Chapter 47, The Road of Knight-Part 2
The troops from Kendall County in the Northwest Province stayed outside Nanguan Pass overnight. At dawn the next day, they packed up and set off.
In addition to some caravans that originally followed the army, some small caravans that passed through the Nui River checkpoint also took the initiative to follow this well-equipped army out of a desire to take advantage.
Those caravans traveling north and south must have seen that this elite but immature army was still bound by the laws of the kingdom. At this time, it had not yet become a violent group that used violence to obtain profits without punishment, so they boldly and actively followed them. The army continued walking south along the trade route.
The topography of the western province is very different from that of the northwestern province. Here there are no longer random towering mountains and densely forested mountains. Instead, there are vast lakes, plains and grasslands. Next to the trade road, you can sometimes see a small patch of low trees leaning on some stone pillars that appear abruptly on the vast grassland. Instead of trees always appearing around water sources as common people think.
This is because the various lakes in the Western Province are always surrounded by groups of animals. It is difficult for trees to withstand the animals' self-feeding behavior, which means that the fast-growing weeds can grow repeatedly.
The roads in the Western Province are surrounded by vast grasslands, so in order to mark accurate trade routes, people here will use fired hard mud bricks to erect conspicuous signs several meters high every tens of meters on both sides of the trade roads. The top of each masonry pillar is equipped with a polished reflective stone ball.
Whenever the sun appears from the horizon and shines on the stone balls, the smooth stone balls on the tops of these masonry pillars will reflect the bright and dazzling reflections of the sun, guiding the traveling business travelers not to take the wrong route.
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Kiel has been riding his own horses to patrol around the marching army for the past two days. According to the information he has learned, unlike the sparsely populated Northwest Province, the Western Province has a relatively larger population, but most of the population Distributed on several main roads throughout the province.
Deep in the grassland, the sea of grass, which is taller than a man riding a horse, is full of murderous intent, and few people live there.
For example, the trade route they are taking now basically follows the speed of ordinary caravans, and there are simple villages and towns where they can stay every day.
As long as you are not robbed by bandits on horseback while walking during the day, there will generally be no problems while walking here, and there is no need to frequently camp and stay in the wild.
This is very different from the Northwest Province.
Because he was riding a horse, Kiel was arranged by Knight Crow to arrive at the village where he was staying that night with several baron guards who were also on horseback to explain the situation in advance.
The situation must be explained. After all, an army is passing through. In order not to cause excessive panic in the villages and towns where they are staying, Kiel and the others have to inform the local lords or stewards in advance so that the other party can prepare for the reception. Most of them are mentally prepared and prepared. Just a supplement of water.
According to Kiel’s experience during this period, the situation usually looks like this:
When they arrived at the place where they would set foot half a day in advance, they would be alerted by the defensive forces of the villages and towns because they were all riding horses and well-equipped. At this time, the baron's bodyguards had to present the noble tokens representing the baron to let the other side know. Let them in carefully.
Then, in the face of the other party's vigilance and hostility, he shamelessly found someone to ask the local leader who was talking and making trouble.
This step has to be left to Kiel himself. The baron's personal guards are not willing to use their hot faces to touch the cold buttocks of the locals. Kiel has to scratch his head to do these tasks.
Fortunately, he was young, and his smiling face looked particularly safe. Although he had killed too many people with murderous aura, most people couldn't feel it. They would only feel that the young man Kiel's aura was a bit fierce.
And when you find the local leader or manager, you tell them that you are just an outpost of an army of hundreds of people and two to three hundred people accompanying the caravan.
At this time, the people who were dealing with them quickly changed their faces and became polite to them.
Every time this happens, Keir finds it funny. Of course, he wouldn't actually laugh, that would get him into trouble.
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Two or three days after leaving Angeng Nanguan and marching south.
That night, their troops and caravans were stationed outside an unknown small place called Grass Rat Town.
Without entering the town, they wouldn't really let so many people in. At most, they would be some businessmen or guards who couldn't bear the loneliness, carrying money in their pockets, and going to the town to have some fun. Often these small towns built on trade routes would kill them severely.
The army was still camping in the open space next to the road as usual.
The caravans who followed the army and the caravans who joined temporarily set up a gathering point to rest at a random gathering point opposite the trade road where the military camp was located.
The men and horses of each caravan will be clearly separated from other caravans. This results in the caravan camp not having as many people as the army. On the contrary, it looks larger and more lively than the military camp.
Caravan guys carrying musical instruments often sit by the fire, accompanied by the fire raised with grass, and compete sporadically on their musical instrument playing skills. The 'educated people' who still remembered a few verses of the poem sang some pornographic stories about popular poetry in a hoarse voice.
Drinking the clear water that had no taste at all, the businessmen were singing and dancing, sitting around and having fun together.
At this time, Kiel was undergoing a new step of knight training in Knight Crow's tent.
Different from general martial arts training, the training of knights itself is a matter of control.
Since eating only strange food made from the body of a water ghost in the past two days, Kil has been feeling hot but full of strength. Even if he did nothing, his whole body was sweating all the time, which forced him to drink water frequently to ensure that his body was adequately hydrated.
Occasionally, he would take out the bag of salt from his carriage and lick the yellow-white salt grains to replenish the missing salt in his body, otherwise he would have no strength at all.
Even though he only eats a little bit of water ghost's body tissue every meal, just that little bit of meat makes Keel feel full and feels that he has eaten enough. If the appearance and taste are not indescribable, Keel even feels that this thing is really real. Very good portable food.
It's small in size, full of food, and has strong energy. Just a little will keep you full of energy all day long.
"Boy, this is not a good thing."
Knight Crow sat on a chair in the camp, playing with several strangely colored water ghost claws left from the fingertips of the water ghost.
"Not everyone can eat the meat of monsters and Warcraft. Some of them are poisonous, but they are not poisonous. If we humans eat them, it will have terrible consequences."
Kil's eyes widened. Although he was surprised, he knew that the knight had not finished speaking.
"Generally speaking, after eating a small amount of monster meat, ordinary people will have sufficient physical strength for a period of time, but they can easily suffer from hidden fatal diseases that do not show up. Generally speaking, they will die from the disease within ten years."
He stretched out his hand to indicate the length. Knight Crow's words were so frightening that Kil gulped.
"I don't know the specific reason, but it's probably that monster meat can cause various pathological changes in normal people's bodies."
Isn't this cancer?
Keir thought to himself.
"And this is just a monster. The body tissue of a monster is even more powerful because it contains more messy and deadly magic power. Not only will ordinary people get sick after eating it, but it will also produce some bad and terrible changes. Basically, it's not just a skinless beast. Their hands are like a certain leg that has shrunk to the size of a finger or something. Some people will spontaneously combust for no reason, or even their limbs will explode directly."
Listening to Knight Crow's words becoming more and more outrageous, Kil reached out to cover his stomach and belly, even imagining whether he would grow a talking tumor.
"Haha." Seeing Kil's actions, Knight Crow smiled: "When I was assigned to become a knight because of my good performance in the army, my actions were exactly the same as yours now."
"Don't worry, those are things that happen to ordinary people. The knight training I teach you is the means and tools to conquer and control these situations."
Reaching out to gesture towards himself, the knight continued: "In terms of the knight's sense of experience, eating the body tissues of monsters and warcraft will allow the human body to digest the parts that can be digested, and the life energy of the whole person will be extremely large in a short period of time. Enhanced supplementation. It seems like a good thing, but it’s like filling a water glass with water and continuing to add water. Not only does the excess water run away in vain, but the excess water sometimes overturns the water glass.”
Kil nodded, he understood, Knight Crow said it very clearly.
"I mentioned a premise before - the parts that the human body can digest! No need to guess, there must be too many unknown substances in the body tissues of monsters and Warcraft that humans cannot come into contact with. Some of those substances can even be made into precious potions. Simple Generally speaking, those things are harmful to the human body and will corrode and affect the human body. Together with the extra water above, these two things are the reason why ordinary people will die after eating the body tissues of monsters and Warcraft."
"But knights are different. In other words, this is a necessary step for trainers who want to become knights."
"Kiel, how come it's been two days since you ate the flesh and body tissue of a water ghost? How do you feel?"
Kiel wiped his sweat with his hands. Although the weather was not hot in the spring night, he still sweated a lot: "I kept sweating, and I didn't sleep for two days. Not only did I feel very good, but my body also felt good." Full of strength!”
Knight Crow nodded: "This is what I said before. After being absorbed and digested, the monster's meat is adding water to your body's water cup."
"Sir, just tell me what to do now! I listen to you."
Kil sat cross-legged on the ground in the middle of the tent, looking at Knight Crow with burning eyes, eager to try.
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"Do you remember the puppet I gave you? A few days ago, I asked you to try to control the small amount of life energy in your body to avoid its attack when stimulated by that thing."
Seeing Knight Crow talking about this, Kil quickly took out the wooden doll given by Knight Crow from the thick leather bag on his waist.
Several days have passed since this thing was handed to him, and the life energy of Knight Crow on it still persists. Holding it in his hand is like receiving an electric shock. When not resisting the opponent's attack, Keir's hand is numb.
He knew that the place where his palm touched was weakly attacked by Knight Crow's life energy.
Seeing Kiel take out the doll, the knight reached out and took the doll away, played with it for a while, and then with a flash of earthy yellow light on his hand, he recharged the doll with full life energy.
The entire doll couldn't help but emit an earthy yellow light. Just staring at it, Kil felt as if his eyes were stung by tiny needles.
"Go on! Take it in your hand and show me how well you can resist its attacks and control your life energy."
With that said, the knight threw the recharged puppet to Kil, who took it carefully, but when he held the puppet in his hand, his palms still couldn't help but twitch.
Seeing the knight staring at him, Kil had to cheer up and concentrate on using his control over the life energy in his palm.
With his mind concentrated, he could feel that every place that came into contact with the puppet in his hand was being stimulated like needles by the reactivated life energy.
Kil first controlled the accumulation of his own life energy in his palm, which was far more abundant than the previous days, and then shrunk it into the bones of the palm, preventing the scattered life energy from being defeated in vain by the much more powerful knight's life energy.
Then Keir stretched out small strands of his accumulated life energy, tentacle-like, toward the skin of his palm that was in contact with the puppet.
Although the life energy he had gathered was not a match for the knights, the scattered life energy of the knights was gradually being wasted away in the "vast sea of people" when it encountered the accumulated life energy of his own.
Basically, it can be said that if you kill one enemy, you will suffer a hundred losses.
However, since the whole body now has abundant life energy, through the control of Keir, the life energy from all parts of the body is continuously flowing through the arms to support the 'front line' of the palm.
After a while, through Kil's concentrated control, most of his body's life energy was concentrated in his hands, and he firmly resisted the attack of the knight's life force at the point where his palms were in contact with the wooden doll.
What he didn't know was that he was no longer sweating at this time, and a pair of palms were slightly showing a layer of life force light similar to the color of his palms on the skin.
Knight Crow sat on a chair, folded his hands on his chest, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
He looked at Keir's current situation, shook his head, and muttered something.
"Awesome boy, you found a treasure."
Kil didn't know it, but in less than twenty days, he had mastered something that ordinary people could not do in half a year. It’s not that this is very powerful, it’s certainly not as good as some inherited children who have been exposed to this aspect since childhood, but after all, Keir has no previous experience, which also shows that he is not only serious about practice, but also has some talent.
Snap.
Knight Crow slapped his hands twice, suddenly waking up Kil who was concentrating on controlling the life energy.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Kil's eyes were a little dazed. After being stunned for a moment, he realized that the knight was reminding him to pause. He quickly placed the wooden puppet in his hand on the ground, and then allowed the life energy in his palm to return to its original place on his body.
"Very good, Kil. Really good."
After briefly encouraging Kil, Knight Crow then gave Kil a new task.
"I've seen your performance just now, and I think you can move on to the next step. This can perfectly match your current physical condition."
The knight then made a gesture: "When a water glass is full and water is still being poured into the water glass, the water in the water glass needs to be squeezed. Of course, this is a metaphor. The reality is that water is not easy to compress. , often requires a lot of strength and ability. Life energy is different from water, it can be gathered together and compressed under your active control."
"I think you felt this when you were controlling them before."
Keir nodded, indicating that he felt it.
"A new task is given to you. I want you to control the life energy in your body and compress it as much as possible when you are free, and take advantage of the powerful replenishment conditions after eating monster meat. Of course, this is also for your own good. After all, I said before Well, after eating monster meat, ordinary people can't live more than ten years. It's like a curse. If you want to survive, you have to become a knight!"
"The reason here is very simple. When you become a knight, your body will naturally be able to withstand the absorption of monster meat. And like me, I can eat monster meat. In fact, young people like you who have some talent , it’s better to eat Warcraft meat. The more powerful effect of Warcraft meat matches the extent of your progress, and the effect is better.”
After a pause, Knight Crow continued: "The second item is to use the wooden doll I gave you to practice control. After all, you are new to training, and you must rely on external forces to stimulate your body to become aware of the life energy in your body. This second training is completed when you can clearly perceive and control the life energy in your body without the need for external stimulation."
"Try not to accumulate compressed life energy in the internal organs. Although they are all part of oneself, ordinary people's bodies still can't stand the high density of life energy. You can start with the strongest bones, then the strong muscles of the limbs, Then use the blood flow in the body to slowly enter some internal organs and some sensitive body organs. Remember, the last step is the head! The brain is too fragile. Please be careful when your body is full They provide a long period of intensive life energy, which in turn strengthens your body."
"At this time, you can break through the physical limits of ordinary people and become like us. When your body has been strengthened to a certain extent, you will initially become a qualified knight!"
Knocking his fist on his chest, Knight Crow encouraged Kil.
And Kil also hit his chest hard, and the sound of the knocking in the chest was a bit hollow, which suddenly made him panic: "Sir, can it be said that life energy strengthens the body, but I don't have a heart?"
Knight Crow scratched his head: "Yes, how could I forget this? Let me think of a solution. After all, the strength and quality of the heart are very important to the growth of the knight's physical strength."
The two of them just sat in the camp and thought hard. Kiln didn't know what Knight Crow was thinking of. But he wondered if he had to find the owner of the ring that replaced his heart, the mysterious lady.
The other party asked him to improve his strength, and as for the heart problem that was part of improving his strength, the other party should have a solution.