Chapter 6 Luvid's Progress
"Water energy flows. Once it starts, don't think about stopping. You should imagine the fighting energy as a surging river. Your body and your limbs are dry and narrow rivers. Use your fighting energy to open it hard and widen it!"
On the training ground, the energetic Kunas loudly urged everyone to train.
"There are three of Carlo. I have been with me for six years and have not yet cultivated the fighting spirit. Do you want to be a follower knight for the rest of your life?
You are only seventeen or eighteen years old now, and you still have the opportunity to fight and do your best to train, and don’t let yourself regret it in the future!”
Carlo, Bot and Mellon were scolded by Kunas, and they blushed and tried their best to fight. This was the only way to inspire fighting spirit.
Although Odin's body is thin, he inherits part of the Dou Qi bloodline after he is exposed to his own light, which makes it easier to produce Dou Qi. This is also the characteristic of advanced Dou Qi - bloodline inheritance.
Bloodline inheritance can make offspring more affinity with Dou Qi energy. Some luck is good and do not even need to be deliberately exercised. At age, Dou Qi can be directly generated from the inherited bloodline. Such people are the pride of heaven.
Odin is the one with poor luck. He also inherits Dou Qi bloodline, but it is too thin. After training, he can barely stimulate Dou Qi before he becomes an adult and becomes the lowest level of trainee knight.
If the fighting spirit had not been inspired before he became an adult at the age of sixteen, he would probably become a laughing stock in the upper circles of the entire Danube Principality.
He would also doubt whether Odin was his own child. After all, the Golden Knight's son is a useless man, and everyone likes such family gossip.
Dou Qi and magic are unique cultivation systems in this world. The basic Dou Qi training method can stimulate a Dou Qi seed in the human body. This seed can independently absorb Dou Qi energy free from the body, grow and sublimate.
The energy of the Dou Qi is limited by the physical strength. The ancestors then developed a series of subsequent training methods, with the purpose of using Dou Qi to increase the physical strength. The increase in the physical strength will accommodate more Dou Qi, thereby forming a virtuous cycle.
The Blood-Hock Earl family has strong aggressive fire-attribute fighting spirits. It is rumored that the ancestor was a fire-attribute earth knight, and the powerful fire-attribute fighting spirit bloodlines were passed down. His father, brothers and sisters, including Xiao Aoge, were all fire-attribute fighting spirits.
But when Odin came to him, a rare ice-attributed Dou Qi was born. He guessed that it was the inherited mutation of the mother's water-attributed Dou Qi.
Odin's eyes were closed, and he used his mind to control the ice-blue fighting energy to slowly shuttle through his body, stimulating every muscle in his body as much as possible.
Consciously slow down the flow of the Douqi, except for the surface muscles, deep muscles, skeletal muscles, muscle fascia, tendons, and ligaments, these are not missed.
This is just a basic operation for the former top medical students. He has taken countless human anatomy classes, and every muscle, blood vessel and bone in the human body is familiar with it. However, after graduation, he was revoked due to a medical accident. He had no choice but to start a sales job and get the opportunity to die suddenly.
As the physical stimulation range expanded, the Dou Qi was consumed faster than before. Before the fifth circle was finished, the Dou Qi was consumed and had to stop.
Kunas, who was paying attention to the whole process, frowned slightly, thinking that Odin had been lazy again, and thought that he might have practiced too hard yesterday, so he acquiesced.
The next step is fighting skills training. The two of them constantly counterattacked and fed the moves. With careful training, Odin's fighting skills improved rapidly.
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"Teacher Kunas, let Teacher Ruvid come to the castle in the afternoon. I have to ask him about his progress in the past two days."
"OK."
Kunas nodded and took the three entourages back to the town. They had a free residence in the Government Affairs Office, which was considered a benefit. He taught knight class in the castle, and Ruvid was busy in the town without touching the ground.
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"No, right! This wall should be painted white, wash it and re-paint it!"
"Each column has to be coated with three tung oil. I don't want the roof to collapse while working."
"Take that cabinet away, it's all worm-eaten, let Reagan make a new one."
Reagan Jagged is the only carpenter in the town. He has been helping the Government Affairs Office build things these two days.
Wood is the only free resource here. It doesn’t matter if you pick up an axe and cut it out in the wild, but you have to make sturdy and durable furniture.
"Hey! Ruvid."
"Oh, Kunas, I really envy you. I'm free after the Knight class, and I have endless things to do."
Kunas spread his hands together, "I would rather be busy."
"Haha, the knights usually have no good things to do when they are busy, so what if they have something to do with me?"
"The Baron asked you to go to the castle in the afternoon, after lunch break."
"Okay, Kunas, it seems that the Baron still cares about his town very much. I have to speed up the progress. My two idiot apprentices haven't returned yet. They're so stupid!"
Kunas took the words and left. In addition to taking Knight classes with Odin every day, he also needs training. As a 35-year-old Silver Knight, he is in his prime and still has the possibility of advancing to the Golden Knight, and he never gives up.
Coming to an uninhabited field, Kunas slowly raised the cross sword, and the wind-type fighting spirit in his body surged, providing him with strong motivation.
The great sword swung quickly, making a sharp whistle, and the flexible steps under his feet continued to change his body position, killing the imaginary enemies in front of him one by one.
The sword light danced faster and faster, almost flashing into an aperture.
"Cross Break the Sky!"
With a loud shout, the blue misty sword blade took off the sword and sank into the woods silently.
After two breaths, a tall tree with a thick waist slowly fell down, the broken mouth was smooth and neat, and some short shrubs were not spared. They were shaved and their leaves fell all over the ground.
"The time for accumulating momentum is a little shorter. When can you instantly use this move, you will reach the level of quasi-gold."
Kunas shook his head and continued to practice.
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Since Odin worked hard, the entire castle seemed to be full of vitality, and the servants seemed energetic when working. Only a powerful lord can better protect the castle. The servants and lords have a relationship of honor and disgrace.
"Butler Modi, isn't it because there is not enough supplies? Why does the Polish aunt still make such a sumptuous lunch?"
"The master doesn't know that some ingredients are purchased directly in the town. For example, this roast chicken is picked by the farmers in Poland today, and there are wild ducks and rabbits. They are caught by hunters. They are very cheap and the price is only one-third of that of Panshi City!
There are also many steamed fish that Shuichetun will catch every day. This is an affiliated output in your territory. The serfs are not qualified to enjoy, so they are all delivered.
And you have to practice fighting spirit every morning, and you will not be able to bear it if you don’t have enough food to replenish your body.”
Odin gnawed the chicken legs, and the old housekeeper explained.
"That's right... it sounds like Jushi Town...isn't it that barren... Then let the Polish aunt add another small animal every meal."
"Okay Master!"
After the fighting qi stimulates the body, it requires a lot of nutritional supplements to achieve the effect of strengthening. This is also the reason why it is difficult for ordinary families to cultivate knights. The Knight Academy alone has to pay a lot of fees, and it also needs to eat and drink good food every day, which is a huge cost every year.
The old butler waited in the restaurant until Odin finished lunch and asked the servants to pack up before leaving, leaving the master with a quiet lunch break space.
The castle has three floors, the second floor is the dining room, study room, living room, the third floor is the bedroom, bathroom, and terrace, the first floor is the kitchen, warehouse, and rooms where the servants live.
Generally, servants are active in the first floor and in the yards on the front and back. For example, after Odin finished lunch, the servants will return to the kitchen on the first floor to have lunch together. If the lord had not summoned the second floor, they would not have gone up. This is the rule.
After lunch break, Ruvid hurried over.
In the living room, Odin had already been waiting on the sofa.
"Lord, I hope Ruvid is not late." Ruvid bowed respectfully, but his mouth was very playful.
"Please sit down, my government official, I believe Kunas has told you why you were called. Let's talk about it."
Odin waved Ruvid to sit down and signaled the housekeeper to pour him a cup of buckwheat tea.
“Everything is underway as you told me, the Government Affairs Office is under renovation and is expected to be completed in three more days to formally perform the functions of managing the town.
I have also recruited two apprentices and are currently asking them to conduct a census. Because they are novice apprentices, I have not given them a time limit to ensure accuracy, so the census has not been completed yet. Please punish the lord!"
After saying that, Ruvid solemnly bowed his head and knelt on one knee.
"No need to be so, Luvid, you are my teacher and my right-hand man. I believe in your ability, get up."
Odin saw his little thoughts at a glance and spoke faintly.
"I didn't punish you for coming this time, and you did it right. Let the apprentice do it by letting the census do it, the more detailed the better."
Ruvid felt that his performance was a bit too hard, and he retracted his posture awkwardly, returned to the sofa and did it well, and continued to speak.
“Workers’ salaries are paid double as you ask until the amount of default is compensated.
In addition, the experienced serfs in Shuichetun have been ordered to explore the water level along the upstream and downstream of the river channel, but it is inconvenient in the wild. It is difficult to explore the complete river channel, and the approximate time cannot be estimated."
After saying that, Ruvid was also a little embarrassed, and only one of the four tasks assigned to him by Odin had completed.
"Well... it's okay, you've done it well, do it step by step, don't be blindly rushing, there are still many things you need to complete in the future, and you can even fix a group of specialized town workers."
"Does it be fixed? Indeed, even a novice will accumulate experience and improve work efficiency through continuous work. How many people will be required?"
Ruvid nodded.
"You decide how many people are. In principle, try to get as many as possible without affecting farmland planting this year. Don't let idle people in the town move me. Let me tell you, there is endless work in this town!
After the renovation of the Government Affairs Department is completed, at least two water trucks will be built. Now it is spring, and a new round of cultivation will be started soon. With sufficient water irrigation, more farmland can be opened up and more harvests will be produced.
This is very important!”
"But... the location suitable for building a water truck is not easy to find. If a large number of people are sent, it will affect the normal operation of the water truck."
Ruvid was surprised by the Lord's courage, but he still raised his own objection.
Odin smiled slightly, "Let everyone who explores comes back, not to mention waste time. If you encounter monsters in the wild, there will be casualties. It will not be worth the loss. I have a new way to find a suitable location..."
Looking at the confident Baron Lord sitting in the main seat, Ruvid felt unseen for the first time.
Double salary hire idle civilians to renovate the Government Affairs Office to establish the prestige of the lord; build water trucks, use the growing water sources of Xiaoshi Creek to reclaim more wasteland and increase grain output.
These two measures have made the civilians in Jushi Town talk about the new lord.
Chapter completed!