Another World Witch Training Manual

025. Blazing Fire Slash

The moment Eve's eyes met Xinlai's, her cheeks flushed.

She hurriedly turned her face away, pretending nothing had happened, and tried to close her eyes again to enter meditation, avoiding Xinlai's attention.

However, Xinlai walked straight up to her, squatted down, and leveled her gaze.

"You've been spying on me."

"Did you notice anything?"

"no."

Eve remained expressionless, not even opening her eyes, like an ice queen, attempting to evade the question with silence.

"Did you not peek at me, or did you not notice anything?"

No, none at all.

Eve's ability to calmly utter lies made Sinlai even more suspicious.

In addition, Xinlai was no pushover either. On a whim, he decided to tease her and reached out to pinch Eve's soft cheek.

"Waaah..."

A warm touch came from the man's palm, and Eve suddenly opened her eyes, twisting her head in dissatisfaction as she tried to break free.

However, Xin Lai not only didn't let go, but instead pinched and kneaded even more vigorously.

That pretty oval face was deliberately kneaded into a round, chubby face, and paired with her puffed-up expression, she looked like she was angry...

No, she's really angry!

Xin Lai raised her chin. "You little brat, you just don't know how to be grateful."

He turned to the side, revealing the pile of cultivation resources that Vivian had prepared for him behind him: "Knowing that these were all bought for you, you still treat me like this."

Eve glared at him fiercely, her eyes clearly saying: So what...who knows what you're up to...

Seeing the aggrieved look on Xinlai's face, like a neglected queen shrouded in a faint sadness, and hearing her sigh almost imperceptibly, Eve's heart suddenly softened.

Fine, fine, I'll admit defeat since you were trying to help me.

No...that's not right...

Eve, how could you give up like this? You must fight this great villain to the very end!

She quickly shook her head to get rid of this inexplicable thought, and leaned back somewhat angrily, trying to get away from him.

"You...you let go first."

"Tell me when you let go?"

"..."

Judging from her reaction, Eve hadn't intended to say anything in the first place.

Xinlai knew Eve's personality all too well. Instead of letting go, she became even more unrestrained, gently and intermittently rubbing Eve's face.

Eve instinctively tried to dodge, but she couldn't escape no matter what she did. She could only glare angrily at the man as he rubbed her cheeks.

But this kneading method... it seems familiar. Like kneading dough, pinching and squeezing...

I feel like I've experienced this somewhere before, but I can't quite remember where.

After being gently stroked for a while, feeling utterly hopeless, Xinlai felt the time was right and asked:

"Will you tell or not?"

"I'll talk... I'll talk, okay... You, you, let go!"

Eve was so easily swayed that she lost her temper, her voice grew softer and softer, and she finally gave in.

Xin Lai chuckled, but didn't loosen her grip at all.

Xinlai quite liked Eve's whining manner and nodded, saying, "Go ahead and tell me. I'll release you once you're satisfied."

"you!"

Looking at Xinlai, who was even more shameless than herself, Eve pouted and complained reluctantly:

"You damned devil..."

She looked like a lonely young woman confined to her room; Eve glanced at her with resentment and dissatisfaction.

"Your skills are so rudimentary, in my opinion, that could be improved."

"Want to expand on this?" Xin Lai keenly caught the implication in the words; was this someone offering him guidance?

A guy who's out of breath after swinging his sword twice is supposed to be giving him pointers...

But then Xinlai thought again that although Eve had never practiced martial arts or swordsmanship, her strongest talent was undeniable, and she might have actually figured out something.

Whether it's useful or not, it can't hurt to listen.

"Alright then." Xin Lailong was overjoyed, kept his promise, and released her hand, looking at her expectantly.

To everyone's surprise, as soon as her hand loosened, Eve immediately got up and took two steps back to maintain a safe distance before wrapping her robes tightly around herself with a clear conscience.

"Ahem," Eve said seriously, "first, demonstrate the starting stance for a spinning slash."

Eve, feeling a pang of pity, didn't think much of it and shifted her body, placing her little bottom on the cushion.

"Oh... okay."

Xinlai stood up in front of the scarecrow, her left hand holding the middle of the scabbard, her right hand gripping the hilt, her body slightly bent down, like the starting stance of an iaido slash, as if she could deliver this precise strike at any moment.

"Okay...you know how to use Fireball, right? Activate it."

Xin Lai frowned slightly, somewhat puzzled, but still did as instructed. He began to spread his magic net to absorb magic power, then injected magic power into the magic circuits within his body, quickly constructing a complete fireball spell circuit.

"and then?"

In his view, the instantaneous sword strike when activating the fireball spell is simply to follow up the fireball attack with a sword strike. Even if the opponent dodges the fireball, they cannot dodge the finishing blow.

Unless the level difference is too great, you can always deal damage.

Eve blinked her long eyelashes and tentatively suggested thoughtfully, "Try... casting a fireball the instant you unleash this sword strike."

"?"

Xinlai was stunned.

He suddenly realized that he had never tried this before.

Just like playing FPS games, once you get used to shift as the crouch key, it's hard to use ctrl as the crouch key again. Once you get used to using fireball as a feint and slash as the main attack, it's hard to change the order of casting.

This is a kind of inertia that traps people in what they perceive as their comfort zone.

However, the order in which skills are released will inevitably result in vastly different effects.

Xinlai seemed to understand Eve's meaning. Without saying anything more, she concentrated, breathed steadily, and released a fireball the moment she drew her sword.

The magic transformed into two fire snakes that shot out from his fingertips, intertwining and climbing upwards along the hilt of the sword just before they were about to merge into a fireball.

Wherever the fire serpent passed, raging flames ignited on the sword blade.

Xin Lai yanked the sword out, straightened it, gripped it firmly with both hands, and slashed downwards with all her might.

In an instant, he felt the magic power within his body being frantically drained by this sword. The flames that clung to the sword burned fiercely along the trajectory of the strike, leaving a fleeting charred trail in the air.

"boom!!"

Without warning, a sword aura carrying scorching flames poured down from Xin Lai's sword, swiftly striking the scarecrow not far away.

"Splash—"

The scarecrow trembled violently, then suddenly froze.

Xinlai was panting heavily, and beads of sweat the size of peas dripped from her chin onto the ground.

This sword strike actually exhausted all the magic power in my body!

He looked at the scarecrow with some weariness, and saw a dark sword wound from its left chest to its right hip, which looked like it had completely pierced through its body.

Incredibly, the scarecrow didn't break; it remained standing, and the strange, hastily sewn-together smiling face seemed to have a mocking quality to it...

"..."

What the hell? All talk and no action?

Xinlai felt something was strange, but her body felt as if it had just been thoroughly drained by the succubus, leaving her with no strength at all.

He sat down on the spot, leaning on his longsword, and looked at the system panel that had popped up in time.

Your Fireball skill has improved: lv.1 → lv.2

You have learned a brand new move: Blazing Slash Lv.1

【Blazing Slash Lv.1】

[This skill requires a follow-up "Slash" to activate; after activating this skill, a flaming sword aura that increases in power with level will be unleashed forward, capable of inflicting fatal internal injuries on enemies, 6400 MP/sword]

After reading the skill description, Xinlai turned to look at the scarecrow that was mocking him and understood why the scarecrow hadn't been cut in half.

He forced himself to stand up and went to the scarecrow, then gently touched it with his hand.

The scarecrow's mocking face slowly fell backward, and its cross-section was now clearly visible:

The charred blackened area emitted a foul stench, and the inside of the body had turned into a pile of black ash, which scattered all over the ground as the scarecrow fell.

puff~

Its remaining exterior had been burned brittle, turning to dust the moment it touched the ground, leaving it with no right to mock.

Blazing Slash is actually a skill that ignores "armor"...

He turned to meet Eve's gaze, whose face was also filled with surprise, his eyes full of affirmation and admiration.