Even though he was in a foreign country, the precise biological clock created by a good routine still woke Rean up early.
The first ray of morning light that came through the window felt different from the past, making him squint his eyes slightly.
"By the way, I'm no longer in Yumir. This is Tolista."
Under the strict teachings of Master Yun, Li En actually does not lack the experience of surviving alone outside. However, the dormitory life in a student dormitory is indeed the first time in his life. Compared with practicing in the mountains or surviving in the wild,
, this sense of peace of mind is a completely different experience.
"Let's do some exercise after washing up."
He walked out of the third student dormitory with his favorite sword "Kazekiri". On the side near Thors Military Academy is the outskirts of Lunaria Natural Park, and there is a small forest that is not very dense.
A good environment for exercise.
After taking off his coat and hanging it on the treetop, Rean moved his body a little and began to practice the various "forms" of the eight leaves he had learned one by one. After he finished practicing the five forms of "Waning Moon" and sheathed his sword,
I noticed other people coming out of the student dormitory.
The silver-haired girl was not wearing Thorz's school uniform, but was wearing a plain white sportswear that was tight and hugged her thin figure. With her slender arms and small chest, she seemed even more petite than Rean's sister Elyse.
Quite a few.
"Hey, remember your name is Li En, right? You also came out to exercise early in the morning."
"Yes, Fei. Good morning."
Rean found that the other party was slightly stunned when he heard him calling him by his first name. But he quickly recovered and nodded.
At the dinner party last night, everyone made an agreement not to use honorifics in Class 7, regardless of class or origin.
"Can I watch from the side?" Li En asked curiously.
When he heard yesterday that she was a descendant of the Hamel style, Rean was very curious about Fei. Now he is also very interested in her morning training.
"Whatever you want. It's just some very ordinary things anyway."
After the girl finished speaking, she jumped among the treetops, and the slight reflection of a certain metallic color allowed Rean to recognize that she was holding a thin sword in her hand.
There was no rules to her moves. She just swung them casually and cut off some branches and carried them in a roll with her left hand. After the girl fell to the ground, she waved the sharp blade three times and two times to separate the bundle of branches.
Flatten.
In Fei's hands were some thinned wooden bars that were about arm's length, roughly similar to the legs of a stool. She inserted the wooden bars into the soil one by one, and deliberately inserted them at different depths.
Then with a slight jump, she stood at the tip of the swaying wooden bars. With a tap of her toes, she moved to the second and third wooden bars. Li En saw her moving back and forth lightly, like a fairy in the forest.
The figure has a unique beauty.
Fei moved faster and faster, and his body became an afterimage. Later, it turned into a strange scene with several people standing on top of the wooden bars at the same time.
Li En had heard from his master that among some schools in the Eastern Continent, there was an exercise method called "Plum Blossom Pile".
"Qing Gong, no, it's the practice of Zhuang Gong, right?"
After Fei stopped, Rean asked.
"Forget it, but it's mainly about internal strength training. Do you want to give it a try?"
Rean was quite interested in what she said, but as soon as he stood on the wooden stick, there was a click. The "wooden stake", which was just a branch at best, broke because it could not bear his weight.
Two cuts.
Rean's feet were empty, but he immediately adjusted his posture and landed safely.
"It looks much harder than I imagined."
"Well, you can't step up without first raising your breath to adjust your pace. It's very troublesome to explain, but it would be faster to demonstrate it. For example, you can try it by cutting me down?"
"May I?"
"It doesn't matter."
Hearing what she said, Li En was certainly excited to give it a try.
He took the knife and drew it out. Then there was a flash of fire! Of course, his attack did not have any killing intent, and he slashed with the back of the knife, but this knife hit the empty space.
Before he could sheath the sword, he discovered that Fei was standing firmly on his outstretched right forearm. And the opponent's rapier was pointed directly between his eyebrows.
It didn't feel heavy, but rather like a bird landing lightly on my arm. But the chill from the sharp weapon was real.
Fei put the rapier back into the scabbard, and her whole body turned back and fell to the ground again.
"It's really amazing. Not only is it so light, but the speed of the sword is also so fast that I didn't notice it."
With that lightness, you can't feel the weight of a girl at all. No wonder you can stand on a wooden bar cut from a branch without breaking it.
Rean remembered that instructor Reinhardt said yesterday that compared to his senior brother "Wind Sword Master" Arios, he made too many preparations for his attacks. Now that he saw Feina's quick attacks without warning, he also felt the same
I also have a lot of emotions.
He realized that he not only had moves, but also had many areas for improvement in the connection between moves. It was not enough to simply master the moves. After all, they were moves created by others and may not be the most suitable for him to use. Cut out the redundant and make it more practical.
His moves have become more refined and he has truly become his own "eight leaves". In this way, the door to the middle pass will surely be opened to him.
"It was just a display, not a competition just now. You weren't serious, either. If we fight with all our strength, I will probably lose."
"Haha, you think too highly of me. As expected of the Hamel style, the understanding of 'wu' is completely different from the swordsmanship schools I know. I even think that among the new students in this class, even that
Laura may not be able to win you for sure."
"Actually... my training is different from Instructor Reinhardt's Hamel Style. Because I'm very weak in strength, I use the 'Tsubame' type as my core. Hmm?"
Fei turned her head, and Li En also turned back at the same time. At this time, a third person appeared in the woods.
He didn't come out wearing the clothes provided by Thors like Rean, nor did he come out wearing unadorned sportswear like Fei. The person who came was Laura, who was wearing an Al-Said style training uniform, and she was carrying a body-size knife.
It looks like he plans to come here early in the morning to train with his big sword.
"I heard a very interesting topic. Did it bother you, Li En and Fei?"
Laura thrust the big sword into the ground and made some preparation movements with her hands and feet to stretch her body.
"It doesn't matter. In fact, we were talking about you just now. I was wondering who is stronger, Laura or Fei."
Li En said with a smile.
"It's probably hard for me to win. Because of the 'power gap' I just mentioned. But even if you can defeat me, don't expect to escape unscathed."
"Really, I'm curious too. Ah, let's forget it now. There will be morning training with the instructor later. I heard that Thors usually has strict freshman training when he enters school, so I want to save my energy first. Between us
Let’s leave the competition between us until later.”
"Well, I have no objection." Fei nodded.
"Aha, I thought I could feast my eyes on the fight between the two female swordsmen."
Hearing what Rean said, Laura turned her head and glared at him.
"Of course, you can't escape either, Rean. I've always been looking forward to fighting against Eight Leaf's disciples."
"Okay, although my skills are not that high, as a warrior, I will not refuse any form of challenge."
"That's good."
After hearing Rean's answer, Laura nodded with satisfaction.
The preparations were almost done. Laura reached out and pulled out the life-size sword with one hand, holding it in her hand.
Although she has the wrist strength to wield this huge weapon with one hand, Lara always holds the sword with both hands during practice.
"Drink~~"
With a soft cry from her, azure fighting energy burst out from her body. The air waves stirred up wind waves, causing the leaves in the forest to rustle with her steps.
She didn't care that Li En and Fei were watching from the side, and just practiced simple moves one by one in the open space.
Slash horizontally, chop, and then take off slightly and then use extremely high torque to gather all the strength of the body to achieve a 360-degree spinning slash.
"'Spiral'?" Rean blurted out unconsciously.
"The names are a little different. But the principles of martial arts are indeed the same. I think what you are thinking is correct."
Laura also heard Rean's voice and explained a little bit.
"Okay, the warm-up is over. Let's start practicing." After Laura finished speaking, she concentrated on her own practice.
Although Rean already felt that he might not be able to take those moves, Alside was indeed more than that. Those simple movements just now were just a warm-up.
The fighting spirit overflowing around Laura was used in an orderly manner, using the fighting spirit to draw the brilliance and gathered into wonderful patterns under her feet.
"'Yiyi Formation', open!"
After a sweet shout, Laura's whole momentum suddenly rose to a new height.
"Well, Laura is really powerful. I wonder if 'that move' can break through her protective fighting spirit."
Fei beside Rean was also paying attention to Laura's practice, and Rean himself also hypothesized how he should fight if he stood opposite her.
He soon realized that he could not surpass his opponent in terms of momentum unless he unleashed "that power".
After Laura devoted herself to training, she showed no scruples in using dazzling moves in front of two spectators. "Earthshatter", "Fang Flash", "Lion's Teeth"...
After Li En and Fei realized that they couldn't learn anything from her just by watching her, they each returned to their original practice.
An hour passed quickly. The three of them, who were all sweaty, chose to go to the shower room to wash off the hot sweat after finishing their daily training.
It is a pity that the third student dormitory does not have the luxury of providing students with a large bathhouse for bathing. It makes Li En, who was born in Hot Spring Township, a little nostalgic for the secret hot spring of Fengyi Pavilion in his hometown.
Laura and Fei are both fierce warriors, so naturally they don't spend a lot of time taking care of their hair like those girls with knee-length hair.
After the two of them walked out of the shower room, they happened to see Rean wearing only a pair of shorts in the dressing room. With just one glance, their eyes simultaneously rested on Rean's chest - the place with the huge scar.
"What a terrible injury. How on earth did you survive?"
When he noticed that Laura was even looking at him with sympathetic eyes, Rean immediately answered.
"Haha, it happened when I was very young, and I have no memory of it at all. Anyway, I am living well now,"
"Well, you are very strong. Rean."
After Fei finished speaking, she turned away and stopped staring at him. She had seen more cruel battlefields, so her adaptability to this kind of thing was much better than Laura. She came to the wardrobe with her own nameplate to get it.
I took out the underwear and outer clothes for changing, so I planned to take off the bath towel and change directly here.
Noticing her actions, Laura looked away from Rean and quickly ran over to stop her.
"Hey, Fei, there are still boys here. Go to the cubicle at the back to change."
"Huh? It doesn't matter. I'm a washboard anyway. There's nothing to be ashamed of. Isn't it okay for Rean to be shirtless?"
"That's not true. You are a girl, so you should be more reserved."
In the end, Fei, who was holding the clothes, was pushed into the back compartment by Laura to change clothes, while Li En, who almost encountered an emergency, breathed a sigh of relief.
Only then did Laura realize that this silver-haired girl with many incredible qualities probably lacked a lot of common sense in life. She also didn’t know what her family taught her.
For the sake of being a morning exercise partner, Laura decided to pay more attention to Fei in the days to come and correct her reckless behavior.
After a while, everyone else basically got up. It was Altina who had prepared meals for sixteen people early in the morning. Although the taste could only be said to be edible, not delicious, this breakfast
It is very nutritious.
"I'm not a housekeeper either. I was just ordered by the instructor on the first day. Let's set up a duty schedule. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as cleaning of the dormitory building and maintenance of equipment."
Because everyone is in the same class, taking turns on duty should be a matter of course.
The matter of how to arrange it finally fell to Emma, because she was regarded as the class president as she entered the school with the first place. Emma originally wanted to ask Jussis for help, but how could someone born into a noble family know about such a thing.
Later, Josté and Gaius, who had experience in personnel arrangements, came to help and finally helped Emma out.
After the group had finished preparing, it was still fifteen minutes before seven o'clock in the morning. Everyone set out together and headed towards the old school building deep in the Thors Military Academy.