Jobless Reincarnation: Sword, Magic Hat and Romance System

Chapter 43 Tell me, what is enlightenment?

Allen listened to Paul's reply and remained silent, only stroking the hilt of his knife repeatedly.

Paul, however, had a look of disdain for a troubled youth, and squinted at Allen as he spoke softly.

"And I think if this question were put in Philip's hands, he would make the same choice as me."

These words pulled Allen out of his somewhat touched mood. He glanced at Paul and then realized why the other man hadn't gotten angry when he asked the question, but instead had explained it to him in a gentle voice.

"So all that buildup, and the final sentence was just waiting for us?"

"You can't judge others by your own standards, Paul. You're a good father yourself, but that doesn't mean everyone is."

"The real reason I'm not close to Philip is because I'm a time traveler, not because of any childhood trauma or being alone, as you might think. I adapted to that in my previous life, so forget about rebuilding family ties in another world."

Paul scratched his head, noticing Allen's nonchalant expression. He thought he had done his best to help Philip, but Allen didn't seem to appreciate it.

From a distance, Loki noticed Allen's departure. During the brief moment when Hilfi was casting her magic, she turned her head and glanced at Allen with an inquiring expression.

Allen smiled, indicating that everything was alright.

"Hey! Sylphie, where are you looking?! Your fireball is burning my hair!"

"I'm so sorry! I spaced out!"

He turned his gaze to the flustered Silphie, his eyes softening.

"Teacher? Teacher?"

"Ah...sorry, Rudy, I was spacing out..."

Then Paul's somewhat hesitant words continued to reach his ears.

"Allen, you should know that Philip had no choice in the matter. This is a tradition of the Boreas family. If you had grown up around him, you would have understood his character."

Allen glanced at Paul with a smile.

"Paul, who values ​​family, certainly speaks well of Philip… However, Philip's ambition to seize power in the capital has never waned. In the original story, during his tutoring period, after seeing Rudy's remarkable magical talent, he even used his daughter as leverage to lure Rudy into marrying into the family. Unless he can one day willingly relinquish his obsession with power, he won't focus his attention on so-called family ties until then."

"And this isn't just his problem; the pursuit of desire is ingrained in the very instincts of the entire Boreas family."

"Shoros had a deep-seated sense of responsibility for his territory. After the Great Migration, disregarding the wishes of his descendants, he was willing to give up all his wealth to rebuild his land."

"Iris is obsessed with becoming stronger in order to protect Rudy. On her first night with Rudy, she left him a letter and went to the illiterate sanctuary for arduous training, even managing to maintain a distance of several years without contact."

"And I am here"

The veins on Allen's hand, gripping the knife hilt tightly, bulged.

This stems from a deep-seated pursuit of power within one's bloodline and heart, completely different from before the transmigration.

Allen turned to look at Paul.

"I have a question about swordsmanship that I would like to ask my uncle."

Paul seemed a little confused by Allen's logic. How did they go from talking about death to suddenly asking for swordsmanship advice?

He blinked.

"Huh? Uh, is it still the Sword God style? If it is, I don't have anything better to teach you."

"No, it's the Water God Flow."

Paul's face stiffened, and he pointed to his own face with his index finger, speaking in astonishment.

"Water God Style? Me? Don't I look like Leda? Your Water God Style skills are clearly much higher than mine, okay?"

Allen shook his head.

"I need the sparks that ignite from clashes between vastly different fighting styles to spark my inspiration and epiphanies. As you know, creating one's own unique techniques requires constantly building one's own fighting methods and theories."

"The underlying logic of becoming stronger in a jobless world lies in talent and comprehension. Whether it's Orsteed, the son of the Dragon God born in Rome, or Rudy, who possesses the Laplace Factor, any master has at least one of these advantages: talent or comprehension. I've already obtained the Dragon Saint's Battle Aura in terms of talent, so naturally, I should use this advantage to continuously pursue enlightenment and refine my own combat theory. I can't be like Kyrie Irie, who relied on intuition to fight during his adventurer days, lingering at the Sword Saint level for many years before finally realizing the need to refine his combat theory and taking that first step to become the Sword King."

"Speaking of enlightenment, I suddenly thought of that bastard Kino. He really did have an epiphany after sleeping with his wife, and in just one or two years, he used his Sword King status to shatter his father-in-law's Dao heart, who was a Sword God. Before he died, the latter even had brain damage and used the Water God Style to slash at Alice, which shows he was completely out of his mind."

Paul tilted his head and looked at Allen, who seemed lost in thought, a rather interested expression on his face.

"I see."

As soon as he finished speaking, he drew his sword and looked at Allen with excitement.

"Enlightenment requires constant practice, right? How about I witness your self-created secret technique?"

"Paul, you really understand."

"Although I can have an epiphany without being hit, since the master is a person of intuition, then maybe 'hitting' would be more effective, just like yesterday morning."

As Allen spoke, he slowly drew the blade from his side.

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After Allen and Paul stood apart in the courtyard, Senis Rudy and the others immediately stopped testing Sylphie's magic power and formed a circle around the two to watch.

Feeling somewhat dazed by the tense atmosphere between the two, Luo Qixi covered her mouth with her hand and secretly asked Rudy beside her.

"I heard you talking about your fight with Allen this morning, but I didn't quite grasp it yet. How could he actually go toe-to-toe with Master Paul? I remember Master Paul was at an advanced level in both the Sword God Style and the Northern God Style. Allen..."

Rudy looked at the two of them, his youthful face showing a somewhat serious expression.

"Although I don't want to say anything that would diminish Father's prestige, Eren is indeed very strong, really very strong. You must have heard quite a bit about him at the debriefing meeting this morning, right?"

Luo Qixi nodded, her blue hair swaying in the air.

"To be honest, it's because I value this competition quite a bit... um."

Rudy glanced at Loki as he spoke, then continued.

"So I conducted a thorough investigation of Allen over two months, and developed detailed and targeted tactics based on almost all of his abilities. But even so, he still won against me twice in the contest, and both times it was because he used swordsmanship techniques that I had never seen before, which caught me completely off guard and caused me to lose."

Luo Qixi recalled the high-speed slash Allen used two months ago when he dismembered the monster into eight pieces, and nodded in agreement.

"He can indeed use some swordsmanship techniques that are completely out of character for his age, and even in all my years as an adventurer, this is the first time I've ever seen a swordsman use that move."

Rudy nodded.

"The first failure was due to Hokushin-ryu's throwing technique, which I had never seen him use before. As a result, I didn't control the distance between us well, and he accidentally got close enough to be within range of my throw that could kill me."

"Um, I heard you guys mention that this morning too. What about the second time?"

"The second time was the techniques of the Water God Style and the Sword God Style. Damn, how many tricks is this guy hiding? How come every style has buried techniques I've never seen before? The second time, I used a wide-range mixed magic to trap him in place and stop his high-speed movement. He first used a Water God Style self-created secret technique to block all my magic, and then used it as a 'jumping platform' to get him out of the quagmire."

"Even so, I had anticipated that he might find a way to escape, so I used a combination of geothermal mud and ice created with an ice gun to create a large-scale 'fog' to deceive his senses."

Upon hearing this, Luo Qixi was already drenched in sweat. She had never even heard of this mixed magic called dense fog before, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "Is this the world of geniuses?"

"I thought I was fully prepared, but things still went wrong. I didn't take Allen's Silent Blade into account. As a result, the moment I released the Ice Lance magic, the thick fog was dispersed by the ice lance, revealing my position. He used the prepared 'jumping platform' as a foothold and seized this fleeting opportunity, so I lost again."

Luo Qixi asked in confusion.

"Oh? You didn't take into account his ability to wield a silent katana when you were preparing?"

Rudy looked at Allen in the yard, who was warming up by drawing his sword and striking various poses, and shook his head.

"I considered it, but I didn't expect him to be so fast, almost faster than Father Bao. You don't know, he's actually not very good at the Sword God Style, so he's been asking Father for advice for the past two months. And on the morning of the competition, I confirmed that he couldn't comprehend the Silent Katana."

Luo Qixi raised her eyebrows and said.

"How could that be?"

Rudy rubbed his face, slightly discouraged, and truly felt that even though he could perform magic without chanting and was praised by Loki every day, he still couldn't compare to Allen's genius.

"That's the problem, teacher. He really hadn't grasped the essence of the Sword God Style before I left, but I heard my father say afterwards that he had given Allen some pointers on how to swing the sword that morning, how to capture the 'feeling' of the Silent Katana, and then just one experimental swing."

Rudy turned to look at Loki.

"He learned it."

The book title was changed, and I'm happy now.

The main problem is that it doesn't attract enough users, so the smart push is making a last-ditch effort before it even starts.

(End of this chapter)