In 1003 of the Holy Dynasty calendar, the month of the north wind. Emerald Kingdom, Black Mountain Province, Lake County, Blackwater Valley.
The river valley plains is covered with silver, and the fog is curling up, and there are some small wooden houses scattered here and there. On a high ground, a not-so-majestic castle was built against the mountain. The collapsed towers and battlements all showed the downfall of the castle owner. On the hillside outside the castle, in the haystack half covered by ice and snow, a cute snow rabbit is looking for food, while guarding against natural enemies. Seventy meters away, a young man in a white leather jacket, white velvet cap, and brown snow boots hid behind a tree with a crooked neck, blending into the white snow field. He slowly stick out his hand, draw the bow and set the arrow. The bow is a military bow rather than an ordinary hunting bow. Accompanied by the sound of the arrow piercing through the air the Snow Rabbit fell to the ground, and its head was blasted by the iron arrow.
[Archery proficiency +1]
[Archery: Level 1 (9999/10000) → Level 1 (Extreme)]
"I can eat roasted rabbit meat at night" Levi licked his lips, and with a thought, he opened the proficiency panel
Levi Asmodeus———
Archery: Level 1 (Extreme)
Riding: Level 1 (Extreme)
Aristocratic Dance: Level 1 (Extreme)
Basic Fighting: Level 1 (Extreme)
Basic Swordsmanship: Level 1 (Extreme)
Looking at the proficiency panel in his mind, the corner of Levi's mouth curved. "The most difficult to improve archery has reached its limit. Now within the effective range of my field of vision, I can target any prey with hundred arrow. Looking at the history of the kingdom, I am capable enough to be called a sharp archer. And I am just a knight boy who has been practicing for only two and a half years."
"In two and a half years, I have practiced the five basic skills that knight servants need to master: riding, archery, dancing, fighting, and sword. Enough to learn the breathing method of the family."
"Only by learning the breathing method can one become a real knight. In this world where natural disasters and man-made disasters occurs, the strong prey on weak and this world even hides supernatural powers, you can barely save your own life here. After all, the original owner of this body may have been killed by the [evil spirit]."
Levi is not a native of this world. But three years ago, at the time of the first millennium of the Holy Dynasty calendar, He who was reborn on this noble disciple's body, with the Goldfinger that is the proficiency panel in his mind.
Judging from the last memory of the original owner before his death, when the original owner was fishing in the Blackwater River, he caught a female corpse in white with empty eye holes and disheveled hair. Her face was pale, swollen, and her bulging skin was still spraying water. It was suspected to be a folklore of this world. A kind of evil spirit that is described in the legend: the water fairy. The original owner fell into eternal darkness, until his body was occupied by him.
Later, the baron's vassal, Fred Knight, found him wet and sleeping by the river, surrounded by a mass of foul-smelling aquatic plants and rotten fish.
Levi naturally didn't talk about the encounter with the evil spirit with other people, otherwise it would be difficult to explain that he was still alive after encountering the evil spirit. But that evil spirit has become Levi's psychological shadow, so he dare not go to the Blackwater River. In fact, judging from what Levi knows so far, the legend of evil spirits has existed since ancient times, but most people have never seen them.
It is same for the legends about the extraordinary existence of "wizards" who master wind, thunder, earth and fire in this world, but no one has ever seen it. Even the well-informed knight Fred, who traveled around the Emerald Kingdom when he was young, only regarded wizards as things of legend.
"Wizard, what a noble and mysterious profession. No matter how strong a knight is, he is still a stronger Mortal. Compared with a wizard, it is like a martial arts practitioner competing with an immortal."
Levi yearned for it, and most legends are not groundless, so after seeing the real existence of evil spirits, he firmly believed that there must be wizards in this world, not just as simple as the fictional legends of bards. But he also knows that with his own ability, it is too illusory to pursue to be a wizard. Looking up at the starry sky, he has to keep his feet on the ground.
So, since he was ten years old, Levi has been training his five knight skills. Now, with the help of the proficiency panel, in less than three years, Levi has practiced all the five knight skills to the limit.
Levi is confident that most of the official knights, such as Sir Fred, are not as proficient as himself in terms of basic knight skills, especially the archery that Levi is proud of. Twelve-year-old Levi is now 1.75 meters tall. He looks powerful, with a hulking back. Except for his face, which is a little childish, he is stronger than many adult men in this place.
In this different world with extremely low productivity of food, most malnourished civilian men who grew up eating black bread are not as strong as Levi. This is a backward era where cold weapons are kings. A strong body coupled with a knight's plate armor weighing tens of catties has an advantage in battle that is far beyond what a weak body can match.
Now, he is ready to learn the breathing method. Breathing method is not like the sooner you learn the better, if you don't have enough physical fitness and you force yourself to learn it, it will damage your body at least or you will go crazy.
This is also the reason why knight servants are required to learn basic swordsmanship and basic fighting to exercise their bodies before becoming knight.
In a good mood, Levi picked up the snow rabbit on the ground and turned to go home. Below the hillside, a middle-aged knight with silver hair looked at Levi with a smile on his face, and said in a very gratified tone "If the master was still here, he would be very happy to see your archery skills."
This is Knight Fred, who was called "Radiant Knight" by his enemies and followers. He was a man whom the his father told Levi that he could trust. In fact, this is indeed the case. For Levi, the time he spent with his father was far less than that of Knight Fred. So, to a certain extent, the teacher-student or master-servant relationship with Knight Fred is stronger than the blood relationship with the Earl.
"Your Excellency Fred praises me, I haven't done enough, I want to learn breathing technique, and become a real knight as soon as possible, the winter is coming and wandering knights or robbers in the wilderness may invade our territory at any time. I can't live under your protection forever."
"After my father died, we have lost the tulip city in the south that is like spring all the year round, and the storm city in the east that is rich in minerals. The barren and remote Blackwater Valley is our last home. I am the only blood of the family, for the sake of the Asmodeus family, I must become stronger! The glory belongs to the black snake! And I am ready!"
Li Wei looked unwilling, clenched his hands into fists, and worked hard to act. "Black Snake Holding a Candle" is the family emblem of the Asmodeus family, so the Asmodeus family is also known as the "Black Snake Family".
His father, Earl Thord Asmodeus, is not only the Black Snake Knight, one of the "Seven Great Knight of the North" that everyone is talking about, a real great knight, but also the Earl of the Tulip Land and the Lord of the Storm Land!
Compared to the Blackwater Valley where it is difficult to develop agricultural production in winter for half a year, Tulip City and Storm City are much more prosperous.
Levi was born in the Flower City of Tulip when he was a child, where the climate is humid, the plains are open, and the soil is fertile, which is extremely suitable for settlement and development of production. Although the Stormland Territory often encounters stormy weather, it is extremely rich in minerals and is also a treasure land.
The period before Levi was ten years old was the peak period of the Black Snake Knight. He had five thousand soldiers under his command. This is probably the forces a weak Duke have. It's just that all of this is based on the personal power of the earl, the great knight. If a knight is a well-known and dominates one side, then the status of a great knight is comparable to a powerhouse existence in the entire Jianghu in an era like Five martial god of the Central Plains in the martial art world.
Only the rare legendary knights, such as "Lionheart Knight Rhine", "Golden Knight Greck", "Blood Knight Brad", "Snowflake Knight Fryer" and other legendary figures can surpass the great knights.
As for the existence of legendary knights, their status in this world is similar to that of Bodhidharma, Zhang Sanfeng, Xiaoyao Patriarch, Dugu Qiubai, or martial arts myths. In most cases, they can only be reduced to combat powerhouses in the story. So, the Black Snake Knight in peak condition is the top of the pyramid of the world's apparent combat power.
Such an existence, after being recruited by the Emerald Kingdom and the Holy Brilliance Church for war against the Tuva Empire by the sea three years ago, never came back. In the end, Levi got the news that the incredible earl and all his soldiers died in a battle.
According to the laws of the kingdom, all titles are hereditary, and the three territories of the earl should be inherited by his only son Levi, but before the inheritance, it needs to be notarized by a special envoy sent by the king. Witnessed by the special envoy appointed by the Emerald King, Levi became the new owner of the three territories.
In fact, considering the situation at that time, Levi took the initiative to return to the remote and barren Blackwater Valley, where Earl Thord made his fortune. This territory had been managed by Fred Knight before. The Bloody Earl and Silver Shade Earl, who had coveted his father's territory for a long time, actually took over the Tulip Territory and the Storm Territory with the acquiescence of their master behind the scenes, the Duke of Montenegro, and the Kingdom turned a blind eye to this.
Although legally the territory of each lord is sacred and inviolable, in fact, the feudal lordship system of the Emerald Kingdom has completely changed to this day. It is common for lords to fight openly and covertly. Levi didn't like the feeling of being missed, so he voluntarily gave up the tulip city and storm city, two hot potatoes, and dedicated them to the Duke of Montenegro.
As the largest territory in the north, the Duke of Montenegro Province, and the oldest and most mysterious knight among the "Seven Great Knight of the North", the Duke of Montenegro has long wanted to take over the south and develop his own power. Levi's behavior of "prodigal son" made the Duke of Montenegro very satisfied.
Person is not guilty, but System is guilty. In Li Wei's view, without a large knight and a sufficient number of well-armed and capable cavalry to deter foreign enemies, occupying the tulip city and storm city is tantamount to suicide.
"I have a proficiency panel, so I might as well withdraw safely and return to the small mountain nest of to Blackwater Valley be a little broken lord. Levi didn't have any idea about being king or hegemony in his heart. He just want to practice breathing quietly, relying on the proficiency panel to become a knight, a great knight, or even a legendary knight step by step, and then follow the wizard's footsteps.
After all, judging from what he knows so far, only wizards can achieve his goal of immortality, and only wizards can truly be fearless of those supernatural creatures that are demons and ghosts. But even though he thought so in his heart, in front of Fred Knight, the most trusted retainer of his father, Levi still had to do what he should do on the surface.
Moreover, the practice of knights requires a lot of resources and wealth.
Therefore, Levi's plan is very clear, learn breathing technique, hurry up to become an official knight, then engage in territory, earn some money for his own practice, and after having enough self-protection power, travel to the Seven Kingdoms and embark on a journey to find wizards .
The middle-aged knight Fred quietly listened to Li Wei's youthful ambition, and a gratified smile appeared on his weather-beaten face: "Baron Levi, my master, you are indeed ready now, please follow me."