Early in the morning, after breakfast, Salian invited Anna to participate in cavalry training together, how could she not make good use of such a good sparring partner by her side. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the foot of the "Stlingenburg" mountain, there is a sunny slope, the terrain is open, the scenery is beautiful, and it is also an excellent training ground. At this time, the hillside is full of cornflowers and dandelions, and the castle looks like a beautiful bouquet of flowers from here. Salian and Anna rode their horses leisurely as they admired the beauty around them.

Although the atmosphere was relaxed, Salian was draped in according to the standards of war, wearing a modified second-generation Imperial plate armor, which became heavier and heavier as the power of the magic gun and various weapons increased, and his plate armor with a helmet weighed a full thirty kilograms, not counting the jacket lined with shock-absorbing jackets. His war horse was also equipped with a full set of metal horse armor, including horse face armor, horse neck armor, horse breastplate, horse belly armor and horse rump armor, which together weighed thirty kilograms. With this outfit, Salian reached the standard of a true armor ride.

In addition, his cuirass was equipped with a pistol mount, which absorbed the huge recoil generated by spear assaults. It is equipped with a 2.2 m long cavalry conical spear with a disc gauntlet. Of course, of all the equipment, only this spear is not used in combat, the tip of the spear is made of wood, and there are no spear wings.

After arriving at the destination, Salian let the horse run two laps in full armor, and tried his foot strength, and now with such heavy equipment, the requirements for war horses have also increased correspondingly, and now a cold-blooded war horse produced by the empire that can be used as a heavy knight's mount costs fifty to one hundred guilders, and the price of a majestic top-level war horse has even reached three hundred guilders, and there is no market. If there were no horse farms for their own use, the price would be ridiculously high for the average knight who now has no source of income other than land, not to mention the rising price of armor. The unaffordable cost of equipment is another reason why today's knights have become the tears of the times.

For a nobleman like Salian, who had a vast territory or a variety of incomes, armor and horses were a great burden. Then for the Celine Sfeister family, which is not good at management, the reality is even more cruel, so Anna doesn't even have a full set of plate armor, and the source of her current equipment, we have introduced it in the previous chapters. Thankfully, they don't have to worry about their mounts, Nightmare Beasts have some special connection to their family, and we'll have a chance to explain why. Salian looked at Anna's motley armor and felt how tempting it would be for this knightly beauty to have a well-fitting and delicate plate armor to match!

To improve the quality of her training, and to be fair, Anna didn't ride her Nightmare Beast, but instead rode the same cold-blooded warhorse that Salian gave her.

Preparing to stop, Salian and Anna were about fifty paces apart, facing each other according to the standards of a judicial duel. The moment a certain petal they had agreed in advance fell to the ground, the confrontation began, and whoever fell first would be considered a loser.

Charging with a spear was the basic skill of a heavily armed knight, a skill that could not be mastered without years of rigorous training, which led to a very high cost of training, and it was necessary to train various combat skills such as riding and riding from an early age, which was extremely difficult for non-hereditary professional soldiers to achieve. In the past, technology had not yet advanced, and fighting immediately had a great advantage, but now there are too many ways to defeat the enemy, resulting in the knight's cost performance becoming lower, and even more untrained, and perhaps it will be completely lost in the near future.

As soon as the battle began, Salian, who was proficient in various combat techniques, used the first form of the spear on his horse, that is, the "pig's tooth style" in which he held the spear in his right hand and lowered the tip between the spears to the lower left side of the horse, which was a trick to pretend to be a disadvantage. He relied on his skillful horse skills to lure Anna into attacking first. However, unlike the usual impression, Anna did not make a move without being sure, and appeared very cautious. Seeing this, Salian did not hesitate, and immediately raised his spear and stabbed it directly at Anna, and still stabbed the tip of the spear accurately into Anna's torso in a high-speed charge.

In this way, the two of them passed each other, and then Salian quickly turned his horse's head and rearranged his position to continue the charge, not wanting to give Anna any respite. He used his technical advantage to preemptively adjust the tip of the spear to attack, and Anna could only passively dodge or open the spear with her shield, swinging her spear sporadically to launch a counterattack against Salian, and she knew that she could only be patient and look for opportunities now.

Then the two went back and forth and fought for many rounds, and no one bargained. At this time, Sally thought that the battle should be ended while the horses could still stand it, and in any case, these two horses were his, and horses were more delicate than people in today's era, so he decided to use a trick.

Once again, Salian turned his horse's head and rushed towards Anna, and a normal knight feint at high speed was tantamount to suicide, but for the Thalian-controlled Terror Knight, it was their unique skill. After dodging Anna's swift blow along the line of attack, the spear in his hand struck out at a rapid pace, and the moment the tip of the spear was almost touching Anna's shield, it actually changed direction in an incredible way. With Anna's superhuman reflexes unable to respond, the tip of the spear slammed into the armor of her right arm. But the amazing thing is that although Anna was hit so directly, she only shook slightly, and she didn't even let go of the spear she held in her right hand.

And because she was hit once by Salian, Anna became extremely angry. As you can imagine, the extent of the subsequent violence of the matter is no longer to be made public. The contest ended with Salion's surrender, and his only consolation was that both horses were intact.

While Salian and Anna were having fun, Yulia and Hilda, who had no tasks, were doing unknown pharmacological experiments in a laboratory in the castle for Yulia. It just so happened that Hilda was very fond of pestering Yulia, and Yulia was very fond of this little girl, probably because she was often taken care of, and now there was finally someone for her to take care of.

In the apothecary's lab that Yulia had set up, Hilda and Yulia were talking around a huge boiler in the middle of the room that seemed to be the only one in the house of an evil witch, and Yulia was smirking as she stirred the contents of the boiler with a steel brazing.

"Auntie, as a pharmacist, how can you not even make this simplest beauty medicine that keeps you young forever!"

"Ahaha, we're ordinary humans, okay, I never thought about the things that legendary creatures like you dragons have mastered. Miss Hilda, oh no, Master, I've already put all these ingredients in as you asked, just wait until the liquid in the boiler turns from green to red, right?"

"Yes, but there is one point I forgot to tell you, because it is a recipe unique to our dragons, so it needs to be boiled like this for a hundred years before it changes color. Hilda said with a smile.

"W-what!" Hearing this, the steel drill in Yulia's hand instantly fell to the ground, and the man also knelt down weakly.

Hilda walked over and comforted Yulia, who was crying and muttering alone, and said, "This medicine may be a little difficult to get, but there is also a special one that makes those beauties ugly, and the aging medicine that I named it the Killer of Love Rivals is also made of these materials, it is this green liquid, and now it can be used directly in this state!"

"It turns out that the medicine I prepared is poison, but it's a pity that so many of my rare materials cost my brother a lot of pocket money for me. I have suffered unimaginably for this money, I was tied and stabbed with a lot of steel needles, and I poured a lot of water into my stomach in exchange for it!

"Gee, I seem to have heard something funny just now, and I'm going to have a chance to play these games with you with my dad in the future, hehe. Hilda whispered something, but Yulia was too sad to notice.

"Okay, okay, our dragons also have some potions for humans or goblins, such as secret elixirs that can modify physical attributes, improve magic affinity, or increase Mana's upper limit, which are very useful for you mages. ”

"Woo woo woo~"

And so the morning went by. After lunch, Anna rummaged through Salian's armory, who continued to work in her study. Hilda, on the other hand, laughs at Yulia's tears, and is teaching her a few "real" recipes that are easy to learn and use, but the real purpose behind them is to set the stage for even bigger pranks in the future.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the guards informed the Imperial Count of Echerin von Altmannshofen of a visit, and finally broke the silence of the castle. Salian immediately ordered the Count to be led to the parlor, and quickly sent for Anna to come with her to meet with Acherin.

The door to the parlor opened, and a man of great figure entered. This man has sharp eyes, red hair and purple eyes, and a thick beard, and looks much older than Salian, but is actually younger than Salian. Wearing a tight black jacket, he shows off his extremely developed muscles. This man was the Count of the Empire of Echerin von Altmannshofen, the westernmost lord of the Schwartenn region.

When he saw Anna in the living room, he was a little shocked and immediately walked towards her quickly, saluting and smiling and saying, "**** cousin Anna, I didn't expect you to be here!"

With the most haughty expression, Anna stretched out her hand to the young man. Due to a certain aristocratic marriage in the past, the Altmannshofen family is regarded as a collateral line of the Celine Sfilst family, so Echerin is considered Anna's cousin in terms of kinship.

After a respectful kiss, Asherin turned to Salion.

"Brother Sarian, do you have anything to eat today? Haha, I actually invited Cousin Anna, which makes me look forward to it even more, I know that her requirements are very high!"

"Yes, I recently went hunting in the Dark Forest, and I came across several rare monsters, and luckily they all ended up being our dinner today, so you should look forward to it, and these were captured by me and Anna. ”

As soon as Salian finished speaking, he noticed that these words had an excellent effect on Acherin's face, and the strong man's eyes were already full of little stars of anticipation.

Achelin was a terrifying knight of the same genre as Anna, and as a result, he had a good appetite, and his favorite game was all kinds of game besides good wine. Sometimes the lord of the empire's borders not only hunted in his own territory, but also secretly crossed the border to the lands of the kingdom of Franços in search of targets.

At that year's youth competition, Anna and Salian were the first and second runners-up, respectively, and Echelin was the third runner-up. Because he has known Anna since childhood and knows her strength, he admires Salian very much for being able to fight Anna for dozens of rounds before losing. They then became good friends, and not only did they often have fun together, but Salian also instructed Acheline in running his own territory, which helped him a lot in his mismanagement, so that his originally rich but still financially unfettered territory could turn a profit. From then on, Asherin became even more impressed with Salian, and he treated Salian, who was a few months older than him, as if he were his own brother, and followed Salian's advice in everything.

Salian went on to say to Achelin: "I also invited our good friend Mansel to dinner, and I have important news to announce at that time. ”

"I haven't seen that miser for a long time, I don't know if he has too much gold to put down, and I need to borrow him a box to put it, hahahaha!"