Earth Player chapter 31

 Irish Town (13) 

Basic Swordsmanship and Archery

     After saying goodbye to Lina, Ye Mo returned to the small dark room.

     Changed clothes, put on gloves, packed her luggage, took off her backpack, replaced it with two cross-body cloth bags, and then tied the bow, sword, and arrows to her back in order, just like the mercenaries.

     Black hat + black veil + black mask, put on a long, wide black cloak. As long as she didn't look in the mirror or use her psychic ability to scan herself, it will be others who are scared.

     On the way to the underground world, she stood out.

     Out of the underground world, she stood out from the crowd.

     Passing by the mercenary supply store that Captain Hook had recommended, Ye Mo pushed the door open and frightened the store owner Rose, who screamed twice in a row. The scene suddenly became a little awkward.

     "Sorry."

     "Honey, you scared me."

     The smile on Rose's face quickly returned, quite professional. Although she complained, her attitude and the intimate tone of her speech did not make people hate her, and it was even easy to make people feel a little more intimate. Ye Mo responded with an awkward but polite smile.

     The supply store is a bit like the grocery store in the previous life. The most sold items here are the equipment and food and medicine supplies needed by mercenaries to complete missions.

     In addition to selling, this store also purchases materials such as Magic Beast plants from mercenaries.

     The prices of the goods in the store are indeed very fair. They may not be lower than the market price, but they are basically not higher than the market price. The credit is quite high in the mercenary group, and the boss lady is also popular.

     Ye Mo bought some insect repellent powder, bone needles, clean bandages, small cloth bags, etc., and the rest are mainly potions-hemostatic potions, recovery potions, detoxification potions, healing potions, etc.

     The potions in the store are basically for healing and recovery. There are basically no potions for improving physical fitness. She is not sure which ones can enhance physical fitness attributes.

     The shop owner Rose didn't often meet big-spending customers like Ye Mo. She smiled brighter and wiped out all the copper coins, a total of 2 gold coins and 80 silver coins.

     It's not easy to have a few gold coins in your pocket, but Ye Mo was still very straightforward when paying.

...

     The training ground of the Wild Wolf Mercenary Group is only two streets away from Rose's supply store. The location is relatively remote, hidden in a group of small houses with red walls and colorful tiles, with a strong atmosphere of life.

     "Maria!"

     Half of Alice's body was sticking out from the second-floor window, and the sunlight was shining on her long golden hair, like stars.

     She waved excitedly and kept waving. Compared with when she was on a mission, she seemed more lively at this time, like a beautiful and lovely girl next door.

     Ye Mo waved her hand in response.

    Alice's next action and speech were combined rather badly: "Maria, come up, come up quickly!"

     Ye Mo silently glanced at the closed front door and estimated the height of the house.

     She took two steps back, took a deep breath and jumped up, grabbed the wall with her hands, stepped on the middle wall twice, and climbed to the second floor easily.

     This is not the legendary ladder for flying over eaves and walls. It was not difficult for her to climb this height, and with the tree climbing skills she learned from Archer Jack, it was even easier.

     This room on the third floor is Alice's bedroom, which looks like a European-style princess room, with mahogany walls and floors, a white oak four-poster bed in the middle, and a wooden dressing table of the same color on the right.

     Under the glass mirror, there are bottles and jars of cosmetics and beauty potions, which are a little messy. The central wardrobe is open, and the clothes inside are very rich in colors and styles, mostly magic robes and dresses.

     "Maria, if you don't come, our group will have to participate in the next mission tomorrow." Alice's bed was a little messy, and there was a set of winter skirts made of mini fox fur on it. "Look, I sewed this stitch by stitch."

     The size of the clothes was nearly half that of ordinary people. At the suggestion of other mercenaries, Alice did not have the opportunity to express her own colors, and the style of the skirt was also normal.

     The flowers and plants embroidered on the skirt were delicate enough, the colors were not messy, and there was animal skin armor in the interlayer.

     It was really thoughtful. "Thank you, Alice." Ye Mo took off her black cloak, revealing the bow and sword on her back. 

     "I'm so happy that you have a mission notification. I've been preparing suitable weapons for myself these days."

      "What a cute little bow and sword!" Alice's first focus was very different from what she thought, 

     "Did you make this yourself? It's amazing. I actually know the Goblin Craftsman!" 

     Ye Mo paused for a moment, nodded, and asked again: "Where are your brothers?"

     "My brothers are training in the back. Let's go. It's a good opportunity to try your two weapons." 

... 

     Following Alice downstairs, bypassing the exotic main hall, through the back door, the two came to an open-air backyard. The yard is spacious, and Captain Hook and his men are training hard here. 

     No matter which world you are in, if you want to eat the professional meal of a real warrior, your body and the weapons in your hands must not rust, and daily training is indispensable. 

     Moreover, every two days before the mission, the mercenaries will gather at Captain Hook's house for training. The yard is mainly divided into swordsman and archer training areas, which may be similar to some bases on Earth.

     Except for the shooting range, climbing ability and reaction speed are very important for archers. These three are indispensable daily training items for Jack, and the rest are basic physical training.

     At this moment, he is shooting at targets while moving quickly.

     Captain Hook and other swordsmen are in another area, practicing stabbing, physical training, or teaching swordsmanship.

     The swordsmanship of the Celtic continent does not have any legendary swordsmanship secrets such as "Thunder Sword Method" or "Seven Star Sword Formation", but only the combat experience accumulated and summarized by thousands of swordsmen.

     When ordinary people first come into contact with swordsmanship, the contact methods are basic movements such as stabbing, chopping, and cutting. After improving physical strength and forming basic inertia, they will learn from the experience of their predecessors.

     There are two factors for the release of sword energy of intermediate swordsmen-further upgrading of physical strength and matching special swords suitable for swordsmen. Both are indispensable and complement each other.

     This shows the importance of weapons.

     Alice invited Ye Mo to put down her equipment and jog with her to warm up.

    As the younger sister of a mercenary,, even as a magic apprentice, her physical strength is stronger than many magicians.

…

     After the warm-up, the swordsmen's first round of training was almost over, and they gathered around to say hello.

     "This is the sword that Maria made!"

     Men on Earth love beautiful women and luxury cars. Mercenaries on the Celtic continent often love all kinds of weapons. Even if these weapons are a little small for them, they still try them out one by one out of respect for their friends.

     Unlike goblins, swordsmen can't tell the age of goblins, nor do they understand the difficulty of sword making. They evaluate according to their own habits, and don't know how rare this forging talent is.

     And most swordsmen like heavy swords, that is, attributes + strength, and magic systems are fire or electricity. They are not very adaptable to wind swords and have poor agility control, including Captain Hook.

     Ye Mo realized that wind swords may not be so popular in the market, and Miranda did not get much benefit from spending so many gold coins.

     Among the Wild Wolf Mercenaries, only Deputy Captain Thomson prefers light swords and has a better understanding of the characteristics of wind swords.

     Therefore, it fell to him to teach Ye Mo swordsmanship.

     Captain Hook and his team had a basic understanding of Ye Mo's basic physical fitness. Before learning swordsmanship, Thomson's first suggestion was to fight to find out the basics.

     The sword was of course a relatively safe wooden sword, and the opponent was the deputy captain, and the venue was in the center of the swordsman training ground.

     Ye Mo had never fought with anyone, let alone a duel.

     With her personality, she chose to wait for the opponent to attack at first, thinking that she could counter the opponent's moves like the masters in TV dramas, but the result was not as regular as she thought.

     If it weren't for her agility to grab it, the wooden sword might have been directly chopped off by the opponent!

     When she took the initiative to attack, she found that whether it was a stab or other attacks, it seemed that Thomson could block it. It was not because of how fast he was, but a prediction based on experience.

     As expected, fighting with people is completely different from fighting with other non-intelligent creatures. Thomson told Ye Mo that the higher the level of the magic beast, the stronger their intelligence and fighting instincts.

     Results of the competition

     --Ye Mo's wooden sword was cut off.

     Deputy Captain Thomson was not surprised that he could win, but he also gave a sincere reward after the competition.

     "Maria, your speed is no less than that of a high-level swordsman without a sword. You may be a little bit weaker in strength. What you need to learn most is how to fight."

     Ye Mo responded with a swordsman's salute: "Please give me more advice."

     First, Thomson explained a lot of swordsmanship skills orally, and demonstrated them in person. The fighting skills were summarized a lot and turned into a set of swordsmanship.

     She remember there was a famous saying in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"-'Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will appear'.

     Many swordsmen practice these swordsmanship or unfinished swordsmanship experiences over and over again for hundreds of thousands of times to understand the tricks themselves.

     Ye Mo's time is a bit tight.

     She didn't follow the orthodox swordsman, but absorbed knowledge like a cotton ball. Most of the morning was spent memorizing sword skills, mainly in her head.

     Thomson was a little puzzled, but he still tried his best to teach. He was a teacher who respected students more.

     Until an hour before noon, Ye Mo started the second stage, practicing the basic moves one by one to strengthen her physical memory.

     Until Alice's crisp voice urging her to eat, Ye Mo had only practiced the third basic move.

     The first difficulty was that she didn't have enough control and understanding of her body. Her body seemed to be a little behind the memory in her mind.

     Repeated sword practice could help her master the coordination of her body and continuously improve the matching degree between her body and brain.

     As for comprehension, I can't deeply understand it for the time being.

     Only flexibility during battle can test the best effect. The final perfect plan must be to flexibly apply mental perception and mental control to battle. These must be done step by step.

     At present, Thomson praised: "Maria has a really strong memory!"

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