Chapter 79 - Horseback Riding Skill
The maids busied themselves refilling the water tanks and hauling in more food. Outside, regular students stared at us like we were zoo exhibits. Most of them were female for reasons I didn't care to guess.
After feasting on six full portions, I was stuffed, yet my stomach didn't bloat as expected. My musou energy gauge had refilled instead. The water musou core was gradually restoring it.
Cultivation techniques mirrored the game's mechanics, granting passive abilities that scaled with mastery and musou energy level. Reaching certain mastery thresholds fulfilled advancement conditions, allowing knights to ascend to higher levels.
At the highest mastery rank, a cultivation method could bypass advancement conditions entirely, letting a knight leap stages. The locals used this trick to ascend, but they didn't realize the hidden limit.
