radicalducati Chapter 447 From Sword Training That Almost Resulted in Beheading
Chapter 447 From Sword Training That Almost Resulted in Beheading
Chapter 447 From Sword Training That Almost Resulted in Beheading
Is Broly strong? Yes, but Orstide feels that his opponent is currently very weak.
Of course, this weakness is in comparison to Broly, whom he fought in previous cycles.
"Apostle of God and Man, is this all you've got?"
Orstide didn't believe that Broly's strength was only at this level, so he started to provoke Broly with the kind of trash talk that the Northern God School was known for.
"Of course I have more skills than just this, but your skills are not enough to make me show my true abilities."
Broly dodged the vertical slash of Orstide's Mad Dragon Blade by sidestepping, and then slashed horizontally with the iron sword in his hand, which was wrapped in energy.
With a clang, the blade of the longsword clashed with the Mad Dragon Blade that Orstide had sheathed and which stood in front of him.
This time, Broly's forehead bulged with veins, as if he had used all his strength, and Orstide, along with his sword, was sent flying more than ten meters away.
"Phew~"
The sword was stuck in the ground, and Broly, putting on a convincing performance, began to pant.
The feeling of suppressing one's anger while fighting others is really tiring for a Saiyan.
However, the experience of this battle was surprisingly good.
Although Orstide's physical attributes and temperament were far inferior to his own, when he intentionally lowered his aura to fight him, Orstide was able to hold his own against him, who had about twice the amount of aura he was displaying on the surface, by relying on his fighting awareness.
Broly even had a feeling that if he had suppressed his anger any more, he might have been defeated by his opponent, instead of the seemingly evenly matched situation he was in now.
Overall, Broly's basic physical stats are currently about twice what they were in Alsterd.
However, in terms of swordsmanship and combat skills, Alsterd's swordsmanship far surpasses that of Broly, a Saiyan who has never practiced swordsmanship and is only wielding a baseball sword based on his fighting instincts.
In addition, Broly is a juvenile, while Orstide is an adult, and the Mad Dragon Blade wielded by Orstide is longer than the iron sword that Broly bought for three gold coins.
Therefore, the combat abilities that these two are currently displaying are in a very delicate dynamic balance.
Of course, the person mainly in charge of regulating the temperature of this battle is Broly, after all, he wants to bring Orstide an excellent combat experience as a way of thanking him for helping him quickly restart last time.
However, Orstide didn't see this. When he saw Broly, his formidable enemy, standing there panting with his sword, his eyes widened and he thought of a possibility.
To confirm this possibility, when Broly finished catching his breath and attacked again, Orstide canceled the domain that imitated the unique Water God Style technique [Deprivation of Sword Realm] of the Water Goddess Leta, and instead used the ultimate fast attack technique of the Sword God Style [Light Katana].
In a very short time, this person went from extreme defense to extreme offense. This change caught Broly off guard, who was controlling the temperature of the battle and suppressing his own energy. He was immediately bitten by Alsterd, the fish that was staying in the warm water.
"Pfft!"
But the next moment, Alster's head flew into the air, and Broly's instinctive counterattack, which unleashed his power, decapitated him.
However, even though only his head remained, spinning in the air, a rare smile appeared on Orstide's usually serious face.
Not for any other reason than that Alsterd saw a deep, bone-revealing wound on Broly's right neck.
Although he didn't know what method the other party had used to stop the bleeding, this was the only time he had managed to injure the other party in their many encounters.
Broly, the apostle of the gods and men, is not so powerful that he cannot be killed...
With this in mind, Orstide returned to the ancient dragon ruins of Dragon Cry Mountain in the 330th year of the Ankylion Calendar.
In the endless cycle of time, without external interference, most creatures in the world will live out their lives along roughly the same predetermined fate lines...
Alsterd got up from the ground and, as he always did after rewinding time, began to work on his body.
For the next ten years or so, he will continue doing this until he trains his body to its peak, that is, to return to a god-like level.
I should have noticed this sooner; the fate of that apostle named Broly was constantly changing.
If a person's fate is not fixed, then the abilities they will possess will also be unpredictable...
For example, if someone who could have smoothly grown into a Sword King according to their original destiny line had their fate changed when they were still a child and never touched a sword from childhood to adulthood, then when they reached the point where they could become a Sword King, they would definitely not be a Sword King.
Similarly, if Broly didn't have a predetermined fate, then the strength of the opponent in each event loop would also be unpredictable.
As for why the other party's fate line is not fixed in the cycle of reincarnation, Orstide did not know, but guessed that it might be the work of a god.
In short, if Broly, the apostle of the gods, has an inconsistent strength that varies, then one has the potential to defeat the opponent when the opponent is weak.
In fact, if only his blade had been a little faster before he returned, he would have beheaded the opponent first...
"I must hone my swordsmanship to be even faster!"
After completing the basic physical training, Orstide began to wield the sword left behind in the ruins. Although his memories could be preserved in the cycle of time, his body had to undergo countless trials and tribulations to reach its original peak.
Seeing a glimmer of hope that he could defeat Broly, Alster felt a surge of motivation in this reincarnated version of himself.
. . . . .
In September of Ankylion Calendar 407, Broly returned to the Great Plains for the seventh time. His blood-stained clothes transformed back into the small trench coat he wore when he first came to this world, and the wound on his neck that had been temporarily stopped by acupressure was erased after he traveled back in time.
Broly touched his unharmed neck, then realized he had almost been beheaded by Alsterd: "Was it because I lowered my aura too much, causing my body's defenses to drop too drastically?"
In the Dragon Ball world, the defensive power of strong individuals is always linked to ki. With ki, they can withstand a nuclear bomb head-on without any problem, but without ki, even a small pistol could injure a Saiyan who can transform into a Saiyan with a power level of over 100 million.
This was the first time Broly had come so close to death, but surprisingly, he didn't feel much fear.
On the contrary, the feeling of having his neck cut open, almost being beheaded, and his heart racing during the last reincarnation gave Broly a kind of, how should I put it, the kind of excitement he felt when he encountered a new target.
[Strange, am I excited about almost being killed?]
Broly was puzzled as he watched the rabbit fly away overhead.
Thinking of Alsterd's final strike, he began to imitate it with his bare hands.
"This move, Little God seems to have mentioned it, is called Blade of Light, or maybe it's a katana..."
The sword energy unleashed by bare hands swept across a distance of a thousand meters, and the giant rabbit flying in the sky was cleaved in two and fell to the ground without even letting out a mournful cry.
"I think I might be starting to like this."
After placing two pieces of rabbit meat on the grill, Broly picked up a twig and used it to unleash a series of light sword strikes.
"Click~"
By the eighth swing, Broly's casually picked-up branch broke under the weight, even with the protective gas pack.
A good sword is needed.
Broly thought to himself, and picked up another branch, trying to imitate the Water God Style Secret Technique [Deprivation of Sword Realm] that Orstide had shown him in the previous reincarnation.
However, this technique is more technically challenging than the straightforward Sword God Style Secret Technique, "Light Katana," and Broly spent a week barely managing to learn it on his own.
. . . .
"Are you a disciple of the water god?"
In Tarakia, the capital of the Dragon King Kingdom, Broly sought out the Sword King's bodyguard, who served Queen Martina, and challenged him to a duel, wagering himself on the opponent.
Using a secondhand refurbished sword he bought from a dwarven blacksmith for nine silver and twenty copper coins, Bro defeated the Sword King Sean Cloda solely with his swordsmanship skills, without surpassing his own aura.
"Water God? I don't know him. My teacher who taught me this swordsmanship is the Dragon God."
Broly shook his head.
"Alright, according to our pre-battle agreement, your sword is now mine. Hmm, I don't need this sword anymore, you can keep it. Bye-bye."
Water Saint Fred, who was standing nearby, wanted to say something, but Broly simply jumped over the wall of the training ground and disappeared in an instant.
"Randolph, would you be interested in a swordsmanship contest with me?"
In the seventh playthrough, when Broly was preparing to leave the Dragon King Kingdom for the continent of Milis, he challenged his newly re-established friendship with Randolph to a duel.
"If you need a sparring partner, I can accompany you."
The restaurant's business improved thanks to Broly's advice, and Randolph remained grateful to Broly in this loop, offering to be Broly's sparring partner.
"This isn't the kind of competition where you're just sparring partners; it's a competition where you have to show your true skills."
At Broly's insistence, Randolph showed his true skills.
Unlike in the second playthrough, where Randolph was easily defeated by Broly.
In the seventh playthrough, Broly brought his aura to a level comparable to Randolph's. In a pure swordsmanship contest, Randolph used his superb swordsmanship to knock away the sword Broly had won, which was worth 120 gold coins from the Dragon Kingdom.
"It's strange. Your swordsmanship has clearly reached the threshold of god-level, but you feel like a beginner who is just learning swordsmanship."
Your swordsmanship is full of rigid, memorized moves, as if you only know the routines. Of course, your moves are very skillful, but I can't tell how skillful they are at my level. Some Emperor-level swordsmen might not be your match.
Broly, you should forget those rigid sword techniques and incorporate what you've learned into your own swordsmanship, making them your own.
Death's Randolph's assessment of Broly's swordsmanship was quite objective, and considering the time spent in the previous playthrough, Broly's total training time was indeed less than two months.
In fact, I only started practicing the standardized sword techniques of this world ten days ago, after I was almost beheaded by Orstide.
"Okay, I will. Thank you for your guidance."
Broly humbly accepted Randolph's swordsmanship instruction and waved goodbye to his friend who resembled an undead.
"I find it hard to believe that your swordsmanship is so bad that even Death can't beat you, yet you were able to defeat Orstide."
The little genius chimed in from the side.
In this cycle, all He knows is that Broly is a swordsmanship genius from another world who has reincarnated many times in this world.
"My swordsmanship is indeed inferior to Orstide's, but my physical and mental stats are higher than his."
"Then how come you still lost to Randolph?"
"When playing with friends, it's natural to be fair."
Putting aside the numerical values, Broly's current swordsmanship is indeed inferior to Randolph, who once served as a candidate for the Northern God.
However, it doesn't matter. As long as he exchanges and spars with the sword masters of this world more often, his sword skills will improve rapidly.
Broly had always felt that he wasn't a traditional Saiyan. Under his father's tutelage, he knew about the Saiyans' warlike nature.
Broly thought he was a special Saiyan who wasn't very warlike, but after a sword fight with the Dragon God Orstide and a battle involving water temperature control that nearly resulted in his decapitation, he suddenly realized that it wasn't that he wasn't warlike, but rather that he wasn't very interested in battles that lacked balance.
In other words, he was simply not interested in overwhelming battles, and his so-called aversion to fighting was only because Broly had never encountered an opponent stronger than himself, or even one of equal skill.
The closest one is still the God of War, Arthas. Looking back now, I still feel quite excited when I fought against him.
Getting back to the point, after discovering that he might also have the warlike nature of a Saiyan, Broly consciously began to lower his ki to fight his enemies. He wanted to confirm that his senses were correct and wanted to relive the feeling of fighting Alsterd.
Unfortunately, Bro could easily crush ordinary enemies even with his bare hands, and he felt nothing at all. While fighting Randolph did give him a bit of that excitement, it wasn't quite as intense.
Compared to Alsterd, Randolph's situation was like when he used to hold back his strength to spar with his wife, while the latter was a true life-or-death struggle.
"God, are there any skilled swordsmen on the continent of Milis?"
Broly asked the question.
"No, if you want to find a master swordsman, you'll have to go to the Sword Holy Land in the far north."
"The Holy Land of Swords?"
"Take out the map, and I'll show it to you."
Broly looked at the place that the god pointed out was completely opposite to his planned itinerary, and decided to continue on the normal route. Anyway, he would visit places he hadn't been to before, so he wasn't in a hurry.
It's not too late to find someone else to practice swordsmanship when the time has passed.
As for now, Broly has spent almost a full playthrough slowly traversing the Holy Kingdom of Milis and the Great Forest.
When he arrived at the Demon Continent, the sword saints, sword kings, and sword emperors who had been challenged and defeated by Broly using the Sword God Style swordsmanship all the way there, bestowed upon him the title of the number one sword emperor of the Milis Continent.
As for why it's not Sword God, it's because the god-level title of a martial arts style can only be possessed by the number one person of that style in the world.
The titles of the six-sided world are quite prestigious, because their only reference point is actual combat record.
For example, if you want to have the title of Sword Saint, you have to use the swordsmanship of the Sword God style to defeat any current Sword Saint, or gain the recognition of other Sword Saints or higher-level Sword God style experts.
Broly has never defeated the current Sword God, therefore he does not have the title of Sword God, and no one else is qualified to bestow the title of Sword God upon him.
Of course, the swordsmen who had fought him and were defeated by his superb swordsmanship all believed that he was very likely to successfully challenge the current Sword God and become the next Sword God.
Compared to his previous experience of being treated like an easy target when he first arrived in the Demon Continent, Broly's return is like a newly unsheathed sword that doesn't want to hide its sharpness, exuding a sharp aura of "I am terrifyingly strong".
In stark contrast to the increasingly sharp aura emanating from him, Broly's outward aura was less than one percent of its usual strength.
Furthermore, after arriving in the Demon Continent, Broly no longer preferred to travel by flying, but instead preferred to travel on foot through the wilderness.
As for why, it's because there are many demons practicing swordsmanship on the road.
"Shh~"
"Watch out, it's the Red-Armored Serpent!"
A panicked sound rang out from within the demon merchant caravan.
A short figure had already stepped out from the crowd.
Broly didn't gather his energy; he simply raised the sword in his hand, which was worth 120 King Dragon Gold Coins, and slashed forward.
This was precisely the move that Dragon God Orstide used in the second playthrough.
The A-rank demonic red-armored serpent, which was two or three stories tall, was cleaved in two by the sharp sword energy as it charged forward.
The panicked voices abruptly ceased.
"Wow, this guy's scales are really tough. Luckily, my sword is sharper. Leader Nottos, is this my spoils of war?"
A three-eyed demon glanced at the cleanly cut cross-section of the crimson-armored serpent's corpse, swallowed hard, and replied, "Of course."
"Does anyone know how to cook snake meat? I'll treat everyone to meat tonight."
Broly's words immediately enlivened the caravan of several demon merchants.
(End of this chapter)