Next, Ruian asked Helis in detail and finally understood the whole story.
The history of Paarl Comprehensive Academy is very long. Over the years, countless secrets have appeared, and many secrets have been preserved, especially some low-level secrets. Therefore, there are countless low-level secrets preserved in the academy.
For the college, so many secrets are stored in the college. Except for a few that are rewarded to some students for use, the rest can only be left there to mold. This is extremely uneconomical, so the college will transfer some low-level and even mid-level secrets to some students.
Various secrets and copies were secretly produced and sold.
After all, each student only pays a tuition fee of 18 gold coins per year. There are thousands of students in the college, and the total tuition fee is not very much. Although the Principality of Purs provides some subsidies to the college every year, it still cannot meet the needs of the college.
Therefore, selling some low-level secrets to students can not only improve the students' strength, but the college can also get a large amount of money to make up for the lack of funds.
However, all this was done secretly and did not reach the ears of every student. After all, the college secretly selling secrets is not good for the college's reputation.
The academy divides the sales prices into several levels based on the value of the secrets, and there is a huge difference in price between them.
According to Helis, the secrets that the academy sells are basically low-level secrets, with only a handful of mid-level secrets. The prices of these secrets range from dozens of gold coins to thousands of gold coins.
Now Ruian finally understands why the sword skills of most students are so poor? Why did the mercenaries Ruian met before also have poor sword skills? It turns out that they are a bunch of poor people who cannot afford to buy secrets.
Ryan, who had a general understanding, lowered his head again to look at the sword skill manual that Helis had just given him.
Rui'an discovered that in this sword skill manual called "Rapid Sword Quick Strike", all the moves were thrusting sword skills, and the number was very small, only twelve moves. Rui'an took a quick look at it and found that there was nothing surprising about the moves.
It's not even as good as Ruian's improved basic swordsmanship, such as the tricky angle of stabbing.
However, Ruian soon discovered that in this low-level sword skill manual, the moves were secondary. The most important and critical aspect was how to use fighting spirit when performing sword skills to make the moves faster and more agile.
The basic sword skills taught in the academy now are purely about teaching moves, and there is no teaching at all on how to use fighting spirit when performing sword skills.
It's a pity that this sword skill manual belongs to Helis, and it is just suitable for Helis to use a rapier. But Ruian practices heavy swords, so except for some moves in the secret book that can be used for reference, the others are not applicable.
Suddenly, Ruian also wanted to buy a secret book. He calculated all his wealth in his mind and found that there were only about forty gold coins left. In this case, Ruian could only buy a secret book for about 30 gold coins. The rest
The money has to be kept for living expenses.
Next, Ryan couldn't wait to ask Helis to take him to buy the secret book.
Seeing Ruian's anxious look, Helis immediately led Ruian to set off. In fact, Helis showed Ruian the sword skills book he bought himself, and his original intention was to take Ruian to buy it.
The two of them walked quickly and soon arrived at the library.
What surprised Ruian was that Helis led Ruian not into the place where the books were stored, but into one of the small doors. After passing through a dark corridor that was tens of meters long, they came to a room with more than one person.
In front of the wide small door.
Harris knocked on the door without hesitation.
After a while, the small door opened, and a well-armed strong man appeared inside, with an epee hanging from his waist. He was obviously an epee swordsman. The strong man's eyes were very sharp, and he stared at Ryan and Helis.
It doubled the pressure on both of them.
Judging from the situation, the strong man is very strong, maybe a high-level swordsman.
"What's the matter?" the strong man asked stiffly.
"Teacher Machan introduced us to buy the secret book." Harris replied cautiously.
"Come in." The strong man nodded and then stepped aside.
Harris quickly led Ryan into the door, and then, with a "bang", the small door closed heavily behind him.
Ruian suddenly felt a little nervous. He carefully looked at the situation inside. There was also a long corridor here, which was different from the corridor outside. There were several small windows in the corridor outside, allowing sunlight to shine in. So although
It's a little dark, but you can still see the surroundings clearly. However, the corridor here has no sunlight coming in at all, and is completely illuminated by several oil lamps hanging on the walls on both sides.
Looking at the slightly yellow light in the corridor, which made the corridor suddenly dark and bright, Ruian felt a gloomy feeling in his heart.
Fortunately, Helis didn't hesitate and took Ryan forward directly.
Immediately afterwards, the two entered two more small doors, which were guarded by two seemingly powerful swordsmen, and finally came to a room.
Ruian was surprised by the strict security of the academy, but when he thought about it, if it was not strictly protected, it would be easily stolen. There are all valuable secrets in it. If they were all stolen, it would be a huge loss.
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The room has no door, only a one-meter-square window. Looking out the window, there is a large bookshelf with hundreds of books scattered here and there.
"These are probably the secrets for sale." Ruian thought to himself.
When the two people approached the window, an old man sitting at the table inside the window raised his head and stared at the two people.
This old man was probably around 60 or 70 years old. Only the back of his head was covered with white hair, revealing the bare bald head in front. The old man was full of energy and his eyes were sharp, like an unsheathed sword.
"This old man is probably stronger than the three swordsmen in front of him." Ruian secretly judged in his heart.
"What's the matter with you?" the old man asked politely.
"Dear Teacher Khachit, this classmate of mine wants to buy a secret book." Herris' tone and expression were extremely sincere.
"Oh, what's the young man's name?" The old man named Khakit's expression softened slightly and he asked after staring at Ryan for a moment.
"My name is Ryan."
"What grade are you in?"
"Third grade." Ruian's tone was also more sincere.
"Teacher Khachit, this classmate of mine is very talented. He was promoted to two grades in a row last year, from a freshman to a third grader in one year." Helis on the side quickly introduced him to increase his favor.
Sure enough, the old man immediately said with some surprise: "Oh, the young man is quite good. He is qualified to buy secrets. What type of secrets do you want?"
"Excuse me, do you have any tips on epee sword skills?" Ruian had already thought about what he wanted on the way here, so he said without hesitation.
"We have dozens of low-level sword skills tips for epee here, as well as two mid-level tips. What type do you want?" At this time, the old man's expression suddenly changed, like a businessman hawking on the street.
"Hmm... um... which one is the cheapest?" Ryan said hesitantly, he was really embarrassed.
The old man just looked at Ruian deeply, without any disdain in his eyes. Then he picked up a book from the bottom of the bookshelf outside, placed it in front of Ruian, and said: "This epee secret book is called "Strong Cleaving Technique"
, is a low-level sword skill manual that specifically teaches heavy sword splitting skills.”
After saying that, the old man had no intention of handing the book to Ruian to read, and Ruian had no intention of reaching out to pick it up.
"Strong chopping skills? Are all the sword skills in it chopping sword moves? Are there no other moves?" Ruian thought for a moment and asked.
"Yes." The old man replied simply.
"How many gold coins do you need?"
"Fifty gold coins."
Ruian was immediately speechless. His entire net worth was only about forty gold coins. He couldn't afford this secret book.
He hesitated and wanted to bargain, but he really couldn't. Besides, it was not that difficult to negotiate the price from fifty gold coins to about thirty gold coins.
At this moment, Helis next to him quietly leaned into Ryan's ear and whispered: "Isn't the money enough? I'll lend it to you."
Suddenly, Ruian's eyes lit up, but then dimmed again.
Based on Ruian's character in his previous life, he didn't want to borrow money from others, so even if he came to this world, Ruian didn't want to change this habit.
Ruian thought about it again. This low-level sword skill manual that only teaches sword splitting skills is not to Ruian's liking. Among Ruian's current sword skills, moves such as sword splitting are rarely used. He doesn't like this kind of big sword skills.
He prefers moves that can cause big clefts, but prefers moves that are light and unexpected, such as prodding, cunning and insidious moves.
Therefore, it is not worthwhile to borrow money from Helis to buy such an undesirable secret book.
After a while, Ryan shook his head to Helis and said, "Thank you for your kindness. This book is not very suitable for me."
Helis smiled and said nothing more. He understood Ryan's character. Before, Ryan would rather venture to the Territory of Warcraft than accept his funding.
Ruian turned around and said to the old man: "Excuse me, do you have any tips for making it cheaper?"
The old man looked at Ruian deeply again, shook his head and said: "There is no secret book on epee sword skills. This one is the cheapest."
After listening to the old man's words, Ruian became happy. He could hear the meaning of the old man's words, that is, there is no cheaper epee sword skill secret book, and there are other secret books.
Ryan immediately asked eagerly: "So, which one is the cheapest secret?"
In a hurry, Ryan's tone lost its politeness.
Fortunately, the old man didn't mind. He chuckled, turned around and put the book back on the bookshelf, then picked up a book from the bottom of the bookshelf. Then he said to Ruian: "Low-level body skill secrets, 30 gold coins."