Shuangqiu Town, a border town in the northern region of the Shenwu Continent, the powerful Alecle Empire.

Twin Hills, as the name suggests, this town has two iconic hills – Garton Hills and Subaru Hills, which are managed by the Garton and Subaru families, respectively.

The setting sun unleashed its last rays of afterglow in the far west, turning the clouds on the horizon fiery red. The fiery clouds drifted from afar over Shuangqiu Town, dyeing the town's streets and green spaces on the hills a faint warm red.

The unique red of the evening quietly faded in color, and the last old man on the street wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and walked home with his feet.

When night falls in Shuangqiu Town, the streets are already empty, the lights of each house are lit up, and the town becomes deserted.

Only at the foot of the Subaru hill were two figures, one large and one small, each holding a wooden sword, slashing at each other.

"Whew...... Damn ......" The smaller figure gritted its teeth and gripped the wooden sword in both hands, rather passively resisting the dense onslaught of his opponent's attacks.

"Loraine, don't just look at my sword, you should look at my arms and wrists, only then can you read my attack faster." The larger figure made an old, deep voice.

Luo Lan's left foot slid back, urging the last trace of fighting energy left in his body to the right arm holding the sword, and leaned forward, the blunt edge of the wooden sword pressed against the opponent's wooden sword with all his might.

"Bang!" The wooden sword in Lorraine's hand was knocked away just as he was about to complete his thrust. Just as Loran was surprised, his opponent's wooden sword was already resting on his neck.

"No! Both the amount of fighting spirit and the use of fighting spirit are too poor. ”

"Grandpa Hilton has taught him a lesson, let's move on."

"That's enough, I'll get here today."

A tall, thin man came with a candle lamp, his face was slightly fierce, with flowing brown hair, eyes as blue as the sky, and eyebrows like sharp blades.

"Father!" When Luo Lan saw the man coming, he bowed slightly.

Candle lights illuminated the surroundings, and the figures of the two people who were originally hidden in the night became clear—an old man and a young man.

The boy's name was Loren Subaru, and he had the same blue eyes and brown hair as the man who came, but his face was a little more childish.

The old man who trained Loran was named Hilton, the captain of the guard team in Twin Hills and the knight mentor of Loren.

"It's not early, Loraine, dinner is ready, let's go home and rest." The man carrying the candle lamp was named Hawk Subaru, the patriarch of the Subaru family.

"Father, I want to continue training." Lorraine looked at Hawke with a burning gaze.

Hawke shook his head slightly, and then his face was a lot more solemn: "Grandpa Hilton has been practicing with you for a day, and you must rest." ”

"Father, let me stay in the cellar tonight and train on my own." Loraine's blade-like eyebrows crossed each other, her eyes full of longing.

Hawke and Hilton looked at each other, sighed, and waved their hands: "Go ahead." ”

Lorrain bowed again, then trotted all the way up the Subaru hills.

Hawke looked at Loraine's back as he drifted away, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Hilton patted Hawke on the shoulder: "Hawke, Loraine, this kid is very sensible, don't worry so much." ”

"It's been less than a month since the representatives of the various academies came to Shuangqiu Town to recruit students, and Luo Lan hasn't reached the level of a junior knight's retinue yet, how can I not be worried." Hawke's brows furrowed, his eyes still staring into the distance.

"Hawk......" Hilton stopped talking, he knew some truths, but there was nothing he could do about it.

"Do you have to do that?" Hawke said secretly in his heart, and his right hand couldn't help but clench into a fist.

……

In the cellar, Luo Lan sat cross-legged on the ground, his eyes slightly closed, his belly fell together, and the little and almost negligible fighting energy began to burrow into Luo Lan's body from all sides. This is the Dou Qi Gong technique that Hilton taught him to restore the Dou Qi that has been consumed.

"Grandpa Hilton is a seven-star knight, the strongest knight in Shuangqiu Town, it stands to reason that his skills should be the strongest, but I have studied for so long, and my fighting spirit is still the lowest existence in the entire town. What went wrong? ”

Lorain opened her eyes and looked at the only window in the cellar. It's a window, it's a vent to be precise, it's not big, but it just allows Loren to see the night sky outside.

"It's been less than a month......"

At this time of year, the knight academies in the northern region of the Shenwu Continent will send representatives to Shuangqiu Town to recruit new students, and all children who have reached the age of fifteen can take the test directly linked to the admission of the academy, and the better the test results, the better the knight academy will be able to study.

On the Shenwu Continent, countries fight all year round, and knights are always an indispensable role on the continent.

On this continent, whoever has the big fist has more right to speak.

Loraine's father, Hawke, was only a three-star knight, so the townspeople didn't like Hawke very well, even though he was the patriarch of the Subaru family, one of the two major families in Twin Hills.

"Goo......

"Uh...... It's really not okay not to eat. Lorain shook her head helplessly at the sound of her stomach and got up to rummage through things.

Lorain picked up a crockpot at random, put his nose up and sniffed it, and an extremely pungent smell gushed out. Luo Lan's brows furrowed, and he subconsciously threw the crockpot in his hand.

I saw the clay pot tumble in the air for several weeks, and finally smashed into a clay pot in the corner, and the two clay pots exploded together.

A gray-haired rat suddenly sprang out from behind the crockpot in the corner of the Squeaky ......, apparently startled by the explosion just now, and began to scurry around the cellar.

Luo Lan was startled at first, and then he found that it was not a demonic beast, but an ordinary mouse, and only then did he relieve his nervousness a little - now he can't defeat any level of demonic beast.

"Little one, stealing something actually came to our house!" Lorain chased after the mouse, but from time to time the rat scurried into the crockpot pile and pushed it out to stop Loran.

"You can't run!" Loran locked on the mouse's course of action and pounced with all his might.

"Squeak ......" The rat flicked its tail and smashed another crockpot, and a little clear liquid flowed from the broken crockpot.

"Not good!" By the time Lorraine realized something was wrong, it was too late, and he only felt his feet slip, and his whole body flew straight out like an arrow off the string.

"Bang!"

"Click......" The wall that Loren had hit suddenly trembled, and large chunks of dust were sprinkled on Loren.

Before Loren could shake off the dust from his body, he heard a loud "boom", and part of the wall began to spin, and the rotating wall led Loren into a room he had never seen before.

"Hmm...... What's going on? Lorain shook off the dust from her body, stood up and scratched her head.

"Puff puff!" In an instant, flames erupted from all the lampstands in the room, and the dim room suddenly lit up.

"This ...... Where is it? ”