Second World Chapter 1847. Void Sword Saint

Chapter 1847. Void Sword Saint

Jack still had the common sword Elder Maniac gave him. He was now holding this sword as he got into a ready stance.

"Are you ready?" Jack asked.

"I'm always ready. Anytime you like," Elder Maniac replied.

Jack lunged forward and slashed. He was doing a normal slash. The same as before, he sensed no impact from his slash.

"You are still doing the same thing. Perhaps you haven't learned enough?" Elder Maniac said with a disappointed tone.

Jack didn't respond to the elder's criticism. He was contemplating. He expected his slash to fail. He was doing it to understand the true nature of Elder Maniac's defense mechanism. After being aware of the existence of the hypers.p.a.ce inside this trial, he could sense what was truly going on during his slash.

To confirm a theory, he made another attack. It was a thrust now instead of a slash. The tip of his sword headed to Elder Maniac's chest. He was just a bit over a meter apart from the elder. If he extended his arm, the length of his sword should pierce the elder's body and go out the back. Yet, the tip of his sword never touched the elder's body. It remained an inch away from the elder's body, even after he had fully extended his arm.

What the elder did was reverse what Jack had done earlier to the hypers.p.a.ce. While Jack shrunk the hypers.p.a.ce to cover the distance between him and the elder maniac, the elder expanded the s.p.a.ce and made the distance between him and Jack's sword farther than it actually was.

No matter how many times Jack slashed, his swords would never touch Elder Maniac. This was because there was a vast expanse of parallel s.p.a.ce separating him and the elder.

"You are manipulating the s.p.a.ce around you," Jack said.

Elder Maniac grinned after hearing Jack's words. "Good. Now, what are you going to do about it?" He asked.

Jack didn't answer. He took a step back and closed his eyes. As he did, his mana spread out into the hypers.p.a.ce. He could sense the elder also had his mana over this hypers.p.a.ce. Their mana vied for dominance over the parallel s.p.a.ce.

This went on for some time. If someone saw the two, they would just see two people staying still like statues. But behind the scenes, a mental war was raging between the two inside the hypers.p.a.ce.

The elder's mana was immense, but Jack's was no pushover. His diligent training had brought his mana manipulation to an extreme height. He was also backed by his mana affinity talent. Combined with his technique of camouflaging mana, he slowly overpowered the elder's mana and exerted dominance over the hypers.p.a.ce.

He made his slash.

He was not even close to the elder when he did the slash. His sword was physically away from Elder Maniac. But when he completed his slash, a clear cut appeared in the elder's tunic. Behind the cut tunic, a red line was seen on Elder Maniac's skin.

Jack opened his eyes then.

Elder Maniac was looking at him with a smile. "Very good, my successor. I'm glad someone as talented as you is the one who bears my legacy. From now on, you will be the next Void Sword Saint."

At the same time, Jack heard a notification, "Congratulations on pa.s.sing the trial. Your Brave Swordsmaster cla.s.s has changed to Void Sword Saint."

"Success!" Jack clenched his fist and made a victory pose.

He then noticed the Elder Maniac was still there, looking at him with a weird expression.

"Ehehe, I was just getting excited," Jack said awkwardly.

"Anyway, my task here is done. When you wish to leave, you can use the void s.p.a.ce to leave."

"The void s.p.a.ce?" Jack asked.

"It's the other s.p.a.ce we did battle earlier," Elder Maniac answered.

'Oh, the hypers.p.a.ce, Jack thought.

"I will take my leave. Congratulations again for pa.s.sing the trial."

"Wait! Does this void s.p.a.ce exist outside?" Jack asked before the elder disappeared.

"No, void s.p.a.ce only existed in this trial s.p.a.ce to help the successor of Void Sword Saint understand the fundamentals of s.p.a.ce."

"I see." Jack was disappointed but not surprised. If the hypers.p.a.ce existed, he would have sensed its existence at one point in time. This meant he couldn't use it to cover vast distances or stop attacks as the elder did. It would be cool if he could, but also game-breaking. He understood why Chris only limited the hypers.p.a.ce in this trial.

"If there is nothing more, I will leave now," Elder Maniac said.

Jack gave the elder a polite bow. "Thank you, elder, for your trial and guidance. I will not disrespect your legacy."

Elder Maniac nodded. He then vanished. Jack was all alone now in this pitch-black trial s.p.a.ce.

He closed his eyes and sent his attention into the hypers.p.a.ce again. There was now a kind of gate at the center of the hypers.p.a.ce. He supposed that would be the exit. But before he exited this s.p.a.ce, he wanted to check his new cla.s.s first.

It was a pity that he lost the Brave Swordsmaster cla.s.s. He was rather fond of its skills. He could no longer use Brave Slash, Swords of the Brave, Dances of the Brave, and Realms of the Sword G.o.d. There was still one more skill for this cla.s.s when he reached level 90. He guessed he would never find out now.

He opened his status page and went to the cla.s.s section. He also lost all the pa.s.sive skills from Brave Swordsmaster but received new ones from Void Sword Saint. As a first-cla.s.s special cla.s.s, Brave Swordsmaster gave four pa.s.sive skills. The Void Sword Saint gave Jack five pa.s.sive skills.

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Strength, Dexterity, Reflex +20%.

Damage, attack speed, critical chance, and critical damage using sword +20%.

5% chance for attacks using swords to ignore 50% defense.

2% chance for attacks using swords to bypa.s.s protective skills or spells.

The range of all sword skills +25%