League of Legends in Multiverse Chapter 50

Compared to completing a round-trip expedition of several hundred kilometers without incident, the expedition that had been interrupted by the encounter with the bandit group had allowed every member of the Expeditionary Team to grow considerably—especially Krista. Eren's still-burning fighting spirit and Jean's slight change in mindset were not to be underestimated either.

P.S. Those who haven't read the original probably don't know this, but Krista actually has quite an impressive background~

Chapter 44: Everyone Here Is Trash

The training ground was filled with dust and constant clamor as the 104th trainees practiced hand-to-hand combat in pairs.

"Haaah—!"

Reiner charged forward with his fist clenched, his shoulder slightly lowered as he gathered momentum. The stance carried the same fierce aura as the Armored Giant smashing through the city gate with a shoulder charge.

Of course, Reiner was currently just an ordinary human, both in appearance and presence. Though his large frame and strength surpassed those of most trainees in this class, they were still within normal human limits. He was far easier to deal with than the Armored Giant.

Lianye sidestepped Reiner's straight punch, grabbed his fully extended arm, and used the momentum to fling him away. The result was Reiner being flipped upside down and thrown onto the ground.

The move looked as dashing and stylish as a standard Japanese karate shoulder throw, but Lianye was not actually proficient in that field. After all, he was the Pride Stalker, not the Supreme Fist.

It was simply because of his extraordinary strength. Even if he could not perfectly borrow his opponent's momentum through technique, it was not difficult for him to seize Reiner bodily and hurl him away with brute force.

Just like in The Avengers, when the Hulk grabbed Loki and repeatedly slammed him around like a rag doll. As long as one's raw strength was sufficiently overwhelming, technique was merely an auxiliary tool at best.

"Ow... that hurt..."

Reiner, whose back of the head had just made intimate contact with the ground, let out a cry of pain utterly at odds with his steady image. Still, it really had to hurt—especially with Reiner's tall, heavily built body. Falling like that would naturally hurt even more.

"Sorry, I forgot to hold back a little."

Lianye reached out and pulled Reiner up from the ground. Reiner merely gave a simple, hearty laugh. "It's nothing. You ran into a bandit group not long ago, so you must be more ruthless in hand-to-hand combat."

"That's different. The way I treat enemies and the way I treat companions are worlds apart."

Lianye smiled. How could those possibly be equated? Even though he became extremely cruel and merciless when he entered Ultimate Predator mode, that was only toward enemies or prey. When dealing with companions—at most, he was a little sadistic. But that was for their own good.

"That won't do. If you don't take it seriously, then there's no point in training, right?"

"This hand-to-hand combat training shouldn't have much practical value to begin with."

Lianye shrugged. He said it "shouldn't," not that it had none. In this world overrun by giants, focusing training on conflicts between humans was an incredibly foolish thing to do. Yet the truth was that there were plenty of such stupid things.

"We're soldiers. No matter who the enemy is, we need to master the corresponding fighting techniques in order to handle any possible emergency. The previous expedition was the same."

Reiner seemed to have thoroughly integrated himself into his identity as a human soldier, delivering a string of high-minded platitudes. Truly, without turning or crying, he was no one from Inside Wall Area.

—Yet the truth was that neither of these two was from Inside Wall Area.

Still, Lianye was not going to keep nervously treating his two roommates as hypothetical hunting targets. Besides, Bertholdt and Reiner had not revealed any more suspicious behavior, so Lianye had lowered his guard against them as much as possible. He actually agreed quite a bit with what Reiner had said.

Krista, over there, was the same. After experiencing the bandit group's kidnapping incident, she had surely matured considerably. She was also working extremely hard during hand-to-hand combat training.

—Except her opponent was Mikasa Ackerman, so the scene was simply too tragic to watch. Krista, earnestly and diligently trying to learn, was like a chick being toyed with by an expressionless Mikasa—the chick in an eagle-catching-chicks game.

"That's true. Even if we don't consider the immediate situation, combat training still has its value."

Lianye nodded. His prey was not only hunters, but also that Void monster. And after he completely conquered this world, he might encounter situations in other dimensions where superb combat skills were needed. It would be good to grasp the essentials in this area as well.

More skills never hurt. As a Summoner, he should be even more greedily eager to seek out and learn unfamiliar abilities.

"But if I may be so blunt, everyone here is trash, so there's no need to learn anything."