The year 1005 of the Holy Hui Calendar, the month of germination.

It has been some time since Levi’s breathing method broke through to the third level.

During this period, Levi carefully studied the miscellaneous books about wizards and those related to animal training that Knight Fred had collected for him.

His animal taming proficiency improved rapidly.

This was Levi's first time to experience improving his proficiency simply by reading books.

It didn't take long for the skill of animal taming to be improved.

Levi——

Taming: Level 2 (1/5000)

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I have only read a small part of Levi's books on animal training.

There are many circuses in the Emerald Kingdom, and different circuses have their own understanding and uniqueness of animal taming techniques. Every time Levi reads these books, he benefits a lot. In addition, various ethnic groups, especially those living in wild areas such as mountains and grasslands, many of them know advanced animal taming techniques. Therefore, just by reading books, Levi feels that he can improve his level as an animal tamer.

In addition to reading the book, he also applies some of the theories in the book to the practice of the three little bears, which can also improve their proficiency.

Levi's breathing technique only improved by a few hundred points in this month.

If you want to reach the 10,000 mark and break through to the Knight level, it normally takes about two years.

"The secret medicine of the black snake must be put on the agenda."

Levi began to have a headache because the cash flow of the territory was only a few dozen gold coins.

In addition, there are dozens of cows and more than a hundred sheep in the manor. The total value of these things does not exceed one hundred gold coins, and they cannot be sold. These are the basis for the survival of the serfs and an important source of Levi's daily dairy and meat products.

Levi would never do such a thing as draining the pond to catch fish.

If Levi hadn't sold the wolf skins he hunted for a good price in the past period of time, he might not have been able to make ends meet.

"Get rich, get rich, how can I get rich? Or, how can I use my proficiency panel to get rich?"

Just then, Knight Fred walked in and said with a sad face, "Master Levi, the little blacksmith Milan is asking about his father again."

"His father is now alive and well in the Wild Boar Gang and is already the chief blacksmith. I've already said that I will definitely find a way to save his father, but the current situation... wait."

Levi suddenly remembered something, and he and Knight Fred rode the only two horses in the territory and hurried to the house of the little blacksmith Milan.

At this moment, the young blacksmith Milan had a worried look on his face. It had been more than a year since his father was captured by the Wild Boar Gang. Although the lord said that he would help him rescue his father, until now, there had been no movement from the lord.

"Little Milan, are you still worried about your father?" Levi, wearing a black cloak, knight armor, riding a big horse, came slowly.

"My lord, yes... yes." Little Milan knelt on the ground and said.

Levi helped Milan up.

"I understand your feelings, but your father is safe in the Wild Boar Gang. The territory is going through a difficult time right now, and we cannot go to war with the Wild Boar Gang. If we had fifty sets of knight armor now, I could lead Knight Fred to kill the Wild Boar Gang and rescue your father."

Levi said calmly.

Xiao Milan lowered her head, her voice trembling: "Fifty sets?"

For this world, fifty sets of armor are not enough for a small barony like Levi's, or even some small earldoms.

Moreover, with Little Milan's skills, he is not good enough to make armor and other things that require superb blacksmithing skills. Only formal blacksmiths can make those.

But in Blackwater Valley, the only official blacksmith was his father, old Toby. Old Toby only made two sets of armor a year... Fifty sets was an astronomical number, requiring extremely huge manpower, material and financial resources.

"Don't worry, I will do my best to help you."

"Starting tomorrow, you will move into the castle and teach me the techniques of forging and smelting."

Levi said.

"Ah? ... Lord, why are you bothering me with such a dirty job?"

Little Milan said in surprise.

"That's settled."

After Levi finished speaking, he visited the blacksmith shop, carefully looked at the forging process, took the only introductory book on forging from the blacksmith shop, and left with Knight Fred.

"Are you really going to learn forging?" Knight Fred asked with a helpless smile.

"Yes." Levi said.

In this world, wars are constant and productivity is extremely low.

Most territories have a self-sufficient economic model based on small-scale farming.

Levi thought about it and realized that if he developed other agricultural products, they would definitely not be competitive, especially since Blackwater Valley was not suitable for agricultural development.

But if you can develop forging, from the most basic farm tools to weapons and even armor, it will definitely have a good prospect.

As a lord, he knew how valuable armor and weapons were.

If we can develop the forging industry in the territory, we will have enough money to practice cultivation in the future.

The reason why he was so confident was naturally because of his proficiency panel.

As he spoke, Levi opened the proficiency panel.

There is one more skill above.

Levi——

Forging: Level 1 (1/1000)

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Levi has always been limited by the cognition of the nobility in this world and believed that these physical work are done by servants, so he never thought of using the proficiency panel to practice forging skills.

But now he is so short of money. There is no other way. There is a lack of talent and resources in the territory.

So I had to do it myself, as I had no place to vent the brute force and energy gained from practicing breathing techniques.

He had just observed the entire forging process in Little Milan's blacksmith shop, and sure enough, a new skill appeared on his proficiency panel: Forging.

"As long as it can appear on the proficiency panel, it will be easy. Just work hard and you'll be done."

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In the next few days, Levi sent people to move the blacksmith shop, and asked Little Milan and other blacksmith apprentices to move the forging equipment to the vicinity of his castle. He also built a primitive smelting blast furnace to facilitate his daily forging learning.

Little Milan was also flattered. She didn't expect that the lord would be willing to be his apprentice. This was too kind.

In this way, Levi needs to master more and more skills.

But he knew the priorities among them.

Breathing techniques always come first, followed by the Golden Cross Slash, and then forging and beast taming.

In just one month, Levi's forging reached the second level.

The speed was much faster than he imagined.

For this kind of life skills, experience is gained too quickly.

Much easier than combat skills.

In his previous life, Levi had heard that if a person can concentrate on one thing for a thousand hours, he can easily master many things that are difficult in our thinking.

Time is the best teacher, human potential is far higher than we imagine, and constant practice is the most important key to mastering it all.

Coupled with the plug-in that says "hard work pays off" and there is a proficiency panel that gives positive and negative feedback at all times.

It was a piece of cake for Levi to learn these common skills.

Three months later, he had successfully forged a high-quality knight's sword, which was in no way inferior to the one little Milan had given him.

Of course, the "fine products" by this world's standards would be considered garbage in the previous life. After all, the smelting technology was backward and it was impossible to produce high-quality iron.

Levi didn't know how to improve these things, and the proficiency panel couldn't create advanced smelting technology from scratch.

In any case, this perfect casting directly increased his proficiency by 100 points.

This made little Milan, who had been an apprentice blacksmith for four years before successfully forging a fine knight's sword, feel the disparity of the world for the first time.