Chapter 20: The Immortal Phantom Sword
"Lost?"
"What's going on?"
"Even if Alexander's corpse is limited to Lv.5 by the Demon Tide level, it is still Lv.5 of Meteor Shower."
"As far as your spirituality is concerned, you can burn everything with impunity, how can the Night's Watch resist?"
"Tsk, miscalculated."
"Encountered a piercing enemy."
"Demigods?"
"No, it's not a demigod, it's just that his swordsmanship is weird."
"Extraordinary swordsmanship that has never been seen before."
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The car is driving on the E90 line.
This time, it was the novice driver, Peggy, who carefully controlled the steering wheel, while Eleanor sat in the passenger seat, keeping an eye on the road ahead and the driving situation for her.
The highway of this world is probably the most coveted drag racing road for all novice drivers. The pavement is basically built in the third and fourth periods, and the standard Solomonic four-lane or six-lane road is not spacious.
After the great turmoil of the Fifth Age, the scientific and technological civilization has suffered a great blow, and now the civilian families in various countries basically have no cars, and the nobles who have a little money prefer to fly, so that there are not many vehicles on the roads around the country, and they are empty.
"I feel like you've changed a little." Eleanor said suddenly.
"Why?" Peggy asked.
"Do you remember the last time you drove?" Eleanor said with a smile, "The shoulders and neck are arched, the waist and back are straight, and the whole person is so nervous." ”
"It's a bit of an old driver now."
"Oh." Peggy said quietly, "Maybe I drove too much." ”
She looked ahead, was silent for a long time, and asked:
"Eleanor, do you know Alexander the Great?"
"Yes!" Eleanor immediately sat up straight, "Ah, he's one of the three classical military strategists I admire the most." ”
"Three military strategists?"
"The first is Hannibal, the commander of ancient Carthage. Defeated the rising Solomon Republic twice in a row, and finally failed in the third dismal defeat. "And his death brought about the end of the entire Second Age." ”
"The second Caesar, Solomon the Great, led his troops to pacify Gaul and Iberia, and later defeated Pompey in the civil war, finally holding the entire Solomonic state in his hands, proclaiming the collapse of the republic and the birth of the dictatorship, and drawing an end to the Third Age."
"The subsequent Quaternary period is basically a monarchy."
"You haven't talked about Alexandria yet." Peggy reminded her.
"Of course, I was about to say that." Eleanor cleared her throat and said, "Both Caesar and Hannibal admit to being influenced by Alexander in their military thinking. ”
"Alexander the Great was a figure of the Middle Second Age, the king of ancient Macedonia, and a peerless figure of genius."
"He quelled the civil strife of Ciris, and then conquered the East, Asia Minor, Syria all the way to the plains of Mesopotamia."
"He also brought the Cyris civilization to all directions, setting a precedent of first using military conquest and then civilizational assimilation of other countries......"
"Who is Alexander's father?" Peggy interrupted her rambling.
"I remember, it seems to be called Philip II." Eleanor pondered, "This is also a powerful man, who was the first to defeat the Cyrius coalition, unify the entire Syrius Peninsula, and lay a sufficient foundation for Alexander's conquest of the East. ”
"How did he die?" Peggy asked.
"Uh......," said Eleanor, uncertainly, "seems to have been assassinated at his daughter's wedding, and the murderer was a Macedonian nobleman." ”
The reason for the assassination is not clear, but some say that Alexander's mother, Olympias, instigated the murder of her husband's little wife and all his children immediately after the death of King Philip. Historians believe that this is an obvious act of sealing. ”
"Alexander the Great himself declared that this was a conspiracy of the Illanians of the East, for they feared that Macedonia would conquer them, and King Philip was a staunch warlord."
Eleanor affirmed, "I believe that statement more." With Alexander the Great's arrogant character, if the assassination was really committed by his mother, he would never have done anything to frame the Illanians, even if he pinched his nose and refused to admit it. ”
"I see, Eleanor." Peggy whispered, "Thank you." ”
"What's wrong with you?" Eleanor looked at her suspiciously, and laughed a little strangely, "You seem to have something on your mind, little Peggy?" ”
"It's fine." Peggy shook her head, thought quietly for a moment, and then continued to ask:
"Eleanor, is the Phantom Sword a very powerful swordsmanship?"
"The Phantom Sword is one of the three transcendent swordsmanship." Eleanor thought for a moment and added, "If you count Asker's Star Nine Styles, then there are four extraordinary swordsmanship in this world. ”
"The so-called transcendent swordsmanship is a swordsmanship that incorporates certain laws, and the swordsmanship itself has its own extraordinary power, which can achieve effects that cannot be achieved by ordinary swordsmanship."
"Alexander the Great's Phantom Sword, as well as the Immortal Phantom Sword that was later improved by Hannibal, can create multiple kills in a short period of time by separating phantoms, and is a famous battle formation swordsmanship with one enemy and many enemies."
"You also saw when you fought the Black Knight before, the phantom sword can easily reverse the numerical disadvantage of one-to-many, although the phantom's defense is very low, but the attack power and attack means and body are exactly the same."
"The other two transcendent swordsmanship, one is the 'Holy Sword' of Charlemagne and the Twelve Holy Knights, which are also very powerful battle array swordsmanship, which is said to be indestructible."
"The other is King Arthur's chief knight of the Round Table, Lancelot's 'Sword in the Lake', which is a mysterious assassination sword."
"Legend has it that the Nymph of the Lake gave the Sword of the Lake Excaliber to King Arthur, but taught the Sword of the Lake to Lancelot, because she expected the inevitable rupture between the two men in the future."
"Stop, stop!" Peggy interrupted Eleanor's storytelling, "Why haven't I heard of these swordsmanship?" ”
"Because they've long since been lost." Eleanor lamented, "If you pay attention to military history, you will know the revered position of transcendent swordsmanship in history. ”
"Every user of the transcendent sword technique has single-handedly reversed the disparity in countless wars throughout history, and has changed history even more frequently than the intervention of demigods, after all, the latter will be restricted by the level of the Demon Tide."
"There is a saying that the reason why the transcendent swordsmanship was designed is to allow the lower rank to challenge the upper rank, so that non-demigods can also have the power to fight in the face of demigods."
"In that case, why are they lost?" Peggy asked.
"Because transcendent swordsmanship is inconvenient to record in writing." Eleanor explained, "The essence of transcendent swordsmanship lies in the laws within, and the laws are bound to be distorted in any language, so it is difficult for every professor of transcendent swordsmanship to pass on through pure oral or written writing. ”
"For example, the essence of transcendent swordsmanship is A, and when you try to describe it, what is described becomes B, and what the other person understands after listening is C."
"Because of the huge gap between A and C, it is difficult for learners to understand the essence of transcendent swordsmanship through words or words. For example, Asker's Nine Styles of Stars, even if he is willing to teach you unreservedly, you can't understand it, and you can't understand it if you do. ”
"There is a saying that while you are trying to understand transcendent swordsmanship, it is also trying to understand you. If the two sides can't connect and agree with each other, then they can't learn. ”
Peggy fell silent.
When she was learning the Nine Styles of the Stars, there was indeed a situation where she couldn't learn it no matter how she learned it.
In this way, it seems that it can be interpreted as "incompatibility", according to Eleanor.
However, the immortal phantom sword in his mind did not have any obstacle to comprehend.
It's as if I've recited it a thousand times.