Chapter 1: The Path of the Swordsman
"Why am I so weak?"
At the end of the last mission, Pang Zhi asked Hua Feng like this.
Is his strength weak? Of course not, at least in the team, unless it is a battle when Chiaki Nanami and Ilya are prepared, a simple encounter will definitely end in his victory, and if he is a single soldier, he is stronger in any case, which Pang Zhi himself knows very well.
But in the last war, he played the smallest role, he was not able to cut off the holy particles, so there was only a battle that could be called a hard battle, and all he could do was mend the sword.
Hua Feng did not directly answer Pang Zhi's question, he asked another question.
"Nanami's strength is her confidence in her own mind, her knowledge, and Elijah's strength is due to her belief in her mystical abilities as a little grail. So what is your strength? ”
Hua Feng didn't wait for Pang Zhi to answer, he continued his question, a question that didn't need to be answered.
"Do you know why the second step reached by crossing the first day ladder is called the Heroic Stage? The answer is simple, because beings who have reached this stage can distort reality with their own will. ”
Facing the desperate situation in reality, believing in your own strength, and using your own strength to break through the desperate situation and win, this is the hero praised by mankind.
Use magic to create a special space to replace reality - the inherent enchantment; The space jumping device made by science and technology - the phase engine, and the use of its own mental skills and body to achieve a trick that violates space - Yan Hui.
These are typical distorted realities.
Pang Zhi had already understood the meaning of Hua Feng's words, and this understanding made him have to laugh at himself.
His current strength is composed of two aspects: projection magic and his own sword intent, so in fact, he has already determined what he believes, but he forgot about it because some tools are too comfortable to use.
"Is Pang Zhi really okay, you look very weak now."
Entering the mission again, Ilya saw through Pang Zhi's state at the moment, the magic circuits that were once dense in his body have all been removed, and at this moment, in addition to his physical fitness due to transformation, it can be said that he is even weaker than when Ilya first saw it.
"No problem, I'm a swordsman and not a master."
That's right, Pang Zhi dreamed of becoming a swordsman from the beginning, and now he is holding a sword, and magic has always been just a tool to this path.
When the consciousness was relying on tools, or even indulging in tools, Pang Zhi made a request to Hua Feng.
"Help me remove the magic circuits from my body."
"But what exactly does this mission mean, is it really that difficult for us to survive?" After ending the previous reminiscence, Pang Zhi turned his attention back to reality.
After a break as usual, they were sent into the quest again by the node, and this time at the beginning of the quest, the node prompted that since they had already crossed the first day ladder, the quest was an adaptation task, and there was a long enough adaptation period.
But the first step in the mission is to keep them alive.
"This place is Japan, and it is Japan in the 20th century, and from the information gathered so far, it should be similar to the era we live in, so we should not face the army, but the other side of the world."
After sorting out the materials downloaded from the Internet, Nanami Chiaki made a guess about their situation.
"And that side has already hit."
"What!"
Pang Zhi was taken aback, they were now on a traffic artery in Tokyo, like any developed city, which was jammed with countless vehicles in the early hours of the night.
"Look."
The reason for this blockage was the appearance of Chiaki Nanami's fingertips, just in front of the heavily congested road where they were located, a very serious disaster, dozens of cars were completely scrapped, their boxes were shrunk in half as if they had been pinched, flames burned around them, and of course, most importantly, the walking walking dead.
As you can see from the picture, just in front of the pile of scrapped vehicles, a pile of mutilated corpses is migrating with comical steps.
"Resident Evil?"
Of course, this is impossible, for them now, even a world-wide Resident Evil is just a small problem that can be solved by bombing the surface with a little more time.
"This."
Ilya pointed to the corner of the video, where there was a car that looked intact, but when nothing was ingested in the frame, a piece of it was dented out of thin air, as if it had been stepped on.
"The supernatural, which means that we are dealing with ghosts, if we don't consider that the location is Japan, there should be youkai or gods."
"Anyway, let's get over first, Ilya, you confuse the minds of these civilians and make them ignore our actions, and it's better to keep them away from the place where the incident happened."
"No problem."
Hypnotism is a very basic technique to get started, after all, magicians on the dark side are not used to avoiding ordinary people, and prefer to let ordinary people avoid them.
So above the flow of people, cat-shaped dolls carried the two people upstream, to the place where the problem occurred.
Dada, dada......
"The two sides are at war."
Upon arriving, a scene that had not been visible until now due to the breach of surveillance on the road came into view, and special forces on the human side, armed with monocles and assault rifles, exchanged fire with the walking dead.
Of course, based on the direct observation of the three of them at this moment, the objects of human exchange are not only those walking corpses with suspected brains on their heads, but also some transparent human figures with similar appearances to those walking corpses.
Ghosts, or the special position of human remnants combined with energy, this is the body of those transparent humanoids, and as for the brains on the corpses, at most they are different from the spirits that combine with energy.
"Pure energy lifeform, physical attacks are ineffective, Pang Zhi, you have no problem, right?"
Of course, Ilya put them in the scope of human reinforcements, not because they were human themselves, but because the energy creatures in front of them couldn't talk.
"No problem, but you, will you be able to control these people later, judging by the way they deal with it, they are not ignorant of the supernatural."
The soldiers were not using ordinary bullets, and from the perspective of the three of them, they could feel that the bullets were attached to an energy field of a special frequency, and this energy field was very harmful to those energy creatures, which was not something that a layman could do.
"Then let's see, which is better, your swordsmanship or my magic."
With that, the moisture in the air condensed into an ice spear, which shot at the sluggish and poorly balanced enemies, causing 80% of the opponent's casualties in a single attack.
The magic circuit was taken away, although Pang Zhi was well aware of this fact, but when he first made a move, the first thing that came to his mind was the various sword techniques that he had used to use projection magic, so he was a step late.
It looks like his path as a swordsman has just begun.