Chapter 123: That Fragility and Strength
Ades Academy, training ground.
A girl with blonde hair and an orange dress stood under the shade board, looking at the stones on the ground in the distance. She raised one hand, and fiery red particles emerged from the air, and then continued to gather to form a rotating vortex of flames.
The air waves brought by the heat flow stretched her hair and dress, and a twisting and compressed flame ball gradually appeared in the middle of the vortex of flames.
Then the flame ball was launched and hit the stone hundreds of meters away, exploding countless flames, licking the surrounding gravel and the ground. Even standing under the shade board, you can feel the heat wave coming from afar.
"Avni is so amazing."
"Great~"
Several companions behind her praised happily, but such praise did not make Avni happy.
She just smiled politely, thanked her companions for their praise, and then sat back in her seat silently, lost in thought.
Yes, she has good abilities, and there are few people of her age who are better than her, but even so, she can't be happy.
Because she had a talent that was beyond the reach of ordinary people, it was not difficult to achieve such results. Compared with those people with perfect talents in history, there were many who advanced to Sequence 4 at the age of 16. For example, she knew a boy who was also rated as [Perfect] talent, who was about the same age as her. Now he has been advancing to Sequence 4 for almost a year and is charging towards Sequence 5. She was really not good enough.
Her friends praised her, but they didn't know that her advancement speed was actually slower among the same geniuses.
Sigh... She let out a light breath. Although she felt a little depressed, she didn't want to tell the people around her.
Her father was a high-ranking official and her mother also worked in a government agency. She had to be careful about her words and deeds most of the time. In addition, there were many people around her who flattered her and had ulterior motives since she was a child. This made her a little disgusted with socializing. The people around her who pursued her were either lustful, or wanted to use her to get in touch with her father, or both.
The only person she could talk to in her life was a childhood friend who grew up with her. Unfortunately, the other party did not come to Edes Academy, but went to another school.
As for the others, although they were classmates and friends on the surface, they were not that close after all.
Avni sat aside and looked at the ground, thinking about something in her heart. At this time, a footstep came over, which made her sober up, and then she looked up.
It was the boys who played basketball yesterday. She recognized the five people who walked in front of her.
"Hello, Avni classmate, I'm sorry about what happened yesterday. This is our apology gift to you." After saying that, several people bowed and handed over a crystal box.
In the crystal box was a leaping and rotating flame core. This was an extremely delicate artificial core used for demonstration and decoration.
Natural Sequence 4: Spiral Star Flame (rated "Perfect"), as long as you follow the template of this artificial core and condense your own extraordinary core, you can advance to the job of Spiral Star Flame. It can be said to be a better way to pass on the secrets of the extraordinary job than a memory card.
Even in Edes Academy, this is considered a relatively precious gift. Outside, it would cost at least millions of federal coins. After all, such an artificial core is not easy to make. Generally, it is made by masters in certain fields and cannot be mass-produced.
Receiving such an expensive gift suddenly made Avni a little irritated. In fact, she didn't need such things. On the contrary, accepting it for nothing would bring some troubles. She estimated that her father would lecture her when she returned.
"Who asked you to give it? You are so self-centered and self-indulgent. It's really annoying." She didn't give the other party face.
After saying that, the girl turned around and left with a few companions, leaving the few people looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Avni is really as rumored, not easy to get along with." Some of the students who were watching next to them discussed in a low voice.
"She is so arrogant..."
"She really doesn't give face to classmates."
The others chattered and discussed, and the boys in the middle put away the box in a sullen manner. They were very happy after they thought of the plan of collectively saving money for gifts yesterday, but now they are not happy at all.
"Why, isn't it a very good gift?" They didn't understand.
"Sure enough, we must have seen it wrong. Avni is such a cold and arrogant person who is difficult to get along with."
"Alas, I really don't want to offend Avni. My family is also in the energy-related business. If her father gets stuck, we will lose a lot of money."
The few people had no choice. In order to avoid further embarrassment, they quickly left the training ground.
On the other side of the training ground, Tilan was practicing swordsmanship. Her opponent was Anneli. The swords in their hands were slightly different. Anneli's sword was more inclined to stabbing, light and swift, while Tilan's sword was slightly more formal. The slender blade was like a cross-shaped hilt. Holding it in her hand, she had an illusion of being slightly gorgeous.
Today, Tilan wore a black dress, black stockings, and black hairpins. Only the collar and the skirt were decorated with a few blue roses. Her eyes were like blue crystals, and her figure was slender. The two temperaments of innocence and enchantment collided with each other and blended perfectly.
Fortunately, the practice field where the two were at the moment was a separate room, and no outsiders were watching. Otherwise, the photos of Tilan would probably be circulated around the campus the next day.
After shedding her previous timidity, the charm of this black-haired and blue-eyed girl began to show.
Anneli wore a dark blue short skirt, a white shirt, and her legs were wrapped in gray stockings, showing the curves of her legs. She was flexible and moved easily on the ground. The rapier in her hand passed through the air, and only a few silver-white sword arcs suddenly flashed and stabbed Tilan in different directions.
At the beginning, she did not hold back, but went all out. This was not her first time to practice with Tilan. At first, she thought Tilan should not be good at swordsmanship. After all, according to the data files, the girl's previous education environment was not good, and she had no chance to come into contact with these.
However, after the first fight, she realized that she was wrong.
In the first two days of fighting, she lost 16 games and was easily defeated by Tilan with swordsmanship every time. This was the result of the two restraining their extraordinary abilities and not using additional abilities to assist.
In the slightly dark room, the figures of the two kept crossing, and the sound of the swords crossing could be heard from time to time. Compared with Anneli's all-out effort, Tilan was much more relaxed. Although the long sword in her hand looked slightly wider than the rapier, it was more flexible. The blade turned over in the air like a swallow, with an indescribable smoothness and lightness.
However, she did not use this sword technique all the time. She kept changing her sword-using methods, sometimes obscure, sometimes light, as if she was familiar with some unfamiliar sword technique, and then slowly integrated it into her own system.
After another sword-crossing, Anneli retreated, panting.
"No more fighting, so tired." The forehead of the short-haired lady was covered with sweat.
Although Tilan seemed to have several flaws during the fight because of her unfamiliarity with the new sword technique, every time she attacked, Tilan could change again, allowing herself to block Anneli's stabbing and cutting in a suitable way.
After Anelli stopped, Tilan was still thinking quietly, the blade in her hand swung from time to time, rotating between her fingers, and drawing arcs in the air.
If someone carefully compares the image of her swinging the sword just now with the swordsmanship of Themisia at the Winter Festival Party in the past, they will find that the two swordsmanship have many similar details, but the styles are different.
Themisia's swordsmanship is more inclined to attack and move, which is gorgeous, while her swordsmanship is more restrained and defensive, with a kind of immovable, yet unshakable quiet beauty.
After a while, Tilan put the sword back, then walked to Anelli's side, and began to guide her on the omissions and areas that could be improved in her swordsmanship just now.
After accepting Themisia's memory and the inheritance of the Qinglian Xijian Palace, her insights on swordsmanship may not be comparable to those of some masters today, but she is limited by time and sequence level, and cannot fully display many swordsmanship and secrets.
After the explanation, it was already late, and the two walked out of the dark room where they practiced swordsmanship.
At this time, there were not many students staying in the training ground, only a few scattered around.
When Tilan walked by, several people couldn't help but be surprised, just because Tilan's dress was really too shocking, black soft long hair, black stockings, black shoes, black skirt, and only a few blue roses, like the finishing touch of embellishment, people couldn't help but marvel.
After entering the interstellar era, due to the improvement of genetic technology, the probability of handsome men and beautiful women has increased a lot, and many beauty and makeup technologies have emerged. It can be said that as long as you have money, you won't be too ugly, but even so, people with special temperament are still rare, and the girl in front of them is one of them.
Walking past the side of the crowd, although the girl did not turn her eyes, she also felt that the eyes were focused on her, which made her a little embarrassed. In fact, this dress was also the first time she wore it, and it was the request of the head maid recently.
The design and cutting of the dress was done by a master in the Central Star Region. After it was sent to the academy, the head maid, Planli, asked her to wear the dress when she was on campus, whether it was for meals, sword practice, or other things. After returning at night, Planli would check the details of the dress to see where it was worn out and where the hooks were damaged.
Dressing appropriately is an important part of etiquette. It may not be difficult to make good-looking clothes, but it is not easy to bring out the style and beauty of the clothes and maintain elegance.
Many people put on dresses, which are like monkeys in a crown, neither fish nor fowl. Some details of behavior do not match the impression brought by the clothes, which gives people a sense of conflict and separation. This is 1+1<1, which reduces their own image.
When she went out in the morning, the head maid taught Tilan in this way, which made the girl embarrassed. Although she had received etiquette training, she had no idea how to bring out the beauty of this dress. Therefore, she only showed the innocence of the girl, which was indeed different from the dark style dress.
But inexplicably, her temperament did not conflict with the dark dress, but blended well with it, so that Planli did not know how to evaluate it.
"You are quite special, I guess." In the end, the other party could only reluctantly admit that this was indeed much better than trying hard to deliberately learn some manners.
Some people are naturally cute, and they can attract others just by sitting there. As someone who has seen many rich ladies, she had to sigh that Heshia Tilan was really a special child.
At first, she seemed inconspicuous and a little ordinary, but as you get along with her, you will be attracted by her charm unconsciously. While she is innocent and simple, she is also inexplicably tough and strong, soft on the outside and strong on the inside.
Etiquette training is by no means an easy thing. It is often boring and tedious. It requires constant practice of an action and finding a suitable amplitude. This kind of work often makes your waist and legs sore after a day. Many rich ladies can't hold on for a long time and complain bitterly.
But when teaching Tilan, the girl never complained, but only accepted the training patiently and quietly, and she didn't slack off mentally. She was really thinking and adjusting herself, which made Planli feel a lot more relaxed.
Although some people seem to be doing things on the surface, they have actually given up or are irritated and disgusted mentally, and they are just moving their bodies and doing things perfunctorily.
"Although I am not a big shot, in my opinion, Miss Tilan will definitely not be limited to this in the future."
After getting along for a while, Planli gradually developed some respect for the girl, no longer thinking that she was one of those common and delicate daughters of wealthy families.
"Why can you always be like this without complaining in your heart? My teaching is very strict and unkind. Many people have cried because of my scolding in the past." One night, after finishing the training, Planli asked Tilan.
"Maybe it's because I had a difficult experience in the past." The girl sat on a walnut chair, her long black hair scattered on her collar and shoulders.
"I am inconspicuous in school and the teachers are very busy. Every day, many students come to them to ask questions and get guidance from them. It is a rare opportunity."
"Because my family is poor, education is rare, and it is a way for me to escape from the environment. I cherish this hard-won opportunity."
"There are many students in the teacher's class. The performance of a single student does not affect her income. She is not obligated to teach every student exhaustively and carefully."
"I don't have anything to give to the teacher. I can only try hard to remember her every word, and then ask questions within a limited time."
"Thank you very much for the teachers' teaching and answers. I know their teaching is for my own good, so I will not complain, because it is not easy for them to explain to me selflessly and patiently. They could have been perfunctory to me. After all, it does not affect their income."
Maybe that's the case, Planli looked at the girl sitting on the chair.
If any teacher had such a pious, calm, and careful student, how could he bear not to teach her well? Rather than saying it was good luck, it was the result of her own hard work.
The black-haired girl sat on the chair, like an unknown flower quietly blooming in the corner, with weakness and strength unified in her.
(End of this chapter)
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