Pirate Codex

In the early morning, everything is silent, the sky is getting bright, the night is about to disappear, and the morning light of dawn slowly wakes up the sleeping creatures.

But at the edge of Orchard Village, three figures were already busy.

"The lunge and thrust is the most important and basic move in swordsmanship."

"This action requires the center of gravity to move forward, the legs to form a lunge, the flat sword to thrust forward, the force reaching the tip of the sword, and the arm to be in a straight line with the sword."

Arthur stood in front of Edward Brown, explaining and slowly demonstrating the movements.

He saw his right leg lunging forward, holding the sword in his right hand and stabbing straight out. A standard and pleasing lunge thrust appeared in Edward's eyes.

"A standard lunge thrust requires you to combine the strength of your legs, waist, abdomen and upper limbs, and focus it forward through your palms on the tip of the sword."

"The left foot on the ground exerts force first, the right foot lunges forward and exerts force again, then the waist and abdomen, then the chest and back, and finally the shoulders, arms, and palms."

"You need to constantly sense and reflect on whether every position is exerted and whether every muscle is involved in exerting force."

"We need long-term contact to understand the order and method of force, and ultimately reach the tip of the sword."

After Arthur finished the demonstration and explanation, he took the wooden sword and stepped forward to guide Edward in making standard movements.

Brown Edward is a red-haired man. Since he followed Arthur to live and practice in Orchard Village a week ago, he asked Arthur to help him come up with such a name to make it easier to call him.

The names here are quite strange. The names are almost the same as those in Europe and America in the previous life, but the order of the names is the same as in China, with the surname first and the given name last.

Brown is the surname of the old beggar who raised him, and Red-haired Poo also inherited it as his own surname.

Edward, on the other hand, means the protector of happiness, which can be regarded as embodying Red Hair's desire for happiness and his expectation to become a hero who protects the weak.

"Pa" The sound of a wooden sword slapping against the flesh suddenly sounded.

Arthur had a cold face, ignoring Edward's grinning expression and sternly correcting his movements.

"The left foot is moving forward a little, and it feels more secure."

"Snapped"

"Your shoulders and arms should be in a straight line with the wooden sword. This is the most suitable way to exert force."

"Snapped"

"Lower and lower again, raise your right hand, pay attention, the shoulder and arm must be in a straight line."

"Snapped"

""

After correcting Edward's movements, Arthur turned around and walked towards Bowness who was practicing left and right splits with his sword.

The Judgment Swordsmanship that I got from the dream is a superb swordsmanship that contains thousands of things. It naturally also contains knowledge and insights about other weapons, and there are naturally some sword moves suitable for Bones to practice.

Ever since they returned to Orchard Village a week ago and, under the pressure of the village chief, admitted that they had indeed eaten a Devil Fruit and gained healing powers, the treatment of the three of them has skyrocketed.

Under the leadership of the village chief, the villagers helped the three of them build a new house and training ground next to their orchard.

From then on, all injuries and illnesses in the entire village were sent to Arthur's side. Grandpa Jason, the original village doctor, suddenly became free and officially began to spend his leisure time in retirement.

After treating three seriously injured guards on the first day, Arthur was pleasantly surprised to find that there were ten more threads of faith when he fell asleep that night, and these ten threads happened to come from the families of the seriously injured guards.

It was this discovery that made Arthur welcome all the villagers who came to him. Even if he accidentally cut a small hole while cooking, Arthur was willing to use a healing technique.

As a result, within the next week, word of mouth spread about Arthur's healing effects, and everyone in the village knew about it. As a result, Arthur's faith harvest increased sharply, and now there are a total of 112 threads of faith.

Including Bowness and Edward, there are 23 devout threads and 89 pan-believer threads.

The line of devout believers mostly comes from seriously ill patients and their families, while the line of unbelievers comes from those with minor illnesses and villagers who have heard about and praised Arthur's abilities.

And the ring information in the dream also became:

Priesthood: Justice, Order

Divine spells: healing, righteous roar

True Believer of the Power of Faith: 0

Fanatic believer in the power of faith: 0

Devotees of the Power of Faith: 131

Power of Faith pan-believers: 623

Compared with the surge in the power of faith, what surprised Arthur the most was the magical skill of Roar of Justice.

Divine Spell: Roar of Justice

Function: Stimulate potential and double physical fitness

Duration: 3 minutes

Cooldown: 1 days

Cost: 10 Devotee’s Power of Faith or 100 Pan-Believer’s Power of Faith

Arthur once tried this skill. Within three minutes, his physical fitness, which was still at the level of an ordinary teenager, doubled and became comparable to that of an ordinary adult warrior.

Two days ago, Arthur used this skill to fight a few blows with Uncle Smith after he recovered from his injury. The two of them could be said to be evenly matched in terms of pure strength.

Of course, if it were a serious life-and-death duel, Arthur, who had the sword skill of Judgment, could easily take out Uncle Smith in one or two moves.

After all, when physical fitness is the same, the role of technique is even more critical.

It can be said that Arthur's only two shortcomings now are physical fitness and life and death combat experience.

Now that he has just started practicing for a week, Arthur believes that when his body becomes stronger in the future, the increase in this skill will be even more amazing.

After instructing Bowness Knife's lunge thrust, Arthur came to the side. After carefully and meticulously completing the warm-up activities, he lifted two 15kg dumbbells and began to exercise.

dumbbell curl

Dumbbell lateral raise

Dumbbell wrist curl

dumbbell row

Dumbbell deadlift

Sweat gradually filled his body. Arthur gritted his teeth, controlled his breathing, and performed boring movements in a precise manner, concentrating on it.

After nearly an hour, Arthur put down the dumbbells, wiped his sweat, walked to the stone table on the side, picked up a square of rye bread, and ate a few pieces of half-cooked animal meat with milk, then broke open a few bananas and stuffed them into the Mouth, then looked at Bowness and Edward.

It has to be said that both of them were born at the bottom, were used to suffering, and knew that opportunities were rare, so they were very happy with the boring practice without any complaints.

Arthur came forward with a wooden sword, helped the two of them correct it, then returned to the stone table, picked up the long sword, and danced the sword with concentration.

Through the various anaerobic exercises of lifting dumbbells, the muscles in various parts of the body are exercised, and then through the dance of sword moves, the joint muscles and body coordination of the whole body are exercised. This kind of training method is very suitable for Arthur at this time.

Compared to the vague and confusing clerical arts and beliefs, Arthur prefers swordsmanship and physical exercise. This is the way to truly see the path to progress, which is more reassuring.

After dancing with the sword for nearly half an hour, Arthur stopped again. While eating food to replenish his nutrition, he stretched out his index finger and applied a healing spell on himself.

Under the warm treatment of white fluorescence, the muscle fibers that had just been torn apart by exercise quickly recovered and became stronger than before.

When the treatment was over, Arthur raised the dumbbells again

It takes about two hours to do the dumbbell sword dance therapy, plus the time to rest and replenish energy between groups.

And Arthur can basically do it five times a day, making Arthur's hard practice in one day equivalent to five days of hard practice in others.

Of course, Bonis and Danny can also do this, but they still focus on practicing swordsmanship now, and doing this three times a day is enough for physical training.