I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

Damn, this guy is so fast!How can you hit him! ?

Although Master has demonstrated it once for me, but throwing the scabbard... I have never practiced it!

Even if you have enough power, you are not completely sure

and accuracy, rashly using interference attacks that you are not sure about may disrupt the rhythm of the attack.

The opponent is an experienced swordsman who kills people like hemp. Maki can clearly feel that she has always lacked a lot of things compared with Veneno in several fights.

"By the way, Veneno did not master the 'sword power'"

But the gap between "killing experience" and "combat experience"... is too big!

The oncoming slash changed direction instantly, and Veneno's figure disappeared from Maki's vision, and Maki let out a soft cry and quickly glanced behind her.

No one is empty.

"Not here...!?"

"Dimensional knife technique, profound meaning——"

The light overhead was blocked by shadows, and Maki's pursuit was always one step slower.

And at this step, Veneno caught the chance to win.

"...!"

Can the gap of strength gap be insurmountable by oneself? !

Raising his head, sword lights woven into the sky covered the sky and struck him like a net of death, and he couldn't dodge this blow.

"Ten-dimensional chaos."

why!

Maki roared in her heart unconvinced, staring at the falling sword light, trying to move her already stiff legs.

despair...

And after that -

death.

To die again.

"..."

Hope it doesn't hurt too much.

The roar resounded throughout the block, echoing among the buildings.

Cheng Rang shook his head regretfully, Maki's figure in front of him was once again torn apart by the falling knife light, and even the asphalt road at the crossroads was shattered, revealing a huge pit surrounded by gunpowder smoke.

Taking off his sunglasses and throwing them aside, Cheng Rang got up from the chair and walked slowly towards the crossroads that were riddled with holes.

In the deep pit, he saw a girl prostrate on the ground, tightly hugging Ming Xin in her arms and crying loudly.

"I can not do it!!"

Maki cried out in frustration.

"I haven't...never won!"

For two and a half months, relying on desperate efforts to catch up, and countless deaths, I learned to use the momentum.

But this kind of joy didn't even have time to get her out of the previous pain before she was severely shattered by reality again.

She was only 16 years old, and she was disliked by the family of the Zen Academy. She took a gamble and came to the High School of Conjuration. She wanted to become stronger, and wanted to make those guys who looked down on her speechless.

He likes to eat junk food, likes to go shopping with good friends, and he is stubborn in doing things.

"I...don't want to become stronger!"

He spoke big words in front of his master, but was still killed without resistance by the enemies who had fought several times.

Once, twice, three times.

When the heavy rain of sword light fell head-on, the last thing Maki did was not thinking about resisting and surviving, but looking at Cheng Rang, her master.

In his eyes, Maki can see clearly even if it is blocked by sunglasses.

It was a look of helplessness and disappointment.

"Tsk..."

Like those who live in the Chanyuan, like my own father and mother.

[Twins without magic power. 】

【Why do you still work so hard?Won't you fall down with me? ! 】

Stabbed his heart severely.

"...I, hate myself."

Blow after blow, fear of death, regret, pain, sleepless for so long.

Maki's spirit was almost broken, she sobbed vigorously, raising her dirt-stained sleeves to wipe away the uncontrollable tears again and again.

Cheng Rang walked down the deep pit step by step, and the broken stones rolled down with the mud, and he walked in front of Maki.

"Are you going to give up?"

In my opinion - you are strong enough.

But Cheng Rang held the second half of the sentence in his throat and swallowed it.

Maki was still sobbing softly, but remained silent.

"If you give up, you can return your [Ming Xin] to me."

Maki subconsciously clenched the knife in her hand, hugged it in her arms, and sucked her nose hard.

Cheng Rang sighed softly: "I admit that I am very strict with you, and I also know that it is selfish to ask you to fight against a powerful enemy with me."

"But I admit my confusion, and the things and reasons I want to get back. In front of you."

"The path of kendo must be full of pain and sweat. Whether you regret it, cry, or want to give up, it's all normal. Otherwise, normal people will go crazy if they persist."

Cheng Rang squatted down and held out his hand to Maki.

"I have experienced everything you are now...alone."

Holding the only long knife in my hand, weeping in the empty night, I want to give up, I don't want to continue, I want to go home.

Don't want to be here.

Without anyone's company, if you stop swinging knives, stop fighting, stop crying, then everything around you will be as silent as death.

You can hear the blood rushing in the blood vessels and the sound of the heart beating again and again.

maddening.

All I can do is continue to wave the knife in my hand and become stronger.

Become stronger meaninglessly, even become stronger without end.

No matter who you are, there will always be moments of confusion, times when you want to give up, and times when you don't know what to do.

"But you still have me and my companions.

The teacher who cares about you, the sister who is a blood relative... and the Zen family who looks down on you. "

Maki took a few deep breaths, then raised her head and looked at Cheng Rang's hand stretched out to her.

"Even if you don't want to keep getting stronger, it's okay, unlike me, Maki. You have the most precious... power called [giving up] to [the me at the time]."

Maki didn't shake Cheng Rang's hand, but asked softly in a hoarse voice: "Master, what you mean... At that time, didn't you [give up] the right to become stronger?"

"....Yes."

"At that time, when did you mean?"

"While I was still an ordinary person."

"Can you tell me in detail? Master, your story..."

Cheng Rang withdrew his hand and scratched his head with embarrassment.

"Well...this is a long story."

Maki simply sat on the ground with her legs crossed, raised her hand again and rubbed her cheek: "But now we have plenty of time, don't we?"

Her eyes were red, and she stared at herself with watery brown eyes.

"Do you want to hear it?"

"Of course... I still don't know anything about you, Master."

"But I don't want to tell those stories anymore." Cheng Rang pursed his lips and shook his head slowly.

"Cut..." The girl looked away angrily, obviously disappointed.

"Maki, how do you think you can defeat [The Strongest]?"

"The strongest!?" Maki raised her eyes up and down to look at the range, "I said it is the strongest, how can I beat..."

"It's not about me, but a concept: the strongest."

Cheng Rang continued to explain: "It's like in a world, there are countless races engaged in a decisive battle, but the ruler who created a certain race has the strongest concept. That is, no matter what opponent he encounters, he will To be able to become stronger and become stronger than the opponent."

"They are a race that has wings and can fly in the sky. They can tear through space and move, and they can even send out powerful attacks that change the planet's landscape and weather."

"The guy with the strongest concept you said created such a race?"

"Well, like other races that are weaker or stronger, they are all on the same battered planet, fighting long and endlessly for the props [star cup] to achieve [the only god]. "

"How long will it take for the fight to end? Speaking of the strongest guy, why didn't he defeat all races and get the star cup? Anyway, he is the strongest." Maki questioned the obvious loopholes in this story .

"Exactly, because the [Star Cup] did not appear, the Star Cup will only appear in front of the most powerful energy on this planet, or a certain individual of the race."

"The place where the strongest god-species was born on that planet is where the most powerful energy is located. Because it is the root of the strongest birth, even the strongest cannot destroy it. Or in other words, it is impossible to destroy it."

"After losing the activated [Divine Essence], which is what is needed for the birth of gods on that planet, he is not [the strongest] anymore."

Maki sighed and said, "That was really an awkward war...it feels meaningless."

"Yes, I think so too. But the meaningless war is over, who is the final winner, guess what?"

"How could I guess this, I don't even know how many races I don't know participated in the war."

"It's human."

Maki half-opened her eyes helplessly: "So how strong are the humans on that planet, are they all superhuman...?"

Cheng Rang shook his head with a smile.

"No, they are all ordinary human beings. They don't have any super-standard power, no magic power, spell power, etc. They are not even considered by the races participating in the war. They are equivalent to bugs that can be crushed at will. Survive in the cracks where the planet is tortured and riddled with holes."

"Even the weakest race, any single individual can cause a devastating blow to a human settlement."

"Then how did they win?! Is this a fairy tale?"

"Fairy story?" Cheng Rang's eyes seemed to be lost in memory.

"Even if it is a fairy tale, it is the only myth that no one knows and no one tells about."

"There is a human boy who can be called a fool but a genius leader. He leads the desperate mankind to [victory]."

"Oh, of course, and his lover, an Ex-Machina...that's what we call a robot."

"...The story of defeating [the strongest] and taking the star cup begins when the two of them meet."

Chapter 116 Climbing

Changing his posture, sitting on the ground side by side with Maki, Cheng Rang waved his hand and the scene of the training ground changed dramatically.

The sky was covered by thick dark clouds, the deadly blue splendor fell like snowflakes, and the rolling thunder was mixed with fiery iron red.

The lifeless and riddled land, and even the air are filled with a hard and irony smell.

"This is the planet that has gone through a millennium-long war, and it is also the continent where a small stronghold of human beings is located, the continent of Lucia."

Maki couldn't help but gasped, looking around, the empty and whimpering plain gave her a small sense of fear.