Translator: Shiraishi Editor: TheAlliance When Lollister was twenty, which was the sixth year he'd transmigrated to Galinthea, he met with a huge problem.
In reality, Lollister had been doing well for the past few years. He'd already become an Iron-ranked mercenary in the Mercenary Union, and was no longer a bronze mercenary who ran errands for others to make a living.
In the Dawn Academy, Lollister was a famous genius. This was because after he'd obtained the certification for his Knowledge of Magical Beasts and Potioneering specializations, he'd applied for three more specializations: Ruins Research, Archaeology, and Linguistics. After being in the Mercenary Union for a long time, he'd realized that the records of the magic civilization weren't baseless legends, but real.
Last year, Lollister and his companions had visited a small ruin that had already been excavated. It was said to be a Wizard Tower of a Magician, but the towering tower described in the books had long since been reduced to ashes and disappeared. However, the three levels underground that had been excavated were still breathtaking. The huge walls made of steel were as smooth as a mirror, and even after thousands of years, there weren't any traces of the passage of time on them. The crisscrossing lines on the ground and walls that formed complex three-dimensional patterns were the so-called Magic Formation Runes. The stone slabs that were carved neatly with strange patterns were the foundation of the Magic Formation Runes with ancient elven characters.
After coming out, his companions all dreamed of finding a ruin and gaining fame and fortune, but they all knew that it was very difficult. Most of the ruins in human territory had already been excavated, and they could only go deep into the barren forests and mountains. However, with everyone's current strength, going there was no difference between sending food to magical beasts or seeking death. It was just daydreaming.
Lollister, on the other hand, was filled with curiosity and yearning for the legendary magic civilization. In his previous life, he'd read the book 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' when he was young. Didn't he also dream of becoming a Magician? It was a pity that he'd transmigrated to Galinthea too late. If he'd been a few thousand years earlier and transmigrated to the magic civilization, he might have become a great Magician.
Dawn Academy's Ruins Research, Archaeology, and Linguistics were the best of the many academies in Morent City. Lollister decided to enroll in the next semester. It just so happened that he'd be able to obtain the certification for his Knowledge of Magical Beasts and Potioneering this year, and he was considering what he wanted to study next.
Ruins Research referred to studying the construction and construction of the ruins left behind during the magic civilization, as well as how to better excavate them and explore them while minimizing damage. Archaeology was how to identify and protect the items and objects passed down from the ruins. To put it bluntly, it was to identify what these things were used for and whether they were valuable or not. Language was the most difficult. In the Magic Era, the Ancient Elven, Dragon, and Goblin languages that Mages mastered were all full of magic power. This made it impossible for people without magic talent to learn these languages with magic power. Occasionally learning a few words was just a matter of understanding, it was just that the pronunciation was similar.
Maged Languages like these could not be passed on during the End Magic. Maging Magic is Era: The Maged - Maging - Magi: 1 Maging: Maging Mageways. Today's Linguistics could only decipher the strange patterns and words on the stone slabs that had been discovered or excavated. Currently, the greatest achievement in Linguistics was distinguishing the difference between Ancient Elvish and Gnome. As for what Dragon Language was, it was still an unsolved mystery.
Ruins Research, Archaeology, and Linguistics were related. In Lollister's eyes, there was only one meaning to these three professions. In the words of his previous world, it could be described as grave robbing. They were all similar jobs. The only difference was that this was legal in Galinthea. Discover ruins, explore them, take the items, announce the ruins, auction off the items, and gain both fame and fortune. Then, a large number of scholars and archaeologists would flock to investigate what the ruins were like and so on.
Lollister believed that once he obtained the certification for these three professions and graduated, his life would be perfect no matter if he was a research scholar or an adventurer who liked to travel. However, he didn't know that the fact that he had applied for three more specializations had made him famous in the academy. If he could graduate with seven specializations, it wouldn't be unprecedented in Dawn Academy, but it would at least be unprecedented.
To Lollister, these professions were not troublesome. What was troublesome was that his qi had already reached the peak of 3-star Iron rank and was just short of a breakthrough. However, without the Raging Flames Dou Qi, he wouldn't be able to continue training his Dou Qi.
This situation was not rare in Galinthea. Some aristocratic families would purposely split the secret manuals into different stages so that their qi or swordsmanship would not be leaked when their children went out to study. They would only provide the training method for the next stage when they reached a certain stage. However, Lollister was different. He had not communicated with his family for almost three years. The powerful Krisen Empire in the north was currently in a heated battle with three princes fighting for the throne. It was difficult to decide who would win. In this situation, he had no way of contacting his family in the north. Seeing that the war would last for a few more years, he could not foolishly wait for the flames of war to subside and think of a way to contact his family to obtain the next cultivation secret manuals, right?
Even if he could wait, his body's condition could not be delayed any longer. Sigh, how should he put it? This was his luck, but also the motivation that forced him to continue training.
A few months after Lollister transmigrated, he had accidentally discovered that this body had a special talent. It was motion vision. In short, it was the ability to clearly capture the trajectory of objects moving at high speed.
Lollister was not a stranger to motion vision. In his previous life, he had met an amazing person during his seven years in the army. It was during a drill. He had brought a squad to deal with a special forces soldier who had infiltrated the base. He thought it would be a piece of cake, but who knew that the squad would suffer a crushing defeat. In the end, he was forced to rush in with the sensor grenade and perish together with the enemy. The sensors on his body emitted smoke, indicating that everyone was dead. Thus, everyone leaned against the wall and started smoking. Lollister handed a cigarette to the other person and curiously asked him how he had dodged the concentrated fire of an assault rifle and if he could learn to dodge bullets.
That amazing person took a puff of his cigarette and straightforwardly said that he could not learn it because he was born with motion vision. No matter how fast a movement was in your eyes, it was slow in his eyes. Thus, he was always able to dodge the muzzle of the gun and was invincible in the face of the bullets. However, he did not expect that someone would rush over with a sensor grenade and put his life on the line. In a moment of carelessness, he had trapped himself in a corner and had nowhere to hide.
Lollister was so envious of this amazing person's motion vision that he was drooling. The amazing person said that there was nothing to be envious about. Motion vision could be trained. For example, pilots had to have motion vision. It was just that the training process was disgusting. Furthermore, there were many ways to train motion vision on the internet. If you had the time, you could try it out and you would know what it felt like.
The man sighed and said that his natural ability to see in motion was a great burden on his body. It was not like motion vision that was trained. Although it could not compare to natural motion vision, it was enough for a normal person.
At the time, Lollister did not understand what the amazing person was sighing about. Later, when he had the time, he searched the internet and found many ways to train motion vision. Then, he tested it out. He sat on a swivel chair and spun it around quickly. His comrade held a card with big words written on it from a distance of three meters. As he spun, he memorized the words written on the card his comrade held. In less than ten minutes, he collapsed. He felt nauseous, wanted to vomit, and was so dizzy that he could not stand. He could not even eat. Until the next day, he was still dizzy and could not walk properly.
It was said that this method of training dynamic vision would only be effective if one persisted. One had to persist until one's expression did not change and one's heart was as calm as still water. After the training was successful, one could even clearly see the faces of the passengers behind the glass windows of a speeding train.
However, Lollister and his comrades who tried this training method all politely declined. It was too disgusting and they could not stand it. Furthermore, no one thought that being able to clearly see the faces of the passengers on the train was a big deal. In the end, they gave up on this training.
Now, Lollister understood what the amazing person was sighing about.
When Lollister discovered that the body he had transmigrated into had an innate motion vision ability, he was very surprised. For example, if a fly was flying, Lollister could instantly count how many times the fly had flapped its wings. In a duel of swordsmanship, no matter what kind of lightning-fast sword technique his opponent used, under Lollister's concentration, they would all move slowly, and he could easily respond and break through them.
However, using this motion vision ability consumed a lot of his spiritual power. At the beginning, he could not maintain it for long, but as he used it more and more, Lollister found that his spiritual power had greatly increased. Now, he could focus and use motion vision to observe things for as long as he wanted. Furthermore, even if he did not use motion vision, his spiritual power was very sensitive to the movements around him. This was something he had clearly learned during his adventuring as a mercenary and when he hunted low-level magical beasts.
However, that was not the problem. The main problem was that his physical fitness and reaction speed could not keep up with the increase in his spiritual power. When Lollister discovered that he had motion vision ability, his qi was still at 1-star bronze rank. As he trained his qi, his physical fitness and movement speed could keep up with his reaction speed when he used motion vision. That was why he was invincible in the duels of swordsmanship in the Dawn Academy, invincible among those of the same rank. That was also why he was hired as a swordsmanship trainee last year.
However, now that his qi was at the peak of 3-star Iron rank, Lollister found that his spiritual power was continuously increasing when he used motion vision ability. If this continued, his body would become a burden, and his movement speed could not keep up with his reaction speed.
Last year, Lollister's performance was not bad, and the academy was very satisfied. This year, they were preparing to officially hire him as a swordsmanship trainee. However, this move made many Silver-rank trainees in the academy dissatisfied. They mocked him, and even encouraged the Silver-rank students to challenge Lollister. Previously, when he was facing a challenge from a Silver-rank trainer, Lollister realized that there was a problem with his body.
First, the Silver-rank trainer asked the Silver-rank students to challenge Lollister in the name of teaching swordsmanship. After the students were defeated by Lollister's sword, he flew into a rage out of humiliation and decided to challenge Lollister himself. As soon as the duel began, Lollister began to feel the pressure. This Silver-rank trainer was obviously not an armchair strategist. He had rich combat experience. In the duel, his swordsmanship abandoned those flashy but impractical moves. He was straightforward, concise, and fast. Every move was aimed at the opponent's vital points, and some of his moves were even at the expense of injuring himself.
Under Lollister's focus, his opponent's moves were broken down one by one. In the eyes of the spectators, Lollister was calm and composed, and he had plenty of room to adapt. However, Lollister knew that things were not going well. There were a few times when he could clearly see the weakness in his opponent's moves, but his body could not react in time. There were also a few times when he could clearly see the trajectory of his opponent's sword, but he could not react in time and was almost unable to dodge. That time, Lollister barely won after a bitter fight.
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