After going into the sea, I met the witch lady

Chapter 204: Acquire a brand new swordsmanship with the great sword!

The candlelight on the wall danced, reflecting the dark edge of the sword.

In the entrance passage of the ancient ruins, the Black Knight Captain, who was repulsed by Ryan, stopped and launched another offensive the moment he stopped.

The wind was howling, and the temperature in the air was rising little by little. At the same time, the big sword in the hand of the Black Knight Captain was also entangled with circles of violent wind like a whirlpool of flames.

"Boom!"

Like a tornado passing through, the solid stone ground was shattered by the sword energy, and the black knight captain, who was carrying a huge momentum, had already burst in front of Ryan and slashed down with his big sword.

The sword energy wind mixed with sparks was extremely hot.

A trace of excitement flashed deep in Ryan's eyes. He did not use any professional skills. He just used the [Big Sword: Black Slash] in his hand and his own [Physique] to start a pure swordsmanship contest with the Black Knight Captain.

If the swordsmanship of the Black Knight Captain is the embodiment of the heat of the wind, then Ryan's storm swordsmanship is the symbol of the fury of the wind.

Heat of the Wind: The terrifying high temperature that is continuously accumulated and compressed during its high-speed flow process gives the sword energy a unique sharpness.

"call……"

"Click..."

It was half kneeling on the ground, supporting its body with the cracked sword in its hand.

After all, the general strength of the Black Knight is at the Paladin level.

Ryan let out a breath and put the sword on his shoulder, and invisible transparent ripples spread.

The Fury of the Wind: On the eve of the storm, it is gloomy and depressing, just like the process of accumulating power. But when the storm comes, the earth cracks and the sky collapses, unstoppable, just like the sword that explodes after the accumulating power is over.

"This feeling……"

The silent and still world returned to normal with the slashing of Ryan's "God-Splitting Sword".

The leader of the Black Knights, who was just about to continue the attack, felt as if his body was trapped in an insect in amber, becoming extremely sluggish and almost stopping.

The big sword collided with the big sword, and gorgeous Mars flowers exploded one after another in the air.

Ryan stood there, looking directly at the leader of the Black Knights not far away.

But so what?
This is a place of travel. Even if the traveling clone dies, there is still a chance to come back, but the opportunities to fight against strong swordsmen are very few.

It slowly stood up from the ground. In the process, a large part of its pitch-black armor shattered and fell to the ground.

An energy giant sword made of lava rose from the ground and collided with the spiritual giant sword that Ryan had chopped down.

"Qiang——!"

"pity……"

The leader of the Black Knights thrust the sword into the ground in front of him. The next moment, with its body as the center, red cracks with a radius of more than ten meters spread on the ground.

According to the introduction on the panel, the strength of the Black Knight Captain after his death is no longer the same. It is estimated that the level of swordsmanship has dropped a lot due to the loss of the memory of death, but even so, he still has the level of "grandmaster level", but One can only imagine how powerful the Black Knight Captain would be without his death.

Without using any professional skills or special skills, his strength is not much different from that of the Black Knight Captain, and they are both at the peak of "brave level".

After a collision, Ryan's arms violently exerted force, knocking the leader of the Black Knights back more than ten meters.

The intense blood color lit up in its pupils, even forming a rising demonic blood inflammation.

If possible, he would prefer to fight the leader of the Black Knights in his heyday, even if he would probably lose.

In particular, the Black Knight Captain's attainments in swordsmanship were slightly better than his own.

At least he's a hero!
Even among the heroes, he is not considered weak.

"Boom-"

The excitement in Ryan's eyes grew stronger.

The already broken armor on the leader of the Black Knights was now covered with dense cracks, like a piece of porcelain that was about to break.

Such a hearty collision of swords was the first time he had ever learned swordsmanship.

In the smoke, a dark figure flew backwards for hundreds of meters, and then landed with difficulty.

In the end, he won this battle between swordsmen.

But this is not enough.

Ryan's eyes paused and his expression became serious.

The sound was strangely still for a moment, and then a terrifying shock wave, mixed with spiritual and Martian fragments, raged in all directions.

It's normal to think about it. As the leader of the Black Knights who serves the "King of Heat, Lord of Sin Flame", it is unlikely that he doesn't even have hero-level strength.

A strange yet familiar and creepy wave emerged from the body of the leader of the Black Knights.

After hundreds of collisions, Ryan had a good understanding of the swordsmanship of the Black Knight leader.

The oppression of the life-and-death crisis caused the scarlet color in the eyes of the leader of the Black Knights to suddenly surge, and the "scorching wind" surging around him also exploded. From a distance, it looked like a lava volcano about to erupt.

The spiritual lightsaber, which was specially compressed to only a dozen meters but was even more terrifying in power, locked onto the head of the leader of the Black Knights and chopped it off at high speed towards the target.

But it's not because his swordsmanship is better than that of the Black Knight Commander, but because the Black Knight Commander's broken body and weapons cannot sustain such an intense battle.

Ryan sighed in his heart, and the fighting spirit in his eyes gradually subsided.

At this time, the leader of the Black Knights, who was half kneeling on the ground, moved.

"It's the power of the abyss!"

Ryan is no stranger to the "Power of the Abyss". Monsters such as the Cursed Poison Frog that live in the poisonous swamp woods are all contaminated by the "Power of the Abyss", and naturally have fluctuations in the "Power of the Abyss" within their bodies.

But compared to the leader of the Black Knights in front of him, the power of the abyss in those monsters was weaker by more than an order of magnitude.

But why did the leader of the Black Knights, who was so polluted by the power of the abyss, not have an "instant death judgment" attached to his sword strikes?
Doubts flashed through Ryan's mind.

But the next second, a scene that shocked him happened.

The leader of the Black Knights, who clearly seemed to have entered the "second stage", instead let go of the sword in his hand. Not only that, he also raised his right hand and pierced his heart with the sharp tip of the arm armor.

The fatal injury caused the leader of the Black Knights, who had just stood up, to kneel down again.

suicide?

Ryan's body froze.

He didn't understand what the leader of the Black Knights was doing.

"Puff! Puff! Puff!"

Once, twice, three times...

The leader of the Black Knights kept repeating the action of piercing the heart. As the life force passed, the scarlet light in its eyes gradually faded. The moment the scarlet light completely dissipated, it also stopped what it was doing.

At this moment, its soul fire is like a candle in the wind, and maybe it will be extinguished in the flowing breeze in the next second.

Under Ryan's gaze, the leader of the Black Knights stood up again. This process was slow and difficult, but in the end, the leader of the Black Knights stood up straight.

His dark eye sockets looked at the sword in Ryan's hand, as if he was remembering something. Then, he slowly raised his right hand and struck hard on the left side of his chest.

The voice that should have been sonorous and powerful turned out to be extremely weak because of the piercing wound in his heart.

The leader of the Black Knights maintained this action.

And the fire of its life and soul was completely extinguished at this moment.

A ball of soul light, as black as agate, with a faint red glow inside, was suspended in front of the heart of the leader of the Black Knights.

The color of this soul is stronger and brighter than any soul that Ryan has seen before, with a unique texture.

Ryan walked forward and stopped in front of the body of the Black Knight Leader.

He looked at the knight saluting in front of him with complicated eyes.

After witnessing the whole process, Ryan finally understood why the leader of the Black Knights made such a strange move - it was to prevent himself from being completely eroded by the "power of the abyss".

Rather than being eroded by the "power of the abyss", it would rather die completely.

"The Black Knight..."

Ryan's eyes were dazed for a moment, and then he came back to his senses and looked at the unique soul in front of him.

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[Heroic Soul of the Leader of the Black Knights (Remnant)]: The leader of the Black Knights who belonged to the Black Sect, a deformed soul with powerful power. As a former heroic existence, he died due to the "power of the abyss" and also because of The "Power of the Abyss" allows him to wander around the world with his broken body after death, and his firm mind makes the leader of the Black Knights unwilling to completely become a servant of the "Power of the Abyss". For this reason, even if he completely dies from this life, he will No matter what.

The Black Knights wandering the world, once upon a time, they served the "Primary Salary King".

The king who followed the "heat of the wind" was himself burned, and from then on he turned into ashes and continued to wander the world.

At the last moment of his life, the leader of the Black Knights saw the shadow of his former teammates. He didn't know why it happened, but... teammates, I leave everything to you!
This soul can be used in two ways:

First, after crushing it, you can get a small amount of [Soul Crystal Core], and you can also extract its true power through "furnace refining".

Secondly, at the cost of consuming all the power of this soul, it can be condensed into a unique swordsmanship inheritance crystal. After using the inheritance crystal, you can obtain the inheritance of [Scorching Flame Swordsmanship]. The higher the user's swordsmanship, the higher the swordsmanship. The inheritance obtained will be more complete.

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Looking at the introduction in front of him, Ryan's eyes were brighter than ever before.

This is the first time he has seen a unique soul that can be used in two ways. Or is this a function only available to "heroic" souls?
It's not difficult to understand.

It is not easy for a weak soul to retain part of its power. Only a strong and tenacious soul can retain complete memories.

Looking at the soul in his hand, Ryan admired the spirit and will of the leader of the Black Knights on the one hand, but on the other hand, he was also caught in a dilemma.

If you use it directly, you can get a lot of experience points. Considering the massive experience bars at level 20 today, whether it can be upgraded is still a matter of doubt. Rather, the possibility of direct upgrade is very slim.

After all, this heroic soul has the word "disabled" after it, and has lost too much power. If it is a truly complete heroic soul, Ryan thinks it should be enough to fill up the remaining 97% of his experience points.

And if you don't need experience points, you can obtain the inheritance of [Scorching Flame Swordsmanship] at the cost of consuming all the power of this soul.

After hesitating for a moment, Ryan made a decision - to choose the second method of use.

After all, if it is impossible to upgrade, there is not much difference between using it and not using it. Furthermore, Ryan is not scarce in experience points. He will encounter more and stronger enemies in the future, but [Scorching Flame The inheritance of swordsmanship may not be possible anymore.

Having made his decision, Ryan no longer hesitated.

The black and reddish soul flame in his hand suddenly burned like an ember that had burned out its last brilliance.

When the light faded, what appeared in Ryan's hand was a red diamond-shaped crystal.

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[[Scorching Flame Swordsmanship] Inherited Crystal]: Burning red like the wind, scorching like a prison, when the strong wind rolls up the lava, the color of the world changes. To use this crystal, you need at least "proficient level" swordsmanship. The higher the swordsmanship level, the more complete the inheritance you will get, and you can even gain some of the greatsword insights of the leader of the Black Knights. To manifest into the main body, 300w spiritual value is consumed.

Please note that after using this crystal, the user will enter a state of "deep enlightenment" and the duration is undetermined. Please use it in a safe enough environment.

ps: The scorching wind burns everything.

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"Scorching flame swordsmanship..."

Ryan's mouth was filled with joy, and he wished he could use this inheritance crystal right away.

With his "Grand Master Level" attainment in Storm Swordsmanship, the harvest will definitely be huge.

But unfortunately, using this inheritance crystal requires a long period of time and a safe environment, and such conditions cannot be met in ancient ruins.

Therefore, we can only wait until the travel is over and return to the original body for inheritance. As for the actual price of 300 million spiritual values... To be honest, Ryan doesn't have much else now, but he has a lot of spiritual values.

It's only 300 million, haha...it still makes me feel a little distressed when I think about it.

Putting the inheritance crystal away, Ryan set his sights on the end of the passage.

In his perception, deep in the ancient ruins, there was a fluctuation that frightened him and was related to the power of the abyss.

"The entrance to the abyss..."

Ryan thought to himself, then took steps and went deeper along the passage.

An hour later, Ryan stood in front of a large metal door.

The dark metal door, which is tens of meters high, is engraved with complex and magnificent patterns, forming the pattern of some kind of magic circle.

However, due to the erosion of time, part of the lines on the metal door have been worn away, and the magic circle blessed on it has also become ineffective.

Along the way, Ryan didn't encounter a single monster. He estimated that all of them should have been killed by the leader of the Black Knights.

The leader of the Black Knights, who would rather die than be completely eroded by the power of the abyss, has a deep hatred for the abyss. As a result, any abyss monster that appears within its sight will be mercilessly slaughtered by it.

From this perspective, it is not difficult to understand that the ancient ruins are empty.

Standing in front of the gate, Ryan could feel the deep and terrifying power behind it.

Without hesitation, Ryan pressed his hands on the metal door and then began to exert force.

"Buzzing—"

There was a vibration, and along with dust flying in the air, the dusty metal door was pushed open with a gap large enough for ordinary people to pass through.

(End of this chapter)