Instructor Reinhardt had left the dormitory for a while, but Rean and others were still immersed in the instructions just now.
"Hachiba's Two-Type Gale is indeed a very powerful move, but compared to your senior brother Arios, you have too many preparations."
After a moment of fighting, the feeling of being hit on the wrist vaguely remained. It didn't hurt at all, but he didn't hold the sword.
"If it were a duel with real swords, my hand would have been chopped off." He had such a clear understanding in his heart.
Of course, even if you already know where your weaknesses are, you can't overcome them overnight. The "Eight Leaves" that Rean has mastered are almost all power-charging skills. Even if you are pursuing a super-speed blast, you need to do it before taking action.
Smooth your own breath. It is far from being able to control it like using your arms and fingers. So what should you do? Continue to improve the completion of moves in the air, or let your body remember it through actual combat?
"Hey, I'm talking about you." The cheerful voice of the red-haired girl woke the other five challengers from their thoughts.
"That instructor is indeed very powerful, but there is no need to be led away by his words. Unless you plan to worship him as your teacher and follow his path, you will not be able to catch up. Anyway, Shelly has her own training.
Way, that instructor seems to be the type who won’t refuse a challenge. Wouldn’t it be nice to just treat him as a sparring partner? How about setting a goal and challenging him a hundred times to see who among us can beat him first?”
Although these words were too arrogant, they also aroused everyone's fighting spirit.
"That's right, at least force him to draw the sword." Patrick immediately answered.
"Huh, once is enough." Yossis was not to be outdone.
"I didn't expect that the empire actually has such a master. I really want to thank the general for recommending me to come here." Gaius also nodded.
Compared with them, Laura and Rean were not so optimistic. The two looked at each other.
"It seems they don't know who Instructor Reinhardt is yet." Rean whispered to Laura beside him.
"Although you are well-known in the martial arts circle, it's not surprising that others outside the circle don't know about it. But I didn't expect that Rean, you are the junior brother of Arios, the "Wind Sword Master". So, "Sword Master"
"He must be your master. I look forward to fighting with you."
"I'm far behind my senior brother. Let me ask you a question, Laura, have you ever defeated your father once before?"
"Well, not once."
"Me too. I have no power to fight back in front of Master."
In fact, Rean didn't notice that when they called each other, they omitted the honorifics and called each other by their first names. Probably because he didn't treat Laura, who was still stronger than him, as a girl at all.
The lively and noisy scene downstairs also caused other students who entered the dormitory to leave the room and come out to find out.
"Since the instructor has said before that we, the students in Class 7, should get to know each other and get to know each other, it's getting late, why don't we go out and get something to eat together?" Patrick suggested.
"I agree~" The first person to answer his words was Phyllis, who had just walked downstairs. The two of them looked at Jussis, the second son of the Duke, at the same time.
"Didn't the instructor say that there is no class distinction in this military academy? You don't have to look at me, I don't have any objection."
Hearing what he said, everyone else felt relieved.
"Our most distinguished young master has already said that there is no distinction between civilians and nobles here. Can we all come together?" Phyllis shouted to the dormitory upstairs again. After hearing what she said, those who have not come down must of course run down.
Upstairs.
The only one who hesitated was Machias, but seeing everyone else going downstairs, he didn't want to break away from the group.
The choice of location was based on brainstorming, but no one was familiar with the town of Tolista. As a result, after the shortest Altina mentioned that there was a good oriental barbecue restaurant nearby, everyone decided on the class party.
The location of the party.
Compared with the aristocratic students who have relaxed, the common people are still a little cautious.
The first person to break the situation was Josté, who walked to Alyssa's side.
"We played shooting games together when we were kids, do you remember? Don't worry, I will keep it a secret for you." Jost said while winking at each other.
For Alyssa, Josté’s assurance relieved her. In fact, she had vaguely speculated about it before. After all, given her background, there were not many people she could become friends with since childhood. Although it was just
It was an encounter five years ago, but she still has vivid memories of this lively and cheerful girl.
Because of Josté's intervention, Phyllis quickly became familiar with Alyssa. Unlike Alyssa, who only met once in childhood, Josté's family and Phyllis' family have been friends for several generations.
Although the Capua family was once in trouble, after returning to the empire, the two families resumed contact.
—
Starting with Josté, who was also born in a baron family, Rean didn't mind the slight embarrassment before and walked to Elliot's side.
"So Rean, you are a noble." Although Elliot was still a little nervous, he certainly accepted Rean's kindness.
"It's a little different from a real noble. I'm an adopted son. In fact, I don't have any noble blood in me."
At this time, Gaius, an international student from Norde, also came over.
"Li En, just now I noticed that you were chatting with that girl about the instructor. Are you familiar with our instructor? Can you tell me about it?"
"Of course, no problem." They discussed Reinhardt's matter with great interest, and Rean and Gaius soon had a common language.
—
Laura originally wanted to continue discussing the topic of swordsmanship with Rean, but seeing that Rean had found her own topic, she decided not to join in the fun for the time being. She looked around for a moment and found that there was a gap between two girls.
The atmosphere was quite tense.
"Why are you here, Shelly."
"It would be nice to come and experience student life. Aren't you the same?"
"I came here because of the arrangement of the group leader. I don't think your father will let you come here to play."
"It's not bad anyway. Please give me your advice in the future, Fei."
It felt like they were about to fight, was it an illusion? When Laura saw that the two of them were about to shake hands, she thought, maybe they actually have a good relationship?
Suddenly there was a crisp "crack" sound, and the two people's hands were directly bounced away by the burst of energy.
Xie Li rubbed her vagina, and was somewhat surprised to re-examine this little silver-haired girl who had never defeated her before.
"You've improved a lot compared to before. You've also become a little bit more interesting to me."
"Humph, I am no longer the same as before."
Although it was only a fleeting aftermath of fighting spirit, so slight that no one else noticed it, it still aroused Laura's great interest.
She walked directly towards the two people confronting each other, stretched out her hand to one of them, and signaled them not to fight here.
"Forget it, forget it, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future anyway." Xie Li put her hands behind her back, as if she wanted to give up.
"You are Fei Clausel, right? I can tell that you are very powerful. Why didn't you challenge him just now? You are a martial artist and you wouldn't want to miss this opportunity." Laura asked.
"I am the first disciple of Hamel style. Reinhardt is my senior uncle. I know very well how powerful he is."
Fei put her two fingers together, gestured with her sword in front of her chest, and gave Laura a swordsman's salute.
"Hamel style... I see, so let me introduce myself again. I am Laura S. Alside, the story behind the Alside style."
Laura returned the favor.
"So you joined a school. No wonder you have changed so much. Please introduce me to that Hamel style." Shelly walked between the two of them with interest.
Fei was a little confused about whether she should talk about Ling, but Laura enthusiastically started to introduce to Shelly how powerful the "Sword Emperor" who was born at the Imperial Martial Arts Conference was.
—
Patrick walked up to Emma and Rosino, two girls from the civilian class.
At first, I was interested when I heard that Emma entered the school with a full scholarship from Thorsz as the top student. Because Thorsz's first place has always been synonymous with the best of the younger generation.
After being reminded by the instructor that there was no distinction between classes, Patrick realized that the other person was a person worth getting to know.
The so-called nobility originally meant people who were at the highest level of society and had a special status. Throughout the history of the Erebonia Empire, its core meaning has not changed, which is to emphasize social status and the right to speak.
The vast majority of nobles did not have any noble blood in the beginning, but were canonized because of their excellence and merit. The same was true for Haynes's ancestors.
After Instructor Reinhardt revealed that Machias was the son of Karl Regnitz, the first civilian to climb up to the position of governor of the imperial capital, he no longer looked down upon his birth. Maybe now that Ma Chias
Chias was indeed disgraceful and hostile to the nobility, but Patrick believed that he would soon be assimilated into the environment.
It is not because of noble blood or good fortune that one is a noble, but because one is good enough to become a noble.
…………
After leaving the third student dormitory, Altina led the way at the front, followed closely by Miliyam. The others were basically divided into small groups of three and gathered together.
Josté, Alyssa, Phyllis
Rean, Eliot, Gaius
Laura, Shelly, Faye
Emma, Rossino, Patrick
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Machias was the only one who fell at the end, but in fact, he was not the only one. The second son of the Albarea family, who was supposed to be the superior, also fell behind the large army and unknowingly became
The "crane tail".
"Don't worry, no one will mind what you said before. Rather, I think you are very brave." Jussis walked to Machias and whispered in his ear.
"Stop talking sarcastically, are you sympathizing with me? What do you know about me?" Machias growled in a low voice.
"No, I am sincere. You may not believe it, but in fact, I also hate nobles. Not just my family Elbarea, but all people who are given this title."
"How is it possible? Don't say you don't understand the truth that your butt determines your head. I can proudly say that I defended myself from the standpoint of a commoner. How could you not stand from the standpoint of a noble? I don't need to talk about hating nobles.
Come comfort me."
Seeing Machias staring at him, Jussis shook his head.
"You probably don't know. I am an dishonorable illegitimate child. My mother was born as a commoner. After her death, I was taken back to my father's home, and that father..." Yosis closed his eyes, "Actually,
He never treated me as a real son from the beginning to the end."
"ah!"
Machias did not expect that there would be such an inside story.
In the inherent concept of the Erebonia Empire, illegitimate children are considered to be despicable because they were born because their father violated the marriage vows he made in front of the goddess. The status of illegitimate children is even worse than that of adopted children from noble families. For thousands of years,
In the history of the empire, it was rare for an illegitimate son to inherit a title.
"The cause of my mother's death is unknown, but I have to maintain the appearance of a noble and put on an arrogant face. I hate nobles sincerely, but I can't say it openly in front of everyone like you. So,
I didn't mean to laugh at you, I actually admire you quite a bit." Yosis said.
Machias was silent for a while.
"I'm sorry. You shouldn't be willing to talk about this kind of thing to others. Your pain is no less than mine. I'm sorry, I shouldn't be angry with you."
"Well, it doesn't matter here, because here is Class 7 without distinction of classes. I am very lucky that I have the opportunity to spend my college life in such a class. In fact, although I am called a noble, neither I nor Patrick
, or Phyllis, none of the three of us are the eldest sons in the family, and the possibility of inheriting the title is almost non-existent. So we can only be regarded as being born into a noble family, not a true noble. Laura is the only daughter of the Alside family.
Li En is the eldest son of the Shuhua family, and those two should be the ones who will really become nobles in the future."
"I see. So, Jussis, you are not a real noble. Well, wait, remember, there are six nobles. I would like to ask, where is Josette? Will she be able to inherit in the future, or will she not be able to inherit?
?”
"You don't know?" Yosis glanced at him in surprise.
"Hmm? Should I know?"
"That's right. The reformists didn't play a bright role in that incident. Your father probably never told you about that incident. I only heard about it from my elder brother later."
"May I know?" asked Machias.
"The motion to deprive the Capua family of their title was proposed and passed by your father, Carl Regnitz, the governor of the Imperial City. In this sense, your father is her enemy."
"Ah!" Machias, who had always felt that he should hate the nobles, knew for the first time that he could also be the object of hatred by others.
"Wait a minute, didn't you say that her family was deprived of her title? But according to the instructor, she was still born into a noble family."
"Well, I only heard the first half of the story from my eldest brother. I don't know what happened afterwards. If you are interested, you can ask her directly. By the way, to answer your previous question. 'A noble who can inherit a noble title
Children' and 'noble children who cannot inherit the title', you just asked me which side she is on, she is neither."
Yossis paused.
"She is already a noble. Baroness Josté Capua is the only true noble lady in Class 7 and 16 of our school."
At this moment, the girl involved had already arrived next to the two of them.
"What kind of embarrassing name is that? Just call me Josette. You two have fallen behind. Phyllis and Alyssa were worried that you would quarrel, so they asked me to come and have a look. I didn't expect that you two brothers already have such a good relationship.
Already."
"It's just a casual chat. Not to the extent you said." Jussis said to Jost.
"Oh? Then don't spread the news about my family casually. I know that your eldest brother Rufus Elbarea is very powerful, but let the dark history of our family go by."
"Well, you're right, I was rude." Yosis bowed his head and apologized.
"Hug, I'm sorry." Machias felt that he was also responsible.
"Why don't you apologize? That matter has nothing to do with you. Even your father had no choice but to do it under such circumstances. I don't mean to treat you as an enemy. Stop procrastinating and leave quickly. I'm already behind.
, everyone is still waiting for us."
Josté pushed the shoulders of the two of them, asking them to speed up and quickly caught up with the large group.