[Location: Tino City Sewer Entrance, Section 4 Middle]
Louis maintained a hunting posture as he sprinted through the dim tunnel.
He passed a corner.
He caught the faint stench coming from the depths of the sewer.
In the shadowy corners where the torchlight couldn’t reach, even Louis, with his professional vision, couldn’t see clearly.
He glanced and only saw a pair of glowing red eyes.
Accompanied by a rustling sound.
A shadow from the darkness lunged at him.
Louis only saw a mass squirming and surging from the shadow.
He didn’t think at all.
Being unable to see didn’t an he couldn’t sense it with his hunting instincts.
The power of the wild surged.
Louis’s reactions even outpaced his brain’s judgnt.
Jino’s power techniques were etched into his heart like a brand.
A broken slab on the ground was kicked by him with full force, achieving the effect of a cannon launch.
A sewer giant rat, as tall as a wild dog, had its head blasted off and fell into the darkness.
Another, closer to Louis, suddenly opened a pair of red eyes, turning frantically.
It was another giant rat that had been lying in ambush with closed eyes.
The rat, frightened by its companion’s demise, jumped aside, opened its mouth, and screeched, seemingly ready to attack again.
"Surely this is another world; even Level 2 monsters know the basics of deception and coordination."
Louis thought to himself.
Too bad I’m stronger now.
He didn’t stop moving, drawing a weapon prepared for him by Beatrice; it was a curved saber with a handle wrapped in brown and black leather.
With a shout, a tiger’s roar echoed in the void, and Louis transford into a scarlet streak, appearing instantly before the giant rat.
Fast!
Even faster than when Louis had activated [Fierce Jump] before!
Jino’s Breathing Technique, open!
Louis exhaled a puff of white mist, the chains binding him torn asunder.
His heart beat powerfully, causing the blood in his body to swell further!
Everything in his sight seed to slow down, except for the curved saber, slicing through the dark.
One strike!
Slash! Slash! Slash!
Louis was smiling, the dense slicing sound of the curved saber echoed in the dark corner.
It reminded him of using his fingers to run over the wooden teeth of a comb as a child.
The sound of the comb’s taut teeth snapping and releasing echoed in layers.
Just like the torrent of blade light from different directions in a short ti.
Suddenly, Louis seed to feel a road extending from the wild power.
It was a martial art lineage like branches spreading.
He understood.
"Is this the future path of the Tiger Claw style?"
His murmured words were drowned by the sound of canvas tearing.
It was the sound of the giant rat’s flesh being ripped apart.
Louis looked towards another battlefield illuminated by firelight.
Alice, dual-wielding single-handed swords, was slicing through several giant sewer rats, turning the place into a bloodbath.
William’s gaze was calm, his sword unknownly replaced with a heavy hamr.
Each ti more than three giant rats tried to bypass him and attack Louis, the hamr would co crashing down.
Rats would turn into rat jam.
Louis watched with a mix of amazent and joy.
Is this the standard tier?
Even at the lowest standard level, the re force made Louis feel like facing a humanoid tank.
The Iron Guard profession didn’t sound like a brute force job.
But under William’s command, fighting a bunch of giant rats seed easier than killing chickens.
Louis’s gaze turned to the rat swarm surrounded by Alice and William.
This dark sewer was already occupied by a horde of giant rats.
Not to ntion these giant rats as big as wild dogs today, even a small mouse from the previous life, if gathered in dozens, could scare soone to death.
With hunting instincts, Louis could even vaguely sense in the silent depths, more giant rats were swarming in.
It seed like they could surpass a hundred.
Louis slowly swallowed hard.
This is just an average porcelain level task!
Are the level 3 rookies in the Imperial Capital this fierce?
Looks like I was too complacent!
"Can you still fight?"
Alice calmly asked.
Her breathing didn’t even falter, distinctly differing from the massacre she was carrying out in the sewer.
"Actually a bit scared"
In his past life, he hadn’t even hunted, let alone killed a chicken.
When Alice asked, he instinctively swallowed hard.
"Louis, survival in this world is a necessity, overco your personality flaws."
Louis gritted his teeth hard.
"A bit scared, but I can fight all day!"
With that, he charged decisively towards the rat swarm blocked by Alice.
With William around, there shouldn’t be major problems!
After all, Alice did say that if William put [Damage Transfer] on him, there would be no training effect.
Before he could pass the two, William’s [Damage Transfer] yellow-brown circle covered Louis.
Louis looked joyful.
Well done, William!
His gaze turned fierce.
"Instructor Jino told that from the three basic professions’ selectable styles, he chose one from each to teach the first-level martial techniques of these three styles."
"He said mastering these three basic martial arts, porcelain level tasks wouldn’t be too difficult."
Sage Sword - Steel Soul style, he learned three basic martial skills.
Among them—
[Perfect Spirit] through focused study, iron-like will, and high concentration, it can make one’s will more resilient.
[Nightmare Sword: Jade] was his main ans of attack.
[Pristine Body] as a posture technique, enables focusing on two specific enemies, analyzing their movents, making it easier to find flaws and defeat them.
And then there’s Sword of Martial Arts - Tiger Claw style’s four martial arts.
[Hunting Instinct] and [Fierce Jump], Louis used as basic skills, just below Nightmare Sword: Jade.
The remaining two.
[Wolf Bite] is a dual-weapon combat technique, so Louis specially brought a sword and saber to cooperate.
[Bloodlust] is more like adding a buff to oneself, awakening the desire for bloodshed; every ti a lethal hit is dealt to an enemy, it drives you further into frenzy and increases hit rate.
Of course, if a lethal hit isn’t dealt within a minute, the state would vanish.
As for the battle cooperation-oriented White Raven style...
It’s not suitable for him to fight alone now, and the signature skill he got from Limuru only lets him barely rge states of two styles.
[Perfect Spirit]’s focus allowed Louis to quickly sort out his thoughts.
Can fight!
Moreover, the more he fights, the stronger he becos!
Then... enjoy the battle to the fullest!
Louis started to spiral into madness.
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