Chapter 447: From the Swordsmanship Training That Nearly Got Him Beheaded

Broly strong? Strong, but Orsted felt the opponent was very weak right now.

Of course, this weakness is in comparison to the Broly he fought in the previous several loops.

"Human God Apostle, is that all the ability you have?"

Orsted didn't believe Broly's strength was only at this level, and started using the North God Style's unique trash talk to provoke Broly.

"I naturally don't only have this much ability, but your ability isn't enough to make me bring out my true ability."

Broly turned sideways to dodge Orsted's Crazy Dragon Blade vertical cleave, then horizontally slashed with the iron sword wrapped in Qi in his hand.

With a clang, the long sword blade collided with the Crazy Dragon Blade that Orsted had withdrawn and stood upright before him.

And this time, blue veins bulged on Broly's forehead, as if he had used all his strength; Orsted, man and blade together, was slashed flying a distance of over ten meters.

"Hah~"

Sword planted in the ground, Broly's acting was on point, he started panting.

The feeling of suppressing Qi and fighting someone is really a bit tiring, Saiyan.

However, this battle experience was unexpectedly not bad.

Although Orsted's physical quality and Qi capacity were far inferior to his own, when he deliberately lowered his Qi to fight him, this person could actually rely on battle consciousness to fight evenly with him, who had revealed roughly twice his Qi on the surface.

Broly even had a feeling that if he lowered his Qi a bit more, he would very likely be defeated by the opponent, rather than the current seemingly evenly matched situation.

Overall, Broly's various basic physical values at this moment were maintained at roughly twice Orsted's.

But in terms of swordsmanship combat technique, Orsted's swordsmanship technique far surpassed Broly, this Saiyan who had never practiced swordsmanship at all and just swung a baseball bat sword relying on combat instinct.

Plus Broly is a child's physique, Orsted is an adult's physique, and the Crazy Dragon Blade the opponent held was even longer than the iron sword Broly bought for three gold coins.

So, the combat ability these two currently displayed was actually on a very subtle dynamic balance.

Of course, the one mainly controlling this battle's water temperature was Broly, after all he had to give Orsted an excellent battle experience, as thanks for the opponent helping him quickly restart last time.

However, Orsted didn't see through this; upon seeing this great enemy actually standing there panting with his sword planted, his eyes widened, thinking of a possibility.

And to confirm this possibility, when Broly finished panting and attacked again, Orsted canceled the domain imitating Water God Leda's unique Water God Style mystery 【Deprivation Sword Domain】, and instead used the Sword God Style's ultimate high-speed attack mystery 【Light Blade】.

In a very short time, this person went from ultimate defense to ultimate offense, and this change made Broly, who was controlling the battle water temperature and suppressing his own Qi, a bit unable to keep up; he was immediately bitten by this fish staying in the warm water.

"Puchi!"

But the next moment, Orsted's head flew up; Broly's subconscious explosive power counterattack directly beheaded him.

However, only a head remaining in mid-air flipping, Orsted's serious face revealed a rare smile.

Not for anything else, only because Orsted saw a wound deep to the bone also appear on Broly's right neck.

Although he didn't know what means the opponent used to already stop the blood flow, this was the only time in their many exchanges he had wounded the opponent.

【Human God Apostle Broly is not so strong that I cannot kill him...】

Carrying this thought, Orsted returned to the Dragon Race Ancient Ruins on Dragon Roar Mountain in Armored Dragon Year 330.

【In the endless looping time, if there is no external interference, the vast majority of creatures in the world will live out their lives following their own roughly similar predetermined fate lines...】

Orsted climbed up from the ground, just like the things he did after time rewind in the past, he began tempering his body.

And in the nearly ten years following, he would keep doing this, until he forged his body to its peak, that is, recovered to God-level degree.

【I should have noticed this earlier, that Human God Apostle named Broly's fate line has been in a state of constant fluctuation.

And if a person's fate line is not fixed, then the abilities they possess will also not be fixed...】

For example, a person who according to their original fate line could smoothly grow into a Sword King, if their fate changed when they were a child and they never touched a sword from childhood to adulthood, then at the time point they could have become a Sword King, the opponent will absolutely not be a Sword King.

Similarly, if Broly has no fixed fate line, then the opponent's strength after each event loop will also not be fixed.

As for why the opponent's fate line can be unfixed in the looping time, Orsted is not clear, but guesses this might be the Human God's method.

In short, if Human God Apostle Broly's strength is not fixed, and situations of strength and weakness appear, then when the opponent is weak, oneself has the possibility of defeating the opponent.

Even, if the past self's blade could be just a bit faster, the opponent would be beheaded by oneself a step earlier...

"I must train an even faster swordsmanship!"

Finishing the basic body tempering, Orsted began swinging the treasure sword left in the ruins; although his memory could be preserved in the time loops, his flesh body had to endure thousands of hammerings and hundred refinings to reach the original peak.

Seeing the dawn of possibly defeating Broly, Orsted only felt this loop's self was full of motivation.

Armored Dragon Year 407, 9th month, Broly returned to the Great Steppe for the seventh time; the bloodstained clothes on his body turned back into the small trench coat he wore when coming to this world, and the wound on his neck where he had used finger pressure to temporarily stop the bleeding was erased upon rewinding to the past time.

Broly touched his completely unharmed small neck, only then reacting to the fact he was nearly beheaded by Orsted: "Was it because I suppressed my Qi too low, causing my body's defense power to drop too severely?"

Dragon Ball World experts' defense power is always hooked to Qi; with Qi, taking a nuke to the face is no problem, but without Qi, even a small handgun might injure a Saiyan who can transform to over 100 million combat power.

And this was the first time Broly had been this close to death; however, somewhat unexpectedly, Broly didn't feel too much fear about it.

On the contrary, the feeling of his neck being cut open last loop, nearly beheaded, heart suddenly racing, instead gave Broly a bit of, how to put it, that kind of excitement when encountering a new capture target before.

【Strange, am I feeling excitement over nearly being killed myself?】

Broly felt some doubt in his heart, watching the rabbit gradually flying away overhead.

Thinking of Orsted's final slash, he imitated it barehanded.

"This move, the little Human God seems to have said, is called Light Sword Blade, or maybe Tachi..."

The sword Qi sent out barehanded slashed across a kilometer distance; the big rabbit flying in the sky didn't even emit a death cry before being split in two and falling down.

"I seem to have taken a bit of a liking to this."

Placing the two pieces of rabbit meat on the grill, Broly picked up a tree branch, and used the branch to swing out Light Blades one by one.

"Crack~"

And when swinging to the eighth time, the tree branch Broly casually picked up couldn't bear the load and snapped; even with Qi wrapping protection it was no use.

【Need a good sword.】

Broly thought thus, and picked up a tree branch again, attempting to imitate the Water God Style mystery 【Deprivation Sword Domain】 domain Orsted showed him last loop.

But this has more technical difficulty than the straightforward Sword God Style mystery 【Light Blade】; Broly spent a week barely self-learning it successfully.

"Are you a disciple of the Water God?"

In the Wanglong Kingdom's Capital Talakia, Broly found the Sword King Guard beside Queen Martina and challenged him to a duel with himself as the wager.

Using a second-hand refurbished sword bought from the Dwarven Blacksmith for nine silver and twenty copper coins, Broly defeated him without exceeding Sword King Sean Cloda's aura, relying solely on the swordsmanship techniques he had mastered.

"Water God? Don't know him. The teacher who taught me this swordsmanship is the Dragon God."

Broly shook his head.

"Alright, according to our pre-duel agreement, your sword belongs to me now. Hmm, I don't need this sword anymore, so you take it and use it. Bye-bye."

The Water Saint Frett at the side wanted to say something, but Broly directly vaulted over the training ground's fence and vanished in an instant.

"Randolph, are you interested in having a swordsmanship match with me?"

In the seventh loop, when Broly prepared to leave the Wanglong Kingdom for the Miris Continent, he challenged his newly re-acquainted friend Randolph to a duel.

"If you need a sparring partner, I can accompany you."

The restaurant's business improved under Broly's advice, and this loop's Randolph was still grateful to Broly; he was willing to serve as Broly's sparring partner.

"Not that kind of sparring match, but a match where you have to bring out your true ability."

Under Broly's strong insistence, Randolph brought out his true ability.

And unlike the second loop, where Randolph was easily defeated by Broly.

In the seventh loop, Broly suppressed his aura to a level comparable to Randolph's, and in a pure contest of swordsmanship skill, Randolph used his exquisite blade technique to knock away the treasure sword Broly had won, worth 120 Wanglong Kingdom Gold Coins.

"Very strange. Your swordsmanship has clearly touched the threshold of the Divine rank, yet the feeling you give me is like that of a beginner who just started learning swordsmanship.

Your swordsmanship is full of rigid memorized forms — like you only remember the routine moves. Of course, your moves are profound, profound enough that those below my level can't see through them at all; perhaps even some Emperor-rank Swordsmen wouldn't be your match.

Broly, you should forget those rigid sword forms and routines, absorb the sword moves you've learned into your own swordsmanship, and make them your own thing."

Death God Randolph's evaluation of Broly's swordsmanship was very objective, and counting the previous loop's time, Broly's total sword practice time was indeed less than two months.

In fact, truly practicing this world's routine sword moves began after he was nearly beheaded by Orsted; until now it has been only ten days.

"Okay, I will. Thank you for your guidance."

Broly humbly accepted Randolph's swordsmanship guidance, then waved goodbye to this friend who resembled the Undead.

"I find it hard to believe that your swordsmanship can't even beat the Death God, yet you can win against Orsted."

The Little God Person retorted from the side.

This loop's He only knew that Broly was a swordsmanship genius from another world who had reincarnated many times in this world.

"My swordsmanship is indeed inferior to Orsted's, but my body stats and Qi capacity stats are both higher than his."

"Then how did you still lose to Randolph?"

"Fighting a friend, naturally one should be fair."

Setting aside stats, Broly's current swordsmanship skill is indeed inferior to Randolph, who once served as North God reserve.

However, it doesn't matter. As long as he exchanges and spars more with this world's swordsmanship masters, his swordsmanship skill can rapidly improve.

All along, Broly always felt he wasn't like a traditional Saiyan; under his old man's teaching, he knew the Saiyans' belligerent personality.

He originally thought he was a special Saiyan who wasn't very belligerent, but after the swordsmanship clash with Dragon God Orsted and the Water Temperature Control Battle where he was nearly beheaded, Broly suddenly realized it wasn't that he wasn't belligerent, but that he had little interest in battles without balance.

In other words, he simply had no interest in crushing battles, and the so-called non-belligerence was just because Broly had never encountered an opponent stronger than himself, nor even an opponent of the same level.

The closest was War God Altexiu; thinking back now, sparring with him back then, he seemed to still be quite stirred up.

Back to the main topic, after discovering he might also possess the Saiyans' belligerent personality, Broly consciously began lowering his Qi to deal with enemies. He wanted to confirm his feeling wasn't mistaken, wanting to re-experience that feeling of battling Orsted.

But unfortunately, ordinary enemies were crushing battles even if Broly used pure physical body, with absolutely no feeling at all. Sparring with Randolph did have a bit of that excitement, but it still wasn't intense enough.

Compared to Orsted, Randolph was like when he used to suppress his strength to spar with his wife, while the latter belonged to a true life-and-death struggle.

"Human God, are there any formidable swordsmanship masters on the Miris Continent side?"

Broly asked.

"None. If you want to find swordsmanship masters, you have to go to the Holy Land of the Sword in the Extreme North to search."

"Holy Land of the Sword?"

"Take out the map, I'll point it out for you."

Broly looked at the Human God's indicated location, a place completely opposite to his upcoming itinerary, and decided to still continue according to his normal schedule. After all, he would go check out any places he hadn't visited anyway, and wasn't in a rush.

When the time comes, it won't be too late to find someone else to practice sword with.

As for now, Broly spent nearly a whole loop's time slowly traversing the Miris Holy Kingdom and the Great Forest.

By the time he reached the Magic Continent, those Sword Saints, Sword Kings, and Sword Emperors whom Broly had challenged all along the way and defeated with Sword God Style swordsmanship bestowed upon him the title of Miris Continent's First Sword Emperor.

As for why not Sword God, that's because the Divine-rank title of a style can only be held by the current number one of that style.

The Six-Faced World's style titles still carry great weight, because their sole reference is actual battle record.

For example, if you want to possess the Sword Saint title, you must use Sword God Style swordsmanship to defeat any current Sword Saint, or obtain the acknowledgement of other Sword Saints and above Sword God Style experts.

Broly hasn't fought the current Sword God, so he doesn't have the Sword God title, and no one else has the qualification to bestow the Sword God title on him.

Of course, the Swordsmen who have crossed hands with him and been defeated by his exquisite Sword God Style swordsmanship all believe he has a high chance of successfully challenging the current Sword God and becoming the next Sword God.

Compared to the previous loop arriving at the Magic Continent and being treated as a soft persimmon by the locals, Broly stepping onto the Magic Continent again was like a treasure sword just drawn from its sheath, unwilling to restrain its sharpness, emitting a terrifyingly sharp aura of 【I am terrifyingly strong】.

And in stark contrast to this increasingly sharp aura on his body, the Qi Broly revealed on the surface was already less than one percent of his original normal state.

Furthermore, after coming to the Magic Continent, Broly no longer liked using Flight to hurry on his way, but preferred walking through the wilderness with his own two feet.

As for why, that was because there were many sword-practicing magic beasts on the road.

"Rustle~"

"Careful, it's a Red Armored Giant Snake!"

Panicked voices rang out from the Demon Race Merchant caravan.

A short figure had already rushed out from the crowd.

Broly didn't raise Qi, merely lifting the sword worth 120 King Dragon Gold Coins in his hand and slashing forward.

And this was precisely the trick Dragon God Orsted used in the Second Playthrough.

The A-Rank Magic Beast Red Armored Giant Snake, rushing over and standing two or three stories tall, was bisected by the sharp Sword Qi.

The panicked voices came to an abrupt halt.

"Ah, this guy's scales are truly hard, good thing my sword is sharper. Caravan Leader Notos, this counts as my loot, no problem right?"

A Three-Eyed Demon Race member looked at the Red Armored Giant Snake corpse with a flat cross-section, swallowed, and replied: "Naturally."

"Anyone know how to cook giant snake meat? Tonight I'm treating everyone to meat."

When Broly spoke these words, this caravan composed of multiple Demon Race Merchants became lively.

(Chapter End)