角色故事•二（解锁条件：角色等级40）
剑，长六尺五寸，重十四斤。
此乃云骑重剑形制，需双手握持挥舞。锋刃蕴藏离火，在接敌瞬间足以切开器兽的惰性外甲。
另有佐战援护的飞剑十二把，接入自「大椎」至「阳关」一线穴道，应使由心，一瞬间施展开来，如惊风疾雨。
她对剑术还不甚了解。她还有很多要学。
戎装女子来不及教她更多，就要率军出征。于是少女的第二课便在战场上学，由那些倒下的敌人教。
「刺」固然简单明了，但动作灵敏的怪物不会自觉迎上剑尖，任由少女处决。于是她学会了「斩」。
接着是「缠」，在力量惊人的怪物面前，少女懂得了以剑脊卸去攻击。
对剑术，她自认已心融神会，于是跳上了身高十倍于己的器兽战卒「龙伯」。
折断所有随身携带的剑，也不过在对手巨硕的身躯上留下成打成打的伤口。
她被巨掌拍飞，躺在战场的血泥里，再度被恐惧淹没。在溺死的关头，她才明白，剑术亦有极限。
一支装填炽火的弩矢炸去了龙伯的头颅。「起来。」戎装女子看着她。
「我不学剑了。这东西…没用。」
「没用？在我手里倒是好用的很。说到底，是人无用罢了。」
「……」
「不学剑，那你想学什么？飞行士星槎上的炼石箭，神臂直配备的炽火弩？还是…朱明仙舟的朱明火？要消灭那颗妖星，有它也尽够了。你想学那些？没毛病，那些东西连照面都不用打，便能杀死对手。」
「…我只是不明白，你为何一定要我学剑！？」
「上至将军下至兵卒，每个云骑都要从出剑开始学起。
「工造司的各色军械确实能代你杀灭敌人，但那些都是兵器自行运作罢了。如果有那么一天，箭矢耗尽、星槎坠落、金人停转，谁来保护你我，谁来保护仙舟？
「握住这柄剑，给我牢牢记着，只有云骑亲自掌剑上阵，才是人类自己的战斗。我们用自己的血肉、自己的技艺向那些非人的孽物们证明，我们必将战胜它们，而不是让机巧代我们行事！」
戎装女子转身离去，将她和断剑留在了演武室里。
剑，长二尺一寸，只余残锋断锷。
Character Story: Part II
• Unlocked at Character Level 40
A sword, 6 feet and 5 inches in length, weighing 14 catties.
This is a Cloud Knight greatsword that must be wielded with both hands. Its edge contains enchanted fire that can split open the mechabeast's inert armor at the moment of contact.
There are 12 Flying Swords providing support, connected into her spinal meridian from the acupuncture points of Dazhui to Yaoyangguan. She needed only to think for these swords to instantly span out like a blistering storm.
She was still unfamiliar with the way of the sword. She still had lots to learn.
The woman in armor had no time to teach her more before the woman was tasked with leading the army on the field. Therefore, the girl's second lesson is to be learned on the battlefield, taught by the enemies she would fall.
"Stab" is easy, but swift monsters won't run into the sword's tip on their own or let the girl execute them. That is how she learned "slash."
"Entangle" is next. Against monsters with overwhelming strength, the girl learned how to parry with the back of the sword to deflect enemy attacks.
She believed she had learned enough of the sword and therefore leapt onto the mechabeast war pawn "Gigantes" that dwarfed her at least ten times over.
She broke all the swords she brought with her and only managed to leave a few dozen cuts on the opponent's gigantic body.
She was whacked away by an enormous hand. Lying in the blood-soaked mud of the battlefield, she was once again swallowed by horror. In that split moment before death claimed her, she finally understood that even the art of swordplay had its limits.
An arrow filled with blazing fire blew off the Gigantes' head. "Get up." The woman in armor looked at her.
"I don't want to learn the sword anymore. It's... useless."
"Useless? It's pretty useful in my hands. It is the wielder who was useless."
"..."
"If you don't learn the sword, what do you want to learn? The alchemical arrows on the pilots' starskiff? The blazing fire flung by divine crossbows? Or... The artillery of the Zhuming Xianzhou? Such instruments would also be enough to destroy that demonic planet. You want to learn about them? Fine. Those things can kill the enemy even from beyond visual range."
"...I just don't understand why you insist on teaching me the sword!?"
"From the general to the smallest pawn, every Cloud Knight starts by learning the sword.
"The various constructs provided by the Artisanship Commission can certainly kill the enemy for you, but those deeds are to the merit of the material rather than the person. If there comes a day that the quivers run empty, that the starskiffs crash, that the aurumatons freeze — Who will protect you and I, then? Who will protect the Xianzhou?
"Hold this sword. Remember, it would not be a true fight for humanity if Cloud Knights didn't wield swords and march onto the battlefield themselves. Rather than letting ingenia do the work for us, we will show our final victory to those inhuman abominations by our own blood and prowess!"
The woman in armor turned and departed, leaving the girl and the broken sword in the training room.
A sword, 2 feet and 1 inch in length, only its broken fragments remained.
