One punch out.
Garen quietly felt the flow, changes, and the regularity of his own fist.
Retracting his fist again, with a swish, he struck an Axe hand blow.
He was studying a Mech combat technique, the special skill from the Crouched Eagle Talon course. The Willpower combat technique of the Eagle Stream learned in the Outer Courtyard could not be compared to the one from the Inner Courtyard. Because of that, Professor Van Doe specially taught him a type of powerful skill —— Black Wind, which could allow the Crouched Eagle Talon’s Willpower to burst forth for a short while.
This skill was the result of Van Doe’s decades of research, developing the powerful skill of Crouched Eagle Talon’s Willpower to the greatest extent. It could burst out the most powerful Willpower force through both arms in an instant. The principle was very complicated and one would need to feel and distinguish the finest vibration regularities and frequency of change to trigger an intricate chain reaction.
Garen punched out once again and made an exploding air blast in the air, like a firecracker.
“Mech combat techniques are divided into four steps: footwork, technique, killing move, and resonance skill. Footwork can influence the speed of evasion, et cetera. Technique is a conventional battle mode while resonating skill is a special battle trick. These are the strongest points of a pilot.”
“Unfortunately, it is impossible to have resonance skill without owning one’s own Mech. Without resonance skill, it is impossible to defeat Fila…”
Garen knew that the feud between him and Fila was deep-seated. Even if he did not take any action, he himself would make his move. This was an issue of sooner or later.
“The main problem now is to build my own personal Mech, so the energy machinist ability will be crucial… I can extract the materials by myself and even own a small-scale concentrated processing plant.”
Garen practiced the Mech combat technique while alternating between one hand and the other. The depth and precision of Black Wind were far beyond his imagination. Each move had to be accurate to a certain extent, or a careless, subtle error would lead to the emergence of chain errors and in the end, it would not be shaped.
The strength and uniqueness of this Killing Move also gave him great inspiration. At this time, he also integrated it into his own concept of martial arts.
“From the task I’ve agreed upon with Anda, I will be able to obtain Lamda Alloy. This type of material is used to make the main body of the Mech. The index is excellent in all aspects, and it can be considered within the upper-middle tier. After that, it’s the engine skill, kinetic frames system, and Willpower connection system. The main things are the material and engine. Everything else can be bought with money.”
Garen had worked it out. The most important thing in making his own Mech was the material and engine skill, to build up the main body of the shelf first before anything else.
These precious materials were not allowed to be sold on the market. As a medium-high-end Mech material, a type of metal like Lamda was a scarce resource that could not be purchased at all. Everyone would keep it in their own hands.
If you wanted to buy, it would be calculated in terms of millions of Universal Units.
As he experimented with the subtle manipulation of Black Wind, Garen was also constantly pondering the next arrangements within his heart.
Currently, he was aiming to upgrade his Living Secret Technique. But before the needed Red Peacock Stone arrived, he could only start with his personal Mech first. Regarding the area of energy machinist, he could only use his potential points for the time being. With a few points, he could only be considered as beginner level since he had not even reached Willpower Level One. The training method of the energy machinist appeared to be of high level. Without wanting to waste potential points, Garen intended to see whether the advancement of the Living Secret Technique could enhance this Willpower training method together.
If it could be done together, it would save a lot more resources and effort.
With the advancement of the Living Secret Technique, attaining the upgrade of the primary Crouched Eagle Talon, unnamed Willpower and the sub-Willpower of the energy machinist simultaneously and enhancing all three would be of exceptional value to him.
As for the extra potential points, he intended to use all of them to improve his body constitution and the various professional knowledge systems needed in the other aspects of being an energy machinist.
“Black Wind!!”
Suddenly, Garen bellowed as his arms trembled, sending out a black, visible flow of air. It flew in all directions and the black gas vanished within a distance of less than a meter.
However, Garen did not control it well and it almost met him.
Quickly moving sideways, he gave way to the oncoming Black Wind, but his clothes inevitably came into contact with it.
The black training clothes that he had originally put on were instantly destroyed into powdery grains that sprinkled on the ground. A metal button had also been turned into powder.
“Terrific!” Garen narrowed his eyes. “What kind of energy is this? Even metal alloys are so easily destroyed.”
Although the skill he displayed was through the steps given by Teacher Van Doe, he had not figured out the specific principles himself. After all, this thing was only produced by professors of high-end intellect such as Van Doe after decades of research. Furthermore, the scientific and technological level of this world far exceeded those of other worlds that Garen had experienced. For this kind of annihilating phenomenon, Garen was not very clear about it.
Seeing this scene, the initial him who had not been very invested into this skill was now suddenly full of interest in it.
“That kind of energy seems to be very powerful. Try again!”
Garen made an open stance and slowly started to concentrate on following Teacher Van Doe’s instructional steps. Bit by bit, he combined the vibrations, Willpower frequency and a certain amount of mental will guidance. Spirit, Willpower, blood flow and his own movements; these four parts began to gradually combine and condense into a form of invisible symbols and vortexes. These symbol vortexes began to further assemble and formed little pyramids.
A total number of three invisible pyramids, arranged in a triangle, was suspended in front of Garen.
“Black Wind!”
Whoosh…
A subtle black air flow appeared and the three pyramids collapsed at the same time, turning into a black wind, blowing towards the front sector in a fan-shaped cone.
It was billowed in an area of more than a meter before the black wind slowly disappeared.
Garen opened his mouth and suddenly, his vision went black and his body staggered, nearly falling to the ground. Luckily, he quickly reached out and grabbed the chair by his side.
“What a great exhaustion..!” he was secretly shocked. “With my current body constitution and the internal Level Five Willpower, I was actually unable to cope with it after releasing the skill twice. My body was drained and the blood loss is terrible!”
Only after a few minutes of rest did Garen ease back and recover his strength. He wanted to try to release Black Wind once more but unfortunately, without enough blood and spirit, there was no way to use this skill anymore.
In one full day, all of his interest was captured by this skill taught by Professor Van Doe. He began to diligently study it, trying to find out what the mystery of this skill was.
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The second floor of the villa
Van Doe was holding a tobacco pipe and slowly smoking it. From time to time, smoke rings were puffed out through his nostrils. They were well-formed, one linked to another, and they gave off a slight satisfaction. Sitting alone in the study room, there was a semi-transparent circular screen on his desk. The image of another person was displayed on it. He was a white-haired old man dressed meticulously in a black suit.
“Still studying the structure of Glass Fire?” Van Doe asked casually.
“Isn’t it the same as you wanting to further your Annihilating Wind?” the old man in the suit answered lightly. “These three stages of Black Wind, Death Wind, and Annihilating Wind, your Crouched Eagle Talon should have reached the peak of the Two-Moon level, right?”
Van Doe smiled.
“It’s a pity… If Crouched Eagle Talon can break through to Level Six and you use it to promote Annihilating Wind, the power will surely rise to a point of terror. The compatibility of the two is really too high.”
“You still haven’t given up after so many years, otherwise you could have reached the seventh Non-falling level,” the old man in the suit said calmly. “In those years you claimed to be invincible within two meters, the close combat of Annihilating Wind defeated the whole academy. Apart from the three big professors, no one was your opponent. But now, look at how many people who were not as good as you were, who are slowly reaching your level and even surpassing you.”
“…Do you still want to persuade me to give up?” Van Doe smoked the tobacco pipe deeply and the smoke at the end of the pipe lit up.
“I have said it too many times. I’m too lazy to say anymore,” the old man in the black suit sighed. “The materials you requested have arrived at the Inner Courtyard warehouse. You can pick them up at any time. In them are some Star Stones that I have toiled to find.”
“Thanks a lot,” Van Doe smiled. “All these years, I’ve been relying on you to help me collect the Star Stones. Whatever trouble you may have, feel free to let me know. Don’t mind it. Although these old bones of mine are not as good as they used to be, they still have some capabilities.”
“If Annihilating Wind Van Doe had no use, then no one in the Inner Courtyard would dare to say that they are still useful,” the old man in the black suit laughed. “Nothing much. Have you received the two kids I sent over?”
“Mm-hmm, they’re the last bloodline of that family?”
“Yeah… I was still a step too late… Similar to the child from the last rubble, everyone else died due to the fragments of Forbidden Mech incident… This time may really require you to go into action during critical moments. My sect’s degree of control in the radiation belt is not as strong as yours. There are a lot of variables in the radiation belt surrounding Blackboard Region recently.”
“Go ahead. Just know that my Black Flood Party will always stand behind you. Don’t worry about it. At the most, I will go to the Polar Region again to look for my seniors,” Van Doe said while laughing.
“Truly, it’s Inheriting big sects like you that are easy-going… Never fighting alone…”
The black suit old man sighed.
The two old men suddenly could not help but laugh.
“Well, this will be it. I have something to deal with here. As for those two children, I’ll be counting on you. They have good talent, which was why I chose them and sent them to you. After all, your conditions over there are much better than here on my side.”
“Got it.”
The screen was instantly turned off and the light also dissipated. It was the projection of a virtual screen.
There was still a smile on Van Doe’s face when all of a sudden, it changed and the smile on his face instantly vanished. He seemed to have noticed something.
“Just now… it seems that someone had released the force field of Black Wind? Could it be Galafil?” his Inherited Killing Move was never covered up because the difficulty of merely releasing it was far beyond the imaginations of ordinary pilots. The calculations and spirit, blood, Willpower, and movements involved required a very sophisticated coordination. Even if it were to be put out in the open for the pilots to cooperate and learn, there would be no way of releasing any bit of Black Wind force field, not to mention the substance of Black Wind.
Van Doe frowned slightly.
“Doesn’t she know that using Black Wind in the villa could easily destroy the building?”