Miraculous Forger Starting from Honkai - Chapter 25

Chen Li was currently in a white space carpeted with rose petals.

"So I can choose what I learn myself." Chen Li finally understood.

Holding the card only gave him the basic information. It was only after using it that Chen Li learned the detailed information about the Knight's Training Card.

Activating the Knight's Training Card required 10 Starstones.

The flow of time inside the Knight's Training Card was one hundred times faster than outside.

Investing another Starstone could increase the ratio tenfold, making it 1,000:1.

Investing another 10 Starstones would increase it another tenfold, making it 10,000:1.

And so on.

Why did it cost Starstones? Naturally, because: Miracles were never free!

Within the training space, everything was both real and illusory. That was where the 10 Starstones spent to activate the card came into play.

The body was real, but all injuries and death were illusory.

Even the training process itself could be made illusory afterward, preventing mental breakdown from excessively long training while preserving the real results.

Within this space, Chen Li did not need to think about anything. He only needed to pour in sweat and effort.

The four options above were the four directions Chen Li could choose for this training session.

It only gave four options not because Argenti only had four options, but because a single card would only randomly generate four. To receive more gifts from Argenti, he would need more training cards.

After Chen Li completed his training, he could receive a gift called an Inherent Skill, which would be formed according to his chosen training direction and his specific performance.

The four options came in different colors, representing just how skilled Argenti was in those areas.

White < Green < Blue < Purple < Gold < Red.

So how he should choose among these four options was already obvious.

Of three short and one long, choose the longest. Besides, this was a red option. Of course he had to choose it!

"I just wonder what kind of Knight's Gift training in sincere praise will give me?"

But Chen Li felt it should not be limited to simply being able to casually spout pretty words.

Hopefully, it would be a rhetoric-type gift. That way, Chen Li could go deceive... go better persuade the client on the other side of the screen to let him travel to their world.

Although the character of the clients Chen Li encountered varied greatly, the worlds themselves were innocent.

After he selected that option, countless roses gathered before Chen Li until Argenti stepped out from the sea of flowers.

"My friend, it seems that our hearts truly beat as one. This is one of the training disciplines I am most proud of. I witnessed how you spread the good name of Idrila, the Goddess of Beauty. I shall teach you without reservation how to discover the beauty that exists everywhere in life." Argenti smiled at Chen Li.

"Okay... Wait, no. Did you just say you saw me spreading the good name of Idrila, the Goddess of Beauty?"

"That is correct. This training card was unlocked because you completed Knight's Training. It is only natural that I would know this information." Argenti said.

Knight's Training itself was one of the prices for summoning a knight to fight for him, not simply a reward.

Even if the other party did not care for him or refused to give him a card, he still had to complete the training.

Since they had rewarded him with a training card, it was only reasonable for the "knight" inside the card to know how he had fulfilled the agreement with them.

"...May I ask, Argenti, does your real self know about this experience?" Chen Li asked nervously.

"No, but my real self knows that you have fulfilled your agreement with him." Argenti replied.

"Then I can still be saved! My friend, quickly teach me how to make an angry woman happy again. Please." Chen Li stepped forward and grasped Argenti's hand.

"Oh, my friend, is there a woman you admire?" Argenti was somewhat surprised by Chen Li's attitude.

"No. I'm just worried Jingliu might kill me. Let's start training quickly." Chen Li said with an indescribable expression.

If Chen Li had known this, he would not have created ten Abundance prey himself before cutting down those fiends.

Chen Li believed Jingliu did not care whether he had killed Abundance Fiends, but she would definitely care that he himself could create them.

"Since my friend is so enthusiastic, I naturally shall not fall behind. Let us begin! I will recreate a street I once visited. Please find beautiful things within it." Argenti snapped his fingers, and the rose-colored space instantly transformed into a street.

Chen Li's praise training began.

"..."

A serene chill rose in his heart. Seeing Jingliu silently staring at him with her crimson eyes, Chen Li directly apologized.

"I sincerely apologize for using this method to fulfill the requirement of killing ten Abundance Fiends. Once I arrive in your world, I will kill a thousand Abundance Fiends as compensation."

After Argenti's training, Chen Li understood that sincerity was currently the only answer.

After apologizing, Chen Li secretly examined Jingliu's expression, wanting to see her reaction, but he could not read anything from her face.

"Did the effect not work? Jingliu is quite beautiful too. It shouldn't have failed, right?" Chen Li felt uneasy.

If this had been the real Jingliu, Chen Li was certain she would not make things difficult for him. Jingliu did not care how many Abundance Fiends Chen Li had killed. What she cared about more was whether Chen Li could forge a Miraculous Item capable of summoning Baiheng's heroic spirit.

But the person Chen Li faced now was not the real one.

Who knew whether this "teacher" might have other ideas?

The "effect" referred to the gift Chen Li had received after completing the training of the Knight of Beauty.

Sincere Heart: When facing a living being you consider "beautiful," you can communicate with them more effectively, allowing them to feel your sincerity and making it easier to move them with sincere words.

Chen Li called it a special attack against beauty.

A Knight's Gift would be adjusted appropriately according to Chen Li's performance. Chen Li could not regard everything as beautiful like Argenti did, but this passive ability suited him better.

Chen Li had not personally used this gift, whose definition and effect were both vague. But he knew that vague descriptions often meant a broad range of targets.

"You want to learn my swordsmanship, correct?" Only when the silence had become so deep that Chen Li did not know what else to say did Jingliu, standing across from him, slowly speak.

"Yes." Chen Li nodded.

It was not that Chen Li wanted to learn Jingliu's swordsmanship. It was just that among the four options Jingliu had offered this time, swordsmanship was the only thing he could learn.

Swordsmanship (Gold)

Battlefield Commander (Blue)

Morale Boost (Purple)

Self-Discipline (Purple)

Which of these four options to choose was obvious, wasn't it?

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Jingliu's 998:1 Casualty Ratio Could Not Hide Her Decline!

From these four options, it was clear that Jingliu was not skilled at commanding troops in battle. She had become Sword Champion purely because she was strong enough to fight, and that alone could keep morale high.

That was how it was for someone strong enough to fight. As long as you could fight hard enough to kill everyone on the other side, you did not even need morale!

If Jingliu truly had the talent to be a commander, she should have become a general.

Yet even this swordsmanship was only gold, which also proved that Argenti's sincere praise and Sincere Heart were indeed rather beyond comparison.

Whether Jingliu's swordsmanship was strong was objective. Whether Argenti's praise was sincere was subjective.

"If you wish to learn my swordsmanship, I shall teach you." Jingliu said softly.

"Thank you very much, Miss Jingliu. Oh, no, Teacher."

"I have two ways to teach swordsmanship. Do you want the fast method, or the fast method?"

"Fa... Wait, did you actually give me a choice?"

"Alright, you chose the fast method, correct? Here." Jingliu nodded, then tossed the Scattered Light Sword to Chen Li.

"What is this for? Training equipment?"

"That is correct. Now, take it and kill me." Jingliu smiled for the first time.

But the more Chen Li looked at that smile, the more unhinged it seemed.

"Damn, Teacher Jingliu, has your spicy konjac addiction flared up?"

"Hahaha! What spicy konjac? I do not know. I only know that I am going to teach you swordsmanship the fast way! Come, kill me. Otherwise..." A sliver of moonlight seemed to appear in Jingliu's hand. In an instant, a longsword condensed from solid ice was raised before her, its tip aimed directly at Chen Li.

"This is bad. Teacher Jingliu, calm down."

"Calm down? How can I calm down after you showed me the Aeon of Abundance?"

"I already apologized for using the Abundance Token to create Abundance Fiends!" Seeing Jingliu flying toward him, Chen Li turned and ran.

Perhaps Jingliu had seen Chen Li's Seeking Medicine through the chain of cause and effect surrounding the Abundance Token, but the current problem was how to calm Jingliu down.

"If apologies worked, what would the Cloud Knights be for? Do not worry, dear disciple. I have not fallen into mara. I am merely overly excited after seeing the Aeon of Abundance. Come, do not resist. I will help you quickly master the Cloud Knight Sword Technique."

"I don't believe a word of that!"

"Running is useless!"

Jingliu's cool voice reached Chen Li's ears. He could even feel the airflow stirred by her words gently brushing his face as she spoke beside his ear.

Lowering his head to look at the icy sword tip protruding from his chest, then glancing at Jingliu standing beside him, Chen Li rolled his eyes.

Chen Li had never imagined that Jingliu would be the one to take his "first blood."

The good news was that dying in the training space would not truly kill him, and it did not hurt.

The bad news was that Chen Li would probably have to die many times.

"This is the first lesson I will teach you: never turn your back on an opponent." Jingliu said quietly.

"My apologies. Seeing the Aeon of Abundance made me somewhat overly excited." After an unknown amount of time, Jingliu rubbed her forehead with one hand.

"If apologies worked, what would the Cloud Knights be for?" Chen Li casually replied, an expression of complete indifference on his face despite the sword stabbed through his abdomen.

No one would have guessed that just moments ago, Chen Li had pulled the Scattered Light Sword from Jingliu's chest.

After who knew how many days and nights, Chen Li had finally solo-killed Jingliu.

Jingliu's 998:1 casualty ratio could not hide her decline; Chen Li's 1:998 showed off his brilliance!

Of course, Chen Li could revive after dying, while Jingliu could not recover from injury. Chen Li had effectively piled up 998 lives to kill Jingliu... but tell him, had Jingliu died or not?

And due to the reset-on-death effect, Jingliu had calmed down now as well.

"Also, isn't it common sense to expose your belly when apologizing?"

"..." Jingliu raised her eyes and glanced at Chen Li, then lowered them again.

"Ahem, that was a joke. Although the process was somewhat arduous, I did learn something in the end." Chen Li hurriedly added, his expression changing drastically.

Although Jingliu had stabbed him the moment they started and taken his first blood, she had also guided his swordsmanship afterward instead of simply cutting him down over and over.

Looking on the bright side, at least Chen Li had received better treatment than Blade.

That was not to say Chen Li could now fight like Jingliu. He had merely learned Jingliu's swordsmanship.

A new skill had also appeared among his life skills: Cloud Knight Sword Technique LV6 (25/600).

It ranked just below his forging skill, which had long since reached LV7.

He simply did not understand why the Cloud Knight Sword Technique counted as a life skill.

"Your tone just now did not sound like a joke. I could feel your sincerity."

"???" —Chen Li

That sincere passive ability, the special attack against beauty, really should not activate in such strange situations!

Chen Li truly could not quite empathize with Jingliu's method of fast-track swordsmanship instruction. But now, he only hoped Jingliu could tell which parts of his words were sincere instead of misunderstanding and thinking he truly wanted to see her stomach.

"I can compensate you." Jingliu suddenly said.

"Huh?"

"But this training session has already ended, so even if you have a request, you can only raise it the next time training begins." Jingliu's body had already begun to gradually dissipate.