Super Righteous Player
Chapter 72 - 71 Cross-Weapon Mastery_1

Chapter 72: Chapter 71 Cross-Weapon Mastery_1

[Health Points: 85%]

...This time, the third strike with the Frost Sword Technique, only 15% of my Health Points were lost?

Annan raised his eyebrows slightly, beginning to make some conjectures.

If he wasn’t mistaken, rather than calling it swordsmanship, the Frost Sword Technique was more like some kind of supernatural ability.

Or rather, it was a key to safely unleash the power of one’s bloodline.

Annan had realized before that when the Frost Sword Technique was used consecutively, the damage of each attack didn’t increase by much, but the damage he sustained himself doubled... This was unreasonable and impractical. It didn’t seem like a skill that the extremely strict Grand Duke of Winter had trained Annan to learn and master.

And this time, when he used the Frost Sword Technique while activating the frost nova... he noticed something different. Since the only enemy was already dead, Annan wasn’t sure if that was just an illusion.

—When he swung his third sword, he felt like the power of the frost nova seemed to increase a bit.

Because before Annan’s third strike even hit Gerald, he suddenly died.

Keep in mind, Annan initially couldn’t even harm him.

Annan’s frost nova could freeze an unranked strong soldier to death within five seconds; and that player who was under mind control was also wiped clean off the health bar with just a touch from Annan.

Yet Gerald, who was within the range of Annan’s nova all along, even though controlled to the point of being unable to move, was still able to struggle on the spot; apart from politely dodging the Wheel of Frost, even the Lazy Eye woke up after about three seconds.

If it weren’t for Annan’s timely follow-up control—especially the continuous control from the frost nova, he would not have been able to stop Gerald at all.

Therefore, unranked ordinary people do not have curse resistance. But once they become Transcendents, they will gain some resistance, which mainly helps them resist the side effects of their own powers.

At the silver tier, one would be like Gerald... those curses lower than one’s own soul rank would have a hard time stopping them.

In the beginning, Annan even felt that once his magic power was exhausted, he would probably still be unable to freeze Gerald to death with spells alone.

But when Annan used the Frost Sword Technique to strike the third sword, he distinctly felt that the frost nova became colder and colder.

And Gerald was suddenly frozen to death in the ice.

It was as if...

As the layers of the Frost Sword Technique grew higher, the "spell penetration" of the frost nova was also gradually increasing.

He had already tried when he leveled up the Frost Sword Technique to level two, and the curse’s damage to the body did not increase... but strangely, the power did not seem to increase either.

Then, Annan suddenly realized.

Could it be that the elemental damage of the Frost Sword Technique itself was a bonus... and what really matters was that burst of deep chill curse that suddenly surged within him?

Was it just because he was too weak now and his body couldn’t bear it?

Perhaps when the Winter family used the Frost Sword Technique, they didn’t actually use it to slash people. It was entirely possible that they used it to trigger some spell penetration or frost penetration buffs...

—After all, like a certain profession that carried five swords on its back, it was once possible to increase damage after slashing people.

Just not sure whether it’s "damage penetration," "spell penetration," or "elemental damage penetration"...

After a moment of thought, Annan decided to max out the Frost Sword Technique first.

Since the level of the Frost Sword Technique determined the penetration effect of the buff, then once the skill was maxed out, the penetration effect should become very noticeable.

So Annan first allocated experience to the Swordsman level, then tried raising a Wizard level.

His attribute list quickly became:

Annan, human, male

Rare Elite (gold), challenge level 15

Title: None

Tier: Bronze

Health Points: 85%

Erosion Level: 8%

Attributes: Strength 10, Agility 9, Constitution 9, Perception 25, Will 14

Public Experience: 303

Personal Feature: Heart of Winter [Reversed Inscription]

Career Overview—

Swordsman LV10 (Advancement available): Winter Sword Technique LV5, Disarm LV1, Frost Sword Technique LV7, Cross-Weapon Mastery Level 1

Wizard (Disabling School) LV12: Instant Spell LV3 (Cold Touch, Lazy Eye, not available yet), Guided Spells LV2 (Wall of Stagnation, Frost Nova), Chanting Spell LV1 (Wheel of Frost)

Annan clearly felt his vision clear up, his will become more focused, his body stronger and more powerful... but fortunately, he did not suddenly burst with muscle and rip through his clothes due to the sudden increase in strength. There seemed to be no apparent change in Annan’s appearance.

Leveling up in the swordsman class had significantly raised Annan’s overall physical attributes. When he reached level ten, the previous Guardsman Swordsmanship evolved into Winter Sword Technique, and he had also acquired a new ability, Cross-Weapon Mastery Level 1.

Its rough ability allowed Annan to use weapons that are close to "one-handed swords" and still wield Winter Sword Technique and Frost Sword Technique with full power.

—At level 1, this generally included light one-handed hammers, light clubs, and long daggers.

Luckily, Annan’s beloved little kitchen knife seemed to also fall into the category of long daggers...

For he suddenly felt that the boning knife in his hand became as responsive as his own limbs, and he could even toss it skillfully, spinning it in a flourish.

This was good, it meant Annan hadn’t wasted any skill points.

After all, he had leveled Frost Sword Technique to level seven without reaching its limit... He didn’t have extra skill points to spare to increase the level of Cross-Weapon Mastery.

But Annan was still a bit curious.

What would happen if the level of this skill was increased...

Unfortunately, he couldn’t coax a player to try it out.

That wouldn’t be hard, though; it was simply a matter of saving some skill points until you reached level ten and then investing them all at once.

But the problem was, the skill that players got at level ten probably wasn’t this one...

After all, their initial skills were not quite the same as Annan’s.

Annan could see from the backend that there was only one swordsmanship option available for player templates, which was Basic Swordsmanship. But he also saw that Basic Swordsmanship had its higher version, which was greyed out at level five template and called Military Swordsmanship.

And Parry, Charge, and Full Force Strike were all inherited from Basic Swordsmanship.

The skill types of Basic Swordsmanship and Military Swordsmanship were roughly the same, except for one missing ability:

—Steady Gait.

Perhaps when their Swordsman level reached ten, it would automatically transition like Annan’s?

Annan wasn’t sure.

After all, his template was different from the players’...

His was a Rare Elite, with gold font. The players’ template was simply named "player," but the font was blue.

With his experience as a planner, Annan intuitively felt there should be quite a few gaps between these two templates...

It couldn’t be that the only difference was four times the mana value, could it?

...Although, four times the mana value was already quite excessive.

But what made Annan feel uneasy was... he found that the bronze-rank Wizard consumed way too much experience!

Over a thousand experience points, enough to max out a basic class. Yet a bronze-rank Formal Wizard nearly devoured all these experience points in just one level, roughly ten times the amount needed to go from nine to ten.

This was the experience of a silver-rank enemy! Nearly enough to level up just one bronze-rank class...

And still, the Wizard class did not increase any other attributes... but instead, each level gained added two points to the Perception attribute.

Annan had a vague sense of unease.

If the experience demands continued to stack up like this, wouldn’t it mean that past the silver rank, Annan could almost only level up through dungeon raids?

It’s not possible that gold-rank enemies were lining up to be killed, is it?

Moreover, Annan always felt there was something off with the calculation of the challenge level...

What is up with level fifteen? Isn’t that a bit low?

Does it mean he could take on a bronze-rank at level fifteen with his current state?

But Annan felt he was far from being that weak.

Or does it mean he would need five level fifteen bronze-ranks?

...Surely not twenty-five level fifteen bronze-ranks, right?

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