Chapter 3: Falling Dragon Castle
The Warcraft Mountain Range runs through the north and south of the entire Magnolia Continent, and the eastern part is the Magnolia Empire, which unified the continent more than 4,000 years ago, and although it has been divided many times, it is still the strongest and oldest country in the continent. On the west side is the Puang Empire, which was split by the Magnolia Empire more than 2,000 years ago and nearly 3,000 years ago, and confronted each other with the Magnolia Empire by the natural barrier of the Doomsday Mountain Range of the Warcraft Mountain Range, which is the only two major empires on the mainland.
In the northern province of the Puang Empire, there is a small town located at the end of the Warcraft Mountains, and in the middle of the town stands a somewhat dilapidated castle.
In the year 2631 of the Magnolia calendar, there was a rebellion within the Puang Empire, and the Ika family, one of the eight dukes at that time, was self-reliant.
In this moment of crisis, a powerful warrior stands in the town - Cap. Cap came from an ordinary background, joined the army in his early years, and later returned to his hometown to live in seclusion, but in this war broke out the strength of a powerful ninth-level warrior. He also changed the trend of the Northern War with the power of one person, and successively defeated several ninth-level powerhouses under the Duke of Baishan in the war, the Warcraft of the Duke of Baishan, and a ninth-level silver dragon head was hung on the wall of the castle. Eventually, he was divided into local lords by the Imperial Family, built a castle, and established a powerful and noble "Cap Family" here, with eleven ninth-level warriors and mages at the peak, and the power was large enough to compete with the Horace clan, the lord of Blue Maple County.
Time passed, and the battlefield of the year became a paradise for demonic beasts again, and the powerful warriors did not set foot in the Sanctuary in the end, and gained a long life. The prosperous family has also been defeated by the passage of time, and the Cap family has gradually declined from a powerful and powerful family. Today's Cap family can only be regarded as ordinary nobles.
The patriarch of this generation, Viscount Dia Cap, is considered to be the middle generation of the family, and is the first seventh-level warrior in the nearly five generations of the Cap family, and he also restores the glory of the family. Not only is it very much the pursuit of its own strength. Since taking over the power of the family, he has reorganized the territory's guards. Several well-known mercenaries were invited to serve as captains of the escort team.
The captain of the escort team, "Lei", has an inconspicuous reputation and is very mysterious, but he has won the respect of everyone in the escort team with the strong strength of a seventh-level warrior, even Viscount Cap is also treated as an equal.
And the vice-captain "One-Eyed" Jafar Ka and "Giant Shield" Andy O'Connor were both once the elite of the mercenaries, the best of the sixth-level warriors.
The three of them lead a team of less than 200 people, but the elite lord guards, drive away the demonic beasts that sprang out from time to time in the Warcraft Mountain Range, unruly mercenaries and adventurers, and also take on the responsibility of guiding the training of the teenagers in the town, so that the next generation of the town can emerge more strong people.
In the year 4550 of the Magnolia calendar, in the square of the Falling Dragon Castle, there was a cry of "hum, ha, hum, ha".
In the early spring morning, before the fog receded, a group of teenagers were already exercising in the square in the center of the town, this group of teenagers was about 300 people, the older ones were 15 or 16 years old, and the younger ones were only 7 or 8 years old, most of them were wearing quite thick cotton clothes, and a few teenagers seemed to have better family backgrounds and wore beautiful leather jackets. But no matter how they were dressed, the teenagers were in good order, and they were conducting their morning exercises under the guidance of "Deputy Captain Jafar" under the guidance of five or six members of the escort team.
The leader Jafar looked to be about forty or fifty years old, with a strong body, but in the cold weather, he was naked, wearing animal skin shorts, and there were scars of different sizes and colors on his body, the most terrible of which crossed his left eye, and only his right eye emitted a cold light.
"You group of Bibi rabbit cubs, all listen to Lao Tzu, if you want the girl to post upside down, want good wine, and want your family to live a rich life, you must become a warrior"
"Magicians are all sissies, and besides, the talent of magicians is also very rare, and you can't help it if you want to become a magician." As he said this, the one-eyed man glanced at the group of 7 or 8-year-old boys, and estimated that even the youngest cubs had this possibility, and it was just as slim.
"If you want to become a warrior, you have to work hard and work tirelessly."
"According to the laws of the empire, if you become a first-class warrior, you are eligible to join the army."
"But our lords in the north have been first-class warriors all their lives, that's a shame"
"Become a third-level warrior, you can be a squad leader in an ordinary army, or join an elite legion."
"When you reach level four, you can serve as a backbone in the mercenary circle, and the money you earn in a year is something that a first-level soldier can't earn in a lifetime."
"Reach level six" The one-eyed man's cold gaze swept across the audience, and he kicked at a white-scaled iron tree, a tree that was a specialty of the Northlands with a hardness comparable to steel, and better toughness. I saw a big tree the thickness of a bowl and break under this foot.
"You will become strong, status, money, beauty, there will be!" A roar that bordered on a roar, but there was a demagogic power in Jafar's outward rude words. The young boys were still ignorant, but almost all of the teenagers from the age of 13 and 14 were flushed and looked very excited, "And now, you have started to exercise for me, according to the old rules, the older ones lift stones." The middle one lifts a large wooden block, and the little cub lifts a small wooden block, 15 squats per person, and then runs 20 laps around the square. ”
More than 300 children began to exercise according to Jafar's requirements, and the older of them were very serious; And the young children, the action of lifting heavy objects is very perfunctory, grinding, these children are too young, both physically and mentally are far from mature.
Jafar couldn't help but shake his head slightly when he looked at these children, the more than three hundred children who are now exercising, except for about a dozen of them, may have a good future, and the rest can become second-level warriors.
Generally, when the children are running in circles, it is the time for these instructors to chat easily, and they occasionally pay attention to the children are not lazy. One of the instructors carefully watched Jafar kick and break the hard tree, and said with a smile: "The captain is still so powerful, the power of this kick is close to the level of a seventh-level warrior", and walked towards Jafar at the same time.
"It's okay," Jafar said casually, "The main thing is to use a little Dou Qi strength, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy to kick off with the body strength of a sixth-level warrior alone."
Dou Qi, the other instructors were all envious, although the Kaipu family promised that as long as they were loyal enough to the members of the Guardian Party, they would give them the cultivation method of Dou Qi. But the entire Falling Dragon Castle received this kind of gift, and there were no more than 10 people, including Jafar, one of whom was the deputy captain of the guard who married the female daughter of the side branch of the Cap family, and one was simply the illegitimate son of the lord's magic advisor, as for Jafar himself, he was not only the captain of the lord's guard, but also responsible for a series of responsibilities such as torture and torture in the territory, and his status was very high.
The other people who have obtained the Dou Qi cultivation method are also old and powerful members, and they are even completely loyal to the Kaipu family. For these members of the escort team who are of ordinary strength and have no special connections, unless they make great contributions, there is basically no hope.
Among the teenagers in the square, a teenager with long black hair and dark brown eyes was running around the square with ease, but he was looking at Jafar covertly and thinking about what he said.
"I heard from my father, before he came to Falling Dragon Town to be the deputy captain of the guard, Jafar was very famous in the circle of adventurers in Blue Maple County and even the Northland Province, he seemed to be rude, but he was good at encouraging others."
But what he said was true. After all, becoming a powerful warrior is probably the only way out for ordinary teenagers like us, and becoming a magician is too demanding for talent. Wright thought so, "Blatantly talking about money, beauty, power, is very attractive anywhere." Those who are my age may still be ignorant, but those who are a little older obviously feel their emotional excitement, but to become a truly powerful martial artist, it is definitely not possible to persist in training with such a simple desire. ”
"A powerful warrior like his father and Ray, compared to those mediocre people, it seems that he drinks very little, and he has a strong restraint on himself, and that "Captain Ray" doesn't seem to even be a woman, which is not necessarily entirely true, but excessive alcohol is still very serious for a warrior's body. ”
Three quarters of an hour passed, the cold air of the early morning receded, and the teenagers' running in circles also warmed their bodies, and the instructor Luo Fu shouted to stop the teenagers' running and began to 'accumulate qi' exercise.
"With your legs shoulder-width apart, your knees slightly bent, and your hands at your waist, you should remember to 'concentrate, keep your mind calm, and breathe naturally'."
"Yunqi Style" is easy to do, but it is difficult to grasp the rhythm of breathing well, even the warriors with a formal rank still have room for improvement, and looking at these teenagers, although the older teenagers are not skilled, their movements are also standard. And some of the younger ones have a very messy breathing rhythm and obviously don't get started.
Wright seems to be one of the outliers, although he is the youngest in this group of children, but the Qi Accumulation Style is very skillful and natural, and the breath drives the body to produce a slight rhythmic vibration, which is already a characteristic of the "Qi Accumulation Style" to reach a very deep level.
Wright knows very well that he has only exercised the "Yunqi Style" for half a year, and he has such results, which is inseparable from his own secret. I don't know when he started, when he was in a dream, he often appeared a figure, this figure showed him a special way of exercise, including the rhythm of breathing and body posture movements, and after waking up from the dream, although he couldn't remember the face of the figure, he often couldn't help but imitate the strange breathing rhythm revealed when the figure exercised. This breathing method can be well combined with the "Qi Accumulation Style" to speed up your workout.
"Bah, captain, look at that kid, he looks like he's only 7 or 8 years old, look at the way he breathes, the rhythm is very standard, it seems to be quite powerful," Harper, the youngest and most lively of the instructors, and the freckles on his face had not faded, pointed to a teenager in the middle of the group.
Jafar glanced at it, nodded, and didn't speak.
Another instructor, Rofort, took over the words: "That little guy should be the child of the O'Connor family, the son of Andy O'Connor, the deputy captain of our escort team, the best of these teenagers, with a very high talent, and a very standard in terms of qi. ”
As time passed, the teenagers exhausted their strength and sat down on the ground.
This is the end of today's morning exercise. Instructor Rofort announced. Evening workout as usual"
Training in Falling Dragon Town is regular, divided into two times a day, one in the morning and one in the evening.