The reason why the young master of the Qingzhi City Lord's Mansion jumped out to provoke is nothing more than the old tune of young people being competitive and competitive, but it doesn't seem to stop there.

Judging from the fact that he mentioned the term "tall Southern Barbarian" three times and twice, it is obvious that this is more than a conflict between individuals, and it is a microcosm of the ideological competition between the cultural circles of Rigal and the Land of the Moon, which have been full of conflicts and frictions recently.

And people are proud, but at the same time they are repressive.

Four thousand years of peace have left the warrior class with daily martial arts training, at most there are some sparring competitions, but there is a lack of opportunities for actual combat.

Almost all samurai longed for a chance to prove themselves, and mature elders could control this urge to keep it from showing it all the time, but in the case of young and frivolous young people, it was naturally a little less sensible.

Even if you only use a wooden knife for practice, being able to fight and win against the Nanbans who are far taller than you is also a move that can greatly satisfy your self-esteem for the Waren warrior class who have been suppressed for a long time and lack the opportunity to prove themselves.

Therefore, it would be a lie to say that all the samurai standing behind them were unhappy to see the conflict happening around Mira and Sakura.

Among the samurai in this line, most of the people who secretly hoped that the little young master would teach this tall Nanban warrior a hard lesson accounted for seventy or eighty percent. The rest of them are at most just worried that they will be injured and they will not be able to explain to the master.

Men are like that, and warriors are like that.

Even if he is bound by rules and class, he still has a desire to prove himself in his heart, wanting to preach with a sword.

"Ha-" The young master of the Qingzhi Mansion family sank down, his right hand grasped the part of the wooden knife handle close to the blade, and his left hand held the end of the handle, but he did not hold it to death, but retained the flexibility of his wrist.

"Whew—" he exhaled.

Controlling the breath is an extremely important part of all martial arts.

This subtle skill is derived from battlefield fighting.

After wearing heavy armor and even covering your face with steel armor, if you don't pay attention to controlling your breathing, once you start fighting, your physical strength will be violently consumed and you will be dizzy and dizzy because your face armor will hinder your breathing and cause a lack of oxygen.

Keeping an eye on one's own situation is a must-have for a well-trained martial artist. Even if you don't have armor, you must develop this habit of controlling your breathing and preserving your physical strength from an early age.

Breathing evenly controlled, eyes locked on the opponent, feet apart, back straight, center of gravity slightly pressed forward, both hands holding the knife without the slightest weakness caused by trembling - his posture is called the "plow" style in Rigal swordsmanship - that is, holding the weapon in both hands in the middle of the front, the tip of the sword or the tip of the sword pointing at the enemy, is a starting style for offensive and defensive guard.

"It's worthy of a young master. Many of the samurai of Wajin let out a sound of admiration, and even Mira felt her eyes light up.

It's been a long time since she's seen someone with such solid basic skills. This starting style may not be corrected even by herself, it is obvious that he is not a showman, but has practiced hard, and the length of time is far above the Luo'an girl who only began to learn swordsmanship at the age of 11.

Although the martial arts of the Moon Country are not the same as Rigal, everyone is a human being with two hands and two feet, and the weapons they hold with both hands will naturally not deviate from the basic usage as long as they are practical theories.

The arrogance of this little young master does not come from empty arrogance. He does have quite a solid foundation -

But he lost.

When she saw the posture of Henry on the other side, and the confusion that the young master showed in the face of the sage's starting move, Miss Luo An knew that the other party would definitely not be able to beat her teacher.

This is not blind confidence in the sages – although Mira does sometimes do – but rather a judgment based on facts.

The wooden knives of the Land of the Moon are about a little one meter long, and are called "three feet" in the local unit. This obviously did not match the long knives held by the samurai who had fought before, and the size of the broadsword they carried was even more than that of Kramer, about 1.61.7 meters long, and even the spare secondary weapon hanging from the waist, the long-handed waist knife was about 1.2 meters long.

Maybe it's because of the geographical differences, or maybe it's because it's a training weapon, but Mira doesn't know yet. All she could notice was that her teacher did not hold the knife with both hands like the young master, but held the wooden knife with one hand. Henry's left hand was behind the waist, his right hand was holding the knife, his right foot was forward, the toe of his left foot was pointing in the other direction at a 90-degree angle, and his heels were together, creating a starting hand that was more suitable for one-handed weapons.

The little young master was obviously stunned by the sage's movements, so much so that after Henry set up his posture and obviously waited for him to attack first, he didn't take a step for a long time.

"What's the matter, doesn't this Nanban understand how to use our weapons?" and even the other samurai in the Qing Governor's Mansion were the same, Mira heard someone whispering this, but the samurai leader was silently observing, perhaps a little more knowledgeable than the others.

The situation that he didn't understand jumped out of his comfort zone made the little young master stunned in place.

He waited for the other party to hold the wooden knife in exactly the same way as he did, and then he could fight in the same way he had always been familiar with it.

But Henry didn't.

'What should I do? What should I do?' There was a flash of panic in his expression that even affected his breathing and made him rapid, and it was only because Henry had made a starting gesture that he had never seen before. 'No, how can the Southern Barbarian Alien be more martial arts than my Moon Country-' At the moment when the little young master brewed anger in order to deny this inner wavering, Henry-

Shot.

"Huh!" The tall and long-legged sage kicked his hind foot to close the distance between the two sides, and then with a slash of his wrist, he took advantage of his height and directly hit the top of the little young master's head.

"Ahh

"Click!!" Although the sage held the knife with one hand, the force of this blow made the wooden knife in the hand of the young master who held the knife with both hands to resist almost out of his hand.

"Don't fall into the rhythm of the other party, you have to reverse the attack!" He immediately reacted to the fact that he had been robbed of the first move, although the knife technique used by the other party was not familiar to him, but this was only the initial disturbance of his heartstrings, and after the start of the fight, there was no time to think about all this.

'Respond to all changes with the same' - if there is no specific way to deal with this kind of Nanban sword technique, then you can use the way you used to deal with long knives.

"Click!!" The advantage of height is not always an advantage, the sage can attack from above, but because he is taller, the lower part has become a defensive hole in the eyes of the shorter young master-

"Bang!!" he slammed the wooden knife in Henry's hand with the back of his knife, and then retracted the handle of the knife to his waist, and the whole person shrank down and attacked Henry's lower path.

"Huh-" A small swing of the sword, looking at the movement of his wrist, Mira felt a light again, obviously this young master is not only practicing the battle formation swordsmanship in the wilderness, but also the emergency swordsmanship that can only be applied in a small space indoors-

And the reason why he still chooses to use indoor swordsmanship in a small amount in an open space like the courtyard is precisely to make the swing trajectory smaller and not to be intercepted by Henry again.

In a blink of an eye, he unmistakably chose the situation that was most advantageous to him.

Fast, accurate, and ruthless are the key points of the Moon Country's sword technique, as long as he gets back the rhythm of the battle through this attack, he can force Henry to be overwhelmed by continuous swings - at least, the young master and the samurai watching next to him thought so.

"He's done. Mira subconsciously read a sentence in Avenella.

"Bang-" The sage took a step back, then flipped his wrist so that the blade of the wooden knife he held in one hand was on top, the tip of the knife hung low, and he used the tip of the knife to block the attack while pushing the knife to the side, so he easily deflected the little young master's attack, and then straightened his legs and stepped forward, and hit the little young master's armpit with the blunt tip of the wooden knife while maintaining the wooden knife block.

"Poof!" The young master in the Qingzhi Mansion snorted.

"Wow, young master!" and the surrounding samurai erupted in surprise.

No one had time to see what was happening, and even if they did, most of them didn't know what was happening.

The only people present who understood were our Roan Maiden, and perhaps the silent samurai captain.

There may be similarities in how to hold two-handed weapons, but that's all there is to Rigal and the Land of the Moon.

The Moon Country's sword skills are fast and sharp, and their gauntlets are usually just a disc, while Rigal is not divided into one-handed hands, and tends to be more fully protected, because of the difference in advanced sword skills.

And people's knives are the ultimate in the word "fast". The Rigalese sword, on the other hand, pays more attention to one board and one eye, one move and one style, and attacks "at the same time" as completing self-defense.

This is the difference in perception, the young master is full of the belief that Henry must block "and then" draw his sword to counterattack - like the Warriors of the Moon Country he has fought before - and this gap can be an opportunity for him to pursue.

But as one of the few people in the world who stands at the pinnacle of Rigal's swordsmanship, our Sage only changed the angle of the blade so that the young master's attack could not hit him, and at the same time pushed the knife forward to complete the block and counterattack "at the same time".

"Woo-" The little young master who was stabbed in the armpit of his right arm turned pale, and he couldn't hold the knife for a while, but he still wanted to open the distance and change hands to fight back. At this time, Henry rushed forward mercilessly, reversed the tip of the wooden knife in his hand, pointed in his direction, and took a step to the right at the same time, avoiding the pointing of the two knives, after the two wooden knives were together, he grasped the back of the two wooden knives with his free left hand, and at the same time smashed the handle of the knife in his hand at the left forearm of the young master without mercy.

"Ahh

"Smack-" The little young master of the Qingzhi City Lord's family stumbled and fell to the ground, the muscles of his right armpit and left forearm were painful, and Henry was holding two wooden knives in his hands, and he didn't even gasp for air.

In less than 10 seconds of confrontation, he was arrogant and unruly, but this little young master, who was indeed one of the best in the City Lord's Mansion, was put to the ground by the sage before he even fully understood the situation.

Is his training not hard enough, is his basic skills not solid enough, and is the level of the master trained insufficient?

The answer to these questions was obviously no, but he still lost.

What is the gap? Practical experience? This question is true, but it is not entirely true.

If you only have actual combat experience, for example, replace the opponent's Henry with another low-level samurai who has seen some battlefields in the Moon Country. Then the little master can use his solid basic skills to abuse the other party within the scope of "the same martial art and the same weapon".

What our Sage has is mastery of almost all weapons, as well as a wealth of experience that no one else can match.

So yes, it's the difference between actual combat experience, but Henry is not a wild man with only local methods. He was trained in the finest weapons, and he was a walking swordsman tutorial book himself.

Among the experience he has accumulated in the use of weapons over the years, he can easily pick out the most suitable situation for a certain situation, and combine it with abundant practical combat experience to use it flexibly and efficiently.

Why stand with one hand?

Because one hand is more flexible than two, and holding a knife with one hand and extending one arm forward can increase your attack range.

The 195 cm tall sage faced the 170 cm tall young master, his arm length already had an overwhelming advantage, and if the sage used this wooden knife of only 100 cm according to the orthodox two-handed grip of the Moon Country, then he would limit his advantage.

The little young master couldn't understand this, and the other Qingzhifu warriors couldn't understand it either. They just felt that the two of them were fighting in a flash, and after the wooden knife "clicked" a few times, the young master fell to the ground, covering his hands, sweating profusely.

"Is that our limitation? Mira and Sakura heard the samurai captain next to them sigh quietly.

The single environment created by a long period of peace makes it possible for a warrior to hone even a skill to perfection.

There is a lack of flexibility, a lack of ways to step out of your comfort zone and deal with those ways of fighting that you are not familiar with

Hyung took advantage of a duel that ended in 10 seconds to point out their key point. The young master of the Qingzhi Mansion, who was sitting on the ground, thought in a daze, and even forgot the pain on his body for a short time.

The sage casually dropped the wooden knife on the ground and turned to look at the samurai.

"Can I go?"

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