角色故事•三(解鎖條件:角色等級60)
劍,長五尺,重若千鈞,玄黑的鋒刃上血色浮泛。
劍以天外金石之瑛百鍊所成,不遵兵仗規制,一如鍛造它的那位短生種匠人般橫逆不可當,狷狂已極。
從來只與劍為友的她,竟有了許多朋友。
她榮任劍首之日,匠人一襲黑衣出席典禮,負手投劍。劍沒地數尺,惟余其柄。人人譁然。
「我造的劍,唯有羅浮雲騎劍首方能詮盡真妙。」他露齒一笑。
如月般孤高傲岸的羅浮龍尊,因目睹她的神技,竟生出一較高下的勝負心。
槍與劍爭鋒多年,苦無結果。最終她於顯龍大雩殿中一劍分斷海潮,終於贏得龍尊欽服。
飛遍星海、見識廣博的無名客曾為她操舟轉舵,帶來星海彼岸釀成的仙醪,與她酣飲暢談,看天空中的群星熠熠。
「便是天上的星星,我也會斬下。」
她依稀記得酒酣耳熱之際的豪言。自童年記憶中撲面而來的那顆燃燒星宿,那時時牽纏不休的恐怖夢魘仿佛也不再可憎可怖。
舞劍至今,她第一次明白了何謂生機。而在此之前,她所懷者,不過是死志罷了。
還有他,她的徒弟。
她想起與他的初識,這個年紀小小鬼主意卻極多的孩子,曾問出與當年的自己相同的問題。
「師父為何執著於用劍?能殺死敵人的武器有千百種,就算要消滅那顆星星,仙舟的朱明火怕是也能做到。」
「這個問題就像問詩人為何要寫詩一樣?表達自我的方式有許多,但屬於我的只有這一種。」
如今,他也已成為雲騎的翹楚。
她已經沒有老師了。戎裝女子殞於戰陣,無法再教她任何東西。
她也不再需要老師。對關於劍的一切,她瞭如指掌。它們就是身體的一部分,是行走坐臥間的一呼一吸。
人們稱呼她「無罅飛光」,是萬載猶不可得的劍士巔頂。但她明白,要「斬下天上的星星」,她的劍,仍然不夠——
即便她手中握著的,是誇稱仙舟第一的寶劍……
劍,長五尺,重若千鈞,玄黑的鋒刃上血色浮泛。
Character Story: Part III
• Unlocked at Character Level 60
A sword, 5 feet in length, weighing as heavy as three thousand catties. The ebony blade shimmers with a sanguine sheen.
The sword was forged from the nonstop tempering of extraterrestrial ores, a complete deviation from conventional weaponry. Untamed and unyielding, the sword mirrored the defiance and hubris of its short-life species creator.
Once, she had only swords as her companions, but now she found herself with many friends.
The day she was crowned as the Sword Champion, the craftsman attended the ceremony in a black garb and cast out the sword he bore. The sword sank deep into the ground, leaving only its hilt above the soil. All attendees were shocked.
"Only the Sword Champion of the Luofu Cloud Knights can tap into the full potential of this sword I have crafted." He gave a toothy grin.
The high elder of the Luofu, as haughty and detached as the high moon in the sky, felt an irresistible temptation to duel with her upon witnessing her peerless martial prowess with just one simple glance.
The spear and the sword sparred for many years without a conclusion, until she cleaved ocean tides in twain with a single slash in the Dragonvista Rain Hall, and finally won the high elder's concession.
A well-traveled Nameless who had flown across the cosmos had steered vessels for her, bringing divine nectar from the other side of the universe to share with her, and gazed upon the scintillating stars by her side.
"I will cut down even the stars in the sky."
She still vaguely remembers the boasts she made in moments of inebriation. That burning planet rushing towards her in childhood memories, that horrible nightmare that wouldn't let her go — those scenes are no longer so terrifying.
This is the first time she understands what "wanting to live" means in all her years of wielding a sword. Before this moment, she was simply someone ready to die.
And there was her student.
She recalled the first time they met. This young but devious child had asked the same questions as she did.
"Master, why do you insist on wielding a sword? There are thousands of weapons out there that can kill an enemy. If you want to destroy that planet, the Zhuming can probably do it with its artillery."
"This is like asking a poet why they wrote poems. There are many ways to express oneself, but this is the only way for me."
Now, he has also become a shining star amongst the Cloud Knights.
She doesn't have a master anymore. The woman in armor perished on the battlefield and can instruct her no longer.
Nor does she need a master anymore. She knows everything there is to know about swords. They are a part of her body. They are the intake and release of her breath as she walks and sleeps.
People call her the Transcendent Flash, the pinnacle of swordmasters, a once-in-ten-millennia hero. However, she knows that her sword is still not enough to "cut down the star in the sky" —
Even if she is holding the greatest sword in all the Xianzhou...
A sword, 5 feet in length, weighing as heavy as three thousand catties. The ebony blade shimmers with a sanguine sheen.