After returning to the royal capital, Fawkes used all his connections to frantically search for Caldis all over the kingdom, but after a long time, there was still no clue.

As the month passed, everyone slowly accepted this reality, Caldis could no longer be recovered, and everyone lost confidence. This tragedy caused William's family to be completely destroyed, and Lace eventually became a madman, asking people if they had seen their children, and often mistaking other people's children for Caldis.

The kidnapping of Caldis made Fox firm in his idea that if he wants his child to be safe, he must first make himself strong, because only he can protect himself at all times, and there will always be times when his parents are not around.

Under Fawkes's arrangement, Cook was taken to the knight training camp in the royal capital to start a new training life, hoping to make up for the wounds suffered by his young mind.

After Cook experienced this incident, his whole personality began to change drastically. He is no longer lazy in bed, and he is no longer coquettish, but at the same time he has become less talkative. The shadow in his heart left him with eternal scars in his childhood memories, and he blamed himself all the time, always feeling that he had hurt his cousin.

In the process of growing up, everyone will always experience some unpleasant things, and maybe this will make people more mature. Five-year-old Cook goes through a life-and-death test that turns his life, and even Fox himself can't tell whether it's good or bad.

Every time he saw his son bow his head and remain silent, Fawkes's heart would feel extremely painful. But he can't help it, because there are some things that Cook still needs to face by himself, and the knot in his childhood has to be untied by himself, otherwise he will not be happy in this life.

In the northeast corner of the royal capital, a high wall encloses a large area, and there are countless military camps standing within the high wall, and the shouts of the soldiers come out from the wall from time to time, this is the famous royal capital knight training camp, and it is also the largest knight training base in the kingdom!

Cook was working sword splitting in a corner of the camp, and the daily training had made him seem more and more profound, and he was becoming less and less talkative, and even stopped greeting people when he saw them.

Connor is the first duke of the kingdom, and his status and status are all in the limelight! In the past, when he met Cook, Cook would always smile and call himself Uncle Connor, but now Cook turns around and leaves when he sees him, without saying a word.

Connor watched Cook silently, and saw that Cook was still just alone swinging his sword and chopping stakes, Connor sighed slowly! He said to Fox: "Cook is a poor kid, and it's really hard for him to face this kind of thing at such a young age!" However, this child's personality has become so withdrawn, which is very detrimental to his future growth! ”。

Fawkes glanced at the lonely Cook, turned back to Connor and apologized, "Lord Duke, this kid Cook is becoming more and more ignorant, I hope you can forgive him for his rudeness!" ”。

Connor put his hand on Fawkes's shoulder, and said to him as he walked, "There is no need to be polite about such a trivial matter. If you don't think so, a few counts and marquis have often mentioned to me that they want to send their children to you for training in advance! Now there is only one child in the training camp, which will only make him more lonely, or just find a few companions for Cook, the children will always talk more together, which is much better for Cook! ”。

Fawkes hesitated for a moment, and asked a little uneasily: "But this training camp is so hard, and the children of the nobles are so delicate, if I hurt the children or something, how can I explain to the marquis and earls?" ”

Connor stopped, pointed at Cook, and said, "You Cook are also children of the Earl's Court, he is not afraid of hurting, why are other people's children afraid?" Are they more delicate than Cook? Don't worry, I'll make these things clear to them first, so that they can think about it before sending the child over! Afraid of death and injury, they still come to train a fart, what kind of knight, wouldn't it be better to stay at home and be their precious son? ”。

Fawkes nodded, smiled at Connor, and said, "Thank you, Lord Duke." ”

Connor nodded, and looked at Cook seriously, only to see that Cook was slashing at the stake with great force, and in a few clicks he slashed the stake to pieces.

Seeing this, Connor smiled, and said happily to Fawkes, "Looks like you're going to have to get him a bigger stake." Well, this kid has good qualifications, so let's train it well. ”

After saying that, Connor waved goodbye to Fox and walked straight out of the training camp.

After seeing Connor leave, Fawkes immediately returned to Cook.

Looking at the panting Cook, Fox patiently taught: "Cook, you didn't split the sword like this!" As a knight, swinging a sword must not only be powerful, but more importantly, accurate and steady. My father asked you to practice splitting your sword against a wooden stake, which was to practice your swinging sword with strength and accuracy, not to let you chop wood like this. ”

Apparently Cook was a little absent-minded, he looked up at his father with a frown, and shook his head slightly.

Fawkes thought for a moment, then turned around and led Cook to another thickly beaten stake, and began to demonstrate the sword himself!

I saw Fawkes take a deep breath, suddenly pulled out the long sword with a swish, stretched out his hand and stabbed hard, and the long sword pierced deeply into the center of the stake. Fawkes then shook his arm violently, spun 360 degrees in place, and stabbed the stake with another sword, but it hit the spot just now. Then Fawkes made another leap, waved his arm violently, and the third sword stabbed in the same spot, finally piercing the wide stake completely.

Cook was dumbfounded, he didn't expect his father's swordsmanship to be so exquisite, and the sword could be stabbed in the same position, and it was exactly the same.

After the demonstration, Fox taught Cook: "I let everyone practice simple sword splitting first, the purpose is to let everyone master the strength and accuracy at the same time, and finally achieve accurate fierceness." If you can be like me, with each sword hitting the same position accurately, and being able to completely pierce the stake within five swords, then the strength and accuracy of your swing can be regarded as a master's practice. If you can still go down with a sword and pierce this stake directly, then you can surpass everyone in the kingdom. ”

With concrete demonstrations and figures, Cook apparently understood as soon as he heard it. He stepped forward and reached out to touch the crack that his father had stabbed, and the wood on both sides of the crack was unscathed, which showed that the accuracy of this sword was extraordinary.

Cook turned around in a daze, staring at his father incredulously.

Fawkes was accustomed to his silence, and said with a smile, "This is no better than the little stake you just cut, this wood is very hard, it is specially used for sword training, and it is not easy to pierce it!" My father also practiced for countless years to do it, splitting the sword is the foundation of swordsmanship, and only when you practice splitting the sword can you learn to slash, stab, slash and slash horizontally. ”

Cook seemed to understand a lot, nodded silently, turned back to his place, took out a new little stake, and kept practicing.

Fawkes also walked over, and while watching Cook split the sword, he said seriously: "Although splitting the sword is the foundation of swordsmanship, it is also the most essential part of swordsmanship. It is not an easy task to practice sword splitting, it may take five years, maybe ten years or even longer. But as long as you really learn to split the sword well, your long sword will be able to win all over the world in the future! So you don't care whether it's five years or ten years to learn to split the sword well, practicing swordsmanship is originally a test of people's patience and perseverance, only perseverance and perseverance, then you can learn the real skills. ”

Cook listened attentively, holding the short sword that his father had made for him, and slashed it earnestly at the small stake in front of him.

Seeing Cook's meticulous appearance, Fox had a satisfied smile on his face, and although Cook had been sullen, he had also become very obedient, which was also a good thing for training!

Although Fawkes can't make Cook happy for the time being, at least this will have a good effect for Cook, that is, if Cook keeps silent like this, then he will definitely become a great knight in the future!

The next day, several new cadets came to the royal knight training camp, all of them were 7-9 years old, although slightly older than Cook, but they were also some children under the age of 10.

Following Duke Connor's previous advice, Fawkes arranged for them to train in a camp with Cook, hoping that this would make Cook's personality more cheerful.

However, this did not make Fox get his wish, and Cook remained alone, neither talking to the other children nor willing to practice with them, only caring about his own practice, and remained silent.

Children are always more lively, and there are often children who come to Cook for advice on sword practice! And Cook has always ignored them, as if he was very unhappy to take care of them, and even when he was resting and eating, Cook sat alone in the corner, silent.

After learning of this result, Connor was also helpless about it, and in the end, Fawkes had to leave him alone.

Throughout the winter, Cook spent all of his time at training camp, except for the occasional home visit to his mother. In the training camp, Cook practiced his sword day and night, no matter the wind, rain or snow, Cook never stopped, it seemed that only sword training was the only thing he could do!