"May the Light be with you!" After a softly whispered group chant, the monotonous and boring afternoon meditation session ended.

The playful children almost dispersed in a hurry after receiving the approval of the Patriarch of the Monastery of the Holy Light to dissolve and rest.

"Hey, that little guy over there!" a little red-haired girl ran over after she broke up and ran away, and pointed at the slow Edlan and said angrily, "I called you, Edlan! Don't you hear?"

Edlan is not tall, especially boys tend to develop slightly slower than girls when they are younger, and the difference in height is most pronounced. He glanced at this little girl named Bridget Abydis, and felt a little headache, because she was one of the children who was recommended along with Tyran Fortin, Renaud Mograini and others in the last session, and he naturally knew what she came from, the daughter of Alfred Abydis, the current general of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, the daughter of Alfred Abydis, the high-ranking paladin of the Knights of the Silver Hand, and the future general of the Scarlet Crusaders.

To put it bluntly, it is another second-generation army, and the children who can be sent to the Holy Light Monastery for basic Holy Light cultivation are not simple characters, and their father can be said to be well-known to passers-by in the acre and third of the land in Lordaeron, so the patriarch quickly left the main hall after taking a look at this, regardless of Edlan's eyes asking for help. After all, the parents of these children want to raise their children to be paladins, not priests, so it's not a bad thing to let them "communicate" in advance.

"......" Adline stood helplessly, he looked at the beautiful embryo in front of him, Brigitte, she inherited her father's brave characteristics, and now she can be regarded as a "tyrant" in the Holy Light Monastery, no child can beat her in the competition of martial arts, not even Renault, who is 3 years older. But still, her thin arms and legs made Adeline unable to imagine where the strength of such a small body could allow her to wield a wooden sword made of heavy ebony, and the one-handed longsword of an adult was now longer than the height of a little girl.

"I recognize your title of 'Little Hercules', but you promised to fight me every day, now come with me. Bridget said, while walking towards the martial arts arena, she tied her loose hair into a ponytail at random, a little girl, full of heroism.

Different from Adelan's helpless sigh, Dalyan, Renaud and Tyran, the three guys who had a good relationship with Edlan on the side, had a gloating expression, they knew that since Adelan was recommended to come to the Holy Light Monastery, as soon as someone's nickname was known by this eldest lady who shouted and killed all day long, someone never had a day of quiet self-study and rest.

Because everyone knows that this so-called "fight", especially between children who have learned a few basic Holy Light healing spells, is often synonymous with protracted time. The specific situation is usually that Adelan was crushed by Briggie in all aspects of martial arts, and he would be injured by her in a few clicks, and then whether it was Adelan himself or the other children who were watching the excitement, they all had certain treatment methods, under the magical power of the Holy Light, only small injuries to the skin and muscles, which could be healed quickly, and at the same time, the Holy Light could also relieve the fatigue under the strenuous exercise to a certain extent, so that the state of the two of them almost recovered as before.

That's why "fighting" has become synonymous with a protracted phrase in children's hearts.

This is not to say that the Holy Light is omnipotent, it only stimulates the potential of the human body and accelerates the body's ability to heal itself, and the so-called potential not only refers to the energy that the human body has not yet discovered, but also can advance a part of the physical and mental energy. People regain their physical and mental strength by sleeping, and the Holy Light is just allowing people to advance this part of the hidden energy of physical and mental energy.

For example, under normal circumstances, these children are very sleepy at 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening and need to fall asleep, but after a sparring exercise in the evening, Edlan, who has been treated the most by the Holy Light, usually feels sleepy at 8 o'clock, which is not only caused by the fatigue caused by the training, but also caused by part of the body energy advanced by the Holy Light.

Of course, the advance in this area will become less and less as the study of the Holy Light becomes more and more proficient, and it can also be more and more beneficial to the body, which is why in the era of the undead, these small paladins dare to launch a fierce attack on the undead calamity that is tens, or even hundreds of times their own.

Unlike the gloating boys, Lisa Whitemane looked at Edland, who was already a little dark-eyed, with a worried expression, "Why don't I go and talk to Sister Bridget for you?" ”

"Uh, no, thank you, Lisa. Edlan didn't want to refuse, but he felt a lot of pain in this daily routine of not getting enough sleep every day, and he learned a lot every time he practiced with Bridget, so it was even more desirable for him. And every time he doesn't want others to give him "brush treatment", he always gives himself a "mouthful of milk", in order to make his proficiency in the use of holy light energy high, learn as soon as possible and get out of the low-level courses, the urgency of the undead natural disaster makes him have to masochistic after returning to the dormitory exhausted and insisting on independent meditation and study, so sleepiness is definitely there.

Unlike Lisa, who is too impulsive and radical in dealing with evil, darkness and the people around her, after contact, Adelane feels that Bridget is a child who unexpectedly gives people a sense of lack of self-confidence, although she always shouts in front of outsiders, but Adeline can see that this is a manifestation of her desire to prove herself in a hurry, because of her lack of self-confidence, she wants to be recognized by others.

Maybe it's because she's been such a character since she was a child, and the little friends around her have all gained a position corresponding to her own strength in the future, and she herself is the Scarlet Crusader General who succeeded to the position because of her father's death, not only suddenly, she didn't have much experience and was driven to the shelf, but she herself didn't have too outstanding merits to deserve this position, causing her to feel that she was not very suitable for this position deep down.

That's why he sought the ethereal "revelation of the Light" to make himself stronger, and was finally tricked by the Dreadlord and killed by the Forsaken Assassin in the Dragonbone Wilderness.

Her death made the last of the Scarlet Crusaders who still had a trace of humanity completely become vengeful fanatics, and they finally went crazy to perish under the use of the Dread Demon King......

So, now Bridget catches Edlan every day after class and accompanies her to the martial arts arena to practice, in the process of sparring, she also clearly feels the other party's jaw-dropping learning and growth, which makes her feel even more pressure, and at the same time, because she is still a child, because of the child's momentum and refusal to admit defeat, Bridtch has gained a certain motivation under such pressure, and has also promoted her own growth.

It's an outcome that everyone wants to see, except, of course, Renault.

Renaud Mograini, on the surface, seems to be everyone's "big brother", always taking care of everyone like a good gentleman, but many children can see that he spends so much more time and energy on Lisa than he spends on studies and other things, so that now Renault's grades are the worst of all children. This is not to say that the Mograine family has a bad bloodline, but Renault's own problem, and his younger brother Dalyan has been well trained and grown up with the mutual encouragement of the children, which makes the old Mograine who has visited him several times very happy.

Renault, on the other hand, was ashamed of being reprimanded by his father every time.

Renaud didn't want to see the guy named Edlan who suddenly appeared stronger, and he hoped that Bridget would miss and seriously injure the guy he hated, because Lisa was willing to stay with him for a much shorter time than with Edlan's bastard, which made him unhappy and angry.

Then, in the past few days, he has been a little unbearable......

......

On the martial arts field.

"Bang!", "Da!" and other wooden swords exchanged sounds in an endless stream.

Bridget finished an attack with a spinning sword to bypass Edlan's slash and quickly pressed the wooden sword to her opponent's neck, ending the round.

Brigitte retracted the wooden sword from her shoulder and stepped back into place, saying, "I remember telling you that the first move is to hit the opponent before he finishes his attack, the second hand is to hit the opponent after the opponent has finished attacking, and at the same time it refers to volleying the opponent's attack. So what kind of trick did I use to win?"

Like Bridget, Edlan stepped back into position, resting his sword on his right shoulder, his left foot in front and his right foot in the back, resuming the standard preparatory pose, and after a moment's recollection, he said, "It should be 'at the same time' and 'back hand.'" ”

"Well, come again, I hope you can win this time!" Bridget nodded happily, she is currently the best among the children, so she has never had a good opponent, and now she has been pulling the fastest growing Edlan to spar, and she has not cultivated him so that she can have an opponent of the right age.

"Smack!" After a short discussion and summary between the two sides, they quickly attacked each other with the same starting style, almost the same pace, and the same downward slash, and the two wooden swords exchanged blows at each other in their respective sword paths.

In this exchange, Edlan deliberately increased the explosive power when he stepped and the height of the sword before swinging down his arm, these subtle combat changes were slowly comprehended in his many battles with Bridget, her strength could not compare to his own, so he had to use strength to suppress it, and he had used this technique many times in sparring in the past few days.

Edlan is already familiar with the theory that Mograine Sr. and Bridget are talking about, and all he has to do now is turn the theory into practice, so he always tends to attack in these rounds.

Bridget, as an opponent, felt Edlan's changes most intuitively, and she naturally riveted the same fine-tuning moves as she could, and carried out this slash with Edlan on the premise that she could mobilize the maximum strength of her body.

But obviously, due to the difference in strength, in this round of exchanges, Adelan caused more "damage", which made Bridget's hands stiffen for a moment longer than before because of the transmission of kinetic energy, resulting in her next action will be a beat slower, what Adeline wants is this time difference opportunity to take the lead, alternating between the power foot and the fulcrum foot and then taking a slash diagonally, while the wooden sword in his hand is raised above his head, slightly tilted down towards Bridget's neck.

Bridget's response was also very fast, and she lost the lead in the competition power, but she immediately retreated with a big stride on the front foot fulcrum on the back foot, parallel to the direction of Adelan's breakthrough, and used the retreat and defensive sword posture to resolve Adelan's preemption, and the movement of her hand was still the thumb against the sword grid to try to defuse Adelan's drag attack on her neck.

In fact, she succeeded, and before Adlane's sword path could reach her face, her sword was between her opponent's sword and her own head.

"Da!" was followed by Bridget's sharp-edged sword, which she had become very proficient in.

After being "anti-counterattack", Adlane obviously didn't think about what to do next, in the face of Brigitte's pace approaching by the counterattack, and the condescending angry slash brought out by her unloading and violent spinning, he could only hurriedly retreat, and raised his wooden sword to eat this blow.

After all, he has only been studying under old Mograini for a week, before his cheap father has been fighting outside, and his family has not been back a few times, and the family is so poor, how can he have the money to support him to practice martial arts, as the so-called poor and rich martial arts, you must eat well to practice martial arts, otherwise where will the strength come from, so the previous Edlan basically did not know much about these systematic and formal martial arts.

Really began to systematically learn martial arts after entering the Holy Light Monastery, there are low-level paladins as instructors, there are also some regular warriors, soldiers, they are all good objects to ask for, after more than half a year of pace, breath, air swing and other most basic training, coupled with his perseverance, in order to have now seem to be able to fight with the most capable Brigitte in children.

But unlike Bridget, who has been practicing martial arts with her father since she was a child, the gap in experience and vision makes him feel that there is still a gap between him and her, although this gap seems to Bridget is narrowing at an unbelievable speed.

"Smack!"

"Click!"

"Poof!"

The wooden swords clashed, the wooden swords shattering and the heavy ebony swords slamming above Edlan's head.

It all happened so fast that all the kids in the room didn't react, including the two who were fighting.

Blood flowed down Adlan's forehead, and the amount of bleeding that seemed to be a bit large startled all the stunned children.

Except for the opponent's Bridget, no one noticed that there was a faint golden flake blocking the trajectory of her wooden sword just now, which made her feel different from the feel, two different texture of the feel feedback, once as crisp as breaking glass, and once as dull as hitting a nut.

"Edlan!" Lisa was the first to react, and she "brushed" Edlan's head with a single healing technique, making the latter seem to wake up a little.

"Go and call your lord!"

Under Lisa's exclamation, the children who saw blood for the first time woke up one by one, some ran to find adults, some ran to the venue to inquire about Adelan's injuries with concern, and each child almost "toss" his own healing spells towards Adelan.

And the owner of "hurting people", Bridget also woke up from curiosity and panic, and when she saw Edlan bleeding, she couldn't care about the strange thing just now, and while apologizing, she was in a hurry next to Adelan at a loss.

It was also the first time that Edlan had been so seriously injured and calmed down, and he still wanted to give himself a "mouthful" of milk, but found that his body had been shrouded in a faint and faint pale golden halo generated by the overflow of holy light energy......

Tonight is destined to be another tiring day.

While someone was struggling with the problem of sleeping at night, Lisa found the guy in the crowd who had been looking at her with a very complicated look, he was standing on the outermost side, and the expression on his face was strange, like shame, but also like happy, but he just didn't care like the other children present.

After discovering Lisa's eyes, the child smiled brightly, as if the "bloody case" that had just happened in front of him did not exist at all.

Renault, why did he have such an expression?

P.S1: The description of this sparring is based on the offensive and defensive fundamentals of German swordsmanship.