Genossis and Blake studied hard under the tutelage of Field and Thompson.

The knight's cultivation method is not the same as that of the magician, the magician simply cultivates spiritual power, while the knight not only cultivates spiritual power, but also integrates the light element absorbed during meditation into the elemental runes through the spiritual power that is cultivated, and turns it into light magic to form a reserve.

However, the spiritual power of a mage is very demanding, so it is much more difficult than a knight's cultivation.

The two, like many apprentice knights, worked hard to cultivate and study in the Coniferous Fortress.

When not practicing, Field would arrange for the Cadet Knights to patrol the outside of the fortress. But usually this kind of just let them go outside for a walk, don't be bored in the fortress all day, after all, their strength is too low. A group of little guys of the first order, in the face of war, are nothing.

Whenever a knight has improved his cultivation by one star, he will always feel that the runes in the spiritual aperture have a sense of exhilaration, as if they have been broken but re-condensed, becoming bigger and more light and magical.

Inside the Genosis dormitory.

"Strange, what's ......?"

While meditating, Genesis guided the light element according to the usual method, but he found that there was no spiritual aperture under his lower abdomen, and there were no spiritual runes.

"What's going on?" Blake asked, seeing that Geneross had a slightly bad face.

"Where does your spiritual rune fit in the sense of your spiritual power?" asked Genesis a little helplessly.

Blake was stunned, apparently he already knew what Genosis was wondering about. Blake looked a little reserved, first ran to the door and opened the door to see if anyone was eavesdropping outside, and then slammed the door shut.

"Huh?" Generosis had rarely seen Blake so cautious. It made him feel a little curious.

"You, take off your shirt first!" Blake said.

"Uh......" Genosis looked at Blake with a strange expression.

Genosis took off his shirt, it was summer, and he wouldn't feel cold if he didn't wear it.

Blake carefully reminisced about a long time ago. Then, on his back, the appearance of the seraphim rune was roughly drawn.

At first, when Blake's fingers touched Generos's back, Generosis felt that his body was cold, as if someone had put a knife on his neck, but Geneross forcibly suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and his mental power followed the position and direction of Blake's fingers, sensing the existence of runes.

“...... Pregnant...... But ......" Genesis closed his eyes and sank.

As Blake finished drawing the runes with his fingers, Genosis suddenly opened his eyes and said breathlessly, "Ah, how can this be?"

"What's going on?" Blake asked curiously.

"I don't think my mental strength seems to be strong enough to drive that rune...... First of all, and the strangest thing is, why is my knight's light elemental rune on the back?

Blake couldn't help but laugh and said, "When you completed your awakening, the runes behind you glowed! When I completed your awakening, didn't the little spiritual aperture under my navel also glow?"

"It seems so. Genosis' face was a little ugly: "But...... It's different from what the book and the instructor said. Moreover, my runes are like a very heavy thing, and it is difficult for me to drive them with my spiritual power. How do you feel?"

"My feelings, my feelings, just like the instructor said, my soul and runes are integrated, and I can use spiritual power to drive runes at will, and then drive the light magic in the spiritual aperture. ”

Genosis frowned slightly, clearly not understanding why he was so strange.

"I don't know. Blake nodded helplessly.

Genosis had a strange heart: (Souls and runes are one?, it seems; but how...... Uh, it's like your arms are too heavy to lift yourself?)

However, shaking his head and no longer thinking about the superfluous, Genesis hurriedly cultivated and injected the light element absorbed by meditation into the runes.

But what is very strange is that this Seraphim rune is like a bottomless pit, no matter how hard Genesis has injected light elements into it during this time, although it can be converted into magic power, its own mana value does not seem to rise.

After a while, Generosis gave up continuing his cultivation and was about to get ready for bed, but found that:

"Whew-"

Blake exhaled a faint breath of heat and said with a smile: "I finally experienced the thrill of ascending to the stars!"

"The thrill of ascending to the stars?" asked Genosis.

"Yes," Blake said, getting up and doing stretching exercises, "the spirit rune, after being injected with enough light elements, will be like a campfire thrown in too much firewood, burning more and more, and finally this furnace can not hold so many flames, it is forcibly propped up, and this furnace in my mouth is the rune, he seems to be bursting, but immediately regained its shape...... Huh?"

In Blake's psychic induction, there seemed to be something more to the runes.

"It turns out that after the ascension, the runes will become more complicated......" Blake muttered.

"What do you mean?" asked Genossis curiously.

"That is, the runes in the original sense are like a magic array, but after the ascension of the star, this magic array is gradually perfected, and a spell appears on it, which is what it means. ”

(Oh?!) Genosis thought about it carefully: (Could it be that my runes were already in a more perfect state from the beginning, so with my current strength, even if I put too much light element, I can't cause an ascension?)

It has to be said that Genosis is smart and has the right idea. However, he didn't know that his spiritual power was already very strong inherently, but it was still difficult to fully drive his Seraphim rune.

Genosis thought for a moment: In this case, he didn't know how far he had cultivated.

However, there is a strength test every month, so you will know if you test it at that time.

..................

One morning, after the group had finished running, Field arranged for them to go through a sparring between the Judge Knights and the Guardian Knights.

In the territory of the Angelian Empire, the ratio of Guardian Knights to Judgment Knights is generally one to five. In other words, in other academies, this kind of confrontational practice between a judge knight and a guardian knight is not at all.

It is very rare to cultivate and study in a frontier fortress.

"Guys, I'm back. Veltis suddenly ran out of the elevator. But after a period of cultivation, all the trainee knight trainees no longer made a fuss about unexpected events, and even if Vertis came, they would ignore him, but continued to practice confrontational exercises on their own.

Field hurriedly saluted the knight towards the elevator.

"It seems that the training during this period of time has been very effective. Veltis said as he looked at the cadet knights in armor and in a ball.

"Although these young people are from noble backgrounds, they have strong personalities and are malleable. Field came to Veltis's side, looked at the cadet knights he trained, and said.

"Report!"

A herald hussar ran up the stairs beside him, looking covered in sweat, as if there was something urgent to convey.

Say. ”

The herald pressed his face close to Veltis' face and whispered, "Your Highness Viltis...... About six days earlier, a young man had fainted in the plain thirty miles southeast of the fortress, and had been spotted by a light knight who had gone out on patrol and brought him back. Now he woke up, but he claimed to be the prince of the Benlei Empire, and his subordinates and others didn't believe it, so his subordinates put him aside, and when he heard that His Royal Highness Viltis had returned, he asked His Highness Viltis to ......"

"Oh?" said Veltis's concentration.

"Generosis, Blake, you two come with me. Hurry up. Veltis shouted at the two men on the rooftop square, and the two hurriedly took off their armor, and they hurried towards this place covered in sweat.

"Take the elevator. ”

Veltis, Genossis, Blake, and the knight who had just given the order entered the elevator.

None of the trainee knights in the drill looked at the elevator, but continued their confrontational practice.

The speed of the elevator was not comparable to running the stairs, and after a while, the four of them arrived on the R3 floor, which is the second floor at the bottom of the fortress.

The R3 floor is already underground, and there seems to be an unusually hot aura emanating from underground, probably because of the magic array that absorbs the energy of the underground volcano.

It turns out that there are stairs between this R floor, but there is no staircase between the R floor and the L floor, that is, if you want to enter the R floor, you must use the elevator, but Genosis has discovered during this time that these elevators need special cards to drive, so the R floor is in the taiga fortress, which can be described as a secret existence.

Although it is dark in the R3 floor, because of the underground volcano, the temperature here is a little higher than the above, and it is not ventilated, although people will not feel too uncomfortable in it, but they always feel stuffy, and it is summer, even Genesis feels a little angry in his heart that he doesn't know where to come from.

There is a row of dormitories on the R3 floor, which is more of a cell than a dormitory.

"Crunch!"

The knight of the guard saw Virtis coming and opened the door to a cell.

"Uncle Viltis!"

“？？？？？”

Hearing the young man's shout, everyone, including the knight on guard and the light knight of the herald, was full of doubts.

"Roy!"

Vertis was slightly excited.

Roy didn't have shackles on his body, so he hurriedly got up and said with a look of grievance but actually anger: "Uncle, mother...... Mommy she ......"

"Jacqueline, what's wrong with her......" Veltis asked in a somewhat solemn tone.

"Don't, kid, don't cry! Don't cry! Do you want to see other people's jokes?"

Watching Roy's speech gradually become slurred and choked, Veltis knew that something was not going well.

"Woo...... Dad, I don't know which guy I listened to talking nonsense, saying that I wasn't his own...... Said my mom betrayed him...... Then put the ...... Send someone to kill your mother!"