Chapter Thirty-Eight: Two Styles
"Fighting is a game and a confrontation.
In this regard, there is an ancient Eastern proverb called 'Know yourself and know your opponent, and win all battles'.
What does that mean, that is, the first element of battle is information, it is intelligence!
You have to know yourselves and your enemies in order to win every battle.
The enemies you face may be different each time, but your own situation is the same, so it is easier and quicker to know yourself than to know your enemies. ”
The students below listened attentively to his words, and Ginny Weasley asked curiously, "Don't we know ourselves yet, what's so difficult about that?" ”
Clark glanced at her, picked her up, and asked:
"Since you're so simple, let me ask you, do you know how fast you run?
How long can your stamina keep you going for a high-consumption exercise?
How fast do you react?
What is your height, weight, reach, and span......"
Ginny was dumbfounded by his question, unable to answer a single question.
"However, these questions don't make much sense, we are wizards, why do we need to know this?" A third-grader his age said.
Clark didn't answer his question, and directly raised his hand to shoot a scorching beam of flame, startling everyone present.
And the third-year wizard who had just asked the question, in the face of Clark's sudden attack, almost subconsciously fell to the left and avoided the blow.
"What are you doing?!" The student who dodged the attack stood up and yelled at Clark.
Clarke motioned for him to look behind him first, and this guy realized that the beam just now was actually just an illusion and did not harm his ability.
Then, Clark twisted his waist and waved his arm, and the wand in his hand was like a short sword, piercing Neville's eyes.
The people around him were startled by his sudden attack, and Ginny screamed in horror.
"Ah~"
In the face of such a dangerous attack, Neville was calm and composed, and he did not dodge at all.
He stood there as steady, like a stone sculpture, and let the tip of Clark's wand stay less than a centimeter in front of his pupils, without blinking an eye.
"Whew~"
The students in the audience breathed a sigh of relief, both worried for Neville and in admiration for his bravery.
"Why didn't you hide just now?" Clark withdrew his wand and asked casually.
Neville glanced at him and said unhurriedly, "I know you and I know myself, so my gut tells me that you can't hurt me." ”
At this time, the student in the audience who had just asked a question and then avoided it in embarrassment had already turned red, and some of the other little wizards applauded wildly.
"As you can see, that's what it means to know oneself and one's enemy!"
Clark looked at them until the applause died down, and then said:
"Last year, I taught you how to exercise your courage and how to face danger head-on. But all this is based on absolute self-confidence, and how this self-confidence is built comes from your understanding of yourself and your enemies.
All fear comes from the unknown! ”
Harry, who was standing in the crowd, remembered the secret of the Dementors that Clark had told him earlier, and nodded subconsciously.
"So knowing ourselves is the first step for us to become stronger." Clark also saw Harry in the crowd.
And when you have a general idea of your situation, where your strengths are and where your weaknesses are, you have to start thinking.
How to play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses in battle, when you can do this, and use it flexibly, you will also develop your own fighting style.
Furthermore, when you are able to use your strengths to target the weaknesses of your enemies, you will have the key to defeating them. ”
Clark said, and began to give examples.
"Take your Neville instructor, for example."
Neville stepped forward.
"His talent for casting magic is not very outstanding, and it can even be said that he is far behind some top students of the same age.
But he has a strong physique, abundant stamina, sharp fighting instincts, and tenacity of willpower.
Under such conditions, if he had focused all his energy on learning spells, he would have spent more effort in the end, but only got a mediocre result.
But as you can see, he decisively gave up learning the difficult, powerful spells and began to work on simple spells that were more supportive and buffy.
At the same time, more energy is focused on the tempering of the body and the study of melee combat skills.
This also formed his fighting style of using spells as a supplement and melee combat as the mainstay. ”
As he spoke, Clark raised his hand and moved the two wooden humanoid targets over, motioning for Neville to demonstrate them to the young wizards present.
Neville was not polite, and with a kick of his feet, the whole person was blessed by the spell of [Oil on the Soles of His Feet], like a sharp arrow, and rushed towards the wooden target.
Its speed is far beyond ordinary people, and many young wizards even only see a phantom, and then there are two soft sounds of "brush, brush".
When I looked closely, Neville had returned to the stage, and the two solid wood targets they used to practice spells had been cut in two.
Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!
Ginny was the first to take the lead and applauded, followed by some of the Gryffindor boys looking at him eagerly.
After all, men, close-quarters fists to the flesh, swords and swords, is more enjoyable than holding small wooden sticks to shoot each other.
"Neville's fighting style can be called a melee wizard, and its core point is to use magic as a supplement and melee combat as the mainstay.
Use magic to defend and displace, quickly rush to the enemy's side, and interrupt their spell casting before they can react and chant a spell slowly, and solve the enemy in an instant.
This fighting style is extremely advantageous in both medium and close combat, but in long-range encounters, it is easy to be suppressed and targeted by the wizard's magic. ”
"I'm going to learn this!"
Grain curtains
"I'm going to learn this!"
Some of the tall boys shouted.
Clarke pressed his hands down, "Don't worry, in addition to learning from Neville, Hermione also has another fighting style on her side. ”
Hermione stepped forward.
"Compared to Neville's hard work, what I need more here are students who are more talented in magic and learning.
You don't have to work out every day until you're exhausted and sweating profusely, you just need to read books and study magic......"
As she spoke, fist-sized flames began to appear around her, and as she controlled, they flew up and down in the air, changing into various forms.
"We specialize in casting powerful spells that crush our enemies with wide-area, saturated fire coverage to inflict the most powerful damage.
Let the enemy not even see us, and we will be wiped out directly. ”
Countless fireballs flew above the heads of the young wizards, converging into a huge cloud of fire, enveloping them, and the scorching temperature made the population dry and frightened.
"Well, as you can see, these are the two fighting styles that the Duel Club will hand over to you in the future.
Next, we're going to put you through some quizzes to see what kind of fighting style you're a good fit for. ”
The little wizards below began to exchange ears, speculating about what the next test would be.
Thankfully, they didn't have to wait long, and Clark quickly split them into two teams to be tested separately.
Among them, Neville's side mainly tests the physical fitness of the little wizards, including whether the physical development is good, height, arm span, reaction speed, athletic talent, etc.
Hermione, on the other hand, mainly examines their thinking skills, including memory, comprehension, logical reasoning, and perception of magical elements.
Of course, this was only a cursory selection, as they were still young, and Hermione and Neville's fighting styles weren't necessarily a perfect fit for them.
If they want to form a fighting style that suits them completely, they also need to learn and practice more on the basis of what they have, and think and try more.
Anyway, it took more than an hour, and the more than twenty members of the dueling club were all tested.
Most of these young wizards are still better at casting spells, after all, Hogwarts itself is a school of witchcraft and wizardry.
In addition, some people think that the fighting style of melee wizards requires hard physical training, and they are afraid of hardship, so they choose to learn from Neville, but there are only a few seven or eight boys.
Fortunately, Neville didn't mind much about this, and if someone was willing to learn from him, he would be willing to teach, regardless of how many people there were.
Next, Hermione and Neville began the initial training of their young wizards according to their assigned teams.
Neville took his students to move their bodies and taught them the knightly training method.
Hermione led them to sit cross-legged on the mat, closed their eyes and concentrated, and did the regular training of [mages] - meditation.
Of course, if this is all there is to it, then these little wizards may be a little more powerful, but it is definitely not to the level of Hermione and Neville.
Because they don't have a stat panel at all, and they don't get rid of the effects of chaos magic.
So looking at the students who were enthusiastically engaged in training, Clark walked directly to the corner of the classroom.
There, a half-human-tall triangular stool was placed, and on top of it was a statue that looked seven or eight points similar to Clark.
Clark reached out and touched the stone bead that the statue was holding, and a faint light flashed, and then an invisible wave spread out, enveloping the entire classroom.
The students didn't know anything about it, they just felt like their minds were getting a little drowsy, but they didn't react more.
This thing is the bright pearl that he brought out from the Amhi Oasis during the summer vacation of his second grade, located on the top of the pyramid of the Scorpion King.
Clark has been studying it ever since he got it, and although he hasn't found its origin in ancient books, he has roughly figured out what it does.
First of all, this thing can absorb the cold power attached to the moonlight at night, store it, and then transform it into an extremely cold beam and launch it.
When Clark was on an adventure in the Amhi Oasis before, he had seen this kind of Extreme Cold Ray, which was no less powerful than the Eight Rings Spell [Polar Ray] of the Plastic Energy System.
Of course, to have that kind of power, it also relies on the huge negative energy stored in the Scorpion King Pyramid itself, plus a little bit of the divine power of Anubis, the god of death.
Now without these conditions, this pearl that can cast an extremely cold beam of light has become eclipsed.
However, what Clark values is not its attack ability, but its other role.
In ancient Egyptian myths and legends, the sun god [Ra] rode the Ark of the Sun and spent half of the time walking through the sky, which is the day and the time for the living to survive.
When the ship of the sun falls in the west, it enters the underworld on the other side of the earth, and the world comes to night.
At this time, the moon rises, the breath of the underworld spreads all over the earth, and humans also have to hide in the house and give up the world to the undead of the underworld.
Therefore, the moon is often inextricably linked to the underworld and the feminine energy.
And this pearl may be because he has been in the amshi oasis for a long time, a space between reality and the underworld, or because he has been infected by the aura of Anubis, the god of death.
Anyway, after the cold energy it stored reached a certain threshold, it could form a netherworld barrier similar to the Emhi Oasis around it.
In this enchantment, the soul and body of human beings will not be so closely connected.
As if in the underworld, perhaps simply by sleeping, their souls will unconsciously leave their bodies in their sleep, and move freely without fear of being harmed.
This kind of Taiyin Orb, which can assist in out-of-body and night travel, if those cultivators in Huaxia know about it, they are afraid that they will have to hit the dog's brain.
However, after discovering this quality of the orb, Clark thought of another use.
That is to use this orb to replace the water of the River Styx in the "Taiyi Ritual" used to change jobs, which is designed to weaken the stability of the soul.
That's right, with this orb, Clark wants to spread the class system of the DND world to the world of Harry Potter and replace the wizarding system, and finally solves the most important problem.
In the past sophomore years, Clark has switched the Mage and Warrior classes to Hermione and Neville, respectively, but they are not universal and cannot be promoted on a large scale.
After all, the "Taiyi Ritual" used by the two of them for their transfer, the first step is to weaken the stability of the soul, move a knife on the soul, and strip the chaos magic.
Then re-inject the class seeds from the DND world, and develop into a new power system according to the template.
In this process, the water of the River Styx, which weakens the stability of the soul, is even more terrifying than the potion of the living hell, and it is truly a magic potion taken from the Yellow Spring of the Underworld.
Its power is so strong and the onset is so fast that just one drop can kill people in an instant.
At the beginning, Hermione and Neville still used the petrification effect of the basilisk's eyes to save their lives before the water of the Styx potion took effect.
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