"Huh...huh..."
"No more..."
"Take a break... Phew... you are too... too strong..."
"I'm a little...somewhat can't stand it..."
Xio stood in the middle of the open space, her cheeks flushed, her mouth opened to breathe, her left hand supporting her waist, and her right hand fanning her face constantly, looking like she was exercising excessively.
Varina wasn't easy either, but his performance was much better than Hugh's.
He was holding on to a birch tree, breathing slowly and deeply to regain his strength.
This was more than an hour after the combat training started.
During this period of time, Forsi watched from the sidelines and witnessed Varina's entire process of improving his fighting skills from scratch, from unfamiliarity to proficiency.
At the beginning, Varina followed Xio and performed some regular warm-up actions such as running, jumping, stretching, and leg presses to adjust his body condition and prepare for the subsequent practice.
After that, Hugh began to teach Varina basic boxing footwork and power techniques.
Thanks to Varina's double-amplified body coordination, his progress was very fast. In about half an hour, he mastered these movements to a great extent.
As long as he continues to practice, within two or three weeks, he will be able to master these steps and techniques and turn them into physical instincts.
This kind of training progress is naturally impossible for ordinary people, but for extraordinary people with fighting ability, this can only be regarded as a normal level.
Xio's Sequence 9 "Arbiter" can also provide excellent fighting ability, which is how she came to be.
Relatively speaking, Forsi's Sequence 9 "Apprentice" is much worse. It is estimated that it may be better than pure knowledge sequences such as "Soothsayer" and "General Knowledge". After all, he is still an "Apprentice". It makes sense to hurry up.
Then, Varina and Xio started sparring.
They started by slowly feeding moves, then gradually increased the speed, and finally ended up randomly launching moves. It only took about half an hour in total.
A novice fighter like Varina would naturally not be able to compete with Hugh in a competition of moves.
During the sparring process, he was hit by Xio many times, but almost all of his attacks were blocked by Xio.
However, although this kind of sparring mainly relies on moves to determine the level, if the physical strength difference between the two parties is too large, then physical strength will also become another key.
Obviously, Varina's double-augmented body is much stronger than Xio's.
"Varina, are you sure you are an 'assassin' and not a 'warrior'?"
Forsi was amazed by Varina's strength and endurance. "Assassin" was clearly a profession that used ingenuity.
"Of course it's the 'Assassin', it's true."
Wariner spoke between breaths and explained:
"Although my strength exceeds that of Xio, it is still within the range of ordinary people. The strength of a real 'warrior' is far beyond that of ordinary people. I think I can't compare."
"Unless I use the 'Assassin' charge burst technique."
Forsi nodded and accepted this statement.
In fact, for ordinary "assassins", Varina is absolutely right, but he is an exception.
In the process of sparring with Xio, he actually did not fully exert his full strength. Varina made a wild guess without any basis, and concluded that his power might be close to that of a "warrior".
At this time, Xio also started to catch his breath and joined in the conversation.
"Very well, Varina, you are progressing a little faster than I thought."
Xio looked at Varina with surprised eyes and continued:
"It seems that 'Assassin' is an excellent sequence path. It is the strongest among the sequence paths that I know of."
"I originally planned to train you to master weapons tomorrow, but now I think I can start early."
"Do you have any weapons with you, such as a dagger or a three-pointed thorn?"
"If not, today you can first get familiar with the three-pointed thorns I brought."
As Xio spoke, he looked at Forsi who was standing beside him.
Forsi still didn't know what Xio meant, so he nodded to her, took out the hidden weapon from his coat, and threw it to the center of the field with a raised hand.
The three-edged thorn spun around in the air a few times, and finally fell straight down and was inserted into the relatively solid mud.
"There's no rush, let's take a rest," Varina waved his hand, "While I'm at it, I have something else I want to discuss with you."
He glanced at the two of them and asked with a smile:
"I don't know if you are interested in the bounty sent to my door. I estimate it will be no less than 30 pounds. The commission is not difficult at all."
"What commission?"
Xio was obviously very interested, and Forsi also cast a curious and inquiring look.
"We're looking for someone to entrust us with. We're looking for a young man who disappeared in the East District."
Varina stopped smiling, and his expression became serious and solemn.
"Missing time?"
Hugh also became serious and stepped into the role of bounty hunter.
"It's been more than a month."
Xiu frowned slightly and asked again:
"The reason for the disappearance?"
"Disappeared after a run-in with a gang."
Xio's frown deepened, "This commission is not as easy as you said."
She makes accurate judgments based on her own experience:
"The missing young man could be anywhere, such as at the bottom of the Tasok River, deep in the sewers, or turned into ashes..."
"You are right, this kind of commission is indeed difficult." Varina nodded in agreement with Xio's judgment, but the corners of his mouth turned up, "However, this commission I mentioned is an exception."
"Stop being pretentious," Xio urged, "hurry up and get to the point."
"Ha ha."
Warina laughed a few times and then revealed the answer: "Because the person you are looking for is me."
"What's going on?" Even Forsi couldn't help but wonder this time.
She asked:
"You mean, someone entrusted you to find yourself? How could such a thing happen?"
"Are you sure you're not kidding?"
Xio looked at Forsi and nodded with deep understanding.
"The publisher of the commission, the person who wanted to find me, is actually my cousin."
Varina took a step back and leaned against the birch tree beside him. "It happened to me that he commissioned a detective to find my whereabouts."
Then, he briefly described what happened after the conflict between himself and the Dead Eel Gang, and then told how he accidentally learned about the missing person commission at the shooting club in the morning.
"It's a coincidence, right?" Wariner said. "If I didn't want to practice fighting with you, I definitely wouldn't go to the shooting club in the morning."
"In that case, it will be a question of whether we will meet Detective Zerrell."
"Then why don't you just admit your identity?" Xio couldn't understand what Varina did at that time, "Why are you still pretending to be a bounty hunter?"
Varina shook his head, "I have become an Beyonder, and I still have troubles to solve. Now that I have disappeared, I don't want them to find me again."
"In this situation, further severing ties is also a kind of protection for them."
As he spoke, he suddenly sighed, "Maybe, in the future..."
