Chapter 17 Fooling
In the dark
night, several burning bonfires illuminated the road in the wilderness.
After a brief rest of a few dozen minutes after dinner, Roning asked the guards to assemble and began to teach them instructions such as marching in step, goose-stepping, and standing still.
It has been four years since he had his college military training. He doesn't know the professional vocabulary involved in these movements, but he still remembers the bare essentials of each movement.
He taught while recalling, and it took him more than half an hour before all the guards, including McKen, had basically mastered the movement.
"From now on, every five people will form a row and conduct training separately. The others who haven't left will watch with wide eyes, refer to the mistakes made by others, and correct their own movements accordingly!"
Roning looked at his guard officer and said, "I'll leave Macken to you. You give the orders, and I'll inspect the results of the morning exercise tomorrow!"
"As you command, my lord!"
Mikan walked to the side of the team with a nervous heart, "First row, listen to my command, stand at attention~."
After handing the training over to McKen, Roning returned to a campfire and sat down. He found that the servant Chahar was adding firewood to the campfire and grinning foolishly.
"Why, you want to join the training too?" Roning asked with a smile.
Chahar immediately retracted his gaze and said with an awkward smile: "Master, I just think their training is very interesting."
"Haha~"
Luo Ning smiled and said, "If you want to go, go ahead. There's nothing to do right now anyway."
Chahar hesitated for a while, then gritted his teeth, stood up, and excitedly said, "Thank you very much, sir!"
After saying that, he ran towards the team, and after getting approval from McKeon, he joined the last row.
Seeing this scene, Luo Ning couldn't help but shake his head. He planned to increase the intensity tomorrow, introduce some punishment measures, and then teach them military boxing to see if Chahar still wanted to practice.
He rested for a while, drank some water, then drew out his sword and began to practice some common attacking moves, such as chopping and stabbing.
His predecessor's attainments in this area were almost zero, so he, like the group of guards, also had to study hard.
People who were immersed in learning and training completely forgot about time. Roning stopped practicing sword only when he felt his arms were sore and he was out of breath.
He glanced back at the guards who were still training. Although they were still practising under McKen's intimidation, they looked exhausted.
"That's all for today."
After giving the order, Roning walked to the side, scooped up two buckets of water, took a shower, and then went back to the tent and lay down to rest.
His was the only tent in the entire team, so the others could only spend the night by the fire. Fortunately, it was not winter yet.
After being disbanded, almost no guards took a shower. They went straight to the fire, sat down and began to rest.
McKeon arranged the night watchmen and stood guard outside the tent where Ronin was.
The entire camp soon became quiet, with only the crackling sound of burning firewood and the irregular snoring.
Luo Ning wanted to fall asleep, but he forced himself not to. He was waiting for midnight.
Time ticked by, and finally, when Roning was about to give up, familiar words appeared:
[Sign in successfully, attribute point +1]
Luo Ning looked at the seven-day login panel and collected the fourth day's reward with a thought.
Suddenly, in his field of vision, a fine package was opened magnificently, a burst of light burst out, and then two lines of text appeared:
[Attribute Points +60]
[Energy Essence +100]
Roning had already prepared himself for the possibility that the premium gift package would not give him anything good, but after seeing the number of attribute points and energy essences, he couldn't help but smile.
He looked at the attribute panel:
[Level]: 1-Junior Knight (32/100) +; 1-Junior Magician (0/150) +
[Attribute Points]: 61
[Energy Essence]: 100
With these attribute points, Ronin's warrior-level progress is only seven points away from perfection. Unfortunately, due to the limitation of his physical condition, he can only break through both professions at the same time and cannot raise his knight level to the intermediate Level first.
"Even though I can't break through, Mikan can!"
McKen's knight-level progress has reached 80/100, and he only needs to consume 20 energy points to break through and become an intermediate knight.
Although there is only one level difference between the beginner and intermediate levels, it is a qualitative change for knights.
The fighting spirit of an intermediate knight breaks out, and the knight can use the fighting spirit to attack, which greatly enriches the attack methods of the professional knight.
At this moment, a rustling sound came from the forest in the north, and at the same time, there were continuous muffled groans.
Luo Ning's expression tensed. He was very awake at the moment and noticed the abnormality immediately.
The second person to discover the situation was McKen, who was outside the tent. His eyes were as sharp as lightning, and he looked directly at the source of the sound, only to see several tall shadows becoming clearer at night.
"Ah, there are monsters! Monsters are coming!" The guard in charge of the night watch also noticed the situation and shouted quickly.
The sound of panic spread throughout the camp, and the sleeping guards were suddenly awakened, grabbed their weapons and became alert.
In the light of the fire, the three huge guys also revealed their figures.
They were not magical beasts but three big wild boars.
"These guys are not afraid of fire?"
Roning walked out of the tent and looked at the wild boar, which was as big as a calf and couldn't help but marvel at it.
The three big wild boars didn't seem to be afraid of humans. They stared at the carriage. The aroma of grains and vegetables on the carriage attracted them.
"My lord, let me take care of these beasts!"
Luo Ning nodded and, at the same time, used up all 20 points of energy essence.
Buzz~
At this moment, it was as if something had broken in McKen's body, and khaki energy emanated from his heart and then travelled throughout his body.
"This is?"
McKen was astonished as he felt the fighting spirit in his body. He discovered, to his amazement, that he had made a breakthrough.
Although he knew that this was his master's trick, he was still surprised that Roning had such ability.
"Go ahead, finish this battle as quickly as possible and let the guards see how powerful you are!"
"As you wish, my lord!"
McKen looked determined, drew his sword, and leapt forward. His speed amazed all the guards.
The wild boar howled, and instead of retreating, it attacked McKeon.
"Let's go too, to help Captain McCann!"
The guards did not retreat either and rushed forward one by one with swords raised.
But at this moment, a ray of light appeared, and McKen swung out a sword. The blade formed by the fighting spirit crossed a distance of several meters and accurately landed on the wild boar's head.
The Dou Qi Slash directly broke through the wild boar's flesh and skin. The huge impact force acted on its head, knocking it to the ground in a daze.
"Fighting spirit is released!"
The knowledgeable guard shouted, "Captain McCann is a mid-level knight!"
The guards who have participated in training all year round are familiar with the signs of intermediate knights. As soon as they see the Dou Qi Slash, they know McKen's Level.
As he shouted, all the guards stopped.
An intermediate knight can deal with three ordinary wild boars without any help from them.
At this time, someone asked in confusion: "When Captain Bai Tian introduced himself, didn't he say he was just a junior knight? How come he is an intermediate knight now?"
The wise king explained: "You don't understand this. The knights often hide their strength and deliberately say that their Level is lower so as to confuse the opponent in battle."
"Oh, so that's how it is!" The man seemed to understand but not quite.
Roning stepped forward at this time and said, "No, during the daytime, McKen was indeed just a junior knight."
His words instantly attracted the guards' attention.
Luo Ning smiled mysteriously, "He just practised the moves I taught him carefully, and he made a breakthrough after finishing training in the evening."
The main reason why he said this was to enhance everyone's enthusiasm for training.
In this world, who can resist the temptation of becoming a superhuman?
These guards, especially those under the age of eighteen, are just ordinary infantrymen in the knight squad with limited prospects.
If they want to advance to the next Level, they can only hope to awaken their fighting spirit seeds and become professional knights.
Originally, this wish was difficult to achieve.
But now Roning gave an explanation. They also saw with their own eyes that McKen, who was a junior knight during the day, became an intermediate knight at night.
What does this indicate?
Roning did not explain it directly, but the guards automatically thought of it: as long as they practised the movements taught by the adults carefully, they would be able to improve!
In a trance, Roning felt that these guards' eyes seemed to have changed. That was their desire for extraordinary power.