On February 18, 1344 in the continental calendar, the week-long conscription of reserve knights ended.

The permanent population of Marco Town is about 100,000, and the number of children aged 6 who can pass the physical examination of the reserve cavalry is very small, probably only 12. However, there were as many as 17 children sent by the nobles, and of course these 17 people did not include Genosis and Blake, because they were not "of the right age".

The cultivation of the reserve cavalry is divided into two stages.

In the first stage, between the ages of 6 and 12, in addition to completing the normal basic education, you must also be able to complete the knightly awakening. The knight's awakening, that is, the condensation of the spirit rune is completed, the strength is one order and one star. At the same time, the knight title is: Trainee Knight.

In the second stage, it is necessary to go to the Knight Academy, between the ages of 12 and 18, complete secondary education, and have at least the second level of strength. At this time, an assessment is also required, and after successfully passing the assessment, you will receive the title: "Canonized Knight"

That is, from the moment he was called a canonized knight, he was considered a member of the nobility of the imperial kingdom. Of course, the nobles are naturally divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the canonized knights are the last.

Generally, an ordinary town youth league department can receive about 30 school-age children every year, 6-year-olds are divided into one-year classes, 7-year-old two-year classes, and so on, because different age groups need to learn different content.

In addition, all fees are provided by the Imperial Kingdom, and there is no need to provide additional tuition. The cost of food is included in the fee provided by the Imperial Kingdom here, but if you want to add an extra meal, the additional cost is not provided. The amount of each meal in the Knights Department will be relatively controlled.

And Genosis and Geraint are over 6 years old, so where did Vertis put them?

Cultivate alone.

Because, the plans that Viltis made for the two of them were all out of specification, or rather, these two people were not suitable for any year class in any way. Vertis had a very tight plan for the two: in the first year, complete the knight's awakening. In the second year, he passed the examination of canonized knights.

Doing what someone else did in 12 years in two years sounds like a fantasy.

Of course, some gifted apprentice knights have completed the canonization of knights at the age of 16, but most of these apprentice knights are from noble backgrounds. There is a resource gap.

In the morning, Viltis said, "Everyone else has already tried the talent test, so let's try it too." ”

"What is a talent test?" Blake asked, curiously.

"Well, it's the physical examination that was carried out when the cavalry was normally prepared for conscription. Actually, one purpose is to check physical fitness, and the other is to check the affinity of the body itself for the element of light. ”

"There is generally no problem with physical fitness, but the light elemental affinity has brushed a lot of people down at once. Do you remember how our knights cultivated? ”

Veltis always likes to ask Blake questions, because Blake is a kid who often only has chicken legs in his head. Where did Blake know, because he was a foodie and only knew how to eat chicken legs, and later everyone gave him a nickname, just chicken legs.

After a period of habit, or rather the high-pressure adjustment of Viltis's education, Blake is no longer as sluggish as he used to be. After thinking for a moment, Blake replied: "We absorb the light element into the body by spiritual power, and then store it and condense it into the light element spirit rune, and at the same time, these light elements can strengthen our physical fitness. ”

Viltis nodded, as if to signal that Blake's chicken leg was saved tonight.

"So, the purpose of checking the affinity of the light element is as simple as that. If you don't even have the affinity of the body for the light element, then how can you become a knight?

(What about Dark Knight Geraint?...... Although he muttered in his heart, Genosis did not dare to say it.

"Of course, if the affinity of the light element is good, but the physical fitness is too weak to withstand the strengthening of the light element on the body, we will recommend you to study in the priest's church. Vertis added.

"From today onwards, you don't just have to run 400 meters, you run 1,600 meters at the pace of 400 meters every time it's time to run. ”

Genossis and Black didn't understand what that meant. When they started running 1,600 meters on the first day, they couldn't run until they reached 800 meters. I can only drag my legs and walk slowly.

As they dragged their legs for 1,200 meters, Veltis turned to them and asked:

"Do you know why that's happening?"

Veltis stood by and watched his training, and before they could answer, Viltis said lightly, "It's simple, because you eat fat." ”

Now Genosis and Blake are heavier than before they came, and the 400 meters are adapted, but if they have to run 1600 meters, the endurance will definitely not be able to keep up.

Actually, it's not just about endurance, it's about lung capacity.

For example, an adult man's normal weight lung capacity is about 4000, but an adult man who is very fat may have a lung capacity of 5000 or even 6000.

However, Veltis does not choose to let them directly bear weights, but first let them eat fat properly, and then increase the amount of running, because if you directly add weights, then it will cause damage to joints and bones, because weight is added in an instant, but eating fat is added day by day.

To put it bluntly, the body function has adapted to fat, but the lung capacity has not kept up.

In addition, one of the advantages of running after eating fat is that the energy is replenished, and there is no need to worry about slow progress due to lack of energy in the next training, otherwise, it will be very troublesome to need to adjust the diet additionally.

This is the accumulation of thick and thin hair.

"I don't care so much about you, I have to run 1,600 meters even if I jog today, otherwise I won't want to eat. ”

In fact, the planning tasks given by Virtis are not difficult, but are set more for the inertia of human character. The duo finished the 1,600-meter run and were out of breath because they had never tried to run for such a long time.

"Alright, that's it for this morning. Seeing the two out of breath, Viltis still didn't feel that the two of them were at their limit. "Hurry up and have lunch and continue to meet here in the afternoon. ”

After dinner, after a brief lunch break, Viltis asked the two to go for a run again.

"Ahh

Genosis shook his head and said, "No, it should be 400 meters, but it's better to ask Lord Vertis." ”

Vertis listened to the words of the two, and seeing this, Vertis said, "400 meters." But after the run, I'm going to teach you a few more movements. ”

In the same way that he chose to gain weight instead of using weight training, it is better to do it gradually, and Viltis has relaxed the requirements, in fact, any sudden and fast run of more than 3,500 meters without training can cause a more serious burden on the internal organs, which can cause damage. And the two of Geneosis train 400 meters every day, but in fact, the limit should be more than 4000 meters. I only ran two kilometers today.

This experience of Virtis is the result of a long period of cavalry training.

In fact, the biggest difference between a knight and an ordinary warrior is whether or not they can fight endurance. For a qualified knight, even if his mount is gone, he must be able to walk.

The next move is nothing too special, which is a weightless squat, and the important thing to pay attention to is to remember to cock your butt and keep your weight between your feet.

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In a week's time, the morning run went from 1,600 meters on the first day, to 200 meters a day, to 3,800 meters on the seventh day. Of course, in fact, there is no serious discomfort in the body function, the main thing is the inertia of the person itself, which leads to the inefficiency of running, and Generosis is okay, Blake is always looked at by Vertis with a kind of look that the chicken leg you don't stick to lunch is gone, so Blake has to stick to it.

Viltis had only one purpose in this week, and that was to adjust their physical fitness so that their bodies slowly began to be able to adapt to more and more intense workouts. Another purpose, naturally, has to do with knights.

Naturally, Veltis wanted to elevate the state of the two to the most suitable for the light magic awakening ritual.

The awakening of light magic power refers to the use of external forces, relying on the magic array, absorbing the light elements between heaven and earth, and then sending them into the body of the awakened person to form and condense the source of magic power, and people with strong spiritual power can roughly feel that this source of magic power is about an inch below the navel. This place an inch below the navel is known on this continent as the Spiritual Aperture.

The people on the Kainoran Continent call this condensed source of magic runes spiritual runes, and they don't know any dantian or anything, let alone meridians.

And before awakening, it is also necessary to test the affinity of the light element, which has been mentioned before.

Of course, Virtis adjusted his state in this way in order to better awaken, but he understood that in fact, this adjustment would affect the affinity of the light element to a certain extent.

Think about it, in the Angel Imperial Kingdom, the ratio of nobles to commoners is about 1:10, but in the selection of reserve cavalry, the reserve cavalry that nobles can choose is almost twice as large as that of civilians, an important reason is because the nobles have mastered this method to improve the affinity of the light element to a certain extent.

And it's actually not that hard.

The premise is that the affinity of the light element itself is not too bad. If the affinity of the light element is too poor and there is no one at all, it is useless to raise the external force.

Veltis himself has a very strong spiritual power, even if he doesn't rely on external means, he can roughly feel how strong a person's light elemental affinity can be, but it is not very accurate. Therefore, if you want to accurately test the affinity of light elements, you still need tools.

However, Viltis still needs to use tools to test the light elemental affinity of the two, because he needs to confirm something very special!