Chapter 15: The Battle Song of the Northland
"Side Quest: Learn Basic Swordsmanship!
Mission Description: The host's strength is really pitiful, so you won't die under assassination in the future, hurry up and strengthen your strength!
Mission time: 1 month!
Task Reward: The reward will be determined based on the evaluation of the host task completion!
Penalty for failure: 120 points!
I've got a total of 121 points left! Jason thinks this evil system just doesn't want to have any points left!
"Your Excellency wants to learn swordsmanship?" Lancelot repeated with some uncertainty.
"That's right!" Jason took a deep breath and swallowed back the mouthful of old blood in his chest!
"But......," Lancelot said.
"I know I can't awaken supernatural powers, but I have to have some self-preservation, right?" Jason knew what he was trying to say.
"I see!" replied Lancelot solemnly.
"But during this period of learning swordsmanship, I hope you don't slack off!
"I'm ready!" Jason nodded.
"Then swing the sword a thousand times first!" Lancelot handed over a practice wooden sword, made of dark wood unique to the Northland, with a hard texture, suitable for novices to practice!
...... "Can I regret it?" Jason is holding a somewhat heavy black wood sword and wants to cry without tears, can he still write a plan tonight after swinging the sword?
I'm still a kid!
At least this sixteen-year-old body is still a child!
But Lancelot said that Jason's worries were completely unnecessary, because he had a way to relieve physical fatigue and eliminate swelling, and it would definitely not affect Jason's evening work!
And the hunters of the Iron Tooth Collar have special useful trauma medicine at home, and the local medicinal herbs are soaked out, which can definitely eliminate Jason's worries!
In the past few days, Jason has spent his life practicing swords during the day and working at night, and his slightly swollen arms make the little fox girl a little unbearable, so he doesn't look at him for the past two days!
Soon more than half a month passed, during this time Lancelot has been training Jason in a different way, and Jason has cooperated with him without complaint, his swordsmanship talent is very high, Lancelot bluntly said that he is more suitable to be a warrior!
Does that mean I'm not fit to be a lord?
The basic swordsmanship had been learned, but the system did not prompt him to complete the task, which made Jason a little uneasy.
There have also been a lot of things that have happened during this time that he feels very gratified!
Alexis had sensed his transcendent seed, which made Jason's eyes red for a long time!
The "Wasteland Reclamation Order" was also successfully promulgated with the continuous improvement of Jason and Mayor Dia, and most of the unemployed homeless people in the town went out to reclaim the wasteland.
It also successfully attracted a group of homeless people from nearby territories to enter the Iron Fang Territory, but the drawbacks also appeared at the same time, some rogues and slave traders wandered here, which brought a very bad impact on the security of the Iron Fang Territory!
And then there's the Ice Fields Expedition set off today! The first pioneers of the Northland Ice Fields! Jason needs to feed them, and then go out with the army to suppress the bandits at Lancelot's request!
In his words, if you don't experience life and death fighting, you will never be able to learn true swordsmanship!
Lancelot said that there are no moves to speak of in battle, and defeating the opponent with the most effective attack is the real swordsmanship! So the basic swordsmanship that Jason has been practicing during this time is just that Lancelot seems to be useless for killing the enemy!
Jason felt that after he started learning swords, he didn't feel like a noble lord! more like a soldier! He trained against Alexis and Lancelot every day, and he was beaten badly every day!
Yes, he can't beat Alexis, he can't beat an eleven-year-old girl!
Every time Alexis will use a short time to knock Jason down with the most direct moves, she is not the usual little sister who likes to eat sweets and likes to pester Jason to listen to stories after she has entered the combat state!
Lancelot said she had an innate instinct for fighting! He was happy with his students!
The town square was filled with townspeople, including Jason and Mayor Mare, as well as an expedition to the Northland Ice Fields!
Their family members arranged their clothes for them with red eyes, blessed each other, and said their final goodbyes, and some couldn't help crying, after all, they might never come back!
"You are the heroes of the Iron Fangs! No matter what the outcome of this expedition is!I hope you all come back alive!Come back intact!" Jason said, holding a glass of wine, looking at the fifty big men in front of him.
"A toast to you, Ironfangs!"
"Roar!" everyone roared, and dried the ale in their hands in one go!
"Out!!" Dorne bowed to Jason, then turned and yelled!
Everyone turned and walked out of town, where they had their companion on this mission, the Northland Malamute, which could be used as both a sled dog and a hunting dog, a must-have companion for every Northland hunter!
"We are the men of the Northland!
We are invincible!
Our blood is boiling hot!
We are descendants of the god of winter!
We travel through jungles and ice fields!
Babbitt explores the way for us!
Rockfellow is watching us!
We dare to fight the giant bear!
We dare to confront the wolves!
The storm sings a war song for us!
......”
Everyone watched the expedition roaring war songs from the north leaving, just like the ancestors chanting war songs to open up a land for survival in this bitter cold northland!
"My long-dry heart is starting to burn!" said Lancelot movingly.
He seemed to see the scene before the former king went on the expedition, as if he saw the blood-boiling and invincible army!
"If there is an army formed by the Northland boys, this momentum alone will definitely make the enemy fearful!" he sighed.
Jason was also enthusiastic, and his eyes lit up when he heard this, maybe he could form an army formed entirely by the Northland boys without foreign mercenaries to protect the Iron Fang...... But this idea was immediately ruled out, the population of the Iron Fang Collar is too small, and there are so many young and middle-aged people, what if all the troops join the other production of the territory?
"What do their war songs mean?" Jason couldn't help but ask Mayor Dia beside him curiously, such as "Babbitt" and "Rockfellow" in it, he had never heard of it before!
"It's a war song left by the ancestors, they were the first inhabitants of the Northlands, much older than the kingdom ruled here!" Dia calmed down the sadness in her heart and spoke.
"Babbitt refers to the pet of the god of winter, and legend has it that he was the first falcon to fly in the sky of the Northland!" Jason knew that the god of winter was a god believed in by the people of the Northland, and was called the god of hunting by the hunters of the Northland!
Many people in this world believe in gods, but they have never seen gods appear to them, except for the sun god enshrined by the Holy See!
"Rockefirau is talking about the elf in the mountains and forests of the Northland, a legendary giant blue bear! Legend has it that it is more than ten meters tall and is the elf who guards the mountain forest! This is also the reason why the people of the Northland don't cut down trees!" Dia noticed Jason's expression on his face listening to the story, and immediately shook his head with a wry smile.
There is also a small mountain forest behind the Iron Tooth Collar, and you can only reach the ice field through here!
"Don't believe these legends of the Northland, Babbitt has never appeared, but the giant bear Rockfellow is real!"
"Oh, let's talk!" Jason was instantly interested, and was the first to walk towards the town hall, which was once Sir Och's house!
"Hunters in the Northland have a tradition of praying to Rockefeller for care before going into the mountains and forests, and many hunters have received Rockfellow's favor and rescue!" Dia followed.
"Asking for help?" asked Jason.
"That's right, the animals in the mountains and forests are too small, so the hunters have to go through the mountains and forests to hunt mammoths on the outskirts of the Northland ice field!
"It's a tradition now!"