The Death List Novel - Chapter 453
Chapter 453 Swordsmanship
Turning off the projector, Qin Lun looked at the golden card in his hand and sighed. This thing would not belong to him in two days.
In the end, Kelly bought the Golden Mission Evaluation Card of the Central Demon World on behalf of Lost. Apart from offsetting the team cost of 50,000 broken crystals, she also paid 100,000 more broken crystals and several stress training scrolls. However, these were just small heads. The focus was on a high-quality artifact soul that could be used for the World Tree longbow.
This was also Qin Lun’s original intention. Lost was very close to the Moonlight Fairy Race, and the Fairy Race definitely wouldn’t lack wood-type artifact souls for World Tree items. As a price to pay for the gold card, Kelly gave out some additional information about the mission evaluation card.
Qin Lun already knew that silver and above evaluation cards were very precious, but apart from exchanging some materials for the Fragmented Universe Exchange List, he didn’t know what other uses it had, so he had some doubts about it.
Kelly’s intelligence solved this part of the mystery. According to her, every time the shattered starry sky invaded a different space-time world, it would obtain some laws unique to that world based on the world exploration and world origin that the apostles plundered.
Many of the items on the exchange list given to the apostles by the Broken Star System were based on these Laws of the World and were formed by consuming a certain amount of resources through the starry sky.
However, some of the precious equipment and props were consumed so much that even the shattered starry sky couldn’t be mass-produced, so the apostles had to pay a certain price.
The price is not common currencies such as shattered crystals and exchange vouchers, but their invisible contribution to the starry sky. The so-called invisible contribution consists of two points. One is the title of an apostle. The higher the title of an apostle, the greater his contribution to the starry sky, and the higher the purchase authority.
The second was the mission evaluation card. Furthermore, it was a silver and above evaluation card produced by the mission world. It proved that the apostles had plundered many of the essences of space and time in that world, so they naturally had the qualifications to purchase a copy of this world’s treasure from the starry sky.
Toril World was a strange space-time with a huge backdrop. Not to mention legends and demigod creatures, even true gods had formed several divine systems. Although they were at the peak of the Middle Devil Realm, their battle prowess wasn’t inferior to that of some high devil Realms.
When the shattered starry sky had developed to a certain extent in Toril World, it could replicate some of the legendary items and artifacts of the Ferren Continent. At this time, if one wanted to purchase this kind of imitation legend and divine artifact, the gold evaluation card produced in this world was a prerequisite.
Of course, despite knowing these secrets, Qin Lun did not regret selling the Toril Gold Card. Every legend and divine artifact was incomparably precious. Even with the Gold Evaluation Card, he would have no other resources to purchase legendary items, let alone divine artifacts, for a long time to come.
According to Kelly, the entire loss was only a divine artifact. As a treasure of the Town Guild, it was in the hands of the Guild Leader. Normally, when he entered the mission world, the Lost Guild Leader would not be able to use it. Only when he encountered a dangerous group battle would he be able to take it out.
After solving the World Tree longbow’s artifact soul problem and adding another 100,000 broken crystals to his hand, Qin Lun no longer cared about the outside world. Even the necromancer sacred artifact in his hand no longer sought to be sold. Even though he didn’t use the Undead Sacred Artifact, it was too bad to use it to exchange for broken crystals. It was better to hold it in his hand and exchange for the items he needed in the future.
Right now, Qin Lun was no longer a preparatory apostle who had just entered the starry sky. His equipment and skills had already formed a system, and his requirements were narrow, but his requirements for quality had greatly increased.
In the following period of time, Qin Lun, Frank, Didi, and Schiff were in the training ground. The Master-level skill scroll he had obtained from Toril World was used on the dagger to upgrade the dagger’s high-level expertise to Master-level skill.
As for the low-and middle-level stress training scrolls he had obtained from Kelly, he had used them all on one-handed cold weapon techniques, upgrading them to advanced specialties. This was because only one-handed Cold Weapon Specialist could use the Wind Chasing Frost skill-Wind Chasing Frost.
However, what made Qin Lun speechless was that the skill of the one-handed cold weapon had increased, and it actually didn’t contain swordsmanship.
When he took out other one-handed weapons, the death list showed that he possessed a single-handed cold weapon specialization skill. However, if he changed to Wind Chasing Frost or another one-handed sword, the description of the death list would become the original one-handed cold weapon proficiency skill, belonging to the Intermediate Skill.
For this reason, Qin Lun deliberately looked for Kelly to solve her confusion. At first glance, the female martial artist was a little confused when she heard this kind of thing. Afterwards, the violent woman went to find another deputy leader of the Lost Party, Gui Dao.
Ghost Saber was a high-grade macheteman. Although he did not use a sword, the sword itself was somewhat interconnected, so it was not a mistake to ask the wrong person. Ghost Saber had never encountered a situation like Qin Lun’s before. However, he was very proficient in the Dao of Saber and Sword. After asking about the youth’s training, he made two conjectures accordingly.
One was that Qin Lun did not possess pure sword dao talent, so he could not get a response from the Sub-Legendary Weapon. In other words, it was Wind Chasing Frost. They didn’t recognize Qin Lun’s one-handed weapon specialization skills.
Secondly, Qin Lun’s swordsmanship skills were not as proficient as using the Wind Chasing Frost. That was to say, even though the Fragmentary Universe had acknowledged that the young man possessed a single-handed weapon specialty in terms of Laws, Qin Lun only possessed the “feel” of the Laws’ body towards sword-type weapons, and his actual combat ability and moves could not reach the level of specialization.
Actually, Ghost Saber was only halfway through the explanation, and Kelly understood it completely. After being killed by Qin Lun on the golden card, she disguised herself as erasing her favor. The disappointed violent woman was already very unhappy, so she took this opportunity to mock him fiercely.
It was just that Qin Lun was no longer the murderer who had just walked out of Federal District 91. After more than half a year of living in the Broken Star System, he had spent several times as much time in the quest world as before, gradually wiping away the teenagers and ignorance from his body.
Nowadays, he no longer only had knowledge of psychology in books. Whether it was his IQ or his previously relatively weak EQ, there were no flaws. Kelly’s mockery had no lethal effect on him. The smiling mask, which had not changed from beginning to end, made the violent woman take advantage of it and embarrassedly chat him up.
Of course, resisting mockery was one aspect. In fact, Qin Lun still valued the information that Kelly had brought him.
Due to two shortcomings, he did not give up the Wind Chasing Frost. Instead, he invested more training time and purchased another batch of stress training scrolls to use on the training ground. Not to mention the 100,000 broken crystals that Kelly had given him, he had also sold the synchronous spacetime instrument for the remaining two times.
The swordsmanship instructor who taught Qin Lun on the training ground was still the plump Rakshasa girl from before. Rakshasa Maiden herself was only a beginner professional swordswoman, and Qin Lun’s combat strength had long surpassed his master’s.
However, Qin Lun felt that Rakshasa’s violent teaching style was very suitable for him to improve his swordsmanship in a short period of time, so he invited her over with a shameless face. Rakshasa Maiden slowly changed her mind towards this clumsy and easy-to-learn student of the Sword Dao. She began to patiently teach and impart her understanding and skills of the Sword Dao.
Although this teacher’s level of martial power was not high, the valiant and skilled Rakshasa Clan had a high talent for swordsmanship, and there were many experts in the swordsmanship in the clan. As a swordswoman hired by the officials of the Horn of the Abyss, Rakshasa’s talent in swordsmanship could be imagined.
She was the opposite of Qin Lun. Her combat strength was not high because she was young and did not have enough adventure experience, but her talent in swordsmanship was outstanding. Sometimes, after training, Qin Lun would return the favor with some adventures.
Of course, due to the strict restrictions on the apostles from revealing the mission world, this kind of narration was basically in the form of a story novel, which made Rakshasa Maiden, who was not experienced enough in adventure, enjoy listening to it.
Apart from Rakshasa’s teachings, Qin Lun would also invite Elf Elder Malfoy Moria to be his guest coach. After Qin Lun joined the order-keeping front, Ma Fa, who had a good relationship with him, started to become more familiar with him.
“Qin Lun, why did you pay such a high price to master an incompatible martial skill!” After a training session, Malfoy and Qin Lun sat on the floor of the training ground, sweating profusely, and began to discuss swordsmanship.
“Jungle Hunters are good at long-range attacks, but their close combat abilities are insufficient. I need to make up for this. The other reason is because of this sword.” After a moment of silence, Qin Lun took out the Wind Chasing Frost from his storage space and threw it at Malfoy.
Unless another apostle forcibly seized the apostle’s equipment, it would be a bound item and would be recycled at a certain distance from the master, but it would not be a problem for others to swallow it.
Malfoy flipped his wrist and gently received the sword. He stood up and waved it a few times. His eyes immediately lit up. He turned around and asked in surprise, “Dark Gold Sword?”
“No, Sub-Legend!” Qin Lun smiled calmly and shook his head. “You know, this kind of high-quality equipment is very rare. It’s easier for the apostles to upgrade their martial skills, so I can only try to learn swordsmanship well!”
“Sub-Legend?” Malfoy’s expression changed. He touched the Void Beast Potion in his arms and sighed, “Sometimes, I really envy your apostles. I’ve only known you for half a year, right? Back then, an ordinary person already possessed legendary equipment that could be used as a treasure to suppress the clan.”
“Malfoy, don’t envy us. No matter how powerful the apostles are, they are only meteors. Although half a year’s experience is enough to last many people’s lives, the vast majority of the apostles in the starry sky are still less than half a year old.” Qin Lun glanced at the handsome elf and reminded, “You have your own life and a beautiful daughter. Enjoy your life!”
“I know. The Void Beast Potion’s 1% chance isn’t enough for me to take a risk. I’m just sighing with emotion!” Ma Fa smiled bitterly and said, “Right, when I fought with you just now, I discovered that you learned from that Rakshasa female swordswoman and began to have a rudimentary form of the Rakshasa Clan’s sword dao. If you want to have your own sword dao, you must hire more instructors in the future.”
“Why? Could it be that my female instructor is still lacking in swordsmanship?” Qin Lun raised his eyebrows slightly and asked curiously.
“Haha, it has nothing to do with her. I’ve seen that female instructor before. Her talent in swordsmanship is very high. However, you don’t understand the Rakshasa Clan’s swordsmanship. Their clan’s swordsmanship favors hacking and chopping, not cutting.” Malfoy explained with a smile.
“Actually, based on the structure of a sword-type weapon, a straight stab is more powerful than a chop. A chop can only leave a wound on the enemy, but a straight stab can pierce through the body. Do you think that kind of wound is more fatal?”
Qin Lun frowned and asked, “Then the swordsmanship I’m learning now …”
“En, the sword dao you learned is actually a combination of saber techniques. It can be said to be a saber-sword martial skill!” Malfoy said solemnly.
“Thank you, Malfoy, I know what to do!” Qin Lun smiled sincerely, wondering if he could go to the auction house to see if there were any scrolls of elementary saber techniques.
“Qin Lun, I’m going on another expedition in a few days!” Malfoy’s eyes lit up and he suddenly sighed softly.
“Battle?”
“Yes, it’s the war between the Moonlight Fairies on another floating continent!” Malfoy whispered.
Qin Lun frowned and didn’t say anything. The life of the apostles and the races of the starry sky were two different worlds. Malfoy’s sudden mention of war made him a little puzzled. The elves should know that he would not accept this kind of war hire.
“Haha, don’t wrinkle your face. I don’t want to hire you to participate in the war!” Malfoy looked at Qin Lun meaningfully and whispered, “However, if I don’t come back this time, I hope you can take care of my daughter, Adrienne, in the future.”
“Alright!” Qin Lun’s answer was simple and straightforward.
“I won’t let you help me for nothing. These are my swordsmanship tips that I usually record. I’ll give them to you now! Although I can’t let your apostles learn them directly, it should be helpful to you.” Malfoy took out an ancient letter from his chest and threw it at Qin Lun.
“Now, let me see your true strength. I am referring to a martial skill other than swordsmanship!” Malfoy tossed the Wind Chasing Frost and pointed at Qin Lun with great heroism.
“Are you sure?” Qin Lun smiled strangely.