Chapter Seventy-One: Like a Fish in Water
Before dawn the next day, Xiuin left Fort Lysing early with the breakfast that Ianna had prepared last night.
Wastewater, a small town in the southern part of the Heider Dominion, was the first and most important stop on Shoin's departure, and that was where Hans's family lived.
Xiu Yin flipped through his memories and found that he really didn't know much about Hans, but fortunately, the four of them had been in contact for a short time before, and since he knew where Hans's family lived, it would be easy to do!
According to the only known information, a few years ago, Hans's father was assigned from the Knights of Bones to Wastewater as a guard due to his age, which is equivalent to the town's security captain.
However, Hans's father, who had some obsession with knights, thought that this incident was an insult to his knightly dignity, and since then he has been suffering from alcoholism, and every time Hans mentions his father, his face will unconsciously bring a trace of sadness.
Half a day's journey to the town of Wastewater, located in the south of the Haider Plain.
The name has the word "town" in it, but when Xiu got out of the carriage, he found that it was no different from a village, with a population of more than 2,000 people, half that of Fort Lyxing.
However, due to its more southerly location, Wastewater Town is even more depressed.
Fortunately, the people living in this land have not given up hope, although the clothes are not bright enough, but most of them are still working hard and struggling.
When some townspeople saw someone getting out of the carriage outside the town, dressed in good clothes, they knew that this person's identity would not be ordinary, so they looked here with more awe in their eyes.
If when he first arrived in the other world, Xiu Yin was still very satisfied with these gazes at him, but now, Xiu Yin no longer thinks so.
Looking at himself like this, Xiu Yin wanted to say that this was the sadness of being a nobleman.
"Hello, may I ask where Klopp's house is in the town?" asked Huin very softly about a big man who was chopping wood at the entrance of the town, Klopp was Hans's surname.
"Hey, this lord!" The big man who was chopping wood saw that there was a young man in front of him, but his clothes were obviously noble, and he immediately said very politely, "Klopp, Klopp's house is in that corner!"
"Uh-huh, thank you!"
Xiu Yin did not put on a noble stand, although he was indeed more noble than these people according to his identity, but Xiu Yin, who came from another highly developed world, was not interested in this set of things, and he did not enjoy any fun from others calling himself "Young Master" and "Childe", but the person who directly called himself "Xiu Yin" made Xiu Yin feel a little more close.
Walking along the town's path, which was narrower than Fort Lyxing, Xiuen finally reached a house in the corner of the town.
"Hans, Hans, I'm Huin!" Huin thought about it and decided that it would be more direct to shout and surprise Hans.
Sure enough, not long after the voice fell, the door of the house was immediately pushed open, and Hans's tall figure appeared in the courtyard, "Xiuin, my God, it's you!"
Hans was very pleased to lead Huin to his home, and Huin looked around the interior of Hans's house, compared to the baron's palace where he lived, Hans's home really felt a little unsightly.
"Father, it's the Neumann family's Huin here!" said Hans to his stunned and somewhat drunken father at the table.
There was some embarrassment on Hans's face, after all, this was the first time that Huin had come to his house.
"Neumann?" It was Hans's father who came to his senses, but Neumann's name surprised him a little, as if he remembered something.
"My father is Siuk Neumann. Xiu Yin added on the side, looking at Hans's father's age, he should be about the same age as his own father, Xiu Yin felt that he should know his father.
"Shuk Neumann?" Hans's father's face was slightly pensive at first, but then immediately shook his head again, "No, no, no, Neumann, and only Barack Neumann is a true hero!"
"Father, you've drunk too much again!" Hearing his father talking nonsense again, Hans looked embarrassed at Xiuyin, and then helped his father back inside first.
With Hans's support, Huin could still faintly hear his father talking about Barak Neumann, and it seemed to involve war.
When Hans sat back at the table, Huin asked, "Brother Hans, did your father fight in any war?"
Hearing this, Hans winked at Xiuin, who then stopped talking about it.
"By the way, Hans, how about becoming an official knight?" Xiu Yin felt that with Hans's strength, it should be possible, when he and Galio were in the martial arts arena, Hans's soul power was infinitely close to level 3.
"I've reached level 3 in my soul power, but I didn't expect to become an official knight, and I need to complete a lot of tasks in the Warrior Guild to achieve Xiangying's points!" Hans said, with some frustration on his face.
Xiu Yin didn't feel strange, and so did his Mage Guild, not to mention that he was the hottest knight in the continent right now.
The warrior guild originally did not have such a rank as "knight", the original knight was the lowest noble, but due to the need for some rewards after the war, "knight" was later awarded to warriors with military merits as a glorious title, but with the rise of the warrior guild, "knight" became a title in the warrior guild.
As for the statement that level 3 soul power is a formal knight, that is the traditional saying among nobles, to get the rank of knight in the warrior guild, of course, it will not only look at the physical strength to reach level 3.
"That's why I'm worried about this!" said Hans, who suddenly remembered that he hadn't poured a cup of hot water for Xiuin, and hurriedly prepared another cup of water.
After pouring water for Xiuin, Hans continued, "I took a brief look at the tasks of the Warriors' Guild and found that most of them require a team of many people to complete, and it is impossible for me to complete the task alone, and my father will not let me join the infantry regiment, let alone become a mercenary......"
Hans was a little depressed, for the path of the warrior was not smooth, and looking at the still wounded skin on his arms, Hun could guess how much Hans had suffered.
"That's why, Hans, I'm here for you!"
Feeling like a heavenly help, Xiu Yin sent a direct invitation to Hans to form a team with him.
Hans was of course excited when he heard it, he had already seen how good Xiuin's mage power was, and his identity was also a noble young master, although Hans was not the kind of person who tended to be inflammatory, but Xiuyin's condition was undoubtedly a big enough temptation for Hans.
"But......" Hans looked in the direction of the back room, his father had no one to take care of him when he left, and his mother left early, because his father had pulled him all these years......
Xiu Yin scratched his head, and then suddenly said loudly, "I swear by the glory of the Neumann family, Hans, you will never tarnish the name of the knight if you come with me!"
Huin's sudden words made Hans a little confused, but at this moment, the father in the house suddenly shouted-
"Except for Barak, the rest of the Neumann family are cowards!"
"Father!" said Hans, who hurried in to see his father, only to find him standing up, and standing there looking at him and Hune.
"The little imp of the Neumann family who saved the marquis, hehe......" Hans's father was full of wine, and he could barely stand by holding on to the door frame.
"Father!" Hans felt that his father had gone too far when he said this.
Xiuin stood up, and flipped his right hand upward—
Ooh!
There was no spell, and there was no time to cast the spell, and in an instant, a fireball burning with red flames floated in Xiuin's hand.
This made Hans's father slightly stunned, as if he had already woken up some of his wine.
Xiu Yin stared at Hans's father's eyes and said resolutely, "Your Excellency Klopp, I am only sixteen years old this year, and the Neumann family is not as good as it used to be, but I believe that with my hands, there is something else I can do!"
Hans's father's eyes suddenly became a little misty, and he suddenly felt that the person in his memory seemed to be standing in front of him again, Barak Neumann......
The fireball in Xiuin's hand immediately spread heat throughout the house, and Hans's father testified for a while before saying, "I don't know if it's the luck or misfortune of the Neumann family, Hans, if you want to go, go now, the person who hesitates is not a real knight!"
With that, Hans's father retreated to the back room and went to sleep.
After listening to his father's words, Hans did not hesitate any longer, his bags had already been packed, he untied the great sword from the wall and carried it behind him, and walked out with Xiuin.
When the room was quiet, Hans's father slowly stood up, looked through the window at the figures of the two who were leaving, and muttered, "The Neumann family has produced two talents at the same time......
The two got into the carriage that had been waiting outside the town, and Hans asked in amazement, "Where are we going next?"
"To the north, Wastestone Town!" Xiu Yin successfully won over Hans, and he was in a very happy mood, which meant that the plan in Xiu Yin's mind had been completed for more than half of it.
"Wastestone?!" Hans was stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted, "To Leona?"
Xiu Yin nodded, "Finally, go to Bones City to find Charlotte, so that we have a team of four!"
Hans was also very happy, although he had only known Xiu Yin and the three of them for less than a year, Hans felt that he could talk to them when they first met, especially Xiu Yin and Leo, who did not have half a point of noble and young posture, and Charlotte generously arranged for them to enjoy the food every time.
It takes more than half a day to travel from Wasteland Town to Wastestone Town, and after Wastestone Town, it is very close to Wasteland City.
In the carriage, Huin continued to ask Hans, "Do you know anything about the war that your father mentioned earlier?"