The basement floor of the castle at an underground secret room that Levi never visited. The mechanism stone table slowly protruded from the ground.
A worn-out parchment with a sense of age lay flat quietly, with scarlet paint painted on it with a variety of scribbled and random patterns of human, with strange postures and different movements, forming a circle.
And on the periphery of this human, there is a big snake with black scales that seems to be able to surround the entire castle. The big snake has an abstract shape, spits out a forked tongue, and a simple candle stands on its jaw.
"This is the ancestral breathing method of the Asmodeus family: the Black Snake breathing method. It is the powerful foundation of the Asmodeus family, and the Asmodeus blood flowing in your body is the key to practice this. This is an excellent quality breathing method that is more precious than this Black Water Valley." Knight Fred said solemnly.
Levi breathed heavily; he could finally embark on the road of real knight training!
As far as he knows, the knights divide the breathing method into four grades according to the growth potential of the breathing method: superficial, excellent, perfect, and legendary!
Among them, 90% of the breathing methods are superficial breathing methods.
Practicing this superficial level of breathing, many people can only be in the stage of knight servants throughout their lives, and cannot set foot in the realm of official knights at all. Being able to condense the "seed of life", stepping into a formal knight is already stepping on dog shit luck, promoting to a great knight is basically impossible, for example, the superficial "Villon Breathing Method" practiced by Fred Knight can only make him a top official knight.
Of course, a good-quality breathing method is only a stepping stone to becoming a great knight. To become a great knight, you need 90% talent, 9% opportunity, and 1% luck.
Perfect level breathing method is probably only possessed by those duke families, and there are very few of those in the whole kingdom.
As for the breathing method of legendary quality, like legendary knights, it only exists in legends. One of the important characteristics of breathing techniques above excellent quality is that most of the breathing techniques inherited from families require the blood of the ancestor to practice. The specific reason is not clear to the knights. This type of breathing technique is also called "bloodline breathing technique".
The Black Snake Breathing Method is a blood breathing method that belongs exclusively to the Asmodeus family!
In history, there have been some knights who robbed other nobles of their ancestral breathing method. The end result was either that the practice was mediocre for a lifetime, or the blood vessels in the whole body burst to death.
Some people say that this is the curse of those noble ancestors who blasphemed their families.
But Levi is not worried about this. He is a nobleman, with pure Asmodeus family blood flowing in his body, and he is the "son of the black snake"!
The Black Snake Breathing Technique is too important, so Levi did not take it out of the secret room, but began to practice in the secret room under the guidance of Fred Knight. In this way, it took him half a month to practice it.
During this period, Knight Fred has been accompanying him all the time. Although he doesn't know the black snake method, he has a lot of experience and is more than enough to teach Levi to get started.
On this day, Levi woke up from a strange posture. He didn't seem to have had any intense exercise, but he was sweating, his veins were bulging, his face was flushed, and his was short of breath.
He felt that the blood in his body seemed to be boiling, circulating metabolism at an extraordinary speed, the energy stored in his body was being burned crazily, and a feeling of extreme hunger came, making him want to eat a whole snow rabbit raw.
"Hungry!" Levi said like a beast, low and hoarse.
When Knight Fred saw this, he had already prepared, and brought a plate of barbecue, a bowl of goat milk, and a large portion of white bread rolls, which were wrapped in a layer of delicious jam, and boiled cabbage.
Such a food combination includes carbohydrates, protein, and vitamins. In fact, the nobles in this world seldom eat vegetables. They think that the vegetables grown in the ground are inferior food, food for the poor, but Levi knows the importance of balanced nutrition, so he asks his servants to cook combination of meat and vegetables.
He eats the food hurriedly, devoured it quickly, his hunger disappeared, and his expression eased. He just had a meal twice as much as a normal man, and he was only 80% full.
On the proficiency panel in his mind, a new skill has appeared:
Levi Snyder———
Black Snake Breathing Method: Level 1 (1/1000)
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According to Levi's previous experience, once a skill appears on the proficiency panel, it means that he has initial mastery or at the beginner level. The next thing to do is to practice step by step to improve proficiency. At the same time, mastering the breathing method is also a sign of becoming a knight attendant.
"Squire with shield, squire with sword, and quasi-knight." These are the three stages of apprenticeship before becoming a formal knight, collectively referred to as "knight attendant".
At the shield servant stage, in addition to the practice of breathing, you also need to learn the basic use of shields. Regardless of whether you need shields in the future, learning to use shields to fight is a compulsory skill for knights.
At the sword-wielding servant stage, you will start to learn real sword skills, not something like basic sword skills.
In this world, what can be called a "skill" is extremely advanced combat technique, which require years or even decades of persistent practice, and are the most important thing for a knight to improve his strength besides breathing.
To put it simply, breathing method is the internal martial arts method, while sword skills or other advanced weapon skills are the means to exert the power of breathing method, which is the external method.
When the breathing method has achieved some success, you will be a quasi-knight. This is a crucial step, because the next step is to condense the "seed of life". If it succeeds, you will become an invincible official knight on the battlefield; if it fails, you will face even more difficulty to promote.
"It seems that the young master has initially mastered the Black Snake breathing method. Although the speed is much slower than your father's initial mastery in three days, it has reached above the average level in the history of the Black Snake family."
"In addition, you should also feel that when you really learn the breathing method, you will consume a lot of food every day in practice, so you must prepare enough food in advance before practicing in the future.
Otherwise, that exaggerated hunger will dominate your mind and destroy your will like a gluttony demon. Driven by a hunger instinct, you might do something wild and depraved. That's how many of the notorious "mad knights" who were burned at the stake by the Church came about.
These crazy wretches are basically civilians who want to practice knight breathing. They want to become stronger to protect their families, let them eat and cloth, and live a life of superiority.
They walked at the edge of madness again and again, thinking that they were different, that there would be many lucks and miracles in the world, but in the end, some ate their own old father, and some ate their wives and children..." Knight Fred said with complicated eyes.
He is a knight from a commoner background, he knows that feeling, so he is very grateful to Levi's father who rescued him at a critical moment.