Chapter 16 14. Training towards intermediate knights

On the morning of September 30, 996, God Emperor, Albert was conducting new statistical work.

On the night of the 29th, Liabert followed Lant and after attacking the twin tribes, they continued to capture the small tribe 10 kilometers to the west, which was the only tribe originally planned to attack that night.

The attack process was still very smooth. Not only that, Lant showed the sense of responsibility of the lord after that:

After the attack, some knights were asked to return to the Twin Tribe that was captured last time, and asked the demon-seekers in the camp to pass on the order. After dawn, the three camps would join forces.

Before dawn, Luo Er, who stayed in the small camp, escorted the entire camp to join the twin camps.

According to Albert's statistics, the barbarian camps conquered within two days provided a total of 27 black-scaled horses, 36 beasts of burden, 24 tents, 119 sheep, 109 demonless men, and 53 gold coins.

At this point, the livestock acquired by Lant in two days had exceeded the total number of years of business in Barony Galloping Horse, and the number of people rescued and captured exceeded half of the barony's population.

According to the lowest noble standards, as long as Lant can break through to an intermediate knight, he can independently develop the baron territory.

At this moment, Albert seriously thought for the first time whether the Galloping Horse Barony should really be handed over to Lant. Now Lant was already a junior knight and could barely inherit the title of baron, but Lant showed strong potential and

Management ability.

If the rand can break through during this period, new baronies can be opened up in the future.

Albert's thoughts wandered far away. He was already thinking about where to establish a new baronial fiefdom, where to find earth magicians to help build the castle, and how to find low-level knights who were looking for their master's home.

Moreover, Lant is still in the process of growing his body and needs more Warcraft meat to replenish his physical strength and fighting spirit.

However, Lant himself didn't seem to realize the importance of Warcraft meat, and always liked to distribute the obtained Warcraft meat to several low-level knights.

Staying up late to attack two camps in a row, and then returning to the first twin camp to rest, Lant was quite exhausted that night.

At this moment, Lant has just gotten up. Today is the latest day he has woken up since he came to this world. However, now Lant is thinking, what is going on with the two kneeling demon-free girls beside the bed?

"Is there something wrong with you two?"

"Sir Albert, please ask us to serve you well" the two girls replied

"..." Lant was silent for a while, "Today we will have several camps together, and there will be about 300 people gathered together, which will be a lot of people.

You go find a few camp stewards and ask them to come to me."

"Yes" the two girls then left the tent.

Rant knew that demon possessors in this world had great privileges. After all, after becoming a demon possessor, everything from body shape to strength to lifespan would undergo qualitative changes.

In Lant's hometown, someone conducted a survey on primates and found that if the size difference between males and females is larger at the individual level in a primate group, the more polygynous the population will be.

Demon possessors in this world all have multiple spouses, regardless of gender. From a certain point of view, the "one household" in the human race is a demon possessor, his partner, and children.

For those who possess demons, they are truly the same species, and ordinary demon-free people are just creatures protected by them and serving them.

No matter on the battlefield or in peacetime, demon possessors will always respect each other. For example, whether it is Roel or Lant, if you want to mobilize a non-demon from a family other than your own, you must discuss it with the corresponding demon possessor household head.

The human race's battles with each other are usually group fights between demon-loving demons. They will also respect the principle of non-lethal killing and spare each other's hands.

Even in families composed of demon possessors, male demon possessors and female demon possessors will have their own non-demigod partners.

In a word, the relationship between those who have demons is very equal, and those without demons are just vassals of those who have demons. All relationships are based on strength.

In the past few days, Lant looked at the demon-lovers and their families around him. They were like groups of curly baboons. There was a leading baboon in each group, and the rest were not him.

His wife is his child.

Now that Lant has become a demon possessor, he does not intend to give up the privileges of a demon possessor. However, can these barbarian demon-free people maintain good hygiene? The smell of each one is so strong that it makes him unable to open his eyes.

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Of course, the more important point is that the girl who claimed to serve him at the bedside was the girl beside the tribal leader who was chopped down by Lant on the bed. Lant still remembered that the blood of the barbarian leader sprayed all over her, even if she didn't

Psychological shadow, Rand still has it.

Soon, several leaders of the Demon-Frees came to Lant's camp. They were the most prestigious among the 61 Demon-Frees who were all captured the night before.

Lant decided to find something for these people to do. First, he asked them to count the cooks, leatherworkers, armor maintainers, weavers, spinners, carpenters, stonemasons, grooms and other skilled people in the camp.

After counting all the literate people among the non-demon people, we need to gather all the 20 or so children together and find literate women who have children to take care of them.

Finally, everyone in the camp washed clothes, took baths, and dug sanitary trenches. The main camp has not yet been brought over, and there are some specific divisions of labor that will be carried out after the joint camp.

After Lant finished arranging the work, Rolle and Albert came over.

"Lant, do you have time now?" Albert asked very kindly. Albert would call Lant his lord, Lord Lant or Baron in front of other subjects and knights, but when meeting Lant alone,

Always call him by his first name.

"Uncle Albert, what's the matter?" Whenever this happened, Lant also knew that Albert wanted to teach him something, so he was extra polite to Albert.

"I discussed it with Rohr and I think that in addition to managing the affairs of the territory, you should also step up your training as a knight.

Although according to imperial law, junior knights can also inherit the title of baron, but for pioneer barons, just junior knights cannot survive on the border."

"Actually, I want to discuss this matter with you today. I tried to gather my fighting energy when I first broke through, but I always found it very laborious to gather it and could not release it.

My father once taught us many basic moves, such as assault, slashing, etc. But I think it is difficult to succeed when using fighting energy, and even if I succeed occasionally, I will become very weak."

When Lant has some free time these days, he also hopes to practice using fighting spirit to release some tricks.

For example, the most traditional assault is to use fighting spirit to accelerate the body. There are many variations of this trick, such as using a shield with fighting spirit attached to the shield while moving at high speed, etc.

However, the magical turbulence on the Galloping Horse Plains made it difficult for Lant to condense his fighting spirit, making it difficult for Lant to practice and use his moves.

In an environment with mixed magic elements, the human body needs a longer time to absorb the magic elements and condense them into fighting spirit. As a low-level knight who has just broken through, Lant has less fighting spirit stored in his body and reabsorbs it slowly, so

Once the fighting spirit is released, the body will directly feel weak.

Now the fastest way for Lant to replenish his fighting spirit is to eat the meat of World of Warcraft. Under Albert's care these days, all the knights have given over to Lant the meat of World of Warcraft that was newly captured a few days ago.

Everyone knows that if they hope to continue to win in the subsequent battles, they must help Lant improve his strength. Protecting him is the only way to protect the entire territory.

"Actually, there is another way to gather fighting spirit," Albert said seriously.

"Oh, by meditation?" Lant became interested.

"The principles of meditation and cultivation are similar. They both gather magical elements from the environment into the body."

"Which method is that?"

"Since it is difficult to gather the magic elements in the environment, gather the condensed magic elements."

"Condensed? Blue...magic potion?" Lant almost said blue bottle.

"This is a kind of ordinary magic potion that is specially used by magicians to replenish magic power. Knights can also drink it, but the absorption effect is very poor. Knights have special fighting spirit potions."

"But now we don't have either!"

"Yes, there are no ready-made medicines, but there are natural ones."

"Oh my god...you don't mean those magic crystals, do you?"

"Yes, magic crystals can replenish fighting energy inefficiently."

“The cost is really high”

"Yes, but there is no other way now"

Later, Rohr and Albert gave Lant a very simple way to replenish fighting energy. Hold the magic crystal and mobilize the fighting energy into the palm of your hand. Use the fighting energy to fuse the magic power in the magic crystal and absorb it into the body, which can accelerate the replenishment of the body's fighting energy.

Of course, there are many problems with this method. For example, the efficiency is too low. Generally, monsters with magic cores can use magic or tricks multiple times, but the fighting energy supplemented by magic crystals can only use 1-2 tricks.

But now there are no options for Lant. The only good thing is that Lant currently has a lot of magic crystals in stock, 27. Each camp will have more or less magic crystals.

Last night, Lant decided to move all the camps to the location of the Twin Camps, which was equivalent to choosing a compromise location among the three camps, and this location was 20 kilometers away from the nearest medium-sized barbarian camp.

Taking into account the absence of the main force, the barbarians will reduce the scope of daily vigilance, and the current position is very safe.

Before the old camp came to join them, Lant spent 5 magic crystals to test the method of using magic crystals to replenish fighting energy mentioned by Albert and Rohr.

When he first tried it, Lant found that holding the crystal with his hands and simply wrapping the crystal with fighting spirit would leak a lot of magic power. Once the magic power in the magic crystal dissipated into the air, it would be blown away by the turbulent currents.

Lant even felt that this flow of magic was very consistent with certain laws of fluid mechanics.

After having an experience, Lant immediately decided to adjust the method. When it came to absorbing the second magic crystal, he tried to let his fighting spirit form a vortex to wrap around the crystal, that is, to let the fighting spirit continue to circulate in the palm of his hand. This adjustment is simple.

It works, at least the dissipation of magic power is much less than the first time.

Lant felt that such an attempt was feasible, so in the third attempt, Lant tried to speed up the cycle.

The magic power stored in the magic crystal is not very abundant, and the rapid movement of fighting energy itself will also consume fighting energy. There is a vague balance point between consumption and efficiency improvement.

After another try, Lant felt that he had found a balance point that he could accept.

After absorbing the fighting spirit of 3-4 magic crystals, Lant practiced several moves given to him by his father Huck: assault, slashing, jumping chop, and finally tried to attach the fighting spirit to the saber to improve the armor-piercing downward slash.

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Thanks to the supplement of 5 magic crystals, Lant successfully released 7 moves.

After releasing them all, Lant used his best fighting spirit speed to absorb a magic crystal for the last time, and then ended this training.

It is very expensive to use magic crystals to replenish one's fighting spirit. However, this is a battle with the barbarians. Every battle is life and death. It is far better to win with magic crystals than to be cut down by the opponent due to lack of fighting spirit.

According to Rohr's experience, although the physical fitness of barbarians can reach that of intermediate knights, if junior knights can use the tricks brought by fighting spirit well, it will not be a problem to fight against ordinary barbarians.

In the future, along the way to the Galloping Horse Plains, Lant will definitely face the moment of confronting the barbarians, and now he must practice the skill of using magic crystals to replenish his fighting spirit.
To be continued...