Desperation, as the name implied, was created by Blade Technique Master Kangen when he was in a desperate situation.
At that time, he was being attacked from all sides and was in a hopeless situation. He rarely had a chance to attack and could only defend.
Thus, each attack he made had to kill an enemy!
Marvin initially trained under Kangen for two days, but the latter didn’t explain anything to him, only making Marvin practice all his killing techniques once.
Marvin didn’t hide anything and calmly displayed all his previous killing techniques.
The Master was very satisfied with this.
The killing techniques Marvin knew were already very powerful. Many famous killers didn’t have so many strange and crafty killing techniques.
Even Kangen himself, as a genius of the martial path, had no choice but to acknowledge Marvin’s frightening skill in this field.
After watching everything, he sat alone for the night. The next morning, he imparted everything about the Desperation Style to Marvin.
After watching Kangen’s demonstrations, Marvin was shocked.
This Desperation Style had actually fused all of Marvin’s killing techniques, along with the Master’s own understanding and a few other simple moves.
The goal was to integrate all of Marvin’s techniques to form a coherent series of moves, rather than having a bunch of scattered killing techniques.
Marvin was indeed a PK specialist in his previous life, but PKing wasn’t training in the martial path after all. He couldn’t create Battle Techniques like a Greatmaster of the martial path.
Not to mention, he used to wield straight daggers in his previous life while walking the Assassin’s path. Assassins would focus on the concept of one hit one kill.
He was a Ranger now, so his battle ability in a direct confrontation had been greatly increased. It would be a waste not to take advantage of it.
Marvin trained for no less than three days before his Desperation Style showed signs of forming.
This wasn’t like the kind of Blade Technique that could be conveyed on scrolls. This was a complete style.
Even though the techniques used in the Blade Technique Style were all familiar to Marvin, it still took three days to fully grasp it while relying on his own abilities.
In spite of this, Marvin’s training speed still shocked Kangen.
In barely three days, Marvin showed signs of already having the foundation of the Desperation Style. This made him sigh while thinking that Marvin was also a martial path genius.
But in reality, it wasn’t like that.
After sufficiently practicing the Desperation Style, Marvin used experience to learn the basics completely.
20000 exp was rather costly, but in order to save time, he had no choice but to do so.
Under normal circumstances, Marvin wouldn’t be able to learn the Desperation Style well enough for practical use unless he had about a year of training.
Yet now he had a new martial path technique style of his own:
[Blade Technique – Desperation] (Beginner)
There wasn’t much of a description for this technique, and it seemed like it didn’t give any bonuses.
But Marvin knew that if he perfectly mastered this style, his melee abilities would definitely grow a few levels stronger.
For melee experts, the additional effects of martial path skills would be comparable to Legend specialties at the later stages!
Marvin used three days to finish learning Desperation, and then he planned to take his leave. After all, you had to rely on your own efforts to become stronger. And he didn’t come to the Dead Area to train in Xunshan but to find Ivan.
But at that time, Kangen blocked Marvin with a smile.
His reason was simple. “Now that you have learnt Desperation, you are considered as my half disciple.”
“Before you have reached Master level in this Blade Technique Style, I won’t allow you to leave Xunshan.”
Marvin was startled and soon complained with a bitter smile.
How could he have the time to stay and train laboriously?
He was about to start explaining, but Kangen spoke first. “Rest assured, it shouldn’t take too long.”
“Xunshan isn’t suitable for someone like you who trains in killing techniques.”
“But there is one place you have to pass through. You need to spend some time and look at yourself.
After saying this, he took Marvin to a strange cave at the rear mountain.
This cave was the most remote one. When the two went inside, Marvin noticed the temperature constantly lowering.
At the same time, he was shocked to find that his own skills were starting to turn gray on his interface.
“Here, you are unable to rely on other things.”
“Besides the martial path’s techniques, you have nothing.”
Kangen slightly smiled, throwing a pair of wooden short daggers to Marvin. “Use those.”
Marvin put away his daggers and obediently grabbed the cold wooden daggers.
The two of them walked to the depths of the cave and past a certain point, Marvin found out that all his skills were sealed!
“This is an Ice Monster Cave. It was one of the roads to the bottom of the mountain but was later occupied by an Ice Monster Leader. I already killed him, but there are still many Ice Monsters inside.
“There are a lot of secrets hidden here, and thus you can’t use your skills. You can only rely on your own Blade Techniques. If you want to leave this place, you have to kill your way out.”
Kangen concluded seriously, “The real Desperation Style isn’t something you can learn from rote practice.”
“It is something you learn by killing.”
Marvin faintly nodded, holding his wooden daggers in his hands and moving a few steps forward.
At that time, two human faces appeared on the walls.
A cold aura assaulted his senses.
Two Ice Monsters roared and fiercely pounced on him!
Marvin remained calm and used his wooden daggers to display the Desperation Style, slashing fiercely at the head of one of the Ice Monsters!
But the wooden daggers didn’t strike with as much strength as Marvin expected. Instead of cutting the Ice Monster, the attack simply provoked it.
The two Ice Monsters rushed at him again.
In an instant, Marvin was under attack from two different sides.
But he seemed to have gained some understanding.
…
Xunshan Town.
While Marvin was training his Blade Techniques on the mountain, he didn’t know that Black Knight Sangore had led the rest of the Black Knights and completely overturned Xunshan Town.
That day when Marvin used the Book of Nalu to absorb Dark Phoenix’s Divine Source and trick her, he had already attracted Sangore’s attention.
The aura of the Book of Nalu was particularly strong there, and the Black Knight was determined to have it, clashing with many people.
But although Xunshan Town was lively, there weren’t many people willing to contend against the Legend Black Knight.
Several days later, the Black Knight still hadn’t found the Book of Nalu.
He finally lost his cool as he gazed at the mountain hidden between the clouds.
“Go up, grab everyone!”
The Black Knight pulled on his reins and rushed up the rough mountain path!
Many people were discussing this in the town with faces of worry.
A war was unavoidable.
Chapter 372: Cloud Monk
Chapter 372: Cloud Monk
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The Black Knights were arrogantly and imposingly charging down the rough mountain path.
Their warhorses weren’t ordinary, able to navigate the rough terrain and easily react to anything.
The terrible mountain path had been no small test for most of the adventu
rers, but Marvin was able to cross it as if it were even ground thanks to his Godly Dexterity.
The people at the bottom of the mountain started worrying for the Monks.
Especially the outsiders. They didn’t know much about Xunshan Monastery and had only heard a few rumors.
The Monks in the monastery were usually cultivating painstakingly, not doing much else. Who knew whether that group of Black Knights would try to turn the monastery upside down.
After all, the Dead Area had no shortage of powerhouses.
…
With Black Knight Sangore at the lead, they finally arrived at Xunshan Monastery.
He was usually a silent person who dealt with everything using his strength. The long chase this time had annoyed him greatly.
They almost lost Marvin’s trail on the sea. Sangore couldn’t understand how his opponent could move so quickly.
The only explanation should be that the other party was a powerful caster.
Whatever the case, Sangore relied on his God’s Book to be able to chase Marvin here.
He chased Marvin from Sunrise Island all the way up here, following the aura of the God’s Book, but he still hadn’t found it yet.
He also had expert Trackers among his followers and they had never failed him before.
The aura trail left by the God’s Book ended in Xunshan’s surroundings. Since that day, Sangore and his subordinates had searched all around Xunshan’s surroundings, yet they didn’t find what they were looking for.
Thus, he was certain that the thing he wanted was in these mountains.
As for Xunshan Monastery, Sangore had heard about it, but as a Legend powerhouse, he didn’t fear mere rumors.
What scared him a bit was some faintly discernible aura on the mountain.
That aura was extremely restrained, yet would occasionally burst out. It was enough to make him apprehensive.
There was at least one powerhouse on the same level as him on the mountain.
But the aura had disappeared today.
This was the reason Sangore decided to rush up the mountain.
He knew that this might be his only opportunity. If he didn’t go up now, his quarry might find a way to flee.
As for the monastery, he simply didn’t care about its reputation.
In Feinan Plane, there were many who chose the Monk’s path. He had killed so many Monks that he didn’t remember how many.
“Forward!”
The Black Knights cheered loudly as they pointed their spears forward, quickly rushing toward the monastery.
But at that time, a sturdy man blocked their path!
“What are you doing?”
This was a young Monk.
He had a bad temper and bellowed at the Black Knights, “This is Xunshan Monastery! Not a place filthy things like you can invade.”
Sangore stared coldly the young Monk. “Filthy things…”
“Isn’t that the case?” The young Monk swept his angry gaze across the Black Knights. “Half-Humans, Half-Devils…No, you are more repulsive than those pure Devils! You clearly were Humans, but you transformed yourselves into this!”
“Isn’t it right to say that you are filthy?” insisted the young Monk with a nauseated expression.
His words were quite right. The Black Knight class partly drew their power from the Devils.
The strength of Sangore’s group was artificial. They transformed themselves by using Hell’s methods, making their bodies give off the aura of Hell, which repulsed the young Monk.
“You are right. Are you from this monastery?” Sangore asked in an ominous voice.
The young Monk nodded loftily.
“Bam!”
A spear pierced the Monk’s heart. The fierce momentum forced his body back 10 meters before the spear nailed into a rock!
“Crash!”
The terrible power behind the spear crushed the rock into pieces, raising dust and fragments in the air as the Monk died with his eyes still open.
“Kill them first, then look for the artifact,” Sangore ordered indifferently.
After saying that, he tugged the reins and went to the young Monk’s body. He pulled his spear out and rushed through the monastery doors.
“Thud thud thud!”
The sound of cold iron hooves disturbed the peace of the monastery.
Painful shouts began to echo throughout the mountain.
…
Depths of the Ice Monster cave.
Marvin was out of breath. He had finally managed to kill the Ice Monsters with the two wooden daggers in his hands, but he was sore all over and extremely weary!
He was rarely this tired.
He couldn’t use his skills, and his wooden daggers were blunt weapons that could only deal the minimum amount of damage. It was very troublesome for Marvin.
The Ice Monsters didn’t appear one by one.
The first time two appeared, then four, and this wave had eight!
The levels were also higher each time. They were around level 10 at first, but gradually reached level 15.
Marvin almost exhausted all his stamina on the third wave.
In this battle, Marvin had made great use of his killing techniques.
Although he was exhausted, he inexorably felt that he had found a way to increase his strength.
This was the most effective method for natives.
He checked his interface and his Desperation Style had already reached Apprentice from Beginner.
Reaching this point after a few hours wasn’t easy.
Of course, he was still quite the distance away from reaching Master as Kangen had told him to.
Marvin felt sore and couldn’t help but ask, “Next wave wouldn’t be sixteen, right?”
Kangen calmly stood there looking at Marvin who was drenched in sweat and couldn’t help but laugh. “You guessed correctly.”
Marvin inwardly shook his head.
The number of Ice Monsters that appeared doubled each time they went deeper into the cave.
It was true that his Blade Technique Style was sharp, but how could he inflict a lot of damage with these wooden daggers?
Thinking about fighting sixteen Ice Monsters of an even higher level than before gave Marvin a headache.
“You can rest.”
Kangen gently reminded him, “Stamina is very important.”
Marvin nodded and was about to sit down to rest, when suddenly, Kangen’s expression hardened.
“What’s going on?”
Marvin could tell that something was wrong from his face, as only a few things in this world could make this powerhouse have such a change in expression.
Kangen’s complexion was a little ugly. “These guys dared to rush up and massacre the Monks in the monastery?”
Marvin felt bad, but didn’t say anything.
Kangen flipped his palm and a cloudy mist appeared above it, forming a screen.
“This is…” Marvin was appalled by what was happening.
The point of view was from the sky above, overlooking everything happening in Xunshan Monastery.
Six frightening Black Knights were wantonly massacring the Monks!
“Black Knight Sangore!” Marvin’s heart raced!
He hadn’t expected that Sangore would actually pursue him there. If he hadn’t be training Desperation, he might have already bumped into that group of Black Knights!
The Monks in that scene were the ones he saw a few days ago. Most of these people had just started cultivating and weren’t high level, so how could they resist the onslaught of the Black Knights?
It was a completely one-sided massacre!
Xunshan was a mountain range and the basic monastery was on the front mountain, but the real core was still in that tall peak to the north of the rear mountain.
Beset with Sangore’s surprise attack, these ordinary Monks simply didn’t have the strength to retaliate!
Marvin felt guilty. He was the one who attracted that group of
reckless Black Knights. These Monks were just innocent bystanders who suffered because of him!
“We should…”
Marvin didn’t get to finish his sentence before Kangen shook his head, muttering, “Someone will take care of it.”
He had a serious expression.
In the scene, an old Monk shivered in front of the Black Knights.
He looked at them with grief and anger but didn’t say a word.
Sangore expressionlessly raised his spear as his war horse neighed!
“Attack!” The six Black Knights raised their spears at the same time.
But at that time, a figure flew down from the central peak like a celestial being!
He grabbed the old Monk and swiftly flew past the Black Knights’ spears.
‘[Cloud Wandering]!’
‘Cloud Monk?’
Seeing this movement, Marvin’s heart skipped a beat. He knew who it was that came to help!
Such a wonderful ability to wander the clouds… Only someone with 9 or more levels in the Cloud Monk class could master it.
Besides that person, no one else could!
Chapter 373: Legend!
Chapter 373: Legend!
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On the screen, that figure flew down from the mountain peak and instantly brought the old Monk away, not only making the spears of the Black Knights hit empty air, but also slightly pushing them back!
All the spears started shaking.
The next moment, these frightening lethal weapons seemed to lose their aura in front of that person as they shattered!
Despite Marvin’s many adventures, it was the first time he saw a Cloud Monk’s fierceness!
That class was one of the Monk Legend advancements and was practically the most powerful.
Because in addition to possessing formidable power, that class also had a property that the others didn’t have: Longevity!
In Feinan, it was very difficult to reach immortality. Besides ascending to Godhood, very few class holders could become immortal.
Even the most powerful class holders would eventually lose their strength due to the passage of time.
Very few classes had the ability to attain immortality. Becoming a Lich was one way, and there were a few other classes that had a skill like Longevity.
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