What is Martial Arts?

A variety of combat techniques that can easily subdue or stun and kill enemies without weapons.

And what is a martial artist?

Martial artists are people who specialize in fighting with their own fighting skills, they usually do not use various weapons to attack their opponents, their weapons are only their own fists, in addition to the fighting skills honed for decades, there is also the most important "martial virtue"!

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The morning sun shines on every corner of the city, and most of the inhabitants of the city have already started to do their daily work.

Some residents pulled horse-drawn carriages out of the city gate early in the morning to go to other cities to do business, some residents walked on the streets and thought about what food and daily necessities they should buy for the day, and some gathered together to discuss where to go and what to do today......

For a while, the streets in the city that were originally not walked by people became lively and prosperous. A new day in the ancient city of Manya has begun.

The forest in the city, "Wasteland", in the middle of the forest.

After a good rest last night, the tiredness in my body has completely disappeared, and now I can say that I am extremely energetic!

I'm so happy right now, my eyes are full of anticipation for something, why am I so happy?

That's because Gavi is going to teach me the final stage of martial arts training today, and when I think about it, I feel inexplicably excited, as long as I learn this stage of martial arts, my days of learning martial arts with Gavi will come to an end......

"Good morning, Tut, you're almost recovering, aren't you?" Gavin's loud voice pulled me out of my reverie.

"Good morning, Gavey. I greeted Gavey politely.

"Hmm. Looks like you're in good spirits right now, so let's make a long story short and let's start the final stage of martial arts!" Hearing me greet him, Gavi looked at me with a hearty expression and said the main task for the day.

"Okay, teach me anything you can teach me!" I replied to Gavi in a firm tone when I heard his hearty voice.

Gavey smiled knowingly when he heard my reply, only to see him touch his chin with his hand, as if trying to talk to me about the next training.

"Tut, how do you understand what martial arts are?" Suddenly, Gavi asked me an irrelevant question.

"I think martial arts... It is a skill that has been honed and acquired, and it can give a warrior who has lost his weapon a chance to fight again. I looked at Garvey and said sincerely.

"Haha! Good answer, next question. You can only fight when you don't have any weapons in your hand, but what are you going to do against a huge, highly defended enemy?" Gavi laughed happily at my answer, and he then asked me the next question about fighting.

"I'll find the enemy's weakness and defeat it!" I replied decisively to Gavey the moment I heard the question.

After listening to my reply, Gavey clapped his hands in recognition of me and gave me a crisp round of applause, while Gavey was looking at me with the pleasing eyes of a teacher looking at a student.

"Then let's get started now! Don't you want to relax and concentrate a bit, Tut......"

"Understood, just let the horses come, Gavi!"

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Noon.

The sun had climbed to the other end of the sky, hanging high in the sky, and it bathed the streets of the ancient city of Manya with its relatively soft sunlight, blowing wisps of white smoke from the chimneys of every house in the residential area of the ancient city.

"Look! This is a fighting technique that specializes in hitting the enemy's joints in orc fights!!"

As he spoke, Gavi launched an attack on the two Earth Golems in front of him made of Earth Elemental Magic, which were constructed by Gavi's spell, and the purpose of appearing was to teach me how to use combat better.

(That's amazing...... ）

I was slightly surprised to see the battle between Gavi and the Earth Golem, thinking that this was really the final stage of training for orc fighting......

The earth golem made of rocks swung its massive right fist at Gavi's chest, and as he watched as the fist that came at him, Gavi decisively slammed his left fist into the elbow of the earth golem's right hand.

When Gavi's left fist hit the elbow joint of the Earth Golem's right hand, a cracking sound came from the Earth Golem's right elbow joint, and in an instant, the Earth Golem's originally hard right hand was ruthlessly broken by Gai Wei.

And Gavi didn't seem to want to stop at all, only to see his right fist hit the neck of the earth puppet at the same time in the next second, and with a click, the earth puppet's head, which could barely see its facial features, fell to the ground and shattered like glass!

After defeating this earth golem, Gavi immediately rushed towards the next earth golem, and the earth golem standing in place subconsciously threw two punches at Gavi when he saw Gavi running towards him.

Looking at the two huge stone fists that were approaching, Gai Wei snorted coldly, and he deftly dodged the two fists the size of cobblestone, quickly circled behind the earth golem, and kicked the earth golem's knee with his right foot.

With a snapping sound, the feet of the earth golem were instantly kicked off by a huge external force, and the earth golem, which had lost its support for its feet, fell to the ground like a puppet that had lost its string.

Looking at the earth puppet Gai Wei who fell in front of him, he subconsciously stepped on the head of the earth puppet with his right foot, and with a snap, the head of the earth puppet was instantly shattered by Gai Wei's stepping.

(This martial arts skill is really strong...) But if you encounter a huge opponent, does this joint technique really work?)

The combat technique that Gavy demonstrated to strike the joints is indeed very strong, but if you encounter a huge enemy, will this fighting skill take you down?" I thought to myself, frowning.

"Of course! People of every race in this world have bones on their bodies, as long as they find the corresponding bones and joints to strike... Even the Titans of their size can be defeated by this kind of fighting skill!Although there are very few martial artists who can do this (whispering)......"

Standing not far in front of me, Gavi seemed to sense the confusion on my face, and he explained to me with a torch-like gaze and a hard voice.

I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed to hear Gavey's explanation, and I walked up to Gavi and bowed deeply to him.

"I'm sorry Gavi, I shouldn't have questioned the martial arts you've taught me......," I said, looking down slightly apologetic.

"It's okay Tut ......," Gavi said in a calm voice as he looked at Tut who had apologized to him.

To be honest, he had no chance of winning against the Titans, and what Gavi had just said to Tut was nothing more than a false statement......

"By the way, do you understand the martial arts I just demonstrated?" Gai Wei was the first to break the slightly silent atmosphere, and he asked me now in front of him with some trepidation.

"Understood!" I nodded affirmatively.

"Then let's practice!" said Gavi, and without warning, an earthy yellow glow appeared on his right hand.

"Listen to my call and show yourself here, the puppet of the earth!"

As Gavi uttered the spell of magic, the countless specimens of dust in the land not far from us seemed to come to life, and they came together like animate insects to form five earth golems about the size of my body.

(Five Earth Golems...... ）

"Let's get started. Gavi said to me seriously.

Hearing Gavey's gesture, I put on the metal gloves that Gavi had given me earlier and put on a fighting posture to face the five Earth Golems not far in front of me, I don't know how strong these Earth Golems are... So now I must not let my guard down, I must do everything in my power to defeat them!!

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Night.

The sun has long since set on the western horizon, but the ancient city of Manya has not been quieted by this, and many interesting shops and establishments will start to exchange money between them at night.

What are the 'interesting' shops and places?

Well...... Slave auction houses, black markets, and custom shops, yes, you heard it right, are custom shops, which are places for people who can't vent their desires and are overly sad......

A residential area outside the urban forest and the "barren forest".

Tonight, another sound of metal crashing came from this forest, and the inhabitants of the "Wasteland" forest settlement frowned when they heard the sound coming from the forest.

"Oh God, when will this sound stop?!"

A nezumi with dark circles around his eyes knelt on the street of the residential area and shouted, he hadn't slept in two days, and he really wanted to get a good night's sleep now......

"Damn! I can't take it anymore!!!I'm going to have to settle accounts with that guy today!!" said an elephant man standing on the side of the street with anger on his face, as he finished speaking and planned to walk towards the "barren forest" in front of the settlement.

"Hey!wait!!!Are you dying?!Do you know who is in that forest?!" A rough voice called out from behind the elephant man as he took a step, and it was a muscular cowman who called out to the elephant man.

"I don't care who he is!" the elephant man still did not recover from his anger when he heard the warning from his companion.

"Gavi, haven't you heard anyone tell him who he is?!If you go to trouble him with a hot head, you will definitely be easily defeated by him!!" Seeing the elephant man, he didn't stop his steps in the slightest, and the sturdy cowman said out loud who was there in the "barren forest".

When he heard the name [Gavy], the elephant man subconsciously stopped, and the expression on his face became extremely afraid of something......

It's true that Gavi isn't easy to mess with, and he's an unusual warrior of all orc warriors......

"Wasteland".

In the central forest area of the forest, a goblin warrior is fighting each other with three stiff rock 'men' themselves, which move very slowly, which makes it much easier for the goblin warriors to fight them.

"Uh-oh-oh-oh-"

As I ran, I let out a shout and controlled my right fist to shoot at a very fast speed towards the lone earth golem that was far away from the other two earth golems, and my right fist with blunt metal gloves easily smashed the head of the lone earth golem.

The earth golem whose head I had shattered fell to the ground in the next moment like an immobile animal and turned into a pile of dust, and the other two earth golems saw this scene and each strode towards me.

"'Hard steel'!" (whispered)

Suddenly, my fists under the metal gloves inexplicably glowed with a silvery glow, and in addition to that, a silvery glow appeared on my left and right legs.

"It's coming!"

As soon as I finished speaking, I rushed towards the two earth golems running towards me like a feathered arrow, and when I ran to the two earth golems, I jumped to my feet and kicked one of them in the neck with my right foot.

At this moment, the neck of the earth golem was kicked to pieces by my right foot like tofu, and the other earth golem immediately smashed at me with its huge stone fist.

I didn't panic when I looked at the stone fist coming at me, but used my left fist to hit the shoulder of the earth golem whose neck had been shattered earlier, and for a moment I used the force to dodge the stone fist that was swung at me.

I didn't sit idle, I used the heel of my left foot to sweep at the head of the last earth golem with lightning speed, and the head of the earth golem turned into countless pieces like an open eggshell, and after doing these movements, I fell to the ground and stood firm.

Papapapa

There was a thick and powerful applause behind me, and when I heard this applause, I subconsciously turned to look at the people who applauded me.

"You've done a great job, Tut!" Garvey said with relief as he looked at me.

"......" I didn't respond to Gavy, but lowered my head in embarrassment.

"No need to be embarrassed, you did a good job! By the way, you just used enhancement magic in battle, right?" Gavi saw my embarrassment, and he smiled and asked if I had used enhancement magic in the battle just now.

“...... I'm sorry, Gavey. I shouldn't have used magic......" I said apologetically, looking down at Gavey.

"It's okay, using magic is also a kind of strength of yours... I won't blame you. Gavey gently patted me on the shoulder with his left hand and said softly.

I looked up at him when I heard what Gavi said, and he was looking at me with a very happy expression, and I felt a great emotion in his expression.

"Congratulations, Tut. Suddenly, Gavey took his hand over my shoulder and said something to me inexplicably.

"Huh, congratulations, why?" I asked, confused.

"Do you really not know or don't know, you've passed your final stage of martial arts training!" said Gavi with a smile as he reminded me, who was still a little confused.

When I heard what Gavi said, it dawned on me, wasn't it... I finally passed......

"Oh~ Temo's back, you can get out of here with him now......"

Just then, Gavey suddenly pointed behind me and said, and when I heard Gavey's gesture, I turned to look at Temo who was walking towards us to say hello.

"Hey—Tut, have you finished learning the martial arts that Gavi taught you?" Temo shouted at me in the distance.

"I'm done!" I heard Temo shout, and I responded to him loudly.

"Really, shall we go shopping later?" Temo called out to me again.

"Yes!" I replied happily.

Just as I was about to walk towards Temo, Gavey, who was standing behind me, grabbed the leather armor I was wearing, and he returned the weapons I had given him when I was learning to fight with him.

Despite some doubts, I took the weapons that Gavi had given me back and carried them with me one by one, and when I carried the last weapon with me, I noticed that Gavi looked at me strangely.

"That's... Tut, I've been working what you've asked me to do, haven't I?" said to me apologetically, Gavi's eyes were a little guilty.

"No, it won't. I looked at Gavey and said in a flat tone.

"Yes. Gavey was clearly surprised to hear my reply.

"Thank you for teaching me martial arts without taking the hassle, thank you, Mr. Gavy!" I said as I bowed deeply to Gavi.

“......”

Looking at Tut Gaivy, who bowed to him, he didn't know what to say for a while, but he didn't expect Tut to treat him as a teacher......

"That's... I'll go first, and I'll visit you when I have time!" I said to Gavi, and then turned and ran towards Temo in the distance.

Looking at my distant back, a warm current swelled up in Gaivy's heart, and at this moment he felt a very strange emotion, which he had never experienced before......

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On a certain street in the ancient city of Manya.

Temo and I were walking side by side down the street, talking about what had happened during my training, and the surprise on Temo's face when I talked about smashing the round boulder half the size of a rock elephant with my bare hands was indescribable......

"Tut, where are you going next?" Temo asked me, already adjusting his emotions at this point.

"I didn't think about it...... Well, I'm going to check out Fin. ”

I didn't think about where else to go when Temo asked, but when I remembered Fin's appearance, the corners of my mouth curled slightly... It's also time to check it out, I wonder if it misses me?

"Oh~ you're going to the mount's resting place......" Hearing what I said, Temo made a somewhat strange sound.

"What's wrong?" I asked, confused, Temo, who made the sound.

"Nothing... I have a hunch that you're going to meet someone you wouldn't know who it is!" Temo said to me.

"Really......"