"ha!"
With a loud shout, Ingulit raised the wooden sword high, took a step forward, poured all her strength into the sword, and chopped down at the armored statue in front of her with all her might!
Snap!
With the sound of the armor statue cracking, the wooden sword stopped at the edge of the ninth ring of the armor statue.
Ingulit retracted the wooden sword and resumed alert. Following the breathing method taught in school, she exhaled a foot of white air and quickly recovered her energy.
"At this rate, I should be able to summon the sword-slashing spirit within this month," Ingrid thought.
As a school of magicians with a history of hundreds of years, Jianhua University has already developed various techniques for training magicians. The training armor statue in front of Ingulite is a tool specifically used to train swordsman apprentices.
The appearance of the armor statue is a wooden stake, with a ten-ring mark at the core, and the material is extremely hard. When an apprentice can cut into the ten rings at the core with one sword, it means that his swordsmanship is good enough to summon his first swordsmanship spirit.
Generally speaking, there are three types of one-winged spirits that a swordsman can summon, namely, 'Slashing Sword', 'Thrusting Sword', and 'Cutting Sword'. Ingrid, who was doing slashing training, naturally wanted to summon the 'Slashing Sword Spirit'.
Ingulit took a second or two to regulate her breathing, and the armor statue had returned to normal, as if Ingulit had not cracked it at all.
This is the strength of the Jianhua University training ground - no matter how serious the damage is, all the armor statues in the training ground will recover quickly. As long as you still have the energy, the armor statues will let you ravage them. After all, it is not the armor statues that crawl out of the training ground with weak legs in the end.
boom!
As Ingrid continued to train with her slashing skills, she suddenly heard the door to the training ground being blown open, and couldn't help but look over. Although the apprentices in the training ground were sweating and shouting, in fact, this was a very disciplined place, and very few people dared to make trouble here.
Anyone who dares to mess around here will be approached by dozens of swordsman apprentices with sword energy to have physical "intimate communication" with you in a matter of minutes.
Ingulit had a few persistent suitors last semester, but they never dared to approach her in the training grounds. After all, if Ingulit frowned slightly, the energetic apprentices nearby would immediately jump out to enforce justice.
Hot-blooded, introverted, aggressive, and full of masculine hormones, these are the labels of the training ground.
There is a famous joke in Jianhua University: "Some boys practice sword fighting to pursue girls at first, but later they practice sword fighting to compete with other boys in sword fighting. Maybe it's not that love loses to power, but compared to complicated love, pure power is easier to pursue, right?"
But tonight, complex love took the initiative to step into the territory of power.
A ruby-red hair appeared at the door, her skin was dazzlingly white, her facial features were so delicate that they seemed to have been carefully polished by an artist, her waist was slender, and her legs were long and straight.
A rose that should have appeared at the dinner party suddenly bloomed in the training ground surrounded by swords.
But what caught the swordsman apprentices' most attention was the wooden training sword in her right hand.
"Sonia?"
When Ingrid watched Sonia walk across half of the training ground, find an unused armor statue and start training with a wooden sword, she was full of doubts.
Although she had no ill feelings towards Sonia, in her opinion, Sonia was the type of person who would never touch swordsmanship.
Different from the graceful and elegant female swordsmen in the "fantasy epics" and "knight dramas" performed on the screen, the female swordsmen in reality must even train their physical fitness to be better than that of men in order to summon magic spirits and master spells.
Not to mention that her hands were covered with calluses from swinging the sword, her arms, legs, and even waist muscles were all stronger and more developed from exercise. The actresses who appeared on the screen, performing gorgeous swordsmanship with their pretty hands without any muscles, absolutely did not exist in reality.
Even the sword spirits would never recognize a weak swordsman. Ingrid had heard the news that swordsmen's spirits had escaped on their own when they were old and weak since she was a child.
Although some people say that female swordsmen have a kind of "powerful beauty", based on Ingrid's own observation, there are far more boys pursuing female water masters than those pursuing female swordsmen.
Moreover, she herself admitted that Sonia, Lois and other exquisite water masters were more beautiful and exquisite than herself, a rough swordsman.
She was not dissatisfied with this. After all, while she was training, Sonia and the others were also doing makeup and skin care, and everyone got what they were looking for.
That's why Ingrid was so surprised. After all, if Sonia only started to train swordsmanship now, wouldn't all her previous efforts be wasted? Not only would it delay her progress in learning water arts, but it would also affect her appearance, which she had been carefully maintaining.
However, when Ingulit noticed a handsome young man wiping his sweat not far from Sonia, who was still wearing a full set of training clothes despite the hot weather, she suddenly realized.
Felix Vosloda, a first-year student in the same class as them, a talented apprentice in the swordsmanship department.
Although Felix, like Ingullet, was still training to summon his first newborn magic spirit, unlike Ingullet who only wanted to summon the most basic 'Sword Cutting' magic spirit, Felix wanted to summon the 'Wave Sword', the secret magic spirit of their Vosloda family.
The newborn magic spirit of every magician is of vital importance and may even determine the magician's future development direction. Therefore, families with the conditions will try their best to find suitable training methods to allow talented clan members to summon the most powerful and suitable newborn magic spirit.
Even a small country noble family like Ingulit's has its own secret method of practicing spiritual arts, but it is not suitable for Ingulit.
The 'Wave Sword' is undoubtedly stronger than the 'Slash Sword', and Felix's training intensity undoubtedly crushes Ingulite - Felix can be praised as a first-year swordsmanship genius because his swordsmanship skills and training intensity are far beyond his peers.
In the final competition of the fencing department last semester, Ingrid lost to Felix, but she was convinced. After all, the other party was not only more talented than herself, but also worked harder than herself. The title of fencing genius was well deserved.
But compared to his swordsmanship, what the girls talked about more was Felix's other side.
Even though Ingulite was from the countryside, she knew that the Vosloda family was the top noble family in the Stars and one of the five pillars of the Stars Parliament.
Duke Vosloda, also known as the 'Prince of Star Casting', controls the most advanced steel factory in the Starry Kingdom. His business areas cover both civilian and military fields. He holds a pivotal position in the military, political and commercial circles, and can be considered the most powerful person in this country.
As the second son of the Duke, Felix should have gone to Aletheia University, but for some unknown reason he came to Sword Flower University. Many people secretly wondered if he was not favored by the Duke.
But even if Felix was not favored, he was still a direct descendant of Vosloda. No matter how poorly he did, he was still a member of the top class. Naturally, many people wanted to use his promotion tool to climb up the social class.
Felix's social skills were as outstanding as his swordsmanship. He changed his female companion almost every week, and he changed women faster than he changed clothes.
When it was most frequent, Ingulit even found that the female companions who came to the training ground to find him were different for five consecutive days. This made Ingulit feel ashamed and admired at the same time - how could this guy still have the energy to do other things after high-intensity training
After her training, she wanted to melt on the bed.
With high skills, good looks, and many scandals, Felix is undoubtedly the focus of the training ground. If Sonia has a special purpose, then her only target can only be Felix.
But when they were still on good terms in the dormitory, they once talked about boys in school, and Lois, Adele and Sonia all made it clear that they all kept their distance from Felix.
After all, a playboy like Felix would inevitably be arranged into a political marriage by Duke Vosloda. If they approached him with any expectations, the consequence would be that they would just become an insignificant member of his ex-girlfriend group.
Although Ingrid, who had fantasies about love in her heart, did not like their naked utilitarianism, she also admitted that their judgment was correct. In a year, none of Felix's girlfriends could last more than a week.
Didn't Sonia come here for Felix? But apart from Felix, there was no one else here that caught her eye...
While Ingrid was thinking, Sonia had already started training in a serious manner.
"Ha!" With the help of breathing techniques, Sonia slashed at the armor statue with a sword, but she couldn't even pierce the skin of the armor statue.
Ingulit observed for a while and immediately shook her head: Sonia's forehand was unstable, her off-hand was weak, her steps were loose, her body was sluggish, and not a single movement was decent.
He didn't even change into training clothes that were convenient for exercise, but still wore bright and beautiful casual clothes.
Even the sound of shouting sounded like she was acting coquettishly.
It would be more accurate to say that she came here to attract attention rather than to train.
Whatever her purpose was, it wasn't training.
Ingrid stopped paying attention to her and continued her training. Sword training requires the unity of mind, body and skills. Concentration is the most important thing. Every sword must be filled with all the mind, how much strength to use, how much strength to retain, the rotation of the shoulders, the swing of the wrist, the movement of the feet... Only when all the details are clear in mind can it be considered a sword.
Being lazy is the most meaningless thing. Every effort made by a magician apprentice is not for others, but for himself.
Only an apprentice's talent is enough to arouse the resonance of the virtual world and summon the magic spirit out of thin air, thus transcending reality, obtaining a pass to enter the virtual world and becoming a true virtual wing magician.
According to Ingulit's current level, she needs to take a short break after every three swords, and stop to relax her muscles after every thirty swords. One training session is considered completed if she can swing nine hundred swords within two hours, and her fatigue level will accumulate to be enough for her to fall asleep as soon as she touches the pillow after taking a shower.
"ha!"
"ha!"
"ha!"
A few minutes later, Ingulit could no longer suppress her anger and looked at Sonia with dissatisfaction. In just these few minutes, Ingulit heard Sonia swing her sword dozens of times without any rest in between. It was simply a mess.
It was understandable that Ingulit was angry, it was like in a very difficult and serious examination room, suddenly a careless candidate got the paper and started answering without even looking at it, and while writing he said things like "It's so easy", "That's it", "There really can't be anyone who can't do it", etc. Others would definitely think that this candidate was making trouble.
Sonia's behavior now is equivalent to making trouble.
However, just when Ingrid was about to warn Sonya, she found that she seemed to be wrong - although Sonya's movements were still rough and very novice, her every move strictly abided by the requirements of the "Swordsmanship Manual". Every sword she used drained all her strength, and the sweat on her forehead flowed along the bridge of her nose. She was definitely not playing around.
Moreover, compared to a few minutes ago, Sonia's swordsmanship has improved significantly. Her wooden sword can even cut into the edge of a ring of the armor!
Although it still lowered the swordsmanship level of the entire training ground, it seemed that he had some basic skills in swordsmanship. At least it took someone who had practiced for a few months to have such momentum!
"Has she practiced swordsmanship before?" Ingrid thought.
However, she still believed that Sonia was not here for training - if she wasted her energy like this, Sonia would definitely be too tired to stand up in a few minutes, and would not achieve any training effect at all, but perhaps there would be a weight loss effect.
I see, it should be for body shaping! I've heard of this!
Ingulit immediately felt that she understood Sonia's purpose, but she felt that Sonia could not hold on any longer.
After all, even an apprentice like her who has trained in swordsmanship for many years can only swing the sword 256 times at a time, which takes 11 minutes.
For a swordsmanship novice like Sonia, being able to go on for several minutes without stopping is already very impressive.
As she was feeling a little tired, Ingrid stopped to rest, secretly counting the number of times Sonia swung her sword, intending to go over and give her some pointers when her movements changed - although she didn't think Sonia would switch to swordsmanship, it would be good as long as she could increase her interest in swordsmanship.