Chapter 31 Irish Town (13) (Updated) Basic Swordsmanship...

After saying goodbye to Lina, Ye Mo returned to the small dark room.

He changed his clothes, put on gloves, packed his luggage, took off his backpack, replaced it with two cross-body cloth packages, and then tied the bow, sword, and arrows to his back in order, just like the mercenaries.

Black hat + black veil + black mask, draping the long, wide black cloak outside. As long as he didn't look in the mirror or use his psychic powers to scan himself, he would scare others.

On the way to the underground world, he stood out.

Out of the underground world, he was a group of rabbits standing out.

Passing by the mercenary supply store that Captain Hook had recommended, Ye Mo pushed the door open and frightened the store owner Rose, who screamed twice in succession. The scene suddenly became a little awkward.

"Sorry."

"Honey, you scared me."

Rose's smile quickly returned to her face, quite professionally. Although she complained, her attitude and the intimate tone of her voice did not make people dislike her, and it was even easy to add a little intimacy to her.

Ye Mo responded with an awkward but polite smile.

The supply store is a bit like the grocery store in his previous life. The most sold items here are the equipment and food and medicine supplies needed by mercenaries to do their missions.

In addition to selling, this store also purchases materials such as monsters and magic plants from mercenaries.

The prices of the goods in the store are indeed very fair. They may not be lower than the market price, but they are basically not higher than the market price. The credit is quite high among the mercenary group, and the boss lady is also popular.

Ye Mo bought some insect repellent powder, bone needles, dry bandages, small cloth bags, etc., and the rest focused on potions - hemostatic potions, recovery potions, detoxification potions, healing potions, etc.

The potions in the store are basically healing and restorative, and there are basically no potions that can improve physical fitness. She is not sure about those that can enhance physical attributes.

The store owner Rose does not often meet big-spending customers like Ye Mo. The smile on her face became more brilliant, and she wiped out all the copper coins, a total of 2 gold coins and 80 silver coins.

It is really not easy to have some gold coins in your pocket, but Ye Mo was still very straightforward when paying.

...

The training ground of the Wild Wolf Mercenary Corps is only two blocks away from the Rose Supply Store. It is relatively remote, hidden in a group of small houses with red walls and colorful tiles, and has a strong atmosphere of life.

"Maria!"

Alice half of her body leaned out of the second-floor window, and the sunlight sprinkled on her long golden hair like stars.

She waved excitedly. Compared with when she was on a mission, she seemed more lively at this time, like a beautiful and lovely neighbor's sister.

Ye Mo waved in response.

Alice's next action and speech were quite bad together: "Maria, come up, come up quickly!"

Ye Mo silently glanced at the closed front door and estimated the height of the house.

She took two steps back, took a deep breath and jumped up, grabbed the wall with her hands, stepped on the middle wall twice, and climbed up to the second floor easily.

This is not the legendary ladder for flying over eaves and walls. It is not difficult for her to climb this height, and with the tree-climbing skills she learned from the archer Jack, it is even easier.

The room on the third floor is Alice's bedroom. It looks like a European-style princess room, with mahogany walls and floors, a white oak four-poster bed in the middle, and a wooden dressing table of the same color on the right. Under

the glass mirror are bottles and jars of cosmetics and beauty potions, which are a bit messy. The central closet is open, and the clothes inside are rich in colors and styles, mostly magic robes and dresses.

"Maria, if you don't come, our group will have to participate in the next mission tomorrow." Alice's bed was a little messy, and there was a set of winter skirts made of mini fox fur on it. "Look, I sewed this stitch by stitch."

In addition to the size being nearly half that of an ordinary person, the color did not allow Alice to express herself on her own at the suggestion of other mercenaries, and the style of the skirt was also normal.

The flowers and plants embroidered on the skirt were delicate enough, the color was not messy, and there was animal skin armor in the interlayer.

It was really thoughtful.

"Thank you, Alice." Ye Mo took off his black cloak, revealing the bow and sword on his back. "I'm so happy that you can receive mission notifications. I have been preparing suitable weapons for myself these few days."

"What a cute little bow and sword!" Alice's first focus was very different from what she thought. "Did you make this yourself? It's amazing that I actually know a goblin craftsman!"

Ye Mo paused for a moment, nodded, and asked, "Where are your brothers?"

"My brothers are training in the back. Let's go. It's a good opportunity for us to try out your two weapons."

...

Following Alice downstairs, passing the exotic main hall, and through the back door, the two came to an open-air backyard.

The yard is spacious, and Captain Hook and his men are training hard here.

No matter which world you are in, if you want to be a real warrior, your body and the weapons in your hands must not rust, and daily training is indispensable.

Moreover, two days before every mission, the mercenaries will gather at Captain Hook's house for training.

The yard is mainly divided into swordsman and archer training areas, which may be a bit similar to some bases on Earth.

In addition to the shooting range, climbing ability and reaction speed are very important for archers. These three are indispensable daily training items for Jack, and the rest is basic physical training.

At this moment, he is shooting at targets while moving quickly.

Captain Hook and other swordsmen were in another area, practicing stabbing, physical training, or teaching swordsmanship.

The swordsmanship of the Celtic Continent does not have any legendary swordsmanship secrets such as "Thunder Sword Method" or "Seven Star Sword Formation". There are only combat experiences accumulated and summarized by thousands of swordsmen.

When ordinary people first come into contact with swordsmanship, they practice basic movements such as stabbing, chopping, and cutting. After improving their physical strength and forming basic inertia, they learn from their predecessors.

There are two factors for the sword energy of an intermediate swordsman: further upgrading of the strong body and a matching special sword suitable for the swordsman. Both are indispensable and complement each other.

This shows the importance of weapons.

Alice invited Ye Mo to put down his equipment and jog with her to warm up.

As the younger sister of a mercenary, even as a magic apprentice, her physical strength was stronger than many magicians.

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After the warm-up, the swordsmen's first round of training was almost over, and they gathered around to say hello.

"This is the sword that Maria forged!"

Men on Earth love beautiful women and luxury cars, but mercenaries on the Celtic continent often love all kinds of weapons. Even if the weapons are a little too small for them, they still try them out one by one out of respect for their friends.

Unlike goblins, swordsmen can't tell the age of goblins, nor do they understand the difficulty of sword forging. They evaluate according to their own habits, and they don't know how rare this kind of forging talent is.

Most swordsmen like heavy swords, that is, those with attribute + strength, and magic of fire or electricity. They are not very adaptable to wind swords and have poor agility control, including Captain Hook.

Ye Mo realized that wind swords might not be so popular in the market, and Miranda did not get much benefit from paying so many gold coins.

In the Wild Wolf Mercenary Corps, only Deputy Captain Thomason preferred light swords and understood the characteristics of wind swords a little better.

Therefore, it fell to him to teach Ye Mo swordsmanship.

Captain Hook and his men had a basic understanding of Ye Mo's basic physical fitness. Before learning swordsmanship, the first suggestion Thomas gave was to find out the basics of a fight.

The sword was of course a relatively safe wooden sword, and the opponent was the deputy captain, and the venue was in the center of the swordsman training ground.

Ye Mo had never fought with anyone, let alone a duel.

With her personality, she initially chose to wait for the opponent to attack, thinking that she could counter the opponent's moves like the masters in TV dramas, but the result was not as regular as she thought.

If she hadn't relied on her agility to grab it, the wooden sword might have been directly chopped off by the opponent!

When she took the initiative to attack, she found that whether it was a stab or other attacks, it seemed that Thompson could block them. It was not because of how fast he was, but a kind of prediction based on experience.

Sure enough, fighting with humans is completely different from fighting with other non-intelligent creatures. Thomas told Ye Mo that the higher the level of the monster, the stronger their intelligence and fighting instincts.

The result of the competition

-Ye Mo's wooden sword was chopped off.

Deputy Captain Thomas was not surprised that he could win, but he also gave Ye Mo a sincere reward after the competition.

"Maria, your speed is no less than that of a high-level swordsman without a sword, but your strength may be a little worse. What you need to learn most is how to fight."

Ye Mo responded with a swordsman's salute: "Please give me more advice."

First, Thomas explained a lot of swordsmanship skills orally, and then demonstrated them in person. The fighting skills were summarized and turned into a set of swordsmanship.

I remember there was a famous saying in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" - 'Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will become clear.'

Many swordsmen practice these swordsmanship or unskilled swordsmanship experiences over and over again tens of thousands of times to understand the secrets themselves.

Ye Mo's time is a bit tight.

She didn't follow the traditional swordsmanship, but absorbed knowledge like a piece of cotton. She spent most of the morning memorizing sword techniques, mainly in her head.

Thomason was a little puzzled, but he still tried his best to teach. He was a teacher who respected his students more. It

was not until an hour before noon that Ye Mo started the second stage, which was to connect the basic moves one by one to strengthen the body's memory.

Until Alice's crisp voice urging for food sounded, Ye Mo had only practiced the third basic move.

The first difficulty lies in the lack of control and understanding of her own body. The body seems to be a little behind the memory in the brain.

Repeated sword practice can help her master the coordination of the body and continuously improve the matching degree between the body and the brain.

As for comprehension, I cannot fully understand it at the moment.

Only the flexibility in battle can test the best results. The ultimate perfect plan is to flexibly apply mental perception and mental manipulation to the battle. All of this must be done step by step.

Currently, Thomason praised: "Maria's memory is really strong!"