swift forward lunge, and sweeping slash.
"when!"

"when!"

"when!"

The blades and daggers clashed repeatedly.
When equal forces collide, sparks fly continuously in mid-air!
Due to the length of the dagger, Xiu Gu Si could only retreat and maneuver, looking for an opportunity.

He felt that the little devil in front of him was clearly wielding a sword and slashing wildly, but every slash was just right to deflect his sure-fire attack and even launch a counterattack.

This chaotic swordsmanship lacks a system, a routine, and is not a combat skill, much less possesses the strange power that a combat skill should have.

Yet it is precisely in these life-or-death battles that it works!
If it weren't for his superior agility compared to Suya, and his far greater combat experience, anyone of the same skill level would probably have been killed on the spot by Suya long ago.

He immediately realized that his two men had been defeated by such reckless swordsmanship.

however,
At this moment, having roughly understood Suya's tactics, Xiu Gusi narrowed his eyes and knew how to deal with Suya's turtle sword.

Even though every sword strike and every footwork Suya made was quite exquisite,

but,
There is ultimately a difference between martial arts skills and combat techniques!
These martial arts skills, which are no less refined than, and perhaps even more exquisite than, his combat techniques, might be suited to another method of cultivation to enhance one's own strength.

However, in this world, combat skills, as the most basic unit in the combat power system, are what enable ordinary techniques to generate powerful forces and thus produce qualitative changes!

At the same time,
Suya also realized this.
The thousands of martial arts he mastered could not be transformed into combat techniques; they could only serve as a reference to help him quickly adapt to and master the power system of this world.

Even now, what allows Suya to barely keep up with the enemy's movements is the [Swift Step] technique he has just mastered.

Combat skills and martial arts are fundamentally different. When using [Swift Step], his body becomes lighter, but when using other techniques, he does not have this special advantage.

Moreover, after Suya demonstrated his extremely fast learning speed,
The enemy, the long-haired red assassin, no longer displayed his combat skills to Suya.

He was maneuvering, pacing, waiting, and preparing for a fatal blow!
Simultaneously,

Time is not on Suya's side either.

Suya hadn't forgotten that their location had been exposed, and the assassin in front of them was just a bridgehead. If they continued to be delayed like this, their situation would become increasingly dangerous!

And at this time——

"Suya, use magic!"

"Your magic is a spirit-summoning magic based on the Third Law, a kind of magic that makes the caster invincible!" "Every head of the Pendragon family who inherits this magic is a battlefield rose who never retreats in the face of a million troops!"

Meryl's voice came from the ground.

Xiu Gus's expression turned cold. As soon as Mei Li reminded him, he stopped beating around the bush and leaped three meters high like a roc spreading its wings, his figure fading away into the air.

It swooped down on Suya like a hawk!

Suya's heart skipped a beat. He immediately turned his sword around, raised it above his head, and adopted the roof stance from German swordsmanship. He then slashed down at the enemy who was flying up like a target!
however,
Within the shadow of Xiu Gus hanging low to the ground, a blurry figure coldly stared at Suya, whose door was wide open, and revealed a sneer.

With a dagger in his mouth, he slammed his hands and feet into the ground, lunging at Suya like a venomous snake!

[Shadow Strike]!
however,
this moment--

Just as Shugus thought he had succeeded, he looked up during his attack and saw a pair of cold, emerald-green eyes staring at him.

The shadow that was clearly raising its sword to slash at the sky...

Surprisingly, Suya's eyes did not look in that direction!

As the enemy launched their attack, he keenly sensed the strangeness of their offensive based on the insight granted by his Deceitful Class.

That's right, Suya doesn't have any special skills like combat techniques.

However, Suya has four job classes—

Hyena: To prevent being crushed in a contest of strength.

The liar: This allows him to constantly observe his opponent's actions and expressions.

Counterfeit: This class seems to grant him the peculiar ability to perfectly replace others and use things that belong to others.

Therefore,
Even though it was a newly transplanted magic mark, once Suya understood what magic was, he was able to use this magic that originally belonged to someone else without any hindrance.

"path--"

"connect!"

"Material, explained!"

"The Third Method, Spirit Summoning!"

"Soul homogenization!"

"Declaration!"

Suya slightly opened her mouth, coldly staring at the enemy rushing towards her, and quickly muttered to herself:

"I am Cheng Yijian!"

"The broken body falls, leading to new life."

"The light of ideals provides guidance,"

"Arriving at the destination,"

This place is—

"A distant and independent utopia!"

The entire prayer was recited in half a second.
The moment crimson magic circuits lit up on Suya's body,
Suya threw the sword in her hand away!
He stared intently at the enemy charging towards him, took a two-meter running start, and slammed his foot into the ground.

Shift your weight to the right, bring your left foot in half a step, and bend both knees into a half-squat position, assuming a horse stance.
Bow stance, elbow strike!
Opening fire!

"boom!"

The elbow struck Xiugus's face like a heavy hammer, causing his eye socket to cave in and his nose to break!
Before Xiugus could even react,

Suya straightened up abruptly, then swung his other arm and elbowed the other man in the side of the face, knocking out two bloody back teeth.

Then,
He slammed his elbow down hard on the back of the opponent's head!
A set of Bajiquan punches left Xiugus seeing stars and temporarily rendered him unable to retaliate.

Even so, the professional's aura remained steady, the opponent's health bar was incredibly resilient, and it seemed that he would regain his senses immediately!

After losing his sword, Suya felt his body's vital signs plummeting!
Suya gritted her teeth.

He grabbed the other person's head and slammed it into the mud!
Five fingers gripped tightly against the back of the other person's head, which was beginning to struggle, as if pressing down on an elephant that might break free at any moment.
"Circuit, link!"

"Treatment, begin!"

The final barefoot doctor job training – now in effect!
Crimson magic surged, flowing wildly into Xiugus's mind along the crimson circuit that lit up on Suya's palm!
After successfully performing the magic trick
Suya has understood.

The Pendragon family's magic involves shaping their own soul into the shape of the Avalon sword sheath, thereby exploiting a loophole to link to the Ex-rank Noble Phantasm 'Distant Ideal Land,' which is the sheath of the sword of victory in the Arthurian legend. They then seize the conceptual abilities of the sheath, such as healing the wounded, stopping aging, ignoring all magical and physical attacks, and even deflecting all attacks.

The abilities of the barefoot doctor class are:
Your ability to treat external injuries has increased; however, when you treat others, there is a very high probability that you will cause irreversible and severe damage.

As the dent in Shugus's forehead from the elbow strike slowly healed, his struggles grew weaker and weaker.

I don't know what kind of major failure the treatment triggered.

at last,

Twenty seconds later, Xiu Gus stopped struggling.

he died.

And then,
Cluck, cluck, cluck!

Suya heard the sound of dice hitting the ground like a storm!
(End of this chapter)