Four Split Personalities

Can’t dodge!

Even though the speed of those spear shadows was not very fast, and they were not imbued with any skills, Anthony Dubs just couldn’t dodge. Within a few short seconds, he was hit several times by that entirely snow-white long spear, failing to complete a block or dodge.

Three meters, this seemingly ordinary and plain distance, is so deadly.

This is a somewhat dysfunctional combat range. For most melee professionals, this distance is awkward for weapons like swords, knives, axes, and hammers, and renders daggers, gauntlets, and wrist blades completely powerless, potentially losing even the most basic threat.

And for those who primarily use long-range damage as an attack method, this is also not an ideal distance. First, weapons like bows and hand crossbows will see their attack power significantly reduced at this range, and for spellcasters, unless they can achieve tier dominance, they fall into the dilemma of ’instant-cast magic poses no threat, and channeled spells are easily interrupted’.

So in most cases, this three-meter distance is just a ’transition’, a ’transition’ used to allow melee professionals to get closer, and long-range professionals to try to increase distance.

In summary, it’s a distance that makes no one comfortable.

But!

For certain weapons, a range of around three meters is the most suitable distance for them to shine.

You might have already guessed, yes, the ’certain weapons’ mentioned naturally include the long spear.

However, in the world view of The Realm of Innocence, the concept of ’long spear’ often appears alongside ’knight’, since most people think this weapon is best utilized on horseback, and its practicality in foot combat is far inferior to longswords and battle axes.

This is not an incorrect conclusion because the long spear, with its short blade, long reach, and considerable weight, is indeed difficult to master. It’s very hard to use effectively, with a high difficulty level akin to a nunchaku that can easily bash one’s own head.

For example, two ordinary adventurers without money to buy a horse, one with a sword, the other with a spear; the former might achieve something after ten years, whereas the latter might find themselves done for in their first half year of adventuring.

As the saying goes, ’a month for the staff, a year for the knife, a long practice for the spear’. It might sound exaggerated, but the long spear is indeed difficult to master.

In other words, it has a low cost-effectiveness.

But low cost-effectiveness doesn’t mean this weapon is weak; as long as you understand how to use it, the killing power of a long spear is not inferior to any mainstream weapon.

Coincidentally, in the history of the Diesel Family, there was a Knight Lord who excelled at using the spear, and this person did indeed write their spear-using insights in that Knight’s Guide.

Just two words—distance.

And underneath was a note—three meters.

That’s it~

No one knows whether it was out of laziness or just a lack of writing skills, but when the Knight’s Guide was passed down to his generation, this master only left such a short phrase.

And these are four words that don’t really need understanding, as long as you’re sensible enough to comprehend them.

Just maintain a three-meter distance.

As for what to do at a three-meter distance, or how to maintain that distance, it mentions nothing at all.

It seems rather perfunctory, but when Mo, after acquiring [Dawn], reread that phrase, he inexplicably understood it.

The ancestor of the Diesel Family left this simple phrase because the ’three-meter distance’ encompasses the entire essence of the long spear as a weapon.

As for the specific tactics, they are nothing but basic movements like thrusting, jabbing, striking, bouncing, twining, circling, blocking, grabbing, stabbing, tapping, and flourishing the spear. It sounds complicated, but in practice, it’s simple, like how many people are not well-versed in ’subject-verb-object, definite, adverbial, complement’ basic grammar structures, yet still write dialogue normally, since it’s their native language, and going by feel never goes wrong.

As for Mo, although his understanding of those weapons is certainly not as familiar as his competence in Chinese, his talent in this area is undeniable, and this talent allows him to master a relatively obscure weapon in a very short time.

Now someone might ask, wasn’t it just mentioned that the spear is considered a relatively niche weapon? How come it’s not obscure?

The answer is simple: although the spear is indeed relatively obscure in The Realm of Innocence’s worldview, for players, especially Mo, who has played many historical single-player games, managing to skillfully use characters like Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Yukimura Sanada for mowing down foes, they’ve definitely seen a lot of this level of spear usage.

To summarize simply, despite Mo’s combat talent, even if he hasn’t used a long spear much before, he could still easily unleash the lower limits of [Dawn · Pure Snow Spear] in a short time.

And combining this sphere technique with the ’three-meter distance’ true words is enough to suppress Anthony Dubs in a short amount of time.

[Evil Flame Storm], which requires brief casting, stands no chance of completion amidst the spear shadows, whereas instant-cast skills like [Corrosion Arrow] and [Big Big Big Big Fireball] get instantly interrupted by Mo when Dubs tries to cast them. By precisely controlling the combat distance, Mo hardly worries about losing much HP to middle to low-rank spells exploding beyond two meters, aside from a minimal amount of shock damage.

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