Genshin Impact: Reincarnation as a Hilichurl

Xiao jumped high and tried to get his sword back, but Wang Chen, who also jumped up, picked him up again with the extra three-foot-long sword and flew directly into the crowd of onlookers.

The offensive was reversed instantly, and Wang Chen mercilessly struck Xiao with a set of West Wind Sword Technique.

Xiao was beaten so hard that he screamed repeatedly. He almost wanted to use elemental power to protect his body, but when he thought about the consequences of violating the rules, he forced himself to hold back. However, he could not fight with weapons or bare hands relying on his physical body alone. The victory or defeat was determined from the moment his sword was knocked away.

Wang Chen put his wooden sword on Xiao's neck.

"No, no, no! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Xiao panicked and pushed Wang Chen's sword away with his hand, shouting, "What kind of move is that? It's not taught in the West Wind Sword Technique!"

"Why, can't I use it without being taught?"

"We are competing in swordsmanship!"

"You mean footwork and body movements can't be used? Then just use two wooden stakes to chop each other."

"You sharp-tongued villain!"

"Hehe, I don't know how long you have been practicing swordplay, but the day I accepted the challenge was my first time practicing swordplay. Aren't you just trying to take advantage of me because I'm a novice? And you still have the nerve to talk about fairness."

"I'm not, I didn't... No! No! It must be the sword's fault. I want to use my cold blade to fight you again!"

Wang Chen shook his head, stroked the blade of the wooden sword, closed his eyes and said calmly: "A sword is a sword. There is no difference between a wooden sword and an iron sword."

Saying this in front of so many people, Wang Chen felt only one word: cool.

Irene looked at the wooden sword in her hand, then looked at the cold blade in the chief instructor's hand that she had seen in her father's hand since she was a child, and was somewhat infected by Wang Chen's words.

The chief instructor saw that this kid was going to mislead the students, so he coughed and said, "There is a difference between wooden swords and iron swords. Swords made of minerals can release sword energy. Even people without elemental power can use this sword energy to break through the elemental power defense, but wooden swords can't do that."

Wang Chen touched his nose awkwardly.

Sword Qi? He had heard the instructor mention it once before, but he was too busy practicing sword skills to understand it.

The chief instructor continued, "But if we only talk about swordsmanship, there is really no difference between wooden swords and iron swords."

"I don't care! I want to fight again, I want to use elemental power! Oh, and I know how to use the Wind Pressure Sword. I know how to use the Wind Pressure Sword..."

Xiao pretended to be crazy.

"There's not much difference between the two of you in swordsmanship, but you lack practical experience and are still too young."

The chief instructor issued the final result: "According to the agreement, you can no longer join the Knights Templar."

"Wow!"

The crowd of onlookers became noisy. This was a holder of the Eye of God, and the Knights of Favonius could only recruit ten on average every year. Could they really be so strict and abandon people at will?

"No, no, no..." Xiao covered his head, already a little crazy. Suddenly he remembered that he could kill Wang Chen with one sword, so he reached out to touch the sword, but he didn't touch it.

The chief instructor saw that he was emotionally unstable and did not return the cold blade to him.

Without his sword, including the Wind Pressure Sword, Xiao didn't know what to do and squatted on the ground in pain.

"I...I want to join the Knights. I must join the Knights...I must..."

"You still have one choice." Wang Chen leaned over and said to Xiao, "Tell everyone what you did to me, and I won't ask you to never join the Knights."

Xiao raised his head in surprise.

Before signing up for this selection, Xiao promised his father that he would succeed this time.

Seeing that his son had obtained the Eye of God, Xiao's father believed it firmly and even booked a banquet at a famous restaurant in the city and was waiting to send invitations to relatives and friends.

Joining the Knights was undoubtedly Xiao's dream, a dream passed down for three generations.

But after obtaining the Eye of God, this dream was mixed with many impurities.

"Will you forgive me?"

"I don't care if you can join the Order or not, I just want to be cleared of all charges."

Wang Chen really didn't care whether the Knights had one more or one less person, but it was not possible to explain what Xiao said that day, nor was it possible not to explain. In his previous life, Wang Chen was most annoyed by those online rumors, and he wished he could take a blue pill and beat them up through the Internet cable.

The best way to deal with rumors is to let the originator clarify things himself. Xiao was beaten and then took the initiative to clarify things, thus clearing himself of all charges and allowing everyone to see Xiao's true face. This is also a form of social death.

Upon hearing this, Xiao looked at the chief instructor again, but he had no idea what the instructor was thinking.

He could not care less and bowed his head to Wang Chen, saying, "Chen, I was wrong! I asked Cliff and Bart to provoke you because I was jealous of your sword. It just so happened that you said you had a strange disease and couldn't show up, so I wanted to provoke you and make you make a mistake, and then be punished."

"It's all my fault! It was my scheme! I shouldn't have been so jealous!"

Some people showed surprised expressions. Xiao was usually quite smooth with others, but they didn't expect that he had such a dark heart.

Some people sighed and said that it was indeed so.

Xiao walked around the crowd again and tried to explain: "Everyone heard it! It wasn't Chen who hurt Cliff on his own initiative. Cliff was instructed by me to do it! Where's Cliff? Come out and explain to me!"

Cliff, who was hiding in the crowd, was despised by the people around him and of course refused to show up again.

Xiao then turned around and explained to the onlookers.

"I said it looked like there was a conspiracy."

"I guessed it a long time ago."

"I really don't understand, what's wrong with this world?"

"Humph, just because he has a God's Eye, he is willing to get hurt for him. This Cliff is really stupid."

Some of Xiao's followers looked very uncomfortable. They thought they could cling to the big brother, but now the leg has fallen down by itself.

"Say less, they have divine eyes, be careful of retaliation."

"..."

The discussion suddenly became much quieter.

Xiao came back after a circle and asked Wang Chen cautiously, "Is this okay?"

Wang Chen nodded.

Xiao looked at the chief instructor with pleading eyes again.

"Even if you won, I would not let you join the Knights. No matter how Chen changed his request and you are willing to confess..."

The instructor sighed with a complicated expression.

"Criminals can be reformed, and some Faintids have reformed and joined the Knights. I will give you a chance. With your qualifications, you would have been able to take on more important tasks as soon as you joined the Knights. Now you can only start from the bottom like ordinary people, and everyone will supervise you more strictly."

A voice from somewhere in the crowd said, "The Knights really treat the new recruits differently."

The chief instructor didn't even bother to raise his head, and said loudly: "Important work is often accompanied by danger. If you have the ability, you can do it. But even if you don't have the Eye of God, you shouldn't belittle yourselves. Lady Vanessa and Lady Alendrin don't have the Eye of God. They are your targets!"

The crowd of onlookers fell silent.

The chief instructor then said to Xiao: "This incident will be recorded, like a stain that can't be washed away. Your behavior will be paid special attention to in the future. It depends on whether you have truly changed your ways."

"I will change, I will definitely change!"

Xiao's spirit stabilized and he sincerely thanked the chief instructor and Wang Chen.

No matter what his reputation would become, or how people would view him when it spread back home... at least he had kept the dream of three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, so what about the Eye of God? He originally wanted to obtain the Eye of God in order to join the Knights, when did he put the cart before the horse?

Xiao sighed.

After the competition, the instructors still need to teach the reservists one last special content.

The chief instructor looked at the time. Although it was a bit early, he still gathered the ten deputy instructors, explained some things to them, and then blew the assembly whistle.

The instructors of each team returned to the team they led.

The deputy instructor of Wang Chen's team said: "According to convention, whether you can pass tomorrow's selection or not, the Knights will give you a gift - a method for ordinary people to fight against the holders of the Eye of God, and also a way to improve your strength."

When everyone's curiosity was aroused, the deputy instructor continued, "That is sword energy."

Wang Chen heard cheers coming from other teams and he didn’t know if they were really too happy or if they just wanted to have some fun as the training was about to end.

"Look."

The deputy instructor took out a two-star standard long sword, still using the West Wind sword technique, and the long sword brought up an airflow visible to the naked eye when it swept across.

This was exactly the power that Wang Chen saw when the chief instructor split the Wind Vortex Sword that day. After watching the deputy instructor demonstrate a set of West Wind Sword Technique, Wang Chen realized that the so-called sword energy was the normal attack special effect in the game!

It turns out that wasn’t a special effect!

Wang Chen searched hard in "Approaching Elemental Power", but in the end he only saw the author mention it a few times.

I don’t know whether the author was disdainful or he simply hadn’t learned it. Maybe the author is a wizard?

Oh, by the way, the author looks down on people who use weapons made of special materials, so naturally he has no chance of using sword energy.

"The weapons in your hands are all forged with minerals that are more compatible with elemental forces than humans. As we all know, the Eye of God can help humans call upon elemental forces. Although weapons are not that powerful, they can still generate a kind of fluctuation in elemental forces when they are wielded. This is sword energy. The better the material used to forge the weapon, the higher its affinity with elemental forces, and the stronger the sword energy that can be stimulated."

Irene looked at the wooden sword in her hand without saying anything.

"This is also the principle behind the sword energy being able to fight against the holder of the Eye of God. People with the Eye of God should know that by making elemental power appear on the body surface to form an elemental power defense, as long as the elemental power is not completely consumed, it can block attacks from ordinary sharp weapons. With sword energy, which is also formed by elemental power, ordinary people can break through the elemental power defense and injure or even kill the enemy."

"Coach, I have been practicing sword for so long, why haven't I ever used sword energy?"

"Don't worry, I'm just about to say it. Just like swinging a sword will create wind under normal circumstances, the world is filled with elemental forces that ordinary people cannot perceive. Weapons that are friendly to elemental forces will also create elemental wind when they are swung. In fact, everyone can generate sword energy, but your sword energy is chaotic and shapeless. Without shape, there is no attack power.

"How can you make the sword energy take shape? Many high-level adventurers have learned it by fighting in the wild, and many people who specialize in a certain weapon have learned it after training for a long time. But there is no specific method, so you can only rely on your own exploration. What we can do is to tell you this technique."

There is an easier way, but it is only useful for people with divine eyes, so I won’t stimulate you, the deputy instructor added in his heart.

The crowd made a sound of regret.

Someone else asked if there was any real record of sword energy defeating the Eye of God.

The deputy instructor chuckled and said, "Don't tell me you haven't heard of the Lion of Light, Alendrin."

The crowd cheered again.

"If you want to watch, I can show you some sword energy. If you don't want to watch, you can go and train on your own."

No one in the team left, and of course Wang Chen wanted to watch as well.

Ordinary people can use sword energy to break through elemental defenses, which is knowledge Wang Chen doesn't know. It seems that he may not be able to crush ordinary people...

As a result, the chief instructor called out those people with divine eyes.

"Next is a special benefit for those of you who have the Eye of God. I have two combat skills here. One is Captain Qin's Wind Pressure Sword, and the other is my own Wind Fist. I will demonstrate both to you. Some people don't have wind attributes, but it doesn't matter. The principles are the same. I hope these two moves can provide you with ideas for creating combat skills."

The chief instructor began to raise his sword and gather strength. Strong winds swirled around the sword in his hand, creating an attraction that pulled some gravel on the ground.

This step is very similar to the Wind Vortex Sword, the key is the next step.

The chief instructor extended his sword diagonally upwards, and a small storm erupted on the sword. The suction force originally generated turned into thrust, and the flying stones were thrown far away.

"Use the two forces generated by the wind to control the enemy. This is the Wind Pressure Sword. Captain Qin's sword is the Sword of Protection, so this combat skill does not have much direct lethality. However, if you can throw the enemy high up to make it suffer fall damage, or change the pulled wind into a wind blade, the lethality will increase. But the Wind Pressure Sword can only be taught to you after you join the Knights. Now I can only teach you my combat skills."

The chief instructor sheathed his sword, held his breath and threw a punch. When his arm was stretched straight, a fist-shaped shadow stretched out from his body and extended forward, creating a spiral airflow.

After a moment, the spiral airflow accelerated, the fist shadow was deformed, and finally turned into a wind vortex, and then exploded with a loud bang, making a sound like the roar of a wild beast.

He demonstrated this move on the first day of training.

"This is my Wind Roaring Fist. Although it inevitably uses the spiral and attraction of wind, that is not the core. Did you notice the phantom of the fist? This is derived from my fist combined with the wind element. People who don't know fist techniques can also use a trick, which is to make the protective elemental force leave the body surface. Although this method is not as powerful as the real Wind Roaring Fist, it is very easy to learn.

"As long as you add your own will to the elemental force, you can make it maintain its shape and decide when it changes. Add the characteristics of your attributes to the subsequent changes, and a simple means of attack will be formed."

Willpower... Mental power controls the elemental power that has left the body, instead of stopping control after it is released. Isn't this the same as Wendy's book-turning style and the group wind dance that I control myself? It's just that the control needs to be more precise.