Tokyo underground city

Chapter 272 In the Road

"Looking at your expression, you seem surprised that my basic attributes are actually lower than yours."

Kamiya Chun carried the naginata, looked at Lin Huaien, and smiled maliciously.

"...Is it also a gap in 'secret'?"

Lin Huaien took a deep breath and reorganized his fighting posture.

"It's not that...it's just that you rarely train in environments with high magic concentration, right?"

Kamiya Chun looked at Lin Huaien and looked at the already small muscle groups on his body: "Judging from your body, your basics are fine. You are better trained than most lazy dungeon explorers."

"But it's obvious that you are not used to using this body under high load conditions——"

"In other words, the magic power concentration in Shangdu is too low. Although your exercise has increased your total muscle mass, it has made you use your actions under low magic power concentration as a reference, and you have not considered using every part of your strength. All taken to the extreme.”

"...So it's here."

Lin Huai'en nodded, realizing that there was nothing wrong with Kamiya Chun's statement.

His enemies all along were either too different in strength from him, or too strong, so it was rare for Kamiya Tsubaki to take the initiative to test the limits of his abilities.

But in this case, a problem will also arise.

"Will this small difference have a big impact?"

He raised the gray-blue fury to his chest.

"Of course." Kamiya Chun stopped running away and was ready to meet the enemy——

"The basis for using swordsmanship is our body. If we don't implement all of ourselves, how can we explore the ultimate meaning of swordsmanship——"

Kamiya Chun looked at Lin Huaien and smiled ghostly: "In other words, I will show you the height of my swordsmanship!"

She took a sudden step forward.

Just when Lin Huaien thought she wanted to thrust forward, she didn't expect her to hook the naginata with her right hand and swung a slash at Lin Huaien!

"Can you actually use skills?!"

Lin Huai'en was shocked when he saw the familiar red sword light, and dodged Kamiya Chun's attack with some embarrassment.

"certainly!"

The long-haired girl with burning blond hair shouted passionately: "Skills are an extension of swordsmanship. When the distance of the attack changes, the swordsmanship itself will also change!"

"The ultimate intention of Tensui Isshin-ryu is to master the swordsmanship skills from 15 meters to zero distance!"

She waved her naginata, and a "sword" came out. The sharp sword light spanned a distance of five or six meters and pierced directly into Lin Huaien's eyes.

Lin Huaien was shocked by this technique, which could only be used in the dungeon.

Fortunately, he saw through Kamiya Tsubaki's path before she attacked and dodged in advance.

Only then did he escape.

However, this successful evasion also made Lin Huaien realize a problem——

"In the final analysis, your sword light is just like [Super Speed], changing your fighting form, but its essence is still the fighting skill of swordsmanship. With such a large attack range, it is impossible to hit anyone..."

"Really...what about this?"

Kamiya Tsubaki took a step forward and then spun.

The cold light of the naginata pierced Lin Huai'en's throat directly, but Lin Huai'en dodged it before it hit.

But Kamiya Chun seemed to have known this, and with a turn of the blade, he had already slashed towards Lin Huaien's shoulder blade.

(Didn’t use the sword light? So will it happen this time...)

Lin Huai'en just hesitated, and a bloodstain appeared on his body. He slapped Huiqing's Wrath on his chest hard, and Kamiya Tsubaki's naginata had already rubbed his body and penetrated the inner circumference of the straight sword.

After failing to hit the target, the girl took a step back and drew out her sword again. This time the naginata had a red light and stabbed straight into Lin Huai'en's chest.

The sword light smashed into pieces against Huiqing's Fury, but the broken sword energy cut a series of wounds on Lin Huai'en's body.

Before he could cry out in pain, Kamiya Chun had already leaned forward and struck with a sweep, hitting his undefended lower body.

Seeing that he could no longer ward off the girl's combos, Lin Huai'en relaxed a layer of restrictions in his heart and activated Shadow Stealth.

He had fallen down in the air, floating in mid-air like a ghost behind Kamiya Tsubaki, and entered the inner circle of the naginata.

"This is my advantageous distance!"

Lin Huai'en felt relieved, feeling that he finally did not lose too much face.

But I didn't expect that a soaring cloud had already taken off.

"Bang!" There was a sound and it hit the ground hard.

"I said, Tensui Isshin-ryu is an all-round combat skill from 'zero' to 'long range'. Combat skills are also compulsory skills for us!"

Kamiya Tsubaki held her naginata in her right hand and made a boxing stance with her left hand. Just now she used this hand to grab Lin Huaien's collar and throw him out.

"Psychic techniques...Aikido."

Lin Huaien got up from the ground, clutching his chest, and his body made a big crater on the ground.

Apart from not using [Evil Ghost Transformation] and [Write], Kamiya Tsubaki didn't hold back at all in other aspects.

But this also made Lin Huaien feel the gap between himself and her more clearly——

There is a certain distance, but it is not impossible to catch up.

"Swordsmanship is like this. The difference in level is enough to determine life or death."

Seeing that Lin Huai'en had no intention of pursuing him, the girl shrugged, took out an Alpine stick from her arms and stuffed it into her mouth——

"However, for many people, this gap in realm is something that requires a lifetime of catching up."

"Can I awaken [write] when I reach your level?"

Lin Huai'en thought for a while and asked.

"Of course not." Kamiya Chun said unceremoniously.

However, her words did not exceed Lin Huaien's expectations.

"The prerequisite for obtaining [writing] is that you must approach your own limits."

"The potential in your body has not been fully explored. Only when you approach the limit of your body and realize that you cannot make any progress with your current self, can you have the opportunity to see through your 'spiritual destiny' ."

"That means [writing]?"

Lin Huaien nodded.

"It could also be something else." Kamiya Chun shrugged: "In fact, the feeling of gaining psychic talents due to near-death experiences is similar."

"They exceeded the limits of their bodies because of their obsession with not wanting to die."

"And we allow our will to be implemented in the physical world because of a strong desire to be the person we long to be."

"Does knowledge and action unite..."

Lin Huaien sighed and lay on the ground. The wounds on his body were still bleeding. Because he wanted to talk to Kamiya Chun, he forgot to apply healing medicine on his body.

However, just when he took out the healing potion from his backpack and was about to wipe it on his body, he was suddenly stopped by Kamiya Chun——

"By the way, if you want to awaken your psychic talent as soon as possible, I advise you not to use healing potions unless necessary."

"Ah? Why?"

Lin Huai'en was stunned for a moment after hearing Kamiya Chun's words.

"The limit of blood loss is also the limit of your body."

Kamiya Chun looked at him seriously: "Recognizing the boundaries of one's own body is also a necessary step to obtain the practice of [writing]."

“Understanding where your body’s limits are is then you can more clearly realize how you want to break through them.”

"According to my father, among the first generation of explorers, the death rate was very high because there were no expedition guarantees such as healing potions and travelers. But those who can survive to this day are basically high-ranking purple ones. Card level psyker.”

"It's just survivorship bias..."

Lin Huai'en shook his head, but looking at the healing potion in his hand, he hesitated, but still put it in his arms.

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"I didn't expect you to be beaten so badly by that little girl."

After the discussion between Lin Huaien and Kamiya Chun ended, Yuan Ximu found the right opportunity and came over.

She squatted down next to Lin Huaien: "How did you defeat her in the first place?"

"I didn't defeat her. She was too seriously injured and fainted."

Lin Huaien shook his head and sighed.

What's more, he still had the [Curse of Loneliness] at that time, and Kamiya Tsubaki was not familiar with his shadow stealth. It was his luck that he was dragged to the point where his physical and mental energy was exhausted and he passed out.

However, after hearing Yuan Ximu's whisper, Kamiya Chun came over and patted Lin Huai'en on the shoulder——

"Don't worry! There aren't many people in Tokyo who are as strong as me. After all, I want to be a woman with a white card. Your Captain Lin works hard and follows me to become a high-ranking black card. There is basically no pressure!"

"This kind of thinking that is focused on rushing into the abyss is quite suitable for you."

Looking at Kamiya Chun who looked proud, Yuan Ximu and Lin Huai'en sighed in unison. Yuan Ximu patted Lin Huai'en on the shoulder and stood up——

"I can't help you with swordsmanship. Just follow her and work hard."

Now that it was confirmed that Kamiya Chun was indeed stronger than Lin Huai'en, Yuan Ximu looked at the girl with a friendly expression -

"I brought a black forest mousse cake over there, do you want to eat it?"

"You can actually bring mousse cake to the underground city, what kind of god are you!"

Hearing that Hara Yumu actually brought a cake, Kamiya Chun immediately put her grudges behind her and ran away after her.

And Tanya came over at the right time, squatted down, and put her palm on Lin Huaien's head——

"Don't be discouraged, we will wait for you to become stronger."

Lin Huaien reached out and held Tanya's right hand on her head.

The cold back of the girl's hand was just like his mood at this moment.

"What an epic day for the team's lower ranks to drop..."

Tanya took Lin Huaien's hand and pulled him up.

The moment he stood up. Lin Huaien was slightly dizzy, and Tanya held her shoulders——

"You have some moderate blood loss from the wounds on your body. Please be careful in the next few days."

"……good."

Lin Huaien nodded and couldn't help but sigh.

He confirmed his plan to be a casualty for a few days.

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In the next few days, Lin Huai'en and Kamiya Tsubaki sparred several times.

Basically, there are winners and losers, but generally speaking, Lin Huai'en loses more than he wins.

In addition to the gap in strength, there is also a physical problem.

Lin Huai'en has always positioned himself as a guerrilla sentinel, so although he has not obtained the advanced skills of Cursed Body, he is not in a hurry to use other physical skills to make up for it——

On the one hand, it is unnecessary, and on the other hand, his fighting style also makes it difficult for him to obtain very good physical skills.

But Kamiya Tsubaki is different. She positions herself as a warrior, and she is the kind of warrior who can't be killed no matter what, and is extremely weak.

The Shiba Inu girl only licked Lin Huai'en's injuries that would have kept him lying down for two days, and then continued to look for Yuan Ximu to eat.

He's lazy and can't do anything except fight.

This is Lin Huaien's impression of Kamiya Chun in the past few weeks.

He is now very suspicious that the reason why the people of Tianshui Hall entrusted Ishikawa Kairen to escort Kamiya Chun to the 18th floor of Changying was mainly because they were worried that she would not be able to take care of him along the way.

Rather than a question of combat effectiveness.

During the period when Lin Huai'en was sore and weak due to excessive bleeding due to the inability to use therapeutic drugs, Kamitani Chun basically took over all the close combat work——

Even when facing the dryads in the forest of giant trees, she can pierce their shells with brute force, poke out and shatter the dryad cores hidden in their trunks.

For a time, Yuan Ximu and the others were still operating well after leaving Lin Huai'en.

So much so that when Hara Yumu looked at Kamiya Chun's extension, she felt a change——

The feeling is like watching a puppy that becomes more and more mature as it gets older.

And Kamiya Chun didn't care at all, as long as she had something to eat anyway, if she didn't stare at her all day long, she would even pick up the fruits from the poisonous garden and gnaw them casually.

Although according to her, she has the natural history skills to survive in the wild, no one dares to let her eat randomly in a place like the Poison Garden——

It's not that she's afraid that her poison resistance will be almost full, but she's worried that when she chews the fruit, the juice will splash on others.

Lin Huai'en saw with his own eyes that Kamiya Chun gnawed on a solanaceous fruit that was said to be "slightly poisonous". As a result, her right hand, which was covered in juice, just touched Hara Yumu's arm, causing her to break out in a rash that lasted for two days. of high fever.

From then on, Hara Yumu threatened Kamiya Chun that as long as she ate randomly, she was not allowed to touch him, and all kinds of snacks and snacks were gone.

This made Kamiya Chun become more honest.

Looking at Kamiya Chun like this, Lin Huai'en couldn't help but want to ask her——

"How can Ishikawa and the others tolerate you when you look like this?"

The result was unexpected, Chun said matter-of-factly——

"Before setting off, Yu told me to be more honest in front of other people, right?"

"But they're not here, and you have a contract with me, and you can't kick me away, so I just do whatever I want."

Seeing the expression on Kamiya Chun's face that said, "I just like to see you saying, 'You can't stand me, but you can't kill me'", Lin Huai'en subconsciously clenched his fists and gave her a violent shudder on her head.

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Although because of Kamiya Chun's existence, Lin Huai'en was in a state of panic all the way to Tokyo.

But it is precisely because of this feeling of business mixed with farce that time flies by very quickly.

After leaving the Poison Garden, Lin Huaien took the entry pass that Minister Xiao gave him and passed the customs in Shibuya Underground City.

According to Tsubaki Kamiya, Shibuya Underground City is an ore-based underground city.

Compared with Changying Underground City, which is full of various plants, the first feeling Lin Huaien felt in Shibuya Underground City was the heat, and——

turbid.