Chapter Thirteen New Skills

  As night fell, the crowd who had been fighting against the giant rats all day leaned against the grain carts and fell asleep. Lin Wu came to the front of Breck's horse carriage at this time, "Captain Breck." Lin Wu said softly.

  "Oh, come on in." Breck's slightly tired voice came from within the carriage.

  As he stepped into the carriage, Breke gazed at Lin Wu with interest and asked, "How did you manage to escape from being chased by those two Level 2 Magic Beast Giant Rats?"

  When Breck asked, Lin Wu roughly told him the story, but naturally concealed some things, such as the Ghost Hand, which was absolutely a taboo on this continent.

  "Oh, you've encountered the Blazing Lion, and it scared away that giant demonic mouse. You're really lucky, kid. Fortunately, the Blazing Lion wasn't interested in you, or else the consequences would have been unthinkable." Breck sighed at Lin Wu's words.

  Hearing Breck's concern in his words, Lin Wu's hand suddenly had an extra herb emitting a faint blue glow.

  A drop of water in need, a fountain in return. This is Lin Wu's code of conduct. Blake had taught him the kindness of meeting and parting, as well as the affection of giving a knife. So when Lin Wu learned that he had the medicine to cure Blake, he didn't hesitate to take it out, even though this herb was worth 3 million gold coins.

  "This, this is..." Breck was suddenly drawn to the faint luminescence emanating from Lin Wu's hand, gazing at that familiar medicinal herb, Breck's heart began to beat violently without warning.

  That was the object that Breck's soul had been yearning for. How many times had Breck dreamed of this herb in his sleep? It was his hope.

  "Is this the Dawn Grass?" Breck's voice couldn't help but tremble slightly.

  Lin Wu nodded and placed the Chen Guang grass into Breck's slightly trembling hands, "Commander Breck, I heard that you were injured during your promotion to Great Swordsman and only this Chen Guang grass can cure it. Luckily, I found this sprout in a cave on the prairie, please accept it."

  "This, this..." Blake clenched and unclenched his fist around the dandelion clock, his conflicting emotions leaving him at a loss.

  Seeing Breck's appearance, Lin Wu stood up and walked down the carriage. As he was about to leave, Lin Wu said softly: "Colonel Breck, you have shown me kindness, this is not something that can be repaid with a single medicinal herb."

  Upon hearing Lin Wu's words, Breck fell silent. "This sprout of Time Grass is more important to me than anything else," Breck muttered.

  As the first rays of sunlight appeared in the east, the merchant caravan began to tidy up. After yesterday's baptism by fire, those rookie mercenaries started to exude an air of stability, and Lin Wu also woke up from his meditative state.

  "Bring it on!"

  "Linked thrust!"

  "Triple Slash!!"

  Lin Wu was in a spacious place, constantly practicing these 3 skills. Now that Lin Wu has the Dou Qi, the power of the Three-Section Slash can also be fully unleashed, and the special properties of the Gale Cut have greatly increased the attack speed of these several skills.

  Although it can't be compared to the power of ghosts and gods, it's still satisfying, especially the Three-Section Slash which will be Lin Wu's focus for practice from now on, because Lin Wu knows that there is a higher level skill called Five-Section Slash, which is what Lin Wu has been longing for.

  "Let's go!!" With Blake's voice, the entire caravan began to move slowly forward.

  After that mouse disaster, the subsequent journey was exceptionally smooth, and the mercenaries were in high spirits under the stimulus of triple pay.

  "Come on, you're wasting too much energy like this. You know the weaknesses of your Gale Blade technique better than anyone else - aside from speed, it's almost useless, so you need to conserve your energy. And in a fight, you need to end it quickly." Blake said while defending against Lin Wu's attacks.

  During this period, whenever he had time, Breck would find Lin Wu and continue to impart the secrets of Dou Qi cultivation. Lin Wu's progress during this period was also extremely rapid, and in the meantime, he even broke through from a low-level initial-stage swordsmen to an intermediate initial-stage swordsmen, with his Dou Qi increasing by 50%.

  What delighted Lin Wu the most was that two new skills had appeared on the skill tree, namely the Ghostly Blade Soul of Kazan and the Blood Cross Slash.

  Kazan: Summon Kazan, increasing power and spiritual force within the summoning realm.

  (In the original game it was intelligence, but here in this other world using intelligence doesn't quite fit, so I changed it to spiritual power)

  Cross Slash: Swing your weapon to deliver a cross-shaped slash to the enemy and summon a fighting spirit that also attacks the enemy in a cross shape. If you have learned the 'Bloodlust' skill, it summons a blood cross instead.

  These two skills, except for the knife soul card Kazan of the Shinto system, which cannot be shown to people at will, made Lin Wu extremely surprised. The skill "Cross Slash" can temporarily release the fighting energy in front of him, forming a wind attribute cross. Although it only lasts for an instant, releasing the fighting energy is something that even great swordsmen cannot do. It's said that only after entering the Sword Master level can one achieve the ability to release their fighting energy.

  And this Ten Cross Slash is still in an incomplete state. Summoning Blood Ten Cross is where the true power of this skill lies.

  However, the great power behind it represents a great consumption. With Lin Wu's current strength as an elementary swordsman, he can only release one slash of ten characters at most. But with this magical medicine, Lin Wu is not worried, but those medicines are used up one bottle after another, so unless it's a critical moment, Lin Wu won't use them casually. Apart from that, what's even more crucial is that Lin Wu has only just begun to understand the basics, and he still needs time to perfectly master the skill. Thinking about this being just an elementary skill, Lin Wu wonders if he can smoothly grasp higher-level skills in the future, which gives him a headache.

  The remaining Ghost Blade Card, Kazan, was secretly taken out by Lin Wu one night to test it. The blade soul Kazan that Lin Wu summoned was a 20-meter range of red mysterious array, and in the center of the array was the faint red ghostly blade soul Kazan's shadow. When he first summoned the blade soul Kazan, the red shadow actually glanced at Lin Wu lightly, which made Lin Wu break out in cold sweat.

  Kazan, the knife soul, was not a benevolent person in the game, but fortunately, except for that first glimpse, the summoned Kazan seemed to be just an unconscious phantom, standing in the magic array, Lin Wu felt his power and spiritual strength greatly enhanced.

  This is just a level 1 Kaze no Kokoro, and as the skill level increases, the increase in power and spiritual energy will continue to rise. According to legend in the game, at the highest level, one can directly summon the true form of Kaze no Kokoro, which would be truly powerful. However, this divine skill is too sensitive, unless Lin Wu wants to be hunted down by the entire continent, it's better not to use it.

  After more than a month of long-distance trekking, a huge city appeared in the distance before everyone's eyes, and all the mercenaries of the entire merchant team cheered up.

  "It's finally here." Lin Wu muttered.

  Looking at the city sprawling like a giant beast, Lin Wu's mind suddenly conjured up that beautiful figure, and the warmth flowed through his innermost heart along with that lovely shadow.

  Although this was the memory of the original owner of the body occupied by Lin Wu, when Lin Wu took over the body, he also inherited everything from him. The beautiful figure had been engraved in Lin Wu's heart, so Lin Wu unknowingly accepted all of this.

  "Zijing City, I'm here." Lin Wu thought to himself.

  Then Lin Wu followed the merchant group towards the capital of the Violet Kingdom, Violet City.