Chapter 10: The Familiar Stranger
Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info "Hey Soldier! Raise your head, you're not a beautiful lady there's no need to protect your stubby neck so thoughtfully and retract your ass...... Do you feel like a duck? ā
In Stormwind City, even in the bitter cold weather that can freeze and crack metal, the half-completed arena is in full swing at this time, and the first batch of young people recruited by Leo are wearing only thin and simple linen clothes and trousers, trembling and doing what may seem ridiculous and funny to outsiders
Squatting down, or sprinting upright, the once crooked queue has somewhat improved after a week of training, at least, to some extent, the unfamiliar word discipline is starting to take root in their minds......
Of course, these advances still seem extremely immature and unsightly in the eyes of Finn, who was temporarily used as a training instructor by Leo, and the other punishment knights, perhaps it was only the loyalty and obedience to Leo that made them work tirelessly to train these "recruits"
The wind slowly stopped, but the large snowflakes were still persistently taking away the heat from each recruit, and with a flick of the resilient cowhide whip in his right hand, Finn strolled in front of the queue with an expressionless face, and only occasionally emitted the momentum of the superior knight was enough to make these chicks dare not look at him
After walking around, shaking his head slightly in disappointment, Finn finally stopped beside a young man, and was silent for a long time, and only after the other party did not know why he slowly showed a panicked expression, he nodded the young man with the tip of his whip and said aloud to the others
"Until now, though I still have some doubts about whether you will be a good soldier and worthy of the generosity of your master, know that a single gold coin is enough to turn the robbers of the jungles of the Northern Realm into docile sheep...... Perhaps I should mention this to my grown-ups, rather than training you civilians in the cold weather, knowing that my companion and I have lost almost all confidence after a week, and fortunately, fortunately, this is a little bit of a difference, and you should be lucky, because there is a young man among you who has given me hope, hope that you will be less stupid! ā
With that, Finn took a step back and yelled at the nervous young man in front of him
"Rod, get out of the ranks!"
The loud and sudden roar made Rod suddenly start, but fortunately, his own intelligence and the conditioned reflex brought by the whip made him act immediately, and his right fist slammed into the somewhat thin chest, and at the same time stepped out of the queue with his head held high
"Your order, Your Excellency?"
A look of satisfaction instantly slipped and disappeared on Finn's unsmiling face, and even Rod, who was close by, didn't notice this, nodded noncommittally, and walked around to Rhodes to speak to the other recruits
"Unlike most of you, this young man came from a more distant place, and when I first met him, he was thin, cowardly, and clumsy, and I even doubt that he could last more than three days in training, maybe this poor hungry man was just looking for a place to eat? But, yes I confess, he gave me the biggest surprise of all, a week, from simple queues, familiarity with passwords, and even basic fighting techniques, this young man from a distant land, whose ancestors were the most humble farmers, did almost everything I taught him! ā
Raising his eyebrows, Finn looked at the queue that was a little commotion and whispered slightly because of his words, his face became extremely gloomy, and the leather whip in his hand made a crisp sound in the air and continued
"There are craftsmen, apprentices, porters and even thieves among you, but I'm sorry I don't care about that, you see, I don't even bother to remember your names, because in my opinion you are a bunch of undesirable waste, and unfortunately, because of the orders of the adults I can't get rid of you during training for no reason, even stupidity seems to me to be one of the reasons! Look at the role model in front of you, look at this young man, is your future worth only one gold coin or can you have more? Honor, status, dignity, all of this can never be obtained because of laziness, and it is clear that it was my mistake to leave you with the energy to think and whisper......"
With that, Finn took the reins of the horse handed by the rectifier knight beside him, turned over and rode the unicorn, and shouted in the direction of the city gate with a wave of his arm
"Everybody line up and run around the city for ten weeks!"
It was only when he rode past Rhodes that he glanced at the young man on his face who could not suppress his pride and joy, and thought about it, and whispered a word in the air
"You're a genius, I'm looking forward to your future, maybe one day you'll stand in a high position that you haven't imagined, but you have to learn more patience and wash away your impatience......"
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Leo wiped the blood from his visor and yelled at the Grand Master of the Knights of Punishment
"Finn, kill him, it must be the leader of this knight order of the enemy!"
Nodding from afar, before Leo shouted, Finn had already noticed the unusual battle over there, after all, in the battlefield where most of the Punishment Knights were outnumbered and outnumbered, the scene where the four men had not been able to take down an enemy for a long time was a bit too unusual and prominent
Rushing towards Rhodes without hesitation, after slashing several dark knights who were blocking the way, Finn silently joined the battle group directly, the two-handed giant sword reached out like lightning and directly blocked Rhodes's powerful slash, and the slight soreness in his arm made him a little surprised, and after several consecutive quick stabs temporarily forced Rhodes back, he said quickly to the other four knights
"Follow your lord, leave it to me here!"
Without any hesitation, the four Punishment Knights rode away without looking back, perhaps in their hearts Finn was the true god, and in countless battles, their Grand Master had never been defeated, and this time would definitely not be an exception......
If Finn's previous parry was just a little soreness in his arm, then Rod, who was not mentally prepared at all, was already full of horror at this time, the moment the two swords intersected, he could clearly feel that the tiger mouth of his hands under the metal gloves had cracked, and the slippery blood and stinging pain made his ten fingers tremble a little abnormally
After seeing the person standing quietly in front of him, even if he couldn't see his appearance clearly through the heavy mask, the incomparably familiar aura made Rod subconsciously spit out a moan that he could barely hear and contained extremely complex emotions
"Fein...... My enlightenment teacher......"
After a brief moment of distraction, Rod's expression became more solemn than ever, and in front of Finn, he slowly took off the knight's shield buckled on his left arm and threw it to the ground, moving his wrist to hold the hilt of the sword with both hands for the first time, while roaring and shouting wildly in his heart
"So what, so what? Today I already have the strength to rival yours, and your blood will honor and bury all my past, and I will prove to you, that there is no need for patience at all, and that I can still be a superior power that will make everyone obey! ā
Thinking of this, Rod clamped his legs hard under the nightmare under his crotch, and the otherworldly mount, which was not inferior to the unicorn in the slightest, jumped up on the spot and pounced directly on Finn with the weight of ten thousand jun, and at the same time, the black giant sword clenched by both hands slashed down from top to bottom......
"Bell !!"
The sound of the two weapons colliding together again, and even the flow of air within the range came to a moment's pause, and the loud noise, which almost exceeded the limit of the human ear, made the knights on both sides in the battle subconsciously pause for a moment, and the hum of the aftermath continued for several seconds
But the two people in the battle seemed to have not been affected in any way, stabbing, chopping, slashing, slashing, fighting, the knight's most basic swordsmanship became particularly terrifying in their hands, at least Leo, who was a little closer, could barely keep up with the rhythm behind him, and the afterimage brought out by the rapid attack alone was enough to make an ordinary soldier dizzy and vomit
In addition to the two knights on the horse, their mounts, the unicorn and the nightmare, also seem to have the seeds of hatred deep in their blood, and the two alien beasts are constantly looking for opportunities to bite, kick, and collide as they move
"Humph......"
With a muffled snort of suppressed pain, the two men in the confrontation rode back at the same time and temporarily separated, to Leo's relief, Finn was still in the same state, and even had the leisure to reach out and pat the unicorn's neck to appease his somewhat crazy partner
Opposite him, the black-armored knight who surprised Leo and the others was in a slightly bad condition, the huge and heavy black sword was slightly cracked at the edge of the blade, and the position of the abdomen that his left hand was tightly pressed on, and a narrow wound in the center of the shattered armor was deeply visible, and red blood was constantly gushing out from between his fingers......
Rhodes closed his eyes in pain, the pain in his body and the seemingly horrible wounds that didn't have much impact were not the root cause of his actions, and there was nothing more desperate than being hit hard after being so confident that he could do it
He once felt that it was the right choice for him to leave the storm, in order to pursue his power, he did not hesitate to take the initiative to be tempted to fall, and even gave up and left the person he always loved, countless days and nights of desperate training and the power of the mysterious adult, and finally even killed a horror knight with his own hands, and as a human being, he was among the positions that only demons could obtain, perhaps such an experience in the eyes of young Rhodes, he already had enough power to change his obsession......
However, it was as if he had returned to the past, and the person in front of him, in front of Finn, he was still like that weak child, as if he had made progress, but still could not overcome a high mountain that he could only look up at
Not to mention Rod's mood at this time, the brows under Finn's cheeks, who had the upper hand, were also tightly furrowed, and he took a few steps forward slightly and asked in a deep voice
"Who are you? I feel an indescribable familiarity from you, I know those knights of demons, you are definitely not one of them, tell me, who are you? Mankind! ā