Chapter Thirteen The Peace Before the Storm
Mainland China is worthy of being a comprehensive book that integrates humanities, geography and historical legends. It is said that the current affairs of that year are re-issued every year. Link found a lot of information that is very useful to him, such as rank.
Unlike the illusion that gradually gamified, there is no veteran in Edgar's rank. Enlightenment—>Expert—>Master—>Legend—>Entering Saint, known as the fifth level of mortals, and further upwards, the incarnation, the secondary gods, and the demigods, the top of which are three generations of gods. Not only the rank, but even various professions have strict ratings. Take Henry as an example. He is a warrior, military swordsman, and rank expert, and is usually called an expert swordsman when introducing it.
Strength, intelligence, perception, and agility are mainly based on these four major categories, and many professions are unheard of. The Mainland Chronicles only talk about mages, warriors, knights, rangers, priests, bards and other professions that are more easily accessible to people in the world, and those marginalized are only a few strokes, and they are taken over by one stroke.
Seeing that it was still early, Link called Henry outside the door into the house and expressed his willingness to practice swordsmanship and hoped that he could cooperate with the training.
The Alex eyeliner in Gonzalez's mouth was like a piece of wood. Link asked him and answered him, and would never say much.
Because he decided to start a basic training, Link wanted to deal with it first near the tent, but Henry insisted on going to the special training ground of the barracks to avoid accidentally hurting the onlookers. As soon as Link got out of the tent, he immediately surrounded him with good things. Faced with the curious eyes of everyone, Link could only move the infantry camp helplessly.
I don’t know if it was because of the reason for saying hello in advance, but when Link arrived at the so-called military-specific training ground, there was no one here, only training dummies and weapon stands of different materials.
Henry first started with the footwork, with his feet shoulder-width apart. It doesn't matter which foot to first, it depends entirely on the situation of the battle. He made a basic step, and Link understood at a glance that this is the so-called "T-step", with the purpose of maintaining balance. Although different planes, Edgar is a fantasy background in Europe. Both food and culture are very similar to each other to a large extent.
"The knees should be slightly bent so that the movement will be easier and smoother. Keep the upper body upright and the center of gravity falls between the legs." Henry put out the T-step to demonstrate the most basic front and back steps, alternating left and right feet, and keeping the T-step. He did not ask Link to practice swords without blades on the side of the weapon stand, and said that he is forbidden to carry a sword before practicing good footwork.
Now, after all, left and right, I started practicing the "alternating step", which can be used to move obliquely, mainly to avoid opponents' attacks. But in general, I still cannot do without the basic T-step. Link feels that European swordsmanship revolves around T-step to attack and defend. After practicing footwork, there are starting steps of swordsmanship, which are the same as those he found on the Internet when he was on Earth. There are also four types. European swordsmanship is not as many moves as Chinese swordsmanship, with large openings and closes, low viewing, and pays attention to practicality.
After practicing the starting move, it was already dark. Henry rarely spoke actively, it was dark. It was time to rest.
Although he was still unsatisfied, his physical fatigue had already appeared. Link guessed that this was the real reason why Henry advised him to go back.
Link, who couldn't sleep, entered a meditation state again. He tried to move forward, moving forward and backward, and gradually expanded outward as his steps. The foggy scenery around him also became clearer, and it felt like an exploration map in the game. Just as Link wanted to step out of the edge of the camp, a blurry sound suddenly sounded.
"Your Mightiness."
This voice sounds a bit familiar, and Link couldn't remember where he had heard it.
"Your Excellency." It persevered, and seemed to never give up until it achieved its goal.
Link opened his eyes. Even Henry leaned over to look at him, his cold and hard face faintly filled with worry.
As soon as Gulu got up, Link looked at the breathable vent on the roof of the yurt. It was already dawn. He was wondering why every time he meditated, how come he passes very quickly?
It was impossible to eat meat for breakfast. Link drank a glass of milk. It was really fresh milk. The fishy smell made him unable to suppress his stuffing of two pieces of bread.
As planned yesterday, I took advantage of my refreshing spirit and practiced physically consuming swordsmanship in the morning, went to Dante's place to practice magic skills in the afternoon, read books at night, and meditate at night.
It is easy to practice the steps and starting steps, and then we will enter the actual combat stage.
In order not to accidentally get hurt, the weapons trained by recruits on the weapon stand are blunt swords without blades, and even the tip of the sword was smoothed out.
Finally, he got to the project he was familiar with. Link took two training machines from the weapon stand, and he was more familiar with actual combat. As soon as he started the weapon, he was very imposing.
Dual-held? The only warriors who usually have dual-held warriors are usually the only berserkers.
Henry, who had no expression, was not as calm as he showed. From the steps and starting exercises, it can be seen that Link's lower plate was unstable. It was not like he had been trained for many years. However, from the villagers and the eyes of the old town of Hegu, he knew that he did not know anything about swordsmanship. Is it true that he was damaged when he learned from the beginning? Or did he deliberately conceal himself as a master of swordsmanship?
Whether it is true or false, you will know it once you try it.
Henry, who also held a practicing sword, took the lead in attacking, using a sprint, which was more difficult to defend than a slash.
Link instinctively used the same method as the gun technique against Gonzalez three days ago. Henry caught him off guard and almost lost his sword practice. This seemed unimaginable to Henry. He was a high-level swordsman evaluated by the army. It was impossible for him to have a novice mistake like a weapon. The only possibility is that the opponent's strength is too strong.
He glanced at Link's arm, which was not much thicker than a woman. Does such a hand have such great strength? He had carefully observed that the fine skin and tender flesh were obviously a good-born hand and had never worked.
Link was also surprised that he almost knocked the opponent's sword away with just one parry. Is it because he underestimated me too much? Or... Henry launched an attack again, and Link didn't have time to continue thinking.
Because the distance was close, Henry first feinted Link to the lower plate. When Link returned to defense, he suddenly raised his sword and slashed. He used all his strength to make the slash in the warrior's basic attack.
Link crossed his swords above his head, blocking Henry's attack, but because the opponent was serious and used all his strength, he was suppressed and half-kneeled on the training ground because of his unstable downward movement.
Both sides were exerting force, one was pressing down hard, and the other was exerting force on the net. The competition for strength continued until the practice sword could not withstand the break.
Accompanied by the sound, all three swords had obvious cracks. The two were stunned and stopped at the same time.
Although the proportion of iron ore used to practice swords is not as good as that of formal swords, there will be no cracks in a few strokes. Henry could only think that it was used for too long, and it happened to be broken in their hands. He was confused by the results of such a test, and how could he know that this was Gonzalez's deliberate arrangement.
Link has practiced swordsmanship in the illusion. Compared with real warriors, he can only be considered a fancy way. Moreover, Link practiced swords for too short, and spent all the time in the later stages on solving puzzles, and there was no basic skill. Henry was loyal to Alex and would definitely report everything he knew in truth. This not only satisfies the purpose of Alex's snooping and surveillance, but also allows Link to learn a complete foundation.
Seeing that Link lacks the foundation, Henry arranged for him to do the most basic training, chop, slash, sprint, and storm. As well as a sword that can win the upper hand when sticking to the sword.
Adapting to the battle of the magical gain in the illusion, such basic training was very boring, but Link still did it patiently. He thought that his biggest disadvantage was the basics. He learned it in the illusion too simply, and the non-warrior profession was just an empty posture. When catching rabbits, it felt particularly obvious. The beast would not be scared by the good-looking posture. If it weren't for its body being stronger than ordinary people, it might be bitten to death by the rabbit. Besides, he is currently in a situation where he learns basic swordsmanship, and he can pretend to be a mercenary when he is acting alone.
It was lunch time. Link went back to the tent to have a meal, and Henry took the opportunity to report to Alex.
Alex, who was also having lunch, picked up his wine glass: "Lack of foundation?"
"Yes, according to my observation, he doesn't look like he's systematically trained. He may have just learned a few tricks symbolically." Henry said in detail about his observations over the past few days, "but his physical fitness is amazing. Not only is he strong and fast, he completed the training volume of ordinary people in two days in one morning."
"What else?" Alex's impression of Link was just a bit like the Alkins. If it weren't for his influence on Gonzalez and his identity as a craftsman, Alex wouldn't even remember his appearance.
"He doesn't look like an ordinary person. I mean he doesn't look like an ordinary person." Henry had a particularly deep impression of Link's hand, fair and without calluses, "It was a pair of noble hands, without any trace of physical labor."
"Oh, this is good news." When he heard that Link might be a noble, Alex began to think about how to win over Link. Compared to civilians, the noble's thoughts are easier to figure out, "Who have he met these days?"
"Master Dante, Magister Gillard, and a boy named Finn, are gone."
"Did Gonzalez take him there?"
"yes."
In fact, Alex knew that the camp had the authority to go directly to the other two white tents except himself and Abigail, only Gonzalez, who was the Grand Duke.
"What is that boy?"
"I have already inquired about the villagers of the Old Town of Hegu. Link was rescued by him. He has been staying at his house before coming here. His father was the eyeliner we placed in the Old Town of Hegu."
"It's time for you to go back. Report to me immediately if you have anything." Alex waved and signaled Henry to return to Link to continue surveillance.
"How is the reaction from the outside world?"
The scout leader who had been waiting by his side handed out the information he had just obtained. Alex unfolded the paper scroll hidden in the dove's legs, and his brows gradually stretched out.
"It seems that everyone is very interested in our performance as a craftsman."
"Then... what are your plans for this meeting?" Harper was not happy that the princes sent spies one after another for Berfast's acquisition of craftsmen. The meeting of princes held once every six months only lasted for more than a month. If the craftsmen could not recover their abilities, they would have fewer bargaining chips to fight for resources with other princes at the negotiating table.
"Don't be busy for now, what's going on with the undead?" Alex's focus was on the biggest enemy of mankind - the undead.
"Some abnormalities, except for a small group of low-level skeletons and corpses, they disappeared from the border. The Old Town of the Valley is the only one led by a necromancer or a corpse witch."
Alex picked up the wine glass again and took a sip: "It's really strange... to strengthen the security."
Henry rushed back to Link's tent, just as he finished lunch. He was used to following behind him and before heading to Dante's residence, Link first went to Gillard's tent.
If the melee fight corresponds to physical strength and the spell corresponds to magic. What does the magic correspond to?
Gillard also did not have an accurate answer, because he refused to admit that spells were born from the son of nature. The spell history compiled by Hornheim unanimously regarded elves as the ancestor of magic, and the spells of elves originated from elements, which is an indisputable fact.
The tone of the mage spoke was full of sarcasm, and Link asked tentatively. Gillard generously admitted that he was a false believer, and he was also a time traveler. However, unlike Link, he was not a life weaver, but an earthling who came to Edgar unexpectedly like Finn. Through self-study, he learned the common human terms here and became a mage through his own efforts. Because Edgar's natives feared the life weaver, ordinary time travelers were either unfamiliar with language barriers and living habits throughout their lives, or were killed as a life weaver. Only a very small number of people who succeeded like him.
As Gillard's status in Hornheim became higher and higher, the pressure from the upper class became greater and greater. Gillard, who was suppressed everywhere, escaped from the Mage City by orcs invading. The fall of Longyan Fort and the failure of the battle in the north made the anxious mage council have no time to capture Gillard. Although he knew that he was hiding in the Watch Castle and was worried that this was the forefront of fighting against the undead, he could only turn a blind eye.
In fact, Gonzalez brought Link to see Girard not only to learn meditation, but to tell Girard Link to be the son of nature. He was destined not to stay here to hold any position and would not threaten his position as the chief wizard.
Alex was long dissatisfied with Gillard, who was rebellious and self-conscious. He had been tolerant of the fact that there was no high-level mage who could replace his status for the time being, now Link appeared. As a craftsman, he could completely replace Gillard's enchantment. As for the mage, he could hand him over to Hornheim in exchange for a mage of the same or slightly lower level.
Knowing Alex's plan, Gonzalez took the initiative to confess to Girard, who might be unfavorable to Link in order to calm down his status. Link didn't know the interests of it, and felt that Gonzalez didn't keep his word. As soon as he said he wanted to hide the identity of Girard, he immediately told Dante and Girard.
"Magic power is the natural energy obtained through communication with elements. How much power can be used and how powerful it depends entirely on the mage's personal cultivation. The mental power is somewhat similar, but if the object of communication is replaced by a god, the more divine followers you get, the more divine power you can use. In fact, this is called thought on the earth, and it is an invisible energy released by the brain of a living being. This is the composition of faith. Can you understand what I say, right?"
Link nodded and shook his head again, "I know spirit = faith, but... why do I see it after meditation like my vision expanding... I can't find a suitable adjective. Anyway, it's like a fog around me. When I walk over, the fog dissipates, and the vision and the scenery become clear."
After hearing Link's description, Gillard lowered his head and thought, "This may be related to your profession. After all, the Son of Nature is different from ordinary clergy. Although I cannot provide specific comparisons, I can tell you clearly that feeling that the broadening of vision is actually an expanded perception of elements. The first time is ten meters, the second time is fifty meters, and so on, expand the range a little each time. Don't understand the meaning of expanding the range? That is, the number of elements you can perceive. According to the rules of the mage, the more elements you can perceive, the more spells you can use and the stronger the power. The magical technique is also like this."
"Is my divine power increased?" Link had no feeling at all, and every time he wanted to communicate with Gasos, he would automatically fall into the behavior of constantly expanding his horizons as soon as he entered the meditation state. He couldn't help but want to go further, and he could not remember to communicate with Gasos or any of the natural gods.
Although Gonzalez said Girard was dangerous, Link had no one to ask for help when no one else could talk to him.
"It's okay for you to understand this way, but... do you really not feel the gods?" Because he is a false believer and the son of nature is mysterious, Girard is curious about how they talk to the gods.
"Except for the time when I cleared the dead, Gasus did not respond to me no matter how I called him later, even in a meditation state." The skills in the illusion must first be recognized by the gods before they can be acquired. Link thinks that this place should be similar. If he wants to use a certain ability without the permission of the corresponding gods, no matter how large the elemental perception range is, it will be useless.
"I'll check the ancient books, maybe I'll find it. Come again in two days." Like every time I appear, Gillard's figure disappeared from the hall, and Link's trip was not completely rewarding. At least he knew the significance of the bigger vision during meditation.
On the way to Dante's tent, Link, who was more sensitive than ordinary people, heard the soldiers gathered together whispering.
"It's missing again."
"How many scouts are there this time?"
"I heard that there is no news about the cavalry team that was looking for."
"I heard that even two caravans from the west were missing."
"Why……"
"A precursor to the war?"
"I don't know, the commander did not order the evacuation of the residents in the camp, probably not."
Not only were scouts who went out to patrol, but also the cavalry team disappeared? Link sensitively realized that the disappearance might be related to the dead.
Chapter completed!