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Marika explained beside Elizabeth, "You've mastered the sword's capabilities with just a few swings. You're either an expert or you're just pretending. We'll know the outcome soon."
The first to come on was Ager, who also swung his sword a few times and did some sword tricks, then grinned at Oscar and said, "Come on!"
Captain: "The two swords collide!"
Then the two duelists crossed their swords.
"Begin!" said the captain, taking a big step back.
With a clang, the sword in Ager's hand flew out and stuck on the deck in front of the forecastle, with the sword blade about a quarter of the way into the wood.
Agger was shocked: "What?"
Marika: “Oh~”
Agger said angrily, "You sneak attacked me! I want to do it again!"
Oscar nodded: "You can do it again."
Cai Zhaixi beside him was still making sarcastic remarks: "This doesn't look like a man of the sea!"
Agger: "I've never been to the sea! Come again!"
He grabbed the sword that the other sailors helped to pick up and performed another sword show.
Captain: "Swords meet. Start!"
Clang.
Agger: "I don't believe it! Come again!"
The captain turned his head and looked at Oscar, who nodded: "Beat him until he surrenders."
So the sword was returned to Ager for the second time.
Cai Zhaixi looked at Oscar seriously with a stern face, without any of the contempt he had just shown.
This time Agger held the sword with both hands.
Oscar was shocked. "This is a one-handed sword. The length of the hilt is not suitable for holding with two hands. A two-handed sword needs to be flexible and has a long hilt, so that the direction of the sword can be controlled by applying force with both hands. Therefore, a two-handed sword can be made longer and heavier than a one-handed sword. If you hold a one-handed sword like this, the hilt is not long enough and it will be very heavy."
Agger: "Never mind! Come!"
The captain said, "What do you think, boatswain?"
The boatswain said: "Whether you accept it or not depends on your opponent, but I think such a disgraceful performance should result in a month of deck cleaning."
The other sailors began to cheer: "Great! No more mopping the deck!"
The boatswain added: "Not only do we need to wipe the decks, we also need to wax them."
Agger didn't care about these at all, but urged: "Hurry up, come again!"
"Two swords collide, start!"
The sailors all started looking for the direction the sword was flying, but this time the sword did not fly.
Oscar carefully kept his distance.
Agger laughed loudly, stepped forward and swung his sword—
Oscar dodged the sword by lowering his head, and then the sword tip was against Ager's neck.
"I told you, it's clunky, right? I did it casually before you retracted your movements and resumed your stance, here."
Oscar explained like a teacher.
Elizabeth suddenly grabbed the railing and stared at Oscar.
Marika: “What’s wrong?”
"Malika, you have to chase her away! With her personality, I think she would get along well with the king!"
Marika smiled: "Don't worry, Your Highness, there is another sailor!"
Cai Zhaixi: "I surrender! No need to fight, I definitely can't beat this little princess."
The captain looked at Cai Zhaixi and said, "You go and clean the deck too. You should clean it as long as Ager cleans it."
Then he turned to Oscar: "Do you accept?"
"Of course, I also have a rough idea of your strength, so it's good not to waste time."
Elizabeth's mouth opened wide: "Even the annoying things are the same!"
Rosalie consoled him, "It's hard for them to become a couple if they look too much alike. Don't worry."
Elizabeth: "You have a point, but it's also possible that we have similar interests and it works out! Marika!"
Marika smiled and said, "I know, don't worry."
As he spoke, the drow jumped down from the poop and stood in front of Oscar.
The sailors pushed the weapon racks over: "Pick one, they are all well maintained."
Marika picked up the weapon closest to her on the weapon rack and stood there holding the sword without swinging it or posing.
Captain: "The two swords collide!"
Marika raised her sword casually.
Oscar was originally posing, but after noticing the drow holding the sword so carelessly, she also put away her stance and raised the sword casually.
The two swords collided with each other, making a crisp metallic sound.
Captain: “Begin!”
Clang!
A long sword flew up and pierced the second layer of the mast. The blade was almost halfway embedded in the wood, and the tip on the other side protruded from the mast.
Marika waved the sword in her hand and performed a sword trick, then said to the captain: "I'm sorry, I haven't used the sword for a long time, so I'm a little rusty. I wanted to hit a harmless part, but I ended up stabbing the main mast. Will it affect the safety of navigation?"
The captain frowned, "Of course it will affect the safety of navigation. Especially if the sword is pulled out, it will probably have to be taken to the shipyard for an overhaul. If it is not pulled out, it can still be used after some repairs and strengthening. I mean the mast."
"Then I'll trouble you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Oscar knelt on the ground with a plop: "You... my thirteen years of hard work..."
Marika: "I've been practicing for about a hundred years. That's what the immortal species is like."
Elizabeth discovered the point: "Wait a minute! How old were you when you started practicing swordplay?"
Marika: "I think about 20 years old...it's been so long that I can't remember."
"No no, I asked Oscar."
"Me? Five."
"You are the same age as me? How is that possible!" Elizabeth was shocked.
Rosalie looked at Elizabeth's figure and said, "I understand your surprise."
Oscar didn't pay any attention to this. She murmured in frustration, "What on earth have I been doing all these years?"
After saying that she burst into tears.
"My life... has accomplished nothing?"
Marika looked at her without mercy: "Do you know why I gave up the long sword and started to be a wanderer?"
Oscar wiped his tears and asked, "Why?"
"About two or three hundred years ago, a group of human adventurers broke into my hometown, ransacked everything, and killed any drow they saw. Then I participated in the battle as the city's most elite guard. I was beaten by an eighteen-year-old human girl and I had no chance to fight back."
"Huh?" Oscar looked up in surprise.
Marika: "Talent is like this. Look at our captain. He is well-versed in history and knowledge, and he is only eighteen years old. This is a genius, but this genius has a fatal shortcoming, which makes it not so exaggerated.
"You should have some talent, but it's not enough to bridge the gap created by 100 years of practice. Well, accept the bet and wait for Xiaobai to come back, and you can ride the griffin back."
"Wait a minute!" Rosalie suddenly said, "It suddenly occurred to me that my sister's level should be enough to train the sailors. There will probably be times in the future when such a team will leave the ship to explore. At such times, it wouldn't be a bad thing for the sailors to be more powerful, right?"
Oscar looked at his sister in surprise: "Huh?"
Rosalie continued, "Or would you like to be the instructor of the sailors, Marika? You don't have the time for that, do you? I know you will secretly take turns with the forest elf. When she is resting or taking lessons from the king, you will be the lookout. You will also leave the ship from time to time to conduct reconnaissance."
Marika frowned: "But we have already agreed..."
Elizabeth: "But Rosalie's decision is reasonable. Besides, there's no point in us discussing it. The captain is the king, and we should wait for him to come back and make the decision."
Marika was silent for a few seconds: "That's right. Anyway, we have to wait for the king to come back after sending her away, so let's do this."
Chapter 158 "Where Did the Little Princess Come From?"
The exploration team's small boat returned at nightfall that day.
The days in the River Kingdoms are much longer than in Monrovia, so it was almost eight o'clock when Wang and his companions returned.
When Wang climbed up the rope net onto the deck, his expression suddenly became confused.
"Why is the prince of Monrovia here? And why are the sailors repairing the mast? Are we being attacked?"
The captain looked embarrassed: "No, there was no attack. In fact, your two questions are the same thing."
The king thought about it and was shocked: "Could it be that the Prince of Monrovia was launched from Minos and hit our mast?"
Elizabeth was about to answer the king's question, but she bit her tongue and cried out in pain, "Ouch, my tongue!"
Marika: “Can you think of something more realistic?”
Wang: "I think with the magic of this plane, it is still possible to just launch a person this short distance. After all, there is no speed requirement, right? There are people in other planes who can send things to another location at thirty times the speed of sound.
"At this speed, they can even skip stones on the outer shell of the Crystal Wall System."
At this time, Flint was carried to the deck by the barbarian. When he heard the word "skipping", he immediately asked: "What is skipping? Wait a minute, why is the mast being repaired? Did the mast skip?"
Apparently, the dwarfs understood "da shui pi" as a synonym for trying to draw water with a bamboo basket in vain.
Wang: "We are talking about the literal meaning of skipping stones, which is to throw a flat stone diagonally onto the water, and the stone will bounce on the water. As for the mast, it was damaged by Monrovia launching their prince from Minos."
The dwarf puffed up his beard, "Shoot the Prince?"
Oscar shook his head repeatedly: "No! I wasn't launched! I slipped onto the ship by myself!"
Then he told the whole story in detail.