Clovis ca to the garden, seeing Jay and Christina training their bodies.
Although he wanted to talk to them, there was sothing he would like to test first.
He grabbed one of the dummies in the corner and planted it to the ground.
After that, he took a bit of a distance.
"Hmm? What are you doing?" Jay asked while raising his eyebrows. Since he trained the ranged attack together, he knew Clovis was trying to use his ranged attack. However, he still rembered that Clovis' range was only 7 ters at maximum.
This ti, he actually stood 15 ters from the dummy.
"It's nothing. I've just got a kind of understanding, so I want to test sothing."
"A ranged attack? I have seen you guys practicing it in my ho." Christina raised her head.
"Yes. My range is 5 ters, while Clovis' range is 7 ters. However, that distance…"
"Oh!" Christina crossed her arms.
Clovis ignored their reaction for the ti being. Instead, he closed his eyes. His left hand was on his scabbard while his right hand was holding his sword, ready to draw it.
'Heavy Sword. I originally thought I should take advantage of the montum to generate the force for . However, that Heavy Sword is slightly different. Instead of montum, it's more like the velocity as well as the smoothness of the swing.
'It cuts through the air, which causes the airflow to beco smoother, which ultimately increases its range. The montum itself consists of two elents: velocity and mass.
'I can't increase the mass for the ti being, but the velocity of the sword is sothing I can control.
'Instead of focusing on the sword itself, I should actually shift it toward the center of gravity as well as my arm as if I'm throwing my own body when launching that attack.'
Clovis took a deep breath. When he was ready, he sharply opened his eyes and drew his blade, unleashing a different kind of ranged attack.
"!!!" Jay widened his eyes in shock. It was fast, but there was sothing more that he couldn't describe.
More importantly, the dummy was split in half, aning that the ranged attack ca with such a force that not only did it cut the dummy, but it also continued traveling forward.
"What is that?" Jay gasped. "The power is stronger. The range is around 3 tis your previous ranged attack, which ans 21 ters…"
"Hehehe." Clovis chuckled. "I will tell you later. It's just sothing I learn overnight. Jay. Shall we have a spar?"
They had a lot of sparring sessions, so it wasn't that rare for them to fight. However, this was the first ti Clovis requested it. It was usually the other way around.
Jay smirked. "I'm not going to say no."
Clovis smiled. "Christina. Do you mind supervising the sparring match?"
"Sure." Christina was also curious about Clovis' sudden improvent. She wanted to know how much he had improved in a single night.
Jay and Clovis stood in front of each other.
"As usual, only swords."
Jay nodded.
With his confirmation, Christina imdiately said, "Begin at your discretion."
The first thing they did was to leap back, gaining so distance. Both of them pulled out their weapons.
Once they were ready, they charged toward each other.
Obviously, the one that made the first move was Clovis, trying to overwhelm Jay with his speed.
There were nurous attacks coming from the two sides, but Jay was able to keep his form close, using only minimal movents to block every single one of his attacks.
When Clovis showed an opportunity, Jay imdiately took it and struck him with all his strength.
"Haaa!" Jay tried to blow him away.
Clovis looked at this attack carefully and slightly shifted his stance to the ones that Ethan used when using the soft style.
He received it as smoothly as possible, deflecting the impact away from him.
Still, the movie only gave him the sensation. Even if Clovis possessed Ethan, he still didn't control that body. Hence, repetition was required to master this technique.
With him using this technique for the first ti, Clovis could only deflect half of the force from this blow.
Instead of getting pushed back as usual, Clovis managed to stand on his spot.
"!!!" Jay widened his eyes in shock. "What's that? Did you just…"
"Argh. As expected, I still need to train more to do it perfectly." Clovis clicked his tongue.
Seeing Jay leaping backward so as to observe Clovis' new style, Clovis waved his blade, sending forth his ranged attack.
Normally, Jay could easily avoid it by leaping out of the range. However, with the ranged attack traveling for more than twenty ters, it was impossible for him to escape.
In the end, the ranged attack hit him.
"Kh." Jay gritted his teeth. "Muscle!"
His arms bulged as he slashed the attack apart. "That's freaking heavy."
Clovis circulated his breath carefully. As expected, to boost the efficiency of his strike, he needed to improve his breathing.
'In the end, the breath allows the oxygen to circulate within the body. Using that much power at once exhausts a lot of oxygen, which ans I won't be able to keep up. I have to either choose the perfect ti to unleash them or improve the breathing technique. In the end, breathing technique is the foundation of everything. Whether you are a professional athlete or explorer, you need a good breathing technique…'
When Clovis was examining his move, Jay had moved past his attack and approached him again.
Since Clovis' ranged attack was deadly, he had to keep him close.
And that was when Clovis thought of another way to utilize the soft style.
When Jay was about to arrive, he took a step back, matching Jay's speed even for a split second. After that, his short sword gradually moved toward the sword that Jay was about to swing.
"Huh? This is… Doesn't Clovis' swing look slower than usual… but… it's…" Christina gasped. Despite its slow movent, the sword was already in front of Jay's sword before she realized it.
The mont the swords clashed, Jay abruptly lost the grip of his sword as Clovis' short sword flicked it into the air.
"!!!"
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