I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

Hirose Domain, Sakakibara Sword House.

"Ha..." Mikami slumped on the edge of the dojo, "I'm so tired... I don't have any strength..."

Ogata, who was sitting next to him, also smiled at this time and echoed:

"Me too... I can't move anymore..."

After people from the Ishikawa Sword Gym raided their Sakakibara Sword Gym a few days ago, many of their Sakakibara Sword Gym disciples were seriously injured.

And Ogata's younger brother, Makino, was one of those people who were seriously injured.

Because Makino is still recuperating in bed until now, Makino has not been able to come to the dojo to practice sword these days.

Therefore, Ogata's most frequent training partner in the past two days became his senior brother—Mikami.

In order to improve the level of "Nugo Two Swords Style" as soon as possible, Ogata "tortured" himself every day for the past two days.

Even though he has "tortured" himself in this way, Ogata's "Selfless Two Swords Style" has not yet been upgraded.

There is still 130 experience points short of the upgrade.

There are many reasons why it has not been upgraded yet.

On the one hand, the reason is that the experience points required to upgrade the "Wuwu Two Swords Style" are unknown-quite a lot.

To upgrade the "Wuwu Two Swords Style" from level 1 to level 2, Ogata needs a full 300 experience points.

Another reason is that Ogata did not win every battle with Mikami.

When competing with Mikami, Ogata deeply realized that when fighting with others, even if his skills have surpassed his opponents by a lot, if he makes a careless move, he is very likely to lose.

Although Ogata's three attributes of strength, stamina, and vitality are still at 5, the two attributes of agility and reflexes have reached 8 points.

At the same time, Ogata's sword skill "Bird Thorn" has also reached "Advanced", which is currently Ogata's strongest attack skill.

In addition, he also mastered the two major auxiliary skills of "breath of source" and "stepping".

However, even so, when Ogata and Mikami competed, there was no guarantee that they would win every battle.

Although in every match with Mikami, Ogata won most of the rounds.

But Mikami would occasionally turn against Katsuogata for a few rounds.

And the reason why those few matches that ended with Ogata's defeat was without exception--Ogata was distracted and careless.

Just lost his mind, Mikami keenly seized the opportunity and successfully killed Ogata.

Let Ogata deeply understand how terrifying swordsmanship is.

Even if your skill has far surpassed your opponent, there is still a great possibility that you will be injured or defeated by your opponent if you are not careful.

Today, Ogata also played against Mikami many times in a row, until now both of them were out of breath and couldn't move anymore.

Although both of them were sitting on the edge of the dojo to recover their strength, Ogata was not idle.

"Hiss...ha..."

Ogata adjusted his breathing.

Gradually, Ogata's breathing changed from normal breathing to "source of breathing".

Since unlocking the skill "Breath of Source", Ogata will use "Breath of Source" whenever he is free.

Whether in combat or in everyday leisure.

The reason for doing this is purely because Ogata intends to use "Breath of Source" to do a new experiment.

Ogata intends to experiment—whether his skills can be upgraded through hard training without relying on skill points.

For the various functions and settings of the system, Ogata is basically still in a state of half-knowledge.

In the case of not using skill points, whether the level of skill points can be improved only through hard training-Ogata believes that this experiment is necessary.

But this experiment is destined to be a very time-consuming experiment.

Take the example of Sakakibara Ichidou's downward hacking technique - Mizuro.

God knows how long Ogata would have to practice Mizuro before he could upgrade Mizuro's level from intermediate to advanced.

Compared with attacking skills such as water drop and bird thorn, skills such as "breath of the source" are the most suitable for this experiment.

Because "Breath of the Source" does not require you to hold a sword.

No venue is needed either.

You can start practicing anytime, anywhere.

Therefore, the time-consuming to do this experiment with "Breath of Source" will be much shorter.

The current Ogata can only use "Breath of Source" for about 4 minutes.

After 4 minutes, Ogata's breathing will gradually become messy, and he will be forced to stop using "Source Breath".

After this period of continuous practice, Ogata vaguely felt that the use time of "Breath of Source" seemed to be longer.

Although it didn't grow much, it probably only increased by a few seconds.

Although Ogata didn't know how long he would have to practice to raise the level of "Breath of Source" from elementary to intermediate without using skill points, he was ready for a protracted battle.

At the same time, we are also ready to meet the worst result of "Under the constraints of the system, hard training alone cannot improve the level of skills".

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After the hot sweat on his body stopped flowing and his hot body gradually cooled down, Mikami turned his head and looked at the sky outside the dojo.

"The sky is already very dark..." Mikami said, "That's all for today's practice."

"Yeah." As soon as Mikami's words fell, Ou conveniently answered, "I also have that intention. It just so happens that my body is too tired to move and I'm hungry, so let's go home and have dinner. "

Ogata stood up while talking.

However—at this moment, a hurried figure rushed into the dojo.

Because the footsteps of this hurried figure were too loud and too fast, which attracted everyone's attention. After this figure rushed into the dojo, Ogata and others in the arena immediately followed the prestige.

After seeing the appearance of this figure clearly, Ogata raised his eyebrows: "Master?"

The person who rushed into the dojo in a hurry was none other than Ogata and the others' master, Hanbei Sakakibara.

After entering the dojo, Hanbei turned his eyes anxiously, looking for someone in the dojo.

Because it's a bit late now, not many people are practicing swords in the dojo.

Therefore, Hanbei quickly found the person he was looking for.

"Ogata!" Banbei hurriedly rushed towards Ogata, and said anxiously, "Something has happened!"

"Master, what's the matter?" Ogata asked suspiciously.

"Just now, the elders of the family suddenly summoned me and Ishikawa Bingma." Banbingwei said in a deep voice, "The elders of the family asked us to advance the time for the god sacrifice competition!"

"Advance the time for the god-sacrificing competition?!" Mikami, who was standing next to Ogata, was the first to exclaim after hearing Hanbei's words, "Master, when will it be brought forward?"

Hanbei gritted his teeth: "Tomorrow! Advance to tomorrow morning! This year's god competition will be held tomorrow morning!"