Jobless Reincarnation: Sword, Magic Hat and Romance System

Chapter 27 Allen's strength, come on, Thunderstorm Cloud!

[Further gain favor with Rudyus and Sylphie, increasing participation during childhood.]

[Current stage: Early childhood; Cumulative participation score: 54 points.]

[Comment: I never expected that showing off could actually gain favor.]

Allen frowned as he looked at the system panel floating in front of him.

"No, where did I show off? Where did this positive impression come from?"

He turned to look at Hilfi on the hillside, who was staring blankly in his and Rudy's direction.

He turned to look at Rudy, who was also lost in thought.

".baffling."

"Hey, Rudy, stop spacing out! Increase your magic power, give it another shot! Look, Sylphie is completely mesmerized by you."

Rudy blinked, extricating himself from the suspension bridge effect, then glanced at Hilfi on the hilltop, his lips twitching.

"Here comes the oblivious male protagonist. Damn it, this is the path I chose for myself!"

"However, Allen's strength is even greater than I imagined. He definitely didn't just glare and shatter the water column. I couldn't even see him swing his sword. No wonder he said he wanted to create distance. In a normal fight, his head would probably be on the ground by now, or he'd be holding a knife to my neck, casually saying something like, 'I'm still a long way off.'"

"No, we need to get serious. If this continues, who knows who Luo Qixi will be eyeing when we meet again."

Overwhelmed by a sense of crisis, Rudy took a deep breath and extended his palm towards Allen.

"Alright! Take this!"

Allen's pupils contracted as he saw the water rapidly converging in front of Rudy, instantly forming a turbulent current larger than the head of the End Boar, this time even soaking the grass stems at Rudy's feet.

With a loud "bang," a jet of water shot straight towards Allen's face!

"Twenty cuts."

As Allen murmured almost imperceptibly, the column of water that had been obstructing his entire field of vision split open again in front of him. However, this time, unlike what he had expected, Rudy's face was not behind the water column.

It was a rough stone.

"Water cannon! Rock cannonball!"

The two moved so fast that Rudy's voice didn't echo down the hill until Allen cleaved the water column!

The rock cannonball crashed through the water and aimed straight at Allen's face!

Because of the need to conceal it with the water cannon, the following rock projectile was only about the size of Rudy's face. Even so, in that brief moment, Allen's dynamic visuals perfectly captured the rough edges of the rock, making the surrounding environment seem to enter slow motion:

The ambient noise suddenly disappeared.

The wind pressure surged against Allen's chest, bringing a damp and earthy smell. The rock projectiles 'slowly' rotated clockwise, their reflection shimmering in Allen's deep gray pupils.

Allen slowly squinted, the previous breath still giving him plenty of oxygen in his lungs. A surge of heat rose up his side, and the nascent core in his abdomen seeped out gurgling Dragon Saint Battle Qi, permeating and coloring the ever-flowing primordial battle qi.

"Interesting, they've been hiding a rock cannonball this time. Using the Twenty Slash again will wear down the blade. In that case..."

"Water God Style - The Secret Technique of Flow."

"plucked."

Allen abruptly broke free from the slow-motion sensation. He slightly deviated the blade from its sheath, which he was about to retract, and the tip of the blade grazed the sheath as it swept towards the ground. At the same time, Allen loosened his grip on the hilt and flicked the hilt upwards with his knuckles, which were imbued with fighting spirit.

In the blink of an eye.

The hilt of the knife suddenly shot up from his waist! It bounced off the rock cannonball in front of him with a clang.

A gentle stream of fighting spirit altered the trajectory of the rock cannonball. It tilted its head back and flew past Allen's cheek with a "whoosh," blowing his bangs behind his head.

The blade was struck backwards by the rock cannonball in front of Allen's feet, emitting a series of trembling sounds.

Allen reached in and drew his sword, then deftly twirled it in the air before sheathing it.

Then he started clapping as Rudy made a comical gesture of passing on his power to him.

"Not bad, not bad. While preparing the water cannon with one hand, the moment the water obscured my vision, the other hand had already begun preparing the subsequent rock cannon projectiles. Although it's not a mixed magic, it's even more unexpected than mixed magic."

"Everything can be learned from the Northern Divine Style. Even if you didn't learn the Northern Divine Style from the master, it seems you understand its essence very well."

Rudy looked at the ground beside Allen, which was already in a mess after being plowed up again by the water cannon, and felt quite frustrated.

Although he had anticipated that Allen would be able to neutralize the two consecutive magic spells without taking any damage, he still couldn't help but feel a little disheartened seeing Allen's relaxed and carefree demeanor.

"Is the gap between us that big? You're just standing there and letting me launch an attack."

Allen blinked.

"Good luck, good luck~ Keep it up next time."

"Rock shell!"

Allen raised his leg to deflect the rock projectile that Rudy suddenly launched a sneak attack with his hand. The rock projectile was kicked into his side and deeply embedded in the mud pit.

He kept talking, smiling as he finished saying what he hadn't yet uttered.

"It's definitely possible, but this time it didn't feel as fast as the last one. Is it because I wasn't concentrating?"

Rudy lowered his hand again, seething with hatred.

"This is the speed I can achieve with this sudden burst of power. If it goes on any longer, you'll definitely be able to dodge it."

"One more shot, this is interesting."

"don't want!"

"Hey, one more time~"

"No, Silph has already seen it, why do we have to do it again? Besides, our duel is in two months!"

"But two months from now, I'll be able to move! This time, you can do whatever you want with me! If you don't fire now, you might miss the bullseye!"

"Heh. You're bound to dodge it anyway, Ice Blade!"

Allen intercepted the incoming basic magic—the ice blade—and examined it curiously.

This time he didn't dodge, because the shape of the ice skate is similar to a blade. As someone who practices ice skating, Allen has very precise control over the distance of such sharp objects and easily caught it.

Upon seeing this, Rudy frowned and immediately turned and ran towards the top of the hill, wailing mournfully as he ran.

"I'm not coming! I'm not coming, even if you kill me!"

Allen casually tossed the ice blade to the ground, where it shattered with a loud crack, and then turned and walked toward the hillside.

"Wait for me~ One more shot~"

"don't want!"

-

However, things still didn't go as Allen expected. He stared in disbelief at Hilfi, who was sitting with her hands clasped together in front of her chest, her eyes sparkling, while the request she had just made echoed in his ears.

"I want to learn swordsmanship! The kind where you catch ice with your bare hands!"

"Ah, this requires a high level of skill in both martial arts and swordsmanship. I'm afraid..."

Rudy, seeing that things were not going well, tiptoed past him, trying to slip away, but Allen, who was talking, grabbed him and pulled him back.

He looked at Allen with resentment.

"I've already demonstrated it! If Silph doesn't want to learn, there's nothing I can do! Why don't you teach her swordsmanship instead?"

To everyone's surprise, Allen suddenly turned to look at him and said with a serious expression.

"She's really not suited to learning swordsmanship. However, I think the little skirmish we just witnessed was too small; you need to give her something more impactful."

"ha?"

The two then stared at each other in silence for a moment before Rudy blinked and spoke thoughtfully.

"Could it be..."

Allen glanced at Hilfi, who was standing obediently with her hands behind her back, and nodded with a rather excited expression.

"Yes, it's the Saint-level magic you learned from Loki—the Thunderous Rain Cloud!"

"We've arrived at the place where the dream began! What's the point of this jobless time travel if we haven't seen this magic trick?!"

The novel doesn't delve deeply into sword techniques, especially the Water God Style, so there will be many extensions and creations in the later sword techniques, but it will try to stay as close to the original work as possible.

(End of this chapter)