Chapter 30 Archery Training
After dinner, Anna said to Ryan shyly, "Ryan, can you come to the room?"
After staying at Ryan's house for a day, Anna still felt a little uncomfortable. It was not that Ryan's family was not nice to her, but they were too enthusiastic.
The two came to the room on the second floor.
"Ryan, I... I want to go back to my own home." Anna lowered her head, clasped her fingers together, and tightly grasped the hem of her skirt.
For some reason, although Ryan was her savior, every time Anna faced Ryan, she always felt a little flustered, and her heart would beat violently.
"I'm afraid that won't work!" Ryan shook his head and refused.
"Ah?! Why?" Anna looked at Ryan with a puzzled and surprised look on her face. Her mind was in a mess. This was not the answer she expected. Could it be that...
Just as the girl's thoughts were flying, Ryan said solemnly:
"According to the information from Sheriff Hamilton, the black beard I killed last time was the younger brother of the leader of the Hyena Gang in the county city. I am worried that the other party may send someone to investigate the disappearance of his brother!"
"So, in the near future, it is better for you to stay here and not go back."
"Ah!" Anna's face turned pale.
"Don't worry, I will join the Night Watch in a while." In order to calm Anna's panic, Ryan told Anna part of the conversation in Hamilton's office.
After the explanation, Anna felt relieved and her face became more stable. She nodded and said,
"Okay then! I will help do what I can."
Ryan waved his hand and said, "If you have time, you can spend more time with Mint. Usually there is no one at home. She will be very happy with you."
"Of course, there is no problem. Mint is very cute and well-behaved." Speaking of Mint, Anna's eyes narrowed like a crescent.
"That's enough. Don't worry, life will get better and better!"
Anna looked at Ryan's firm expression, nodded, and said "hmm" heavily.
Although the other party was only a few months older than her, she inexplicably felt a sense of reliability. She believed Ryan's words!
In the afternoon, on the way to the blacksmith shop, Ryan checked another core skill of the blacksmith, 'Hammer Expertise', and the icon was a flat-headed iron hammer placed diagonally.
[Hammer Expertise lv1 (Passive): When the host uses any hammer weapon, the damage is slightly increased. 】
Ryan frowned. He had been learning swordsmanship all along. Could it be that he had to find a hammer-type combat skill to learn?
It seemed that this project could not immediately improve his combat effectiveness.
However, this time, the promotion to blacksmith, whether it was the increase in strength or the appearance of active skills, made Ryan very satisfied, especially the "Power of Blacksmith".
Ryan turned the panel to the first page.
Name: Ryan Kalan
Occupation: Blacksmith lv1 (1/100)/Militia lv3 (328/500)
Constitution: 6
Strength: 9
Agility: 8
Spirit: 8
Remaining attribute points: 0
Remaining skill points: 1
The small words below the two core skills are also marked with the word lv, which obviously has a high probability of being upgraded.
However, Ryan noticed that there was no experience bar in brackets in the subscript, which most likely meant that the core skills could not be upgraded through practice, but could only be upgraded through skill points.
This immediately made Ryan frown slightly.
Because this means that the skill points, which were already insufficient, are now even more tense.
Ryan looked at the remaining 1 skill point on the panel, hesitated again and again, and still didn't click it.
"I'm currently at the second form of the Giant Bear Breathing Technique, and the progress is not slow, but when it comes to the third form, it will take much longer."
"I originally wanted to wait until I entered the Giant Bear Breathing Technique lv3, and then directly increase the points to lv4. Because the improvement of the breathing method can bring about an overall improvement in physical fitness, it is very cost-effective."
"But now there are core skills that cannot be improved by practice, which is really a bit of a headache."
Ryan thought about this problem while walking towards the blacksmith shop.
"Moreover, according to this trend, the skill point gap in the future is likely to become larger and larger."
"As for the solution."
"Either find a way to trigger more professions, but this is currently very uncertain. The previous week of Greyhound training was thought to trigger new profession panels such as dog trainers or animal tamers, but it did not appear in the end."
"Then it seems that the only thing I can grasp now is to continue to improve the professional level of blacksmith or militia."
After thinking for a while, Ryan's goal gradually became clear. When he came to the blacksmith shop again, he rekindled his enthusiasm and began to learn to forge horseshoes from blacksmith Boris.
After an afternoon of continued learning, Ryan gradually became more and more proficient in forging horseshoes, and blacksmith Boris did less and less.
This made Boris look at Ryan with new eyes. He didn't expect that this kid had such a good talent for blacksmithing!
Unfortunately, after an afternoon of "struggle", the professional level of blacksmith only increased by 5 points, and is currently blacksmith level 1 (5/100).
It seems that after being promoted to blacksmith, the original forging output can provide less and less experience points.
As the sky gradually darkened, Ryan left the blacksmith shop and walked towards the Habsburg manor.
After returning to the servants' dormitory, Ryan and George chatted briefly for a few words and fell asleep.
The next morning, as part of the new week's training, the servants needed to undergo archery training, and the archery instructor was still Humbert, the senior guard of the manor.
As one of the items in the Habsburg Manor Guard Assessment, swordsmanship and archery are both required to be learned.
A group of servants came to the northwest corner of the Habsburg Outer Fortress, where ten targets were neatly erected, and in the awning next to them, there were training bows of different sizes and weights.
Ryan took a closer look and found that there were short bows, war bows, and long bows over 1.5 meters long.
"Today, we are doing archery training. Everyone, go to the awning to get a bow and a quiver that suits your strength." Instructor Humbert said in a deep voice with his hands behind his back.
As soon as the instructor's voice fell, the servants swarmed to the awning and began to choose.
Most of the servants chose short bows because of their limited strength.
But many of the pseudo-second generation were tall and strong, and had stronger strength, so they chose normal-sized war bows.
Ryan also picked a bow, but the poundage was deliberately a little weaker, about a bow of medium poundage.
Otherwise, according to his current actual strength, Ryan could actually choose the bow with the highest poundage here.
Thick Eyebrows glanced at Ryan and saw that he actually picked a bow with a higher poundage than him. He couldn't help but snorted coldly and thought to himself: "It shouldn't be, Ryan should be weaker than me!"
However, he did not ridicule Ryan, but his face sank, turned around and left.
It seemed that he remembered the very unpleasant fighting experience.
Thinking of that fight, Thick Eyebrows felt his stomach was a little uncomfortable again, and cursed in his heart: "Fuck! What the hell is Drunkard Jack doing? A week has passed, and now I can't even find him."
"But... I think Drunkard Jack must have gone somewhere to fool around!"
"Because a similar thing happened before, this bastard made money and had a romantic affair with a widow for half a month, until the last penny on his body was emptied, and he was kicked out."
Thick Eyebrows shook his head with an angry look, and felt extremely regretful that he paid the full amount in advance when he chose Drunkard Jack that day!
This bastard is really unreliable!
As for archery, Ryan is naturally very eager, but at present he can't invest precious skill points in archery.
So throughout the day, although Ryan was very serious, his archery improved little, and there was only an icon of basic archery lv1 (8/100) on the original militia panel. After all,
Rome was not built in a day, and it takes a lot of time to practice if you want to shoot accurately with a bow and arrow.
This made Humbert, who was originally looking forward to Ryan, look disappointed.
However, this made Nongmei, who was very anxious at the beginning, very happy.
Because archery is one of the required contents of the guard assessment, Ryan's poor archery will greatly drag down the overall score of the guard assessment.
In comparison, his second-ranked swordsmanship plus the first-ranked archery will definitely surpass Ryan's total score.
This is a sure thing!
(End of this chapter)
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