Tram: "Anyway, we're really lucky to have someone with a red glow in our group, aren't we?"
Cuong added: "Admittedly, only 4 out of 2 million people sent out have a red glow, and we have Lan here accompanying us, it is truly a blessing from heaven. Although it is indeed a blessing from heaven."
Lan shyly said: "Everyone, don't exaggerate like that. But why did you say that the king and his close associates went out, Cuong?"
Cuong replied: "Well, like that God said, only we - the ones summoned - can see the crystal and the information board from it. I also confirmed it earlier by letting the crystal fly around the guards' faces and they didn't react at all. If we keep talking about the information board from the crystal, it will confuse the others. Besides, we need to keep some information confidential just to be safe."
While we were chatting, a guard asked permission to come in and lead us to the resting room. Everyone had their own resting room, each room was extremely spacious and magnificent. There were even servants to serve every little thing. Lan had asked the servants to go out to have some peace and quiet, some cried because they missed home, some slept very deeply, perhaps because they had had a very tiring day. Everything that happened during the day was like a dream.
Early the next morning, the soldiers solemnly announced to wake everyone up for training.
Tuan yawned: "I knew we would be called to wake up for training, but I didn't expect it to be so early."
Hoa: "Yeah, even though we were treated to a delicious breakfast, I had to wake up so early that I fell asleep while eating."
Tuan: "But I wonder what our world will be like with our disappearance like this, what about our families, parents and the whole country, 3 million people disappeared at the same time. Haizz, the lessons we learned in school seem meaningless now."
The King has prepared 2 people: "1 magician and 1 knight" with rich experience and skills to test and train the group of young people in both magic and combat ability.
Magician: Male, over 50 years old.
Knight: Female, 35 years old.
As for testing magic power, the group will test through a sphere. The test method: place your hand on the sphere and rely on the amount of light emitted to evaluate the amount of magic power.
The three people who possessed the green light crystal and Lan had the most magical power, so the light emitted from the orb when they placed their hands on it was extremely dazzling, which surprised the mage:
"How surprising, I have never seen such abundant magical power from humans. Truly worthy of being the envoys entrusted by the divine."
Next were the remaining people, but the light they emitted was only at a medium level compared to the knights.
Because they had never learned how to use magical power, creating magic was extremely difficult for them.
In the afternoon, they switched to physical training.
Female knight: "Now, I will test everyone's combat skills to know each person's reflexes, attack speed, and physical strength when striking. Just relying on the stats that the magic tool gives through the force of impact is too intuitive. So, now, each of you will come up and fight me 1 on 1 with bare hands so that I can evaluate everyone."
Since everyone was a student with no experience in fighting, they were all silent, only Lan volunteered to go first because she had experience in Kick Boxing.
The knight asked Lan to attack first. Lan asked to wrap a cloth around her hand and get into a defensive position, because she had never seen it before, the female knight was surprised by the unique position.
Lan immediately used a Jab, her speed in returning the punch was very fast. Realizing the power of the punch, the female knight quickly dodged the punch, but the punch still grazed her face, causing her to bleed.
Without a moment's hesitation, the female knight tried to quickly counterattack with a direct strike, but when she looked down, she saw Lan throwing a Hook straight to her ribs. Before the punch could reach the female knight, Lan stopped and stepped back, while the female knight was still standing there, surprised by Lan's ability. Everyone around, including the soldiers, cheered and praised Lan.
"You have a strange martial art, what's its name?" - The female knight asked.
Lan replied: "Where I live, it's called Kick Boxing, even though we don't use kicks yet."
"I thought you were a kid with no fighting experience, so I let my guard down. You're very good, Lan. Let's continue!!"
And then the Female Knight quickly approached Lan, using her foot to kick her hamstring (the back of knee), make Lan kneel down, then quickly threw a punch at her.
But before the punch could reach Lan, she quickly used her hand to block it and rolled backwards. "That's surprising, you were able to quickly block the next attack while kneeling down. Not only that, I used a lot of force but you still looked unharmed." - The female knight exclaimed after seeing Lan's skill.
Lan replied: "I was equally surprised, receiving your kick was just like the kicks of some martial arts in our world." (As for the ability to withstand that attack, it was thanks to the ability of the crystal, anyways.)
Everyone around continued to cheer for the two to continue fighting. However, the female knight spoke up to Lan:
"You have passed the test of reflexes and physical strength, so go practice swinging the sword first. Although I still want to continue fighting you, the kingdom is the most important right now. In war, we only use our bare hands in the worst case, which means we have no weapons to attack the enemy. So improve your weapon skills as quickly as possible."
Then the rest were also called up, of course they were beaten to a pulp. Because even though they were fast and strong, but their fighting skills were poor, they still couldn't do anything, except for Nam, who had the ability to withstand blows well thanks to the crystal but still failed because of his poor attack.
From that day on, everyone learned magic and fought in shifts morning and evening, so every day everyone looked extremely exhausted.
Tuan was able to deploy his "Teleportation" ability after 27 days of trying. Currently, he can only teleport up to 7m within the observation range, 5 times per day, and it takes about 2 minutes to continue using it. However, his fighting skills are still average.
Cuong relies on his special ability "Super Memory" to become the fastest learner of fighting techniques thanks to remembering the movements, blind spots, and attack patterns of the trainer. In addition, he is better with a bow than a sword.
As expected, Lan was the most advanced of all, she was able to master the 4 basic elements of magic after 2 days of learning how to use magic power and spent another 2 weeks learning other spells whereas the other three with green crystals took 4 weeks just to gain proper control.
However, she still had not exploited her special skill "Illogical" so she still did not know what its capabilities were.
Hoa was the same, still did not know how to activate the special skill "Khronos". However, she had developed healing magic very well.
Lan's swordsmanship skills were also learned extremely quickly, after 1 month of sword training, she fought on par with the experienced female knight.
On the day of the rematch
Lan combined earth magic to disadvantage the female knight in terrain, while quickly approaching and swinging her sword to attack. However, with his experience, the knight was still able to take advantage of the terrain to counter Lan's attacks. Spotting an opening in the knight's lower defense, Lan deflected her opponent's sword and used a Low kick to her hamstring, causing her to collapse. Lan then pointed her sword directly at the knight's face
"Haha, I didn't expect you to become stronger so quickly, combining magic with close-combat skills in just a month. And to top it off, you used my own fighting style to defeat me." - The knight exclaimed and praised Lan's progress.
Lan breathed heavily in response: "You're exaggerating. Even so, it still wasn't enough to truly defeat you."
Looking at the knight's sword, it was somehow positioned against Lan's flank.
Everyone around cheered and praised Lan. Everyone was amazed by the match just now. Today was also the last day of the 1-month training, everyone held a final banquet. Because they had interacted with each other a lot during the month, both the soldiers and the servants were very happy and warm towards them.
After the banquet, the group of 9 people who were summoned discussed with the king and his courtiers about the plan to protect the remaining cities.
A courtier asked the group of young people curiously: "Why did you decide to train for only a month? It only takes about a week to travel to the other cities, so you'd still have plenty of time for further practice."
Cuong replied: "I have considered it carefully, we need a month to prepare for the battle and before the battle happens, we also have to go out and learn about monsters and demons and then plan the battle."
Cuong added: "Then we agreed to divide into groups of 3 people to protect 3 different citadels, including the capital because we were not sure where they would attack.
Including:
1, Capital Group: Me - Cuong, Dao Quynh Trang and Trinh Minh Duc
2, City Group 1: Bui Duc Nam, Nguyen Van Hai and Huynh Ngoc Bao Tram
3, City Group 2: Nguyen Thi Hoang Lan, Nguyen Ngoc Hoa and Do Dinh Tuan.
It was a pity that the strongest person, Lan, was not with my group to protect the capital, However, with the number of soldiers and fortifications here, we'll certainly manage,"" - (Although it was the king who suggested that I stay here to protect the capital and move Lan to another city...).
After agreeing with each other, everyone went back to their rooms to rest with excitement and fear in their minds.