Chapter 798: Martial Arts and the Origin of Radiation

In fact, Xia Duo had long ago discovered that through projections, he could quickly acquire certain abilities he did not originally possess.

Take his Elvish language ability, for example; if he hadn't projected into an Elf during his first projection journey, how could he have learned Elvish so quickly!

Although the subjects of his subsequent few projections were quite poor, they did not allow Xia Duo to learn any new abilities from them.

But this time it was different; this "Brandon" was clearly a Drow warrior similar to an Elven Sword Singer!

Brandon's martial arts, or rather his ability to control his body, was the new skill Xia Duo needed to learn.

Xia Duo had once received basic Sword Singer training for a period of time in 【Maiyelita Sukanweisa City】 during his first projection, but at that time his heart was set on Magic, and he gave it up very quickly.

Later, during his third projection in 【Yierlan Yinguang City】, he also received Sword Singer training for a time, but he was again set on Magic and the various books in the Yinguang Ta Library, so he did his best to just go through the motions regarding the training.

Although he appeared serious, his mind was not on it at all.

However, he now had some small achievements in the field of Magic, and he had the time and energy to try new things; moreover, he currently needed these new abilities to maintain his persona.

It would be a waste not to learn!

Just treat it as an advanced version of radio calisthenics; strengthening the body is never a bad thing!

……

In the darkness, Xia Duo simply closed his eyes, immersing himself in "Brandon's" instincts while imitating the combat movements with his bare hands, slowly entering a trance-like state.

Brandon's most proficient weapon was the scimitar, but as the "Martial Arts Chief" of the Sangqi Family, he was also highly proficient with other weapons.

However, Xia Duo was not looking to learn specific weapon combat techniques; in that regard, it was nothing more than speed and attacking where the enemy must defend—there was no shortage of concepts regarding this on Earth.

What he truly cared about were the methods for exercising and controlling the body, which were rare on Earth; perhaps professional sports training like that of a national team could train an athlete to have absolute control over themselves.

But Xia Duo had not been exposed to these training methods before he transmigrated, and his concept of such self-control remained stuck in so-called martial arts, like the internal martial arts often appearing in novels, which claimed that one could achieve absolute self-control upon reaching the stage of "transforming force."

Now that he had the opportunity to access such methods, he was naturally very happy.

Imitation while in a state of immersion could not allow Xia Duo to directly master this state of self-control, but it could allow him to become continuously familiar with it; as the saying goes, "practice makes perfect," and so-called self-control is actually a type of technique.

Gradually, Xia Duo's movements began to sharpen, becoming somewhat unlike him, and instead feeling a bit like "Brandon" had returned.

His body moved by instinct, but his mind was constantly searching through "Brandon's" memories; it was just that without very specific information to stimulate him, it was difficult for him to recall specific training methods.

He could only gradually become familiar with them by using this method of pressuring his body's instincts.

After searching for a while without results, Xia Duo decisively gave up and began to study the Magic Net environment of the Underdark again; this way of using the body and consciousness separately could probably only be used in a Projection Plane!

……

Not knowing how much time had passed, Xia Duo, who was immersed in instinctive movement, suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes full of surprise; just now, he had subconsciously performed 【Short-range Teleportation】.

Or rather, the instinct left behind by "Brandon's" body had performed the core Spell of a Drow warrior: 【Short-range Teleportation】!

Xia Duo stopped his body and began to carefully recall the details from just now; after his last Bloodline Awakening, his Bloodline Power had become much stronger, and this time he had actually felt the power of his bloodline within the Projection Plane.

Likewise, his Memory Retrospection ability was still effective.

Although he had not actively cast 【Short-range Teleportation】 just now, he could still recall the specific details of the Spellcasting from the memory of the body.

And this was the key for Xia Duo to adapt to the Magic Net environment of the Underdark!

It was far more convenient than experimenting and researching from scratch on his own; he used almost all of his brainpower to recall carefully, striving not to miss a single detail.

In this process, Xia Duo triggered more memories regarding "Brandon's" Spellcasting, among which the ones that appeared most frequently were, of course, the 【Spell Breaking】 and 【Short-range Teleportation】 that Brandon was most familiar with. (These two Spells have Drow names, but for convenience, I will use the terms Xia Duo is familiar with.)

The Magic system of the Drow and the Magic system of the Elves had diverged in form over countless years and had long since undergone earth-shaking changes.

But in essence, they were still not far apart; after all, they shared the same origin.

Xia Duo had a fair understanding of Elven Magic, so when he saw Drow Magic, he immediately felt a sense of familiarity, just like someone on Earth who had learned French going on to learn Latin, or someone who had learned Suzhou dialect going on to learn Shanghai dialect—that kind of familiarity born of a common origin.

At the same time, in the process of continuously triggering new memories about Magic, Xia Duo also gained more understanding of the Magic Net environment of the Underdark.

Families like the Keman and Sangqi were located in an "Empty Bubble" in Aozuobeien that happened to be on a 【Node】, and the Magic Net environment here could already be considered docile.

In other places, there were even more violent Magic Net environments, but it was not like on the Surface; even if the Magic Net environment was extremely violent, it was difficult to trigger random Magic.

However, for a Spellcaster situated within it, the difficulty of Spellcasting was consistent with the situation on the Surface.

Even a high-level Mage would be disturbed by the violent Magic Net environment when casting Spells, so in the Underdark, if a Spellcaster could avoid casting Spells, they would try their best to do so.

"No wonder Maluxisi didn't want to cast a teleportation spell to return earlier! It really is a harsh environment!"

Xia Duo thought of the Drow War within the territory of Keman in the Main Plane; no wonder the Drow were desperate to run to the Surface—besides taking revenge on the Elves, the harshness of the environment was probably also a very important reason!

Thinking of this, he suddenly thought of a problem he had almost overlooked: the environment he was currently in was filled everywhere with the radiation from the Drow Assassin he had discovered in Savile Town earlier.

It was precisely because it was everywhere, filling the entire space just like sunlight on the Surface, that Xia Duo had not noticed it at the first moment.

And this was indeed a type of radiation, and it was harmful to living things; at least in "Brandon's" memories, this radiation was harmful to the Drow.

Legend had it that it was because of this radiation that the Drow had changed from the originally tall and fair-skinned Suri Elf into the short and dark-skinned Drow of today.

Of course, Xia Duo had also heard another legend, coming from Keman, which said that the curse of the Elven main god had made the Drow fear sunlight, and from then on they dared not appear on the Surface.

The latter legend clearly had loopholes; the Drow did indeed fear sunlight, but it was not that they dared not appear on the Surface—on the contrary, they very much wanted to appear on the Surface.

By comparison, Xia Duo was more willing to believe the legend from the Drow side.