Chapter 55 : Quasi-Knight Assessment
Chapter 55: Quasi-Knight Assessment! Spirit Increase!
“Hmph roar~” The Thunder Lizard opened its eyes, glanced at the dung-cleaner who had already jumped away, then lazily narrowed its eyes again.
But two seconds later—bang!
An even louder collision rang out.
The sound was like metal striking a thick brick wall.
Leo increased his strength.
This time, the Thunder Lizard became somewhat impatient. It stared at the Human boy in front of it and slowly stood up.
“According to Lady Manta, an hour has already passed. The effect of the sedative should be starting to wear off. In another hour, the medicinal effect should be completely gone.”
Under normal circumstances, Leo would not risk probing. But now, before the sedative effect on this creature completely dissipated—
He wanted to see exactly how big the gap in strength was between himself and a Level 3 Beastkin.
The Level 2 Blood Goblin’s strength was now slightly lower than Leo’s 2.6 Strength Attribute.
And when Leo used Power of Stacked Waves, the Blood Goblin could not withstand it at all.
At this moment, Leo began probing this Level 3 giant lizard in front of him.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Taking advantage of the Thunder Lizard not yet fully steady on its feet, Leo swung his greatsword and directly unleashed a three-strike sequence of Power of Stacked Waves.
……
An hour later—boom!
The iron sword collided midair with the thick tail, sending out a shower of sparks.
Leo quickly leapt back, panting heavily as he looked at the Thunder Lizard in front of him.
As expected of a Level 3 Beastkin.
Just now, he had already executed six consecutive slashes of Power of Stacked Waves, and the practice iron sword in his hand had shattered.
Even with Leo’s nearly perfect force application technique, the practice iron sword had ultimately broken apart.
Based on Leo’s current strength and stamina—
Seven consecutive slashes of Power of Stacked Waves were his limit.
However, through this battle, Leo discovered that this Thunder Lizard was not as terrifying as he had imagined.
Its strength was extremely formidable.
But with Leo’s current base Strength of 2.6, his first few strikes could cleverly neutralize it using the Power of the Vortex while stacking sword momentum.
For the later strikes, Leo switched to Power of Dark Tide, turning defense into offense, allowing him to clash head-on with this Beastkin.
Moreover, its body was too large, so Leo’s 1.6 Agility actually became an advantage.
Leo looked at the creature’s tail—his sixth strike had already shattered a palm-sized scale.
Today he had brought a practice iron sword. If he had used Starfall instead—
It might not have been impossible to kill it.
“This thing’s sedative effect is almost gone.” Leo looked at the giant lizard in front of him. The creature had turned its head, staring at the wound on its tail where a scale was missing.
After this test, the fear Leo originally had toward Level 3 Beastkin had completely vanished.
He also gained a rough judgment of his current strength.
“My current strength should far exceed Level 2 Beastkin and be comparable to Level 3 Beastkin.”
After the intense battle just now—
【Tide Cross Sword (Blue) Third Stage 89/100 (Effect: Power of Stacked Waves)】
The experience of this sword technique had increased by another 3 points.
It was now already close to ninety percent.
At most, it would take a few more days to fully grind it to completion.
At that time, the final requirement for 【Sword Master (Not Yet Advanced)】 would also be fulfilled.
That would be Leo’s first Blue-tier Class.
Just as he was anticipating it, Leo’s ears twitched, and he suddenly heard a faint crackling sound.
It sounded like some kind of dangerous electric current.
Leo looked up and saw blue light flickering in the Thunder Lizard’s eyes not far away.
As the blue glow in its eyes grew brighter, the crackling sound of electricity became louder and louder.
“Not good.” Leo reacted instantly, jumping backward out of the cage and slamming the gate shut in one motion.
Then—crack!
The Thunder Lizard drove the bone spike on its forehead into the ground.
Several arcs of blue electricity shot out, flashing across the ground and ultimately surging along the iron bars of the cage into the ceiling.
“Heh.” Leo knew this creature could use an electric blast.
It was recorded in the Beastkin Compendium.
He had long been on guard against this.
The Thunder Lizard had remained silent just now, intending to give this detestable dung-cleaner a sudden deadly strike.
But it had not expected to miss.
Now it was furious, letting out a low growl.
Its thick tail lashed wildly against the cage door.
“I’ll come back to find you another time.” Leo locked the cage and left directly, leaving behind the Thunder Lizard venting its rage inside.
“Today’s sword training was thorough. I’ll rest well tonight and casually take the assessment tomorrow.”
Just as he was about to leave coolly, Leo suddenly remembered something.
He quickly pushed over a small wheelbarrow from afar—he had almost forgotten his main task today: cleaning dung.
Leo swiftly loaded the excrement onto the cart. “Better clean it properly, or Lady Manta will deduct my pay.”
……
Time passed in a flash, and soon it was the day of the assessment.
According to the announcement, the Quasi-Knights’ year-end assessment was scheduled before that of the Knight’s Squires.
After breakfast in the morning, the Quasi-Knights gathered at the training grounds to prepare for the assessment.
The Knight’s Squires’ assessment was arranged for the afternoon.
At this moment, the training grounds were already crowded with people.
These Quasi-Knights had arrived early after breakfast.
However, due to the pressure of the assessment, almost no Knight’s Squires came to watch.
Only Leo—today, he had moved his training spot to a watchtower fifty meters away from the training grounds.
Through a free horse maintenance service, Leo had built a good relationship with the watchtower captain.
Thus, he was able to climb to the top of the watchtower and observe the Quasi-Knight assessment from afar.
Before the assessment officially began, Leo made use of the fragmented time to open 《General Knowledge of Alchemy》 and continue reading.
During this period, Leo had used his spare time to read through four-fifths of this book, which was wider than a palm.
It had to be said—being an Alchemist was truly not easy.
Just reading through this basic book once already took so much time.
Moreover, the content was dry, filled with various medicinal terms and specialized processing techniques.
For someone like Arthur, reading even two pages might be torture.
But for Leo, the process of reading itself was also a form of training.
He enjoyed it tirelessly. Not only did he gain knowledge, but there was also an unexpected bonus.
Just yesterday, his Spirit Attribute had quietly increased by 0.1 without him even noticing.
If Leo had not always had the habit of checking his panel, he might have overlooked this small change entirely.
Now, Leo’s Spirit Attribute had reached 1.5.
This was the first time since arriving in this world that his Spirit Attribute had increased—aside from improvements gained through the 【Mount Control】 skill.
Although it was only 0.1—
The significance behind it was enormous.
This meant that Leo could increase his Spirit Attribute through studying and reading.
“However, this 0.1 increase might not just be due to these past half-months of study. It could also include the accumulation from previously memorizing the Knight’s Code, or even—thinking further—perhaps it includes the accumulation of the original body before I transmigrated.”
Additionally, in the current unadvanced class section—
【Beast Tamer】 (Green)
Advancement Requirements:
1. Spirit Attribute reaches 1.6, current 1.5 (not met)
2. Agility Attribute reaches 1.1, current 1.5 (met)
This class only lacked 0.1 Spirit Attribute to meet the advancement requirements.
“Just 0.1 more.”