Chapter 3: The Shadow Panther
The early morning sun illuminates the entire castle, and the castle shows its huge stature in the sunlight, which is already huge compared to the castle of knights of the same rank, and it took the first Baron Bennett ten years to build this castle. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Due to the incompetence of some of the heirs in the following generations, Bennett's title was lost, and only one knighthood was retained, which made Bennett Knight chagrined whenever he talked about it.
The biggest regret of the Bennett knight is that he did not get enough combat merits, in the war with the orcs, although the Bennett knight was brave and tenacious, but still did not accumulate enough combat merits in exchange for the title.
Therefore, Knight Bennett's dedication to the education of children, especially the eldest son Zack, as long as Zack can become a knight before the age of thirty, then the inheritance of this castle is guaranteed, and the next thing is to see how hard Zack can work and whether he can improve his title.
Knight Bennett has no requirements for his younger son, originally planned to find someone to teach him some arithmetic when his younger son was young, and then help him find a better job in the city, but the younger son chose the path of a knight, which made the Bennett knight a little uneasy, the younger son chose this road is more difficult to walk than his brother, because there is no castle of his own, no own war horses and armor, the younger son will become a wandering knight in the future, a profession that is not recognized by the nobles, and slowly earn some money to buy his own war horses and armor by fighting outside, it is good to settle down before the age of forty, and most of these wandering knights will fall on the roadγ
"You've made the cut?"
The Bennett knight in the training ground was a little surprised to find that his second son Abel had successfully promoted to become a first-class trainee knight after two months of training, you must know that it took him four months to advance, and his eldest son Zach took four and a half months, but his youngest son, who did not pay attention to it the most, only took two months to become a first-class trainee knight without the resources to pay attention.
"Yes, Father, I made the cut last night. β
Zach stepped forward and hugged Abel, and the tall Zach directly picked up Abel, spun around in the air, and laughed and shouted, "My dearest brother, you are such a genius." β
In Abel's constant struggle, Zach put down Abel, he patted Abel on the shoulder hard, and said affirmatively: "You are a genius." β
And the Bennett knight shook his head slightly with some joy and some sadness, sighed and said, "It's a pity, it's a pity. β
If Abel is his eldest son, or if the income of the knight can be higher, then he will definitely do his best to train Abel, but the current situation is like this, it is not easy to ensure Zack's training with all his might, let alone Abel.
Yesterday I got the Heradic Block, although there is no way to use the town teleportation scroll, but the Heradic Block as an artifact is not an ordinary thing, after waking up in the morning, Abel has been recalling the formula of the Heradic Block, and there are not many formulas that he can use now, so today I want to go to the town to see what will help me.
"Father, I want to go to Fort Lee today. Abel did not hesitate, and directly asked his father, this is the characteristic of the knight family, if there is anything to ask directly, there is no need to beat around the bush, Abel was not used to it at the beginning, but now he has completely adapted to this way of speaking.
"Well, you've just been promoted, so don't train today, it's better to go to town for a walk. β
Zach said on the side, "I'll help you lead the horse." β
As he spoke, he ran to the stable, found a horse, helped Abel buckle the saddle, helped Abel to get on the horse, and secretly stuffed him with a gold coin.
Knight Bennett saw everything in his eyes, and did not say anything, but the comfort on his face was overflowing, knowing that countless brothers of noble families killed each other, this brotherhood is precious.
In addition to the war horse, the other horses are called horses, because the war horses eat special oats and soybeans, and they need 10 gold coins of feed every month.
The colt that Abel rode was a two-year-old pony, and although it was a colt, it was also a breed of war horse in the family, but it was only unable to feed it that it became a colt.
Abel rode a horse, followed by a servant Norman wearing leather armor and carrying a long sword, Norman did not ride a horse, but just ran behind the horse, fortunately this is a small horse, the speed of the horse is not fast, plus it is a pony, Norman is not hard to run.
Norman is a veteran brought back from the battlefield by the Bennett Knights, and after returning from the battlefield, he followed the Bennett Knights and settled down in Bennett Castle along with his family, which is also an attitude of the nobles towards the Servants, that is, to make the Servants grateful to the nobles, and to fundamentally ensure the loyalty of the Servants.
Norman swordsmanship is outstanding, relying on the warrior secret skills provided by Knight Bennett to become a sixth-level warrior, although there is no stunt, but relying on superb swordsmanship, the combat power is also very powerful, so when Abel goes out, Knight Bennett always reassures Norman to accompany him.
The young master stopped. β
Norman had drawn his sword from behind his back and held it in his hand, his eyes fixed on the woods beside the road. It's half an hour from the castle and half an hour from the town of Lieburg, and it's impossible to turn to either side if something happens to the location.
Abel grabbed the colt, pulled out the iron dagger from his waist, and asked softly, "What did you find?"
Abel was much taller than Norman on the horse, but he looked closely and found nothing, and when he was strange, a black shadow came out of the woods with a roar, and Abel saw clearly that it was a shadow leopard.
The speed of the shadow leopard was too fast, and he ran to the horse in a few steps, and bit the horse's neck, this horse is the offspring of the war horse, at this critical moment, the horse neighed, jumped back, just let the shadow leopard bite this must be bitten.
Norman had already rushed forward, his sword slashing forward, a screeching sound in the air, and the sword had slashed towards the Shadow Panther. The Shadow Leopard is not an ordinary leopard, it generally does not appear during the day, and still appears on the road, its favorite is to hide in the shadows, waiting for the prey to pass by, bite off the neck of the prey, today this situation is estimated to be this Shadow Leopard is too hungry, forced to rush out of the forest to find prey.
The Shadow Leopard's speed was too fast, and every blow of Norman was dodged by the Shadow Leopard, and the Shadow Leopard's attacks didn't do much, and the experienced Norman was always able to successfully block the Shadow Leopard's attacks with his broadsword.
Able jumped off his horse and slowly approached the battlefield, the Shadow Leopard didn't care about the dwarf human, experience told it that as long as it knocked down the sword-wielding human in front of it, then there would be enough food.
Instead of entering the battlefield immediately, Able just slowly looked around the battlefield for an opportunity, and entering the battlefield at this time would only add trouble to Norman, and for the Shadow Leopard, the weak dwarf human, even with all his strength, could not break through its fur.
At this time, Norman's first contact with the Shadow Leopard began, and Norman's long sword slashed at the back of the Shadow Leopard, which was originally intended to be a sword to the neck, but with a twist of the Shadow Leopard, it gave way to the vital point. The Shadow Leopard's tail twitched into Norman's leg, and Norman's face showed a painful expression, and his backward steps staggered a little from the leg injury.
At this moment, Abel took a deep breath, and a powerful force poured out from the qi vein, this is a way for the trainee knight to overdraw his body, only the power of one blow, a large amount of qi in the qi vein is converted into power in an instant, if there is a second blow, then the qi vein is broken out of control.
It was said that it was too late and that was fast, the moment the Shadow Leopard was in the sword and threw out its tail, the body had a pause in the air, this is the opportunity that Abel had been waiting for for a long time, his foot stepped on the ground, and the person had already rushed out, and the Shadow Leopard in the air also saw Abel's figure, but although the injury just now was not fatal, it also affected its activities, Abel's dagger stretched out behind the Shadow Leopard and inserted it through its back door.
"Oh~~" The Shadow Leopard screamed, and at this time, Able had already released the dagger in his hand, and the person had already stepped back, and then a black tail swept in front of Abel.
Norman limped behind Abel with his wounds, and the shadow leopard was already rolling on the ground, its cries getting quieter and quieter, and slowly ceasing to move.
Abel was about to step forward to check, but Norman grabbed Abel and said, "Be careful. After saying that, he took off the scabbard from his back and threw it at the Shadow Leopard, and at the moment when he was about to hit the Shadow Leopard, the Shadow Leopard suddenly stretched out his claws, grabbed at the scabbard, and there was no more sound.
Norman stepped forward to pick up the scabbard from the ground, looked at the paw prints on it and said to Abel, "Young Master, many beasts have the habit of striking a final blow. β
Then he lifted the corpse of the Shadow Leopard from the ground, looked at the wound in the back door, and took out the dagger from the wound while saying with a smile: "This was killed by the young master, what did the young master say to deal with?"
"Let's take it to town and sell it. β
Abel looked at Norman's leg again and said, "Then you ride your horse and put the Shadow Leopard on it." β
Norman was not polite, for him, his life was the Bennett family, the injury did not affect the hurry, the best way was to ride a horse himself.