Chapter 258: I Told You, I'm Not Good at Swordsmanship

"Hey!"

Tony chuckled, leaped directly from the water's surface, and landed on the beach with a thud.

The sand that splashed up vanished without a trace as it neared Su Nian.

Stepping onto the beach, Salvatore Doni Toni said bluntly.

"Want to have a fight? Brother?"

"Oh?"

Su Nian raised his head in surprise, looked at Tony, and said with interest.

"Are you sure you want to fight me?"

Anyone normal, after seeing how easily he had defeated Marquis Vauban, should have developed thoughts of backing down, right?

Even Aisha, another Godslayer in Europe, had proactively released information.

She had sensibly chosen not to resist and had made an appointment with Su Nian to meet at a later time.

Only a guy like Tony, whose brain was filled only with swords, would come to challenge him regardless of the consequences.

"Hmm... never mind, I can't beat you."

Tony shook his head honestly; his intuition told him that if the person before him wanted to kill him, it probably wouldn't take much more effort than killing Vauban.

After all, Vauban still had an authority that allowed for resurrection, while he only had his Steel Protection that made him impervious to blades and bullets.

After seeing Su Nian with his own eyes, he didn't think his skin, no matter how impervious, would necessarily be able to withstand the other's Holy Sword.

He was just a sword fanatic, not a moron who lacked any self-awareness.

As for the lesson Marquis Vauban received, having Marquis Vauban be the only one to suffer it was enough.

"So, brother, let's have a spar, just a pure spar of swordsmanship."

Tony looked at Su Nian with sharp eyes; if his senses were correct.

Su Nian should have been practicing swordsmanship recently; that sharpness radiating from his hands could not be faked.

"You must have been practicing swordsmanship lately, right?"

"I have, I suppose..."

Su Nian answered very hesitantly; he had indeed barely managed to learn from Scathach... well, it was more like he had been kicked out.

"However, my attainments in swordsmanship might not be very good."

Su Nian was never one to develop in the direction of a martial artist or warrior; why walk the narrow path of the sword when he could walk the broad paths of the Boundary, Space, and the Genesis Dao?

He could barely be considered to have finished his apprenticeship under Scathach; at best, he could only manage not to fall behind.

He couldn't compare to those powerhouses in the Queen's Knights who could cut through planets just by holding an iron sword.

He could only say he had enough to protect himself.

At least when someone got close to him, he wouldn't be beaten to death.

Of course, it was impossible for an ordinary person to get close to him anyway.

After all, it wasn't as if Scathach was particularly skilled in swordsmanship; she was skilled in spear techniques, and in the entire Little Garden, there were only a few people who could rival her in that.

But why would he want to compare swordsmanship with him?

Seeming to notice Su Nian's hesitation, Tony laughed loudly and sat down cross-legged wherever he pleased.

"Brother, you aren't a Heretic, are you? Nor are you a Godslayer, and certainly not the Last King."

Tony said quite carelessly.

Hearing this, Su Nian raised his eyebrows in surprise; although he hadn't hidden it, everyone else thought so.

He had been too lazy to correct them, but he hadn't expected Tony to be the one to distinguish it.

Sure enough, sword fanatics or whatever—they might look careless like fools, but in reality, their hearts were more meticulous than anyone else's.

It was just that they didn't care about anyone else.

"So what if I am, and what if I'm not?"

Su Nian shrugged casually; he only needed to be certain that his fist was the biggest in this world.

Truth was in his hands; he could be whatever identity he wanted to be.

"However, brother, you must have something you want us Godslayers to do, right?"

Wearing sunglasses, a short-sleeved shirt, and bell-bottoms, Tony, looking like a tropical boy, laughed and patted Su Nian on the shoulder.

At the same time, he turned his head and looked mysteriously at Erica and Liliana on the side.

"By the way, brother, how do you feel about those two knights? Do you have a feeling for them?"

Su Nian looked at Tony with some suspicion, seemingly surprised that this guy actually had thoughts other than swords.

"Then I'll just give them to you; I don't care about such small gains anyway."

Tony didn't have much of an impression of Liliana and Erica, only remembering that they seemed to be his subordinates.

Hearing this, Su Nian raised an eyebrow and thanked him casually.

"Then many thanks."

In a sense, this was what Su Nian had planned to do: beat the Godslayers into submission so that the entire Europe would be under his control.

There were four Godslayers in Europe in total; the Black Prince had submitted, Lady Aisha had yielded, Vauban was severely injured and dying, and Tony was unexpectedly sensible.

In this way, Su Nian could begin developing Magic Technology with the entire Europe as his base.

As for the East, he planned to go talk to Luo Hao in person and, while he was at it, deal with that "Monkey God King," or rather, the pet monkey.

Please forgive Su Nian for only being able to use that title to refer to that monkey; calling it anything else always felt like an insult to Hou Jie.

He really didn't know what expression Sun Wukong would have if he saw he had such a disgraceful counterpart.

It would be better to deal with it in advance, lest it dirty Hou Jie's eyes.

"I just don't know how your swordsmanship compares to that monster from the Far East."

Tony chuckled and said that he knew that as long as he gave up some benefits appropriately, he could get Su Nian to compete with him in swordsmanship.

And the coincidence was that, in his view, things like his own territory were all external objects he didn't care about; if he could exchange these to fight a master of swordsmanship, or perhaps a Heretic god.

Then it would be well worth it.

"The demon of the Far East? Sect Leader Luo Hao?"

Su Nian was slightly surprised, then said with a smile.

"I don't know, after all, I only just finished my apprenticeship."

"Then let's have a match here."

Tony grinned as he took out the Knight sword he had brought from behind his back, stood up, and aimed it at Su Nian.

Erica looked at Su Nian with some worry; she could only lament the disasters of Sardinia.

It had only been a few days, and they had already experienced several wars capable of destroying this island.

First it was Melqart and Verethragna, then Su Nian and Melqart, Athena, Lancelot and Melqart.

And then there was the previous Marquis Vauban, and now Tony.

Although it was already clear that, at the very least, Su Nian's situation would not reach an uncontrollable point.

But Erica still couldn't help but worry.

Seeming to see through Erica's thoughts, Su Nian waved his hand casually and said.

"Rest assured, it's just a pure swordsmanship spar, what could possibly go wrong?"

"Come, lend me your sword."

It wouldn't do to use a Holy Sword for a spar, right? That would be a bit too wasteful.

To deal with Tony, an ordinary precious sword was enough; didn't he see that Tony was also using an ordinary standard-issue Knight sword?

"Yes, King."

Saying this, Erica took out Lion Heart from her Magic space and handed it to Su Nian.

Su Nian flicked the sword to make a flourish and evaluated it.

"The feel is not bad, this sword is barely enough to use."

Afterwards, Su Nian pointed the tip of the sword at Tony and said.

"Let's begin, let me see if your title as the King of Swords is truly deserved?"

"Then let me show you my Magic Sword!"

A silver radiance began to generate from Tony's shoulder, then spread to the sword, transforming that ordinary Knight sword into a Magic Sword emitting terrifying Spell Power.

"I swear here! I do not allow the existence of anything I cannot cut. And this sword is the invincible blade that can sever and cut through everything on the earth!"

Accompanied by the Word of Power issued in a state of godspeed, a slash that tore through heaven and earth struck toward Su Nian.

However, at this moment, Su Nian raised his sword and gave a light slash.

A colorless sword aura, carrying a faint brilliance like shattered stars, shot out from the edge of Su Nian's sword.

It was clearly the most ordinary of slashes, yet it brought Tony a sense of crisis far exceeding that of Luo Hao.

When he had sparred in swordsmanship with Luo Hao, Tony had never felt his hair stand on end like this.

Swoosh!

Tony widened his eyes, watching that sword aura cut through his Magic Sword like a hot knife through butter.

He immediately revealed an expression of astonishment.

"How can this be?"

"I already said, I'm not good at swordsmanship."

Su Nian sighed and put away his sword; why did he cut through space again?

This was the helplessness brought about by having too deep an attainment in space.

Well, this was also one of the reasons why Scathach kicked him out back then.

What Su Nian had practiced, rather than being called swordsmanship, was better described as the external manifestation of his mastery over the Space Authority.

Even Scathach, for a moment, could not distinguish whether this was Su Nian's sword intent or his swordsmanship.

Pfft!

Blood splattered out; in front of a sword aura sharp enough to even slice open space, Salvatore Doni Toni was cut in two without the slightest hesitation.

Even his most prideful Steel Protection did not play the slightest role.

"Brother, you call this not being good at swordsmanship?"

Tony looked at Su Nian, speechless, then dragged his legs over, picked them up, and reattached them to his lower body.

Under the powerful self-healing ability of a Godslayer, they grew back together in just a few moments.

Of course, there was also the reason that the wound Su Nian cut was overly smooth.

For some reason, Tony, who considered himself easygoing and good-tempered, had an urge to hit someone at this moment.

Well, he wanted to strike Su Nian with a sword!

You call this not being good at swordsmanship? You call swordsmanship that can even cut through space not being good at it?

"This swordsmanship of yours, in my view, is even stronger than that demon of the Far East."

"I really don't know what kind of expression that demon will have after seeing your swordsmanship."

Afterwards, Tony left with a loud laugh, but watching Tony's back.

Su Nian's mouth twitched; he really wanted to remind Tony.

Your lower body is attached crookedly...

"Then the next stop, let's go to the East, and take a look at Luo Hao while I'm at it."

Su Nian lay on Erica's smooth lap, emptied his mind, and thought.

(End of chapter)