Otaku Witch

"Tsk, this Japanese island swordsmanship is really quite something."

After leaving the village, Dorothy rubbed her somewhat stiff face and thought to herself.

This time, she honestly didn't plan on cheating; she wanted to rely purely on her own strength to see to what extent she could manage, but the first novice village's little boss could surprisingly block her attacks, which left the homebody witch a bit frustrated.

What the heck, after all that trouble, I'm still just a little weakling.

But she wasn't too surprised by this either.

The leader among the group of warrior witches had roughly about 250,000 Mana, which categorized her as a standard elite witch. Coupled with her clearly well-practiced swordsmanship, her strength among elite witches was absolutely top-tier, just below the great witch.

Such strength was more than adequate for being a novice village boss.

And Dorothy's magic power had just barely reached 80,000 Mana, the gap between their magic power was quite vast. If it weren't for the homebody witch's outstanding Six-Dimensional Attributes panel, she wouldn't have the qualification to even go against such a person.

From the feel of their recent clash, the samurai leader's Strength panel should be B, Speed panel C, Physique panel also around C, while all of Dorothy's attributes were A.

Thankfully, the A panel's attribute bonus is double that of B's. Plus, Dorothy had already buffed herself with a bunch of temporary boosts like "Bear's Strength, Cat's Agility, Leopard's Speed" before the fight, maxing her state out, which allowed her to withstand the triple Mana difference and fight across levels.

Yep, this was Dorothy's rare chicken pecking contest with evenly matched rivals.

Of course, under similar attribute differences, if the homebody witch wanted, she actually had countless ways to instantly defeat them, but filming Magic Shadow footage meant these non-Japanese island-specific magic tricks weren't convenient to use, so the homebody witch decided to rely solely on swordsmanship to confront them.

As a Sword God, the homebody witch initially thought she could take this small fry easily, but the recent clash just slapped her in the face.

The major downside of her quick-tempered Sword God status was revealed without a doubt in that battle; her Sword Soul realm was high enough, but her sword techniques were a bit lacking.

This was unavoidable, after all, Dorothy hadn't seriously learned any supernatural swordsmanship in this life; her sword technique level remained at the level of the One Mind of Dreams school she learned in her past life.

But that's just the swordsmanship of mortals; only the Secret Sword Swallow Return from the school's ultimate technique barely touched the edge of the supernatural.

It's like taking a martial arts technique from a low martial world to challenge a high martial world cultivator's Sword Control Technique; they're simply not on the same level.

Dorothy managed to use mortal swordsmanship to fight against the samurai leader's supernatural swordsmanship and still had the upper hand, which was already a remarkably strange achievement.

Of course, if it weren't for filming Magic Shadow needed to care for the audience's perceptions, creating a tense and exciting feel, the homebody witch wouldn't need any sword techniques; she could directly use Sword Soul empowerment and treat big moves as basic attacks, every cut being a One Mind dreaming blow.

If that were the case, with minimal panel differences, she'd instantly kill anyone below the Martial God with just one strike.

But filming such a boring battle would just end up a box office flop.

Dorothy recalled the popular Giant of Light series from her past life, where protagonists had to tit for tat with enemies first, even suffer some setbacks at the beginning, anyway, it was all about drawing spectators to a tense mood; then when the transformation time for Giants of Light entered the countdown, only then would they unleash big moves, defeat enemies in a few strikes, and exit perfectly.

Yep, plots need a beginning, middle, and end to be exciting; if defeating anyone only took one hit, watching such hack-and-slash fun too long would tire the audience, leading to a fall in ratings.

Therefore, Dorothy temporarily sealed the Martial God empowerment and decided not to follow the Sword Soul flow but the sword technique school instead.

Of course, learning sword techniques takes a teacher, but with tight schedules and critical tasks, the homebody witch had no time to find a teacher for leisurely learning; she decided to consider the enemy as her teacher, gradually honing her sword techniques in continuous practical battles.

Moreover, she wasn't entirely without a sword technique teacher; the sword in her hand was the best teacher.

"Red Shadow, I'm counting on you from now on."

Dorothy looked at the Demon Blade in her hand and said.

And this enormous Demon Blade taller than a person slightly vibrated, responding to its sword master's expectation.

Red Shadow had genuinely learned swordsmanship for nearly a hundred years beside Ibuki Yuuki, a Sword Master, even though Lady Demon Blade hadn't learned Miss Oiran's secret sword, and had been stubbornly refining the foundation of Japanese swordsmanship—the Nine Blades Thirteen Styles.

This specialization direction, though causing Red Shadow's single combat power not to be strong, during the previous Oiran Banquet she wasn't a match for Chiyoda Kujo's Tengu Swordsmanship.

But as a Demon Sword Princess, her individual combat ability was obviously not important; what's important is the empowerment to the sword master; and for a swordsman, there was nothing better than empowerment from rigorously refined basic swordsmanship of a hundred years.