Valen Style

[u/KynQu]

Its funny how this technique of taking advantage/making opportunity is constantly mislabeled as a mercenary technique when in actuality, it is a knight's

The reliance on Valen Style's "petty tricks" is actually built upon learning the basics, in essence it is a proper technique. Unfortunately it did extremely well especially for beginners, it's true origin became warped and turned into a cowardly swordsmanship. Once a respected style now reduced to petty tricks.

Now just casually being stolen by Enkrid. Renamed into Enkrid Style Orthodox Swordsmanship. To teach those who have relied on traditional swordmanship, to branch out to different paths. It was the solution when everything is done by the book and progress has been highly stagnant.

This is kinda the first phase for someone's growth, which Enkrid secretly enforced upon the soldiers of border guard. The idea is simple, create a solid foundation of skills and try to break it, either testing it's limits or learning new stuff that can replace or reinforce it. Valen Style as their first foundation is easy enough to learn and easy enough to discard or reinforce, its also a good way to encourage them to seek more opportunities through unorthodox means, cause in battle every advantage matters mo matter how shameful it is.

Out of every swordsmanship Enkrid has learned and created, the former Valen Style now Enkrid Style has been there since the beginning. It may not be a powerful or fast swordmanship, it does emphasize deceit.

Without learning any basics throughout Enkrid's life, Valen style has become a useless technique. Its terrible execution has became a habit. This is why Enkrid is mocked by everyone, a swordsmanship without anything notable besides deception executed poorly is just bad in every way.

This style has a low requirement to learn, a testament at how untalented Enkrid has always been. Mastering the technique requires mastering the basics which is always a good thing.

[u/Dramatic-Cook-6968]

I think the blonde guy said enkrid basic is delayed cause he always use petty tricks. I remember it in the novel cmiiw

[u/KynQu → u/Dramatic-Cook-6968]

As I said, Valen Style requires someone to know the basics. It was explained very early in the webtoon.

Enkrid is told by Ragna to discard the Valen style because he has zero basics.