Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 76 Castle
The experience during the day made Rhodes have no appetite for dinner at night. The robbers were too cruel. After burying the victim's body, they burned the wooden house together with the robber's body.

The Nords believe that if the body is burned by the flame, the soul will be taken away by the dragon god and roasted by the flame, and there will be no peace forever.

Rhode didn't dare to close his eyes at all. When he closed his eyes, what he saw was the tragic appearance of the innocent people who died in that wooden house.

When he broke through the door, she was turned to face him.

After eating, he picked up a one-handed sword and walked not far away to practice Baihong swordsmanship until dawn, just in time to help them watch the night.

早上的时候他检查了一下系统，现在他的武功栏中挂载着：白虹剑法lv2、基础剑法lv4、踏雪无痕lv1、神照功lv2、抱元守一lv1。

The skill column under the martial arts column disappeared, and a proficiency column was added side by side with the martial arts column.

He clicked on the proficiency column and there were: Taizu Changquan [Getting Better], Iron Cloth Shirt with Golden Bell Cover [First Glimpse].

Rhodes looked at the two martial arts that had changed. Although Taizu Changquan said that he understood the essence and reached the full level before, it still has the same level as the martial arts in the martial arts column. Why is it gone now?
And this is how it turned out if the level of the iron cloth shirt with the golden bell cover has not been fully upgraded?
He began to check the effects of the two martial arts:

Taizu Changquan 【Getting Better】

Active effect: after use, the next punch will deal 250% damage, and the power of the punch will be increased by 30% within 50 seconds.

Passive effect: Fist attack with additional damage, increase the ability to parry, unload, and break the body when using the fist.

It seems that the damage of active use has been increased again, and the duration of the increased fist power after use has also been extended.

In addition, there is another skill:
Iron Cloth Shirt with Admiralty Cover [First Look at the Door]

Active effect: Defense power increases by 100% within ten seconds after use.

Passive effect: Greatly enhance physical and magical defense, and increase the ability to unload force in the face of physical attacks.

Rhodes looked at the revised system skill bar, and couldn't figure out why there was such a big change suddenly. He clicked into the mall again to see if the chivalrous value was enough to draw a prize, but found that the only evil soul before had disappeared.

It seems that the soul of evil should upgrade the system, but I don’t know why I didn’t upgrade the system directly when I got it. Anyway, it’s not a bad thing, but I don’t know if the upgrade of the iron cloth shirt with admiralty cover can add additional abilities in the future.

Rhode's current chivalrous value is enough for him to draw a prize once.

After thinking about it, he chose to extract the equipment, and a blue light flashed. It was a three-meter-long mo knife.

The system didn't give any instructions on it, is this also changed after the system upgrade?
Rhodes used the active effect of Taizu's long fist and felt that the internal force in his body was a little less. He punched a tree next to him, and the trunk with thick arms was broken by his punch.

Now using the active effect will consume the internal energy that I didn't know how to use before?
He used the active effect of the Iron Cloth Shirt with Golden Bell Cover again, and found that it would indeed consume internal energy.

It seems that in the future, we must pay close attention to practicing Shenzhao Kungfu. Although we can't upgrade to a higher level, we may be able to comprehend the essence and then no longer rely on proficiency to upgrade level by level like in the martial arts column.

In the proficiency column, if you want to upgrade, you need to comprehend it. This is the real practice of martial arts, and the martial arts column is just the initial benefits given by the system. Most of the martial arts only need to brush the proficiency. Not in the proficiency column, Rhodes thought.

He took out the Modao he had just obtained from the system space, and walked towards Baron.

"I'll use this knife to exchange my two-handed sword back." Rhodes said to Baron who had just been awakened by his hitting a tree.

"I didn't snatch your two-handed sword, take it back if you want it." Baron took Mo Dao and said.

Rhodes was a little speechless, ever since he threw the two-handed sword given to him by the female knight to Baron who was fighting the Black Heart Knight.After the battle, every time he asked Baron for it, Baron always changed the subject to try to fool him.

Baron picked up the Mo Dao and played with it. He thought it was pretty good, and returned the two-handed sword to Rhodes.

Rhodes picked up the two-handed sword and continued to practice Changhong swordsmanship before they set off. While practicing, he was always thinking about how to comprehend the essence of it. Taizu Changquan defeated many beasts and mercenaries with his fists. The essence of comprehension when defeating werewolves.

And the iron cloth shirt with the golden bell cover was unknowingly comprehended the essence of being beaten by the dragon man while being burned with fire.

It seems that if you want to understand the essence, you need actual combat. Practicing like before can only upgrade the superficial level in the martial arts column.

He put away the sword behind his back, and after a brief wash, he reheated the leftover food that he deliberately made yesterday for breakfast. After the four of them ate, they set out on the road again.

In half a month, they have almost reached the southernmost point controlled by the Nords, and they will enter the territory of the Roman Empire further south.

Rhodes knew that exterminating the bandits here was only a temporary solution, not the root cause. After every war, some soldiers who fled would stay in this area to be robbers and rob houses, and the number of people they killed was far less than the number of people killed in war.

The root of all problems stems from war, as long as this troubled world can be ended...

Rhodes just thought about it, this is too far away, the war that has lasted for nearly a thousand years is not so easy to be solved by him, a traverser, he originally wondered whether he could defeat the army by himself with his own strength To end the troubled times, the recent battle made him realize that he was too naive.

Even if he has the strength of the King of Assassins, a team of Roman Empire heavy soldiers surrounding him on the frontal battlefield can make him drink hatred, but his individual strength is still too weak for the collective. He needs to have his own organization or his own army. .

In the past, Nord had a hero who could kill a real dragon with his own strength and had the idea of ​​​​unifying the continent. As a result, he was stabbed into a sieve by a group of knights on the battlefield.

He began to have the same idea as Weber - to become a nobleman.

Rhodes had been thinking about how to survive under the siege of the army. It seemed that the only way to survive was to be able to fly like a dragon man, and he had to fly high and fast, otherwise he would be shot down by the archers.

But what he has is only the martial arts system, not the Xianxia system, although it is also possible that the highest level of Wudang Ti Yunzong can step out of the atmosphere with his left foot and the right foot.

He can only hone his martial arts now, every point of strength increases the possibility of surviving.

Then the arrogant and powerful Black Heart Knight was chased by the Knights of the Radiant Cross. I don’t know how many forces are stronger than the Knights of the Radiant Cross on the mainland. The Duke of Nord alone is definitely much bigger than it.

Still, the more I know, the more I realize my weakness. Originally, when I saw that Baron could easily deal with the robbers in Daniel's caravan, I thought that together with Baron, we could run amok across the continent.

"It seems that our current journey is halfway through, and we will go all the way to the northeast from now on." Weber said.

Rhodes looked forward and found the southernmost castle now owned by Nord...

(End of this chapter)