Blue Sword

Following the underground passage, Aske came to the Red Team training ground.

Pushing open the door, he saw the gladiators training scattered in the corner. Some practiced slashing with swords, some practiced thrusting with spears, some held shields to defend themselves against the attacks of their companions, and some used sandbags to beat around their bodies, revealing their strong, copper-skinned muscles.

Ask picked up a piece of ring-iron plate armor from the nearby shelf and put it on, then put on iron boots and an iron helmet, and then took down a two-handed sword from the weapon rack.

Then all the gladiators in the room turned their attention.

"Hey, chicken!" A muscular man came over. This is a strong man about 1.85 meters tall. He is shirtless, showing his well-developed chest muscles and eight-pack abs. "This is not the place you should come! Go back to your mother's place to drink milk!"

"I am a newly registered red gladiator." Ask said calmly.

"What's your name? Our red gladiators are full! Sadric, Sadric!" The strong man yelled immediately.

"What's the fuss about?" About half a minute later, the middle-aged man who was at the counter ran over quickly, "Theotis! Your red gladiators are full, and you will be participating in the gladiatorial fight in half an hour. It's not too soon. Take your people to training to warm up?”

"My brother is on leave, how can the red team participate in the gladiatorial fight!" Theotis fired back angrily, "Also, what's going on with this new chicken?"

"There is no such thing as asking for leave in our arena. It is clearly written in the employment contract." The receptionist Sadric crossed his arms and said coldly, "Since he won't come today, just wait for the team to be vacant next time! Or participate Single combat is also possible.”

"That's my biological brother!" Theotis' eyes widened with anger, showing a violent expression that almost wanted to devour others. "How dare you, how dare you drive him out of my team!"

"It's useless even if it's your grandfather! If your brother takes a year off, won't your red team participate in the gladiatorial game for a whole year?" Sadric said with a sneer, looking at Asik, "Also, if you let me know that you are secretly Beat or kill this new teammate, and you know what will happen to you. Every inch of this place is covered by surveillance cameras."

He closed the door and left. Theotis looked at Asik who looked indifferent, and the muscles in his face almost spasmed with rage. It took more than ten seconds for his anger to turn into cruel and vicious hatred, and the way he looked at Asik became like looking at a dead person.

"Go back to training!" He turned around and said coldly to everyone. In this place full of cameras, Theotis still did not dare to commit murder on the spot.

So the other gladiators also returned to their original positions. They did not dare to offend the angry Theotis, and they had no interest in Asker, a newcomer who was bound to die. For a moment, the sound of the clash of swords and the muffled sound of hitting flesh echoed throughout the room.

Asker waved the giant sword with both hands, became familiar with the use of this weapon, and made some calculations in his mind.

The next potion for the "Weapon Master" is "Sharp Weapon I", which allows him to become familiar with the use of all sharp weapons and to know the data attributes of any sharp weapon. If I remember correctly, the "one-day champion" of this arena can choose the "Sharp Weapon I" potion as a reward.

For example, if Asker is taking "Sharp Weapon I" now, even if he has never used a two-handed sword before, as soon as he picks up this weapon, he will know that its length is about 170 cm and its weight is 4 About kilograms, as well as where its center of gravity is, how to hold it, and how to slash or stab when facing the enemy.

Of course, being automatically familiar with how to use it is not the same as mastery. Just because you can use PS doesn't mean you can be a good graphic designer.

It is enough to rely on the extraordinary ability of "Sharp Weapon I" to become a swordsman, but to become a "skilled" swordsman is just a fantasy. The experience of fighting between life and death is absolutely impossible to obtain without killing someone on the battlefield.

Because of this, almost all of the magic potion formulas such as "Sharp Weapon I", "Blunt Weapon I", "Projection I", "Block I", and "Evasion I" owned by the Arena have become garbage that no one cares about. .

They can neither greatly enhance the physique of a transcendent like the cornerstone sequence or the bloodline sequence, nor can they give the transcendent strange or powerful killing abilities like the spirit sequence or arcane sequence.

The only function is to help you master the basic combat experience in a certain field, and it is only "mastery" rather than "mastery". It also occupies one of your extraordinary characteristics, which will conflict with other potions of different sequences, causing you to change. There is no other bloodline path...

Therefore, in the early stages of the game, whenever a newbie mistakenly takes the magic potion in the gladiatorial sequence and comes to the forum to ask what bloodline corresponds to it, a large number of players will reply below:

"Congratulations, your account is invalid."

"Achievement: You discovered the malicious intent of the game designer."

"Honey, come out and watch as your account is deleted."

Later, it turned into ridicule and abuse of the game design team, especially the Iron and Fire balance team.

As we all know, "Iron and Fire" has always wanted to transform from a multiplayer RPG online game to a career-balanced e-sports game, so similar calls from the masses soon reached the ears of the game's top executives.

So in the next few versions, the gladiatorial sequence began to be continuously enhanced, such as weapon data visualization, etc., but players did not buy it every time.

In the sixth expansion pack, the bloodline "Weapon Master" was added. As a result, players nicknamed it "Acrobatic Master", which even caused the head of the design team to quarrel with players on the official forum.

Then the seventh expansion pack introduced the game elements of "Ethereal_Blade_Art" and added a new extraordinary swordsmanship called "Nine Styles of Stars" from the Kingdom of Dragon in the Far East.

As a result, the weapon master bloodline and the gladiatorial sequence magic potion immediately jumped onto the branches and transformed into phoenixes, and the popularity of the game began to expand rapidly.

In the words of the player forum, before you learn "Nine Star Styles", the Weapon Master you play is the Dark Souls series; after learning the "Nine Star Styles", the Weapon Master you play becomes the Assassin's Creed series.

Within two months of the first opening of the new version, even 30% of novice accounts chose the Weapon Master bloodline. As a result, the balance team quickly weakened the "Nine Star Styles", mainly to greatly increase the threshold for learning this swordsmanship...

In the end, Weapon Master became a professional bloodline that was easy to play but not easy to master. Whether or not one could learn the "Nine Styles of the Stars" became the watershed between professional players and master players.

As for whether he can master the "Nine Star Styles"... Apart from himself, Asker really can't remember any professional player who can master the "Nine Star Styles", because this extraordinary swordsmanship requires a lot of practice, experience and intuition.

He continued to swing the two-handed sword a few times, then found a futon and closed his eyes to meditate.

While using his great sword to angrily manipulate his shield opponent, Theotis glanced at Asik from the corner of his eye and showed an undisguised sneer.

This newcomer is also equipped with a giant sword. To be precise, it is a classic great sword (great_sword) cast in the city-state of Milan. The characteristics of the sword body are heavy, thick, and long. The trick to using it is just one word: reckless.

However, what follows is not a single-player fight, but a team fight. In single-player battles, you can also rely on weapons to kill your opponents. In multi-player battles, the emphasis is often on the word "gou".

Equipping this kind of giant sword with its own wind-drawing properties is tantamount to telling your opponent, "Hurry up and kill me, or I will kill you with the giant sword." In team battles, you are always the first to be attacked.

Theotis dared to use the giant sword because he had an entire team to cover and cooperate for him. What does this new chick have?

When he gets to the arena later, he directly orders his team to isolate him. Will the opposite blue team come over to fight with his team? Or should we attack this isolated chicken first? No need to think about it.

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"Holy shit, there are so many!" In Asker's ancestral home, Killian saw the extraordinary attributes arranged in a row on the desk, and he immediately blurted out even the slang of his hometown.

He really wanted to ask you if you had removed the branch of Dream Paradise, but he finally held back and didn't ask. Nora laughed at the side and didn't explain much.

So this is the advantage of the enrollment system! Killian sighed, if the School of Life was still an apprenticeship, then the apprentice would always be with the master, doing things for the master in exchange for potion formulas and materials, and would not have time to go out and take risks.

Naturally, such an adventure of harvesting more than twenty extraordinary characteristics at once would never happen.

If the apprenticeship system is like fishing, then the enrollment system is like casting a net. In the time it takes to catch one fish, you can cast the net many times. Maybe this time you will catch only small fish, and maybe the next net will be full.

After briefly discussing the price with Nora, Killian readily bought all the level 1 and level 4 extraordinary characteristics at unit prices of 100 pounds and 1,200 pounds, including the level I formulas of dreams, shadows, and souls. The price of 120 pounds per sheet was copied and accepted.

For a sect, there are never too many low-level recipes from other sequences. As a result, the Cang Qing Sword Mercenary Group's fund instantly received 7,760 pounds.

"Get rich!" After Killian left, the girls looked at the bank account numbers on their mobile phone screens, with only one thought in their minds.

"I thought of something, everyone." Nora suddenly said seriously, "Peggy? I heard that the burned house next door was your original home, right?"

"Yes." Paige responded lightly, with a sad look in her eyes. Since there is no "living" immediate family member who can inherit this homestead, the house and land where she grew up have been taken over by the Constantinople city government and put up for auction.

"I plan to buy this land," Nora said, "and then convert it into a warehouse."

"Warehouse, you mean..." Medea immediately understood what she meant.

"Yes." Nora said, "Next, we will buy a large amount of building materials and transport them to the warehouse next door for storage. Then every night, we will secretly send the building materials in the warehouse to the furnace in the demiplane. Go to the island.”

Hearth Island is what the girls call the island in the sealed demiplane fragment in the book "Absurd Dreams".

Throughout the morning when Ask was away, they wandered into the demiplane for a few hours. When you look down from the top of the mountain, you can see that the southern coastline of the entire island is relatively rounded, while the northern coast has three irregular raised promontories, which are like the shape of a stove, so it is called Furnace Island.

"Then, we build our own house?" Eleanor said in surprise, "This is a great idea, Nora! But we don't have civil engineers and construction workers, so the house can't be built on piles of building materials."

"Have you forgotten what my major is?" Nora smiled proudly, "Military nuns have civil engineering courses as undergraduates. As for the construction workers, of course we all work together! After all, we are all extraordinary people. You should still have some physical strength."