Chapter 8: Six Stages
After breakfast in the morning, I followed Roy to the back mountain and continued yesterday's training.
But Weir was surprised to find that only one night had passed. He really restrained his instincts, was happy for a long time, and thought he was talented.
However, Roy told him lightly. This is normal because it is not a difficult training. After a night of adaptation, the body has overcome its instinct.
So what Roy took today was not a wooden sword, but two bamboo swords, and handed Vir one, so that he could attack him with all his strength.
Of course, Vile, who was beaten by Roy for the afternoon yesterday, wouldn't be polite.
Holding the bamboo sword, he slashed at Roy indiscriminately. Roy easily blocked it and knocked on Vale's forehead with the bamboo sword.
Bon, then Weir screamed, covering his forehead, so painful that he couldn't do it.
Roy nodded and said, "No, I didn't close my eyes. I can do other practices."
Weir glared at Roy.
"This is the purpose of asking me to attack you? You can't tell me in advance and let me be mentally prepared."
"Let you be prepared? That's what's the test? Don't talk nonsense. Next, I will teach you the correct sword-holding posture and the correct chopping, blocking, and stabbing movements. From now on, you will train these movements for most of the morning. If you fail, continue in the afternoon." Then I began to tell Weir about various sword skills, steps, and exertion techniques.
After seeing Roy's sword-holding posture, Weir did not do it immediately. Instead, he made a gesture to Roy and ran to the sword hall quickly.
Roy looked at the far away in confusion. He didn't know what the kid was doing. After a while, Vile ran back, holding a bamboo sword in both hands. He joked.
"I can't tell you that you want to be a double-sword swordsman. Although the double-sword swordsman is good, the power of the sword is much smaller than that of a single sword. You have to think about it."
"Two swords are the romance of men." After saying what Roy is unclear, he began to learn the sword-holding posture.
After Roy's explanation and mockery all morning, and the bamboo sword that greeted Ville from time to time, Ville basically mastered several basic skills.
Roy told Vill that it is not difficult to learn these movements, but the difficulty is the memory of becoming a muscle and the flexibility in fighting in the future.
After the two agreed, they came to yesterday's restaurant with Roy at noon, because the taste was really good.
When ordering, Ville found that Roy had a special liking for the menu on the page of the drinks, so he asked if he wanted to have some wine.
Roy refused sternly, saying that he would train Vile in the afternoon and not drink alcohol.
It was the first time that Vir saw a serious expression on Roy's face for two days after knowing Roy. After getting to know him, Vir was always surprised. He thought randomly that he seemed to be a person with a story.
After returning to the back mountain after dinner, Roy did not let Vill continue to faint, but took him away near the sword hall. Only then did Vill discover that there were various training equipment behind the sword hall.
Roy introduced the functions of various equipment to Ville one by one, so Ville started to exercise.
First, exercise arm strength, each swordsman's arm strength is necessary, then balance force, and then the chest muscles, downward in turn.
"Every swordsman must have excellent arm strength, but it is not enough to have arm strength alone. It also needs a sense of balance and overall strength of the whole body. Swordsman who exercises arm strength alone has no future." Roy said while helping Weir correct his irregular movements.
Weir felt that today's exercise was really relaxed, and he was not as exhausted as yesterday. It seemed that the "Thunder Sprig Method" was still very effective in resuming fatigue. While thinking about it, he trained harder.
Roy was also surprised to see that this kid was exhausted yesterday, but why was he so full of energy today? It seemed that he was very talented, so he continued to increase the amount of training. When Vier was running, he also had a load on his legs with five kilograms.
During the high-intensity training, Weir felt that his body was getting stronger, not an illusion, but indeed it was getting stronger. The "Thunder Spike" is not very beneficial to the body in normal times, but during training, it provides a large extent with the training effect.
Weir felt vaguely, and his training effect was three times better than yesterday.
What does this mean? As long as you are not lazy, the training results are more than three times that of others.
Thinking of this, Weir smiled and finally saw hope. No matter how confident he used to be, he was still feeling weak in his heart sometimes.
Just when Vill was practicing hard, he heard Roy call him back and finish his meal.
Weir was stunned. It was too fast. He took out his black pocket watch and looked at it. Sure enough, it was already past six o'clock.
After dinner, I thought I would go to Nice to learn swordsmanship tonight, so I came to the middle room of the sword hall and knocked them. There was a sound from inside, come in.
Sure enough, Nice was in this room, and I really didn't know what he was doing inside. After entering the room, Vir thought about it and sat cross-legged on the cushion in front of Nice.
"Master, I don't know what you are going to tell me. Do you want to teach me some advanced moves?" Weir asked tentatively.
Nice glanced at Weir.
"Do you understand the advanced moves? Or tell you some basic swords to be nicer to you, and I'll talk about them later," he said, and picked up the sword behind him and handed it in front of him, asking Vir to pull out the sword.
Weir looked at the pirate world in front of him, called the sword, and the earth called the samurai sword. He looked familiar no matter how he looked at it. The hilt of the scabbard was black, and there was a row of purple flowers-like patterns in the middle.
After drawing out the sword, the blade was also pitch black all over, and there was a row of red knife patterns similar to the shape of a canine teeth above the blade.
"What did you think of when you see this knife?" Weir, who was thinking, was interrupted by the teacher's words and said casually.
"I seem to have seen this knife somewhere." After saying that, Weir felt a little regretful.
"Oh, I've seen it somewhere, tell me." Nice was full of excitement and even stood up.
Weir didn't expect Nice to react so much. He didn't know what to say for a moment, but after thinking about it, he could only tell the truth.
"Uh...forgot." Weir's face was also quite embarrassed.
Then I saw that Nice, who had always had a serious expression and occasionally smiled politely to others, had violent twitches on the corners of her eyes and mouth, and her expression seemed as ugly as Xiang, who had been forced to eat two pounds.
"Oh, forget it, try to make it as much as possible. Did you see the whereabouts of this knife in the information sold by your mother when you were a child? If you remember it, tell me immediately. It is very important to me, and I will never treat you badly." Nice's expression was obviously a little lonely and regretful.
"Forget it, let's not talk about this for now. Maybe I'm too persistent and don't let go of what I should have. Let's explain to you some knowledge of swordsmanship." Nice returned to her usual expression and continued.
"Do you know how many levels of swordsman?"
Weir shook his head and said he had never heard of it. He was also curious in his heart. The swordsman level had never heard of pirates before.
"Swordsmen can be divided into six stages. Swordsmen of each stage can also be divided into three levels, early stage_proficiency_extreme. I will tell you about these six stages first.
The first stage is enlightenment. The enlightenment of swordsman is the stage when a normal person becomes a swordsman. No matter everyone who picks up the sword or a swordsman, you are in the early stage of enlightenment.
The second stage is to cut off steel. Even if a swordsman holds an ordinary sword, he can cut off steel, feel the breathing and frequency of the object, and then cut off him, cut off the things you want to cut off, and cut off the things you don't want to cut. I am at this stage.
The third stage is a very special stage, elemental attack. I don’t know much about the specific attacks that attach elements to sword moves. The reason why this stage is special is based on two situations.
The first situation is that ordinary swordsmen must cut iron before they can feel attribute attacks. Whether it is the understanding of the sword or the understanding, it is impossible to have attribute attacks without cutting iron, except for very few, such as the fur tribe, or those famous swords.
The second type is the ability of the devil fruit. Because of the diversity of the devil fruit abilities, some people can also attack attributes even in the enlightenment stage.
"You should know Demon Fruit Vile?"
Weir nodded.
Let’s talk about attribute attacks here first, let’s talk about the fourth stage.
The fourth stage is to cut off rare substances that are harder than steel, such as sea tower stone and diamond.
The fifth stage is to cut off nothingness. I don’t know much about the specifics, but it just means literally, because this state is too far away from me, so I will not mislead my children.
As for the sixth stage, I have never heard of people reaching it. He said that he does not exist, and he is still the dream of all swordsmen, which is something that cannot be cut off in the world. I don’t know much about whether anyone has reached it, but reaching this level can be said to have reached a new level.
These are the six realms of swordsmen. Simply put, 1. Enlightenment, 2. Cut off steel, 3. Elemental attack, 4. Cut off rare matter that is harder than steel, 5. Cut off nothingness, 6. There is nothing that cannot be cut off in the world.
Nice may have been talking for a long time and felt a little thirsty. She called an apprentice and brought two cups of tea and took a few sips.
Weir also took the teacup, thanked him, took a sip, and felt that it tasted pretty good, and it was dry in one sip.
Nice glared at her eyes.
"Boy, this is a good tea of 10,000 Baileys. You kid will give me a drink of it. I'll give you water next time." After that, he took a sip of the tea slowly.
Although the incident of the knife just now made Weier very embarrassed. He said that he had seen him, but he had not remembered where he had seen him for a long time.
But Weir felt that after that incident, he got close to Teacher Nice a lot, at least the other party was not hypocritical and polite to him. Thinking of this, Weir also said to Nice.
"Master, what is the concept of cutting off steel and how can we achieve it."
"This is still too early for you now. When you have a solid foundation, you are thinking about cutting iron. If you have a huge building on the ground, if the foundation is not good, it will have a great impact on your future development. Moreover, cutting iron may not be achieved through hard practice. There are quick methods. Let's talk about it when you grow up." After saying that, Nice smiled strangely at Vill.
When Ville saw Nice's smile, he felt the same as when Ross gave him yesterday, and he felt that he was completely in a bad mood.
"It's getting late, go back to bed. Don't come here without any doubts in the past month. During this period of night, if your body can take it, then continue to exercise. No matter how much sword skills you can tell you, it's useless. It's better to practice it yourself. The explanation will be effective. Go." Nice looked at Vir's face and knew that this kid might have experienced something from the words "Quick-Study Method". He smiled and didn't continue to say anything.
Chapter completed!