Bab 51: Chapter 29 Assassination

Winters had never seen such a flexible one-handed sword before.

Compared to common one-handed arming swords, the longsword's blade could already be considered slender.

Yet the one-handed sword in the robed figure's hands was even more delicate than the blade of the longsword, and despite being a one-handed sword, its length was no shorter than the two-handed sword Winters wielded.

How could something so long be so flexible? It was utterly baffling.

Fortunately, this wasn't a competition; there were no points to score.

The Winters of old believed that swordsmanship depended on sparring, and that so-called insights into swordsmanship were just useless nonsense. But after clashing with pirates in a boarding fight, he began to ponder anew the teachings of his teacher, Richard Nal.

"Don't just charge blindly; your footwork must be agile."