Chapter 69 - I Want All of It (2/2)

However, he might as well learn the basic military sword techniques from Betta.

Besides, the growth in agility of Mages was quite average, only slightly better than normal people, and he didn’t learn any buffs, so he wouldn’t have much use for it for the time being.

However, it was always better to be prepared, just in case! No matter what, he should just learn it first. He had nothing better to do in the daytime anyway.

He searched on the web and discovered that there actually weren’t any places in the city center that taught swordsmans.h.i.+p.

Yes… eighteenth-tier small cities had precisely this flaw. Although normal basic needs weren’t a problem, it was a difficult place to engage in any sort of advanced entertainment or learn any advanced skills—it was lacking in a lot of areas.

Just when he was disappointed, he actually found a miaodao training club on the map’s navigation. By the looks of the location, it should be in the eastern suburban districts.

Miaodao techniques!

This was south of Xinjiang where there were a lot of people of Miao ethnicity. And as a national minority, the Miao people had the prerogative to carry sabers.

However, this society was now safer and stabler, so it was rare for people of the Miao ethnic group to walk around carrying sabers. Apart from occasionally wearing their own ethnic clothing, they were already no different from the main ethnicities in terms of habits and customs.

Besides, even with superficial historical knowledge, Roland knew that the saber a.s.sociated with the Miao ethnic group wasn’t the miaodao. Miaodao only appeared after the establishment of the Republic of China—it was merely the name of a type of saber.

It was said that miaodao techniques referenced Wajin’s[1] two-handed saber and its techniques, but the attack patterns were more suited toward the Chinese people’s habits of being bold and grand.

After all, the average height of the martial artists of China were greater than that of the Wajin martial artists.

Was this miaodao club a bait and switch, simply advertising itself as miaodao, or did it teach the orthodox Chinese miaodao techniques?

He would know once he went to check it out.

Roland used a public bike and arrived at the suburbs following the map’s navigation system. This took him nearly half an hour.

After leaving the city center, there were clearly a lot less people on the streets, and on the two sides of the roads, some farmlands that planted vegetables and fruits started to appear.

On a vacant land prepared to be opened up for development, Roland found the miaodao club.

The midaodao club occupied a lot of land, but it was quite simple and crude.

Two galvanized iron sheets combined to form a shed used to block the sun and rain, then there was a wide, flat, glossy cement floor which could even reflect light a little.

A red brick wall up to Roland’s chest surrounded this land.

A wooden signboard hung at the doorway. Unlike the simple and crude site itself, this signboard was quite refined.

It was a square base of brown lumber that had been polished to l.u.s.trousness, the two words “Miaodao Club” engraved one-third deep into the wood, then polished with black paint. It looked rather sharp and imposing.

His line of sight pa.s.sing through the low perimeter wall, Roland saw four students in uniform, brandis.h.i.+ng long wooden sabers high above them.

On the side, a young girl was carrying a bucket, spraying water on the cement ground, seemingly in order to lower the temperature.

There was another young man leaning on the load-bearing metal pillars of the large shed. He was watching the four young students train.

When Roland’s line of sight landed on the young man, the young man also turned to look at Roland.

The young man’s eyes were like that of a dead fish, a gaze without any l.u.s.ter or spirit.

However, inexplicably, Roland felt a bit of pressure.

[1] Ancient people in j.a.pan, China, and Korea