On the school grounds, a group of young people hummed and practiced martial arts with wooden guns.
These people are all the legitimate sons of nearby noble families. Ever since Wang Xu started to form his own personal guard, these people have been sent here in droves, and they have been invited to teach Wang Xu as his disciples.
Of course, teaching disciples is of course a lie. The real purpose is to let these legitimate sons and daughters of the family have a good relationship with Wang Xu, the Earl, and at least become familiar with each other.
After all, Wang Xu is an earl and is in charge of these families.
The nobles had made a good plan, thinking that even if they couldn't get on with Wang Xu, they would have to push their sons out.
You know, the gap in titles is not so easy to overcome.
For example, under Wang Xu's rule, there were a total of 24 viscounts with fiefs, hundreds of barons with fiefs, and some honorary knights who were kings and hegemons in the countryside.
Every year, who pays more taxes and who pays less taxes, who has to contribute labor to repair the canal, who has to send troops to fight against bandits, this is all a matter of Wang Xu's words.
Nominally, those with high titles cannot interfere in the territory of those with low titles, but in fact they have room for maneuver.
If Wang Xu hates a certain baron, although he cannot attack him directly, he can use some small means to make the baron pay more taxes, fight more bandits, and use more labor to build bridges and roads. Over time, the baron will be unable to make ends meet, and within a few years
The territory will be defeated.
Then the world was in a bad state, with banditry abounding. There was only a small town and a few villages as territory, and there were only a few soldiers. The baron, who was isolated and helpless, was gone.
In this case, the lower-level nobles can only move closer to the higher-level nobles, and it is difficult to find a second way.
Therefore, Wang Xu's bodyguards included hundreds of young nobles who brought their own horses and spears and eagerly came to participate in the training.
"Prick, poke, stab, charge!"
Two palace knights stood at the front of the team, leading the crowd to shoot at the target.
Looking at the stabbed scarecrow swinging around, many people are wondering, is there any difference between stabbing, poking, stabbing and rushing? Aren't they all thrusting forward?
"It's been three months, time flies so fast."
Not far away, a young man was holding a stone pier with both hands and measuring his strength. He looked at the teenagers in training with interest.
This young man is none other than Green. He has been following the Knights of Klein for three months. During these three months, he has been accepted as a disciple by Klein by relying on his copied high-level knight talents and advanced spearmanship talents.
In fact, Klein firmly believes that Green's talent is even higher than his. As for why, it's because Green has done nothing in the past few months.
Since becoming Klein's disciple, Green has been able to come into contact with more knights. When he has nothing to do, he can still go to the city lord's palace guards or hang out in the city's barracks.
Now, in addition to having Klein's advanced knight talent and advanced spearmanship talent, he also has the junior speed talent of a knight, the junior physical talent of a guard soldier, and the junior strength talent of a noble boy.
Among them, the young man's primary strength talent alone gave him a strength bonus of 200 kilograms. After three months of training, except for the Knight's Breathing Technique, he has not yet made a breakthrough, based on strength and speed alone.
Said that he is no less than those formal knights who have just broken through, and his strength has reached 1100 kilograms.
What is the concept of 1,100 catties? The ancient overlord was said to have the power of a thousand catties.
With the addition of several talents, Green was able to become a powerful general comparable to the Overlord in ancient times, and it only took him three months to go from being an ordinary person to the present.
"I can't be too happy. In the past three months, I have traveled all over Black Iron City. All the combat talents that can be absorbed by me are here. In the next time, if there are no higher talents for me to copy, my cultivation will
It’s going to slow down.”
While Green was happy, he couldn't help but be secretly worried.
There are too few people with talents, and most of them are elementary and intermediate talents. Among the people he has met, there is only one person with advanced talents, and that is Wang Xu's knight commander Klein.
You know, Klein's talent is one of the few in the entire Iron Cross Kingdom.
He really couldn't figure out where he should find more advanced talents to make himself look more talented.
"Beyond the advanced talents, there should be top-notch talents, even peerless talents. Now my highest-level talents are two advanced talents. If these two talents can be replaced with more advanced talents, my cultivation speed will still be high.
It can be improved again. Even if I don’t upgrade my advanced talents and just replace the three basic talents with intermediate and advanced talents, my strength will also experience a huge increase."
Green clenched his fist. The elementary strength talent can increase his strength by 200 kilograms. Wouldn't the intermediate strength talent be even higher?
There are also speed talents that can increase one's reflexes and running speed, and physical talents that can restore one's physical strength to make him stronger. These are all things he dreams of.
It's a pity that in the small Black Iron City, there is no talent that can be replaced by him.
He felt like a lion trapped in a cage, eager to escape and return to his own nature.
Where is nature?
Green thinks it should be in the Imperial City. He heard from Instructor Klein that there are countless masters in the Imperial City, and there are many people who are stronger than him.
Klein has already stood in front of the Silver Knight. The only one better than him is the Golden Knight. Green thought with his toes that those who are stronger than Klein will definitely not be weaker than him in talent, and may even be more talented than him.
right.
When he thought that there might be top talent waiting for him to copy in the imperial city, Green yearned for it and wished he could grow wings and fly there right now.
Unfortunately, this idea is okay to think about, but it is not very feasible.
After several months of exploration, he already knew his identity. He was neither a free citizen nor a subject, but a domestic slave of Earl Tulip.
His whole family was bought by Count Tulip. His father was a domestic slave, his mother was a domestic slave, his sister was a domestic slave, and of course he was also a domestic slave.
Even under the harsh laws, even his future children will be servants of the Tulip family. Unless he is pardoned, he will always be a slave.
"The top priority now is to eliminate the slave status and then lead my family to the imperial city. I believe that with my knowledge and copying ability, I will be able to prosper." It has been three months since I came here, and it feels like a lot has changed.
After changing their identities, Green will still recognize the parents in this body as his parents' time-travel predecessors, so Green also regards the old Green couple as his parents.
Therefore, Green will not just leave. He plans to take his whole family out of slavery and become free citizens who can go anywhere.
Green thought this in his mind, and he had no doubt at all whether he could succeed.
He is a time traveler. In his mind, wouldn't it be simple as long as he comes up with a few more inventions in exchange for freedom?
"Green, your strength and speed have surpassed that of a formal knight. As long as you can break through with the breathing method, becoming a knight will be a matter of course. Please prepare in the past few days. I will apply for knight potions with the earl and use precious potions to help you break through.
For knights."
In Green's random thoughts, Knight Klein walked up.
Klein didn't know what Green was thinking. In his mind, it was natural for a knight to be loyal to his lord.
Coupled with Green's status as a slave, in Klein's mind, Green is of course the earl's sharp sword. When he grows up, he is destined to clear obstacles for the earl.
Therefore, Klein must be as caring as possible towards his disciples.
And he is still imagining that when Green is trained one day, will it be time for the Earl to fulfill his promise and make himself a noble? Little does he know that the humble disciple in front of him is thinking about it at this moment.
Out of the fire.
"Teacher, what is the knight's potion? Can breakthroughs in breathing techniques be achieved through external forces?" After hearing Klein's words, Green found that he had heard new words, because he had never known that knight's training could rely on external forces.
"Of course. In some big families in the imperial city, knight potions are distributed every quarter. These potions can save us several months of hard work, but these potions are very precious and can only be obtained by big families. In
In the market, a bottle of knight training potion can fetch a sky-high price."
When Klein said this, Green became interested and asked: "Teacher, where do these potions come from?"
"This is it"
Klein looked hesitant, shook his head and said: "This is the secret of the big family, and it is also the guarantee of the long-term prosperity of the big family. No one knows where the knight potion comes from, and no one knows how to refine it. All they know is
Knights of different levels can take different levels of potions, even golden knights are no exception."