novelraw Chapter 53 : King-Slayer Black! Kingdom Travel Notes!
Chapter 53 : King-Slayer Black! Kingdom Travel Notes!
Chapter 53: King-Slayer Black! Kingdom Travel Notes!
She kept feeling that Leo had behaved a little too obediently just now, which made her somewhat uncomfortable.
“It’s nothing. Teacher, you’re overthinking it.” Leo was speechless inwardly. Women really did have too many thoughts.
“Teacher, I just feel like I can’t find any clue at all with this sword technique.” Leo scratched his head, looking extremely well-behaved.
“It’s only right that you can’t find any clue. This is the essence of swordsmanship that I spent more than ten years pondering, standing on the shoulders of those who came before.” Eve Sova spoke confidently, but inwardly she was already a little uncertain.
She actually felt that since Leo had completely mastered the first two moves in such a short time, he should also be able to master this final third move very quickly.
“Have you ever thought about combining the stacked waves into a single sword…” Eve Sova muttered softly.
“Teacher, what did you say?” Although Eve Sova’s voice had been very low, Leo heard it clearly.
What did she mean, combine it into a single sword?
Stacked waves meant one sword strike layered over another, so what did it mean to combine them into a single sword? Could it be something even higher than the third stage…
As he thought about it, Leo’s train of thought was interrupted by Eve Sova’s voice.
“N-no, nothing. Just keep your feet on the ground and practice properly! Stop thinking about random things all day.”
……
After leaving the training room, Leo unusually walked toward the castle gate.
During this period, he had devoted all of his energy to carrying out his training plan, with Single-Minded Focus.
But today was an exception.
Hogg’s family had sent people to receive his corpse.
At this moment, at the castle gate, an old man dressed in black stood with a gloomy gaze, sorrow hidden in his eyes.
Behind him followed a sturdily built burly man.
The old man was Hogg’s family’s old steward, directing several stablehands to lift the wooden coffin onto the cart.
In the entire Blackstone City, only Leo and Arthur had come in person to see Hogg off.
Arthur exchanged a few words with the old man in black.
Meanwhile, Leo helped take care of the horses for a bit.
Hogg’s family territory was very far from Blackstone City, and a round trip would take more than half a month.
So Leo replaced the horse’s horseshoes for free, allowing it to travel a little more easily on the long journey.
It was only a small effort, and it could be considered the last thing he did for Hogg.
Of course, Leo also looked through some fragments of the horse’s memory.
What he had not expected was that this time, the horse really had seen some special things on the road.
Because they had to bring Hogg’s body back to the territory as quickly as possible, Hogg’s family had no way to wait for the Kingdom Merchant Caravan.
They chose another method instead, hiring a bounty knight at a high price to complete this task for them.
And the burly man behind the old man in black was that bounty knight.
However, it was somewhat different from what Leo had imagined.
This bounty knight had not encountered any thrilling battle scenes along the way.
Leo saw him negotiating with a group called the Wilderness Knight Order.
Calling it negotiation, it looked more like a transaction—or rather, paying toll money.
‘It seems that if one can’t hitch a ride with the Kingdom Merchant Caravan, then out in the wilderness, they’ll run into all sorts of other monsters and demons.’
The coffin was loaded onto the cart and firmly secured with ropes.
Leo also carefully checked the horse once more.
With mountains high and roads long, today would be the last meeting.
The old man in black slowly walked over to Leo and Arthur. “You two kind young men were my young master’s close friends in life. This book was his favorite while he was alive. Consider it a keepsake, and keep it with you.”
Leo accepted the thick book.
《Kingdom Travel Notes》.
Watching the convoy leave the castle, Leo slowly opened the 《Kingdom Travel Notes》 in his hands.
Chapter One, King-Slayer—Black.
……
Arthur had no interest in books at all. After seeing the convoy off from the castle, he also hurried back to train.
The year-end assessment also placed considerable pressure on him. It was said that the results were directly linked to his living expenses afterward.
Meanwhile, Leo casually flipped through the 《Kingdom Travel Notes》.
With a Spirit Attribute of 1.4, Leo read very quickly, taking in ten lines at a glance.
Very soon, he had roughly finished reading the first chapter.
This book seemed to have been written by a Bard several hundred years ago.
The first chapter spoke of a segment of Danlun Kingdom’s history from several hundred years earlier.
It had been a great upheaval. King-Slayer Black rebelled against the Danlun Kingdom, gathered a rebel army to attack the royal court, and at one point almost succeeded.
But in the end, he was punished by the Father of Light, who appeared in person and erased his three souls and five senses.
Leo recalled having seen quite a few oil paintings about the Church before, all depicting the story of a priest punishing this King-Slayer Black.
However, although Leo looked, he still maintained his own independent thinking.
‘Father of Light—if he really wanted to help the kingdom, why did he only act after the regicide had already succeeded?’
Leo savored the implications.
In any case, history was always written by the victors.
Closing the book, he had already arrived home before he knew it.
Now he could openly practice the third move of this sword technique, since Eve Sova had already taught it to him.
But after this incident, a question arose in Leo’s heart.
Had this sword move really been created by Eve Sova?
Leo felt it did not seem likely. From his observation just now, Eve Sova’s level of mastery over the third move had not been as high as he had imagined.
She was only a little more proficient than his current self.
Leo felt that there might have been some exaggeration in what Eve Sova had said.
Through his intelligence network, Leo had also heard some stories about Blackstone City.
Knight Laforin did not have only one daughter, Eve Sova.
Eve Sova also had a younger sister, and it was said that back then, her younger sister had been an even more dazzling swordsmanship genius than Eve Sova.
It could even be said that she had been a swordsmanship genius who drew the attention of the entire kingdom.
Under her brilliance, almost no one paid attention to Eve Sova.
It was only that later, her younger sister suddenly left Blackstone City. It was said that she had gone to the kingdom.
For now, that was all Leo had heard.
Although he had now established an intelligence network, the quality of its information was clearly not high. Almost all of it came from conversations the horses had overheard here and there.
From all sorts of household trivialities, to secrets spoken by maids, to the various habits of squires—there was everything under the sun.
Leo even felt that with his 1.4 Spirit Attribute, sifting through mountains of garbage information in search of gold was somewhat exhausting.
“There are only a little more than ten days left before the year-end assessment. I should still focus my main energy on the Breathing Technique and swordsmanship, with study of 《General Knowledge of Alchemy》 inserted in between, so that my body gets enough relaxation.”
Leo adjusted his training plan.
The Breathing Technique strengthened bodily attributes in all aspects.
In order to keep his Strength Attribute from exceeding his Agility Attribute by too much and affecting his coordination,
Leo decided to suspend his archery practice that specifically increased strength, and appropriately increase the time spent practicing the Breathing Technique.
Because he still had two jin of dried Headhunter Tribe meat on him.
This kind of meat should be able to support him in practicing the Breathing Technique for longer.
As for the Tide Cross Sword, Leo still wanted to grind the progress of this advanced sword technique to full level as soon as possible.
Because of the Class requirements for 【Sword Master】 (Blue).
1. Strength Attribute reaches 1.5 (already met)
2. Agility Attribute reaches 1.2 (already met)
3. Train a sword technique of green quality or above to full level. (not yet met)
As long as he maxed out the progress of the Tide Cross Sword, he would meet the Class requirements for 【Sword Master】.
Leo was now extremely eager for a new class.
But he was troubled by the lack of a suitable sword-training opponent.
Among the people he knew, aside from Eve Sova, no one could accompany him in practicing Power of Stacked Waves.
And Eve Sova was a very busy person.
Leo thought of the Blood Goblin in the dungeon, and that Thunder Lizard.
“Forget the Thunder Lizard.”
Leo did not do risky things.
The most suitable was still that Blood Goblin. It would be even better if another new one came—this one in the dungeon had already become a bit too slippery.
Without thinking further, Leo decided to first begin training the Breathing Technique.
【Furnace Breathing Technique First Stage 37/100】
He would see just how much better the Headhunter Tribe meat was compared to ordinary Beastkin Meat.