Chapter 96: Evaluation
Tyr Junior, your agility is good, but your combat awareness is lacking. Even smart opponents can predict your attack direction with just guessing. When they are prepared, your attacks become as powerless as a gentle breeze.
Tyr didn’t pay much attention to it, and as he saw the opponent approaching, he immediately assumed a stance with his magical blade and then slashed out!
Descending Divinity Style, Descending Heaven Ten Consecutive.
Boom boom boom, a slash unleashed a burst of ten consecutive explosions. However, despite the immense power of this sword technique, Vanas remained fearless. The qi surrounding his body formed a substantial red shield, blocking all the explosions from the Descending Heaven Ten Consecutive technique. However, due to the effect of Descending Heaven, the shield, which should have been very solid, dissipated in an instant, ultimately disappearing. Tyr took advantage of this opportunity to charge forward. The black demonic blade silently cut through the void, slashing towards Vanas!
However, this was just a feint. Tyr’s sword strike came to a sudden halt, and his footwork pivoted again. He executed a triple fold in one breath, as if there were three mirrors reflecting his movements, and suddenly appeared behind Vanas to her right rear.
Vanas remained calm, unaffected by Tyr’s actions. His body turned backward without hesitation, and immediately a slash was unleashed.
What! Tyr was greatly shocked, finding Vanas’s decisive action bewildering. It was as if his attack had been completely anticipated by the opponent. The short blade kept enlarging in his vision, and he found himself unable to avoid it. Even with his formidable agility, he couldn’t escape the range of this fatal slash from a master like Vanas!
“I’m done for!”
“I’m done for!”
“I’m done for!” Without any guard or warning, just such a casual strike, Tyr fell into despair!
However, just as Vanas’s short blade was about to touch Tyr, there was a sudden pause. Tyr seized this opportunity to quickly retreat, only looking back at the terrifying woman when he was tens of meters away. By now, his forehead and back were already drenched in sweat, and his face had become extremely pale, looking as if he had been through a serious illness.
“You’re dead, Tyr Junior,” Vanas said, her eyes narrowing slightly. Tyr could sense disappointment in her gaze.
“I see. I was presumptuous. I thought I had found a piece of jade, only to discover that it was all show and no substance. Your agility is good, but your combat awareness is poor, and your instincts in battle are also terrible.”
Your swordsmanship is indeed formidable, but you only grasp its form without understanding its essence. It’s like you’ve memorized someone else’s moves and are just mechanically executing them, without any trace of effort.
“The only commendable thing is your ability to learn martial techniques, but unfortunately, you’ve learned without truly comprehending. When others teach you to use a fist, you also use a fist, but you fail to realize that this fist can often transform into cloth or scissors.”
While Vanas spoke, Tyr found it hard to take in any of it. His face grew even paler, and his heart seemed to race several times faster. He had nearly died just now. If it weren’t for this woman stopping, he would have been dead.
What happens when you die? Nothing remains. No consciousness, no right to take any action, let alone to seek lost memories. The thought made him tremble uncontrollably, and his legs almost gave way beneath him.
“Tyr Junior, I thought you were a promising talent. If possible, I even wanted to invite you to join our society. But alas, you ultimately don’t measure up,” Vanas said, shaking her head once again.
“No, you don’t even qualify for a passing comment. If your agility and martial skills were stripped away, what would you be left with? No experience, no combat intuition. You’re just a mediocre person who stumbled upon a stroke of luck. Perhaps mediocrity could still become strong through endless effort, but you? I don’t see calluses on your hands from holding a blade for long periods, nor do I see sturdy legs from practicing agility. Your physical fitness is nothing special. I find it difficult to imagine how someone like you could have acquired such terrifying martial skills.”
These words made Tyr subconsciously step back several paces, his trembling becoming even more intense.
Vanas, however, paid no attention to the other party’s actions, gazing at Tyr with indifferent eyes, and calmly said.
“As a senior sister, let me say one last thing to you.”
“Your strength will be limited to this. Below the Emperor, this is your limit.”
“Even if you continue to utilize soulless martial skills and techniques, you can only be a hero below the Emperor.”
“Just watch, if you continue like this, those weaker than you will soon surpass you, and then leave you farther and farther behind.”
“Vanas said all she had to say and said no more. She was always someone of few words, and it was already unusual for her to say this much to someone she had lost interest in, let alone the fact that she didn’t even touch Tyr.”
“Slowly passing by Tyr’s side, Vanas soared into the air and instantly sped off in the direction Angel was escaping.”
“Tyr could only breathe rapidly, recalling all the segments of the previous battles.”
“He lost, and he lost so completely.”
“He had felt the dissonance in his martial skills for a long time, but he never dared to confront it, after all, he had always been able to use these martial skills and techniques to solve crises.”
“Mr. Kaming, the Great Crab, seemed to have used some special demonstration method to deepen his impression of these sacred techniques. Although Tyr had watched all the moves clearly and remembered them, it seemed like something important was missing.”
“Now, with Vanas’ words, the truth he had always been afraid to face was exposed.”
“No soul.”
“He learned the shape of other people’s fists, but didn’t know that this hand could also become cloth and scissors. There was no flexibility, just swinging like a dead thing.”
“This was his true self, a baby holding a sacred weapon.”
“Tyr, sensing the truth, felt as though his chest were being filled with soil, unable to inhale or exhale.”
“The artifact slipped from his hand, falling to the ground without making a sound. In that instant, his legs lost the strength to support him, and he collapsed to his knees like a puppet with cut strings, as silent as the artifact.”
“The torrential rain pouring from the sky made a roaring sound, seemingly mocking Tyr’s ignorance, helplessness, and powerlessness. His hair clung wetly together, and no one knew what expression Tyr wore at this moment.”
“Song Zhiping couldn’t help but sigh inwardly as he looked at Tyr’s desolate expression. Another genius destroyed.”
“What is most abundant in Avalon? Conflict. In the clash between geniuses, there will inevitably be one who suffers a fatal blow, and this blow will shatter the pride and motivation of an arrogant genius.”
“Avalon Academy is indeed a prestigious institution, but in the end, the top geniuses have ascended to the peak by stepping on the corpses of many other geniuses.”
“Let’s go,” Song Zhiping ordered his five high-ranking Broken Army subordinates. Now, even if they were to kick a man when he’s down, how much of his dissatisfaction could it really satisfy?
He himself, isn’t he just one of the many destroyed by geniuses?
“As Vanas rushed to Angel’s side, she found all the masked men lying on the ground, and in their midst stood a towering, shirtless brute. His body covered in scars and sword wounds, and his menacing face struck fear into anyone who beheld it. Even Vanas couldn’t help but feel solemn.”
“I see, so the ‘Riot King’ is your subordinate, Angel. I underestimated your methods. However… You’re using your own classmate just to stall for time. If I were to leave him crippled, wouldn’t that make me a criminal?”
“All accidents contribute to the inevitable. He will be fine.”
Angel’s words were resolute, which made Vanas slightly surprised, then she smirked and spoke coldly.
“You’re right, what you said is indeed inevitable. Although I didn’t injure him, I destroyed him. I just hope that what you call inevitable includes this matter, Angel.”
