Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 205 The Twin Swordsman, Shadows Die Twice

【巴尔福德的骄傲与执着：紫色稀有/Lv1，单手剑*2，套装组合。装备需求，敏捷28&敏捷22，或者得到巴尔福德残魂的认可。攻击力34~46&22~28，耐久度58/58&42/42。

The pair of swords, forged and bestowed upon Balford by Prince Allen of the Silver Age, are also the basis and symbol of Balford's title of "Knight of Two Swords". When wielding the pair of swords at the same time, Balford's powerful physical abilities can be reproduced to a certain extent.

Cruel Pride (Longsword) - Passive effect: Whenever someone successfully blocks a longsword attack with a weapon or armor, the durability loss caused by the longsword's next attack on that equipment will be doubled, up to a maximum of 3 times. This effect will only reset after a non-blockable attack is dealt to that person.

Bloodlust (Short Sword) - Passive effect: Attacking targets will more easily cause the Bleeding status, losing 5 health points per second for 3 seconds. Repeated attacks can stack the Bleeding status and refresh its duration, up to a maximum of 5 times.

When equipping two swords simultaneously—

Your Strength and Agility +5, your Physical Critical Strike Chance +10%, and when you trigger a critical strike, your attack speed increases by 20% for 5 seconds with no internal cooldown.

You can try to use dual swords to precisely parry the target's physical attacks. A successful precise parry will grant immunity to the damage and inflict a large amount of stagger on the opponent. Your parrying action reduces the consumption of weapon durability and your own stamina by 30%.

The dual swords can only be upgraded simultaneously. As the upgrade level increases, more abilities belonging to the dual-sword knight will be unlocked.

[Additional comment: Balford has requested a rematch.]

Balford, whose cause of death was "petrification and decapitation," still harbors resentment, believing that your act of using a summoned demon to launch a sneak attack as a Grail Knight was utterly shameful and defiled the duel that knights should have.

[The remnant soul of Balford has requested permission from the space to engage in a holy knight duel with you in a special space set up by the space, unaffected by any external influences. If you can defeat him in a one-on-one duel without using demon units, then "Balford's Pride and Perseverance" will be exempt from its mandatory equipment requirements.]

Entering the special space will not affect the progress of the main quest. Both of you will be in perfect condition for the duel. You can use all items, equipment and mounts normally. The outcome of the duel will not affect your current status.

Please decide whether you wish to enter immediately.

Oh ho? Still not giving up?
Then I'll give you a chance to get revenge!

Seeing Balford's indignation, Cheng Tian happily accepted the Holy Knight duel invitation from the remnant soul of the other party.

With a sudden shift from darkness to light, Cheng Tian saw Balford, the dual-sword knight riding his beloved horse, who was also in a remnant soul state, staring at him from afar with eyes that seemed ready to erupt like a volcano at any moment.

Balford already found it hard to accept the decision to retreat from a direct confrontation, but to end up dying in a sneak attack by two minotaur demons was something he simply couldn't accept.

If he were born in the world of "Hunter x Hunter", he would definitely have developed a death wish with the sole purpose of relentlessly pursuing Cheng Tian until his death.

"...The space didn't tell you, did it?"

After staring at each other for a while, Cheng Tian suddenly spoke first.

"say what!?"

Because his mind was completely focused on that damned Cheng Tian, ​​Balford immediately asked a question as soon as Cheng Tian opened his mouth, as if he didn't want to be outdone in the conversation.

"I am indeed a Grail Knight, but at the same time..."

Cheng Tian drew out the last syllable, then spread his ten fingers and made a slow upward motion.

As Cheng Tian slowly raised his hand, his collection appeared around him, arranged from smallest to largest, as if scanned and transferred from Gantz. The Batmobile, the single-soldier submarine (just to make up the numbers), the Iron Bull Tank, the Drill Tank, the Primal Pterodactyl, the War Elephant Mammoth, and the Crimson Tyrannosaurus Rex all appeared in Balford's eyes as he looked at monsters.

"I am also a master of chariots."

Cheng Tian proudly displayed all his chariots and mounts to Balford, who sensed something was amiss.

Balford's restrictions on Cheng Tian were limited to not being able to use the ability to summon demons, and this was obtained in exchange for "unsealing the twin swords".

As a fellow knight, he naturally wouldn't restrict Cheng Tian's mount. Even if the opponent's mount was that terrifying crimson Tyrannosaurus Rex, he, the dual-sword knight, wasn't intimidated. After all, with preparation, even a large size has its own fighting style.

What he didn't expect was that, for Cheng Tian, ​​the chariot could also be considered a knight's mount. Look at those people who ride motorcycles, they all call themselves knights, right?
Besides riding a horse, Ghost Rider can also drive an excavator, right?
In the Knights of the Round Table instance, Cheng Tian was still restricted by the instance's rules and could not truly use these iron lumps. However, in this duel space, Cheng Tian's most terrifying aspect was truly unleashed.

"So... are you prepared to face the military-industrial complex 1,500 years from now?"

Cheng Tian smiled and said to Balford, whose eyes had suddenly widened.

……

The duel between the Holy Knights in the special space did not affect the passage of time in the main quest of the Knights of the Round Table. Cheng Tian simply closed his eyes and opened them again before returning to the present.

The purple twin swords in his hands also showed a gray sheen indicating that they were "ready to be equipped and used," and the agility restrictions described in their descriptions had disappeared the moment Cheng Tian opened his eyes.

Even though Balford, riddled with bullets by eight Vulcan machine guns, died with his eyes wide open, the sight of his aura storm blowing away a large number of bullets was truly beautiful... But this did not conflict with his application. Cheng Tian had indeed killed him again without using the summon demon, so no matter how unhappy he was, he could only obediently remove the equipment requirement for the dual swords.

Cheng Tian decisively discarded the basic machete he had bought just to use and throw away, and directly upgraded his weaponry to Balford's twin swords, attaching his own template weaponry to them as well.

Cheng Tian's "Palando Sable Sword and Shield" is also a dual-wielding equipment that occupies both weapon slots. It has the effects of reducing block consumption by 30%, increasing block range by 30%, and increasing strength by 50% when performing shield bash or shoving actions against enemies.

After the dual swords were loaded, these effects were also added on, with the parry reduction reaching 60%.

At this moment, Cheng Tian even had the thought, "It would be great if the Azure Star in the Dinosaur King game used a shield axe or dual swords."

In other words, Cheng Tiancai now possesses a certain level of close-quarters combat ability capable of directly engaging in sword fights.

Unlike the jubilant atmosphere at Cheng Tian and the Knights of the Round Table camp, the atmosphere at the Silver Fortress was extremely oppressive.

Right in front of the throne, there were already several corpses of knights and servants, all of whom had been crushed to death by Prince Allen himself, who was on the throne.

Wearing silver armor that was simply beyond human strength to bear, and whose specifications and weight were in no way inferior to the power armor of the 40K era, Prince Allen on the throne had an uncertain expression on his face.

Wiping the remaining blood from his hands, the prince subconsciously touched the center of his silver crown, feeling the burning sensation from the tips of his fingernails.

Where a silver gemstone should have been set in the center of his crown, a bright orange-red gemstone had been replaced...

(End of this chapter)