Chapter 500: Chapter 489: Awakening (2nd Update)
Busan Water Port was the vice-captain of the White Sword Team, and at the start of the Holy Spirit League, everyone from the coach to the manager had given them a strict order.
That was to win the championship at all costs!
The weight of this championship was even greater than that of the League of Contention championship, Busan Water Port knew… Winning the championship could bring far more financial benefits to the club than winning ten League of Contention championships!
Therefore, like the other players of the White Sword Team, after spending a lot of money to get the gaming rights from the fanatical owner of Cola, he spent a long ti leveling up and studying the professions and combat techniques of the Holy Spirit ga in the arena.
In half a month, Busan Water Port’s score in the ladder ranking had already reached the Peerless Grandmaster, his thoughts were the sa as those of the White Emperor an hour ago.
Since they were both VR gas, the operating systems had many similarities. Maybe Caral had been playing longer than they had, but to challenge them one against five was too arrogant.
Where would the attack co from?
Busan Water Port held his shield and watched closely as Caral, holding the Moonlight Sword, stood ready. The Swordsman was the most popular profession in the Holy Spirit ga, possibly due to the romantic chivalry of the Heavenly Dynasty people, and because playing as a Swordsman really looked very cool.
Therefore, Busan Water Port most commonly encountered the Swordsman profession in the arena, and he could recite the effects of all the Swordsman skills, including the opening combos of the Swordsman profession.
Would it be Fierce Dragon Breaking Air Slash? Or direct Breaking Army Ascending Dragon Strike?
While guessing what skill Caral intended to use first and which direction to attack, Caral disappeared in front of him in the blink of an eye.
Gone? Why did he disappear? Where? In the sky!
Of course, Busan Water Port’s reflexes were top-notch. He instantly spotted Caral leaping into the air. In mid-air, the Swordsman profession supposed should only have one skill—Fluorescent Blade Fall—for an opener.
But as Caral held the Moonlight Sword, a greenish Sword Qi gathered, turning into a dragon’s head and suddenly striking towards an Elental Mage behind Busan Water Port.
Releasing Fierce Dragon Breaking Air Slash in the sky? Does the Holy Spirit’s skill system allow that?
As these thoughts crossed Busan Water Port’s mind… Caral, like a divine dragon, opened his large mouth and violently pounced on the core Elental Mage of the team.
A common substitute scarecrow among the Mage profession was released at the mont the dragon’s head struck, allowing the Elental Mage to escape successfully and land, but he was t by a dazzling crescent blade light.
Draw Cut Slash!
The mont this blade light struck the Elental Mage, his body montarily stiffened, but this stiffness led to fatal consequences. Caral even arrived before his own blade light, confronting the Elental Mage.
The Elental Mage did not even have ti to react, and in less than three seconds, his health was depleted by Caral’s Moonlight Sword.
The remaining three players of the White Sword Team certainly didn’t just watch. The team’s healer tried to cast Resurrection Technique on the Mage, but as he lifted his cross and was about to finish the incantation, another Draw Cut Slash interrupted his casting.
If Zhao Mingwei’s impact on the White Sword Team was his damage so high it might be considered cheating, then Caral’s movents and reaction speeds were so fast it was like cheating.
Busan Water Port could not even track Caral’s movents; all he could see was the moonlight green blade of Caral’s Moonlight Sword sweeping through his teammate’s body.
When he had faced Caral in a previous conflict, his movents had not been this fast. Why not?
By the ti Busan Water Port ca to his senses, Caral’s Moonlight Sword had already pierced through his heart, seventy seconds! That was the ti it took for Caral to kill the four players of the White Sword Team.
Caral drew the Moonlight Sword from Busan Water Port’s chest and then, with his right hand, he sharply wiped the blade, flinging the crimson blood that had stained the Moonlight Sword onto the ground.
Zhao Mingwei’s wound effect was a candy effect, while Caral’s was indeed a plasma effect… It was only in the final mont of collapsing that Busan Water Port saw that Caral had lost less than one-tenth of his health.
That was even after Caral had taken unspecified AOE damage during the fight.
“How… how did you do it?” Busan Water Port, now a tombstone, loudly asked Caral in confusion.
Logically, even if there was a gap between players, it shouldn’t be this huge. Spirit Guard was also a VR ga fundantally similar in control techniques to Combative Dispute.
How could Caral be so fast that he seed to exceed human limits?
“This ga isn’t as simple as you think.”
After leaving these words for Busan Water Port’s tombstone, Caral slowly walked towards the other side where Baidi was still groping the walls, approaching from this direction.
Not that simple?
Busan Water Port was left in a daze, having thought that reaching the grandmaster tier in the Spirit Guard arena ladder had narrowed the distance with top players of Spirit Guard.
With their domination in VR gas, the White Sword Team believed they could achieve notable success in Spirit Guard, maybe even clinching the championship.
But now, Caral had shown them the real gap between them and the top players of Spirit Guard—it wasn’t just a difference of one to two, but tenfold, even a hundredfold!
The operational ceiling of Spirit Guard far exceeded that of Combative Dispute, even making what Caral considered the slow reaction speeds and network delays of Combative Dispute feel like shackles.
In Spirit Guard, he was free from these shackles and could unleash his power to its fullest.
Busan Water Port found this sowhat laughable.
With just Caral alone being able to take on four in Cola Frenzy Team, what could the White Sword Team possibly use to compete for the championship in the upcoming top sixteen matches? What use were their high scores now if they still faced one-sided slaughter in the top sixteen?
“Is there any way to cure your eyes?” Caral did not rush to attack Baidi, for Baidi now truly looked like a baby.
He even had trouble walking, and without leaning against the wall, one would doubt he could take three steps without falling, but Caral was not fond of bullying the weak.
“Cola Frenzy’s Caral? I saw in my status bar that you knocked out my teammates, now I can’t lose.” Baidi, wielding his weapon, aid at a rock in front of him.
“I’m over here.” Caral sowhat exasperatedly called out to Baidi.
“Co on, Caral,” Baidi said, turning the blade towards the two rmaid spectators behind him, who clung to each other in fright.
“I’d… better deal with Annihilation Legion first.”
Caral could now confirm that Baidi was genuinely blind, rather than the system providing him with so other form of vision, like a third-person cara view or sothing.
Just as Caral was preparing to join his teammates to finish off the Annihilation Legion, a heat wave suddenly swept over him. Caral quickly reacted, dodging the engulfing heat wave with a swift sidestep.
From afar, Baidi’s longsword was already ablaze with flas, this ti firmly fixing his target on Caral, who was not far away.
“You can see ?”
Caral cried out in surprise as he confronted Bai Di, although Bai Di was blind, Caral could clearly feel Bai Di’s ‘gaze’.
This type of gaze was different from normal vision; it was a more powerful sense.
“After you closed your eyes, did the Holy Spirit give you any other ga perspective?” Caral loudly asked Bai Di.
“Ga perspective? This thing is called the Mind’s Eye… In my perception, you are like a little man painted in a world of black and white,” Bai Di unreservedly shared his current feelings with Caral.
“Mind’s Eye? It’s not an extra visual system provided by the ga? Like sothing similar to Eagle Eye Stealth Vision?” Caral asked.
“Provided by the ga, it doesn’t quite feel like it, yet it feels like it belongs to …”
Bai Di is now unable to figure out whether this special sense he possesses is provided by the ga system or sothing he has discerned on his own.
“Let’s just try and see!”
Caral drew his sword and imdiately moved behind Bai Di. His stroke was so swift that it was also imperceptible to the naked eye, but Bai Di reacted. He adopted the posture of Jing Ke with his sword, blocking Caral’s attack.
In the next second, he counterattacked directly, and Bai Di’s longsword, burning with Burst Fla, unleashed a heat wave that swept toward Caral again.
“Was this also taught to you by Xiao Ye?” Caral, looking at the scorched condition of his own hand, asked Bai Di again.
“Xiao Ye? Mind’s Eye is my professional passive skill. Isn’t player Mingwei a Mind Energy Master?”
“Absurd…”
Caral seed to be in so confusion, holding the Moonlight Sword in his hands and officially crossed swords with Bai Di. Bai Di, having lost his eyes, could not make good use of his Mind’s Eye, and naturally, the result was defeat.
However, Bai Di managed to persist for two minutes in Caral’s hands, but Bai Di’s control over Mind’s Eye was still too inexperienced, and he was simply no match for Caral.
The instance eventually ended with the Annihilation Legion being annihilated, and the Happy Soda Guild’s White Sword Battle Team together fulfilled their mission.
When Caral erged from the Path to Ascension, there was already a large crowd of Happy Soda players outside, including Bubbles himself.
“Being able to take on the White Sword Battle Team alone and win, I think I can brag about this for a year!” Bubbles excitedly moved next to Caral. Everything that Caral had done in the Path to Ascension had been broadcast by the Holy Spirit’s official livestream.
But Caral’s expression wasn’t very happy; he looked at the Moonlight Sword he was holding, as if he had made so kind of decision.
“President, can you get so swords?” Caral asked.
“Weapons? Your Moonlight Sword can be enhanced again… what exactly are the attributes and direction of enhancent?” Bubbles, as the president also serving as a logistical officer, naturally provided the materials for the modification of Caral’s Moonlight Sword.
As the ace of Happy Soda, even a one percent improvent in Caral’s gaming character could directly impact their chances of winning the Holy Spirit Championship.
The Holy Spirit’s forging system allows players to feed one orange equipnt to another as a form of enhancent.
“It’s not for enhancing the Moonlight Sword, just swords—all kinds of swords are fine, even sticks and hamrs would do,” Caral said.
“Even blue equipnt? What are you going to do?”
“Just to use, for practice.”
“I don’t understand, but I’ll go ask Xue Bi if there’s anything good in the trading house right now.”
With this request from Caral, Bubbles naturally mobilized all mbers of Happy Soda to collect any weapons in Holy Spirit that could be classified as swords or related to swords.
Bubbles didn’t ask the reason why… while Caral, watching Bubbles’s departing figure, focused his gaze on the skill tree of his Swordsman awakening.
Caral had always treated Holy Spirit as a ga, and he improved his own ga character with the attitude of practicing: better equipnt, faster response ti, and more ga skills.
In Caral’s eyes, Bai Di’s Mind’s Eye was just a ga skill, but after fighting Bai Di, he had an epiphany.
Is the Mind’s Eye really a skill simulated by the ga system? If Bai Di could still capture attacks with his eyes closed relying on the Mind’s Eye, then what is his ability as a Swordsman?
This made Caral focus on the five passive skills of the Swordsman.
Weapon Mastery: Master the essence of all weapons, with all weapon proficiency starting at expert level.
This skill is overlooked by most Swordsman players because it is marginally useful and does not add any attributes, but Caral had a doubt in his mind—had he truly mastered this skill?
As Zhao Mingwei once said… was he a puppet controlled by professional skills, or the master of the skills?
Caral was certain that the vast majority of Swordsman players in Holy Spirit could not possibly master all the weapons in the world, including himself… Thus the ‘Weapon Mastery·Acquired’ label in Caral’s eyes was very ironic.
The title for a Swordsman after awakening is Sword Saint, but Caral didn’t feel qualified to have this title.
Besides, Swordsn have four more passive skills.
Rapid Shadow Hand: Reduces the ti required to switch weapons.
Shadow Catching Hand: Reduces the ti to grip a weapon.
Divine Shadow Hand: Provides a certain damage increase during weapon switching.
Selfless Sword Intent: All equipped weapons are classified as ‘sword’ type weapons, suitable for releasing all active skills.
The core of the Swordsman profession seed to involve switching weapons, but Caral didn’t use this thod because… it was not efficient.
The Moonlight Sword was currently the most suitable weapon for Caral, and it also had the highest damage, so much so that he rarely used the Shadowless Sword Thorne had given him.
Because for Caral… damage was everything, DPS was what he pursued as a top player.
But what about as a Swordsman?
If he couldn’t even perform sothing as simple as executing the Phantom Sword Dance with a stick, how could he possibly claim the title of Sword Saint?
“Is Xiao Ye downing an instance right now?” Caral suddenly asked the players beside him.
“Definitely, it’s still competition ti.”
“After the competition ends, I’ll go and spar with him,” Caral said.
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