Chapter 180 Training from the Master (Two chapters in one)
The young man who had just led the way suddenly became quite enthusiastic. While leading the way, he talked more.
"So your name is Ryan, my name is Basque, my father is Baron Landonia from the Gold Coast, and I have an older brother."
Hearing this, Ryan glanced at the other party.
No wonder, judging from what he sensed, the other party should have just entered the official knight not long ago, and his strength is not strong, and there is a clear gap with the few people practicing on the island.
It turned out that because he was a "local snake", he should have received some kind of preferential treatment from Master Gunther.
This is also easy to understand. It is true that Master Gunther is obsessed with studying swordsmanship, but there must be someone to help do some chores.
Apart from other things, someone must have prepared extra food for this.
For example, Ryan himself, ordinary food, needs to eat more than ten pounds in one meal to meet the nutritional needs.
However, if some ferocious beast meat can be added, it will be much better, but the cooking process is time-consuming and laborious. If there is a dedicated person to serve, it will definitely save time and worry.
Basque continued, "You have to work harder later."
"According to Master Gunther's practice, you will be given three days at most to complete the first training task. If you can't complete it, you have to leave."
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Ryan felt a little strange. Why did the other party become so enthusiastic all of a sudden?
But after a little thought, Ryan seemed to understand something.
Basque's behavior was probably not because of Master Gunther, let alone because of himself.
Then the answer was obvious - because of Claire.
Sure enough, after a while, the boy named Basque immediately shifted the topic to Claire.
He rubbed his hands and asked a little embarrassedly: "Ryan, you and Miss Claire should be very familiar, right?"
"Familiar, otherwise she wouldn't write a letter of introduction to me, right?" Ryan smiled and said.
"Yes, yes, then what is the relationship between you?" Basque continued to ask.
As if seeing Ryan's slightly frowning expression, Basque immediately waved his hand and said quickly: "Ryan, don't get me wrong, I want to ask, Miss Claire should not have a fiancé yet, right?"
Ryan was stunned by this!
It seems that Claire's influence is far-reaching.
She has been gone for so long, but her legend is still circulating here.
After thinking about it, Ryan shook his head.
"Ah! Miss Claire actually has a fiancé!" Basque looked shocked and frustrated.
Ryan looked at him speechlessly and said, "I shook my head because I didn't know."
"Ah? So that's the case, that's great!" The boy's mood always changes so quickly.
"But... don't worry about it. Claire likes those who are stronger than her. Your strength." Ryan glanced at the other party and immediately poured a basin of cold water on the boy named Basque.
"Don't look down on me, Ryan! I'm only sixteen years old, but I'm already a formal knight. I'm here to receive training from Master Gunther, just to be able to keep my good and get an excellent in the canonization test!"
"Although my strength is slightly inferior to Miss Claire's, it's just a little bit short. I think I still have a chance." The boy changed the subject and said confidently.
Ryan glanced at the other party and didn't continue talking. However, he silently added in his heart, 'You have no chance, because your opponent'
The two soon came to the middle of the island, to the simple stone houses made of stones.
At this time, Ryan realized that he had only seen seven or eight stone houses on the coast just now due to the angle.
But in fact, some stone houses were blocked by the stone houses in front, so there were more than ten stone houses here in total.
"The ones with circles on the doors mean that there are people, and the ones without circles are empty. Ryan, just pick one to live in." The boy next to him waved his hand and let Ryan choose for himself.
Ryan walked around and found that these stone houses seemed to be cleaned by special people. They were all quite clean. So he picked one at random and took his bag in.
At this time, Basque patted his head and said, "Ryan, there is one more thing. If you let someone take care of the meals here, you have to pay a sum of money, and your horse too."
"How much?" Ryan nodded, it was reasonable.
"If it is a nutritious meal with ferocious beast meat, the price will be a little more expensive, 10 imperial gold coins a day, including three meals. However, most people will choose to have extra meals at night, which will be much cheaper."
"For horses, take care of them for one imperial silver coin a day."
"Okay! Pay for one month first."
Ryan directly gave Basque 303 imperial gold coins.
"Tsk tsk, what a rich man. First of all, it's not that I don't want to erase your change, but this money is for the family and has nothing to do with me." Basque took it and sighed.
Although he is also a noble heir, he is the second son after all. Most of the share he can get from the family will be divided by his elder brother, and this is on the premise that he has demonstrated his own investment value.
Ryan certainly doesn't mind. He just happened to make a lot of money in the base of the Zalar rebels recently, so
he doesn't feel bad about spending this little money. In addition, Jennifer, a beautiful woman who is quite capable of making money, also prepared an extra sum of money for him before leaving.
Therefore, money is not a problem for Ryan now.
"Well, who should I give the horse to?" Ryan nodded, and then looked around again, and found that there was no stable nearby.
"This is easy, just give it to my servant. Grando!! Take good care of this lord's horse."
Suddenly, from a stone house at the farthest side, a young male servant quickly ran out, bowed to Ryan and Basque, and said: "Yes, Master Basque."
After a simple settlement, Ryan thought about it, put the chrome iron set and pig-head hammer in the room, put on the black tunic with gold and silver thread embroidery prepared for him by the beautiful woman Jennifer, and walked out of the stone house.
Seeing Ryan's handsome low-key luxury dress, Basque was stunned for a moment, and muttered in a low voice: "It looks good, but this is for training, not for show."
Ryan didn't care about this jealousy of his handsomeness.
The two walked to the place where Gunther had just been.
At this time, Ryan couldn't help asking: "Basque, what is this first task?"
Basque smiled mysteriously and said: "Guess!"
Ryan's face darkened!
You are not a beautiful woman, and I am guessing with you!
Guess you!
Seeing Ryan's unhappy face, Basque restrained his smile, his face became a little more serious, and said: "Cut seaweed."
Ryan was stunned!
There was a slight pause in his footsteps.
This is not too difficult, this seems too simple.
"Cut seaweed?" Ryan asked in surprise.
He thought the first task was to fight with some marine creatures, which was probably quite difficult.
Otherwise, why were there so many young people near the lighthouse, sweating and practicing swordsmanship?
Obviously, they were stopped at the first level and could not enter!
But could it be that the seaweed in this sea area was strange, so it was quite difficult? Ryan thought.
"Yes, it's cutting seaweed, but this kind of seaweed is very tough. I can't explain the specific reason, but it's hard to cut it. You'll know when you try it yourself." The boy nodded and said with certainty.
He was a relative in charge of logistics here. While practicing with Master Gunther, he was also responsible for doing some chores. He was also very familiar with some of the master's habits.
The first step, that is, the first task, all started with cutting seaweed.
The seaweed in this sea area, which the locals call tough seaweed, has a layer of mucous membrane secreted by water all year round compared to ordinary seaweed. When swords and other sharp tools are chopped, the force is often unloaded.
Even after this tough seaweed is pulled out from the seabed and the mucous membrane is removed, the toughness of the seaweed itself is still amazing.
After drying and twisting together, it can be used as a cable on a sailboat.
It is conceivable that its toughness is amazing, so it is called tough seaweed.
"But, Ryan, if you use a two-handed sword, you will be at a disadvantage."
"If you can use that kind of knight's long sword, the difficulty of completing the first task should be much lower." The boy looked at the glimmering giant sword behind Ryan and reminded him.
Ryan's heart moved slightly, and he already understood why Basque said that.
Because the cross-sectional area of a two-handed sword is much larger than that of a one-handed sword, the resistance when waving in the water is naturally much stronger than that of a one-handed sword.
However, Ryan thought about it and asked, "Has anyone completed the first task with a two-handed sword? Or what does Master Gunther mean?"
"Yes, but very few. The master never cares whether you use a one-handed sword or a two-handed sword, nor will he remind you. But I heard him say that you should use whatever you used in the previous battle."
"Otherwise, according to the master, there is a high probability that you will not be able to complete the subsequent training tasks."
"In that case, then I don't need to change! But Basque, thank you for your reminder." Ryan shrugged and said with a smile.
It seems that this young man is not bad except that he is a little talkative.
The two came to the other end of the island.
Master Gunther was still there, instructing the swordsmanship of the young people. When he saw Ryan and Basque coming over, he nodded slightly and motioned Ryan to follow.
Gunther took Ryan to a nearby reef and pointed to the sea water, saying, "There is a kind of tough seaweed under the water. If you cut off ten of them with a sword within three days, you will have completed the training mission."
"Note, use a sword, not your hands."
"Understood, Master Gunther." Ryan nodded.
When Ryan followed Gunther's instructions and looked at the azure sea water, he found that because this was an island about 20 to 30 meters away from the coastline, the depth of the sea water around the reef had already exceeded two meters.
And about ten meters away from where he was standing, he could vaguely see a lot of slender plants swaying on the seabed.
Presumably, this should be the tough seaweed that Master Gunther mentioned.
Without asking any more questions, Ryan took a deep breath and slowly stepped into the azure sea water.
Suddenly, a chill and the feeling of being squeezed by the sea water from all directions came over him.
Because it was winter, the temperature of the sea water was much colder than in summer, and even with Ryan's physical fitness, he couldn't help but shiver slightly.
However, with a physique of 21 points, Ryan quickly adapted to the entire cold seawater environment.
After diving only three or four meters, Ryan saw green belt-like seaweed growing on the bottom of the water, but growing upwards one by one. At this moment, a large group of tough seaweed was swaying slightly in the sea water with the undercurrent.
This tough seaweed was different from what Ryan expected. It looked more like the kelp in his previous life, but it was much thinner.
Without thinking much, Ryan waved the glimmering giant sword in his hand and chopped directly at the swaying tough seaweed.
On the shore.
A young man with a short hair frowned slightly, looked at Basque, and said: "Basque, didn't you tell him that it would be disadvantageous to use a two-handed sword to cut tough seaweed underwater?"
Basque shrugged and said helplessly: "I told him, but he didn't listen. What can I do?"
"It seems that he is another one who doesn't understand the situation. He may still think that the seaweed here is the same as what he has seen before." Another young man said.
"That's not necessarily true. The person introduced by Claire might be very strong."
"No, you see he is young and might have great talent, but at this age, he won't be very strong. After all, strength requires time to accumulate."
"I also think that he should surface soon and ask Master Gunther to replace his one-handed sword."
"Then let's wait and see. When he finds that it doesn't work, he will remember what you said, Basque."
So a group of people continued to practice swordsmanship, while occasionally glancing at the sea where Ryan was.
In the sea water.
Since the resistance of water is much greater than that of air.
Therefore, Ryan's original swift attack was much slower than that on land.
When the great sword chopped on the soft and tough seaweed, the tough seaweed was like catkins in the wind, with almost no force, just shaking, and was completely unharmed.
Huh?
Ryan really didn't expect it to be like this.
His casual attack was ineffective.
You know, his casual attack may not be able to be resisted by ordinary formal knights.
This made Ryan's eyes narrow slightly, and he began to observe this tough seaweed carefully.
Although it was a sunny day today and there was sun in the sky, because Ryan was in the sea water, the sunlight shining into the sea was mottled by the algae, plankton, various fish and aquatic plants in the sea water, so the visibility was not high.
However, Ryan had dark vision, so it was not affected too much.
He could see that the green surface of the tough seaweed had a layer of nearly transparent colloid.
It should be this thing that relieved the force of the sword he just chopped out.
Of course, in addition to this, the tough seaweed body, swaying in the sea water, also made it difficult for it to bear the force.
Coupled with the resistance of the sea water, the three combined, made Ryan's sword just now return in vain.
Now that he knew the reason, Ryan chopped out the sword again!
This time he used more force, and the effect was better than last time.
There was already a pale white sword mark on the seaweed. Obviously, this time it broke through the colloid barrier and chopped the seaweed body, instead of causing almost no damage like the last time.
Ryan continued to observe for a while, and chopped several more times in succession.
Immediately afterwards, Ryan had a vague grasp of the trick.
Because he found that he had to always pay attention to the surging direction of the undercurrent of the sea water. When the seaweed swayed to the front or the back and reached a certain limit, it would be the most powerful to chop it.
He planned to try again.
This time, his feet touched the seabed, and the silt was instantly swirled, but Ryan felt at ease at this moment.
'Break the limit!'
"Shua!" The glimmering giant sword passed by, bringing up a burst of bubbles.
A tough seaweed was successfully cut off. Ryan saw this scene in the sea water and nodded slightly.
He did not stop, but continued to chop and chop, because in the water, the more intense the movement, the higher the oxygen consumption.
And even Ryan could not breathe in the water like a fish, so he had to hurry.
After mastering the trick, it was relatively easy to do this with Ryan's 83% physical limit value.
After all, this was only the first training task. Once the trick was mastered, it would not be very difficult.
Finally, Ryan surfaced from the sea water before he ran out of breath.
The people on the shore saw Ryan surface so quickly from a distance, and their expressions were almost the same, "As expected."
Including the young man who just said that Ryan might be very strong, he couldn't help but look disappointed.
Because it was less than five minutes, even the strongest among them, Burnett, succeeded only after the second dive.
Obviously, Ryan could not succeed in such a short time, so this time he surfaced, either to take a breath and try again, or to ask Master Gunther to replace the one-handed sword.
"See! I said, even if the talent is very strong, the strength is not very strong. I understand the nature of most noble heirs too well. They enjoy favorable training conditions but..."
Suddenly, the young man stopped talking, with an unbelievable expression.
Several people looked at him in confusion, and immediately became stunned.
Hiss!
Many people took a breath.
Behind Ryan's wet back, he dragged a bundle of long tough seaweed. Judging from the number, it was obviously more than ten!
"How can this be so fast!" The young man couldn't help but raise his finger, pointing at this scene, and said.
"Are any of us so fast?"
"How long did it take you? Doug?"
"About two hours." The young man named Doug said in a deep voice.
"What about you? Arturo?"
The young man named Arturo blushed slightly and said, "Half a day."
Suddenly, everyone stared at Ryan in silence!
"Very good, faster than I expected, you passed the first training task."
"Now, give these tough seaweeds to Basque, and then you follow me." Gunther rarely showed a smile and took Ryan to a stone house.
"Sit cross-legged on the stone slab." Gunther pointed to a large stone slab in the middle of the stone house.
"Okay, Master."
"Now I will teach you a set of underwater breathing methods. In fact, to be precise, it is called internal breathing methods. This is an ancient tradition that can be combined with the knight breathing method you practiced to further transform yourself. An auxiliary means."
"No matter what kind of breathing method you practiced before, this internal breathing method is compatible."
Huh?
Aren't you learning swordsmanship?
Why did you learn this internal breathing method?
However, it is always a good thing to learn good things.
At this time, footsteps came from outside the door. Ryan sounded a little familiar. It was Basque's footsteps.
Sure enough, someone outside the door said, "Master, I have already ground the tough seaweed juice."
"Bring it in!" Gunther said.
Basque brought in half a barrel of green juice, which exuded a scent of grass and wood with a hint of sea smell.
Ryan knew that this should be the tough seaweed he had cut down, but he didn't know what the effect of this thing after it was squeezed into juice was.
"I want to learn to breathe with your skin, not your mouth and nose. It will be difficult at the beginning." Gunther continued.
"The idea of breathing with the skin is more abstract, and it is difficult for ordinary people to understand. If you can apply this fresh tough seaweed juice on your skin all over your body, it will help you accelerate the perception of this internal breathing."
"However, the juice of this tough seaweed evaporates very quickly in the air. After about half an hour, this effect of helping perception will begin to weaken."
"This is the second training task. I hope you can master this internal breathing method within three days. If you still want tough seaweed juice, go to the sea and cut some more yourself." After Gunther finished speaking, he left the stone house.
Basque, who was standing by, muttered to himself, "Hey, that's strange. In the past, it was always required within seven days. Why did it become three days for Ryan?"
"Does Master Gunther have an opinion about Ryan? That shouldn't be the case."
After listening to Master Gunther's words, Ryan suddenly realized!
So that's it.
He now understood the significance of the first step of the training task.
First of all, the first step is very difficult. It has very high requirements for the knight's breathing method and swordsmanship level of the person being tested.
For a senior knight, it is estimated that it will take several hours of attempts before the task can be completed through repeated collection. For a formal knight, it is even more difficult.
But this is a threshold. Only when this requirement is met, the subsequent training content will be meaningful.
It turns out that this tough seaweed is used to accelerate the comprehension of this internal breathing method.
Obviously, if you spend a long time to barely complete the task of 'cutting tough seaweed'.
Then the subsequent task - 'mastering the internal breathing method within three days', without the help of tough seaweed juice, it will almost become an impossible task.
Therefore, Ryan has understood that these training tasks are most likely linked together.
Ryan took off all his clothes and smeared the light green seaweed juice all over his skin.
Soon, he felt a trace of cool substance, which seemed to slowly penetrate into his skin. Ryan held his breath and focused on feeling it.
Half an hour later, the system prompt sounded:
[You have trained in the internal breathing method, and your understanding of it has improved! ]
[You have learned a new skill - internal breathing method]
[Your skill of internal breathing method has been improved, and the experience value is +1]
Not bad!
Looking at the new skill that appeared on the Knight (Extraordinary) panel, Ryan has now learned this internal breathing method, although it is only the internal breathing method level 1 (1/100).
Ryan glanced at the attribute panel:
Name: Ryan Kalan
Occupation: Wizard Apprentice (Extraordinary) lv4 (345/1000)/Knight (Extraordinary) lv4 (277/1000)/Beast Tamer (Extraordinary) lv5 (64/2000)/Armor Forger lv1 (17/100)
Constitution: 21
Strength: 19
Agility: 17
Spirit: 25
Remaining attribute points: 2
Remaining skill points: 6
Although there are six remaining skill points, after a little thought, Ryan decided not to rush to add points, but to improve step by step according to Master Gunther's requirements.
After all, there are three days, if there are any problems in the middle, he can solve them by adding points.
Because Ryan can vaguely feel that every step of Master Gunther's arrangement has a purpose in it, and the ultimate purpose should be to prompt the apprentices to understand something.
After Ryan used up the bucket of tough seaweed juice, he came to the beach again.
This time, when Ryan came to the reef, seven or eight young men on the side all looked over, because they knew that Ryan was not the kind of noble heir in the general sense, but a powerful dragon crossing the river.
However, Ryan had no desire to talk to them at the moment.
The continuous use of tough seaweed juice just now made him have a vague understanding of the internal breathing method, so he had to hurry up and harvest some tough seaweed, strike while the iron is hot, and speed up the progress of mastering the internal breathing method.
Ryan's burly figure slowly sank into the sea water.
Suddenly, Ryan felt the coldness brought by the sea water and the pressure from all directions.
The biggest difference between this time and the last time was that Ryan seemed to be able to feel that his skin was "breathing".
This amplitude was very slight, but he could faintly perceive it with his keen perception.
If before, mouth and nose breathing accounted for 99% and skin breathing accounted for 1%.
Then now, mouth and nose breathing accounted for 95%, and skin breathing went from 1% to 5%.
Ryan closed his eyes and carefully felt and experienced this change.
After a while, Ryan began to swing the glimmering giant sword and harvest the tough seaweed!
After comprehending the inner breathing method, Ryan's stay time in the sea was slightly increased.
When Ryan dragged a large bundle of tough seaweed like a bucket and slowly walked onto the rocks on the shore, the setting winter sun sprinkled on the sea and Ryan.
Whether it was the young people around the white lighthouse or the young people practicing swords on the island, looking at Ryan from their perspectives, they were all full of brilliant golden light.
And Ryan, who strode ashore, for a moment, was like a god descending from heaven.
The young man Basque looked at the scene in front of him and muttered to himself: "The gap between people does exist."
"But it shouldn't be that big!"
Suddenly, he realized something and ran towards Ryan.
Judging from his posture, he seemed to be planning to take the tough seaweed from Ryan's hand and grind it actively.
(End of this chapter)
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