Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Sun (2nd Watch)
"Of course, you can mention anything you want me to help you with."
Qin Liu licked his lips, "Let me see your true strength." ”
It was the first time she had seen the inheritor of the awakened dual lineage, not to mention that the second lineage was still an incomparably powerful "ruling".
Although she had a premonition that Roy would surprise her, she still felt incredible when she saw the golden pupils lit up in the night.
The Golden Pupil is the outward manifestation of the Judgment Talent, the Eye of Insight, a unique symbol of the Judgment that cannot be forged.
The only thing that is close to it is the Assassin job assistant "Blood Dance" talent "Eyes of Death", which is outwardly manifested as red eyes like blood.
It turns out that in this world, there really are dual inheritors!
A single ruling is strong enough, and in terms of heads-up, no lineage at the same level is the opponent of the judgment, even Sword Cultivation and Blood Dance, who are also good at heads-up.
This is not her assertion, but the experience accumulated by all the inheritors in actual combat.
And what if such a powerful ruling is accompanied by the awakening of other inheritances?
How strong will he be?
Qin Liu couldn't help but clench the sword in his hand - if that wooden stick could be called a sword.
Her belligerent personality was fostered by past experiences, and swinging her sword became almost instinctive. In the face of such a special opponent, she couldn't just leave without doing anything.
The sword moved as she pleased, and she attacked again.
Roy held his breath and clenched the sword in his hand.
Now that the decision has been made, the top priority now is to survive Qin Liu's test.
Spiritual power will nourish the body of the inheritor, and the physical fitness of the high-level inheritor is generally always stronger than that of the low-level inheritor.
However, the gap in physical function between him and Qin Liu can be bridged by Moon Shadow's "Body Control" and "Swift Movement".
Qin Liu was born in a family of sword cultivators, and he was by no means Qin Liu's opponent in terms of swordsmanship.
However, the gap in swordsmanship can also be bridged with the "Eye of Insight" and "Consciousness Acceleration" of the judgment.
In the case that Qin Liu didn't use spiritual power, he might not be able to lose.
Qin Liu's sword swung towards him, and through the Eye of Insight, Roy could now clearly observe the trajectory of the swing of this wooden stick.
But is the future he observes really the future that will actually happen?
The image of the wolf king dodging his sniper is still vivid.
The Eye of Insight is not invincible.
Roy believed that with Qin Liu's speed, he could definitely react the moment he made a move, and then complete the change of moves.
In order to put an end to this, this skill is necessary.
Adjudicating the 1st Tier Inheritance Skill: "Consciousness Acceleration".
He rarely used this move before, because even if he didn't use it, his reflexes were enough to deal with most situations.
But now it's different, Qin Liu is the most formidable opponent he's ever seen, and he has to go all out.
Since he has chosen this path, he needs to fully show his value, which will be the only bargaining chip he has in negotiations with Qin Liu.
"Consciousness Acceleration"!
The moment the skill is activated, the whole world becomes clear.
The girl's thunderous posture turned into slow motion, and the wooden stick whistling in her hand became slow motion, and all the details were not hidden.
And when these details were exposed to the observation of the Eye of Insight, he found that he could clearly see the trajectory of the world.
In a previous life, there was a hypothesis that there was a creature that could calculate information in the world and deduce the results. The more information it calculates, the more accurate the results will be, and the closer the effect will be to making a "prediction" about the future.
When it calculates all the information in the world and deduces it to the extreme, this creature becomes the omniscient Laplace demon, who can grasp the present and predict the future!
Roy felt that way at the moment.
The "Eye of Insight" allows him to anticipate the movements of his enemies, and the "Consciousness Acceleration" gives him ample time to react and calculate.
At the same time, Moon Shadow's "body control" and "speed" make his bodily functions keep up with his own consciousness.
He could now easily capture Qin Liu's sword-swinging trajectory, and even if Qin Liu reacted and changed his moves, he could react and follow the changes at the same time.
At this moment, he felt like he had become the master of the battlefield.
"Boom-"
Roy took Qin Liu's sword again without a doubt, and at the same time did not retreat, but advanced, and greeted her.
It's not his style to be beaten passively, he's going to fight back.
His heart was beating vigorously, his blood was boiling, and he felt that he was in great shape.
Strength gives confidence.
The two wooden swords kept staggering, and the figures of the two of them tossed and turned in the courtyard, and in the end, it was Roy who had the upper hand.
The sword in his hand could always be pointed directly at Qin Liu's vital point.
Roy's swordsmanship has no routines, and it can even be said to be a little weird, this is a swordsmanship based on the information observed by the Eye of Insight and specially used against Qin Liu.
Qin Liu was too familiar with this feeling, this feeling of power and nowhere made her want to vomit blood, in front of the golden pupil, her swordsmanship that she had cultivated for more than ten years seemed to be a joke.
She had experienced the same feeling with that young girl, who was also a verdict and was much stronger than Roy now.
But even so, Qin Liu had defeated her.
Because Master once said that strength is always relative, and there is never an absolutely insurmountable mountain in the world.
She believes in this phrase very well, which is why she craves worthy opponents.
And she will climb mountains and become stronger in battle after battle.
Someday, her sword will prevail over everyone.
Even if she wasn't even a sword cultivator.
"Boom-"
There was another brief intersection, and the two stepped back a little.
"The last sword!"
Qin Liu's eyes were like torches.
Roy let out a long breath, and that's exactly what he meant.
The Eye of Insight and Body Control are his talents, which do not require the consumption of spiritual power, while the acceleration of consciousness and the use of speed are different, and the use of BUFF-type skills will continue to consume spiritual power.
With his current strength, he can only maintain this heyday for about half a minute.
It's going to have to be done quickly.
The next sword will determine the winner or loser.
Qin Liu took out his sword.
Roy's eyes once again reflected the sword's movements.
He raised his sword and stood in the way of the sword with precision.
He knew in his heart that Qin Liu had never gone all out, and it was a fantasy for him to try to defeat her now.
Fang took the initiative to attack, but it was just an offense instead of defense.
Now the battle is only one sword away.
Taking the sword is considered a success.
Under the prediction of the Eye of Insight, the two swords intersected smoothly-
However, this time, he didn't successfully block Qin Liu's sword like before.
Roy's face changed.
Why is this happening!?
He didn't sense any spiritual power from Qin Liu's sword, and even this sword was just an ordinary wooden stick, and the material might not be as good as the wooden sword he used for practice.
But this sword seems to condense a certain will, containing a certain law, making it incarnate into a divine weapon, and it is indomitable.
Roy watched as his wooden sword shattered.
Qin Liu staggered with him.
"Happy!" She smiled contentedly.
"Your mother......" Roy vomited blood, "I can't afford to play, can I!" ”
said that only one sword was accepted, and after one sword, another sword, and the last sword was directly stopped.
He could feel that Qin Liu had indeed stopped, but the stick still smashed his chest, almost knocking him unconscious.
Death should not be dead, but you don't know if you lie down for a few months.
"Oh, you're a man, it's just a minor injury, it's not a big deal."
Qin Liuqiao smiled, "Don't worry, you are already qualified, and I will fulfill the gambling contract...... Well? ”
She suddenly retracted her smile and looked coldly into the room.
The sound of the battle still caught the attention of others nearby.
The sound of the piano had stopped for a while, and a maid opened the door and looked out into the courtyard with some concern.
Qin Liu doesn't have a good face for everyone, except for her family, only the opponent she recognizes can make her open her heart.
As the eldest daughter of the Qin family, there have been too many people who want to flatter and please her over the years, and she always has a cold attitude towards outsiders.
Because of her personality, she just hates all the red tape from the bottom of her heart, and she doesn't want to spend more effort on the scene.
And this time, because of the battle just now, Qin Liu's eyes when he looked at the maid still had a sense of oppression and killing intent.
Looking at her cold eyes, Arya only felt a chill all over her body, and her body couldn't help but tremble.
Danger, danger, danger!
The woman in front of you is dangerous, don't go near her!
The instincts of the body warn her.
She subconsciously took a step back and held on to the edge of the door, so that she would not fall to the ground in a gaffe.
Then, she saw another figure beside the woman.
It was Roy, he was half-kneeling on the ground in disarray, his clothes were ragged, and his sword had been broken into several pieces on the ground.
Something bright red dripping from the corner of his mouth disappeared into the invisible night.
That's blood.
What does blood represent?
For Arya, blood represents death.
Although her father has trained her as a knight, it is not too strict, because she has not awakened the inheritance for a long time, and from childhood to adulthood, she has been cultivated more as a lady.
The only time I saw blood was half a month ago.
That night, with her violin, she knocked on the door of her father's study, as usual.
But what awaited her was not her father's gentle smile, but blood all over the ground.
The sword that should have hung on the wall was stuck in his chest, and he knelt on the ground, his head raised to the sky, and the family crest slipped from his hand and fell on the red carpet soaked in blood.
She will never forget it.
That night, she lost her most important loved one, as well as her home.
And now, like a kind of reincarnation, the scene in front of me is rapidly overlapping with the past.
When the Sidneys broke into her home, she stared at what was happening in front of her as she did now.
That feeling of powerlessness, that despair of being about to lose something but not being able to do anything about it.
At that moment, at this moment.
Are you running away again this time, Arya?
Are you going to retreat into the house, close the door tightly, and weep and shiver under the covers?
Are you still hoping to be saved by others?
Aren't you a knight?
What are you going to do?
"I ......"
With Qin Liu's killing intent and sense of oppression like substance, Arya took a step forward.
She stepped out of the door and stood out into the courtyard.
"Oh?"
Qin Liu's cold eyes were filled with a slight ripple.
She could see at a glance that Arya was an ordinary person, just a maid in an ordinary mansion, and how could she defy her will in her realm?
Arya wasn't looking at her at all, and all that was left in her eyes was the half-kneeling teenager.
He was half-kneeling on the ground with his back to Arya, clutching his chest and gasping in pain, breathing like a worn-out bellows.
"Luo ...... Yi ......"
"No...... No...... Dead ......"
She was chilling all over, and every step towards Roy was so difficult.
Being in Qin Liu's realm, it seemed that even the air was repelling her, squeezing her, and restraining her.
She could barely breathe, but despite this, she drove her legs forward.
Just trying to get closer to him.
A little closer.
She has lost a home.
She didn't want to lose another home.
But.
Only three steps away from Roy, Arya fell to the ground.
As an ordinary person, under the oppression of Qin Liu's will, she had reached the limit of what her body could bear.
Her eyes were blurry and black, even stained with blood, but Arya seemed unaware of it, and she propped up her elbows and crawled in Roy's direction with her hands and feet.
Her breath became weaker and weaker, her consciousness was hazy, and her mind began to wander.
"Father, what is a knight?"
"Arya, a knight is the one who guards others."
"Are you a knight?"
"Of course."
"But aren't you awakened?"
"Haha...... Awakening only gives power, and those who have no power cannot become knights. ”
"Well, I don't understand. Even if you can't awaken, can you become a knight? ”
"Of course, as long as you have the desire to protect others, you are a knight."
……
"Look, this is the little princess of Christian's family, how gorgeously dressed!"
"Hey, what about the little princess, their family has not had an inheritor for two consecutive generations, can this be regarded as a knight family? What a shame for the Templar Order! ”
"Wait a minute, I don't allow you to speak ill of my family!"
"Miss Arya, I'm not speaking ill of your family, I'm just stating a fact."
"Even if he doesn't awaken, my father is still a good knight! I'm going to be a knight too! My family will not disgrace the Knights! ”
"Poofha, the knight who can't awaken the inheritance is just the most inferior knight, and he is not qualified to enter the Knights of the Templars at all! Are you questioning the nobility of the Knights Templar? I can't assume that I haven't heard such blasphemous! ”
"I don't question it! I、I just think that power is not all there is to a knight, as long as you have the desire to protect others, you can become a knight! ”
"Childish! If you don't even have the strength, how can you protect others? It's just a death. ”
"Hey, let's go, what are you competing with a little girl."
……
"Arya, it's rare to attend the ball, you don't look very happy."
"Father, if you don't have the strength, how can you protect others?"
"What a sudden. Well...... Do you know the difference between man and beast? ”
"Humans are smarter than beasts, is that true?"
"Quite the opposite, kid. Wild beasts follow their instincts, and when they encounter the weak, they slew them; When encountering a strong one, they either flee or surrender. In short, all their actions are for survival, which is actually a very clever approach.
"And people can sometimes seem stupid, and they will die for something that is illusory. This kind of thing may be a faith, an ideal, or just a simple obsession.
"The knight is a symbol of this will. In the face of danger, everyone can bow their heads in order to survive, but knights cannot, even if they give their lives for it, they will still choose to abide by their creed. ”
"But...... If you're dead, there's nothing. ”
"There will be, kid. Although the flesh is reduced to ashes, the noble will will be passed down from generation to generation, and it will become a beacon for others to move forward in the darkness. ”
"I, I don't understand ......"
"It's okay, when you find the person you want to protect in the future, you'll naturally understand. Before you even know it, your body is in action, and at that moment, you will become a true knight. ”
……
Legend has it that a knight is a guardian of the gods walking on the earth, and every loyal knight is rewarded by the gods.
So they awakened the legacy of the knight - whether it was a guardian knight, a holy knight, or a mythril knight.
God, my devotion to you, my faith in Sidney has never changed, but I will no longer ask You to give me strength.
Because I understand that knightly medals are always awarded by themselves.
"Huh?"
The look of surprise in Qin Liu's eyes became stronger and stronger.
She wasn't a ruthless person, she just wanted to see how far this stubborn maid could last.
Seeing that she was dying, just as Qin Liu was about to reclaim the realm, she found that she actually stood up slowly.
Under the pressure of her will, if the previous Arya was just a dandelion swaying in the wind, she could be crushed at any time under the sweep of the wind.
Now Arya is a tenacious weed, and although it is weak, its roots have been deeply rooted in the earth.
The wind had bent her waist, but she was still stubborn.
The spiritual power of heaven and earth began to surge towards her, turning into dots of brilliance that surrounded her.
In the Divine Consciousness, the inheritance ladder symbolizing the "Holy Knight" gradually appeared.
She walked up behind Roy and stretched out her hand, like a winged angel, to embrace the young man in front of her.
At this moment, the light shines.
Like the sun rising slowly in the darkness.