Chapter 695: 678. Limitations of Technology Integration
"The true core knowledge of great sword techniques is actually the precise utilization of external pressure, right?"
Lann spoke as though seeking the opinion of the Sword Master, but his eyes weren’t focused on the Sword Master; instead, they seed concentrated on so deeper, more ’inner’ aspect of himself, rely murmuring his understanding to himself.
"Continuous ordinary slashes, these actions are rely to activate [Combat Qi]. The most crucial factor that affects the so-called blade opening is actually the Air Blade Grand Spin following the series of qi slashes."
"As long as the final step, Air Blade Grand Spin, does not hit, then the ordinary [Combat Qi] attached to the blade cannot form the unique [Qi Blade]."
"Because only when the Air Blade Grand Spin hits sothing does the reaction force from the hit object press against the blade, promoting the sublimation of the ordinary [Combat Qi]."
"And in the quick blade-opening technique you demonstrated earlier..."
"[Mikiri], that’s the na of the technique."
The Sword Master’s heavy voice erged from within his helt, interrupting Lann’s speculation.
And Lann accepted it sensibly.
"And in the [Mikiri] you demonstrated earlier, it seed that the essence lay in cleverly using footwork and keen insight to foresee the enemy’s attack, then dodging, connecting with Air Blade Grand Spin, and opening the blade. But in reality..."
"When you used [Mikiri] to dodge my attack just now, I vaguely heard a ’ding’ sound, but I’m quite sure we didn’t make any contact that could produce a sound."
"Furthermore, that sound was indeed not produced by the collision of objects..."
Lann looked at the Sword Master confidently.
"That was the sound produced by your poised [Combat Qi] automatically sensing my attack and taking you away."
"It’s like trying to grab a softly drifting dandelion, but the wind caused by your hand always pushes the dandelion away before your palm each ti."
"Your [Combat Qi] made the ’wind’ stirred up by my attack larger, at least in your perception, right?"
"As a result, not only did my attack fail to hit you, but it also accelerated the accumulation of [Combat Qi] activity for you, reaching the standard for using Air Blade Grand Spin, followed by the conventional Qi Blade upgrade."
"Unexpectedly, it appears step-by-step pressing, inserting a slash wherever possible in the great sword techniques actually relies heavily on external pressure."
Speaking of which, Lann even felt a bit amused.
"You group of great sword hunters... I bet you rarely accept Elu cats as hunting assistance, right?"
"Because Elu cats might divert the monster’s attention during the hunt, unless they’ve been paired to a level of utmost familiarity, otherwise, it’ll prevent the monsters from always focusing their pressure on you. And the less external pressure there is, the harder it is for the great sword to exert its level."
By the end, there was actually a hint of sympathy in Lann’s eyes.
In a world where people and cats might communicate with each other, great sword hunters turn out to be those who reject cats, and simultaneously rejected by cats.
The Sword Master remained silent.
After a long while, he sheathed his great sword with a ’zing’ sound.
"Actually, my skills with the great sword are quite high. I ca here this ti to impart to you the knowledge of using the great sword. Are you ready, Lann? [Muddy Stream] is a good sword, don’t disappoint it!"
For so reason, the Sword Master seed to have lost his mory.
He no longer ntioned a single word about great swords, as if it was his first eting with Lann in the training area now.
For the prior period, his demonstration and explanation of great sword techniques seed to have been edited out.
And he, a person carrying a great sword, ca to teach great sword techniques...
For this purpose, he even acknowledged [Muddy Stream] as a great sword!
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When they ca out of the training area, it was already noon.
Lann arranged his ti tightly when learning new knowledge.
Like the techniques of hunting weapons, he would allocate two hours in the morning for learning.
And even just these re two hours a day, he was already close to mastering fourteen types of hunting weapons.
Application level in actual combat, timing grasping, and situation judgnt are not ntioned for the ti being; anyway, he rembered these techniques.
Of course, this is also related to the hunters’ relatively straightforward techniques.
The hunters in this world, although not developing [Combat Qi] the way they do in Iwami Country, slashing out waterfall-like Qi Flow Blade with a wave of the hand.
However, giving up the extension of kill distance, turning instead to targeting monsters’ sturdy flesh and strong vitality, has made hunters well-prepared when facing large powerful creatures.
In Lann’s eyes as a traveler from outside, it’s the battlefield environnt and tactical needs they faced in their world that beca the soil for the birth of these techniques.
The very enemies these profound techniques were devised to confront shaped their developnt.
But Lann did not intend to absorb all hunters’ hunting skills.
He was already a warrior with a mature combat system; when facing novel and effective techniques, he preferred selective absorption rather than blindly replicating everything.
And this idea, the Sword Master probably noticed within the two hours of teaching Lann earlier.
Although he is not a warrior who fights against others, as a hunter fighting against nature, he sowhat understands the ’ambition’ a warrior has for power.
He did not stop Lann from absorbing hunters’ techniques and integrating them into his own system, rely offered so reminders, or dare say warnings.
"Fourteen types of hunting weapons, I imagine among them are several weapon techniques you might think are complentary."
Once again Lann perceived the core technique of the great sword in less than an hour, the Sword Master stood his great sword upright in front of him, speaking calmly.
"Just like the ’enhanced defense and increased counterattack power upon successful defense’ possessed by long shield and gun, can be combined with the great sword’s ’use of external pressure’."
"On the other hand, the core [Three-Staged Qi Charging] of the great sword, relying on [Iron Mountain Charge] to counter the enemy’s offensive and skip a stage of charging, seems it could align with ’enhanced defense’. Similar technique complentarities abound among the fourteen weapons."
"But no, Lann..."
The Sword Master’s tone was serious and solemn at this point.
"Don’t rashly try to expand the technical scope of a single weapon, as many hunters have already failed in doing this."
"Every application of [Combat Qi] involves internal pressure on the body. The current weapon techniques are the ’optimal paraters’ hunters have adjusted after exploring for a long ti."
"If you attempt to mix techniques, the internal compression from [Combat Qi] would surge to an unbearable level. Though hunters mostly wouldn’t die or be handicapped due to their constitution, they’d have to guzzle many bottles of restoring potions, or even secret dicines."
"But just like punching too hard can damage the knuckle, such actions would instead lower combat capability, ending in a bad bargain."
"The core of combat is ’suitability’, not the accumulation of techniques. I believe you, a person like this, can understand this philosophy, right?"
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