角色故事•三
他只能见一片殷红，嘴里腥甜，四肢绵软
——自己应是死了。

怪物再次吞噬了他，但这次他面对的不是别人。
高大的铠甲沉默不语，他被牢牢禁锢在那双手臂中，说话的是戴墨镜的女人。

“听我说，我可以再杀你一遍，否则没法把你带回去。”
她的声音很温柔，连他体内的怪物也安静了下来，听她说话。
“但我不想那么做。”
女人俯下身，在他耳边轻语。那是他无法拒绝的交易。
“你们想要什么？”
“还有比目睹不死之人如何死去更令人高兴的事么？‘他’这么说。”

高大铠甲松开了手臂。“命运”已在前方，他会同他们一起走。
“听我说，阿刃，放轻松。”
“听我说，你什么都不要想。”
他点点头，女人走到他身边。她笑着，他却觉得那笑容非常悲伤。
“也许有人离开了她，没有听她说完话。”他想。  

Character Story: Part III

The only thing he could sense was a splotch of crimson in his sight and the taste of iron in his mouth. His limbs were unresponsive.
— He must have died.

The monster swallowed him again, but this time, his enemy is not another person.
The imposing armor stayed quiet. He was grappled and imprisoned within those pair of arms. The speaker was the woman with sunglasses.

"Listen, I can always kill you again, otherwise I can't bring you back."
Her voice was very gentle, and even the monster inside his body stayed silent to listen to her.
"But I don't want to."
The woman leaned down and whispered in his ear. It was a deal he couldn't refuse.
"What do you people want?"
"Is there anything more satisfying than seeing how the undying die? That's what 'he' said."

The giant armor loosened its arms. "Destiny" was ahead, and he will be leaving with them.
"Listen, Bladie, loosen up."
"Listen, don't think about anything at all." He nodded. The woman walked to his side, smiling. Yet he thought her smile looked very sad.
"Maybe someone left her before they could listen to everything she had to say," he thought.

角色故事•四
他什么都看不见了。

他想起几十年前，自己随商船来到仙舟，为此地的鬼斧神工所折服。
少年茶饭不思，肆意挥洒自己的灵感，他锻造百种奇物，其中有四件最为著名。

名为“支离”的剑通体无瑕，漆色中泛着血光，只有仙舟最强剑士方能诠释此剑的真谛。
狐人少女曾在绝境中用曲弓三箭并发，却仍不忘一边驾驶星槎一边同众人谈笑。
黑发龙角的男子以御水之术为同伴疗伤，在下个瞬间又将水附着于长枪之上，瞬间刺穿敌方。
还有那总爱同他拌嘴的少年，见到这把阵刀时，却是一把抢了过去，再也不愿放手。

如今，██已经死了，这最初的、唯一的死亡。
但他仍在此处，那尚如少年的头脑思索着，他将永远思索着。
他思索着自己不再灵巧的双手，那双手已无法再打造任何兵刃
——但这一切与他无关。
从今往后，那具躯壳，将是唯一的“刃”。  

Character Story: Part IV

He could no longer see anything.

He remembered that, decades ago, he came to the Xianzhou with a merchant vessel and was impressed by the superb craftsmanship of this place.
The young man was obsessed to the point of forgetting to eat or drink, and spent his inspiration like he was running out of time. He forged hundreds of marvels, four of which were the most famous.

The sword named Shard Sword was flawless in its make, its inky body glimmered with a sheen of sanguine. Only the strongest swordmaster on the Xianzhou could demonstrate the true meaning of this blade.
The foxian girl once loosened three arrows simultaneously with her recurve bow in a dire situation, while still continuing to navigate the starskiff and laughing with the others.
The black-haired man with dragon horns used his water manipulation abilities to rejuvenate his allies, and in the next moment he bound the water upon his spear and used it to run his enemies through.
There was also the boy who kept bickering with him. Yet the moment the youth saw the Devastator Glaive, he grabbed it and never wished to part with it.

Now, ██ had died. His first — and only — death.
However, he was still here, his youth-like brain churning and thinking - thinking for all eternity.
He thought about his hands that were no longer dexterous. The hands that could no longer forge another weapon.
— But none of this mattered to him.
From this moment on, that body will be the one and only "Blade."

丹恒•饮月

角色详情
丹恒接纳了上一世“饮月君”所遗存的力量，所展露的持明族本相。
既然接受了额顶的峥嵘角冠，便也要接受那人所负的一切功过。
但从始至终，他都不是他。  

Character Details

Dan Heng's true Vidyadhara form, revealed after accepting the residual powers from the previous reincarnation of "Imbibitor Lunae."
Upon accepting the majestic horned crown atop his forehead, he must accept all the merits and faults attributed to that person.
However, he was never himself.

角色故事•一（解锁条件：角色等级20）
无光的幽暗中，他仿佛回到持明卵中，在波涛与幻梦里辗转来去。

他梦见自己站在祭坛上，舞雩吟诵。歌谣与手势不过是表象，双眸中放出的光明，血脉中涌动的风暴才是真髓。他信手编织鳞渊境中如烟似雾的浪涛，将躁狂的“龙”镇入蔓生的巨木中。随着长吟冲天散去，鳞渊境将再续数百年的平静，而他的使命也宣告完成。

礼毕，他回头望去。离去的石阶上，不知何时站立着数不清龙角华服的尊者。他们宛如镜中留影，以微妙的误差一个个舞袖、转身、准备离去。不可尽数的人结成天梯，向着无穷尽的虚空延伸出去，所有人的面容每日晨起时都在镜中与他相见——那是他的脸。

不，那是属于最初的龙尊的脸。他苦笑着，将手掌覆上自己的五官，似在确认自己是否能撕下这副面具，将它交还给真正的主人。

他做不到。  

Character Story: Part I

• Unlocked at Character Level 20

In the dim abyss devoid of light, he seemed to have returned to the insides of a Vidyadhara egg, being ceaselessly churned in tumultuous waves and elusive dreams.

He dreamed he was standing before a sacrificial altar, dancing and chanting. However, the songs and gestures were mere facades. The light emanating from his eyes and the storm roiling in his blood were the true forces at play. Casually, he wove the misty and foggy tide in Scalegorge Waterscape, sealing the maddened and frenzied "dragon" into the propagating giant tree. As the echoing roar streamed up into the heavens and dissipated, Scalegorge Waterscape will continue its peace for centuries more, and his duty was over.

The ceremony ended, and he turned to look behind him. In the blink of an eye, the stairs he had stepped down from had become full of standing dignitaries with draconic horns and dressed like royalty. As if they were mirages in a mirror, each of them turned and their sleeves swirled with the motion, ready to leave one after another in a meticulously calculated arrangement. Innumerable, they formed a staircase to the sky, stretching into the never-ending spatial void. The faces of all these people would greet him every morning in his dressing mirror — That was his face.

No, it was the face of the primordial, the original, the very first high elder. He smiled bitterly and covered his face with his palm, as if ascertaining whether he could tear off this mask and return it to its true owner.

He could not.

角色故事•二（解锁条件：角色等级40）
无光的幽暗中，他仿佛回到持明卵中，在波涛与幻梦里辗转来去。

他梦见自己抵达战场，如神明亲临。悬于云端，军阵似蝼蚁般渺小，云车和星槎如注定要赴火的飞萤。这就是凡人的生命…这就是龙的视角吗？一丝骄慢涌起，令他心意冰冷。他忙将目光投向那些与他一同厮杀、一同欢饮的人们：

疾驰而过的飞行士丝毫不在意队列齐整，随兴射击，任由装填炽火的弩箭落在奔突的步离甲士间；

在星槎所指的方向上，有位白发剑士当先一人，随锋刃舞蹈，在剑光中穿梭，其锋芒太盛，连她的同僚也不敢与之同列，只是殿后策援；

平日与他谈笑的那位云骑骁卫则收起一身闲散，手持阵刀，与所部军士们抵抗着侧翼袭来的步离战卒；

本阵后方，随军的匠作们调试着巨大的金人，也许那名狷狂的匠人此刻正挥汗如雨——这些数十米高的军械是应对器兽的杀手锏；

随后他瞧见了彼时的将军腾骁，他如同帝弓的化身笼罩在金色雷霆中，与自己的幻影犁过敌人的战兽军阵……

溃不成军的步离人开始逃窜。他明白，该是执行自己被交付的使命了。他放任心智消融于风暴和冰雹里，由雷霆代他咆哮，由海啸替他愤怒。他悬于云端，看着被渊薮吞没的敌人，也看着身后的土地，许多人类、持明与狐族，他们永远留在战场上，无法再看一眼故乡。

龙心告诉他，那不过是世上又拂去了些许微尘。战争伴随代价，生命终会再生——龙裔也绝非仅有持明一支。但人心悸痛着，为那些与他战友一样，有着温暖血肉的同袍，为那些也许能活更久，如今却无法再返其乡的凡人而疼痛。  

Character Story: Part II

• Unlocked at Character Level 40

In the dim abyss devoid of light, he seemed to have returned to the insides of a Vidyadhara egg, being ceaselessly churned in tumultuous waves and elusive dreams.

He dreamed he arrived at the battlefield like the descent of a god. He hovered with the clouds — the military formations below him were tiny as ants, and the airborne chariots and starskiffs were moths destined to die in a flame. Such were the lives of mortals... Was this the viewpoint of a dragon? A sliver of hubris rose up and plunged his heart into emotionless and icy detachment, and he hurriedly cast his gaze toward those with whom he had fought and shared liquor:

The pilot who zoomed past did not care whether the formation was orderly. She shot at will, letting the arrows filled with blazing fire fall on the storming borisin foot soldiers...

Along the direction pointed out by the starskiffs, a white-haired swordswoman spearheaded into the fray ahead of the entire army, dancing with her sharp blade. She dashed between flashes of metallic light, her actions too sharp to even let her allies come near, reducing them to merely supporting her from behind...

On the other hand, the Cloud Knight Lieutenant who used to chat and laugh with the dragon contained his languid indolence, holding his devastator glaive in hand as he stood with his men to repel the borisin pawns attacking from the battlefield's wings...

And behind the main host, the military engineers who marched with the army were adjusting and testing giant aurumatons... perhaps that exceedingly arrogant craftsman was now working at full speed, for these machines hundreds of feet tall are specialized weapons designed to counter the mechabeasts...

Then, he saw the general of yesteryear, Teng Xiao. He was enveloped in golden lightning like the avatar of the Reignbow, plowing through the enemies' rows of war beasts with his divine mirage...

The devastated borisins began to flee. He knew it was time to carry out the duty entrusted to him. So he let go — letting his consciousness disappear in storms and hails, letting thunder roar for him, letting tsunamis rage for him. He floated on top of clouds, watching the enemies getting swallowed by the watery abyss, and watching the land behind him. Many humans, Vidyadhara, and foxians were eternally left there, unable to lay their eyes upon their home ever again.

The dragon heart told him that it was but a small speck of dust brushed away from the world. Wars come with a price, but life will always thrive once more — the Vidyadhara are not the only branch of Long's Scions. However, his human heart ached for those comrades who, like him, had warm flesh and blood, and for those mortals who might have lived longer but now could return home nevermore.

角色故事•三（解锁条件：角色等级60）
无光的幽暗中，他仿佛回到持明卵中，在波涛与幻梦里辗转来去。

他梦见自己分开海水，来到宫墟深处，埋葬故友残存的碧血，或是创造许久未诞的新生——又或者这两件事本是一体，是久久无法实践的渴望，是压垮巨龙的最后一根稻草。匠人持剑一路护卫，血痕累累。他敦促自己下定决心。

“倏忽死了…我们赢了，可还能再赢几次？我们还要付出多少像这样的代价？”
“看看这建木，它依然还活着。只要建木矗立，怪物们…它们可以一遍遍卷土重来。仙舟人、狐人和持明对抗孽物的战争，永远不会结束。”
“是啊，我们每个人都没什么特别的！我们每个人都只有一次生命，为这个牺牲，为那个去死…这全都是我们自己的选择。就像她选择了救你和镜流…就像她选择了让更多人活下去！”

战争，还有那些在战争中消失的生命，每个都和自己一样，是呼吸着的人。
他想起那些人的脸庞，疲倦地合上了眼，下定决心。
“如果有机会…我们也会选择让她，还有更多人活下去。
——持明有自己的解救之道。我可以试试。”

梦中之梦，身外化身。他回到了自我即将消逝的前一刻，冷眼旁观看着自己化为龙形，与那团无定变化的血肉之影纠缠角斗。濒死的幻觉中，神使向他展现了诡丽的图景，星辰像血红细胞般翕张着吟唱，宇宙堕入肉与欲望的渊薮。龙心努力搏动，奋起爪牙、吐息和愤怒——可无论如何强大，生命也不能对抗生命之神的使者本尊。

直到一艘星槎如箭矢刺穿了一切，他看到那个女孩从废墟中艰难爬出，手中高举着一轮绝对黑暗的“太阳”。在那快如永恒的瞬息里，他看着她的手消逝，看着她的面容消逝，他看着她消逝——那物什将周遭的一切碎为最细腻的齑粉，卷入力量的风暴里，连同女孩自己。

一缕碎发和几滴血落地。证明她存在过的痕迹，只剩这些了。  

Character Story: Part III

• Unlocked at Character Level 60

In the dim abyss devoid of light, he seemed to have returned to the insides of a Vidyadhara egg, being ceaselessly churned in tumultuous waves and elusive dreams.

He dreamed that he parted the ocean's waters and came to the palace ruin depths, burying the remnants of his old friend's hallowed blood, or creating a new life that had not been seen for millennia — or, perhaps, those two actions were one and the same, an unattainable desire that could not be carried out for long years in the past, a final straw that broke the gargantuan dragon's back. The craftsman was covered in blood and wounds as he guarded the dragon with a sword in his hand. He urged himself to commit to the decision.

"Shuhu is dead... we won, but how many more victories can we manage to achieve? How many more prices like this must we pay?"
"Look, the Ambrosial Arbor still stands. So long as it is alive, the monsters... they can come back again and again. The war of the Xianzhou natives, foxians, and Vidyadhara against the abominations will never end."
"Yes, none of us are special! Each of us has only one life, sacrificing for this, dying for that... it's all our own choices. Just like how she chose to save you and Jingliu... just like how she chose to let more people live on!"

War, and the lives that expired in the war, were living beings just like him.
He shut his eyes wearily, remembering their faces, and made up his mind.
"If there's a chance... we will also choose to let her and more people live on.
We, the Vidyadhara, have our own way of salvation. I can give it a try."

Like an out-of-body experience, like a dream within a dream, he returned to the moment before his sense of self disappeared. With a cold and emotionless mind, he observed himself turning into a dragon, entangled and fighting claw-and-fangs against that bulb of shapeshifting shadow of flesh and blood. In an illusion seen on the verge of death, the emissary of the god showed him an unsettling, beautiful scene — the stars pulsated and sang hymns like red blood cells, and the universe descended into an abyss of flesh and desires. The dragon heart beat to its limit, raising its fangs, breath, and fury — however, no matter how mighty it was, a "lifeform" cannot defy the true body of god of life's envoy.

...Until a starskiff ran everything through like an arrow shaft. He saw that girl crawling out of the ruins with great difficulty, lifting a "sun" of absolute darkness in her hand. In that fleeting eternity, he saw her hand disappear, saw her face disappear, and saw HER disappear — That item had ground everything around it into the finest dust and dragged them into a vortex of raw power, including that girl.

A tuft of hair and a few drops of blood fell to the floor as evidence of her existence. Those were the only traces she left.

角色故事•四（解锁条件：角色等级80）
无光的幽暗中，他仿佛回到持明卵中，在波涛与幻梦里辗转来去。

他梦见锁龙针钉入身躯，珊瑚金造就的锁链重重捆缚，将他悬吊在幽囚狱里。他梦见长老们来了又去，询问他妙法的真相和龙心的所在。他沉默不语。

他梦见幽府的判官们来到他面前宣读判词，要判他大辟入灭。他沉默不语。

他梦见白发的云骑骁卫前来看望他，为他带来斡旋的结果。持明们不许他死去，也不许他离去。他沉默不语。

他梦见再度与他们举杯共饮，他梦见自己褪去龙鳞，他梦见自己重回卵中，成了另一个人。

他梦见了许多许多，就像一场永远不会结束，名为“自我”的幻戏。

幻戏之后，是更清晰却不可及的虚像。

他看见自己被放逐，他看见自己登上一辆列车，他看见自己奔向遥远的星空，再不回头。  

Character Story: Part IV

• Unlocked at Character Level 80

In the dim abyss devoid of light, he seemed to have returned to the insides of a Vidyadhara egg, being ceaselessly churned in tumultuous waves and elusive dreams.

He dreamed of the Dracocatena Nails being staked into his body, and chains of corallium winding around him to hang him in midair in the Shackling Prison. He dreamed the elders coming and going to interrogate him about the truth of the Arcanum and the whereabouts of the dragon heart. He did not speak.

He dreamed of the Judges coming before him to read their decision and wanting to sentence him to death. He did not speak.

He dreamed of the white-haired Cloud Knight Lieutenant coming to visit him and bringing him news of the Lieutenant's negotiations. The Vidyadhara did not permit him to die, nor did they permit him to leave. He did not speak.

He dreamed he was raising his cup to drink with the others again, that he molted off his scales, and that he returned to the egg, and became someone else.

He dreamed many, many things, like a never-ending immersia entitled "Self."

Following the immersia was an even clearer but unreachable illusion.

He saw himself being exiled. He saw himself boarding an express. He saw himself running into the endless stars, never looking back.

镜流

角色详情
传奇“云上五骁”之一，人送尊号“无罅飞光”。
超脱了人间的胜负，为了获得斩杀“神”的力量，她选择走上截然不同的道路。
至此之后，仙舟的记录中少了一个罗浮“剑首”，多了一个名字被抹去的“叛徒”。  

Character Details

Former Sword Champion of the Luofu, and the reason behind the Cloud Knights' mythical reputation of implacable might.
Now, her name has been wiped from the records, and she is a traitor of the Xianzhou walking on the fine line between sanity and mara-struck.

角色故事•一（解锁条件：角色等级20）
剑，长三尺七寸，轻如无物。
它并非凡铁熔铸，而是一截坚冰凝成，幽幽含光，如握一线月光在手。

“剑，长三尺七寸，重七斤有余。握在手上，用尖的那一端刺向敌人。”
戎装女子一手轻招，剑如有灵，自武备架上骨碌跳起，入掌出鞘，贯入女孩身侧，嗡鸣不休。
“学会了吗？会了的话，就以步离人陆战最常用的战兽为敌，杀够十只血眼睚眦，这第一课就算结束。”
她沉默不语，只是左顾右盼。这是被救以来，她第一次离开病房，也是她此生第一次摸到名为剑的武器。
“我已屏退了医士和医助，没我的命令，他们不会来找你的。”
“苍城罹难，活下来的人本就不多。我不知你在救援抵达前到底经历了些什么…但我不想看你就这样一辈子溺死在过去的恐惧里。”
“你不开口没关系，你可以用它说话。”
“你可以用它，让那些夺走我们一切的怪物彻底消失。似这般美好的东西，世上已不多了。”
戎装女子眉目不动，将视线投向女孩身侧的长剑。

如镜的剑刃让她照见自己的模样，无数锋利伤人的碎片风暴般卷起，将女孩拖入过去——
幽暗的深空中，名唤罗睺的妖星悲鸣着，歌唱着，挟着燃烧的山脉与大地向所有人扑面而来。
长街上人们尖叫，在末日灭顶的绝望中挣扎、翻滚，任由金色的枝蔓在每个人的口鼻孔窍中滋长不休。
她看着一切发生，动弹不得。五内如沸，有一物自她的丹腑中勃然翻滚，仿佛熟透的谷粒即将脱壳挣出，膨胀至无限。
但迎面而来的山脉却让她明白，自己不过是蜉蝣，即将死于神使指尖的轻捻。

即将溺死的片刻，她抓住了身边唯一的浮草。
剑，长三尺七寸，重七斤有余。  

Character Story: Part I

• Unlocked at Character Level 20

A sword, 3 feet and 7 inches in length, that weighs nothing.
It was not forged from any ordinary iron, but condensed from a shaft of sharp ice. It glowed with a dim light, as if it were a sliver of moonlight held in the wielder's hand.

"A sword, 3 feet and 7 inches in length, weighing about 7 catties. Hold it in your hand, and stab the sharp end towards the enemy."
With a gentle flip of her hand, the woman in armor called her sword. As if alive, the sword lept out of the weapon rack, sliding into her grasp and out of its sheath in one fell swoop. The blade then stabbed into the air beside the girl, humming intently.
"You got that yet? If so, go fight the most common war beasts the borisin use in their ground forces. Once you've killed ten Bloodshot War Wyverns, I'll consider your first lesson completed."
She remained silent, her eyes darting left and right. This was her first time stepping out of the ward since being rescued, and the first time ever in her life she had touched a weapon known as a sword.
"I have dismissed the healers and helpers. They won't come to you without my orders."
"The calamity in Cangcheng left few survivors. I don't know what you've been through before the rescue arrived... But I don't want to see you wallow in past horrors like this for the rest of your life."
"It's okay if you don't wanna talk. You can speak with this."
"You can use this to vanquish the monsters that took everything from us. There are now few things as wondrous as this left in the world."
The woman in armor remained composed, her gaze cast onto the long sword by the girl's side.

The mirror-like blade showed her reflection. Then, a swarm of razor shards swirled up in a tempest, dragging the girl into her past —
In the dimly lit sky, the demonic planet named Rahu was wailing and singing, hurling towards everyone with lands and mountains ablaze.
On the streets, people were screaming, writhing and rolling in apocalyptic despair, as the golden tendrils sprouted and grew feverishly in every orifice of theirs.
She watched everything unfold, paralyzed. Her organs felt like they were boiling. Something suddenly surged and churned in her Core Esse, like a ripe wheat grain about to burst out of its husk and swell to infinity.
The mountains hurling towards her face made her realize, she was but a mayfly, about to perish at the mere flick of an Emanator's fingertip.

In that split moment before death claimed her, she grabbed the only thread she could hang by.
A sword, 3 feet and 7 inches in length, weighing about 7 catties.

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.