Reincarnation with AI (Unemployment-Free)

Chapter 75 One Week Later

A week has passed in the blink of an eye.

Rudius's teaching plan also included two days off per week, or even three days off per week.

The saying goes, "Sharpening your axe won't delay your woodcutting."

Now is the time to chop wood.

Once interest is piqued, learning efficiency will increase, and the corresponding study time will decrease.

There's really no need to teach someone to do math and write every day.

Even during so-called "class" time, they mostly just play.

But after a week, Alice and Gilead were able to buy their own kebabs.

Then, you only need to maintain this behavior for a month or six months, and it will become an internalized habit, and the calculation process will be automated without you even realizing it.

Rudius had planned to go home during the weekend, but then thought it was too hasty and decided to wait until next week.

Regarding sword sparring, Rudeus restarted his training in magical perception.

Rudeus's ability to project his magic outwards has now become a habit.

However, after sparring with Alice, he increased his output.

Looking back, my magical perception was useless when I was learning swordsmanship from Paul; even if I sensed it, I couldn't stop it.

The situation was different with Alice. Rudeus gradually began to correlate her movements with the surrounding air currents, and his magical perception brought about a de facto sixth sense.

During the battle, Rudeus began to feel like a bird, stretching out countless feathers in all directions.

When Alice makes a feint, Rudius can not only see it, but also sense the change in airflow.

In terms of the sense of touch of human body hair, it is actually possible to detect it, but this detection comes too late.

Usually, a fraction of a second before being hit, the tactile sensation detected by the pores of the skin transforms into an electric current that surges into the brain, telling the brain, "I'm about to be hit, get some adrenaline!"

Magic perception is essentially an elongated version of body hair.

But distance is life.

In sword fighting, how early you can sense your opponent's movements directly determines whether you get hit or counterattack.

In close combat, signals detected by magical perception are almost indistinguishable from those seen with the naked eye.

This means a lot.

First of all, Rudius can now free his eyes a bit.

During a fight, you need to observe not only your opponent's hands, feet, shoulders, and hips, but also where their eyes are looking.

Every physical movement contains information, which is the origin of feints.

No matter how many feints there are, people's eyes are always watching everything.

This is the most important organ for humans in combat, and almost the only useful of the five senses.

You can't just focus on the hands or the feet; you have to "see the whole person" during a fight.

So eyes are hard to lie about, at least not to Rudeus and Alice who are still learning swordsmanship.

If Alice discovers that Rudeus is staring at her hand, it would be tantamount to Rudeus revealing a weakness.

The liberation of vision meant that Rudius could deceive people with his eyes.

I can stare at your feet while hitting your hands, stare at your shoulders while sweeping towards your hips.

Another issue concerns blind spots.

Since vision is the most important of the five senses in combat.

So-called swordsmanship naturally involves a lot of visual manipulation.

Rudeus's Flash Magic against the Sword God style is essentially a manipulation of vision.

In life-or-death struggles, vision is the sole basis for distance perception and defensive responses.

Once this basis is stripped away, whether for a moment or completely lost, the outcome is already decided.

In actual swordsmanship, using vision to engage in tactical maneuvering is one of the most advanced techniques.

This is a complete suppression of perception, reaction time, and spatial control.

You can either block the other person's view with your hand, use your footwork to take advantage of the brief blind spot created by the other person's arm, or simply go around behind them to completely avoid their line of sight.

Just like Alice's favorite high-level, powerful slash, during the slash, her arm will inevitably obscure her vision for a brief period of time.

Looking back now, Rudeus can still recall seeing it in his previous life: holding his sword horizontally in front of his opponent.

Alternatively, by using a wide-ranging sword wrapping motion, one can force the opponent's attention to focus on the sword tip or guard that is within arm's reach, thus creating a "blind spot" in the battle.

Paul gave Rudius a lesson when Rudius was just learning swordsmanship.

As a reincarnated person, a modern person, Rudeus was still very afraid at that time.

Paul's sword was constantly pointed at his face or eyes.

For Rudyus, this was not only a threat, but also a visual distraction.

While Rudeus's attention was firmly fixed on the sword tip, Paul sneaked up on Rudeus and kicked him in the butt.

By the time Rudius realized that Paul's sword tip was just a decoy, he had already been kicked to the ground.

Rudius was completely outmaneuvered.

Seeing Paul laughing heartily, Rudius decided that he would definitely repay him properly in the future.

Thus began the final battle before their parting.

Paul was steamed and turned into a giant red shrimp.

After seeing through the flash magic, Alice used a flanking maneuver.

After all, when Rudyus adopts a sideways stance with one hand in front and the other holding the sword behind, he is at risk of being flanked.

He doesn't even need to flank, because he's in a side position. To see his opponent, Rudius has to turn his head. If the opponent slashes at him, he can switch to a two-handed grip, but his own arms will block his view.

This is why Rudeus was able to entice the Sword God style swordsman.

Because no matter how you look at it, that action looks like that of an idiot.

Holding the knife with both hands, facing the opponent head-on, and protecting your center line is the safest stance.

Narudius wasn't stupid either; having adopted this stance, he naturally had a backup plan.

With the aid of his sixth sense, Rudius discovered that these methods were gradually losing their effectiveness against him.

After adopting the same sideways stance, Alice immediately chose to flank from behind.

Rudeus feigned panic, but actually laughed once Alice couldn't see his expression.

After his sixth sense, though not entirely accurate, pinpointed the direction of Alice's attack.

Rudius crouched down and swept her down with a back kick —

Alice was completely bewildered by all of this.

Rudeus looked at the bewildered Alice and wished he could use battle aura too—I should be a swordsman!

If Rudeus could use his fighting spirit and possessed magical perception, he would already be qualified to stand at the pinnacle.

At least we've seen a direction to move forward.

This is the first time Rudius has won against Alice.

After all, Alice is superior to Rudeus in both physical strength and skill.

Technically, it's possible to catch up, but for seven or eight-year-old children, the two-year age gap is like an insurmountable chasm in terms of physical strength.

Rudeus can only extend the magic he casts on his legs, his arms, and his sword.

Make each raising of the sword easier, and each swing heavier.

Rudeus picked up a discarded byproduct from his research into flight magic.

Anyway, there's not much magic I need to research lately—so you'll do.

In each sparring session, Kyrie Irving was always the first to notice something amiss with Rudeus's movements, and when he sensed something was wrong, he would lift his blindfold and use his magical eye to observe Rudeus.

Over time.

Magic energy gradually began to gather on Rudeus's arms, and the dark magic area on his legs began to rise, eventually covering his entire body.

Rudeus ran even faster, the concentration of magic on his body shifting back and forth as if being pushed from side to side.

Rudeus transformed into a "little demon" whose entire body, except for his head, was enveloped in magic.

Gilead didn't say much about this, nor could he offer any suitable guidance.

Therefore, he bluntly told Rudeus, "I'm sorry, I don't know much about magic. You'll have to figure it out yourself."

"I see," Rudeus replied, scratching his head.

Using magic is equivalent to using external force to assist one's movement.

Like the sixth sense, it is something that is not within the scope of swordsmanship discussion.

Simply put, these things are cheat codes.

This is something only a Northern God Swordsman would consider.

Only swordsmen of the Northern God School would carry various potions, mechanisms, and even powders, much like thieves.

Those guys from the Northern Divine Stream must have figured this out a long time ago.

When it comes to blocking your view, what's better than a handful of lime?

Rudeus's advantage lies in his ability to cast spells without incantation. It can be said that even if he follows the Northern God style, only the Dragon God can teach him.

After excluding those who are not human.

No swordsman present could teach Rudeus how to integrate uncastable magic into his swordsmanship; he could only create his own style, and how far he went depended entirely on his own destiny.

"What are you two talking about?!" Alice, who had overheard their conversation, crossed her arms and shouted, "I don't understand!"

The girl's high-pitched voice made Rudius squint.

"We're talking about magic," Rudeus explained.

"Didn't Gilead just use the word 'magic'?" Rudeus sighed, rubbing his forehead.

"But I don't understand! Explain it to me!" Alice commanded.

Rudeus carefully considered his words, tilting his head to look at Alice.

People will definitely not understand if you just talk about it.

The only thing we can do is let Alice experience the feeling of magic firsthand.

Rudeus reached out to Alice—now that's it, he was planning to "trick" Alice after he had practiced more, but now he can't do it, the information has been leaked.

As the magic was activated, Alice felt her body begin to feel heavy, as if something was pressing down on her.

"What is this?!" Alice looked back and forth between her shoulders in surprise, then raised her heavy arm and asked, "Is this magic?"

"Yes," Rudius replied affirmatively.

By now, Rudeus has discovered that flight magic is simply low-level gravity magic.

If it can make people float, it can also make them sink.

It's just the casting process.

When the target of the spell is oneself, there is no problem because the relative position of the magic and the body is actually fixed.

However, it is not very useful when facing enemies.

The enemy won't just stand still and let you suppress them.

It was because Alice stood still that Rudeus was able to suppress her with magic so easily.

This is also why Rudius is still practicing and hasn't used it to trick Alice.

By revealing unfamiliar moves in advance, Alice was given time to prepare.

Kyrie Irvine lifted his blindfold again and looked at Alice as he explained, "That's how Rudeus made his sword heavier."

"What!" Alice exclaimed in surprise.

She couldn’t seem to reconcile the weight pressing down on her with Rudius’s increasingly heavy wooden sword.

Did Kyrie Irvine make the same judgment because he saw the same magical reaction?

Rudeus withdrew his magic, wondering if he could find a teacher from the Northern God School.

Rudius didn't want to learn the Northern God Style; he just wanted to make some kind of medicinal powder.

After a brief moment of surprise, Alice picked up the wooden sword, assumed a fighting stance, and said to Rudeus, "Use that magic on me too!"

"What magic?" Rudeus didn't react for a moment.

"It's the magic you're using!"

"I'm using it?" Rudeus glanced at Alice's posture again, finally understanding, and replied, "Is that so?"

Raising his hand that he had just put down, Rudeus released his magic again, pushing Alice to raise her arms and assume an upper stance.

After assuming the stance, he pushed Alice down to slash, completing a full set of sword-wielding movements.

"Wow!!! That's amazing!" Alice exclaimed excitedly. "This is so incredible!"

"Gilead! Look, my sword swings are much faster now!"

"Hmm—" Kyrie Irving's slightly doubtful voice rang out.

It seems somewhat impossible to judge the current situation and whether it is necessary to stop it.

Rudeus controlled the magic to play with the young lady, but his mind wandered in the direction of the powder he had just used.

The essence of flight magic is air pressure difference.

It can be simply understood as the presence of a high-pressure air mass assisting in the movement during exercise.

Since it's a high-pressure gas cloud, if Rudeus suddenly releases the magical restraints, the gas cloud will explode.

If you control the opening, air will blow in the corresponding direction.

However, whether it explodes or blows air, at Rudeus's current level, he cannot harm the opponent without accumulating magic power.

And since there's no need to use this magic to accumulate magic power anymore.

In terms of directly causing injury, it's practically useless.

But things would be different if there were medicine powder; Rudius had a clever idea.

The powder itself is meant to be thrown out.

High-pressure air masses, or spells that don't require chanting, can reduce Rudeus's tactical movement during battle by one less throwing motion.

There's no need to fling the object; just keep some powder between your fingers when you hold the sword.

Then, at the appropriate time, separate your fingers and let the air mass blow the powder toward the enemy.

For example, when two people are exchanging blows and pass each other, that's a great opportunity, isn't it?

"Rudeus!" Alice, finally tired of playing, called out to Rudeus.

"What's wrong?" Rudeus asked, puzzled.

"Will you teach Kyrie Illya this magic?" Alice asked hesitantly.

"Hmm?" Rudeus looked at Alice in surprise—was the fish taking the bait a little too quickly?

Noticing that Alice was somewhat annoyed by his gaze, Rudeus quickly said, "Of course, but to cast this spell, you must first learn incantation-free magic."

"Hmph!" Alice turned her head to the side, feigning disdain, and said, "Is that so!"

He spoke the question in an affirmative tone.

"Tsundere is outdated," Rudeus thought to himself.

"Yes, Miss Alice," Rudeus replied affirmatively.

However, he did not ask Alice if she had any plans to learn magic.

Just invite her to learn together when the time comes, and she probably won't refuse if you invite her a few more times.