Footwork -Lv2, Lin Xiao possibility

After the boxing skill was upgraded, Lin Xiao's punch strength increased significantly.

However, due to the skill upgrade, the speed of gaining experience points dropped again.

But Lin Xiao didn't stop, he continued training.

After all, this was not like "speed memory" or "drawing" or something else; military martial arts was something he needed to keep learning.

Punching, hand strikes, elbow swings, knee strikes, and kicking...

After each movement, Lin Xiao would stop to organize his thoughts, considering what needed to be improved.

Especially when the experience points increased significantly, he would carefully note the key points and repeat the exercise.

Because of this, the accumulation of experience points gradually sped up.

[Boxing - Lv1: Experience +3]

[Boxing - Lv1: Experience +2]

...

Immersed in the joy of progress, Lin Xiao trained himself wholeheartedly, not even noticing that the teacher had been watching him for a long time.

Wang Gang rubbed his stubble with his palm, a look of surprise emerging in his eyes.

"I thought only Wu Zhixing and Fang Wen from Class C had mastered the basics of power generation. I didn't expect this kid to be hiding his abilities..."

Even without looking at the other person's force gauge, Wang Gang, a retired soldier, could tell at a glance.

The conversion of this punch and kick strength had clearly reached the level of a new recruit.

In this school, excluding the fourth-year intern warriors, there were probably only about twenty or thirty students who could achieve this at present.

Recalling the discussion about the sparring class just now, Wang Gang also gradually became interested.

The Military University never stopped students from fighting. If they didn't even dare to practice with others, wouldn't they wet their pants in front of the beasts!?

...

The footwork class was taught consecutively with the boxing class.

The key points of footwork had been covered before, and at this stage, the main focus of Lin Xiao and his classmates' courses was practical evasion and counterattacks, as well as equipment-assisted evasion exercises.

Today was the equipment-assisted evasion exercise.

In the two-meter-wide training lane, the rotating automatic firearms continuously spat out bullets from the barrels.

These bullets were made of rubber and might injure ordinary people.

But the students of the Military University had their bodies baptized by Wei Neng, with muscle strength and skin toughness far exceeding that of ordinary people. Being hit would at most cause a bit of pain.

Lin Xiao wore transparent protective goggles, relaxed his body, slightly leaned forward his center of gravity, and dodged the incoming bullets like a wildcat jumping up and down.

Fiber rods would occasionally probe out from the walls of the lane, each time at different heights, different directions, and very fast speeds.

If hit by it, a person would probably collapse to the ground, subjected to the sweeping fire from the opposite firearms.

Lin Xiao had never been poked by the rod, but he had been hit by bullets.

There was no way, the speed was too fast. Sometimes, when multiple bullets came in quick succession, the body simply couldn't react in time.

...

[Footwork - Lv0: Experience +7]

[Footwork - Lv0 >>> Footwork - Lv1! Potential Points +1]

"...!"

It was as if lubricant had been applied. Lin Xiao immediately felt his steps were more decisive and spontaneous.

The force exerted by his toes, ankles, and the front of his feet became more skillful, and his control of his center of gravity, as well as the turning and twisting of his body, had all reached a new level.

Squatting, jumping up, unloading force, turning around...

Lin Xiao was like performing a tap dance, and the two-meter-wide passage was his stage.

...

The ten-minute bullet deluge ended, and Lin Xiao drank some water to rest.

The screen displayed his score - number of times hit: 98!

Most of the mistakes were made before the skill upgrade. After Footwork reached Lv1, the number of times he was hit greatly decreased.

Lin Xiao looked at the proficiency of Footwork and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Footwork - Lv1 (11.8%)...

So fast! Much faster than other Lv-1 skills.

It took him until the end of the class to reach only 15.5% for Military Boxing - Lv1.

Now it's 11.8% in less than 10 minutes? Why is that?

Lin Xiao's gaze shifted to the machine gun opposite, and then to the fiber rod conduit in the wall.

Pressure...?

Even after Footwork was upgraded to Lv1, Lin Xiao couldn't ignore the bullets. He was still occasionally hit.

The pressure prompted him to continuously improve his footwork, challenge himself, and constantly gain experience points.

If that was the case... then would increasing the pressure make the experience points come in faster?

Lin Xiao walked to the entrance of the passage and turned the switch from level one to level two.

"Come on! Bring it on even harder!"

Once again, the rubber bullets covered the passage. This time, there were more bullets, with a faster rate of fire, and the fiber rods from the walls were now thrusting out two at a time.

...

[Footwork - Lv1: Experience +9]

[Footwork - Lv1: Experience +7]

[Footwork - Lv1 >>> Footwork - Lv2! Potential Points +1]

[Agility: 9 >>> 10!]

During the fifth round of attacks at level two, Lin Xiao's footwork successfully leveled up to Lv2, and even his Agility increased by one point during the training!

This was also the first skill to reach Lv2.

Feeling triumphant, he tried to adjust the machine to level three --

And then he was shot so badly he didn't know which way was up...

It wasn't that Lv2 footwork wasn't strong enough; it was simply that his physical speed and dynamic vision couldn't keep up.

The bullet speed at level three had increased significantly, and the fiber rods had gone from two to four. By the time Lin Xiao reacted, the bullets had already hit his body.

This was a gap in raw strength, something that couldn't be erased by footwork level.

Moreover, speed represented power, and the bullets at level three really hurt!

There was no way around it. Although the pressure at level two had decreased, it still provided enough experience points.

The machine was restarted, and Lin Xiao began his enclosed evasion training again.

...

Wang Gang watched the screen in the monitor with a grave expression.

The student in the video was like a graceful butterfly, dancing passionately with the bullets.

His steps were light and agile, a pleasure to watch.

"How about that~?"

A somewhat ethereal female voice came from the side. Xu Ruomei, the footwork teacher with short, energetic hair and a slender figure, leaned against the table.

She lightly exhaled a puff of ladies' cigarette smoke, her posture as elegant as a cat's.

"I noticed someone adjusted the difficulty in the system, so I specifically checked it out~"

Wang Gang folded his arms across his chest, pondered for a moment, and asked:

"Counting the fourth-year batch, how many students in the entire school can do this?"

"Less than ten~"

Xu Ruomei glanced at the student on the screen and chuckled.

"This footwork would be considered excellent even in the Hunter Assessment; it's unexpected~"

Wang Gang didn't respond. He took out a hard cardboard file from the side and flipped to the first page.

It was a portrait of a student with a handsome and delicate face, a confident smile on his lips.

"Lin Xiao, male, third in the year's comprehensive entrance score, first in Class C... current ranking, 382nd in the year, 36th in the class, fifth from the bottom."

"Quite a contrast, isn't it~?"

"After he entered school, he suffered from a strange illness and fainted from time to time, failing to keep up with everyone else's training."

"Ah~ I know about that."

Xu Ruomei remembered.

Not long ago, this student had collapsed in the mechanism passage like a dead fish, and it was she who carried him to the infirmary.

"This body isn't suitable for the battlefield... why didn't the school ask him to leave~?"

It wasn't that Xu Ruomei was heartless; even if his grades were good, fainting during a fight with beasts was no different from courting death.

"His class advisor told me that Lin Xiao's Wei Neng refinement efficiency is very excellent, second only to the top two."

Xu Ruomei's eyes gradually widened, as if she thought of something.

"Hey~ aren't the top two...?"

"The top two are both ability users."

Wang Gang propped his chin with both hands, confirming Xu Ruomei's guess.

"The school believes that Lin Xiao has the potential to awaken abilities, so they have been keeping an eye on him."

In the entire Lu Zhou Military University, there were only six ability users in total.

As long as an ability awakened, both the military and the Hunter Association would offer direct admission qualifications.