"So what happened then?", Everyone listened with faces full of amazement and kept pressing him, "What's wrong with you? Can't you just finish what you're saying in one go? What's the point of dangling it like this!"
"Exactly! What kind of secret manual would be called Slide Tackle? That's way too weird, isn't it?"
"Yeah! You men sliding is fine, but for us who wear skirts, sliding like that is kind of, you know…"
"The skill the lord rewarded me with really is called Slide Tackle," Hunter Five said, still holding his head high proudly, "Back then I slid in once and directly sliced the water ghost open with one strike! All its guts and stuff went splashing all over my face. It was a bit gross, but it still couldn't cover up how brave and heroic I was!"
"Pah! I think you're just talking nonsense!"
"Yeah! There's no way a skill book would be called Slide Tackle!"
"Who would name it like that? Bullshit!"
"Hunter Five really isn't lying!" Ethan said, pulling another eight copies of [Skill Book · Slide Tackle (Fake)] out of his backpack with a smile, "This skill book really is called Slide Tackle. As for who would give it such a name, that'd obviously be the original author. Otherwise who would come up with such a stupid name?"
"It really is called Slide Tackle?"
Everyone rushed forward, picked up the skill books, and examined them carefully.
"This one's mine!"
"Why should it be yours? The lord didn't say he's giving it to you!"
"Finders keepers, okay! I'm going hunting outside. I need this skill book more than you!"
"Give it to me!"
Seeing everyone fighting like mad over them, Ethan didn't waste any words. He directly took out a skill copier, put the original [Skill Book · Slide Tackle] into it, and immediately chose to make 30 copies.
The reason for copying so many was naturally for the players in his region.
After all, the upcoming confrontation competition was no longer just about individual combat.
So Ethan had both the responsibility and the obligation to help all the players under him survive.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
This copier was basically like a photocopier.
Its speed was even faster than a photocopier. After Ethan paid 30 spirit stones, the copier quickly produced 30 copies of the skill book for him.
After that, Ethan took another 36 counterfeits out of his backpack and said, "Alright! Stop fighting, all of you!"
"There are 44 copies here in total. Other than Hunter Five, who has already used one, each of you gets one!"
"Thank you, Lord!"
"The lord is really too good to us!"
Everyone was overjoyed. One after another, they dropped to one knee in front of Ethan, bowing deeply in gratitude.
"Use them all," Ethan waved his hand, telling them not to bother with so much ceremony and waste time.
After that, everyone used the skill books at the same time. One by one, their reactions were exactly the same as Hunter Five's when he had first come into contact with a skill book.
All of them stood there dumbfounded, as if absorbing the techniques related to Slide Tackle.
Like which angle was better to start sliding from.
How many steps of a run-up before sliding.
"This Slide Tackle skill will be your lifesaving skill from now on," Ethan continued, "But remember, this skill can only be used once a day. Don't get too carried away and forget the limit."
"Huh?"
Stone Six immediately looked disappointed, "Only once a day?"
"Lord, if we run into a group of goblins like that day, one slide per person still wouldn't be enough to deal with that many goblins."
"If we don't have this Slide Tackle skill, I feel like with our current strength, dealing with the monsters in this world would be pretty difficult."
"Mm! That makes a lot of sense."
Ethan nodded, then took out the [Grand Fireball Spellbook] and the [Basically Useless Freezing Ability Spellbook], and copied twenty copies of each.
"These two spellbooks, you choose for yourselves. Learn whichever one you want," Ethan said to the villagers, "Don't be greedy. Once you've learned it, practice properly and strive to become great mages as soon as possible."
"Magic?"
"These are magic skill books?"
"So this world really has magic. Does that mean I might become a magic instructor or something?"
Everyone started fantasizing wildly.
Especially those with vivid imaginations, who covered their mouths in shock and said, "Could it be that I'm the legendary chosen one, the protagonist of fate?"
"I think you're thinking about eating shit," Ivanov immediately mocked him, "If there's anyone in this world who's a chosen one, it should be the lord. After all, he's the system's illegitimate child."
"What system? What illegitimate child?"
Everyone looked confused.
But no one believed a word Ivanov said.
After that, everyone started picking the magic they liked, all trying to skyrocket in power and become great mages in one step.
But when one person chose to use [Grand Fireball Technique (Fake)], he discovered that he simply couldn't learn it at all.
"Lord, did you get scammed with this Grand Fireball Technique?", Stone Six said with a depressed face, "Why can't I learn it? And there's a 'fake' character at the end of the name. Lord, did you buy counterfeit goods?"
"Bought counterfeits?"
Ethan sneered, "If there's counterfeit goods in this world, then I'm the biggest supplier of counterfeits."
"That 'fake' just means it's a copied version, but there's no problem with using it, because I've already learned both skills myself."
"The rest of you, try it too. See if you have the same problem as Stone Six."
However, just as Ethan finished speaking.
Quite a few villagers put the skill books in their hands back down, "Lord, I also can't seem to learn Grand Fireball. What's going on?"
"Huh? I found that I can't learn Grand Fireball, but I can learn the Basically Useless Freezing Ability," Guard Five happily gathered a snowflake in his palm and showed it to everyone,."This is great! From now on, when you eat sweet soup, I can just use my freezing skill to make it."
"Why?"
"Why can't I learn either of them?"
Where there is joy, there is sorrow.
After trying both skills, Cook Four immediately started crying pitifully, "Why can't I learn either? I was originally planning to learn both and let the lord experience ice and fire at the same time."
"..."
Everyone looked at Cook Four with speechless expressions.
Everyone else was thinking about how to fight, but what on earth was going on in Cook Four's head?
But as more and more people failed to learn [Grand Fireball Technique (Fake)] at all, Ethan finally understood.
It turned out this skill wasn't something just anyone could learn.
Of course, it might also be because these people simply didn't have any magical aptitude.
Fortunately, quite a few people did manage to learn the freezing ability.
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