Chapter 45: Aspiring to Become a Master of Arms
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Success! The undead truly ignored me!
Watching the undead charge at my teammates only to have their heads torn off in just a few moves, Li Rui was overjoyed.
This method actually worked. So those undead left in the cave… hehehe!
“Li Rui!” Paul called out, then tossed a skull at him. “Here’s the undead you wanted!”
Li Rui was still fantasizing about how many great attributes he could get by clearing out all the undead in the cave below when suddenly a skull with glowing green eyes flew toward him, causing him to fumble.
As he caught the skull, one of his fingers accidentally slipped between its teeth.
But to his surprise, the skull did not bite him. It didn’t move at all, allowing Li Rui to steady it.
Then, in front of it, Li Rui removed the “Soul Flame” attribute.
The undead felt betrayed.
“Crack, crack, crack…”
“Liar!”
“Food!”
“Liar…”
Not only did its jaw open and close wildly, making its teeth clatter, but its soul flame also sparked continuously, radiating waves of spiritual energy outward.
However, Li Rui had already removed the “Soul Flame” attribute, so no matter how much it cursed, it could no longer hear him.
After taking the skull, Li Rui wasted no time and threw it to the ground. Then he raised his axe-gun and, with strength from both arms and waist—
“Crack!”
The sound of bones breaking rang out. The two balls of soul flame in the skull’s eye sockets shattered like bone fragments, flying out of the cranium, then fell to the ground and quickly dissipated.
The long-awaited lottery wheel appeared before Li Rui’s eyes.
Perhaps because the undead had no flesh, their lottery wheel contained only blue and gray sectors, with about 60% gray and roughly 40% blue.
Li Rui focused his mind and spun!
“Blue! Blue! Blue…”
Since pulling the Ice Demon Rabbit and the undead previously, he was convinced of one truth:
The best attributes must be in the blue zone!
The wheel whirled and finally stopped on…
Blue!
“Yes!”
As the pointer transformed into an arm reaching into the swirling blue mist of the wheel, Li Rui immediately sensed about seven or eight small orbs.
After weighing their sizes, he chose the largest one.
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He examined the attribute he drew.
“Soul Infusion: You can scorch an object with soul flame. The burned object will not be damaged but will be infused with your soul’s aura. From then on, within your perception, it becomes extraordinarily conspicuous.
The soul aura on the object gradually fades over time.”
Li Rui pondered: “Hmm… so next time after swimming at the public pool, I won’t have to worry about losing my slippers?”
His teammates, seeing him smash the undead’s skull, suddenly looked thoughtful and asked, “Li Rui, how is it?”
They all knew Li Rui could kill undead to grow stronger and couldn’t help but speculate.
“Can you summon skeleton soldiers now?”
“Or shoot bone spikes?”
“Maybe control souls?”
Watching his teammates excitedly discuss, Li Rui couldn’t bring himself to say, “I’ll never lose my stuff again,” so he quietly turned and said, “Don’t move from here. I’ll go lure some undead for you.”
…
A few minutes later.
“Crack!” Another undead skull shattered.
“Spin!” The wheel spun rapidly.
“Come on, give me something good!”
This time, the pointer landed on gray.
Li Rui felt a little disappointed.
He had drawn gray twice before: once “Jay’s Universal Language Memory” and once “Goblin’s Birth Memory.”
Since meeting Paul and the others, “Jay’s Universal Language Memory” had been useful, but unfortunately, Jay himself was not well-traveled, so after leaving Jinmai Town, the attribute was no longer helpful.
The goblin memory attribute only made Li Rui say “Oh” and marvel at the weirdness of spore goblins—then nothing more.
“I wonder if it’ll be another useless one this time.”
The pointer transformed into an arm and reached into the densely inscribed gray sector.
Li Rui thought for a moment and didn’t pick the largest orb but chose the second largest instead.
“The largest is probably the most profound memory of a creature’s lifetime, so what could the second largest be?”
If he could figure out the pattern here, he might always pull out good attributes in the future.
Li Rui thought this as he took out the attribute.
“Karl (Undead)’s Swordsmanship Memory.”
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“Come to think of it, memory attributes don’t seem to come with descriptions?”
After equipping this attribute, he immediately realized—memory attributes don’t need introductions.
Once equipped, a vision appeared before his eyes.
It was like playing a first-person game; all he saw were a pair of arms and a sword in his hands.
From the beginning, these hands practiced swordsmanship—swinging in the air, chopping and stabbing at tree trunks and scarecrows. Occasionally, a noticeably taller man appeared, correcting the movements or accepting the owner’s challenges.
Soon, the owner’s hands grew thick calluses.
The sword in his hands became like an extension of his arms, and low-level monsters like goblins began falling before his blade.
Enemies appeared again and again, repeatedly falling before his sword.
Until he encountered a mage.
When the longsword struck, a circular shield suddenly appeared on the mage, who lightly lifted his staff, and a spherical missile blacked out the entire vision.
But it wasn’t over. The next segment showed the undead facing the sword-and-shield warrior Brook.
The undead’s swordsmanship was actually more refined than Brook’s, but having lost its flesh—along with the weight and explosive force that flesh provided—its now light and insubstantial blade was easily blocked by Brook’s shield, then surrounded and smashed into scattered bones by everyone.
“Whew—”
After finishing the “Karl (Undead)’s Swordsmanship Memory,” Li Rui felt a tingling sensation in his hands.
He set down his axe-gun and light crossbow, then looked at his warrior teammate.
“Brook, can I borrow your sword for a moment?”
The sword-and-shield warrior looked puzzled but handed over his one-handed sword.
Taking it, Li Rui carefully examined it according to Karl’s memory, then gripped it backward, holding the blade close to his arm with the tip pointing upward, and used his other hand to gesture near his earlobe.
“Just right at the ear…”
His height was similar to Brook’s, and the sword’s length suited Brook’s one-handed style—so it suited him as well.
“But this sword incorporates special materials and is heavier than steel. This weight means it’s not just a one-handed sword for me but a two-handed heavy sword. So I can’t wield it like a one-handed sword or a two-handed heavy sword—I have to use it like this…”
Under the astonished gazes of his teammates, Li Rui, who had no prior swordsmanship knowledge, slowly began to perform unfamiliar sword techniques.
At first, he was a bit clumsy and occasionally froze.
But after a few minutes, the movements became fluid; the blade danced brilliantly in the torchlight!
Among everyone present, no one was more shocked than Brook.
As a dedicated swordsman, he could easily tell that Li Rui’s sword stance was even stronger than his own!
“Whew…”
After a while, Li Rui stopped and smiled brightly.
“Everyone, I might become a master of weapons.”