While Lin Ze was feeling the state of his body, the small smoky words on the wall had been covered by new words:
It is detected that the player 'Crow' holds special permissions. According to the game rules, you can choose one of the following three options as a game benefit:
1. Sword skill level +1 (if there is no corresponding skill, change it to mastering ‘sword skill lv1’)
22,000 credits (only available in Blackstone Settlements)
3. Randomly select a knife-making recipe (level is intermediate or advanced)
The choice of Welfare has already appeared once in "Strong Man's Exercise Diary". Lin Ze was not too surprised when he saw this. After thinking for a few seconds, he quickly made a decision.
"Choose the third option!"
The book "Dark Age" just now has undoubtedly shown the importance of the swordsmith in this world. The latter must also be the most important power system in this game, so there is probably nothing wrong with choosing the swordsmith formula.
Moreover, in the previous character identity exchange, at least two character identities were related to the knife-making formula, which also illustrates this point from the side.
As for sword skills, Lin Ze believes that it should not be difficult to learn in the game, just like basic fighting.
As he made his choice, a strange message suddenly emerged from the depths of his mind.
‘Red Lotus (Steel 36%, Fire 33%, High Temperature 12%, Light 18%, Holy 1%), Advanced Formula’
"Superior, you're pretty lucky." Lin Ze raised his eyebrows, and then couldn't help but look puzzled, "But what does this formula mean?"
After recalling it for a while, he found that the contents of the formula seemed to be imprinted in his mind. After unexpectedly forgetting it, Lin Ze temporarily put aside the idea of exploring, turned around and left the room.
He had not forgotten the 'gathering' that the young man who woke him up mentioned before leaving.
Despite the delay, it's probably late now.
The room where Lin Ze lives is located on the second floor. The entire building should be a dormitory building. There are a lot of clothes hanging in the corridor.
On the way downstairs, he saw a few boys with hurried and anxious expressions. His heart moved, and he followed them out of the dormitory building and ran towards the playground not far away.
It is said to be a playground, but it is actually a bluestone open space with a track paved with sand around it. On the not-so-spacious playground, about forty young men and women were already lined up. When they saw Lin Ze and several people running towards him, they all started to rush.
Showing gloating eyes.
The young man who asked Lin Ze to get up was among the crowd, looking at him and shaking his head and sighing.
"Very good, you are very brave. You dare to be late for my class. Everyone is going to run 50 laps. If you can't finish it within an hour, you don't have to eat lunch!"
The speaker was a middle-aged man standing at the front of the queue. His face was weathered and full of weather, with a ferocious scar like a centipede running through most of his face. Combined with his cold and indifferent eyes, it was extremely oppressive and intimidating.
Lin Ze heard the words "Instructor Liu" from the low-pitched complaints of the boys next to him.
"Why are you still standing there? Do you want me to invite you?"
Under the cold gaze of Instructor Liu, several late boys came to the track with grimaces, stepped forward and started running.
Although the playground is not big, one lap of the track is at least 300 meters, and after 50 laps, it is more than 15 kilometers. It is almost impossible for ordinary people to complete it in one hour.
Out of the desire to explore, Lin Ze did not use all his strength from the beginning. Instead, he mingled among a few boys, running and observing them secretly, as well as the young men and women on the playground.
After a while, he came to a conclusion.
The physical fitness of these young men and women is very ordinary, almost no different from ordinary people.
"It must be because of the type of game!"
"Just like the strength system in "The Exercise Diary of a Strong Man" focuses on physical fitness, fighting, and energy, the strength system in this world is mostly focused on knife weapons, and is very average in terms of physical fitness."
With a physical fitness that is almost the same as ordinary people, it is basically impossible to run 15 kilometers in one hour. Instructor Liu's move was purely to punish the boys who were late, and he had no intention of letting them eat lunch.
It's a pity that Lin Ze is not in this case.
When it comes to running, everyone present may not have as much experience as him, let alone his physical fitness of up to 21 points.
After getting the information he wanted, Lin Ze stopped holding back and ran wildly, leaving the other boys far behind in an instant. Several boys were overtaken by him again before they even finished a lap.
The young men and women in the center of the playground have already started training. They all pulled out the blades from their waists to practice the basic movements of swordsmanship. But occasionally they couldn't help but look at the few people who were sent away, and saw that Lin Ze was so reckless from the beginning.
Running wildly, he couldn't help but show a little ridicule.
A guy who doesn't know how to allocate his physical strength, even if he runs fast at the beginning, will be overtaken by the latecomers due to his inability to follow up. Similar experience is already common knowledge in the training camp, but this guy doesn't understand it yet.
Many people had a look of watching a good show on their faces.
However, half an hour later, their eyes widened and they looked straight at Lin Ze, who was still running at a steady speed. He passed the other boys lap after lap, and showed no signs of exhaustion.
"Why are you so dazed! Do you want to run along too!?"
Instructor Liu's cold voice drew everyone's attention back, and they quickly waved the blades in their hands, not daring to be distracted again.
In less than an hour, Lin Ze had already completed 50 laps. Apart from being drenched in sweat and having some shortness of breath, he couldn't see any adverse reactions. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell at a glance that he didn't try his best.
1 hour and 15 kilometers, and you haven’t tried your best yet. Is this guy a monster?
Everyone looked shocked and shouted crazily in their hearts.
Instructor Liu took a deep look at Lin Ze and said coldly: "Return to line and practice swinging your sword!"
"yes."
Back in the queue, as soon as Lin Ze pulled out his white sword, the young man who woke him up came closer and whispered in surprise: "When did your physical strength become so good? You can run more than ten laps without gasping for breath!"
"I practice running regularly." Lin Ze responded casually.
"Tch!" The young man obviously didn't believe it. Before he could speak, he caught Instructor Liu's gaze from the corner of his eye. He quickly put aside his distracting thoughts and concentrated on practicing.
Lin Ze was left alone, observing the nearby crowd while imitating their movements, practicing basic movements such as chopping, lifting, whittling and stabbing with the knife.
It is worth mentioning that he noticed that everyone, including himself, used the same style of knives. He thought that the white knife should be the standard knife here.
The whole morning was spent in boring and monotonous knife-wielding exercises. After class at noon, someone brought a box of something like toothpaste and gave each person a tube one by one.
From the discussions around him, Lin Ze learned that this was a food called nutritional paste, which was their standard meal for three meals a day. It was said to be nutritious and filling.
It's just that the taste is hard to describe. Lin Ze frowned tightly after taking a bite.
He doubted whether the so-called "full" was another way of saying "unappetizing".
With the nutritional cream in hand, Lin Ze and Wang Quanjin, the young man who woke him up, found a shaded corner to sit down, squeezing toothpaste and chatting.
Wang Quanjin was his roommate in the same dormitory, and he didn't have any scheming ideas. During the chat, Lin Ze learned a lot of information through insinuations.
One of them is the place where he is now, called the Blackstone Training Camp. It is a place in the Blackstone settlement area that specializes in training apprentice swordsmiths. Every year, talented young people are recruited from the settlement area, taught swordsmanship, and work with knifesmiths.