Chapter 593: Chapter 593: Mastering Combat Techniques

The Duke maintained a state of fighting spirit defense throughout his body, simultaneously conducting high-speed movements and attack maneuvers, testing his consumption.

He discovered that with his total fighting spirit at the initial stage of a First-level Knight, he could sustain high-intensity combat for about an hour.

The fighting spirit would slowly recover on its own, but if he actively operated the Light Divine Breathing Technique, especially in an environment like the Light God Court, the recovery speed would greatly accelerate.

After a series of tests, the Duke gained a clear understanding of his own light fighting spirit.

The intensity is at a standard initial level for a First-level Knight. In terms of destructive power and defense, it is quite good for transcendental beings at this level.

The Light Divine Breathing Technique is significantly better than ordinary high-tier breathing techniques, existing on an entirely different level.

So even though the Duke is merely at the knight’s strength, he is stronger than knights of the same level.

After becoming initially familiar with the characteristics of light fighting spirit, the Duke turned his attention to those high-tier combat technique inheritance crystals that he had exchanged using contribution points.

He was curious about the effects of driving these powerful combat techniques with pure light fighting spirit.

The Duke found an open area in the Light God Court and took out the inheritance crystal of the Sun Blade.

His spiritual power penetrated the crystal, and the methods for the operation of Sun Blade, techniques for fighting spirit compression, and models for energy bursts instantly flooded his mind.

The core of it lies in extremely compressing and transforming the fighting spirit within a very short time, simulating the heat and destructive power akin to a stellar core.

The Duke held his breath and focused, mobilizing the light elemental core within his chest, bringing together pure light fighting spirit towards his right arm like rivers converging into the sea.

Following the method, his spirit was highly concentrated, guiding this fighting spirit in a rapid rotation and compression along specific pathways in his arm.

At first, only his arm felt slightly warm, emanating a strong light.

But as the compression continued, his entire right arm seemed to transform into a semi-transparent light structure, particularly along the edges of his hand, where the light gathered as if it were solid, causing the surrounding air to subtly distort from the high temperature.

“Slash!”

The Duke let out a low shout, virtually slashing down toward a distant boulder.

Though there was no sword, the edge of his hand, where concentrated light fighting spirit had reached its pinnacle, shot out and transformed into a crescent-shaped light blade with a core unyieldingly sharp and fiercely white-gold.

The speed of this light blade was astonishing, slicing through space, carrying a silence-burning destructive intent, surging silently past the distant boulder.

A second of stillness later.

“Ssshhh…”

Where the light blade passed through the boulder, a perfectly smooth cut appeared, molten red as if gouged by high-energy lasers.

Moreover, both the fractured boulder surface and the air along the trajectory of the light blade retained a kind of continually burning holy flame, giving off a subtle sizzling sound, constantly purifying and obliterating any contacted matter.

“The power is stronger than expected!” The Duke assessed inwardly, gazing at the slowly cooling yet deeply marked rock, “The purity and high activity of light fighting spirit made the compression and transformation process remarkably smooth, and the eruptions of solar characteristics were more pure, with attached light-burn effects far surpassing ordinary fire attribute or non-attribute fighting spirit.”

[Sun Blade: LV1 (1/100)]

It could be due to his high affinity talent with light attributes and the effects of the Light Divine Status that his light attribute fighting spirit was much stronger than that of a typical first-level initial stage knight.

The direct result is that the combat techniques executed by the Duke are more potent than those of an ordinary first-level initial stage knight, on a different level in terms of intensity.

Following this, he attempted to practice the Flow Shadow Escape Step.

The key to this movement technique lies in forming a particular fighting spirit circuit underfoot, achieving short-distance extreme mobility and creating deceptive afterimages.

The Duke infused fighting spirit into his legs, constructing a complex energy circuit based on the inheritance.

When he took the first step, he felt his body suddenly lighten, as if some gravity’s constraints were removed.

With a thought, his figure instantly appeared ten meters away, leaving behind an incredibly vivid afterimage made of light attribute particles at his original spot, even carrying a trace of his own light aura—enough to pass off as real.

The Duke continuously traversed and flickered within a small range, leaving behind numerous afterimages; his whole being seemed to be shuttling through light.

Thanks to the inherent purity and speed of light fighting spirit, the trajectory during the execution of this footwork became even harder to track, and the afterimages were more deceptive. Even during extreme movement, it left a trail of fine golden light particles—gorgeous yet deadly.

[Flow Shadow Escape Step: LV1 (45/100)]

“Not bad. When combined with my high agility attributes, whether for surprise attacks or evasion, the effects are excellent.”

The Duke’s bodily attributes were inherently very high, far surpassing the normal first-level initial stage knight, so the effect of this movement technique was far better than anticipated.

The third combat technique emphasized the power delivery technique Thousand Overlapping Waves Strike, and the Duke chose a massive ironwood as his target.

He operated the heart method, converging the fighting spirit onto his fist. His first punch was fierce, but most of the force didn’t fully explode, instead hiding like an undercurrent.

Following the second punch landed almost at the same spot. This time, the force was evidently stronger, as if incorporating the strength from the first punch.

Third punch, fourth punch… the Duke clearly felt that each punch delivered wisely channeled and accumulated some of the fighting spirit, leading it into the next strike.

When he delivered the seventh punch, the light on the surface of his fist was as bright as a small sun, crashing into the ironwood, no longer a dull thud but like cracking thunder.

“Boom!!”

The massive ironwood, requiring several people to embrace, started to crack from the struck point, ultimately shattering entirely.

Sawdust flew but was instantly purified and vaporized by the holy flame encapsulated around his fist.

The power of the Thousand Overlapping Waves Strike was also higher than the Duke expected, owing to his own strong light attribute fighting spirit, coupled with his inherently powerful physical foundation.

It can only be said that with sufficient values, even ordinary combat techniques can exhibit strong effects.

Moreover, Thousand Overlapping Waves Strike is not an ordinary combat technique but a high-tier combat technique from the Knight Hall.

[Thousand Overlapping Waves Strike: LV1 (7/100)]

Finally, he tested the defensive combat technique, Undying Barrier.

He fully operated his fighting spirit, condensing a massive, tightly formed diamond-shaped shield phantom in front of him as if forged from light platinum.

The surface of the shield gleamed with splendor, emanating an unbreakable sense of solidity.

He manipulated the rocks previously used for testing to repeatedly and forcefully hit the shield of light, which remained completely unmoved, perfectly withstanding all force impacts.

When the Duke simulated an intensely strong attack, enough to breach the shield of light, a mutation occurred.

Just as the shield of light was about to shatter, it did not dissipate; instead, it suddenly contracted inward and then explosively expanded outward.

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