Section 93: Temporary Stay (3)

Performances such as martial arts performances involving two people using weapons in cooperation actually exist in many countries and regions. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Insiders who come out of the more developed areas or areas that advocate force basically understand the routine, two people cooperate with each other to attack one side and the other side to defend and counterattack - this kind of thing is not real combat, although metal weapons are used, but it is very different from sparring and martial arts, and it is more like a casual sport with performance elements than real competition.

The West Coasters call this an act a "soldier's attack," which means a "defensive counterattack" "with weapons"1 – a fitting summary of what it should be. In the Sivalyya language, the word combines dynamic tense with the meaning of "showing" and "delightful", and as such a performance art exclusive to combat professionals whose ornamental performance is greater than actual combat ability, it is natural that it cannot really be judged by the injury or even death of one side.

-- Actually, whether it is the West Coast, the Southern Border, or the Three Great Empires, if one side injures the other in a military attack or a martial arts performance, it will be considered a defeat for that person.

As our Sage has mentioned before, it is not difficult to kill, and a peasant who has never learned any fighting skills can be beaten to death by giving a stick or a stone and wielding it with brute force. This fragile thing of the human body can be easily destroyed with a slight blow that causes internal bleeding or damage to the organs, and in the hands of excellent swordsmanship or other martial arts masters, all kinds of weapons are extremely deadly, and the correct way of swinging and exerting force together leads their every attack to be accurate and powerful - and by extension, to the martial arts performance of soldier strike, it puts forward even higher requirements for all this -

In the high-speed movement of wielding weapons to and fro with each other, both sides of the performance must be able to handle and put it down with ease. Not only does it require them to be perfect at mastering their power and show enough flashy skills without hurting their opponents, but they also need to be calm enough to be able to accurately block their opponent's attacks and then launch a steady counterattack.

The magnificence of the skills displayed and the peace of mind are the basic criteria for judging which side is better, and this kind of thing is not a level that ordinary mercenaries or soldiers can achieve. Even the elite steppe warriors and the knights and sergeants of the West Coast are only a very small number of people who are qualified to perform this kind of performance - in other words, it is an out-and-out elite sport, and if it were not for the veteran who knows the weapons in his hands well or the swordsman who came from under the masterful swordsman, the onlookers may only be able to watch the excitement and not really appreciate the mystery.

The road is at its best, back to basics. This high-end martial arts sport can be said to vividly show the essence of the existence of martial arts - it has never been an existence that emphasizes the need to reach the ultimate in a certain aspect to reach the apex, and the most powerful blow can only prove that you are very brute force, and the real swordsmanship must be free. To be able to do the weapon in his hand like an arm, coupled with a calm mind, every movement is integrated with breathing and pace, calm and quick response, only when you reach this level, can you really enter the ranks of masters.

But even so, even if the threshold for starting is relatively high, as a well-known performance at least among martial artists in this era, the skilled combat professionals who perform military demonstrations everywhere usually have to be friends or mentors and apprentices who have many years of experience in cooperating.

The so-called battlefield is changing rapidly, and they are accustomed to fighting with the weapons in their hands as a tool for lethal attacks, so the two sides of the combat performance must first cooperate from the gentle slow movement, familiarize themselves with each other's movements and grasp the strength at the same time, ensure that they do not hurt each other, and then gradually accelerate.

-- The reason why fighting between strangers is a very dangerous behavior is simple and clear, and you don't know the other person's movements or how they will react when you attack. In addition, what has been imprinted in the muscles after a long period of study is the skill of killing, and a sudden action is likely to cause a natural reaction to attack the vital part to try to knock down the opponent, and in this way, even if the tragedy of seeing blood does not occur, the rhythm is destroyed and the mentality is affected, and it is likely to directly ruin the whole performance.

None of the twenty people who came here were novice low-level green-card mercenaries, and all of them were quite familiar with this kind of high-level martial arts performance, so they all directly expressed obvious concerns about Mira's appearance - the opponent was the youngest son of the patriarch of the Aries clan, a steppe nobleman, and the two of them were strangers who met for the first time, and it was impossible to have cooperation, coupled with the pressure of being watched by a large group of Absera, this young girl could not be undisturbed in her heart. But that's not the most serious problem.

The young steppe nobleman, who had his black hair erected with a bouncy wooden headband to prevent his view from obstructing his view, wielded a rather delicate-looking spear with a larger head than is usually seen, and a long section of the connection to the wooden handle was wrapped in brass for protection against chopping by his opponents.

A huge bonfire rose into the sky and shone on this small clearing, and the silhouettes of the two men and the clothes on their bodies were cast a deep shadow - usually both sides of the battle will choose the same weapon, and the performance will be greatly improved to be entertaining and safe when using similar martial arts, and this time the opponent is using a spear against the long sword, which obviously adds more difficulty to all this.

The opponent's advantage in range meant that the situation would become more and more out of control, and in order to be able to show off her martial arts, Mira would have to risk getting closer, and that behavior, combined with the unpredictable reaction of the young man over there, could lead everything to a situation that went out of control.

-- The cunning patriarch of the Aries clan had some idea, and anyone with a little brain could tell this, and no matter what, this difficult and sudden test of outsiders was officially unfolded the moment a certain steppe warrior next to him blew the horn.

"Ang--ang-" Mira slowly drew the long sword at her waist, and the steel ring reinforced at the sheath and the spine of the sword in one and a half hands rubbed against each other, making a nice trill, and those who know how to hear this voice can tell that the sword in the girl's hand has the best steel fire, and only a weapon with a high level of toughness and hardness can make such a pleasant sound--many of the mercenaries under the command of Felex turned their heads to look at Henry, and they only had the slightest confidence in Mira at this moment.

"Hmph......" The young steppe nobleman smiled playfully, and then lowered his center of gravity with both guns in his hands and stabbed directly at Mira - we have already mentioned that the point of this kind of combat show is not to knock down the opponent or anything like that, and this young man still acts like this to make Mira panic and take the opportunity to show himself.

In a split second, combined with what had happened before, the answer immediately became clear.

The youngest son of the patriarch spoke in Lamani at the time of the previous contact, coupled with the obvious contempt and the sought-after attack after the performance began, and the age gap between him and his father was almost fifty years old, considering that the patriarchal status here also has such a thing as a noble title of a settled nation, as the youngest son, I think that this young man should not usually be very popular in his own group, so he will try to do something different to prove himself.

He was a typical young man from an aristocratic family who was self-righteous and frizzy trying to get attention, and a personality like this is not uncommon in the world of Rigal. Although these people are well-born and have good qualities themselves, they are often not valued within the family, so they inevitably begin to become distorted, trying to gain a sense of existence from other things, and finally become such arrogant and restless virtues.

The reason why the old patriarch of the Aries clan suddenly mentioned this matter and chose to make Mira, the youngest of the group, the opponent of his youngest son's performance, was obviously based on such wishful thinking - if he was defeated by the Luoan girl, he would be able to rub his sharpness to make this young man more down-to-earth and gain a long insight. And if he wins, he can also use this opportunity to show the strength of his own race, so that those who feel weak because of his contact with the Southers will learn to shut up.

Prove that he is still a steppe after all, the head of the Absera, and although he communicates with the southerners, he also dominates and does not follow the rhythm of the other - the old patriarch of the Aries clan throws out a script like this, no matter what, he will not lose, and it is very regrettable that, despite knowing all this, the people in the enemy camp can only follow the other party's path.

Henry's previous glance at each other through the campfire may have been because he saw through all this directly, and the mercenaries and merchants who realized it were a little bit gnashing their teeth, in their opinion, it was obvious that this time they could only disgrace their group according to the other party's wishes, and because of the contact they had during the trip they were also regarded as companions, and they spontaneously began to fight for Mira, and they secretly cursed this cunning guy in their hearts - but this was obviously precisely because they didn't know the white-haired Luoan girl

"Woo-woo!" The spear that made a whistling wind sound was thrown out with one hand along the forward step of the left foot, although the young black-haired steppe nobleman was a little frizzy and loved, but the kung fu under his hand was indeed not weak, the blow he stabbed with one hand obviously left room for the movement of the back hand, the two-handed swordsmanship common on the west coast and the sword technique of the southern border and the grassland all pay attention to powerful and heavy attacks, so most of them use the right foot to stride out when the left foot slashes forward.

This kind of footwork, which focuses on the right foot and moves forward with the left foot, is a sword tact, and the focus is on continuous attacks, which give up a certain amount of lethality in exchange for flexibility, and in this kind of combat performance that does not focus on knocking down opponents, it can be said that this type of footwork is just right.

"Ding-" The spear was coming towards her face, in order to force Mira to subconsciously retreat and block, and if she did, she would inevitably be taken advantage of by the distance of the spear, and further successive blows would eventually fall into the opponent's rhythm.

Although this is not a life-and-death struggle, if anyone can see that the white-haired girl is being suppressed by the other party, and the Absela have the absolute upper hand, it is obvious that their group will also become disgraced and underestimated by them - although both endings are in the old patriarch's calculations, but in order to be able to stand on an equal footing in the future exchange, it is better for them to be stronger at this moment.

"Qiang-" Mirag blocked the blow, did not retreat, she judged the fact of lack of strength from the pace of the opponent, despite the fact that she was still drenched in a cold sweat, but after all, she was not forced to retreat - but this was not the end, the young steppe nobleman's flamboyant personality was once again troubled, he saw that Mira blocked this blow, decisively gave up the distance advantage of steady and steady, directly withdrew the spear, held it in the middle of the part, and actually leaned over, and stabbed another blow with a short spear attack in a playful manner.

There was no thrilling blow, but it made the viewer unconsciously pay more attention, and the fine sweat oozing from the girl's forehead successfully blocked the blow again, and the young man looked at her playfully, and for a moment the two of them froze in front of the campfire.

"Come on!" a young merchant could not hold back and shouted directly, the sudden sound in the silence attracted the attention of a large number of people, who were a little embarrassed by these eyes, so he had to scratch his hair and try to hide in the darkness. "Hmph-" It was obviously barely blocked, but there were still people applauding, and the fact that he had nothing but indifference on his side and no one cared about him at all, the young steppe nobleman suddenly had a nameless anger, he quickly pulled away, put the spear on his waist, and spun it twice in a playful manner, and then used the spear as a stick, and as soon as his waist sank, he threw it directly from left to right towards Mira's head.

"What!" The blow was completely unreserved, and it was somewhat out of the scope of the military performance, and someone among the mercenaries shouted, and the eyes of the old patriarch with a smile in the corner of his eyes also saw the sage's calm and unwavering expression again at this moment-"When-Qiang!" The flames were scattered, and Mira was able to block this powerful blow with a high-level defensive way, if it weren't for her timely reaction, even if she didn't die, there would be a deep scar on her pretty little face at this moment- The girl was drenched in cold sweat and began to gasp for breath in small gulps, but this was just a simple physical exertion, and her heart became more and more calm as the fight progressed.

It's hard to say exactly what level of talent Mira possesses, the Loans are a people who are good at fighting, and even though they didn't grow up in such an environment, that blood still flows in her veins.

The group of mercenaries in the south and these Absela people didn't know that she had actually started learning swordsmanship from scratch and had only been a year now, and the girl's fast-growing height and armor had also made them misestimate her age, which was why they only thought that she was playing with a blue card, which was just a relatively eye-catching thing.

If they had learned all the facts, that this girl had been a maid in a border town on the plains of Acasta a year before, and had never been exposed to any combat before, I don't think it would be incomprehensible to give her the nickname "Genius".

Yes, even if our Sage is indeed an excellent educator, and we should even say that he is one of the very few teachers in the whole of the world of Rigal who stands at the top level, it is the quality of the girl herself, her ability to absorb and understand almost instinctually everything about combat, and her spirit of hard work and hard work, that are the real reasons why she has reached this level in only one year.

Teach without reservation, accept without reservation, be single-minded, and comprehend.

"Whew--" The fine sweat on her forehead trickled down her long, curly eyelashes, and finally fell overwhelmed. The young steppe nobleman withdrew his spear and looked around, once again revealing a cynical but actually gritted tooth expression - his left foot stretched out and began to change the center of gravity of his body, obviously trying to show off one after another without success, and his heart had begun to fluctuate at this moment.

“...... Huh-" This blow is decisive and sharp, Mira has begun to lose some physical strength, she is still wearing half-body armor at this time, and the consumption of age and gender is obviously inferior to the other party. The young steppe nobleman must have noticed this, and in his agitation, he tried to exert more force to consume the girl's physical strength faster.

But that's exactly what Mira was waiting for.

Her heart was calm and steady, she held her breath, her steps steady, and she saw the right moment.

With her right foot stepping out of the spear with too much force, she waited until the last moment to avoid it, just as Henry had avoided the onslaught of the opponent's cavalry in the past, the girl staggered, and then stuck a half-sword in her hand on the top of the spear shaft.

"Tsk-" The young nobleman hurriedly wanted to retract, in the end his strength had the upper hand, so Mira was not able to stop it, but she also succeeded in closing the distance by following the other party's action, the white-haired Luoan girl stepped out and flipped her wrist in one step, and the young nobleman let go of the spear shaft again and used the enlarged tip of his spear as a short sword, time seemed to slow down and seemed to speed up in an instant, and before everyone could react, the movements of both of them came to an end.

"Woo-woo-" Mira backhanded the blade of the sword in a half-sword posture across the opponent's neck, while the steppe nobleman held the tip of the spear with his backhand and pointed it directly at her face.

Neither of them was able to resist the other's attack and fight back, and was held hostage, and it was clear that this was the end of the military performance.

The heat of the "......" began to rise, and the sweat soaked the close-fitting cotton armor made her feel more and more tired, but it was also at this time that the previous steppe warrior sounded the horn again.

"Woo-woo-"

Two tones.

Represents a tie.

“...... Good, so good. The young merchant, who had unconsciously applauded the girl, was once again so excited that he could not help himself, as if it were himself who had gone up.

"......" The short spear in the hand of the youngest son of the Aries patriarch trembled slightly, and he met the girl's sparkling eyes, which reflected his own face under the campfire, and there was no hatred or anything else.

“...... He let out a nasal sound, then pressed the fingers of his free hand against Mira's blade and pushed it away, then turned away without looking back.

"Whew-" The girl finally exhaled a long breath when she arrived, and she immediately felt endless fatigue and fatigue coming from all over her body, this kind of high-level competition was the first experience for her, so after this moment was over, she had to pant there with her long sword.

"This way...... It's still a long way to go. The white-haired girl turned her head to look at her teacher, and Henry raised an eyebrow, making gestures instead of answering.

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Note: This part of this chapter, as well as many of the terms and descriptions of battles that have appeared before this book, have been examined by real martial arts, but because the author is only a hobbyist and not a real expert, if you are a professional swordsmanship school student, you must still be able to find that there are many differences between this book and reality. I would like to take the opportunity to mention the military attack to illustrate that this book is still a novel, a fantasy novel, and although I have tried to restore it realistically, it will not be Rausch's professional thesis because of the ability and the need to take into account the story.

All I can do is try to make sure that it's exciting enough to be as good as I can and that the reader can have a basic understanding of swordsmanship and some things, and other than that, I can't write anything else that I can't write and won't write, this book is a reference to reality, but it takes place in another world. So if you want to take some real rules, real data and other things to apply and then pick and choose, seriously, please don't read novels.

Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West" still has a lot of mistakes in Tang history, dragons and magic can exist in other places or where you can understand it, if there is a leak, you have to jump out and write a book review to ridicule me for a long time, you have nothing to do, I still have to write a book, you have written a book review of thousands of words in half a year to criticize people everywhere, but I have written a novel of 700,000 words here, save a little bit of pretentious thinking in my book review area to find a sense of existence, and do something real! )