Chapter 180 Training From the Master (Two Chapters in One)

The young man who had just led the way suddenly became quite enthusiastic. While leading the way, he talked more.

"So your name is Ryan, my name is Basque, my father is Baron Landonia from the Gold Coast, and I have an older brother."

Hearing this, Ryan glanced at the other party.

No wonder, judging from what he sensed, the other party should have just entered the official knight not long ago, and his strength is not strong, and there is a clear gap with the few people practicing on the island.

It turned out that because he was a "local snake", he should have received some kind of preferential treatment from Master Gunther.

This is also easy to understand. It is true that Master Gunther is obsessed with studying swordsmanship, but there must be someone to help do some chores.

Apart from other things, someone must prepare extra food for this.

For example, Ryan himself, ordinary food, needs to eat more than ten pounds in one meal to meet the nutritional needs.

However, if some ferocious beast meat can be added, it will be much better, but the cooking process is time-consuming and laborious. If there is a dedicated service, it will definitely save time and worry.

I only heard Basque continue to say: "You have to work harder later."

"According to Master Gunther's practice, you will be given three days at most to complete the first training task. If you can't complete it, you have to leave."

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Ryan felt a little strange. Why did the other party become so enthusiastic all of a sudden?

But after a little thought, Ryan seemed to understand something.

Basque's behavior was probably not because of Master Gunther, let alone because of himself.

The answer was obvious-because of Claire.

Sure enough, after a while, the boy named Basque immediately shifted the topic to Claire.

I saw him rubbing his hands and asked a little embarrassedly: "Ryan, you and Miss Claire should be familiar with each other, right?"

"Familiar, otherwise she wouldn't write a letter of introduction to me, right?" Ryan smiled and said.

"Yes, yes, then what is the relationship between you?" Basque continued to ask.

As if seeing Ryan's slightly frowning expression, Basque immediately waved his hand and said quickly: "Ryan, don't get me wrong, I want to ask, Miss Claire should not have a fiancé yet, right?"

Ryan was stunned by this!

It seems that Claire's influence is far-reaching.

She has been gone for so long, but her legend is still circulating here.

After thinking about it, Ryan shook his head.

"Ah! Miss Claire actually has a fiancé!" Basque looked shocked and frustrated.

Ryan looked at him speechlessly and said, "I shook my head because I didn't know."

"Ah? So that's the case, that's great!" The boy's mood always changes so quickly.

"But...don't worry about it. Claire likes those who are stronger than her. Your strength." Ryan glanced at the other party and immediately poured cold water on the boy named Basque.

"Don't look down on me, Ryan! I'm only sixteen years old now, and I'm already a formal knight. I'm here to receive training from Master Gunther, just to be able to keep my good and get an excellent in the canonization test!"

"Although my strength is slightly inferior to Miss Claire, it's just a little bit short. I think I still have a chance." The young man changed the subject and said confidently.

Ryan glanced at the other party and stopped talking, but he silently added in his heart, 'You have no chance, because your opponent'

The two soon came to the middle of the island, to the simple stone house made of stones.

At this time, Ryan realized that he had only seen seven or eight stone houses on the coast just now due to the angle.

But in fact, some stone houses were blocked by the stone houses in front, so there were more than ten stone houses here in total.

"The ones with circles on the doors mean that there are people, and the ones without circles are empty. Ryan, just pick one to live in." The young man on the side waved his hand and let Ryan choose for himself.

Ryan walked around and found that these stone houses seemed to be cleaned by special people. They were all quite clean inside. So he picked one at random and took his bag in.

At this time, Basque patted his head and said, "Ryan, there is one more thing. If you let someone take care of the meals here, you have to pay a sum of money, and your horse too."

"How much?" Ryan nodded, it was reasonable.

"If it is a nutritious meal with ferocious beast meat, the price will be a little more expensive, 10 imperial gold coins a day, including three meals. However, most people will choose to add meals at night, which will be much cheaper."

"For horses, take care of one imperial silver coin a day."

"Okay! Pay one month first."

Ryan directly gave Basque 303 imperial gold coins.

"Tsk tsk, what a rich man. Let me make it clear first that it's not that I don't want to erase your change, but this money is for the family and has nothing to do with me." Basque took it and sighed.

Although he is also a noble heir, he is the second son after all, and most of the family share he can get will be divided by his elder brother, and this is on the premise that he has demonstrated his investment value.

Ryan certainly doesn't mind. He just happened to make a lot of money in the base of the Zalal rebels recently, so he doesn't feel bad about spending this money.

In addition, Jennifer, a beautiful woman who is quite good at making money, also prepared an extra sum of money for him before he left.

So, money is not a problem for Ryan now.

"Well, who should I give the horse to?" Ryan nodded, and then looked around again, and found that there was no stable nearby.

"This is easy, just give it to my servant. Grando!! Take good care of this lord's horse."

Suddenly, a young male servant ran out from a stone house at the farthest side, bowed to Ryan and Basque and said: "Yes, Master Basque."

After a simple settlement, Ryan thought about it, put the chrome iron set and pig head hammer on his body in the room, put on a black tunic with gold and silver thread embroidery prepared for him by the beautiful woman Jennifer, and walked out of the stone house.

Seeing Ryan's handsome low-key luxury dress, Basque was stunned for a moment, and muttered in a low voice: "It looks good, but this is for training, not for show."

Ryan didn't care about such jealous words that he was more handsome.

The two walked to where Gunther had just been.

At this time, Ryan couldn't help asking: "Basque, what is the first task?"

Basque smiled mysteriously and said: "Guess!"

Ryan's face darkened!

You are not a beauty, and I am still guessing with you!

Guess you!

Seeing Ryan's unhappy face, Basque restrained his smile, his face became a little more serious, and said: "Cut seaweed."

Ryan was stunned!

His footsteps paused slightly.

This is not too difficult, it seems too simple.

"Cut seaweed?" Ryan asked back in surprise.

He thought the first task should be to fight with some marine creatures, which is likely to be quite difficult.

Otherwise, why are there so many young people near the lighthouse, sweating profusely practicing swordsmanship over there?

It is obvious that they were stopped at the first level and could not enter!

But is it possible that the seaweed in this sea area is strange, so it is quite difficult? Ryan thought.

"Yes, it is to cut seaweed, but this kind of seaweed is very tough. I can't explain the specific reason, but it is difficult to cut it. You will know it when you try it yourself." The boy nodded and said with certainty.

He is a relative in charge of logistics here. While practicing with Master Gunther, he is also responsible for doing some chores. He is also very familiar with some of the master's habits.

The first step, that is, the first task, starts with cutting seaweed.

The seaweed in this sea area is called tough seaweed by the locals. Compared with ordinary seaweed, it has a layer of mucous membrane secreted by water all year round on the surface. When it is cut by sharp weapons such as swords, it is often unloaded.

Even if this tough seaweed is pulled out from the seabed and the mucous membrane is removed, the toughness of the seaweed itself is extremely amazing.

After drying and twisting together, it can be used as a cable on a sailboat.

It is conceivable that its toughness is amazing, so it is called tough seaweed.

"But, Ryan, if you use a two-handed sword, you will be at a disadvantage."

"If you can use that kind of knight's long sword, the difficulty of completing the first task should be much lower." The boy looked at the glimmering giant sword behind Ryan and reminded him.

Ryan's heart moved slightly, and he already understood why Basque said that.

Because the cross-sectional area of ​​a two-handed sword is much larger than that of a one-handed sword, the resistance when swinging in the water is naturally much stronger than that of a one-handed sword.

But Ryan thought about it and asked back: "Has anyone completed the first task with a two-handed sword? Or what does Master Gunther mean?"

"Yes, but rarely. The master never cares whether you use a one-handed sword or a two-handed sword, and he won't remind you, but I heard him say that you should use whatever you used in the previous battle."

"Otherwise, according to the master, there is a high probability that you will not be able to complete the subsequent training tasks."

"In that case, I don't need to change! But Basque, thank you for your reminder." Ryan shrugged and said with a smile.

It seems that this young man is a good person except that he is a little talkative.

The two came to the other end of the island.

Master Gunther was still there, instructing the swordsmanship of the young people. When he saw Ryan and Basque coming, he nodded slightly and motioned Ryan to follow.

Gunther took Ryan to the reef beside him and pointed to the sea water and said: "There is a kind of tough seaweed under the water. If you cut ten of them with a sword within three days, you will complete the training task."

"Note, use a sword, not your hands."

"Understood, Master Gunther." Ryan nodded.

When Ryan followed Gunther's instructions and looked at the blue sea water, he found that because this was an island about 20 to 30 meters away from the coastline, the depth of the sea water around the reef here had already exceeded two meters.

And about ten meters away from where he was currently standing, he could vaguely see the seabed, where many slender plants were swaying.

Presumably, this should be the tough seaweed that Master Gunther mentioned.

Without asking any more questions, Ryan took a deep breath and slowly stepped into the azure sea.

Suddenly, a chill and the squeezing of seawater from all directions hit him.

Because it was winter, the temperature of the seawater was much colder than in summer. Even with Ryan's physical fitness, he couldn't help but shiver slightly.

However, with a physique of 21 points, Ryan quickly adapted to the entire cold seawater environment.

After only diving three or four meters, Ren saw green belt-shaped seaweed growing upward one by one at the bottom of the water. At this moment, a large group of tough seaweed was swaying slightly in the seawater with the undercurrent.

This kind of tough seaweed is different from what Ren expected. It looks more similar to the kelp from the previous life, but it is much narrower.

Without thinking much, Ren waved the shimmering giant sword in his hand and struck directly at the swaying tough seaweed.

On the shore.

A short-haired young man frowned slightly, glanced at Basque, and said, "Basque, didn't you tell him that cutting tough seaweed underwater would be a disadvantage with a two-handed sword?"

Basque shrugged and said helplessly: "I told you, but they don't listen. What can I do?"

"It seems that this is another person who doesn't understand the situation clearly. He may have thought that the seaweed here is the same as what he has seen before." Another young man said.

"That's not necessarily true. The person introduced by Claire might be very powerful."

"No, you see he is not old. He may be very talented, but at this age, his strength is not very strong. After all, strength takes time to accumulate."

"I also think that he will surface soon and ask Master Gunther to replace the one-handed sword."

"Then let's wait and see. When he finds out that it doesn't work, he will remember what you said, Basque."

So a group of people continued to practice their swordsmanship, while looking at the sea where Ren was from time to time.

In sea water.

Because the resistance of water is much greater than that of air.

Therefore, Renn's originally swift strike was much slower than the one on land.

When the sword struck the soft tough seaweed, the tough seaweed was like catkins in the wind, hardly bearing any force. It was just shaken, but it was unscathed.

Huh?

Renn really didn't expect this to happen.

His casual attack was in vain.

You know, his casual attack may not be able to be resisted by ordinary knights.

This made Renn's eyes narrow slightly, and he began to observe this tough seaweed carefully.

Although it is a sunny day with the sun in the sky, because Ren is located in the sea, the sunlight shining into the sea is dappled by the algae, plankton, various fish and aquatic plants in the sea. Therefore, the visibility is not high.

However, Ren had dark vision and was not affected too much.

He could see that the green surface of the tough seaweed had a layer of nearly transparent colloid.

It should be this thing that took away the force of the sword he just struck.

Of course, in addition to this, the state of the tough seaweed body floating in the sea water also makes it difficult to withstand stress.

Coupled with the resistance of the sea water, the combination of the three made Ren's sword just come back in vain.

Now that he knew the reason, Ren struck out with his sword again!

This time I used more force and the effect was better than last time.

I saw that there was already a pale white sword mark on the seaweed. Obviously, this time it broke through the blockage of the gelatin and chopped into the body of the seaweed, without causing almost any damage like the previous time.

Ren continued to observe for a while, and then slashed a few times with his sword.

Immediately afterwards, Renn vaguely grasped the trick.

Because he found that he had to always pay attention to the direction of the undercurrent of the sea water. When the seaweed swayed to the front or the end, reaching a certain limit, it was at this time that the most force was exerted when chopping it up.

He plans to try again.

This time, his feet touched the bottom of the sea, and the mud instantly stirred up, but at this moment, Renn felt a sense of stability.

‘Break the limit! ’

"Whoa!" The gigantic shimmering sword passed by, bringing up a burst of bubbles.

A piece of tough seaweed was successfully cut off. Renn saw this scene in the sea water and nodded slightly.

He did not stop, but continued to chop, because he was in the water, and the more intense the exercise, the higher the oxygen consumption.

And even Ren couldn't breathe in water like a fish, so he had to hurry up.

After mastering the trick, it would be relatively easy to do this as Renne has already reached 83% of the body breaking limit.

After all, this is just the first training mission and it can't be very difficult once you get the hang of it.

Finally, before he ran out of breath, Ren emerged from the sea.

As for the people on the shore, when they saw from a distance that Ren had surfaced so quickly, their expressions were all uniformly "Sure enough."

Including the young man who just said that Renne might be very powerful couldn't help but look disappointed.

Because less than five minutes had passed, even Burnett, the strongest among them, only succeeded in entering the water for the second time.

Obviously, it was impossible for Ren to succeed in such a short period of time, so when he surfaced this time, he was either going to take a breath and try again, or he was going to propose to Master Gunther to replace the one-handed sword.

"Look! Let me just say that even if the talent is very strong, the strength will not be very strong. I understand the nature of most noble children very well. They enjoy excellent training conditions but..."

Suddenly, the young man's speech stopped abruptly, with an expression of disbelief.

Several people suddenly looked at him in confusion, and all of them immediately had the same dumbfounded expression.

hiss!

Many people took a breath of cold air.

I saw Ren dragging a long bundle of tough seaweed behind him. Judging from the number, it was obviously more than ten!

"How could this be so fast!" The young man couldn't help but raise his finger and pointed at the scene.

"Are any of us so fast?"

"How long did it take you? Doug?"

"About two hours." The young man named Doug said in a deep voice.

"What about you? Arturo?"

The young man named Arturo blushed slightly and said, "Half a day."

Suddenly, everyone stared at Ryan in silence!

"Very good, faster than I expected, you passed the first training task."

"Now, give these tough seaweeds to Basque, and then you come with me." Gunther rarely showed a smile and took Ryan to a stone house.

"Sit cross-legged on the stone slab." Gunther pointed to a large stone slab in the middle of the stone house.

"Okay, Master."

"Now I will teach you a set of underwater breathing methods. In fact, to be more precise, it is called internal breathing method. This is an ancient tradition that can be combined with the knight breathing method you practiced to further transform yourself."

"No matter what kind of breathing method you practiced before, this internal breathing method can be compatible."

Huh?

Aren't you learning swordsmanship?

Why did you learn this internal breathing method?

However, it is always a good thing to learn good things.

At this time, footsteps were heard outside the door. Ryan heard the sound a little familiar. It was Basque's footsteps.

Sure enough, someone outside the door said, "Master, I have ground the tough seaweed juice."

"Bring it in!" Gunther said.

I saw Basque brought in half a barrel of green juice, exuding bursts of grass and wood fragrance with a hint of sea smell.

Ryan knew that this should be the tough seaweed he cut down, but he didn't know what the effect of this thing after it was squeezed into juice was.

"I want to learn to breathe with your skin, not your mouth and nose. It will be difficult at first." Gunther continued.

"Breathing with the skin is a bit abstract, and it is difficult for ordinary people to understand. If you can apply this fresh tough seaweed juice on your skin, it will help you accelerate the perception of this internal breathing."

"However, the juice of this tough seaweed evaporates very quickly in the air. After about half an hour, this effect of helping perception will begin to weaken."

"This is the second training task. I hope you can master this internal breathing method within three days. If you still want tough seaweed juice, go to the sea and cut some more yourself." After Gunther finished speaking, he left the stone house.

Basque, who was standing aside, muttered to himself: "Hey, it's strange. In the past, it was required to be within seven days. Why did it become three days when it came to Ryan?"

"Does Master Gunther have an opinion on Ryan? It shouldn't be"

After listening to Master Gunther's words, Ryan suddenly realized!

That's it.

He now understands the significance of the first step of the training task.

First of all, the first step is very difficult, and there are very high requirements for the knight's breathing method and swordsmanship level of the person being tested.

For a senior knight, it is estimated that it will take several hours of attempts before he can complete this task through repeated collection. For a formal knight, it is even more difficult.

But this is a threshold. Only when this requirement is met, the subsequent training content will be meaningful.

It turns out that this tough seaweed is used to accelerate the comprehension of this internal breathing method.

Obviously, if you spend a long time to barely complete the task of "cutting tough seaweed".

Then the subsequent task-"mastering the internal breathing method within three days", without the help of tough seaweed juice, it will almost become an impossible task.

Therefore, Ryan has understood that these training tasks are most likely linked together.

Ryan took off all his clothes and applied the light green seaweed juice on his skin.

Soon, he felt a trace of cool substance, which seemed to slowly penetrate into his skin. Ryan held his breath and focused on feeling it.

Half an hour later, the system prompt sounded:

[You have trained in the internal breathing method, and the relevant comprehension has improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill - Internal Breathing Method]

[Your skill Internal Breathing Method has been improved, experience value +1]

Not bad!

Looking at the new skill that appeared on the Knight (Super) panel, Ryan has now learned this Internal Breathing Method, although it is only Internal Breathing Method lv1 (1/100).

Ryan glanced at the attribute panel:

Name: Ryan Kalan

Occupation: Wizard Apprentice (Super) lv4 (345/1000)/Knight (Super) lv4 (277/1000)/Beast Tamer (Super) lv5 (64/2000)/Armor Forger lv1 (17/100)

Physique: 21

Strength: 19

Agility: 17

Spirit: 25

Remaining attribute points: 2

Remaining skill points: 6

Although there are six remaining skill points, after a little thought, Ryan decided not to rush to add points, but to improve step by step according to Master Gunther's requirements.

After all, there are three days. If there are any problems in the middle, he can solve them by adding some more points.

Because Ryan could vaguely feel that every step of Master Gunther's arrangement had a certain purpose, and the ultimate purpose should be to prompt the apprentices to understand something.

After Ryan used up the bucket of tough seaweed juice, he came to the beach again.

This time, when Ryan came to the reef, seven or eight young men on the side all looked over, because they knew that Ryan was not the kind of noble heir in the general sense, but a powerful dragon crossing the river.

However, Ryan had no desire to talk to them at this moment.

The continuous use of tough seaweed juice just now made him have a vague understanding of the internal breathing method, so he had to hurry up and harvest some tough seaweed, strike while the iron is hot, and speed up the progress of mastering the internal breathing method.

Ryan's burly figure slowly sank into the sea water.

Suddenly, Ryan felt the coldness brought by the sea water and the pressure from all directions.

The biggest difference between this time and the last time was that Ryan seemed to be able to feel that his skin was "breathing".

This amplitude was very slight, but he could faintly perceive it with his keen perception.

If before, mouth and nose breathing accounted for 99% and skin breathing accounted for 1%.

Then now, mouth and nose breathing accounted for 95%, and skin breathing increased from 1% to 5%.

Ryan closed his eyes, carefully feeling and experiencing this change.

After a while, Ryan began to swing the glimmering giant sword and harvest the tough seaweed!

After understanding the inner breathing method, Ryan's stay in the sea was slightly increased.

When Ryan dragged a large bundle of tough seaweed like a bucket and slowly walked onto the reef on the shore, the winter sunset that was about to set sprinkled on the sea and Ryan.

Whether it was the young people around the white lighthouse or the young people practicing swords on the island, looking at Ryan from both perspectives, they were all full of brilliant golden light.

And Ryan, who strode ashore, was like a god for a moment.

The young man Basque looked at the scene in front of him and muttered to himself: "The gap between people does exist."

"But it shouldn't be that big!"

Suddenly, he realized something and ran towards Ryan quickly.

Judging from his posture, it seemed that he was going to take the tough seaweed from Ryan's hand and grind it actively.