A burst of footsteps approached, and two people entered the equipment room one after another.
In the past, whether it was Randy or Richie, they would have been able to react. But at this moment, both of them had entered that profound and mysterious state.
The ones who entered were Captain Calli and Merlin. Seeing Randy and Richie hugging tightly, their legs intertwined and closely connected, they instantly felt their hearts skip a beat.
A hint of anger instantly appeared on Miss Calli's face.
She hated Richie's fooling around. Regarding the affairs between Richie and those female Knights under her, she originally just turned a blind eye. But at this moment, she had the impulse to kick Richie out of the squad.
She also blamed Randy for not knowing better. It was one thing for Richie to be playful, but as an adult, Randy should know restraint.
Just as she wanted to lose her temper but was hesitating on how to do it, Merlin next to her whispered: "The condition of these two is a bit unusual. Why has Richie gotten stronger? And there's an Aura reaction coming from Randy's body too."
Hearing Merlin say this, Captain Calli turned her head to look directly at the two people copulating.
That lustful scene still made her heart pound. She wasn't like Merlin; Merlin had slept with Richie and didn't care about these things at all.
Upon closer inspection, Captain Calli indeed felt somewhat surprised.
Randy's Aura reaction was very obvious, but strangely, there was no sign of Knight mutation on her body at all. Her muscles and cardiovascular system were still the same as an ordinary person's.
Calli and Merlin looked at each other. From the other's eyes, they saw astonishment and envy.
Although Randy's body was still very fragile now, with Aura, undergoing Knight mutation was just a matter of time. Randy could already be considered half a Knight now.
And people possessing the dual identities of a Knight and a Psion were absolutely extremely rare. Such people usually had very strong strength, because not only did they have the power, reaction, and speed of a Knight, but they also possessed the bizarre and variable attack methods of a Psion.
In ancient times, this kind of person was called a Destroyer.
Just as she wanted to continue observing, Richie and Randy shuddered simultaneously. The two had just woken up from that profound state, and immediately sensed that there were other people in the room.
Randy hurriedly got up from Richie in a panic. This was a subconscious reaction, but when Richie's massive penis slipped out of her body, swaying and standing erect there, she immediately realized that doing this was actually very stupid.
However, it was impossible to sit back down now.
Richie was equally embarrassed. He frantically stuffed his thing back into his pants.
Only then did he notice that his pants were stained with a large pile of cloudy, white, and viscous stuff. This stuff was much more viscous than the love juices a woman secreted when aroused, and the volume was also large, with lots of bubbles.
Turning his head to look, he saw that a large pile of such stuff was also hanging between Randy's legs. The cloudy, white, viscous fluid was flowing down along the base of her thighs.
What Richie could see, Merlin and Captain Calli naturally also saw.
Captain Calli turned her head and said coldly: "Quickly put on your clothes."
She walked straight out of the equipment room.
Merlin, on the other hand, blushed and scanned Richie, occasionally glancing at his bulging crotch. After a long while, she said: "It seems your trouble has been resolved."
Seemingly relieved, yet somewhat helpless, she sighed: "I'll have to consider contraception when making love with you in the future. Otherwise, I wouldn't even know when you'd get me pregnant."
"Hurry up."
Merlin shook her head and continued: "The Captain was already angry just now. If you don't want to be kicked out of the squad, you'd better be smart and don't cause any more trouble."
Without needing a warning, Richie also knew what to do. He deeply understood the principle of keeping his head down.
His pants had already become like this; of course, he couldn't continue wearing them. Fortunately, Randy had a change of clothes here. Not just here, but in the rooms of several other female Knights he was involved with, he had a change of clothes.
After cleaning everything up and walking out of the equipment room, they saw that the other members of the squad had all gathered at the door.
As soon as she saw Richie come out, Calli frowned first: "Why is the intensity of the Aura on your body much weaker than just now?"
Richie himself hadn't noticed this, and neither had Randy and Merlin.
Richie hurriedly sank his consciousness into his body and inspected internally.
With one scan, he indeed found that the energy integrated into the Aura was gradually dissipating.
"Calm down first. Circulate your Aura like you usually do, and see how long this fading will last."
Miss Calli's voice reached his ears.
Richie immediately did as he was told.
He used the Art suitable for heavy defenders. For the first few cycles, the speed of energy dissipation was still very fast. What didn't belong to him didn't belong to him after all. But when it dissipated to about one-third, the speed slowed down.
A hint of expectation arose in Richie's heart.
He gradually discovered the secret within.
Unlike during dual-cultivation, what he gained this time was not Aura, but other energies integrated into the Aura, which was why it gradually dissipated. But having integrated a massive amount of alien energy, his Aura became thick and robust. Every time he circulated the Aura, the benefits he received were naturally tens of times more than usual.
Most importantly, this layer of energy wrapped outside the Aura was peaceful and gentle, causing no harm to the body whatsoever, and instead having a nourishing and repairing effect. So it didn't matter how many times the Aura was circulated.
For a long time, there had been a difficult problem troubling Knights.
The Aura cultivated by powerful Arts was all unruly and difficult to control, while those easy to control had mediocre power. Only a very small portion of Arts could achieve a balance between power and control, and the one Lina practiced was one of them.
However, these Arts, without exception, were extremely difficult to cultivate and had extremely high requirements for aptitude.
He never expected that, by sheer dumb luck, he had actually solved this massive problem.
Since this was the case, why still cultivate that turtle Aura whose progress was astonishingly slow?
Thinking of this, Richie immediately switched the Art he was originally circulating to the "Heaven Stealing Art" he had long abandoned. Although the "Heaven Stealing Art" was not as good as the dual-cultivation Art Lina gave him, it excelled in its extremely fast circulation speed.
In the blink of an eye, over a dozen cycles passed. If it was in the past, he would have almost reached his limit, but now Richie felt perfectly fine.
By the time he completely digested all the energy integrated into the Aura, several hours had already passed. During this time, his Aura had already circulated thousands of times.
After inspecting internally again, Richie said somewhat uncertainly: "It seems... I absorbed one-tenth."
Captain Calli looked at Merlin, and indeed Merlin was also somewhat surprised. They had seen the intensity of Richie's Aura just now; being able to absorb one-tenth was already very terrifying.
"I don't know if it's only this effective the first time, maybe the efficiency will be much worse in the future."
Merlin muttered to herself.
"Don't worry about that for now."
His mentor, Miss Dana, walked over: "The one-tenth you mentioned is just a rough estimate; a detailed test is still needed."
Richie naturally knew what needed to be tested. Knights had to undergo similar tests every year.
The entire set of tests was very tedious, from grip strength to reaction speed, from body flexibility to Aura intensity, everything needed to be tested one by one. Not only did they have to test it bare-handed, but they also had to put on Magitech Armor and test it all over again.
The entire set of tests took over six hours.
Now, only the last one remained.
Wearing that Magitech Armor, Richie took a deep breath. Ten meters in front of him lay a rock; this was for testing shockwaves.
In the past, he had never successfully unleashed a shockwave once. It was exactly because of this reason that although he was already an Apprentice Knight, there were still many people who didn't recognize his qualification.
The standard for an Apprentice Knight was Aura release, and the way to prove this point was to unleash a shockwave.
Although he had never been able to use an attack wave, Richie was already as familiar as could be with the technique of unleashing a shockwave.
At this moment, what he held in his hand was not a mirror shield, but an ordinary Knight sword.
Inhaling and gathering power, Richie pulled the tip of the sword back. Suddenly, he swung the sword like lightning. The Aura, which had already been compressed into a very small ball, traveled along the slender blade towards the tip.
With a soft "hiss," the Aura was forced out. Almost in that instant, Richie felt the change at the tip of the sword. He always thought the shockwave was the shot-out Aura. Only now did he realize that the Aura forced out of the sword tip was only a tiny bit, yet it stirred up an intense air vibration.
This was the true principle of the shockwave. Richie immediately understood why the speed of the shockwave was so fast, unlike other attack Arts that required a lot of time to prepare.
Glancing at the rock ten meters away, Richie instantly felt a bit of a blush. He only focused on unleashing the shockwave and didn't aim at all. Who knows where that strike just went.
Gathering power again, another shockwave was struck out. What surprised Richie was that it only left a small dot on the rock, chipping off a fragment the size of a fingernail at most.
He heard a chorus of giggles ring out around him. At this moment, he only wished there was a crack in the ground for him to hide in.
Fortunately, Merlin stepped forward at this time. She consoled: "It doesn't matter, being able to successfully unleash a shockwave is already good enough. Congratulations, you are now a true Apprentice Knight."
Richie himself was of course very happy, but the others all pretended not to hear.
...
Half an hour later, the results were out. Dana, Merlin, and Randy were called into the office by Captain Calli.
Richie couldn't go in, so he could only pace back and forth outside with a worried expression. What he was most worried about was Miss Calli kicking him out of the squad.
Inside the office, Calli was carefully reviewing each test result. On her right side, there was another set of test results. That was the test result from not long ago when Richie was promoted to Apprentice Knight. The two tests were less than two months apart.
The values on both sides differed greatly. The most obvious change was speed.
"The little guy didn't seem to have speed as a specialty in the past, right?"
Calli asked.
The one who understood Richie the best was still Dana. She thought about it and explained: "Richie actually practices three kinds of Arts. One is the haphazardly cobbled together 'Heaven Stealing Art' he practiced earliest. I studied this Art and found it uses the Clear Breeze Aura as its origin. The guy who cobbled together the 'Heaven Stealing Art' back then probably practiced the Clear Breeze Aura himself. Therefore, after practicing this Art, what should be enhanced are speed and perception."
Merlin nodded from the side: "This is good too. What Richie lacked before was speed. It didn't matter if his speed was a bit poor when he walked the path of a heavy defender. But now that he has become a light defender, speed has become very important."
"With speed, Richie's abilities are gradually becoming balanced. This is very good for his future development."
Dana said: "Now he just lacks explosive power. I'm afraid there's no way to compensate for this. Both the Arts he practices are relatively weak in enhancing explosive power."
"What I'm interested in is not this."
Captain Calli stopped the others from continuing: "If, as Richie said, the energy integrated into his body can truly envelop the sharp edge of the Aura itself, making the Aura less violent and fierce, after he and Randy dual-cultivate, if he immediately switches to another person to dual-cultivate with, would the residual energy within his Aura be effective for that other person?"
Hearing the Captain say this, Merlin's eyes lit up. The further one cultivated Aura, the more difficult it became. The biggest reason was the damage Aura circulation caused to the body. So every type of Aura had its limit.
She had also noticed before that after dual-cultivating with Richie, the sharp edge of her Aura would be worn down. There were pros and cons to this. The pro was being able to break through the existing limit, but the con was that the power of the Aura also became smaller.
But now, the situation was completely different.
Merlin couldn't help turning her head to Randy and asked: "The question now is, can it be confirmed that this method is continuously effective?"
"I can try."
As Randy spoke, her voice became lower and lower.
...
Coming out of the office, Merlin and Randy flanked Richie on his left and right. Each of them grabbed one of Richie's ears and dragged him into the equipment room.
As soon as they entered, Merlin casually pulled an iron desk to block the door.
Actually, there was no need to do this, because everyone knew what they were doing inside. Merlin just wanted to calm her mood down, so she felt she had to do something.
It was still that chair. The traces left on the chair still remained. That viscous, cloudy white stuff made Merlin feel a burst of guilt. She suddenly remembered she didn't seem to have taken any contraceptive measures yet.
Richie hastily grabbed a rag from the table and hurriedly wiped the dirty stuff off the chair. After hesitating for a moment, he started unbuckling his belt.
Randy also seemed somewhat at a loss. She had never made love with Richie in front of others before. Unfortunately, the current situation was not up to her to decide.
Having had one experience, the two of them could be considered adept at doing it.
The first time was not intentionally guided; Richie spent more of his mind exploring and researching. Now he began to cultivate wholeheartedly.
This feeling of dual-cultivation was exceptionally wonderful. Just now he was restrained by Miss Randy from moving recklessly, but now there was no such restriction. His hands gently rested on Randy's waist, gently pressing Randy's legs down.
His glans also kept bumping deep into Randy's vagina. Not only bumping, but also continuously drilling inward.
"You're being bad... ah... ah... don't do this."
Randy's mouth kept letting out exceptionally soul-stirring moans. Her hair tossed wildly.
Richie very much enjoyed this feeling. The fleshy ridge of the glans being forcefully scraped by the soft flesh at the bottom of the vagina gave him a feeling that something seemed to want to gush out.
Richie gritted his teeth to endure forcefully. In the past, he felt uncomfortable being unable to ejaculate. Now he forcefully endured for the sake of face. Fortunately, Knights could control the muscles and tissues of their bodies, so their endurance was much stronger than ordinary people's.
This feeling of wanting to ejaculate but holding it in was simply fantastic.
However, Richie also knew that if he was facing Lina, that juice-extractor woman, he probably wouldn't last a few rounds before suffering defeat.
By this calculation, being able to ejaculate was both a good thing and a bad thing.
"Oh... oh... oh... I'm going to be pierced through by you... I can't take it anymore... ah... ah... ah..."
Suddenly, Randy let out a long scream. Her body contracted tightly. In the very instant her cervix was completely pushed open, she reached climax.
This also stimulated Richie. His seminal gate loosened, and he also ejaculated like a torrent.
The feeling of release was simply too refreshing. The thick semen he had held back for a long time gushed out again and again, directly filling Randy's womb full.
Only then did Richie feel that the energy integrated into his Aura had reached its limit. He had only focused on enjoying just now, actually doing useless work for a long time.
His gaze swept towards Merlin with somewhat ill intentions.
Merlin had already prepared properly. With a soft chuckle, she picked Randy up and placed her on that bed.
Returning to Richie's side, Merlin didn't hesitate, nor did she go through foreplay. She just sat down directly. Having watched from the side for a long time just now, her flower path was already wet. So thrusting to the bottom had absolutely no resistance.
Once inside, Merlin immediately twisted her buttocks. She knew what Richie liked the most and simply proactively satisfied this little guy.
Her cervix being pushed half open, Merlin's body also couldn't help but tremble. She slightly narrowed her eyes, continuously making "hissing" sounds from her mouth, as if she was trying hard to endure it, yet also as if she was enjoying it.
Regarding Merlin's consideration, Richie felt exceptionally satisfied. If he were to find a woman to be his wife, he would definitely choose Merlin.
As soon as the two copulated, the Aura immediately circulated automatically. In the past, it was always Merlin proactively channeling Aura into Richie's body, but this time it was exactly the opposite; Richie injected the Aura back into Merlin's body.
It indeed confirmed Captain Calli's guess. The Aura integrated with energy circulated once through Merlin's body, and a small half of it was absorbed.
The reason Richie could only absorb one-tenth was because his strength was insufficient. It was like a person with a big appetite but poor absorption; even if they ate a lot of things, there was no way to convert it into nutrition.
But Merlin's absorption ability was good enough. To her, the most important thing was time, because every minute and every second, the energy integrated into the Aura was dissipating.
She clearly felt the change in her Aura. She hadn't had any growth for a very long time, but now she took a big step forward all at once. Moreover, the added Aura seemed particularly mellow and peaceful.
With joy in her heart, Merlin immediately thought, if Richie's strength was a bit stronger, if the amount of his Aura was a bit more, wouldn't the benefits she could get be even greater?
What troubled her was that it wasn't that Richie could accept however much Aura she wanted to transmit to him; giving too much would also cause indigestion.
Glancing at Randy, who was lying deeply asleep on the bed at the moment, Merlin felt somewhat angry at Richie. This little guy was always like this every time. She didn't know if this was a man's desire to conquer acting up, or an immature manifestation of a child.
If Randy was still awake now, she could have her replenish a bit more energy for Richie.
Just at this time, Merlin felt a wave of sore itchiness coming from deep inside her vagina. She knew she was about to reach climax. Likewise, she also felt Richie's glans constantly vibrating, and his penis had also swelled a circle larger. It seemed this kid couldn't hold on much longer either.
Merlin really wanted to try this feeling of both reaching climax together. But she suddenly remembered she had to teach this kid a lesson.
Biting the tip of her tongue lightly, Merlin forced herself to sober up. She stood up all at once, letting that massive penis slip out of her body.
Just now it was like being in the clouds, and now suddenly falling down, this feeling was simply terrible. But to make Richie learn a lesson, Merlin resisted the thought of sitting back down again.
She giggled and pinched Richie's penis. Her thumb rubbed against that child-fist-sized glans, making Richie maintain that feeling of being about to ejaculate but just lacking the final breath.
This sensation was truly too uncomfortable, much worse than the feeling of holding it back before.
"Now you know it's uncomfortable. Don't you think about how you treated us before? Making love is the most wonderful thing in the world, but with you doing it like this, it becomes less wonderful."
Merlin's face purposely turned stern: "When dual-cultivating in the future, stop pondering over those messy things all day long."
After saying these words, even Merlin herself found it funny. She pinched Richie's nose: "Those stinky habits of yours were all spoiled by Lina. You can't be like that in the future, and you're not allowed to spend the night in her room either."
Richie rolled his eyes. Merlin's words, no matter how he listened, sounded like a jealous main wife.
...
Ever since discovering this cultivation method was effective, Richie's life instantly became much more wonderful.
In the past, besides the three sisters, although the other female Knights were willing to sleep with him, they never wanted to make love with him in front of others. But now, when night fell, Merlin, Lina, and the three sisters would all gather in Randy's room. Sometimes Rosa would also come in and join, but her personality was always relatively lively, plus her injuries hadn't fully healed yet, so she came less often.
After being taught a lesson, Richie was much more honest during dual-cultivation and didn't dare to pull any tricks anymore. Without him pulling tricks, Randy could endure this level of sex.
Every time, she would copulate with Richie for fifteen minutes first, and then switch to another person to dual-cultivate with him. Depending on each person's strength, the time varied. Among them, Lina's time was the shortest, getting off after about seven or eight minutes. Merlin was slightly worse, needing at least fifteen minutes. The next was actually the second of the three sisters, Aileen. But the strengths of these three sisters were all about the same; although a superior and inferior could be determined, the difference was not much.
The three sisters had always been arrogant. In their original regiment, their strength could be considered upper-middle. But once they joined forces, no one could withstand them. They didn't expect that after being exiled here, they were dealt a severe blow by Lina right from the start. And now they even discovered there were people more formidable than them. The sense of loss in their hearts naturally went without saying.
But aside from loss, what was more in their hearts was expectation. They had long discovered that many people in this squad practiced high-tier Arts.
The benefits of dual-cultivation were not very obvious for high-tier Arts; at most, it was icing on the cake. But for the mid-tier Arts they practiced, it was completely different—it was simply like a complete transformation.
All three of them practiced their family's inherited Crimson Flame Aura. Its characteristic was strong and tyrannical yet not lacking yin softness. It was absolutely a very formidable Aura. If it weren't for the fact that it caused too much damage to the body, it could absolutely enter the ranks of high-tier Arts.
During the previous period of dual-cultivating with Richie, their Aura had already undergone a tempering, pushing the limit of Aura circulation to three hundred and twenty or thirty times. Now, naturally, it went without saying; before those energies were completely absorbed, there was almost no issue with limits.
What made them even happier was that dual-cultivation had no limit on the number of times. Back when Lina and Richie dual-cultivated for the first time, they cultivated for a whole day without anything bad happening.
It was exactly because they saw such benefits that the three sisters were more enthusiastic about this matter than anyone else. Others compared men to hard-working bees, flying from this flower to that flower, constantly gathering nectar. But they became three hard-working flowers, proactively offering themselves up for Richie to pluck.
Among all the people, the most considerate was Randy. Because before every dual-cultivation, they needed Randy to work hard to replenish energy for Richie.
"Why does no one sympathize with me? I'm the one working the hardest."
Seeing everyone being so considerate of Randy, Richie couldn't help complaining.
Unfortunately, his complaint earned him numerous eye-rolls.
"You working hard? It should be said you're working hard feeling good, right?"
"With so many of us women keeping you company making love, it's enough for you to feel proud. What hard work is there to talk about? You... don't mean what you say."
"Since it's hard work, why is your thing still standing so straight? It doesn't look tired at all."
"Exactly, it seems to have gotten fatter again recently. Looks like it's been eating well and raised well. This is all our credit."
"Sisters, I have a proposal. Let's give this little guy a bit of hardship to taste, how about it?"
The one who proposed was Lina. This person did what she said. The group ran to the equipment room, and when they came back, everyone had a malicious smile hanging on their face.
The first to speak was Merlin. She smiled and said: "Lina just taught us a lot of techniques. Didn't you like playing tricks on us before? Now it's your turn to taste the flavor yourself."
As she spoke, Merlin's hands felt Richie's buttock cleavage. Her head also went down, and the tip of her tongue gently licked near Richie's anus.
This move was called the "Mother Dragon Drill". Richie had tasted it before. Lina used it once, but she didn't quite like it, so she only tried it once and never did it again. Isabella and Ginny had also used it, but their technique was lacking, and being ordinary people, the strength of their tongues was simply not enough.
Richie's whole body shuddered. He felt Merlin's nimble tongue tip was truly too powerful. This intense stimulation far exceeded normal lovemaking.
To be honest, he was a bit confused. Was Merlin doing this really to play a trick, or to let him enjoy?
Although he didn't know the correct answer, he at least knew one thing: he would have a lot to enjoy in the future. Merlin was not like Lina. Both women liked making love and enjoyed the wonderful pleasure of intimacy between men and women. However, Lina cared a bit more about herself and didn't care much about other people's feelings. But Merlin put his feelings first.
This was also why he always believed that if he were to marry a wife, he must marry someone like Merlin.
However, very soon he couldn't take it anymore, because Lina also made her move. This woman's methods were not simple. Richie had experienced it before; with just two hands, she could make him feel like dying from pleasure.
She walked gracefully behind him, half-knelt down, rested one hand on his lower back, and gently fiddled with his penis with the other hand.
In just a moment, Richie had the feeling. But right at this time, Lina smiled at Randy and said: "Come over, it's your turn now. Sit on him and use the methods I taught you to deal with him. Today we'll let this little guy have a good, hearty ejaculation."
"It's best if everyone gets a shot."
The second of the three sisters said with a smile.
"How is one shot enough?"
Lina was more ruthless than anyone else. She stretched out her index finger and stroked Richie's penis twice, smiling affectionately: "If we don't have three or four shots, how could I let him off easily?"
That series of soft chuckles sent chills down Richie's heart.
The following time was as wonderful as heaven for Richie, yet as terrifying as hell. He himself didn't know how many times he actually ejaculated. The only thing he remembered was that when he got up the next day, he felt his whole person was drained, his legs as soft as if he was walking on cotton.
But looking at those female Knights, the areas where each person's legs intersected were full of viscous and cloudy white stains, a large puddle hanging there. For some reason, his heart felt exceptionally satisfied.
Those things were very dirty, and the smell was not good, but he just liked it.
...
This unscrupulous, debauched life lasted for over a month. In the last half month, Rosa's injuries had also improved, and she officially joined in.
None of the female Knights said much. It seemed everyone here tacitly accepted this kind of lustful life now. Likewise, no one was willing to fuss over the identities between them and Richie.
They were neither Richie's wives nor his lovers; they were purely just sexual partners.
The other people in the squad turned a blind eye to this. The Captain was still icy cold, and Miss Dana also still fulfilled her duties as a mentor. Only Robin became increasingly dissatisfied with Richie. Fortunately, Richie always avoided her before, and now he steered even clearer, never giving her a chance to lash out. As for Nora, she never left her room, let alone talked to people, completely lacking a sense of presence. Except during battles, the people in the squad would mostly forget her existence.
During this more than a month, everyone participating in dual-cultivation reaped significant harvests.
The ones with the fastest progress were the three sisters. Their strength had more than doubled. When the trinity joined forces to attack, even Lina couldn't handle them.
Merlin and Lina's progress was also not small, but the two of them, one after another, got stuck at a bottleneck.
Every Knight cultivating to a certain level would encounter a bottleneck. Once they broke through the bottleneck, they could become an Ace. Originally, reaching the bottleneck would require Lina two or three years, and Merlin around ten years. Now the time was greatly shortened.
But speaking of harvests, the one with the biggest harvest was still Randy. A week after consolidating her Aura, she gave herself an injection. As soon as the injection went in, there was a reaction. The power of a Knight gradually awakened within her body. When she woke up the next morning, she had become a Destroyer possessing both the powers of a Psion and a Knight.
Richie, of course, also had harvests. With so many women dual-cultivating with him, his strength improved by more than just a little. But there was also a threshold from Apprentice Knight to Knight. Not long after dual-cultivating, he encountered this threshold.
Generally speaking, a person who just became an Apprentice Knight would need two or three years to reach this threshold. But he reached this stage in just a few short months. The speed could be described as soaring like a rocket.
Richie originally thought very beautifully. If this wonderful life could continue for a few more months, perhaps he could break through the bottleneck and become a true Knight.
Unfortunately, his wish fell through.
The enemy army finally appeared on the outskirts of Glasslovar.
The siege began.
...
Rampaging on the battlefield wearing Magitech Armor was originally Richie's dream when he was a child. But now that he truly got this opportunity, he finally understood that this was not fun at all.
He hadn't rested for half a month. During this half month, there were battles almost every day. Sometimes, he had to crawl out of bed in the middle of the night to fight the enemy.
Just like now, fighting from five in the morning until now. Seven or eight hours had already passed. People were tired to the limit. The Magitech Armor was damaged inside and out, yet he still didn't know when they could stop.
The ones engaging them was an eighteen-person squad. Most of this squad wore white Magitech Armors. The lines of these armors were much sharper than the Varedins' standard "Iron Crusader" armor. They had gleaming blade helmets and particularly slender limbs. What was quite peculiar was that the chest armor and abdominal armor of this Magitech Armor were separated, with a mirror-disk-like protective plate at the joint.
When they first saw this kind of Magitech Armor, the mood of everyone in the squad was quite uncomfortable.
For a long time, the Republic's most taboo arch-enemy, the initiating country of the Norman Alliance, and also the center of the Norman Alliance—the Fransa Empire, had finally sortied.
If the Varedin Empire was just a vicious dog, the Fransa Empire was a fierce tiger. The strength of the two simply could not be mentioned in the same breath.
With the Republic's strength, they might be able to fight evenly with the blood enemy, the Varedin Empire. But against the Fransa Empire, defeat was undoubtedly certain.
Concession and compromise were games played by politicians. For Knights, all they could do was fight.
For Richie, this was already his third time facing Knights from the Fransa Empire.
With a "Mirror Reflection," he bounced back the incoming sword flash. Richie quickly inserted himself between his mentor Dana and Lina. The two of them were holding off the attacks of six people from the other side and were in desperate need of a helping hand.
The six people opposite each wore different armors and were also the main force. As soon as they engaged, both sides understood who the most formidable ones were on the other side. So they both sent out their strongest combat power to counter the opponent's main force.
This tactic would make the battle protracted. The advantage was that it wasn't easy for people to die.
And Richie acted in the role of a fire brigade. Wherever they couldn't hold on, he would step in to help.
Although his strength had a gap compared to any other Knight on the battlefield, his ultimate move, "Mirror Reflection," was simply too powerful. Except for strangulation techniques, other attack Arts were almost useless against him. Yet strangely enough, what Richie worried about the least was strangulation techniques. Ever since the Battle of Morena ended, he had spent a lot of effort studying close-quarters combat, which included various strangulation techniques. Now, whoever used a strangulation technique on him would only result in dragging him close. Once in close quarters, his strength would be revealed.
In this half month, Richie had a total of three kills, two of which came about this way.
As soon as he joined Dana and Lina's battle line, he parried left and blocked right, immediately catching all the attacks from the opposite side.
Unlike other defenders, his parries also carried reflections. Unfortunately, a defender with a unique style like him would definitely be firmly remembered by those who had fought him. So their squad had already appeared on the enemy's blacklist, and he likewise had a mark on that blacklist.
Neither Richie nor anyone else knew that the true purpose of this Knight squad appearing today was to test their bottom line.
Seeing the six enemies all step back a few paces and pull open the distance, Richie felt incredibly annoyed in his heart. He only had this one ultimate move, and before he could be majestic for long, it was broken by others.
Right at this time, he heard Captain Calli's voice in his ear: "Everyone must be very tired. I believe the enemy is just as tired as us, so now is the best time to assault. I have decided to adopt the penetration tactic. Richie, Dana, the two of you penetrate in. Dana, do a thorough penetration. Richie, after you go in, entangle them. Lina, you're responsible for tearing open the gap. Three sisters, start with the weakest person on the enemy side; kill one is one. The others, entangle your opponents as much as possible."
As soon as she finished speaking, he heard Lina shout: "Use the dual-line reflection tactic."
Hearing this, Richie felt a burst of bitterness. Dual-line reflection was a tactic they had just thought of not long ago, and he hadn't fully mastered it yet.
Unfortunately, it was not up to him to hesitate now.
With a loud shout, he followed behind Dana and charged forward. Dana became one with her lance, transforming into a brilliant lightning flash stabbing straight into the enemy formation. Along the way, no one dared to block her sharp edge.
This move was the one used by that Ace Knight when fleeing during the Battle of Morena. Many people in the squad were deeply impressed by this move, and after returning, they incorporated this move into their own martial arts one after another.
Richie didn't have this ability, but he had shield bash. His shield bash was different from the rest, incorporating some secrets of "Mirror Reflection." Once the shield bash went out, if the opponent dodged it, it didn't matter. If the opponent took it head-on, the rebounded force would be transferred by him to another shield and struck out along with the second shield bash. This second shield bash had double the attack power. If it was taken head-on again, it could be superimposed; the third shield bash would have four times the attack power.
With his physical strength at the moment, he could barely withstand sixteen times the shield bash force. But so far, he had never met an opponent who allowed him to superimpose the shield bash four times.
The Knights opposite weren't quite clear about this move. After all, this move looked exactly the same as an ordinary shield bash. Only those who tasted the difference would know. So a heavy defender immediately stepped up to block.
Only a loud "clang" was heard. The two giant shields crashed fiercely together. With one collision, Richie immediately spun away like a top.
Another "clang" accompanied a massive shock. Cracks appeared on both shields simultaneously. Before that heavy defender could react, Richie's third shield bash had arrived.
This time the collision sound wasn't as loud. Just as they collided, the shield opposite shattered, and the arm behind the shield shattered simultaneously.
No one could withstand a four-times shield bash.
But to Richie, the most important thing was that he had successfully charged into the enemy formation.
To reduce the area susceptible to attacks, he quickly stuck close to that heavy defender with the broken arm.
That heavy defender was also considered a highly skilled expert. He just suffered a big loss because he wasn't familiar with Richie's "Mirror Reflection." When really fighting, he actually wasn't inferior to him.
The two were engaged in close-quarters combat.
Richie had specially studied this, so his moves were profound and his strikes clean. Because the heavy defender's strength was a notch higher than Richie's, plus the advantage of thick armor, the two fought to a draw.
Unfortunately, Richie wasn't here to duel. He found an opening, suddenly dodged away, and instantly appeared to the rear side of the enemy formation.
Right at this moment, an invisible wave rolled towards him.
This was the second form of the Battle Wave.
Richie gritted his teeth, and "Mirror Reflection" struck out straight.
He and Lina had tried this move over a dozen times, and the success rate was only half.
With a soft "buzz", the Battle Wave was actually successfully rebounded by him.
The few Knights closest to Richie were instantly shattered into bloody mud by the rebounded Battle Wave. But the Magitech Armor on the outside showed no scars at all.
This was dual-line reflection, rebounding the attack Arts unleashed by one's own people.
Just now when Richie charged into the enemy formation, the others weren't idle either. Lina had already been preparing for this strike early on. To buy time for her, Merlin had also charged into the enemy formation at the first possible moment.
This somewhat disrupted Calli's plan and was a bit too risky, but the effect looked excellent.
The six most formidable people on the opposite side were directly killed by three in this round of lightning-fast quick attacks, and the arm of one defender was crippled. Moreover, with Dana blocking the rear, even if someone wanted to retreat, it would be very difficult to do so.
Those Knights on the enemy side also seemed to understand this. In almost an instant, they made a decision.
Four Knights suddenly seemed to go crazy, charging separately towards Dana, Richie, Lina, and Calli. The others turned and fought their way to flee.
"Careful, it's Instant Burst Aura. They are planning to put their lives on the line."
Without Calli needing to warn, Richie could also tell that these four people looked a bit off, their speed terrifyingly fast.
One of them arrived in front of him in the blink of an eye.
This Knight used a two-handed giant axe. The axe was as fast as a light Knight sword. What was even more terrifying was that the axe flash was several meters long.
He blocked completely subconsciously. He only heard an ear-piercing collision sound, and a massive force transmitted over, throwing him straight out.
While his body was still flying in mid-air, he saw his opponent had already closed in like a ghost. That speed was simply not something a human could achieve.
This time the axe slashed down at his waist.
Another collision sound, and Richie was violently smashed onto the ground.
His reaction was considered swift. Rolling on the spot, he rolled directly to the foot of that Knight.
That Knight hesitated for a moment. His giant axe was not a dagger; it was completely useless against a close-range enemy. He didn't have much time. Once Aura was converted into Instant Burst Aura, if he couldn't finish off his opponent within fifteen minutes, he would never have another chance.
The giant axe was thrown far away. That Knight was also a ruthless character, actually engaging in close-quarters hand-to-hand combat directly with Richie. His speed was like lightning. Although the sudden surge in speed made his movements appear exceptionally uncoordinated, the speed itself already made up for all flaws.
In just a moment, Richie felt flustered and frantic.
More and more scars appeared on his Magitech Armor, and his hands and feet gradually began to turn numb.
Suddenly, a heavy punch struck his helmet. Richie only felt pitch black before his eyes.
Right at this moment, he heard a piercing sound of something tearing the air.