Whose world-class drama are they criticizing?

If Ryan dies, her oath will be buried with him, and she will be a Forsaken Paladin for life. To restore her oath, she must protect Ryan until he reaches the same level as her.

This is an open conspiracy.

An open and undisguised conspiracy.

"...This is just a rehearsal, not a formal duel."

Helen said, she couldn't let Ryan get any more cocky. "This time, we'll both use wooden swords. Success is achieved if we hit the other once."

"If I lose, I will grant your request to serve you."

Ryan narrowed his eyes. He didn't mind fighting Helen again. If Lu Ming wanted to improve his swordsmanship, he needed to accumulate more experience.

Moreover, he had learned a few new tricks and needed to practice with someone.

“Let’s begin,” Ryan said.

Seeing that Ryan had agreed, Ms. Helen smiled softly.

She summarized the reasons for her previous failure: the dragon gold longsword she was using was too heavy. Although it had power, it was of no use in a contest where "one hit is enough to win." The weight would only drag her down.

This time, she and Ryan both use wooden swords. As long as the weights are the same, she, whose physical abilities are superior to Ryan's, will win.

Although Long Jinjian is temporarily unable to lift, she can still lift the wooden sword.

From now on, she will be cured of her impotence!

Ryan chuckled coldly. This was typical of the mindset of monopolizing sword techniques. They claimed that the noble Dragon Gold Sword was exclusive, but it was soon moved to a new platform.

They found an open space, and Miss Jasmine acted as the referee. Kiri was also attracted by the commotion, but lost interest after seeing that it was a wooden sword duel.

A show-off is just a show-off.

After a quick glance, Viscount Kiri concluded that the female knight was simply training Ryan.

They simply teach noble techniques, the kind of model plays shown in arenas or knight halls. They look impressive, but they're completely useless in actual combat on the border.

That's how city bumpkins are; they're narrow-minded and lack common sense.

But with Miss Jasmine's order, Viscount Kiri changed his mind.

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Ryan changed his previous style, no longer using parrying attacks to wear down Helen's stamina, and immediately used the sixth move of Lu Ming's sword technique, "Vortex Slash".

The wooden sword transformed into several afterimages, each with a different speed and force. As the speed and force overlapped, it enveloped Helen like an undercurrent vortex.

Viscount Kiri was stunned. How could those stabs be so insidious?

Miss Jasmine glanced at him. That's how country bumpkins are, so narrow-minded. This must be the monopolistic swordsmanship mindset that Ryan was talking about.

madness.

Helen thought to herself that she had now switched to the lightest wooden sword, which gave her enough speed to parry the vortex slash.

She was fearless, even against the most extreme speeds of blades from the underworld.

Concentrate your mind and calm your spirit.

Concentrate all your energy in a single moment.

With a few crisp sounds of collision, Helen blocked all the vortex slashes, and a smile appeared on her lips.

She was the only one in the world who truly understood Lu Ming's sword technique—the Vortex Slash was powerful, but it had a very serious after-effect.

If we seize this opportunity to counterattack, we can defeat Ryan directly.

Just as Helen was thinking this, just as she breathed a sigh of relief, a faint glow appeared on Ryan's body—a light shield!

[Light Shield]

[Consumes one point of magic power; can be used at any time]

The backswing of the vortex slash was canceled out directly!

Vortex Slash followed by Light Shield, then Vortex Slash again!

Helen was stunned. She hadn't expected Ryan to unleash another Vortex Slash in an instant. The moves flowed together so smoothly, which was clearly impossible.

Finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, she quickly changed her sword technique and continued to parry frantically.

After barely managing to block it, Helen thought to herself that it was now her turn.

Unexpectedly, a faint glow appeared on Ryan's body again.

Vortex Slash into Light Shield, cancel, then follow up with Vortex Slash into Light Shield, cancel, then follow up with Vortex Slash!

Warriors' skills are divided into 'combat skills' that consume magic power and stamina, and 'martial skills' that only consume a lot of stamina. Vortex Slash is the latter.

Ryan used a wooden sword, which minimized his physical exertion.

Light Shield can cancel the aftercast animation of Vortex Slash. Ryan has nine points of magic power, so in this battle, he can cancel the aftercast animation nine times in a row!

Cancel alternative thinking; Vortex Slash takes over the brain.

I'll have to repeat the year!

"...We lost again."

The wooden sword fell from her hand, and Miss Helen knelt helplessly on the ground, like an incompetent husband, an introverted son, or a cowardly childhood friend, watching helplessly as her beloved possessions were trampled and insulted before her eyes.

"why?"

She bit her red lips, her cheeks flushed, and asked, "How can you wield Lu Mingjian so smoothly?"

Chapter 29 [Azure Silver Apostle] Ryan Luming

So smooth.

Lady Helen recalled Ryan's Lumin Sword Technique.

The connection between each sword strike, whether fast, slow, heavy, or light, was seamless and natural, without the slightest hesitation or hindrance.

Compared to her own Lu Ming sword technique, it was incredibly clumsy and disjointed. She often faltered due to the recovery animation, unable to connect with subsequent combos. Despite her inexperience, every move was her most focused and dedicated technique.

That devotion, in the end, is just a memory.

Helen couldn't help but feel sorry for herself... The Lu Ming sword technique had been modified by Ryan into a smooth form, without her noticing.

But at the same time, Helen also felt a strange, subtle excitement. This was a side of Lu Mingjian she had never seen before.

Her cheeks were slightly flushed, and her breathing was a little rapid. "It must be from exhaustion," Helen told herself, "but I'm using a wooden sword."

It's so smooth, so silky, so unfamiliar.

There was no skill involved; it was simply repeating the same grade over and over again.

Ryan can repeat nine times, and the Vortex Slash has a total of six strikes, for a total of fifty-four strikes.

The light shield was the best lubricant. By constantly canceling the aftercast animation, it smoothly connected all of Ryan's moves. In these fifty-four repeated strikes, Helen had no chance to fight back. She was simply pressed to the spot and blocked again and again.

If you lose the initiative once, you'll be beaten down from the head.

【Lu Ming Sword Technique (0.75)】

[The sword of nobility, the sword of a thousand years, the ultimate in speed]

[After experiencing the wonders of cancellation,]

It became obsessed with its silky smoothness.

Parrying fifty-four consecutive fast and slow blades is something even a genius like Helen couldn't do.

On the twenty-fifth strike, Helen lost her focus, and Ryan's sword tip grazed past her, striking her throat.

That's how they lost.

This failure is more thorough and more powerless than the last one.

The wooden sword slowly fell from Helen's hand, and she knew that she was impotent again.

“Ms. Helen, I won.”

Ryan smiled and deftly sheathed his sword.

How can hastily launched wooden sword platform be as smooth as its optimization?

"As agreed, you must agree to my request and continue the duel until my rank is equal to yours. Of course, if I die before that, you will never be able to break the oath."

Helen's shoulders trembled slightly. After a long while, she forced herself to say, "What do you want me to do?"

They're definitely going to do something very evil.

"Block the door." Ryan was direct.

As the first elite monster players encounter, blocking the door is Helen's duty.

Helen's shoulders trembled again.

She would rather Ryan kill her with a single sword strike than endure this humiliation... It doesn't matter, she won't lose a fight to the death, as long as she keeps waiting.

"Before that, you need to unleash your true talent."

Ryan's expression was very serious. "In order to cure your impotence, starting today, you will practice lifting the sword every day. When you can lift the Dragon Gold Sword for one minute, I will give you another chance to challenge me."

Helen's cheeks flushed even more.

Is this man not only going to train Lu Ming's swordsmanship, but also to train the victim?

Not only Lu Mingjian, but Ryan also wants to train her swordsmanship. This man is so evil; he wants to make her swordsmanship a mess.

But in order to fight Ryan again... or rather, in order to see Ryan use the Lumin Sword Technique in other ways, she had no choice but to agree.

Under the sunlight, the female knight raised her golden dragon sword.

Fine beads of sweat trickled down her fair arms, past her armpits, and down her back. The Dragon Gold armor was heavy and hot, soaking Helen from head to toe. Her wet hair clung to her cheeks, and she knew her face must be flushed, radiating intense heat.

But it's okay, it's hot.

Helen knew she could say that, so it was okay.

After assigning Helen her tasks, Ryan went on to continue his morning prayers.

He glanced at Viscount Kiri beside him. This duel wasn't just with Helen; it was also a show for Kiri. He wanted to make the mayor of Sickly Town understand that he wasn't a paper tiger to be easily manipulated—this was the point of the show.

Ryan never let his guard down.

In the original timeline, Viscount Kiri is the final boss in the closed beta test and the first boss players encounter in the first chapter.

During the later stages of the first closed beta, his withering symptoms worsened, and he was ultimately consumed by ambition, embracing the withering disease, and burned to death by players using blazing fire. A very formulaic villain.

Ryan will not change the event timeline prematurely unless necessary.

Kiri is still two months away from spiraling out of control; that's enough time for Ryan to grow.

After defeating the withered Kiri, a very valuable soul relic called [Azure Silver Ash] will drop. Although it is a one-time use item, it can command the souls of the Lightless to fight for you.

Ryan needs to get this.

Ryan nodded to Kiri, pressed the key onto the magic lock, pushed open the church door, then turned and closed it. With a click, the magic mechanism shut the church doors.

The first batch of beta testers, totaling ten people, will arrive outside the City of Beginnings at dusk today.

The game "Eden" was known as a "beta test wonder" because it had a total of fifteen beta tests, with the number of participants increasing with each test.

The final closed beta test was completed, followed by the public beta test, which took two years.

The public beta test two years later, in the game's storyline, was known as the "Twilight Falls, White Night Invades" event, a catastrophe that occurred only once in a thousand years.

The Twilight Mountains suddenly collapsed, and the Lightless Ones, who had been separated for thousands of years, rushed out of the Lightless Territory and marched towards the entire Kingdom of Eden.

Eden, a highly anticipated title, garnered 30 million views and millions of online players upon its initial release.

The first to be invaded by 30 million players was the Western Region – Lu Ming.

Two years later, Ryan's father and elder brother were killed in battle.

Ryan Luming, the third young master of the Luming family, whom no one had high hopes for, left the capital and, disregarding everyone's advice, resolutely returned to the Western Frontier battlefield. He awakened his blessing amidst life and death, and thus became the so-called Luming Sword Saint.

Ryan won't let that happen.

As a semi-player, he could already see the game's open forum, with scattered comments appearing.

staem, King Rank: Is this a new game? Hmm, too lazy to play, I'll just watch the live stream.

Confessing to a hundred girls just to see their disgusted faces (CG): Judging from the tags, it seems to be a classic action game? And maybe some visual novel elements? Hehehe, looking forward to it.