Sorcerer Manual - Chapter 12
Chapter 12: Why Don’t You Make a Guess?
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Clang! Clang! Clang!
When the swords came into contact with each other, a sound that sounded like the clashing of steel could be heard. Felix was also a little surprised—the training sword he used was specially made with black steel ebony. Even as a weapon, it was a top-notch choice.
His opponent was only using an ordinary wooden sword, but it was actually able to clash against the ebony sword so many times without being damaged. Either the wooden sword was of excellent quality, or the opponent’s sword technique was excellent.
He believed that both cases applied here.
The moment his opponent retreated back to defend, Felix’s gaze turned cold. He raised his sword high and swung it down fiercely. At the same time, he turned his body sideways and harnessed the momentum to increase the strength of his body. From an outsider’s perspective, it looked like he was “sliding” at high speed. The ebony sword smashed down like a shock wave!
However, he missed!
Just like the previous few times, the moment he was about to hit the other party’s weakness, Sonia would use an extremely strange footwork, interrupt all her current movements, and suddenly glide on the ground. Every time, she would narrowly avoid his killer move, and then—
He turned around and saw Sonia’s calm and cold eyes, as well as the afterimage of her wooden sword!
Clang!
Felix became more and more anxious as he blocked the attack with his sword. Although Sonia had not been able to hurt him until now, he could feel that Sonia was gradually familiarizing herself with the wave stance, and the pressure on him was getting greater and greater.
Although Felix admitted that Sonia was more talented than him just now, he did not think that he would lose. Putting Sonia’s stamina aside, the advantage of his wave stance alone was enough to ensure he’s undefeated.
Sonia had obviously learned the stardust stance from “Guide to Sword Drills”. Although it sounded impressive, it was just a basic stance. Its advantage was that its foundation was solid and it could easily be switched to other stances, as well as be used to summon the three spell spirits, Sword Slash, Sword Slash, and Sword Thrust. But its disadvantage was that it was a mediocre stance.
The wave stance was a secret technique of Voslolda, and it was known for its explosive power. Thus, the “Wave Sword” spell spirit was also the type that could explode in an instant. Felix had thought that he only needed to attack continuously to defeat this genius in swordplay who had suddenly appeared.
He did not expect that, apart from the stardust stance, she had also mastered a strange footwork that allowed her to avoid several attacks that were sure to hit her. Although Felix had more or less figured out her rhythm now, Sonia had also figured out the foundation of the wave stance. It’s equivalent to shrinking the gap between them!
Apart from that, she also mastered a sword drawing technique.
However, compared to the wave stance, the instant burst of sword draw was still not quite enough. Felix did hope that she could fight him with sword draw. The recoil from the sword alone was enough to crack her wrist. But after suffering a setback, Sonia gave up directly on the sword draw and focused on dealing with Felix.
Felix neither wanted nor could afford to drag it out. Even if he dragged it out until Sonia was exhausted, it would only be a victory of self-deception.
In addition, Sonia’s beautiful body seemed to contain endless stamina. He felt that he would end up being the one being dragged down instead of her!
It was time to end this!
He did not make use of any weak spots. Instead, he took a sudden step back and assumed a stance. He let out a deep breath and stared at Sonia with eyes as sharp as swords.
“Next move, if you don’t win, you lose!” he said resolutely.
“Fine.”
In the next second, the onlookers were stunned, while Felix was furious!
This was because Sonia was holding a wooden sword high in her right hand and facing the enemy sideways. She looked exactly like Felix—she was actually in a wave stance!
No one thought that Sonia had learned the wave stance, not to mention that she had just seen it. Even if she had observed Felix’s training, it was impossible for her to learn it. Felix usually practiced his sword in the training ground, and everyone could see the details of his swordplay. But who could have covertly learned the secret techniques of the Vosloda family?
Other than the moves, there were also breathing techniques, footwork, and specific details on the usage of force in a stance. It was impossible to learn just by looking at it. Even if someone taught it, not everyone was talented enough to comprehend it. Every school of sorcery that could step into the Illusory Realm had an extremely high threshold.
Therefore, everyone believed that there was only one reason why Sonia had taken such a stance—to provoke Felix!
There is nothing more humiliating than using your moves to defeat you.
It was obvious that the provocation had been successful. Felix’s face was almost black. He said nothing.
Only Celia could not help but secretly applaud it. After using such a method to humiliate and provoke Felix, Felix could never forget her, even if he tried. I didn’t expect that there would actually be such a skilled female hunter in the first grade, who taught me a lesson too… Next, it’s time for you to be defeated and give Felix a way out. It’s time for you to agree to compete with him in the future and increase the chances of contact, right?
“You’re asking to be humiliated!” Felix shouted. He stepped forward, turned sideways, and slashed down with his single-handed sword like a whip, like a ball smashing down, like flowing water!
There were no fancy moves. The core idea of this move was to ‘break’ the enemy’s defense!
Felix stared at Sonia’s knee. He could already tell that every time Sonia used a strange footwork, the only warning would be the movement of her knee. He could predict the direction of Sonia’s retreat through her knee, and then change the direction of his sword, hoping to crush Sonia’s resistance with one strike!
However, contrary to his expectations, Sonia did not dodge. Instead, she used the same move as him: step to the side and swing her sword down!
Counter the strongest strike with the strongest strike!
Clang!
With a deafening clang, the two figures crossed each other. Everyone held their breaths, waiting for the results.
Thud.
Sonia’s wooden sword broke in half and fell to the ground.
No one was surprised by this, because they saw the One-winged Swordsman appear on Felix’s shoulder. What was most eye-catching was that its sword was made of black light—the Wave Sword Spell Spirit!
“Breakthrough on the field! There’s actually such a thing as breaking through on the field!”
“Summoning your intrinsic spell spirit in battle!”
“As expected of Vosloda!”
Ingrit went to support Sonia and consoled her, “Don’t be discouraged. You’ll be able to summon your spell spirit soon, and then…”
“I didn’t lose,” Sonia said calmly.
Everyone froze, thinking that Sonia was embarrassed. However, in the next second, Felix’s ebony sword broke and fell to the ground.
A one-winged swordsman appeared on Sonia’s shoulder as well. Unlike Felix, her swordsman was female, and the swordsman’s sword was made of white light.
“Wave Sword Spell Spirit!?”
“How did she summon the Wave Sword Spell Spirit of Vosloda? Could it be…”
“She learned Felix’s wave stance in combat and summoned it directly?”
“How is this possible…”
“Wait a minute. Doesn’t that mean she spent a couple of hours getting straight from swordplay apprentice to swordmaster?”
Everyone was stunned by the statement. Many of them had spent years without becoming a swordmaster, and Sonia had achieved what they could not achieve in just one night?
Everyone’s envy, Ingrit’s surprise, Celia’s jealousy, Felix’s complicated gaze…
But Sonia was not in the mood to care about any of it.
She stared straight at the Observer standing at the side with an expression that said, “I already know the truth.”
She asked in her heart, [Are you saying that you’re just an illusion conjured by my heart and not real? You’re just representing my inner thoughts? You’re just an illusion?]
The Observer did not say anything. He squatted down and picked up the broken sword that had fallen to the ground. Then, he picked up the broken part of Sonia’s wooden sword and gently wiped it with his hand. The wooden sword was restored to its original state, and not a single crack could be seen on the broken part.
Even after he completed such a miraculous operation, no one noticed him. Even no one noticed that the wooden sword had been restored.
He clapped and turned to walk out, leaving behind a sentence that infuriated Sonia.
“Why don’t you make a guess?”
