Chapter 141: Ramble

Fiora possessed five active skills in total, while Darius and Helena only had three active skills each.

They came to be familiar with each other during the early training without their Master that occurred for six hours.

They trained individually—often Darius and Helena would spar but clearly holding back.

They didn’t mind Fiora training in a distance. They believed she was the weakest among the warriors when it came to overall combat.

Hector was strong in defense, so much so when Darius and Helena coordinated with each other to spar with Hector who agreed.

But now, Fiora proved them wrong.

Her casual training by herself earlier was far different from what she was showing.

Darius and Helena were taken aback.

As the wounds left behind Fiora’s assault began to accumulate, they decided not to hold back anymore and summoned their skills, consuming mana.

Warriors had limited mana—a main reason they restrained themselves.

As Helena and Darius were specialized in breaking the enemies’ vanguard formation, given by their current situation, they could only activate a single skill.

Helena activate the skill Crusader’s Momentum, providing her damage increase while continuously attacking.

Even so, it was useless when she couldn’t touch even a single strand of Fiora’s hair.

Darius, on the other hand, couldn’t find an opportunity to land his Dawnbreaker’s skill.

Whenever she was given a chance, Fiora would disappear with her Flash Step.

Even then, they believed Fiora wouldn’t last long.

Her mana and stamina consumption must be immense, right?

But suddenly, Hector made a move. He raised his large two shields easily.

Like Fiora, he had five active skills. In this situation, he activated the skill Bulwark Stance, increasing his defense, and Guardian Intercept, a move to protect his allies.

He considered Fiora as his allies for now, allowing him to move rapidly and appeared beside Fiora.

Fiora didn’t perceive his hostile intention and allowed him to get close to him.

Darius and Helena were taken aback. They finally realized that all along Fiora and Hector were working together.

Fiora and Hector’s back were at each other, as the former faced Helena, while the latter faced Darius while in mid-air.

Hector changed his positon but kept the Bulwark Stance’s skill active and faced the large two tower shields above Darius, attempting to flatten him.

Fiora, on the other hand, brandished her rapier, shimmering with blinding light.

Hector and Fiora propelled themselves forward, attempting to end the ramble now.

But only ten minutes passed and it was about to end.

How could Max allow it to happen?

As his presence fully disappeared from the ramble in the past ten minutes, causing the Warriors to feel their wariness against him dropped, he weaved his hands and summoned Radiant Lance each.

Both aimed at Hector and Fiora, bolting at a speed didn’t allow both to react.

Just as the Radiant Lance were moving, Max was surprised that Helena and Darius didn’t give up.

Helena brandished her sword and summoned all of her strength. She activated the skill, Radiant Charge, leaping towards Fiora attempting to risk it all in one exchange.

Darius, on the other hand, raised his greataxe and activated the skill Breaching Strike.

His greataxe shimmered with fiery divine light. He swung it upward, meeting the large two tower shields in the air.

The collisions of both party released a shockwave filled with air and mana, affecting the two Radiant Lance path.

The Radiant Lance diverted, missing their primary target, astonishing Max.

Max cast Mana Shield to protect themselves from the aftershock of their exchange, watching as the training courtyard were being destroyed.

He smiled. "Jeremiah, I think we have to invite a master craftsman to repair the training courtyard everyday."

Jeremiah politely replied, "I have an idea, Master. We should invite a Rune Mage, Master."

Max nodded and agreed.

However, he was torn to invite between a Rune Mage or an individual who followed the Enchanter’s sequence.

From his past life, a Rune Mage could still be invited to a dungeon exploration—they could still cast spells made out of runes that were often offensive and defensive type of spells.

While he had not met a single Enchanter once.

From what he could remember, Enchanter were equivalent to engineers in his past life.

A Rune Mage could enhance with runes or create a rune out of spells, an Enchanter with higher class could create an enchanted objects most often from runes.

They both have their distinction.

The library might possess knowledge about the Enchanters.

Suddenly, his eyes widened. He realized he could communicate with the Commander in this matter.

I guess, I have to call him later.

Now that Max was assured that the training courtyard could be improved, he watched as his warriors exchanged strikes for the next five minutes.

After five minutes, they slowed down. Hector and Darius were filled with relief that they finally survived from Fiora and Hector’s relentless attacks.

Now, they understood that the ramble turned into two versus two, forcing Hector and Darius to work with each other.

As the situation changed, Max finally decided to join in.

His warriors were tired now and it was his time to expose their flaws.

From their ramble, they had already grasped what they were lacking and significantly improved in just fifteen minutes.

But now they were exhausted, they inevitably exposed more flaws, allowing Max to take advantage of it.

Max’s intention was to increase his Radiant Lance and Radiant Pulse’ skill proficiency.

He finally made a move, slowly walking away from his previous position until running around the training courtyard, looking for chances.

His warriors became wary at his presence and paused their movements.

Max waited three seconds and shouted, "Rule 2. Warning!"

The warriors clucked their tongue in annoyance as they faced against each other and continued their ramble.

But they were not totally focused with each other, they were trying their best to keep their senses glued to their Master.

Max simply smirked and moved from time to time.

Eventually, ten minutes passed the warriors lost their focus on him as he had not made a move against them.

Only then, Max barraged them with Radiant Lance and Mana Pulse, elevating the difficulty of their ramble to a different level...

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