Mystery: Emerging From Knowledge Moor

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After successfully surviving Mr. Kosith's little class, Captain Icanton assigned everyone new tasks.

"Cowes, Jessica, the two of you come with me to check out the chaotic district in the south of the city. There may be foreign Beyonders gathering there. The rest of you stay put," Captain Icanton simply assigned the tasks to everyone.

After Captain Icanton left the team with Jessica and Mr. Kosith, the three people who had been sitting together listening to Mr. Kosith's little class looked at each other.

"Was Madan always like this, with incidents happening one after another?" Leyton asked with some curiosity.

"Of course not. We used to barely have anything happen in a month. Even if there was, most of them were ghosts or something, and even half of those were fake Beyonder incidents," Josie said, shaking her head.

"Recently, the Church of the Earth Mother has been busy dealing with the aftermath of the previous hospital incident and can't spare too many people, so they've handed over most of the Beyonder incident handling in the city to us," Sia said, approaching at some unknown time.

"Are we free now?" Leyton said to Sia, who had approached.

"If there are no accidents, then yes. Why are you staring at me like that? Do you have any thoughts of taking shortcuts?" Sia gave Leyton a captivating smile.

"What shortcuts?" Joseph asked curiously, not understanding.

"Ahem! What shortcuts are there? You must have misheard. I told you not to immerse yourself in the world of knowledge all day long," Josie stopped Joseph's strong curiosity and changed the subject.

Leyton felt that Josie's performance was a little strange. He seemed to be a little tempted by what he said before? This made Leyton feel a little surprised, and then excited, as if he could look forward to what would happen next.

"I want to learn some fighting skills from you again. The last temporary training gave me a lot of help when I encountered the clown, so I want to..." Leyton didn't reveal what he was thinking, but instead talked to Sia about practicing fighting.

"Oh~, so our little Leyton wants to get beaten up again!" Sia said with a teasing smile, but she didn't refuse Leyton's request.

"Do you two want to learn some fighting skills?" Sia turned her gaze to Josie and Joseph, who were on the side.

Originally, when they heard Leyton say that they were going to practice fighting, they were very interested. After all, the early stage of a Reader is really weak. Apart from the strengthening of memory and comprehension, there is no difference from ordinary people.

However, after hearing Sia's words, the scene of themselves being rubbed on the ground by Sia immediately appeared in their minds, and the two shook their heads in perfect synchronization.

"No, thank you!"

"Okay, you two are really cowards. Even if I beat you up, wouldn't I heal you?" Sia said with a disdainful tone.

"Heal the injuries and then continue to beat us up?" At this moment, the thoughts of Josie and Leyton were surprisingly synchronized.

In the end, only Leyton followed Sia to the training ground. Leyton originally wanted to bring Bugs Bunny with him, but the rabbit jumped into the hat with a whoosh and slipped into the cabinet under the table through the opening characteristics of the hat.

"This rabbit is getting more and more slippery and harder to trick!" Leyton sighed.

He turned the Great Magician's Top Hat, which was upside down on the table, over so that the hat was right side up on the table.

After losing contact between the top of the hat and the table, the opening characteristic of the hat could not take effect, and Bugs Bunny could only honestly be an autistic rabbit in the cabinet.

After Leyton and Sia arrived at the training ground together, Leyton felt a faint pain all over his body. The experience of being brutally beaten by Sia last time echoed in Leyton's mind.

"Why don't I practice my marksmanship first? I think my marksmanship also has a lot of room for improvement." Thinking that he was going to get beaten up again, Leyton suddenly felt a little cowardly.

"A lot of room for improvement? You've mastered the art of language quite well," Sia raised her eyebrows slightly and said.

"As long as you can hit a fixed target with your marksmanship, that's enough. The subsequent potions will improve your ability in this area, so don't be in a hurry to master such powerful marksmanship," Sia denied Leyton's excuse.

"Okay, be gentle!" Leyton said, taking a few steps back imperceptibly.

"Yo! You've become so cautious? Do you know what the definition of fighting is?" Sia didn't care about Leyton's secret retreat, but instead asked an irrelevant question.

"The definition of fighting?" Leyton was stunned for a moment.

After thinking for a while, he said: "Relative to the combatants themselves, close-range combat with mutual offense and defense?"

What responded to Leyton's words was the sole of a black boot.

"Bang~" Leyton didn't even have time to react and make a dodging action before he flew out and fell to the floor.

"You! Sneak attack," Leyton wailed, lying on the ground.

"One of the essentials of fighting is to observe the environment at all times and not be negligent in the slightest," Sia said in a cold voice.

Leyton didn't refute Sia's words, but immediately rolled twice on the ground. Then Sia's foot landed on the spot where Leyton had just fallen.

This was Leyton's speculation based on the change in Sia's voice position, and he didn't have time to think about it.

"Not bad, the reaction is faster," Sia's praise and fierce attack arrived together.

Leyton, who had just gotten up from the ground and hadn't stood up yet, was kicked away again. Leyton noticed Sia's attack, but his body couldn't keep up with the computer's reaction speed, so he could only watch helplessly as he was kicked out again.

"No, why do you like kicking people so much!" Leyton complained loudly.

He strongly suspected that Sia had some special fetish. Then he was kicked in another direction, and he stumbled and crawled on the ground to stabilize his body before he could barely stand up.

"To beat you, one foot is enough," Sia said the most sarcastic words in the gentlest voice.

Leyton really wanted to complain that Sia also worked part-time as a Provoker on the Hunter pathway. Just this sentence could make the opponent's blood pressure soar.

Unfortunately, Sia didn't give Leyton a chance to speak, and a whip kick attacked Leyton's face. Leyton, who had just gotten up, bent down again and dodged a position to the side, and then, learning Sia's movements, he also threw a whip kick.

But unfortunately, before his leg could land on Sia's body, she caught it with one hand, and then used force on his wrist to directly pull Leyton into the air and spin him around before slamming him to the ground.

"Ah! Hiss~"

"My leg, it seems to be broken," Leyton lay on the ground in pain, sucking in cold air.

"It's not broken, it's just dislocated," Sia said in a faint tone.

"Just dislocated?" Leyton felt that it was a stupid decision to ask Sia to practice fighting, and it was extremely stupid to ask her a second time.

Sia walked to Leyton's side and bent down, pressing one hand on Leyton's thigh and pinching his calf with the other.

"Crack~" With a sound, she neatly straightened Leyton's dislocated leg bone.

"Ah~" After the leg bone was straightened, Leyton belatedly felt a burst of pain and screamed again.

"Okay, stop yelling. If others hear you, they'll think I'm torturing you!" Sia's tone was very disdainful at this time.

Leyton lay on the ground, not wanting to move at all, like a salted fish who had lost his dream.

Sia threw a bottle of healing potion to Leyton: "Drink it yourself. If there are any serious external injuries on your body, you can also apply it."

"This is a lesson. Don't show off when fighting. If you're not sure, don't make stupid moves that make you lose your balance. Otherwise, this will be the best outcome. The skill of fighting is to solve the enemy in the simplest and most effective way," Sia explained while Leyton was taking the potion.

"I know, thank you, Sister Sia. Although you are indeed very heavy-handed, the effect is very good. I will definitely not make this mistake again," Leyton nodded to show that he had remembered.

"Let's stop here today. You rest for a while and recover from your injuries, otherwise your family will think you were robbed on the way home," Sia said and left the training ground.

After Sia left, Leyton lay alone on the ground of the training ground, recalling the process of being beaten up by Sia just now. The biggest mistake was his counterattack after dodging Sia's attack at the end.

"Actually, whether I kicked or punched, the final result would be about the same, but I chose the most wrong way," Leyton said to himself, lying on the ground.

"One of the essentials of fighting is to observe the environment at all times and not be negligent in the slightest. My performance just now can be said to be a mess," Leyton reflected on his performance just now and did some self-reflection.

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