Chapter 482
Chapter 482: Darling of the New Generation
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
It was dawn . The empty land in front of the Rhino Bar's doors was filled with the sound of people making noise .
That empty piece of land had some rocks, scarecrows, and simple weapons for training like shooting targets . Old Barton wasn't greedy . As long as it was a customer of Rhino, one could use it for free . Sometimes, when he was free, he would give a few pointers .
As for ambitious adventurers, they never even thought about ever getting to sleep through the night till the early morning before they had to be demobilized . Life wasn't a game . In reality, there weren't people who just got by finishing off missions or freaks who randomly got exp by hitting monsters . . . Alright, there was always one bug that existed .
Cough, as for most people, fighting and the sudden appreciation of life were definitely a turning point . However, on the battlefield, just how my lives could one risk to seek the sparks of improvement? What was more, since one came to the sudden realization, one naturally needed to have accumulated enough for it to have any meaning; and, those realizations naturally needed to have been previously taught and cultivated .
Although mages needed sufficient time to sleep, it became a habit for them to analyze magic every morning at their prime state, while most priests would respectfully pray to the Gods at daybreak . This act of "giving their respects" was like a Godly power they craved . However, every judge of law was different . Law professions didn't need to greet Wumianzhe in the morning and report to him in the evening . All they needed to do was to study and have faith in the law—that would be enough . In actuality, this was more like mages who majored in "intelligence" .
But one shouldn't assume that priests' prayers were troublesome or anything, because they were extremely relaxed in contrast to other professions .
The sound of recited statutes came from the goblin room on the second floor of the bar . As Thor continued his adventure, he realized that he was lacking, so he didn't waste any time .
Judging from the lamp that was extinguished at three or four in the morning, the goblin judge who embarrassed himself the previous day seemed to feel a sense of bravery after feeling ashamed .
The law job class members were similar to the mages who only relied on their knowledge from books and theories . Mages had to use tests to prove their own theories, and experiments to prove their own conclusions . Law professionals also needed to handle cases and enforce regulations with the law . They had to turn empty statutes to actual verdicts and use their actions to carry out their own interpretation of the law .
Of course, mages could search for other people's test reports and judges could search a collection of cases, but personal experience and reading data were two different things entirely . In order to reach the peak, one would need to be as patient as water slowly piercing through stone one step at a time . There were no shortcuts . Back in the day at Sulfur Mountain City, the strongest individuals of the Four Halls were still working side jobs as judges and taking cases every day .
Moreover, soldiers, knights, and holy knight-type combat professionals had it harder . They would always sharpen their sword skills and train their bodies . Three days without sword practice would leave them out of touch, one week would cause them to fall back, and half a year would deny half their skills . If they wanted to improve one step at a time, they had to go practice their sword skills in an empty place every morning before dawn . That was the model example of a soldier .
Of course, when it came to Adam and Margaret's level, combat skills and sorcery had already become a natural instinct . There was no need for them to grind every day anymore . But, perhaps because of their nurtured habit, there wasn't a single day when Adam and the others neglected their practice . Their everyday fundamental training of several million sword swings were equivalent to a month's worth of practice for regular swordcasters . Roland, that b*stard, would be the only one who would sleep till noon .
Mary woke up rather early, but it was just to move her body a little and practice waving her sword a little before heading back to her room .
After all, despite the word 'sword' being in her title as a Four Elemental Swordcaster, nobody expected her to have incredible sword skills . The four's strength came from their use of many types of sword seals .
For an emerging profession which made something from nothing, seven years was considered the fastest time for one to expand and grow .
Back in the old days, Roland saw the potential in this profession, but it turned out to be an incomplete one . Now, countless successors had refined this dual-magic and martial arts profession without considerably high requirements .
From the very founding of the four elemental sword seals, there had now been over thirty types of common practices . This new profession also had their own direction in which they wanted to advance, and created a load of Gold-ranked common practices to get promoted . For example, they concentrated on research into some type of elemental sword seal to greatly advance in rank . In battle, sorcerers like those possessed swordcasting-like techniques for spirit sword seals . They used combined magical sword skills of magical-type soldiers to take out the enemy's exorcist swordmen .
The former focused their efforts on researching even higher sword seals . They always carried multiple micro-energy batteries and their magical swords would grow several troughs, which were more useful than "Olivia's box" and "Sword seal modules" . The latter specialized in using various types of combined sword seals . They would always carry multiple magical swords for them to use all different kinds of magical sword skills .
In comparison to traditional mages, swordcasting techniques might have been simpler and shorter in attack range . However, they were able to cast spells . Yet, besides the rather low mage's threshold, the real reason of its rapidly spreading power was mainly because it was a gold-using job . . . Yes . It was a gold-using job that wasted more money than mages . As long as you had money, and had enough "Olivia's boxes" and "Sword seal", you would be the king of combat with unlimited firepower .
Exorcist swordsmen needed to be more steadfast on their road to maturity . They especially researched various types of techniques of using sword seals and powerful "magical sword skills" which were composed of combined sword seals . Perhaps the effects were slow-acting in a short amount of time, but before a truly powerful person, they were considered to be greater than an exorcist swordsmen .
The most powerful exorcist swordsman was Cohen, who was said to have already joined the ranks of Myth . He even fought SemiGods and was able not to be defeated . He was seen as the most successful person among the younger generation of all lands .
Incidentally, Roland was extremely confused when he read the news at the time . Besides "My disciple finally surpassed me on this path . I'm really happy", he felt "How did he surpass me so quickly? How am I meant to act cool in front of him ever again?"
Anyways, back to the main point .
The most obvious advantage of the four elemental swordcasters' lead in this generation, and the reason why they were fundamentally and rapidly accepted by the people and various countries, was their good compatibility with the magical machinery of the new generation .
Every swordsman carried different types of little tools, so as long as they stabbed the magical sword into the magical machinery, they'd be able to control it like how one would control their own arms . This was something a pilot couldn't do no matter how much talent he acquired through training .
Because of this, the four elemental swordcasters couldn't do without using those magical swords as a controlling device to pilot different types of magical machinery . However, as giant battle machines were expensive and limited to military usage in some countries, professional pilots were still few and far between . They would always choose specially made magical swords and serve in the military .
It could be said that however strong the four elemental swordcasters were, it had nothing to do with their physical form . Instead, one had to count how many sword seals they possessed, how many magical sword techniques they learnt, if they had enough sword seal modules and Olivia's boxes on their body, and whether they carried different types of new battle machines .
Mary had already reached the Gold rank, but just looking at those three magical swords sockets, it was easy to tell that she was a swordcaster who mainly used high-ranking sword seals in battle .
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