People are full of pirates

Chapter 178 Advanced Swordsmanship
[Skill: Wind Barrier]

[Type: Special Sword Skill]

[Description: After releasing it, a barrier with howling winds will be cut out. From the rule level, all flying props that attack you will be confiscated, excluding life forms]

[Current stage: Elementary, each release will consume 25% of physical strength, you can spend points to upgrade this skill, so as to enhance the scale and maximum duration of the barrier, and reduce the loss of physical strength]

[Points required to upgrade to the next stage (intermediate level): 12]

[Prerequisite skills required to comprehend this skill: Advanced Swordsmanship]

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"At the rule level, flying props are confiscated..."

Nuo Xia's eyes flickered slightly, and she was amazed.

"It can be said to be a magical defensive skill. No wonder it was sold so expensive in the mall before, and I haven't used it for the second time..."

Sure enough, the S-class gift box must be a high-quality product.

As for the prerequisite requirements for advanced swordsmanship, it's not really a trouble.

Long before returning to the East China Sea to visit his relatives, his swordsmanship realm had already loosened its bottleneck, and he was only one step away from advanced swordsmanship.

In the days to come, as long as he focused his practice on the way of the sword, he would surely have a breakthrough soon.

"Continue to practice."

Everything has been opened, and the seals are collectively shipped. Nuo Xia is very satisfied with today's harvest, turns off the system panel, and then devotes himself to penance again.

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ten days later.

The first branch of Xihai.

In the not-so-spacious training room, sixty sailors were standing on the southeast side with guns, aiming and shooting at the middle of the field from different angles.

boom! boom! boom!
For a while, gunshots continued, and the sky was filled with bullets like rain.

And a figure, with his eyes closed tightly, has a vigorous figure like a swimming dragon, and he can easily shuttle between the rain of bullets.

Half an hour later, the gunfire faded away.

The sailors were panting tiredly, rubbing their sore wrists there, looking enviously at Nuo Xia, who landed slowly in the middle of the field, with no hair on his body, and even his clothes intact.

"It took at least a hundred rounds of shooting, but it didn't even hit a single shot."

"Yes, and in such a small space, Major General Nuo Xia's strength is simply too terrifying."

"The main thing is to keep your eyes closed. What do you call this at the headquarters, knowledgeable?"

"I don't know..."

The sailors whispered that they had never entered the great route, and many of them didn't even know what domineering was, but this did not affect Nuo Xia's strength, and it shocked them deeply.

"Everyone has worked hard."

Nuo Xia came over, smiled and nodded to everyone, then took the water bottle handed over by his subordinates, and strode out of the training ground while the sailors saluted him off.

"Compared to pure meditation, this training method is indeed more effective for the cultivation of knowledge and knowledge."

While drinking water, he meditated in his heart, "It's a bit labor-intensive and bullet-intensive. I used to be in the elite camp of the headquarters, before I graduated, but I didn't have such conditions..."

Sure enough, it's better to delegate to the base at the bottom, and it's better to be the top leader.

He has no interest in embezzling public funds for eating, drinking, entertainment, but at least he can "extremely extravagant" in this respect.

Um?The deputy base chief is not the first in command, but the second in command, right?
Tch, anyway, the immediate boss is my wife, the number one or the number two, does it make a difference!

"According to this progress, within a week at most, I will be able to further grasp the color of knowledge and upgrade it to the intermediate level."

Nuo Xia thought to herself, "When I was dodging bullets just now, I turned on 10 times the gravity. After breaking through, I raised the gravity threshold to increase the pressure on the body. This training method can also be used to continuously improve the level of knowledge. "

In the past ten days, he has been like this, spending an hour every day, turning on the gravity field, and letting the ordinary soldiers in the base practice as a partner, there is no need to find a fast and strong person to practice with.

Coupled with the meditation time of about two hours a day, his level of knowledge and knowledge can be improved at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary people.

of course.

In addition to knowledge, Nuo Xia has not neglected other aspects of practice.

The physical training alone takes more than four hours a day, and the swordsmanship training puts a lot of energy on it, and almost ten hours of swordsmanship is practiced every day.

And this is still based on the premise that he needs to fulfill his promise and help Taotu deal with complicated government affairs every day.

During this time, he even went to sea once, and wiped out a pirate group whose bounty was close to [-] million Baileys.

Twenty-four hours of non-stop rotation, looking at the entire naval system, it is estimated that only he can do it.

——What is a master of time management! (Tactical back)
I also don't know what kind of distressed expression Huang Sir will have on the G2 branch when he learned that he was not assigned to his subordinates, but was sent to the South China Sea.

"The next step is to practice swordsmanship."

He put down the water bottle, full of anticipation in his heart, "The bottlenecks of knowledge and swordsmanship and swordsmanship are about to loosen, and I don't know which one will usher in a breakthrough first..."

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Five more days passed.

At night, Nuo Xia, who was drenched in sweat, simply washed his body and returned to his bedroom refreshed.

To be precise, it is the bedroom he shares with the bunny.

On the wide double bed, Taotu had already finished washing, and was sitting leisurely on the head of the bed, flipping through a thick book in his hand, taking a sip of the coffee beside him from time to time.

"What are you looking at, so fascinated."

Nuo Xia skillfully took off her shirt, got into the bed, and glanced over her head curiously.

It turned out that it was a manga, and the style of painting was quite childish. Several people looked like Kamen Riders, wearing colorful transformation battle suits, fighting all kinds of weirdos passionately.

"How grown up, I still read this." He couldn't help curling his lips, "I have a set of comics called Bo Ren Zhuan here, that's really interesting, I'll read it for you some other day."

"The stand-alone book of the Germa series of comics has been serialized in newspapers before. I have been following it for a long time. I have to read the ending."

Like an adolescent girl, Taotu gave him a coquettish look, and was about to continue to turn over the last two pages, but from the corner of her eye, she accidentally caught sight of Nuo Xia's neck, behind the upper half of the fruit...

The little rabbit swallowed quietly, and closed the manga in his hand with a "snap".

Nuo Xia didn't notice her small movements. After sitting firmly on the bed, he habitually opened the system panel and glanced over.

It has become his habit to carefully review his own attribute list every few days.

"The three basic attributes haven't changed. Well, after all, it's been less than a month since the last promotion. The further you go, the slower the growth, which is normal... Wait!"

He suddenly sat up straight, staring at the skill list below with a look of surprise on his face, "Both swordsmanship and knowledgeable skills have achieved breakthroughs today?"

It's double happiness!

The hardships of these days were not in vain. Nuo Xia's heart became hot, and he immediately clicked and used the "Wind Barrier Skill Scroll" that had been put aside in the backpack because he could not learn it temporarily.

Immediately, he threw off the quilt in a hurry, without even caring about putting on his coat, he opened the door and ran out of the base.

"It's so late, where are you going all of a sudden!"

Momotu's angry voice came from behind.

"I suddenly realized something in the way of swordsmanship, and I have to try it out!" Nuo Xia didn't even look back.

Even if it's an epiphany, can't we wait until dawn tomorrow to try it out!
Looking at the back figure that disappeared at the end of the corridor, the little rabbit gritted his teeth with hatred. After punching Nuo Xia's pillow next to him hard, he could only pick up the manga angrily.

only……

Taotu rested her chin in a daze, always feeling that there was something tickling in her heart, the plot of the manga she read with relish just now, for some reason, she couldn't read it at all...

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seaside.

Under the action of the tide, the sea surface along the coast of the first branch of the West Sea is choppy, with waves more than ten meters high wave after wave.

"Standing under the waves, when the waves rushed over, they should have been judged as flying props."

Nuo Xia, who was still bare-chested, stood facing the ocean with a sword in hand, staring directly at the approaching huge waves, "It's perfect for testing the wind barrier."

One hundred meters, fifty meters, twenty meters... Seeing the huge waves approaching, Nuo Xia's eyes flashed coldly, and finally he drew his sword abruptly!

Swish!
The dark red blade of Yazakana's sword and the snow-white jade-like wind sword interweave afterimages in the night sky, and a thick wind wall whistling with strong winds suddenly formed in front of him!

"hasaki!"

In the middle of the night, there was no one around, so Nuo Xia took the opportunity to hit him, and announced the name of the dish with a stern the moment the wind wall cut through.

Whoa!

The huge waves came head-on, with terrifying momentum, but the moment they touched the wind barrier, they disappeared suddenly as if being swallowed into a different dimension.

Hundreds of cubic meters of seawater just disappeared out of thin air.

The fish and shrimp mixed in it, like raindrops, fell from mid-air, along the periphery of the wind wall, and fell into the sea in front of Nuo Xia.

"Living creatures will not be devoured, but they will also be stopped."

The tide receded, and Nuo Xia was still as dry as ever, without any seawater.

He returned the arrow to the sheath, looked up at the wind barrier that was gradually dissipating in the midair, and grinned loudly:

"Sure enough, it's an isolation skill at the rule level, cool!"

After mastering this skill, no matter how frightening the enemy's tricks are in the future, even if it's Akainu's lava waterfall, Fujitora's meteorite fall...

As long as he is prepared in advance, he can easily stop it!

It just consumes a lot of stamina, one time is [-]%, if it is used four times in a row, he may be overdrawn and shocked on the spot.

Nuo Xia thought about it, opened the system panel, directly consumed 12 points, and raised the Wind Barrier from elementary to intermediate.

[Your Wind Barrier skill has been upgraded to intermediate level, and its power has been enhanced. Each release will consume 20% of your stamina]

[You can spend 30 points to upgrade this skill to an advanced level. After upgrading, each release will consume 15% of your stamina. Do you want to upgrade now? 】

Nuo Xia glanced at the current points.

There are about 25 points left, laughing to death, can't afford to rise at all.

"Is the game system produced by Goose Factory? It's really bad. Let's talk about it when we get rich..."

He mumbled to shut down the system, then drew his sword again, and tentatively slashed a wall of wind toward the sea.

As expected, the consumption of physical strength can be clearly perceived to be reduced, and the most important thing is that the maximum duration of the wind wall and the maximum defense range have all jumped up a notch.

The rudimentary wind wall was only about ten meters wide, but now it has been raised to about twenty meters, and its duration has also doubled from five to ten seconds.

This means that the practicality of the wind wall in war will be greatly improved. Such a wide defense range can not only protect oneself from damage, but also protect the subordinates and even the warships under them.

[-] points, still not in vain.

"It's comfortable, go back to the house and sleep!"

Satisfied, he put away the sword, hummed the melody of "Eternal Pointer" all the way, and returned home, but when he reached the door of the bedroom, he twisted the door for a long time, but it still didn't open...

"Strange, I remember it wasn't locked when I came out..."

Nuo Xia scratched her head in wonder, and began to knock on the door with a "bang bang bang", "Hey, Commodore, open the door, I'm back!"

"I'm already asleep."

The little rabbit's cold and indifferent voice came from inside, "The door won't open, so you can go to the training room and sleep with your sword in your arms."

"..."

Nuo Xia reluctantly walked out the door with the sword in his arms, the snow was fluttering outside, the north wind was blowing, his solitary figure stood proudly amidst the snow and frost like a cut plum blossom.

baffling.

He scratched his head, his heart was full of bewilderment and confusion, all right, how did he offend the little rabbit?
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Time goes by.

In the twinkling of an eye, December has passed, and the time has come to January in 1502 in the lunar calendar.

It coincides with New Year's Day, and a warm and festive atmosphere lingers in the base of the first branch of Xihai.

"Happy New Year, Major General!"

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year."

After passing through the wreckage of fireworks all over the floor, Nuo Xia, who had just finished a night of penance with Momotu, yawned and went out the door.

While greeting his subordinates lazily, he flipped through the newspaper delivered in the morning and walked towards the restaurant.

The headline of today's newspaper is about the World Conference.

This major conference, which is attended by the monarchs of the 50 member countries of the world government and is held every four years, has been in preparation since the second half of last year.

And from the beginning of the year, that is, starting from these few days, the monarchs of various countries will set off one after another, embarking on a journey to the Holy Land of Mariejoia to attend the meeting.

Some countries that are relatively close are okay, but those that are slightly more remote will inevitably need the navy to send warships to escort them along the way.

Some lieutenant-level powerhouses will even be drawn out to serve as guards.

"What a waste of manpower and material resources."

Nuo Xia curled her lips, scratched her scalp and said to herself:

"I waited on those rich and powerful when I was full... But this matter should not be my fault, after all, I am only a major general, I have no strength and no qualifications..."

And below the headline, there is a report that follows, which is also quite eye-catching.

The Fishman Island, located [-] meters below the seabed of the holy land of Mariejoa, has been on the only way to the new world since the era of great pirates began.

In the past few years, it has been attacked by pirates. It is not uncommon for mermaid girls to be kidnapped and plundered, and become slaves.

The whole country is in dire straits and suffers unspeakably.

And just as the new year was approaching, the Whitebeard Pirates suddenly announced that the Murloc Island would be included in their sphere of influence.

All crimes and robberies against the island will be regarded as a provocation against the Whitebeard Pirates and will be severely punished!

Public opinion was in an uproar, and major newspapers rushed to report.

If it weren't for the fact that the World Conference was too important to suppress the limelight, I'm afraid that today's front page headline would be a photo of Whitebeard grinning heroically at the camera.

　I went to the hospital today for a bowel reexamination, and I was deeply tortured.

　　Ladies and gentlemen, if you have a friend who swears and tells you that colonoscopy doesn’t hurt at all, and you can do it with confidence, you should give him a punch right away, that’s how I was deceived...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)