Chapter 139: Self-Help (Part II)
If you are accustomed to the mainstream and normal way of fighting, the quality of the weapon is very important - whether it is to use brute force to knock the opponent's weapon away to complete the disarming, or use the skillful force to swing through the opponent's defense to complete the attack, or even use the sword body to protect against the incoming threat...... Encounters and collisions are an inevitable part of the battle. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but now, this toy sword made of ordinary wood in his hand is no different from a thin wooden stick, but I am afraid that human bones are stronger than it. It can't withstand a violent collision, nor can it be infused with fighting spirit, let alone compete with other sharp weapons......
Rhodes immediately remembered the little bird that Grom had given to Ciri for example, standing on a high drying rack on the second floor, trusting not only the sticks under his feet, but also his wings.
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In order to find those wings, Ciri ingeniously thought of a way to use the space-time magic in his body in a fighting spirit, and tried to save his life in the battle last night.
Rhodes had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and suddenly realized that he didn't need or have time to invent any new skills like the witches, and he had a ready-made template to learn from - Ciri's set of witcher swordsmanship, the core idea is to rely on unreasonable or ordinary people's habitual movements to confuse the opponent to create an advantage, these actions contain a lot of tips on how to avoid a head-on collision with the enemy, the two have a close relationship, the girl has shown him a lot of them without concealment, if you can pick one and a half moves from them......
The Demon Hunter Sword Technique is difficult to deal with, at the cost that ordinary people will find it twisty and difficult to master and use when they learn it, and if they have not undergone the Demon Hunter's potion mutation, it will be difficult to perform it with the physical fitness of ordinary people. It was for this reason that Grom said that Ciri's strength and reflexes were not up to the best requirements for using this sword technique - but he was different, he was not an ordinary human!
Rhodes hadn't seen the mutated real witchers in Ciri's mouth, but since the girl could use them, her non-human body, which was far superior to hers, would definitely be enough to support the witcher's swordsmanship...... It's a pity that no one taught him.
If no one teaches you, then find a way! Not liking to use your brain does not mean that your brain is stupid, and forgetting and having a poor memory are also two different concepts. Rhodes doesn't like to think too much because he has never encountered many problems that he has to solve since he was a child, and he often forgets everything he wants to do, because he always thinks about things while doing things.
But this time, if he couldn't come up with a solution right away, he wouldn't have a chance to think about how to use this toy wooden sword against the three arena champions?
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The blood sped up the sugar and oxygen to his brain, and he began to do his best to recall the scene when he was practicing with Ciri, and the girl's movement skills flew through his mind like a movie, and he extracted the practical details or tricks of the movements, and began to imagine what he would do if he wanted to perform them......
Soon, he had eyebrows.
The speed of thinking far beyond ordinary people's brains is so fast, Rhodes has thought about it, only a few seconds have passed in the outside world, and the three "inquisitors" are still holding their respective weapons while circling around him, but the audience outside the arena has begun to get impatient.
"Judgment!?" a front-seated spectator shouted as he threw out the leftover apple cores in his hand. His actions caused others to follow suit, and countless pieces of garbage flew into the arena like a rain, forcing all four of them to dodge left and right.
"The trial will begin immediately!" the arena owner was forced to give a loud order due to the customer's emotions, and at his signal, several crossbow-wielding arena staff pulled the trigger and fired a round of arrows into the arena and inserted them in the sand as a demonstration of deterrence.
The three fighters moved, they had been there, so it was clear: the next time the crossbow-wielding guys pulled the trigger, they would really shoot someone.
They stubbornly surrounded Rhodes, and they had no tacit understanding with each other, and they didn't even know who should be the first to do it. Rhodes didn't want to wait any longer, the planned action had been rehearsed several times in his mind, and he couldn't improve it after repeating it a few times, and only actual combat could test whether it was feasible.
He made the first move, using a trick that he had learned from Ciri, which was theoretically simple and easy to deal with, raising his sword and pretending to attack, and stepping on the sand to take exactly three premeditated steps towards the fighter holding the long-handled double-edged axe, swinging the wooden sword.
When Ciri teased Rhodes with this trick for the first time, he almost hit it with his quick reaction, and this time the same trick was performed at a faster speed in his hand, and the effect was even more significant.
The axe-wielding fighter was fooled without any suspense, he only saw Rhodes approaching him in an instant, and his mind didn't have time to think at all, only his body judged by experience that the young man was going to perform a side slash based on the other party's eye movements...... Although intellectually knew that the wooden sword would not be able to cause great damage even if it hit him, he still instinctively took a step back and instinctively raised the long axe.
After that, he had to be slaughtered by Rhodes.
The boy flipped his wrist at the last moment to perfectly realize the expected change, and the wooden sword completed a dizzying change of position in an instant, and it did not appear in the predetermined position when it should have crashed into the handle of the axe, but came to the enemy's side as if it were alive with a dodge of the wielder...... Rod gripped it tightly, a silvery-white aura of fighting aura on his body, and launched a must-hit attack on the enemy who was too stiff to defend.
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"On the premise that lethality can be guaranteed, the selection of weapons follows the principle of lighter the better. ”
This accepted common sense focuses on the second half of the sentence, but the premise must not be ignored - to ensure lethality.
There are many of them, but the decisive role is played by momentum, and momentum is determined by mass and velocity, and without considering other factors such as the shape of the material and the location of the attack, the faster the weapon is wielded, the heavier the weapon, and the greater the lethality it can cause.
The toy wooden sword that Rod was holding at the moment was an extreme - it was very light, so light that Rod could easily use it to pull out a feint that required extremely high wrist strength and was difficult for many people to learn in a lifetime, but it was also because it was so light that no matter how hard Rod swung it, it could not do enough damage to the opponent wearing a thick leather armor and a helmet. On the other hand, the "Inquisitors" on the opposite side, whether it is a long-handled double-edged battle axe or a war hammer, are not the spider silk underwear that was lucky not to be snatched because of its unsightly appearance.
His solution to the weapon problem was to take a spin of his sidesteps to the perfect position of attack when he succeeded in tricking the axe-wielding fighter into making a wrong counterattack, holding the wooden hilt with both hands, and stabbing it into the gap between the leather armor on his opponent's side.
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