角色故事•二（解鎖條件：角色等級40）
劍，長六尺五寸，重十四斤。
此乃雲騎重劍形制，需雙手握持揮舞。鋒刃蘊藏離火，在接敵瞬間足以切開器獸的惰性外甲。
另有佐戰援護的飛劍十二把，接入自「大椎」至「陽關」一線穴道，應使由心，一瞬間施展開來，如驚風疾雨。
她對劍術還不甚了解。她還有很多要學。
戎裝女子來不及教她更多，就要率軍出征。於是少女的第二課便在戰場上學，由那些倒下的敵人教。
「刺」固然簡單明了，但動作靈敏的怪物不會自覺迎上劍尖，任由少女處決。於是她學會了「斬」。
接着是「纏」，在力量驚人的怪物面前，少女懂得了以劍脊卸去攻擊。
對劍術，她自認已心融神會，於是跳上了身高十倍於己的器獸戰卒「龍伯」。
折斷所有隨身攜帶的劍，也不過在對手巨碩的身軀上留下成打成打的傷口。
她被巨掌拍飛，躺在戰場的血泥里，再度被恐懼淹沒。在溺死的關頭，她才明白，劍術亦有極限。
一支裝填熾火的弩矢炸去了龍伯的頭顱。「起來。」戎裝女子看着她。
「我不學劍了。這東西…沒用。」
「沒用？在我手裏倒是好用的很。說到底，是人無用罷了。」
「……」
「不學劍，那你想學什麼？飛行士星槎上的鍊石箭，神臂直配備的熾火弩？還是…朱明仙舟的朱明火？要消滅那顆妖星，有它也盡夠了。你想學那些？沒毛病，那些東西連照面都不用打，便能殺死對手。」
「…我只是不明白，你為何一定要我學劍！？」
「上至將軍下至兵卒，每個雲騎都要從出劍開始學起。
「工造司的各色軍械確實能代你殺滅敵人，但那些都是兵器自行運作罷了。如果有那麼一天，箭矢耗盡、星槎墜落、金人停轉，誰來保護你我，誰來保護仙舟？
「握住這柄劍，給我牢牢記着，只有雲騎親自掌劍上陣，才是人類自己的戰鬥。我們用自己的血肉、自己的技藝向那些非人的孽物們證明，我們必將戰勝它們，而不是讓機巧代我們行事！」
戎裝女子轉身離去，將她和斷劍留在了演武室里。
劍，長二尺一寸，只余殘鋒斷鍔。
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.
