Elementary Speed, With the Force of a Cheetah (Asking for Follow-up Reads)

[Elementary Speed], with the force of a cheetah! (Asking for Follow-up Reads)

Levi did not know if he was the only one who possessed two Seeds of Life, but even if such people existed, there definitely were not many.

After the excitement passed, Levi opened the Proficiency Panel: Levi—

Frost Wolf Breathing Technique: Fourth Order (Limit), special effect: Elementary Speed...

"Hm? It hit the limit at just Fourth Order? As expected, a crude-level breathing technique is just inferior."

Levi suddenly felt somewhat disappointed. Now he finally understood how important a good breathing technique was.

For the Black Snake Breathing Technique, the Fourth Order was only the beginning of the road to becoming a Formal Knight. There was still plenty of potential to tap into later.

But for this Frost Wolf Breathing Technique, the Fourth Order was both the beginning of becoming a Formal Knight and the end of the knight's path.

For now, there was no way to break through this limit.

This was the upper limit of the technique itself, and Levi had no way to solve it for the time being.

So Frost Wolf Knight, at best, had only Low-Rank Knight strength, unless he switched to another breathing technique.

"Still, now that I have Elementary Speed, cultivating it wasn't a waste."

Levi murmured to himself.

[Elementary Speed: Your attack speed, movement speed, reaction speed, and other agility-related attributes are three times the human average standard. You can more easily dodge certain attacks from enemies.] "Three times the speed of an ordinary person. Not bad. I'll test it out later." Levi pondered that this special effect sounded pretty good from the introduction, and he had achieved his original purpose in learning this breathing technique.

He looked at his other skills again. The Black Snake Breathing Technique and Golden Cross Slash were still a long way from breaking through, so there was no hope in the short term.

Because he had been busy digging tunnels and cultivating over these three months, his Forging skill had been somewhat delayed. Otherwise, Forging should have reached the Fourth Order by now, which had directly caused his armor output to drop compared to before.

But there was nothing he could do about that. Levi only had twenty-four hours in a day, and he still had to eat, drink, relieve himself, and sleep. It was impossible to take care of everything.

"Once I grind Forging to the Fourth Order, I'll sell another batch of armor, save up eight hundred Gold Coins, and then go out." Levi thought to himself. After all, Forging was about to reach the Fourth Order, and he also very much wanted to see what special effect Fourth Order Forging would have.

After returning to the castle through the tunnel, Levi brought Knight Fred to an open space. He planned to first test the effect of the special effect [Elementary Speed] he had just obtained.

This test would cover running speed, attack speed, reaction ability, and several other aspects, so that Levi could gain a preliminary understanding of his current strength and avoid any disastrous mishaps in actual combat caused by misjudging his own abilities.

Running speed was the easiest to test. Levi first measured out a track of around a hundred meters. Then he leaned forward, the muscles in his legs bulging, wisps of white steam spreading from his pores and even giving off faint hissing sounds of vapor.

Bang.

In his heart, Levi fired the starting gun for himself.

Boom! He shot out in an almost phantom-like posture, his whole body like an arrow loosed from the bowstring.

Knight Fred looked at Levi and was slightly startled. Even from the perspective of a Mid-Rank Knight like him, Young Master Levi's explosive speed was by no means ordinary.

Five breaths, roughly five seconds.

Levi had already run a hundred meters away.

A hundred meters away, Levi was panting, but he soon returned to normal.

"A hundred meters, five seconds!"

"That's too ridiculous."

Levi was somewhat shocked.

One had to know that he vaguely remembered that when he was in university in his previous life, the passing time for the hundred-meter sprint was 14.9 seconds, and a perfect score was 12.5 seconds.

He was not sure what the average running speed of ordinary humans in this world was, but because of malnutrition, aside from a small number of knights, overall, they were most likely inferior to those in his previous life.

One had to know that even an ultimate sprinting genius like Bolt, a monster from his previous life, had constantly broken the world records he himself set, and the record was only 9.58.

And looking across the entire mammal kingdom, in the field of sprinting, only a few animals such as cheetahs ran faster than him. However, a cheetah's endurance was definitely inferior to his. Limited by its underdeveloped heat-dissipation system, it was difficult for a cheetah to maintain that kind of extreme running state for more than a few minutes.

As for him, although his speed was still a little slower than a cheetah's, he estimated that he could maintain that extreme state just now for about ten minutes.

"Too strong. This is only a crude-level breathing technique, yet cultivating it to the limit brought such a powerful effect." Levi was excited in his heart.

"If I can find an excellent-level, or even perfect-level, speed-type breathing technique and cultivate it to the limit, how fast would I be?"

"All right, all right, stop fantasizing. Continue testing."

Next, Levi planned to test his attack speed and his movement technique's dodging ability.

As the saying went, in all the martial arts under heaven, nothing was indestructible—only speed could not be broken!

The Frost Wolf Breathing Technique was precisely such a speed-type breathing technique that trained agility and flexibility in many aspects.

"Fred, you may now spar with me using your full strength. There is no need to worry about injuring me anymore. I want to see just what level my true strength has reached now, and where my limit lies!"

Levi looked full of confidence as he spoke to Knight Fred.

"Young Master, you said it yourself," Knight Fred said with a smile.

"Come on, attack me with everything you've got!" After Levi finished speaking, he drew his sword from its sheath. Frostmourne was ready! "All right. If you can't hold on, Young Master, call for a stop."

Knight Fred's expression turned solemn. He drew his own Dawnbreaker!

Then he attacked Levi.

Knight Fred did not use Golden Cross Slash. That sword skill was a pure killing move. What he used was Basic Swordsmanship.

Levi also used Basic Swordsmanship.

The two Formal Knights darted and shifted around the open space. At times their attacks poured down like a wild storm, and at times both sides each dodged away and faced off steadily.

Clanging and banging rang throughout the castle.

Before he knew it, Levi had already exchanged several hundred moves with Knight Fred. The two sides seemed evenly matched, with no clear winner.

"Fred, please do not go easy on me. In a real battle, the enemy will not go easy on me," Levi said seriously.

Fred smiled wryly. "All right, then. But I am almost at my limit as well. Young Master, your strength is not much different from mine as a Mid-Rank Knight."

Then Knight Fred suddenly exerted his strength. The Serpent Vulture Breathing Technique he cultivated was also proficient in speed, and its speed was even greater than Levi's Frost Wolf Breathing Technique.

The serpent vulture was a legendary bird of prey that hunted all kinds of fierce venomous snakes. It had long eagle talons, as well as footwork nimble enough to dodge the attacks of venomous snakes famed for their swiftness.

Therefore, even when Levi went all out, Knight Fred dealt with him with ease. Of course, the most important reason for this was still the difference in realm between the two sides. After all, Knight Fred had stepped into the knight realm more than ten years ago and was a Mid-Rank Knight, while Levi had only just entered it and lacked accumulation.

In the end, Fred put away his longsword, panting heavily, and sighed with emotion.

"Congratulations, Young Master. Your strength has already far exceeded my expectations. It will not be long before you surpass these old bones of mine."