Chapter 1450: Chapter 1152: Pure Exhibition Match
"No, you won’t succeed!"
Boom!
Energy burst around the warrior’s body, a common way to break free from a tight spot during combat, creating some space by using indiscriminate energy bursts.
But at the instant the warrior’s energy burst forth, Aisa suddenly assumed the Single Character Slash stance!
As the energy exploded, Aisa was blown backward, but the energy of the Single Character Slash also swept out. Because the distance between them was so close, there was no need to build up power for long to achieve sufficient might!
The Single Character Slash swept out, and although its power was diminished by the bursting energy, it still left a long gash across the warrior’s torso.
It wasn’t deep or fatal, and the armor was quickly repairing itself. However, the strike shocked everyone; what kind of terrifying reflexes did one need to make such astounding judgment in such a brief time!
"I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere!" On the stands, a warrior suddenly flipped open a textbook and indeed, on one page it described: If the enemy is close enough and readies an energy burst to escape, you can prepare a Single Character Slash the moment you sense the energy burst and strike before it’s executed. This way, the enemy’s burst won’t harm you, it will only impart force, and your Single Character Slash could likely injure them.
However, this description wasn’t in the main text but in a footnote. It meant it was a theoretical possibility, and in practice, it was a skill of extremely high difficulty.
Yet Aisa succeeded!
If one hadn’t checked the textbook, nobody would think much of it, perhaps attributing it to good luck. But seeing it mentioned in the textbook meant that the warrior called Aisa’s textbook-like combat style had never altered.
"A textbook-like combat style, huh?" The wound on his chest had healed, and the warrior inside the cockpit was so livid his face twisted.
"I won’t give you another chance!" the warrior bellowed.
"No, we won’t give you another chance." At this point, another warrior came over, and they stood together.
"Please, do your best." Elsa maintained her attacking stance unchanged, while Long Yi stood there, asking from a distance, "Need help?"
"It shouldn’t be necessary; they’re not as strong as they think," Elsa responded.
"Alright." Long Yi said and really just stood there, not advancing!
In reality, Group Leader Anzong hadn’t initially focused much attention on Aisa, thinking how impressive could mere fundamentals be? After all, battlefield success wasn’t just about how good everyone’s basics were. But soon, he noticed Aisa’s fundamentals seemed bizarrely exceptional. How could any warrior master textbook content so proficiently? Even the most talented and hardworking ones couldn’t possibly! But Aisa had done it; all her moves strictly followed the manual, without the slightest deviation. Her responses to enemy counterattacks also strictly adhered to the manual procedures.
Now, every warrior in the arena was pondering whether the tutorial at the Newbie Camp was indeed that powerful.
In theory, the tutorial was surely formidable since it compiled the efforts of the finest warriors. These manuals were essentially the crystallization of those exceptional warriors’ skills, listing nearly all conceivable situations. But nobody expected the recruits to memorize everything; at most, they hoped for them to retain an impression. Ultimately, it still required the warriors to understand and apply it in real combat.
Now, a warrior who had mastered the entire newbie tutorial was here. And using the techniques from that tutorial, she was overwhelmingly defeating those who claimed to be battle-hardened. Clearly, the reality was not as everyone had imagined.
"Perhaps, we should start paying more attention to the importance of the newbie tutorial again," Group Leader Anzong suddenly suggested.
The captains observing around him nodded in agreement.
On the battlefield, Aisa’s fight began anew. This time, she countered two attackers, dual-wielding energy swords.
Dual-wielding in combat wasn’t unheard of, but it wasn’t common either. Holding weapons with both hands changes the rhythm and frequency of attacks, and once accustomed to dual-wielding, it becomes hard to fight with just one hand, and vice versa. The biggest challenge with dual-wielding was coordinating both hands. Weapon swings aren’t just randomly moving through air; it’s a highly complex issue. Firstly, the movement aims at striking the enemy and blocking their attacks. Next, you must avoid your own body – often, newcomers get hurt not by the enemy but themselves. Lastly, you need to avoid hitting your other hand’s weapon. If two energy swords were to collide, their energies would cancel out each other. Once a newbie attempted to train with dual-wielding, but before even clashing with the enemy, his swords collided and prematurely exhausted energy amidst mockery, promptly made him abandon this challenging technique.
