Chapter 119 The Realm of Mount and Blade
"Ping-pong-pong."
In the garden at the top of the great pyramid called the Palace of the Rising Sun, two three-finger-wide snow-white swords collided rapidly in midair.
A set of 65-jin bright silver armor did not affect Barristan's agile steps at all. His center of gravity remained unchanged, and his body slid back and forth. He put his right hand on his waist and only used his unskilled left hand to fight Dany.
Dany wore brown leather armor and held the sword with both hands. She moved forward, backward, and dodged left and right with almost the same steps as Barristan.
However, unlike Barristan who strolled leisurely in the garden, she was sweating profusely, and she almost used up all her strength every time she stabbed with the two-handed sword.
The old captain only blocked and did not attack her, but Dany tried her best to slash at the opponent's vital points.
On the first day of formal sword training, the legendary knight warned her seriously: "As a warrior, especially a female warrior, the first rule you need to understand is - you must be ruthless when you draw your sword, and you must hit the enemy's vital points when facing him.
Because on a real battlefield, a moment is often equal to a lifetime.
I have seen too many young and promising knights who received full applause at the tournament, but died on the battlefield at the hands of enemies who were inferior to them in strength, speed, courage, skills, armor, etc., all because he was afraid for a moment when he should have killed them."
"It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunt sword, but it is another thing to send a four-foot-long sword into someone's stomach and watch the light in his eyes gradually disappear.
Before you become a battlefield veteran like me who can send and receive freely, it is best to develop a physical memory of destroying the enemy when you see him. The fear in your heart will only urge you to act according to your physical instincts. This is cruel to the enemy, but it is better than dying of frustration." He taught her solemnly.
Although the old man regards the honor of a knight as his life, he is not pedantic at all. A pedantic person will not live to his age.
After completing the sword swinging training, the two of them practiced fighting, without the martial arts routines in martial arts novels.
In the words of the old knight: Just use the movements that you are most familiar with and most comfortable with to send the sword tip into the opponent's vital points. Under the complex battlefield situation, no one can maintain the elegant posture on the training ground.
Then the old man drew a human body structure diagram, taught her which places are vital points, where to attack will kill in one blow, and where to make the enemy lose combat effectiveness but not die. It's amazing. In this era similar to the Middle Ages, the human anatomy diagram has no mistakes at all.
The old man said: Bachelors have been experimenting on human corpses for thousands of years, and this set of "vital attack diagrams" is not invented by me. The Royal Library has a collection of many research reports of fallen scholars. After watching them, the Kingsguard of successive generations spent hundreds of years summarizing a set of the most efficient sword skills for killing people.
Well, fallen scholars are bachelors who secretly experiment on living people.
If this behavior is discovered, the city will deprive them of their bachelor status.
Dany is a surgeon. She learns very quickly and can often draw inferences from one thing. The old knight was so surprised that he exclaimed: It's just like Prince Rhaegar is alive!
It must be said that the identity of the last princess is still very useful. If she traveled through time and space as an ordinary person, she would probably never be able to get in touch with the most orthodox knight training method in her life.
Compared with Barristan, even Jorah Mormont has become a wild knight from the countryside.
The "White Knight Killing Technique" is divided into two steps. After Dany quickly mastered the key attack points, the old man began to teach her to attack the weak points of the armor.
It is somewhat different from the skills that Mormont learned from the instructor on Bear Island. Mormont uses his understanding of the armor to find the gaps that can be pierced by the sword.
In front of Mormont, the old man seemed to be teaching Dany, and seemed to be passing on the skills of the White Knight to the younger generation, saying: "It's not that the armor cannot be pierced. Last time, didn't the 9-year-old Danys rely on her extraordinary vision and skills to pierce the giant bear's forehead with her own power?
And every Kingsguard is the best knight of the time. If they don't have extraordinary talents, how can they be called the 'best'?
The armor that is perfect for ordinary people may be full of flaws in the eyes of the White Knight who has extraordinary strength, speed, and skills.
Well, even if some people are not talented, they can become superhuman with equipment.
So, for us, the skills of finding weak points are different from others.
We will combine the thickness of the opponent's armor, the key attack map, the knight's own strength, the environment at the time and other factors to determine the real flaws in a very short time."
The White Knight's method of finding the enemy's flaws is extremely complicated, and it is impossible to describe it all in words and text. Dany can only level up slowly under the guidance of Barristan, the great master.
"Bang——"
Once again, Dany's sword was knocked away. She waved to the old knight, indicating that it was over for today. Her face was flushed with heat, and she supported her knees with her hands and gasped for breath.
The White Knight bent down to pick up Dany's sword, put the two blunt swords used for training back into the weapon rack, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, your martial arts skills have improved rapidly. Half a year ago, you couldn't even swing a sword, but now you are almost at the level of 'using your arms and fingers'. Maybe in less than two years, you can become a qualified knight."
"Gudong gudong." Taking the porcelain bottle handed over by the maid Doria, Dany drank almost a liter of pure milk with a little fishy smell in one breath.
After a comfortable burp, Dany felt alive again. After half a year of high-intensity training and high-energy tonic, her height has grown a lot, almost 1.7 meters, and her weight has increased by 15 kilograms.
When in Qarth, the 15-year-old Dany was 1.65 meters tall and weighed only 75 kilograms, which was slightly underweight. Now it is considered normal.
Now Dany is tall, with long limbs, a well-proportioned body, strong arms, a stable lower body, light steps, and four slightly raised square muscles on her lower abdomen. She is a beautiful girl full of vitality.
Dany put down the porcelain bottle and asked curiously, "The realm of being able to use one's fingers as easily as one's arm? There are realms in swordsmanship? Why haven't I heard Ser Jorah talk about it?"
Barristan said as he tied his greatsword back to the buckle on his waist, "Those northerners don't pay attention to the theory of swordsmanship at all. They are satisfied to be able to go to the battlefield and kill the enemy.
In the White Knight Sword Manual passed down by word of mouth, swordsmanship is roughly divided into four realms: being able to use one's fingers as easily as one's arm, lifting heavy objects as if they were light, lifting light objects as if they were heavy, and transcending the mind, intention and body into a saint."
"How do you say that?" Dany became interested.
"Being able to use one's fingers as easily as one's arm means that the sword in your hand becomes a part of your arm. Whatever your mind thinks, the sword reaches, and every movement is extremely accurate."
Dany nodded and agreed with his statement.
She now has some ideas, a very wonderful feeling: I can accurately hit the place I see.
Just like playing basketball in college, sometimes you have a feeling that the ball will definitely go in as soon as you shoot it, and then the ball really goes into the net.
But that feeling is rare, and it is hard to appear once in hundreds of times. Unlike now, she almost always has the confidence that "what the mind thinks, the sword can reach".
"I do have the feeling you said. Are there many people in the first stage?" Dany asked.
"Not many. It's difficult for one out of 10 regular knights to reach this realm." The old man sighed, and said in a complicated tone, "Anyone who can lift a sword can swing it, but personal talent and hard work limit most people from going further."
Dany was a little delighted, and a little shocked: "It is rare to be able to use one's fingers as one's arm, how powerful will the next few realms be?"
"Your hybrid sword weighs 13 pounds, and my two-handed sword weighs 20 pounds. You may be able to use it as one's fingers as one's arm for a short period of time, but for a long time."
The White Knight raised his chin to Dany, motioning for her to look at his sweaty and weak state.
"Swinging a 13-jin sword 200 times must feel different from swinging a stick 200 times, right? But in my hands, the stick and the sword can have the same weight, that is, lifting heavy things as if they were light, and lifting light things as if they were heavy."
The old man brushed aside the fine gray hair hanging from his forehead and said, "In simple terms, when you swing a sword as easily as swinging a stick, it is considered lifting heavy things as if they were light. This state is mainly to increase combat endurance."
"How can a sword be as light as a stick? This doesn't make sense." Dany shook her head.
The White Knight looked nostalgic when he heard this, and sighed, "Someone asked this question before."
"Who?"
"Jaime Lannister!" The White Knight had a complicated expression, "Jaime became a Kingsguard at the age of 16. He had good qualifications, but his sword skills were not mature. The person who taught him at the time was the strongest swordsman, Ser Arthur Dayne."
"Sword of the Dawn?" Dany asked excitedly, "How did he answer the Kingslayer?"
"He said that lifting heavy objects as if they were light and lifting light objects as if they were heavy are actually the same realm. The key is to grasp the center of gravity, which is not the center of gravity of the sword, nor the center of gravity of the person, but the center of gravity of the person's body, armor, arms, and sword.
During the battle, the sword's edge is changing, and the direction of the sword's tip is also changing, but the overall center of gravity is almost maintained at one point.
The center of gravity remains unchanged, just like standing still, with almost no effort, and the person will naturally feel relaxed.
Lifting light objects as if they were heavy is the opposite. By adjusting the overall center of gravity, it seems that gravity is converted into speed?
Oh, I can't remember.
In short, adjusting the center of gravity can increase the power at the sword's edge. Obviously, a thin assassin's sword can also achieve the effect of a two-handed heavy sword strike."
At this point, the old man frowned, his expression was a little confused, and he didn't know how to continue.
Because he didn't understand that although he had reached the realm of lifting light objects as if they were heavy, the old knight had practiced it completely by instinct.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I don't understand what Ser Dayne said. The Book of the White Knight is not here.
Because of Jaime's question, Ser Dayne felt that the detailed theory should be recorded, just like the 'White Knight Killing Technique', for future generations to observe."
Awesome, awesome!
Super awesome!
Dany was convinced. The knight civilization of Westeros did not transition from the Iron Age to the Technological Age in 6,000 years, but the chopping skills they had trained for thousands of years had almost reached the peak of the cold weapon age.
Although Whitebeard spoke incoherently and didn't even know what he said, Dany understood what the Sword of the Dawn wanted to express.
There are two key points: center of gravity and leverage!
"It's worthy of being the Sword of the Dawn!" she exclaimed.
"Uh, did you understand?" the old man asked in surprise.
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