"Then, it's time for questions. Instructors and classmates can ask any questions, and I will try my best to answer them."
She is standing on the podium in a women's suit instead of a school uniform. Compared to a year ago, Ling, who is completely different in both height and shape, is no longer called "little one". Although she is still tall,
She is quite short, obviously smaller than other students, but the aura and pressure she exudes when giving a speech make other students quite stressed, and they have no idea that the person explaining on the stage is actually someone.
Classmates from the same school.
To be honest, Ling had no idea what level of graduation thesis should be done in a school on the continent of Samlia. So she tried to be as serious as possible, but when she saw the silent look of some elegant birds underneath, she seemed to be a little too hard.
Too strong.
"So Ling, I have a few questions here. The maintenance cost of tactical power guides has always been high. If not only the regular army but also neighboring armies are equipped with it, then in terms of military expenses..."
The instructor who was the judge was the one who came out to resolve the awkward situation. Ling also responded to their questions seriously one by one.
After answering all six questions, the defense session came to an end with applause.
In this way, Thorz's Grade A-0 honorary certificate was obtained.
A thesis is a thesis, and not all graduates need to hold a defense meeting for all students in the school.
Thorz Military Academy usually gives a degree certificate from one of fourteen levels, namely B-level 7 to B-level, A-level 7 to A-level, based on a comprehensive assessment of a student's daily performance and test scores. However, those who obtained A
Students assessed at the first level can also submit a request to challenge a higher level, which is the A-0 level that represents the outstanding students of Thorz. In the past, the A-0 level was usually only given to the aristocratic children of Class 1 and Class 2, while civilians
There are only one or two graduates in each class of students who can reach this level, and in some academic years there is not even one. Thorz's top students will be hot spots no matter where they work in the future.
After that, Ling went to the student union room and handed back the student handbook, the tactical force guide provided by Ryan Forte, as well as her school uniform and epaulettes.
After completing the formalities, she returned to the dormitory and saw Missy and Sharon still racking their brains for their final homework. After cheering them on, Ling began to pack her luggage. Although March had just begun, she had already
There was no need to stay in Tolista. She received a letter and learned that Levi had returned home. This was the reason why she acted impatiently.
She took the guided train back to Palm and rushed all the way to Tutunrk. As soon as she approached the village, she felt a familiar atmosphere.
"Levi, I'm back!"
Her feet suddenly accelerated, and Ling jumped straight into Levi's arms. It had been several months since she had been face to face like this.
Reinhardt hugged Ling and rubbed her head.
After lunch, the two sat face to face in the living room and talked. Ling chattered non-stop about the events of the past year, while Levi listened quietly until Ling's mouth became dry.
Reinhardt also briefly talked about his actions this year, which mainly involved forging identities in the Republic of Kalvard and the Kingdom of Liber.
"Ling, congratulations on your graduation. Are you unhappy being separated from your classmates?"
"Because it's not very serious, it won't be very sad."
After some in-depth and simple exchanges, the young man with pale blond hair looked at the purple-haired girl with a serious expression.
"Levi? Is there something on my face?" Although she can use her powers to read the other person's thoughts, Ling no longer does this to close people. She now asks more honestly, even if she often
It doesn't matter if it's unnecessary.
"Ling, you have killed too many people."
Ling thought Levi was going to say something.
"What does it matter? There are tens of millions of people in the empire. Even if I kill ten people every day, I will only kill a few thousand people a year at most. It is far less than the annual population growth rate."
"In short, don't indulge in killing. This has an impact on the state of mind of our martial arts practitioners. Maybe you don't feel it yourself, but the hostility around you is already too strong to be resolved."
Ling found that Levi's warning didn't seem to be casual. She suddenly remembered that she was visited by the Wind Sword Saint Arios in Crossbell two months ago.
"Is it that obvious?"
"Ordinary people can't feel it. But for those who have entered the realm of reason, embarked on Shura, and have extraordinary perceptual abilities, your situation is very conspicuous. You should be able to feel it yourself, but maybe you have already
Once you get used to it, just turn a blind eye."
Ling asked Levi about how to deal with it, but Reinhardt could only shake his head.
"Under normal circumstances, hostility should dissipate automatically after a period of time. But in your current situation, it may take more than several years without killing anyone. Ling, in fact, you don't need to force yourself to do it.
Those who accept the commission. We executors are free and can refuse tasks we don’t want to do.”
"Is there no other way?"
Levi nodded and shook his head: "I heard that in the Republic of Kalvad, the force that promotes the continuation of life is called karma. Karma is divided into good karma and bad karma. Misfortunes come gradually. Misfortunes come mysteriously. Evil karma.
The final form of karma is the so-called curse. It will not only affect yourself, but also affect the surroundings. In short, the most important thing is that you must restrain your murderous thoughts as much as possible."
Ling was shocked. "Misfortune comes from the ignorance of gods." She remembered that Joachim Jonta had mentioned this concept to him before. She only regarded it as a professional terminology in the d∴g Order and didn't pay much attention to it. Now she sees
That's not what happened.
"Levi, what do those two sentences mean? Misfortune comes gradually, misfortune comes slowly, and so on."
"The advent of disasters develops gradually. When disasters occur, one's mind will no longer be sober. Translating it in the language of our West Semlian continent, it probably means this."
After listening to the popular explanation, Ling had already vaguely realized what was going on. The curse of the Erebonia Empire that was affected by the contaminated steel was not entirely the fault of the Black Riding God.
Her own fragility is the key. She fell into the trap because her own will was not strong enough. She had known about it for a long time, but she had forgotten it unknowingly.
"I understand, Levi, I will listen to you. From now on, try not to touch those tasks that require killing people."
Have you lost your mind? Just imagining it will tell you that it is a terrible thing. If she is no longer herself, Mingming Ling knows better than anyone else how terrible this is, but she is still negligent.
In order to ease Ling's heavy mood, Reinhardt proposed to continue teaching her swordsmanship.
"Really? That's great!" Part of it was pretending, not wanting Levi to worry too much about her situation. Part of it was sincere, because her lack of skills had already made her aware of her own shortcomings.
Arriving at the vegetable patch in the backyard, Ling raised her right hand to the sky and summoned the spirit sword Alondette from a higher dimension.
Levi was a little surprised when he saw this giant weapon with a diameter of 240 miles. What made him more concerned was the bloody aura wrapped around the sword. This was an evil sword with a soul. Levi
It's a bit strange where she got such evil weapons.
"Ling, use this weapon less in the future. It will place too heavy a burden on you."
"Huh? Can't you do that?" For Ling, although the huge Zhanma Sword is astonishingly heavy, it is like an extension of the body. Only by holding it can he exert 100% of his strength.
"If you don't want it to be chopped up by my Rock Eater."
Levi said, and also pulled out a wrench-shaped sword from the void.
Demonic Sword of Outer Reason Rock Eater
The weapon given by the alliance leader himself is a super wrench that can destroy even the power of the treasure.
If it collided with it, Ling felt that the Arondette she had finally built would definitely be broken.
Hearing what Levi said, Ling had no choice but to give up her strongest weapon, and the giant sword turned into dots of starlight and returned to the higher dimension where it should stay. However, she had no resistance, after all, she just wanted to learn.
Purple fighting spirit condensed in the palm of his hand, converging into a huge air blade sword. Levi felt the fighting spirit exploding in Ling's body and interrupted her again.
"Use a wooden sword."
"Oh, I got it."
"Don't use your fighting spirit."
"Um, okay."
…………
Holding one of the hard wooden swords that Joshua used to practice in the past, Ling, who was used to giant weapons, felt it was quite awkward to use such a small toothpick, which was about an hour and a half in length. While practicing in the martial arts class at the military school, she
The wooden sword she used was much larger than this one. Her martial arts class instructor was the big sword wielder from Fandel.
Spar with Levi. Levi uses the same wooden sword and lets her attack freely.
In addition to the several combat skills that Levi taught her last year, she also specialized in hundreds of military swordsmanship at the Thors Military Academy. The posture of holding the sword is already well-organized.
"Is it the essence of the Alside style and the Vandel style? This set of combat skills is very strong. You have already mastered the basic kata very solidly. What is missing is to turn them all into your own instincts and use them at the most appropriate time.
Come out. Although your reaction is very fast, you still use the way of thinking about problems to fight with the sword. You must overcome this first before you can make further progress in swordsmanship." Reinhardt drew out his sword and challenged Ling's swordsmanship.
Fine-tuning.
I remember Ken Parela said that Levi's swordsmanship was on par with Arios's, and Ling didn't feel aggrieved that she was easily suppressed.
In fact, Levi should have given up, because at that time, she took the sword from Arios and knelt down immediately.
The fact that she was able to interact with Levi for ten minutes was entirely because Levi kept feeding her moves.
"Okay, that's it for today. Wipe your sweat."
Reinhardt handed the towel over. In fact, the physical exertion is not big, and it is nothing compared to the usual exercise. The sweating is completely related to the mental exertion. To do what Levi taught her
The sword path, constantly adjusting her rhythm again and again, made her feel exhausted.
"By the way, Ling, why do you use that huge weapon? I remember you didn't use a dagger before?"
"About this..."
Ling didn't hide anything and told her about the Purple Riding God Sekto who lured her to accept the Riding God Trial.
When he heard that this was part of the Phantom Flame plan, Levi's expression became serious.
"The Cave of the Stars and El Prado, the Golden Horse God? There is no way. I understand."
Originally, Levi did not intend to be a initiator. He believed more in his own strength and the sword in his hand.
But when Ling told her that the Saint of Steel Arianhard was the initiator of the Silver Riding God Agrion, Reinhardt became keenly interested in the existence of the Riding God. After all, the Saint of Steel, in
Joshua came to him after he left this home two years ago. In addition to teaching him the swordsmanship of the Sandlot style, he also showed him what a higher level of martial arts is. He can be regarded as his master.
After the seven "wedges" are laid, it will take dozens of days to guide the Star Spirit Cave into the trial. Until now, since Ling returned from Crossbell, the conditions there have still not been met.
During the waiting days, Levi, as the guide of the sword, continued to hone Ling's sword skills.
Levi's sword does not have a specific school. He relied on my flow to reach the master level. When the Saint of Steel taught him the skills, in addition to the Sandrot style, she also taught him the essence of martial arts.
And now he has imparted these essences to Ling.
Ukujiden? Doesn't exist. His swordsmanship can be summed up as mediocre slashing skills. The moves are more arbitrary and far less complicated than other schools. It's just that the person using the sword is Levi, so he can swing every sword.
The ultimate state.
Although Levi didn't teach her any new moves from beginning to end, he made her realize a little bit about the artistic conception of sword. And during the days of sword practice every day, those previously chaotic thoughts finally returned to silence.
She felt that her soul finally calmed down after a long absence.
I can't tell if my strength has improved, but my body, mind, and spirit feel much more comfortable, which is really good.
In the blink of an eye, March has come to an end very quickly, and the promised date for the opening of the Star Spirit Cave has finally arrived.