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(Simulator) Chapter 125: Genius + Genius, A Transformation Far Beyond 1 + 1 = 2
🕑 Added 2024-11-22 02:19:15 +0000 UTCThe Senate had already split into two factions, locked in intense conflict, leaving them no time to meddle in the new reforms.
Soon, each reform bill began proceeding as scheduled.
However, even though the Senate no longer interfering, progress was still slow, as people needed time to accept and adapt to the changes.
The land reforms, which concerned the public most, proved to be the most challenging yet moved forward at the fastest pace.
To stabilize Rome swiftly and create an environment conducive to reform, Night was determined to end the Spanish war as quickly as possible.
Only by securing the soldiers' welfare and restoring their rightful land could he win their support.
Now, victory was within reach—just one final, crucial step remained.
However, this was also the most error-prone stage.
Historically, during the Gracchi brothers' reforms, when their influence in the Senate was at its peak, the Senate had once retreated, only to devise cunning schemes to deliberately intensify their reforms, making a gradual process suddenly extreme.
For instance, they proposed new laws that waived land rent entirely for the poor and allowed the transfer of land leases, which had been restricted under the original Agrarian Law.
Such policies were naturally popular among the poor.
The Gracchi brothers initially planned to establish three cities, but the Senate escalated that number to twelve, effectively sabotaging their efforts.
With such chaotic amendments, the commoners were pleased, the senators were satisfied, and the reforms collapsed under their own contradictions.
The Senate then criticized the Gracchi brothers for their incompetence and forced them out of power.
Such open sabotage is hard to counter—
And this was one reason Night needed the Senate thrown into disarray before beginning his reforms.
Whether Rome was in chaos was up to them;
Rome could descend into chaos, but only under their control—order within disorder.
Approval for the Spanish campaign came through quickly, but the task of recruiting troops fell to Night himself.
This was hardly a challenge.
After all, he was now so famous in Rome that when he began recruiting, young men queued from the central square all the way to the city gates.
After the thrilling public assembly where noblemen were put on trial, Lista Night had become a hero to the youth.
Who wouldn’t want to join their idol on the battlefield and build a legacy?
While preparing for the campaign, Night unexpectedly received an inheritance.
This was the wealth of the Lista family, confiscated when they were once stripped of nobility.
Now that Lista Night had gained power, many nobles, eager to curry favor, returned it to him—far more than the original amount.
The nobles had shown remarkable sense, but for Night, it was a pity—he almost forgot he was in a simulated universe.
Even as the wealthiest man in Rome, this fortune wasn’t truly his, so he remained indifferent to it.
But—
Night soon discovered a surprising gift within his inheritance.
Sometimes, wealth isn’t just gold and silver but also knowledge and skills.
Among the Lista family’s many assets, he found a tradition of dual-wielding combat techniques.
These techniques reportedly originated from a Greek-era hero skilled in fighting with two weapons—a legacy that had survived to the present…
Although the origins may have been exaggerated, for Night, who wielded two divine spears and had been attempting dual-wielding in battle, this filled a critical gap in his combat skills.
He also recalled that Karl had once fought using twin swords.
For the nobles, this inheritance might have been the least valuable part of the fortune, but to Night, it was the most priceless.
The dual-wielding technique didn’t just provide him with a basic grasp of handling two spears; it also extended to dual swords, twin knives, and other weapons, enabling him to apply the principles across various armaments.
Upon practicing, Night quickly made a new discovery.
His learning speed was astonishingly fast, even several times greater than when he had once trained under Hector.
Back in Greece, he had mastered the “God’s Domain Martial Arts,” revealing an impressive talent for learning.
His instinctive prowess in battle had even won Hector’s admiration.
But now, he could clearly sense that his talent had become even more exceptional.
Only then did Night realize that the power he inherited from the hero Achilles included more than just his invulnerable body, remarkable martial skills, and agility—it also came with Achilles’ other talents.
Unlike most heroes who achieved fame only in middle age, Achilles stood out as remarkably young among his legendary peers.
It was precisely because Achilles was both young and powerful that, after his death, heroes felt an even deeper sense of regret.
People were left with an unforgettable image of a brilliant young hero, a shooting star that blazed briefly across the sky.
Such a genius who died too soon left people wondering—had he lived longer, what epic feats might he have achieved?
What a pity indeed!
Now, that same talent which had once awed heroes and moved future generations was merging with Night’s own innate abilities.
The synergy between these two sources of genius sparked a transformation far beyond simple addition, like 1 + 1 equaling 10.
It was a profound shift.
When even the most basic martial arts came into his hands, Night could quickly refine them into pure killing techniques, to the point of rivaling the skills of legends.
With techniques he had learned from Hector and Achilles as his foundation, he synthesized and improved, effortlessly transforming the dual-spear technique into something more suited to his own combat style.
Whether or not the dual-spear technique truly originated from Greek heroes,
Night didn’t know…
But even if it hadn’t, once he returned to Greece and refined this technique further in battles against other heroes, it would then become his own legacy from the Greek era.
There might indeed be something special within this technique.
As Night trained and honed it, he could feel his vitality surging more than usual.
If Hector’s methods for physical conditioning—the techniques that allowed mortals to grow strong enough to contend with demigods—served as a basic foundation…
Then this legacy, through martial refinement, allowed that vitality to be activated and channeled even more effectively.
This sense of his body “igniting” was something he had only felt previously when unleashing one of Hector’s spear strikes or performing Achilles’ meteor-like combat moves.
However, both of those felt far more intense and profound than this inherited technique.
Perhaps it truly was a technique passed down by a hero, though compared to Achilles and Hector: arguably the most elite heroes of Greece—this technique clearly didn’t measure up.
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