Valkyrie Europa

Chapter 77 The Broken Calm
On a bluestone-paved martial arts arena, five or six young men and women with swords stood in a row on the sidelines.

In the field, a middle-aged man was fighting with a young man with a sword.

The middle-aged man's swordsmanship was sophisticated and ruthless, but he obviously didn't use his full strength, and just knocked out the young man's attacks one after another.

The boy's swordsmanship is well-organized, very standard and accurate, and his moves are also quite satisfactory, but he will always be easily blocked by the middle-aged man and return in vain.

Suddenly, the young man's sword changed and became strange. Sometimes he made a good downward strike, but suddenly stopped, and turned into a sweep, sometimes he made a sharp straight thrust, and then suddenly withdrew his hand, turning into a slash. Limp up picks, and the changes are often useless and don't produce any results.

If it is said that the changes of moves are smooth and the moves are continuous, it can only be said that the swordsmanship is poor, of course it does not seem strange.But the young man's transformation is extremely hard, sometimes it takes several seconds for a pause, and the connection of moves is also intermittent, the whole looks like a marionette dancing a sword, it is indescribably ridiculous.

Seeing the young man using this inexplicable "swordsmanship" again, the middle-aged man snorted coldly, and with a strong hand, he sent the young man's sword flying.

"Tom, how many times have I told you that your messy tricks are useless, look at you, you use your sword like this, before you can change your tricks, you were stabbed to death with a sword. The middle-aged man looked angry: "Didn't you perform well before? Let me tell you, don't play tricks or make unexpected moves when learning swords. When we practice swords, we practice swordsmanship moves. You just need to practice fast enough, powerful enough, and accurate enough. What you need to practice hard is the response to each move, and the transition of moves in actual combat. As long as you are proficient enough, you can catch the enemy's attack in battle. Flaws, defeat him with the moves you are most familiar with. It’s not that you can defeat the enemy by changing your moves suddenly.”

The middle-aged man lowered his voice and continued: "Tom, I know that your talent and aptitude are relatively poor, and your progress is not as fast as other students. But you have to understand that there is no shortcut to practicing swordsmanship, it is nothing more than repeated repetitions. Repeat, proficiency and proficiency. I think, as long as you work hard enough, it is not difficult to practice a sword technique. Well, I don’t want you to play those tricks in the future. Go on. The next one, Josie, come on, Let me see how you've progressed recently."

Zhang Ang walked down the arena with some disappointment, and looked at the two people fighting with swords in the arena, dazed in a daze.

This is the private swordsmanship training class of Master Todd, a master-level swordsmanship master.He used to be a wandering martial artist who traveled around the mainland. Later, he married a wife and had children, and settled down in Paris. He held this training class to subsidize his family. He has a very good reputation in this industry.This was specially recommended by Albert to Zhang Ang.

Zhang Ang has been learning swordsmanship here for nearly half a year. Master Todd is a good teacher. He explains in detail and is serious in teaching.

Here, Zhang Ang has practiced those basic swordsmanship movements thoroughly, and also practiced a set of the most common simple swordsmanship, allowing him to fight people with swords.

But these did not make Zhang Ang happy. He has been studying "Dugu Nine Swords" by himself for half a year. It was very embarrassing, obviously it was well calculated to be able to decipher the change of the opponent's moves, and when it was done, the other person had already used the next move, or even the next move, and the change of his own moves could not keep up with the situation at that time. Get ridiculous and hilarious.

He didn't show any special effects of the legendary special effects such as attacking but not defending, attacking but not defending, ignoring the difference in internal strength and so on. Instead, he was ridiculed by everyone many times.

At the end of the class, amid the ridicule of other students, Zhang Ang left Master Todd's sword training class, dragged his tired body, and walked towards the residence.

In the past six months, many things have happened in Paris, the biggest being the reorganization and expansion of the Paris Rose School of Fencing.After Miss Sophie became the dean, she bought the land facing the academy on the other side of the Seine, and built a bridge on the river. After some rectification, the Rose Sword Academy has two campuses, which recruit male students and male students respectively. Female students, teaching different sword techniques.Moreover, in private, there were even rumors that the most core disciples could be taught peerless swordsmanship, which attracted countless people to sign up. For a while, there was no difference in the limelight, and there was a faint momentum to become the number one academy in Paris.

There is also the legendary story of d'Artagnan, the peerless genius of the Musketeers, who broke through the realm in front of the battle, defeated several spies from England, and destroyed their terrifying conspiracy.

There is also an after-dinner joke that the Holy See notified all the believers in the city to help find a certain assassin, and the portraits were posted all over the city, making a huge splash, but in the end they found nothing.

Of course, in Albert's place, there are more gossip and gossip news about aristocrats' feuds, the rich fighting for wealth, love for children, jealousy, and various duels.

Although practicing sword is very hard, Zhang Ang still often sneaks past the big house of Marceau's family.

According to the agreement with Miss Sophie, if there is something important, she will put two pots of red roses at the door. If she sees red roses, Zhang Ang can go to Master Sophia to meet her.

However, as the days passed and passed by again and again, Zhang Ang didn't see the two pots of red roses.

Occasionally, he would also see old Ivan and Arnold. Old Ivan looked older and older, and now he could only go out with a cane.

Arnold, on the other hand, was sent by Miss Sophie to study at Iron Tower Academy, and now he looks stronger and stronger.

The news came from Albert: "You don't know, this Iron Tower Academy accepted a peerless genius today. Although he only has one arm, he is very powerful. Fifteen items, it takes an average person five days to complete all the tests, but this evildoer completed them in two days, and broke the records of each item. He, all of them lost their face, and in the public, a few people fought together, I laughed so hard, you haven't seen that scene, it's so wonderful."

Walking on the busy street, Zhang Ang watched the sunset slowly sinking to the ground, and sighed when he thought of the peaceful life day after day.

As he walked, he was thinking, and he hesitated: Should I contact Miss Sophie again and ask her to go to the auction to buy some martial arts cheats?

At this time, there was a commotion in the crowd in front, and a knight holding a blood rose banner was galloping on the main road of the city of Paris.

While running wildly, he mobilized his inner strength and shouted: "The English army is marching eastward! It has arrived at the city of Dunkirk!"

The knights shouted and rushed into the Grand Palace, and countless knights rushed out of the Grand Palace and rushed to the four directions.

The war has begun, and everyone's peaceful life has been broken.

(End of this chapter)