I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

The sky is starting to turn yellow.

Dusk came.

Now that dusk has come, it means that Ogata and the others can get off work.

After quickly tidying up all the things on the desk, and saying hello to his colleagues who were still slowly tidying up the desk desk, Xu left quickly.

He hurried to Sakakibara Sword Gym.

Every day when I get off work, I go to Sakakibara Sword Gym to practice swords—this is something Ogata must do every day.

Ogata is still not very familiar with the system in his mind.

So——Ogata has quietly made plans to use his senior brothers as "experiments" in the Sakakibara Sword Gym to test the functions of the system bit by bit.

Holding the two sabers on his left waist, Ogata quickly rushed to the Sakakibara Sword Gym.

At present, there are not many people who come to practice swords in the sword hall.

These are the only people who are not close to Ogata.

Seeing that no acquaintances were present, Ogata was a little disappointed.

However, he quickly cheered up.

Although there are no acquaintances present, Ogata has an experiment that can be carried out even without acquaintances to accompany him.

Putting away his saber, he picked a wooden sword at random, and Ogata walked slowly to a corner of the sword hall.

Facing the air in front of him, he set up his next posture.

After adjusting his breathing, he gave a loud drink.

Following his loud shout, Ogata performed the only upswing technique in Sakakibara's Ichidou style - climbing a building.

Climbing the tower - the only upward move in Sakakibara's sword style.

Sakakibara Ichidou-style has a total of 4 sword skills.

They are -

Thrust technique - bird thorn.

Down chopping technique - water falling.

Horizontal slashing technique - dragon tail.

Upstairs - Climb upstairs.

No fancy tricks.

There are only these 4 sword skills that are simple and unpretentious, but extremely practical.

Climbing towers is the sword skill that Ogata is least good at.

He is best at water falling, followed by bird thorns, followed by dragon tail, and the least good at climbing stairs.

When facing the air in front of him to climb the stairs, Ogata clearly felt a sense of incongruity in his body.

This is proof of inexperience with sword skills.

"Practice a lot..."

After murmuring in a volume that only he could hear clearly, Ogata stretched his muscles, and then continued to practice Sakakibara Ichidou-ryu's sword skills against the air in front of him.

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"Hey, look."

"Ogata-kun is so serious today..."

"Yeah, I think he has been practicing alone for a long time..."

"Okay, Ogata-kun is so serious, then I, as a senior brother, can't slack off."

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After entering the sword gym, Xu Fangfang crazily practiced hard alone, which attracted the attention of the brothers in the sword gym.

While praising Ogata's diligence, everyone was also driven by Ogata's diligence, and began to practice their swordsmanship with a more serious attitude.

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After facing the air in front of him for an unknown number of times to climb the stairs, Ogata stopped, and raised his hand to wipe the sweat that was about to drip down his chin to the ground.

At this moment, a familiar system prompt sounded in my mind:

【Ding!Practice "Sakakibara Ichidou" hard and get 10 experience points for swordsmanship "Sakakibara Ichidou"]

[Sakakibara Ichikatsu level: 4th stage (30/700)]

After the reminder sound in his mind fell, an uncontrollable joy appeared on Ogata's face.

muttered in a low voice:

"Success..."

The reason why Ogata practiced swordsmanship alone just now was to do an experiment.

Experiment—whether you can gain experience points by practicing swordsmanship by yourself without defeating or killing others.

And now, the results of the experiment came out—it was totally possible.

It's just...the benefit is really too low.

Ogata swung the sword until he was sweating profusely and his hands were almost weak, so he added 10 experience points to Sakakibara's Ichidou style.

And it only adds experience points for swordsmanship, not personal level experience points.

Calculated in this way, it is quite uneconomical to upgrade one's personal level and sword skill level by practicing alone.

——If you want to level up quickly, you really have to compete with others...

While Ogata said this in his heart, he wiped his sweat with his clothes and adjusted his breathing.

At this moment—a male voice that was quite familiar to Ogata sounded behind him:

"Senior Ogata, good evening."

The person who spoke was the person who had the best relationship with Ogata in the entire Sakakibara Sword Gym - Ogata's junior brother Makino Bunshiro.

"Makino." Ogata replied with a smile, "Good evening to you too, you are so late today."

"Sigh." Makino smiled helplessly, "I was delayed by some things on the way."

"In this case, don't waste time, come and compete with me."

"Oh?" Makino raised his eyebrows, "Senior Ogata is full of fighting spirit today. Okay, wait for me, I'll get the wooden knife."

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Ogata is in the middle stance, and Makino is also in the middle stance.

Both stared at each other intently.

Although Ogata was much stronger than Makino in terms of swordsmanship, but he was not strong enough to crush Makino.

If he was careless for a while, he might be defeated by Makino.

After a confrontation like this for an unknown amount of time, Makino took the lead in shouting, and unleashed the dragon tail of Sakakibara Ichidou-ryu, sweeping the tip of the sword towards the back of Ogata's right hand.

And Ogata stepped back half a step extremely nimbly, dodging the sword that Makino slashed at.

After dodging Makino's sword, he stepped forward, closing the distance between the two of them again.

While closing the distance between the two of them, Ogata raised the wooden sword high, and then swung it down——Sakakibara's sword flow · water fall.

The blade of the wooden sword stopped just a finger away from the tip of Makino's nose.

"Senior Ogata..." Makino smiled wryly, "You won again."

【Ding!Defeat the enemy with Sakakibara Ichidou Ryu-Waterfall]

[Gain 20 personal experience points, 20 experience points for swordsmanship "Sakakibara Ichidou"]

[Current personal level: LV8 (70/700)]

[Sakakibara Ichikatsu level: 4th stage (50/700)]

A look of joy appeared on Ogata's face again.

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Another experiment by Ogata was declared a success.

Ogata came to the sword hall today mainly to do two experiments related to the system.

Experiment 1: Test whether you can get experience points without defeating or killing enemies, just practicing sword alone.

The second experiment: Can experience points be gained by repeatedly defeating enemies.

Now, Ogata's two experiments have been completed, and all of them have been declared successful.

Yesterday, Ogata had already defeated Makino once.

And today, after defeating Makino again, he can still gain experience points.

This means that you can still gain experience points even if you repeatedly defeat enemies.

Both experiments were declared successful, which made Ogata feel good.

Ogata stretched the muscles of his right arm and smiled at Makino:

"Okay, Makino, let's have a good activity today."

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Today, Ogata competed with Makino 3 times back and forth, and won 3 times.

I got 60 personal experience points from Makino, and 60 experience points from Sakakibara Ichidou.

Currently, Ogata's personal level is: LV8 (110/700).

The level of Sakakibara Ichito-ryu is: 4th dan (90/700)

Ogata originally wanted to compete with Makino for the fourth time, but Makino, who had already fought 4 times in a row, no longer had the strength and energy to compete with Ogata again.

Seeing that Makino said so, Ogata had no choice but to give up the sword fight with Makino.

Today, Ogata's master, Hanbei Sakakibara, did not come to the sword hall to instruct them to practice swords.

This is actually the norm at the Sakakibara Sword Gym. Hanbei does not come to the Gymnasium every day to guide them in swordfights.

Just like today—Hanbei didn't come, and Ogata and the others worked hard on their own from the beginning to the end.

Makino is no longer able to compete with Ogata, and Ogata just happens to be a little tired now.

After all, Ogata had already practiced swordsmanship alone for a long time before he and Makino started three consecutive sword fights.

Now that my physical condition is not good, and the purpose of today's experiment has been achieved, Xu Yi simply terminated today's practice, took back his saber, put on his straw sandals, and set foot on the way home .

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Compared with yesterday, Ogata returned home much later.

It was completely dark outside, and it would be impossible to walk without a lantern.

There are always a large number of lanterns for apprentices in the Sakakibara Sword Gym. Everyone in the sword gym can use them at will, as long as they put them back to their original positions after use.

Ogata held the lantern in his right hand, while his left hand rested casually on the saber at his waist.

goo~~

Stomach made an embarrassing sound.

"very hungry……"

Ogata put down his left hand on the saber, and gently covered his stomach with his left hand.