Sorcerer’s Handbook

"If I did wrong, let the law punish me."

Even in this situation, Sonya did not lose her composure and yell. Instead, she calmly complained in her heart to the observer: "You make me practice swordsmanship, make me fight with Felix, what exactly do you want me to do? Infiltrate the Starchild aristocracy and become your spy? "

"It's not as complicated as you think," the observer said, "I just want to arrange a fight for you, and he is the strongest person here. It just so happens that he is an aristocrat, even better, I especially like to see aristocrats get beaten up. If possible, after you win, can you step on his face... Forget it, I heard some Starchild aristocrats are perverts, you should just spank him... No, forget I said anything."

"Then can you change to someone else? I don't want to get involved with Felix!"

"Why?"

"I did some research on him," Sonya said. "He's weird and dangerous."

As the most accessible young master at Swordflower College, Sonya naturally took Felix as a hunting target. But after some investigation, Sonya gave up this seemingly tempting option.

It had nothing to do with his playboy attributes. Sonya did not think that 'fickleness' was an obstacle for her. What really stopped Sonya was Felix's family situation and his ex-girlfriends.

Although it was rumored outside that Felix was the walking breeding machine for the Ten Noble Daughters, after simple observation, Sonya discovered a secret - Felix never actually spent the night out with a girlfriend.

Felix lived in an off-campus villa. Every night after training, he would drive off campus. His ride "Galloping Silver Tiger" was unique on campus. Sonya occasionally saw it at night too. He never took a girlfriend from school at night, always going home alone.

Of course it was also possible that he preferred daytime, but Felix changed girlfriends every three days, including noble ladies. Sonya didn't really believe he could eat them up in just three days.

Rather than promiscuity, it was more like he was collecting stamps.

Secondly, as the son of Duke Vlozrada who ended up at Swordflower College, it was hard not to suspect that he was involved in some political struggle.

Sonya had no interest in struggling up with him. She hoped to catch the newly emerging nouveau riche young master. That way she could coast along and also have a lot of room to maneuver. With skillful means, dividing up family assets was not impossible either.

Adding up various factors, Sonya's interest in Felix could be said to be tepid.

She had a whole forest, naturally she needn't hang on this one tree, and she even had to stay away from him - part of the reason was that Sonya had never dealt with aristocrats before. Her knowledge of aristocrats all came from novels.

And in novels, apart from the male protagonist, all other aristocrats were invariably the great villains who oppressed the good and relied on power to commit evil. Aristocrats who were not evil enough would even be kicked out of the aristocracy and become commoners.

The always cautious or pessimistic Sonya naturally did not think she could meet good aristocrats. And Felix, with this image of a traditional aristocrat who was clearly more villainous, naturally kept Sonya at arm's length.

“So if you fight him, you’re likely to get into trouble?”

“That’s right!” Sonya quickly said, “I don’t know what you want me to do, but I’m so weak now, I should develop first. I should keep a low profile if I can, I shouldn't—”

“This is as good as it gets,” the observer said. “I want you to get into trouble. I want you to be high profile all the way, annihilating all enemies standing in your way... And isn't this your wish too?"

"I don't have such a childish and arrogant wish!" Sonya yelled.

"Then," the observer bowed, "I wish you victory in your first battle, thrashing the swordsmanship genius and kicking the Starchild aristocrat."

"No, I absolutely won't—"

"Felix Vlozrada, genius of the Swordsmanship Department."

Sonya raised her wooden sword, pointing at Felix, and said in an arrogant tone she would never use: "In all of Swordflower, only you are qualified to be the stepping stone for me to summon spirit."

"Dare to fight me?"

There was a commotion in the training ground, and the sword learners looked expectant. Westilia almost bit her lips bleeding - indeed, her target was also Felix, and Sonya was directly engaging with Felix in such a cliched but effective way!

Ingritt said in astonishment, "Sonya, you just trained for two hours. Even if you want a swordsmanship match, you should wait until tomorrow..."

"No, it should be now." Felix walked out of the crowd, staring tightly at Sonya. "Two hours, three thousand six hundred swords, from swordsmanship basics to mastery. You are the most talented person I have ever seen, and the second person to make me feel fear. If I don't accept your challenge now, when I wake up tomorrow, I won't even have the courage to draw my sword in front of you."

"Now is possibly my only chance to defeat you. Even if others think I took advantage of you when you were unprepared and tired, I don't care - at least after defeating you tonight, I still have the qualification and courage to chase your shadow!"

"And you're right, in all of Swordflower, only I am worthy of your challenge. Those senior swordsmen in the virtual world, they can only slowly accumulate virtual world's knowledge. They simply cannot compare with you and me. So...come on!"

As he spoke, a large open space had emptied in the training ground. The two stood at opposite ends gripping training swords.

Sonya used the most common mid-position posture, while Felix held the sword in one hand, lifting it high to the side in a seemingly full of openings posture.

"Vibration stance..." Even though Ingritt was a little worried about Sonya, she couldn't help but look forward to their match.

The Vlozrada family was known for its swordsmanship and had four secret stances that could summon spirits. The vibration stance was one of them.

In swordsmanship factions, stances were cultivation methods, summoning methods, and combat methods.

Or rather, the reason swordsmen could summon spirits was because they had sufficient insight into the combat cultivation of that swordsmanship stance, thus evoking the resonance of the virtual world, turning virtual world's knowledge into spirits.

Every basic spirit a swordsman could summon independently meant he had perfectly mastered the corresponding swordsmanship stance.

Felix had also competed with others before, but because Ingritt was focused on learning (unpopular), she didn't get the news. So this was the first time she had seen the legendary vibration stance, and she couldn't help but be tempted, thinking about finding an opportunity to compete with Felix later.

At this moment, she noticed Sonya's cheeks were red and she kept making eyes at her. Ingritt was a little puzzled, and after thinking about it a bit, she understood - Sonya was showing off to her that she could be the first to see the vibration stance!

Although you guys are geniuses, I will definitely catch up to you!

Ingritt clenched her fists and gave Sonya a cheering gesture.

Sonya was utterly helpless - weren't her signals for help in her eyes obvious enough? Why didn't Ingritt hurry up and carry her away!

"What's the point of you controlling my body to fight like this? Even if I win, it's you who won, I'm just a bystander," Sonya said in her heart. "If you just want to manipulate my body, do as you please, I can't resist anyway."

"But last night you let me go through the trial in the dream, and let me train swordsmanship. You wanted me to grow, right? How about this, give me back control of my body, I promise I will fight, even one is not enough, I can take on two, how about that?"

"You think you have a say? That one plus one equals two?" The observer standing next to Ingritt said, "And who told you it's me controlling your body to fight?"

"If it's not you then it's me?"

"It's you yourself." The observer walked over to her and lifted the tip of her sword a little higher: "Do you think I just randomly picked someone to fight you? Do you think I can really disregard your will and forcibly control your body?"

"Why did you train swordsmanship? Because last night you defeated me in the dream, you realized your talent for swordsmanship. You know you have the opportunity to gain power. You know more than ever that you've wasted too much time."

"So you came here and pushed yourself to the limit, just to let others see, to let your roommate Ingritt see that apart from your looks, you also have talent to be proud of!"

"Why did you challenge Felix? From the first time you saw him driving the Galloping Silver Tiger through campus, saw him surrounded by admirers, saw him become the hot topic of the school, you were already jealous of him, envious of him, hating him. You can't resent the mother who raised you through hardships, so you can only resent people like him with a family background and status far above yours."

"What right do they have to obtain everything just by being born? What right do they have to be better than you in everything?"

"Don't lie to your heart, swordswoman," the observer said. "It's you who wants to defeat him, it's you who wants to prove that you, Sonya Therave, are no worse than anyone!"

"It's you who came to the training ground, you who gripped the wooden sword, you who wants to shine brilliantly! Everything stems from your true heart!"

"In fact, I'm very curious why you would think I'm controlling you. After all, except for you, no one else can see me. Don't you find it strange? Don't you doubt...whether I really exist as an observer, or am I just an illusion projected by your mind?"

"I'm done. Now you can push all responsibilities onto me, and...enjoy trampling the genius guilt free!"

Bang!

With a loud noise, the two raised their swords and charged at each other, fighting fiercely!