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After the old jackal's head was cut off, the body that was still struggling to get up directly collapsed all at once, and with the slightly faint scarlet blood gushing out from the severed head, the old jackal's body began to become cold and hard.

"Whew"

Looking at the old jackal who was no longer moving, Rhodes, who had not lost much of his body in the few encounters just now, but his nervous spirit finally relaxed, and he was a little stunned when he looked at the headless old jackal's corpse that twitched from time to time.

To be honest, this is probably the first enemy that Rhodes has actually killed in his previous life and in this life. Although I don't know if it's because I've watched too many bloody movies and anime in my previous life or because I've been educated in another world in this life, Rhodes looked at the corpse of the old jackal who fell on the practice field, and there was no nausea or vomiting when ordinary people killed for the first time.

When the battle was decided, Rhodes' first reaction when he looked at the corpse of the werewolf was: it turns out that killing is such a simple thing, and the death of a life is such a fragile thing!

"Uh-huh???"

When Rod restrained his mentality, he suddenly seemed to feel something strange, and looked at the corpse of the old jackal and was a little stunned.

"Rod!"

However, before Rod could be stunned for long, the shouts of Baron Ernst, who were watching the battle, woke up Rhodes who was distracted.

"Father?!"

Hearing the shouts of his father in this life, Rod, who woke up, suppressed the doubts in his heart, and when he turned his head to look at the Baron Ernst and his party approaching him, he said to Baron Ernst very respectfully.

Just after watching his son's first battle, Baron Ernst had a smile of joy on his face, and the two knights who followed him, Knight Tamon and Knight Tel, also showed a look of appreciation when they looked at Rod. As for the other servants, butlers, and soldiers on the training ground, they looked at Rhodes differently, with a hint of awe and approval.

Although Rhodes was called a genius before, most people still had some doubts in their hearts, after all, there is no shortage of people in this world who are usually outstanding but not very good at battle.

But now Rod's table is at least revealed, and Rhodes is also unambiguous in battle. Although there were some flaws in the course of the battle, as a twelve-year-old boy fighting for the first time, Rod's table was already quite good.

"It's not bad, come back with me!"

Looking at his son, Baron Ernst nodded and gave the order after a word of praise.

No one had a problem with the baron's words, except for a few men who were left to dispose of the corpse of the old jackal on the ground, and everyone else followed the baron out of the camp's training ground.

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Later, in the private rooms dedicated to the barons of the lord's mansion.

"Rod, in this test, your previous swordsmanship and pace basically didn't show up, so that the old jackal got directly close to your close distance" Looking at his son, who had just showered and changed his clothes, the baron sitting on the chair patiently explained to Rod the mistake of his battle process just now.

Of course, Baron Ernst was very happy in his heart, because although his eldest son had many flaws in the battle of his first battle, he was quite good in terms of on-the-spot reaction and unhesitating killing, which was quite good for a boy who had turned twelve years old in three days.

As for the kind of who can easily slaughter a gnoll or other monster at the age of twelve without changing his face? Well, at least Baron Ernst hadn't seen it with his own eyes, and even if he hadn't heard of it.

"However, you reacted well on the spot, and you were ruthless in the end!" When Baron Ernst picked out the flaws in Rhodes' battle one by one, he still praised his son with some appreciation.

As someone who has never experienced a killing, and who is actually facing a battle for the first time, it is completely normal for Rhodes to not show all his skills and strength.

In fact, even on Earth, it has been studied how much of a person who has excelled on the training ground for the first time in a real battlefield can show how much he has achieved in training. After a lot of testing, it was concluded that the recruit's first battle was able to perform 30% of the results of training, which is considered a pretty good result.

In this magical world, there is no expectation of how many skills a novice can show in the first battle, and being able to defeat the opponent and survive is the standard of qualification!

In the course of the battle of less than ten seconds for Rhodes himself, although he was in a hurry in the face of the old gnoll for a while, Baron Ernst was very satisfied with his on-the-spot reaction and the appearance of killing the other party without hesitation.

Walking on the road of knighthood, Rhodes himself has been very good until now, training hard and being able to perform well in the first battle, which has made Baron Ernst have much higher expectations for his son.

"Maybe let's take another look, Rhodes is still young" Seeing that his eldest son seemed to be a little distracted, Baron Ernst, who was thinking about something in his heart, made up his mind, and then said to Rhodes: "Rhodes, you have a good rest!" If you have any thoughts or worries, you can say to me and my mother."

Although there is no such thing as a psychiatrist in this world, at least he understands that most people who kill for the first time will be restless and restless, so Baron Ernst regarded Rhodes' distraction as the sequelae of killing, so he comforted Rhodes and arranged for him to take a good rest.

"Yes! Father!"

Listening to his father's words, Rod, who knew the meaning of his father's words, didn't want to explain anything, and said very obediently before getting up and leaving the room.

"I hope this kid doesn't think too much"

Watching Rhodes leave the room, Baron Ernst, who didn't know what his son had discovered, just thought that the first battle killing reaction was just muttering, and then moved on to other things.

Baron Ernst still needs to think about more things than to relieve Rod, and depending on the situation, Rod himself is at most in a trance, so it will probably be good to get a good night's sleep

Baron Ernst had no idea what was causing his son's distraction.

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A few minutes later, Rhodes, who was lying on his bed, looked around, and then began to meditate in a lying down position on the bed - this was probably a major innovation of Rhodes, at least the magicians would not think that Rhodes' "sleep" was meditation.

When Rod adjusted his breathing and entered the meditation space in a daze, the first thing he did was to run to the translucent ball that seemed to have crossed his golden finger to observe. And the translucent sphere, which had not changed in the slightest except for the inexplicable increase in liquid inside, has now undergone some special changes.

Rod clearly saw that on the translucent sphere, a trace of golden luster had appeared!

Although it occupied less than one hundredth of the space on the translucent sphere, the golden luster that had never been seen before was too obvious to hide from Rod's eyes.

"The reason for this is experience? Or the soul of the old gnoll."

Looking at the changes in the translucent sphere in front of him that doubted himself and might have crossed and might have a golden finger, Rod's consciousness must have been an abnormal expression of thought and confusion if it was on his face.

As a time-traveler who has seen countless YY novels and various time-traveling goldfinger settings on Earth, Rhodes came up with the possible change of this translucent sphere after a little analysis and use the contrast elimination method.

After all, the change of this translucent sphere happened to Rhodes when he killed the old gnoll, recalling the feeling that he felt as if he had absorbed something from the old gnoll's corpse and the previous situation, Rod would be a little stupid if he couldn't guess the general situation and guessed the most possible options!

"The probability of experience is 20 percent, and the probability of the soul is 80 percent!"

When Rod came up with the two most likely options, he felt that his face was definitely not very good-looking.

After all, Rhodes himself still retains a certain amount of discipline and immortality, and if he kills the opponent in battle, it will be fine, and even the opponent's soul will be sucked up, which sounds a bit like a magic weapon or something.

"Cut! If you can help me survive well, even evil magic weapons will have to be used!" But soon, when Rod remembered his current situation and the situation in the world in which he lived, he lost the psychological cleanliness of some resistance in his heart.

After all, in this magical world full of dangers and all kinds of strong people, the so-called magic weapons that absorb people's souls may not be able to help Rhodes live better!

As for the so-called festival? Well, in the event of death or some other danger, Rhodes decisively discarded the thing!

"Doesn't seem to have changed? Do you want to be filled with golden light? or some other condition"

However, when Rode, who had discarded his bottom line, tested the situation of the translucent ball, he found that the translucent ball with a little more golden light still did not move, and he couldn't help but think with a little headache.

Now Rhodes is finally sure that there is something worse in this world than crossing without a gold finger, that is, after crossing over, he finally found that the gold finger has changed, but it still hasn't started! And what makes people absolutely sore and tight is that the real method of starting this translucent ball is Rode's own guess, and he is completely unsure that this is the truth!

"Anyway, give me an explanation" This is the truest thought in Rod's heart!