174: Chapter 100 Wheel Battle 174: Chapter 100 Wheel Battle Watching the light-blond-haired young man who had donned the Urian Scale Armor, Leon sighed as he watched him impatiently grab a blunted long spear from the rack.
This youth from the Platon Village team had a good physique and looked much healthier than the average farmer, clearly not born a lowly tenant.
It was uncertain whether he was one of the wealthy, horse-riding youths that Azeryan had mentioned.
Honestly, observing his physique, if he could receive long-term training and cultivation, Leon also saw great potential in his future.
perhaps this blond-haired youth was overly eager for the grand annual salary of forty-eight gold crowns, too confident, or perhaps underestimated Leon, the young and tender-looking little knight.
Leon’s gaze, through the grill of his face armor, had already foreseen the opponent’s outcome when he saw the latter choose the long spear, which had the greatest offensive capability.
The so-called “hitting one’s vital point within five moves to not only become a guard but also double the treatment” was just a trick to spur people on, a pretext not to act timidly due to caring about the Lord’s status.
In this test, holding a shield and fully responding to five attacks was their best choice to survive the test and earn an annual salary of twenty-four gold coins.
Dreaming of more was unnecessary.
…Magic Elements surged through his body in an instant.
Leon was filled with the power that he had grown familiar with over the days.
Raising his long sword, he held the hilt horizontally in front of him and targeted the Platon youth holding the steady long spear with the unique key style sword guard, derived from Olivia’s self-taught Nameless Sword Technique.
On a whim, Leon had once given this Nameless Sword Skill a rather chuunibyou-esque name—
Facing the spear thrust directly at him, Leon stomped the ground and moved diagonally forward in a swift motion.
The weaker sword blade grazed the incoming spear shaft, sliding underneath, deflecting the spearhead with a loud bang, and the relentless spearhead barely grazed the right side of Leon’s body, which had already shifted along the large triangle with his step.
The blond-haired youth trapped inside the helmet tried to retreat and recover his spear, but found Leon lifting his shoulders, twisting his waist to generate force, causing the Cross Sword Guard to rotate to the right.
The L-shaped angle formed by the long sword and the guard pressed down on the long spear, his entire speed ghostlike as he pressed forward.
Leon had deeply understood the most crucial spirit of “Olivia School” swordsmanship after long suffering—
Attack, attack, and attack again.
Each move, each technique, whether it was swordsmanship, footwork, body technique, or blocking, every action and combination of moves was meant to complete one set of attacks.
After the back foot provided the power for rapid forward movement, in the floating moment, Leon’s front toe had already firmly stepped on the ground.
The half-step of the Cat Spinning step drove the side-body twist, the long sword being drawn up by the force at the same time and slashing at the enemy’s neck from a close distance.
The blond-haired youth could not retreat in such close proximity, and the long spear was already hanging down too far to recover.
He could only raise his hand reluctantly to block the sword blade.
The spear in his hands barely managed to diagonally hold up the long sword.
The blond-haired youth’s heart trembled with the shock of the force in his palms.
Leon knew he could fully use his superhuman strength at the moment to overwhelm the opponent.
But his purpose was not just to defeat the opponent, but also to test the candidates’ skills.
Shifting sideways to the right, the movement of his shoulder and arm drove the long sword to dance out a narrowly angled V-shaped trajectory, executing Olivia’s proud close-range dual slash.
Leon had also given this move of the girl a chuunibyou-esque name—
Flying Swallow Return Nest Style.
The sword blade that disappeared in a blink reappeared on the other side of his body, the beautiful geometric trajectory of the switch-side slash left the blond-haired youth’s mind blank.
His right hand instinctively tried to follow the turn, but his dropped right hand instead left his right side completely exposed.
The blunt blade chopped between the opponent’s right shoulder and neck, Leon promptly rotated the hilt to retract the force, turning the chop into a slap.
The fully exerted force pressed on the opponent’s neck armor, fiercely slashing him to the ground.
The youth clad in thick armor fell resoundingly with clinks and clangs…
After just three exchanges,
Watching the challenger who was knocked to the ground in less than three seconds on the field, the originally excited and expectant crowd felt as if they had been suddenly doused with bone-chilling cold water.
Most people hadn’t even clearly seen how many swords the young Knight Master had swung throughout.
They only saw the fully-armed Platon youth, even armed with long weapons, being “beheaded” by Lord Pendragon with a single sword against the spear under such a significant weapon advantage.
Had it not been for the solid neck armor provided by the Lord, everyone knew what tragic fate would have befallen him in a real battle.
The Platon youth turned over on the ground, staring blankly at the sky, his mind still muddled.
“Unfortunately, you have not passed the test.
Go aside and take off your armor for someone else,” Leon sighed.
Let alone these youths from various villages, even Olivia.
Thinking of beating him, who possessed almost knight-level strength with the aid of the Treasure Card, within merely five moves, even fighting ten rounds, the success rate was likely only about fifty-fifty.
As long as he fully defended, under the Boiling Heart state, withstanding six or seven strikes from Olivia was not completely impossible.
Olivia herself could not guarantee to defeat him within five moves every time they sparred.