Chapter 57: The Training Ground
What is Combat?
To put it simply, it's a fight, a fight between people. www.biquge.info But the battle mentioned here is not an ordinary fight, and it cannot be completely compared to a fight.
The two thugs on the street quarreled, got angry, scolded the street, and finally made a move, you give me a punch and I will give you a palm, this is a typical fight.
But such fights are often more serious if the nose is blue and the face is swollen, usually there are few fatalities, and the most that wins is to brag in front of the barmaid and earn a few more flattery. If you lose, you can only go home and wipe the wound with medicine and wine, and after a few days, you will be a good man again. There is no doubt that such a "battle" will not allow you to make the slightest progress on the path of cultivation at all.
Therefore, the battle we are talking about here refers specifically to the battle between a cultivator and other cultivators, such a battle can be a friendly competition, or a fiery competition, or it can be a fight for life and death, and the more dangerous the battle, the greater the benefit to the cultivator, because it can stimulate more potential, so as to achieve the effect of improving the realm faster.
Therefore, there are many cultivators who go to extremes and tend to wander on the edge of life and death all year round, so that they can improve their realm faster. Of course, although this can indeed improve oneself faster, its disadvantages are also obvious, once you become a loser in a certain life and death game, your martial arts will be wasted, and your life will not be guaranteed.
After becoming an official cultivator, Leo also experienced two life-and-death battles, one in the alley and the other in the square of the village of Resler, these two battles made Leo more proficient in both the mastery of holy power and soul power, and better understood how to use his power in battle.
One might ask, is that enough?
Yes, that's enough.
The division from level 1 to level 12 belongs to the small realm, and there is actually a division of the large realm above the small realm, and each major realm contains three small realms, so the twelve small realms are equal to the four major realms.
Or take Leo as an example, Leo, who has now been upgraded to the second level, belongs to the great realm of the beginner cultivator, the beginner cultivator contains the first level to the third level, and the common feature of these three levels is that they all belong to the entry level of the cultivator, so in this great realm, when you have cultivated enough strength, as long as you can master some skills and techniques to use power, promotion is a matter of course.
From this point of view, it would be a strange thing for Leo, who had experienced two life-and-death battles, if he could not use his skills to use his strength to advance to the second level.
What are the benefits of moving to Level 2 for Leo?
First of all, of course, it is stronger, and this stronger meaning contains a lot of things, the most obvious is of course that the holy power in Leo's body has not only become more, but also improved in purity. For example, in the case of healing, Leo used to need three healing techniques to dispel negative states, but now he only needs two to dispel them. Don't underestimate this gap, you must know that this gap can allow Leo to save an extra one-third of the holy power in the battle, so much holy power is often enough to affect the victory or defeat of a battle.
Secondly, Leo's perception has also improved to a certain extent. Whether it is the flow of holy power in the body, or the occasional naughty tumbling of Xiaobai in the sea of consciousness, or the sensitivity of the surrounding breath, it is stronger than before. For example, Leo now doesn't even have to look back to know that Darwin, who is standing behind him, is staring at him.
"Hey, haven't you seen a handsome guy, friend, I don't like men, thank you." Leo turned to Darwin and smiled.
Darwin looked at Leo with a blank expression.
"Okay, okay, you win." After a long while, Leo finally lost in the eye between the two of them, and shrugged his shoulders helplessly: "Playing a game of staring with a poker face is the stupidest decision of my life, let's quickly leave this small basement where many romantic stories seem to have happened, and return to the ground illuminated by the light of the Supreme God of Light." β
Ten minutes later, the Varna Cathedral drill ground.
As the supreme leader of the Church of Light in the Varna diocese, Leo's subordinates actually have ten Knights Cathars, but because his predecessor, Bishop Cunningham, was greedy for most of the money that should have been given to the Knights Cathar to purchase and maintain equipment, although the ten Knights Cathars in the Church of Varna were full, they had not had a single formal training.
Under such circumstances, this training ground has naturally been abandoned for a long time. There's a proverb that says, "It's shameful to waste." In line with this principle, Deacon Morata led a fence about one-third of the drill ground, and a dozen poultry and livestock were kept in it, making it a small farm. Pastor Lothar led the rest of the men to wield hoes and turned the other third of the area into a vegetable patch, on which many vegetables were planted for daily consumption.
Fortunately, things weren't that bad, at least after our bishop frowned and walked through the chickens and ducks, the feces and urine all over the farm, and the pesticide-smelling vegetable fields, there was still the last third of the drill ground for him to test the strength he had just improved and gained.
"Very well, let me see if there are any new spells to learn-" Leo took out Lemuel's book, stretched out his hand and kept flipping through the quaint pages: "Well, I found it, a divine skill that can be practiced by a second-level magician!" β
After being promoted to the second level, Leo found the magic he could practice in the Book of Lemuel as he wished, but what made him a little dissatisfied was that this time he could only cultivate the magic art, and the name of this magic was -
"Light Shield!" Leo let out a low cry and stretched out his hand to point at Darwin not far away, only to see a white holy power shoot out from between Leo's bodies, and immediately formed a thin shield of light on the surface of his body after touching Darwin's body, enveloping Darwin's entire body in it.
"Hey!" Leo picked up a fist-sized stone from himself and threw it at Darwin, and the stone bounced off the shield as if it had hit a thick wall, but the shield was undamaged.
"A single stone doesn't seem to mean anything, it's better thanβ" Leo rolled his eyes and found a shovel thrown on the ground. So he simply picked up the shovel, and then suddenly ran a few steps, exhaled in his throat, and threw the shovel at Darwin like a javelin: "Go! β
"Bang!" There was a sound of gold and iron intersecting, and the shovel was shot into the sky, and then fell vertically, the blade of the shovel was firmly inserted into the dirt, and the end of the shovel was still trembling slightly.
The shield was still undamaged, only the light emitted had dimmed slightly.
"Not bad." It was Darwin who spoke, only to hear the Templar Warrior say to Leo, "This divine technique should be able to withstand the full force of any beginner cultivator." β
"To be able to block a blow?" Leo was a little disappointed in his heart, but he soon realized that he was actually too demanding, if this light shield technique could completely block dozens or hundreds of attacks from any cultivator of the same level, then wouldn't he be invincible at the same level? This is obviously impossible. In fact, as a ranged spellcasting class, this light shield technique that can block the full force of a cultivator of the same level often blocks more than just a single blow.
It's to be able to save one of your lives!
So Leo was relieved, and when he looked at it, this spell was very useful!
"By the way," Darwin said suddenly, "isn't there a new soul art in that book?" The "book" in Darwin's mouth is naturally Lemere's book in Leo's hand.
Leo was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then slapped his thigh: "Yes, why didn't I think of it?" His fingers flicked the pages again quickly, and after a few minutes he finally saw what he was looking for
"Level 2 Soul Technique-Spirit Skull Technique."