Chapter 125 (1/2)

Chapter 125: War

Translator: Yukidaruma Translations  Editor: Yukidaruma Translations

The next morning, Fang Xingjian, who was seated cross-legged in the training room, opened his eyes. The sword in his hands turning into dust, scattering into the air. His Effulgence Weapon could not form, and while he had learnt it and reached level 1 in this skill, no matter how much he cultivated, he was not able to gain additional experience points.

Only after the Effulgence Weapon took shape would one be able to gain more experience points and level up.

Now, Fang Xingjian could only continue to train patiently, hoping that his Effulgence Weapon would be able to form one day.

‘It seems like I’ll have to start from using materials and see if I can use the method recorded in the manual for the Ether Divine Art to smelt and incorporate materials, thus giving form to my high frequency Effulgence Weapon.’

Fang Xingjian now understood the path he needed to take to become stronger as well: to cultivate his Waves, Effulgence Weapon, as well as to temper his attributes. All of these required one to train very, very slowly, taking all of eternity to train.

But his mental cultivation method, sword arts, and sword intent could all do some brushing up.

Early this morning and after breakfast, Fang Xingjian put on his blue and white Knight attire. Similar to how he had decided the day before, he brought along the small sword pendant exclusive to Knights and headed for Huang Lin’s office.

On the way, however, he saw many servants rushing about everywhere in the academy, and there were even many soldiers whom he had never seen before setting up barricades in numerous places.

It was as if they had changed from a period of peace to war overnight.

However, to Fang Xingjian, these soldiers did not have much use. They were not even official Knights and could only be there to guard the place and protect ordinary people.

In fact, Knights were the main force in the Empire’s armies. An official Knight had the powers to defeat a thousand-man army of ordinary people, and just ten of them would be able to bring down a city guarded by ordinary people.

If there were one hundred Knights, then no matter how many ordinary soldiers came, they would not be able to win.

Thus, the Empire’s main force tended to be an army of Knights formed from either three to five people, over ten people, or at max, a hundred people.

It could be said that the wars across this world would be one with over tens, or at the most, just over hundreds of such Knights.

In history, there were only a few wars which truly activated thousands or tens of thousands of Knights. All of them were able to shake heaven and earth.

And once Divine level experts appeared, just a few of them would be able to determine the flow of the war.

Therefore, the wars in the Miracle World comprised of the battle histories of the strong. Ordinary guards were only used to defend the territories and suppress ordinary commoners.

No one would be so moronic as to use an army of thousands or tens of thousands to face off Knights.

What really determined the victory or defeat was the results from the fights between the Knights.

Most ordinary soldiers not only have lousy equipments and mediocre skills in martial arts, most of them did not have any experience in war and would only have chased off wild beasts or hunted ferocious beasts.

It was because they were not required at all in war. Even if they were to fight, they would only be lambs waiting to be slaughtered by the Knights. Although they could sneak sudden attacks on the enemy’s’ troops who were not Knights, it would not affect the battles between the Knights, even if they were to win.

The victory or defeat to wars were almost not dependent on them at all. It was why the Empire’s echelon had never thought highly about the construct of the troops at the lowest level of the army.