"There's an Instructor explaining movement techniques this afternoon."
Seeing this, Ender tidied up and left the quiet room, returning to his dorm to wash up and rest.
In the afternoon, he arrived at a large lecture hall in the North Building.
At this time, there were many students in the lecture hall, most of them meditating with their eyes closed, with only a few quietly conversing.
He found an empty spot in the corner of the hall and sat down, observing his surroundings. He noticed that besides the majority of Apprentice-level students present, there were also a few powerful Planetary Level students.
After a long while, a male Instructor who appeared to be in his thirties walked onto the podium.
He surveyed the lecture hall and said, "Students who are familiar with me know that I don't like to be interrupted while lecturing. If you have questions, you can write them down first and raise your hand to ask after the lecture ends. I will explain based on the situation."
After speaking, he began his lecture, "In my opinion, movement technique is the most important part of combat skills. Even if your attack and defense skills are inferior to the enemy's, as long as your movement technique far surpasses theirs, you can stand in an invincible position…"
After more than an hour of lecturing, the male Instructor on the podium stopped, saying, "That's all for today. If you are interested in my lecture, you can consider purchasing my course."
The male Instructor first made an advertisement, then announced, "Now is question time. Students with questions can raise their hands."
As the male Instructor's voice faded, many students raised their hands, and Ender was one of them.
"The female student in white in the third row." The male Instructor pointed to a female student and said.
"Instructor, you said that movement technique is the most important part of combat skills. Does that mean we only need to focus on Cultivating movement technique, and supplement it with Cultivating attack and defense skills?" the female student in white asked.
"Heh, I feel like you're here to cause trouble, and I certainly didn't teach you that. Don't say I taught you if you go out later."
The male Instructor first joked, then explained, "Attack, defense, and movement technique—these three together form a complete combat skill. None of the three are dispensable."
"The reason I say movement technique is the most important is because for self-preservation, movement technique is the strongest, especially in chaotic battles with numerous enemies!"
"I presume all the students here have challenged the Trial Tower for the entrance examination. Isn't the fifth floor of the Trial Tower extremely difficult? If your movement technique Realm isn't high enough, you'll quickly be surrounded and killed by Demon Beasts."
The students nodded in agreement; the fifth floor of the Trial Tower was indeed very difficult.
"Heh, to be honest with you, the Trial Tower for the entrance examination only has five floors, but to pass, your movement technique attainment must reach the Perfection-level."
"Perfection-level movement technique allows the challenger to understand every movement of the Demon Beasts on the fifth floor, enabling them to dodge Demon Beast attacks with the most effortless methods, and then effortlessly slay the Demon Beasts."
"Of course, in addition to Perfection-level movement technique, attack and defense skills also need to reach the Subtle-level. Only then can you reasonably allocate stamina and Spiritual Force to slay Demon Beasts in an effortless manner."
The male Instructor said, "Now do you understand why I said movement technique is important?"
After listening to the male Instructor's explanation, everyone suddenly understood.
The male Instructor then had another student ask a question.
The student stood up and asked, "Excuse me, Instructor, what is Perfection-level?"
"You must be a relatively new student to the Academy. To understand what Perfection-level is, you first need to understand the skill level divisions. Skills are divided from low to high into four levels: Basic, Subtle, Perfection, and Complete."
The male Instructor said, "Taking movement technique as an example, Basic-level movement technique means you've learned how to dodge, but you need to observe with your eyes to react. This level of movement technique is very difficult to cope with when facing extremely fast enemies."
"Subtle-level is learning how to dodge attacks with small-scale movements. For example, when facing attacks from multiple Demon Beasts in the Trial Tower, having Subtle-level movement technique allows you to dodge and counterattack without disrupting your own combat rhythm."
"Perfection-level, on the other hand, is utilizing everything around you to dodge." At this point, the male Instructor paused.
Then, he gestured in a circle towards the students below the podium, "Everything here refers to living things, including enemies!"
"As mentioned before, Perfection-level movement technique is the fundamental key to passing the fifth floor of the entrance examination's Trial Tower."
"The reason I say this is because the power of Perfection-level movement technique lies in utilization—utilizing everything around you to enter your familiar combat rhythm."
"With perfect utilization, a mere hundred Demon Beasts are not worth mentioning."
"As for the Complete-level, I don't particularly understand it either." The male Instructor smiled, ending the question, "Next question."
Then, after answering two more questions, the male Instructor directly announced that the day's lecture was over and turned to leave the large lecture hall.
Watching the male Instructor's retreating figure, Ender knew he probably understood the Complete-level, but chose not to say for the sake of selling courses.
"Perfection-level movement technique is indeed the fundamental key to passing the fifth floor of the Trial Tower. When I challenged the Trial Tower, I used Spiritual Force to assist in reaching pseudo-Perfection-level, and those Demon Beasts couldn't pose a threat to me."
Recalling what the male Instructor said, Ender mused to himself.
"Unfortunately, pseudo-Perfection-level movement technique, which relies on Spiritual Force assistance, is ultimately pseudo-Perfection. Once Spiritual Force is exhausted, it will revert to its original level, making it impossible to dodge the encirclement of Demon Beasts."
"What kind of movement technique is the Complete-level? Is it like the Artistic Conception in the original work?"
With these doubts in his mind, Ender left the large lecture hall, returned to his dorm to get his consciousness sensor, and went into the Virtual Universe to hone his movement technique.
A few days later, he once again went to the North Building to attend a lecture. This time, the Instructor was explaining close-quarters combat attack techniques.
After the lecture, he excitedly returned to his dorm, logged into the Virtual Universe to conduct a force amplification test, but then dejectedly resumed practicing his movement technique.
Amidst the encirclement of five beast-type Demon Beasts, Ender, whose movement technique had already reached the Subtle-level, moved with ease, even able to think about other things while being surrounded by the Demon Beasts.
"Without having learned a Martial Artist's Secret Manual for force amplification, my force amplification is only 1x. It seems the path of a Martial Artist is temporarily unfeasible; I can't Dual Cultivate both Martial Artist and Spiritual Master like Luo Feng."
Thinking of force amplification, he felt very helpless.
A Martial Artist's force amplification is different from a Spiritual Master's Spiritual Force amplification!
Force amplification can only be improved through continuous Cultivation, while for the latter, the higher the Spiritual Force talent, the higher the initial Spiritual Force amplification, and it can also be improved through subsequent Cultivation.
A Martial Artist's instantaneous explosive power in combat is extremely terrifying, with several or even dozens of times the power burst, a single blow enough to kill enemies beyond their Realm.
This kind of explosive power is much stronger than the mainstream Controller Spiritual Masters, as the latter are known for their mysterious object control methods.
In the following period, Ender spent his time Cultivating and attending lectures. Every three to five days, an Instructor would lecture in the large lecture hall, but he never waited for an Instructor to explain Spiritual Masters.
"The Instructors at Morning Light Academy are mainly Martial Artists, and the number of Spiritual Masters is relatively small. Even fewer remain in the Academy to become Instructors. If you want to hear lectures from these Instructors, you have to wait, otherwise, you can only use points to purchase courses."
This was the answer Ender received after asking some students.
"Then I'll wait."
Receiving this answer, Ender could only helplessly wait. Before acquiring additional Academy points, he didn't want to use points to purchase courses.
Ten days later, Ender finally waited for an open class about Spiritual Masters.