Chapter 370: The Practice Trial... Part-2.

Chapter 370: The Practice Trial... Part-2.



[Sword Intent!]

[Elemental Sword Art: Stone Type: Stone Deflection!]

After facing the traps lots of times, Rio slowly got used to the timing of those spear attacks, and with his base stats at the level of an early SS ranker, he was finally able to figure out the perfect reaction time for those traps.

His adaptability is not weak after all, no matter If they are traps, those spears are also weapons after all; with his sword aptitude, he can figure out their speed, trajectory, and various other things after seeing them so many times.

Thus, instead of letting the attacks keep falling on him, Rio was now going to use the stone- type technique to deflect the spear.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

But you don't get good results all the time after all.

*Crack!*

Rio's sword cracked and broke into two when he tried to deflect that spear, and the spear didn't even change its trajectory in the slightest, directly piercing right through his head. If not for the shadow robe, Rio would have died 37th time just now.

'I have the shadow robe, which is enhanced by miasma and sword intent; otherwise, even I wouldn't have dared to venture in this place...'

'Wandering here is just too risky...'

The robe can only help Rio ignore a maximum five attacks at a time; if there's a trap that launches six or more spears at him all at once, Rio will not be able to rely on the shadow robe to survive.

The robe consumes his own mana to maintain its functionality after all.

The same is true with his sword; it's a formless weapon, and it maintains its form according to how strong Rio's own mana control is.

When the spear hit it, it broke into two, and then Rio had to spend mana to make it take the same form again.

The spear attacks are too strong; they are at the level of an SS-ranker; there's no way that this sword can handle such attacks at Rio's current rank.

Rio needs to reach at least rank 'S+' before he can take on such strong attacks, and this on the basis that he is using 'sword intent'.

If he stops using 'sword intent', he would need to have mana control of an SS-ranker to make the sword strong enough to contend with the attacks of another SS-ranker.

Rio has collected quite a few amazingly powerful items, but these items have limits too.

[Man, you are very courageous... You are taking too big of a risk right now...]

[If it was me, I would have just sat down in that dark room and would have waited for someone to come and rescue me...]

[It would have been even better if Lia was the one to rescue me~]

Hearing Shadow's words, Rio shook his head.

'I have never been so dependent on others, sitting around in wait for someone to come and save me? That's not my kind of thing...'

[As I thought, you are just too stubborn... You don't want to show yourself as weak in front of Lia and the other's, right?]

'You talk too much, don't you think?'

[Tch, forget it... just don't get yourself killed; we haven't even married yet afterall...]

Ignoring his words, Rio pointed the tip of his sword on the ground and tried a new technique that he came up with right now.

[Sword Intent!]

[Elemental Sword Art: Miasma Type: Empty Stance!]

[Miasmic Field!]

Rio enhanced the miasma with his sword intent further and then spread it out in all directions, creating a small miasmic field.

[Ah, forget it, let's hurry and find the others... if something happened to Link, I don't think that frail girl Riya will be able to handle it-]

'Frail girl? Are you sure you are talking about the Riya I know of?'

[Eh? What do you mean...]

'Well, I do agree that she used to seem like a frail and weak person before... but ever since she trained under Syvis back in the Elven Empire... She has a different feeling to her...'

'Her eyes have that glow that I used to have when I first came into your body... I can see the thirst for power in her eyes...'

'Also don't forget that she's a healer; she can heal any injuries that you throw at her... Honestly speaking, I think she's the only person who I think can withstand all of my skills...'

'Not even Link can deal with 'Soul Splitting'... but that's not the case for Riya... In fact, she might be the only person in the world who is truly immune to 'Soul Splitting'...'

'If you want to worry about someone, you should be more worried about Link; in my opinion, Riya can likely survive on her own...'

Others may not have noticed the subtle changes in Riya, but Rio has an extremely powerful observation ability; he can notice the changes that happen around him very easily.

If he assumes people as 'weapons' he can easily see through their changes and flaws.

This is one of the abilities provided by his 'X' rank Sword Aptitude; he can consider everything in the world as a sword and can use it as a medium for sword intent.

Right now, Rio knows more about all the members of team Astra than they know about

themselves.

He has many advantages over them, not only as a transmigrator but also as a person with

insanely strong skills.

While maintaining his miasma field, Rio kept walking and examining all the rooms he came

across in his path.

'I have strange feelings about this place...'

Ever since he came to the dragon valley, he was feeling that something was calling to him and attracting him towards itself, but it was very vague at the start.

But right now, that feeling has become extremely strong, so strong that Rio can in fact

already feel where he needs to go next.

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Author's Notes.

Yo! It's your beloved author here!

It seems like we might know more secrets soon...

Question of the day.

Which way would you choose in this situation?

1. Work smart and make your way out of here like Rio.

2. Stay in the dark room and wait for the beautiful girlfriend to rescue you.

3. Others (Tell me in the comments.)

By the way, don't forget to use those power stones!!