Chapter - 1713

Naturally, Gerald wasn’t commenting on the attack itself. While her attack style was definitely powerful, what he meant was that before attacking, she often left herself wide open to be countered. Adding that to the fact that she never changed her attack style, any opponent stronger than her could most definitely be able to see through her attack patterns in time. It explained why Gerald was able to defeat her so easily.

The only reason why she had been able to win all the previous times was because the enemies she bumped into were far weaker than her. With that in mind, they probably didn’t have the chance or experience to analyze Juno’s attack patterns.

Gerald, however, was much stronger than her. What more, he had been personally trained by Leit, and he even had unique opinions and analysis on martial arts skills and attack tactics.

Regardless, after hearing Juno’s question, Gerald replied in a serious tone, “Think about it. From what I’ve seen, you tend to only focus on attacking, and more often than not, that leaves you open to getting countered! As proof of that, I was able to easily defeat you since you barely ever focus on defense!”

Upon hearing that, Juno paused for a moment. Rather than getting angry for being criticized, Juno instead admitted that that was a pretty huge flaw of hers. How had she not noticed that before?

A brief moment later, Juno then looked at Gerald before saying, “…I see! Thank you for the advice, Gerald!”

This was definitely going to help Juno greatly in the long run. No wonder she had always felt that her martial arts journey was extremely dull. As it turned out, she had been limiting herself to only a single attack style!

Either way, she now understood that she needed to focus on learning new attack styles. In doing so, she would surely be able to eventually improve both her strength and martial arts skills.

Still, she couldn’t help but think that listening to the advice of wise men brought about much more favorable effects compared to her reading up techniques alone.

Whatever the case was, though her mind was set on changing her attack style, old habits died hard, and Juno was well aware that it was going to take a lot of time and effort to get out of that habit.

However, she wasn’t disheartened by that fact. Instead, she simply continued to spar against Gerald, slowly trying to change her attack style.

While it made her movements slightly awkward and clunky, at the very least, she was no longer getting defeated in just a single move. By the two-hour mark, she was already able to make up to three moves before getting shut down.

Since that took quite a bit out of her, both of them decided to take a rest at the training court’s sitting area.

Sweating profusely, Juno—who could see how much she had improved just from sparring against Gerald for those two hours—sincerely said, “Thank you very much for today, Gerald! If you hadn’t tutored me, I wouldn’t have been able to make this much progress in such a short amount of time!”

Though she said that, she understood that there was still a vast difference between their capabilities…

Either way, it wasn’t long before Nori and Ray suddenly rushed into the training court. Upon seeing Gerald, the anxious Nori quickly ran toward him while saying, “G-Gerald! This is bad! Something terrible has happened…!”

Puzzled, Gerald then frowned slightly as he asked, “What’s wrong?”

“W-well, Zelig and Cyril were captured by those from the Hulkeroic Union! Though we did our best to get them back, in the end, there were simply too many of them! We failed to save them!” explained Nori.

“What?!” growled Gerald, his anger suddenly spiking. To think that they would do something like this to his friends! The Hulkeroic Union truly was getting out of hand!

“That settles it! We’re going after the Hulkeroic Union now!”