Phi-Fic Chapter 748 - 73: The Approaching Festival and Su Li’s Advantage
Chapter 748 - 73: The Approaching Festival and Su Li’s Advantage
The four essential elements of cultivation are wealth, law, land, and companionship, with wealth being the foremost.
Some extraordinary items possess inherent advantages once used, and certain foods can permanently enhance the body, granting features or specializations like agile reflexes, dark vision, or wild perception, among others.
Undoubtedly, Su Li holds a crushing advantage in this aspect. With the assistance of daily intelligence, his territory’s opportunities and extraordinary resources far exceed those of any other territory, making his wealth and resources possibly richer than some dukes.
This has bestowed upon him unparalleled physical fitness and advantages. In battles of equal strength, he can leverage this physical advantage to react faster, be more agile, and enhance both his offensive and defensive capabilities.
"However, the tournament remains a competition at its core." Su Li hesitated for a moment, already somewhat tempted. If he could use this tournament to change his longstanding mindset, to build his combat confidence, he would undoubtedly be happy to participate. He had only one hesitation: "But if the difference in martial skills is too great, I’m afraid even a physical advantage won’t suffice?"
When the time comes, if the opponent disarms him or uses empty-handed techniques against him, he won’t be able to leverage his strength.
Su Li has genuinely witnessed the knights’ exquisite combat techniques in this world. It can be said that a well-trained and highly-skilled knight, even without extraordinary power, can easily defeat seven or eight civilians or even raiders just by relying on stabbing and combat skills.
As for those whose martial skills border on divine, their fights can only be described with one word: breathtaking!
An elite knight with outstanding martial prowess can easily suppress another elite knight throughout the battle, leaving the opponent powerless to fight back.
Just like how Oerstein fought in Bauhinia Castle back then, at first, he didn’t utilize any extraordinary abilities and could still overpower three to four elite knights just with his combat prowess.
If Su Li were to encounter such elite-level knights, he could only be thrashed single-sidedly, unable to even touch the opponent.
Regarding this, Hilude is very confident, saying, "My divine magic is that of a Master of Battle Techniques. I can instill Her Majesty Violet’s martial skills into allies, allowing them to wield weapons with more skill. As long as I use this divine magic on you daily, you’ll definitely acquire abilities like close combat weapon specialization, quick block, lightning reflex, and damaging strike. Your mastery of martial arts won’t be inferior to other knights."
"And as a follower of the Sun Goddess, or even one of the Sun Goddess’s observed divine chosen seeds, you’re naturally imbued with traits like a calm mind, meticulous thought, and combat wisdom. As long as you remain calm and composed, after some battles and gaining more combat experience, I believe you’ll easily advance towards becoming the champion."
"And concerning combat experience, you need not worry. Should you desire, I’m confident that Freya, Tiberus, and including myself, numerous Champion Knights and Divine Chosen Knights will spar and battle with you. This will allow you to rapidly amass a wealth of combat experience and techniques."
Indeed, in this regard, Su Li holds an even greater advantage. After all, how many elite knights get to practice with divine chosen level knights?
The combat techniques and tactics that elite knights can think of can all be taught to Su Li by the divine chosen knights, including how to counter them.
Combat is also a matter of practice makes perfect. If you know where an opponent is going to attack and their strategy just by a mere gesture, you can effortlessly and gracefully neutralize the attack with the best method and defeat the opponent.
With so many advantages, even if not for the championship, at least defeating many elite knights to gradually build confidence is assured.
So Su Li thought for a moment and said, "Let’s give it a try. We’ll initially practice and then participate in the tournament among the high-level attendants."
There are a total of 18 spots for high-level directly affiliated attendants, but four of them are heavyweight, with only six elite positions.
And in the high-level directly affiliated attendants, there are nearly two squadrons of elite knights. That is, choosing six out of 240. It’s not easy to pass the first phase of selection under a 40 to 1 ratio.
Su Li truly must put his heart into training during this time.
Fortunately, he currently has no other matters, so this activity serves as the biggest pastime and motivation during this period.
With Hilude’s guidance and training, his strength will undoubtedly advance by leaps and bounds.
His ambition and determination soon attracted Freya’s attention. This cold, noble, frost-like academy female director and Knight Order leader also took the initiative to partake in his guidance.
For more than half a month, Su Li was guided by female knights during the day and in turn guided them at night.
Of course, the narrative wasn’t lacking in classic plots, such as teachers promising Su Li certain things and fulfilling his wishes if certain training projects and goals were accomplished.
This made Su Li tremendously motivated. With his efforts, the once cold Freya soon turned into a babbling brook, radiantly beautiful. For Su Li had reached his goals through training, placing a sado bronze bell on Freya, and it happened during training and guidance!
Hence, during this period, during her exchanges and training with Su Li, Freya emitted a series of crisp and clear ringing sounds. These sounds were originally so pure and melodious, yet at that moment, they became so captivating and enchanting.