220. The first day in the Knight Academy
When tidying up the terrace, Surdak found that the terrace of this dormitory was connected to the terrace of the dormitory next door, but a low wall was built to divide the terrace in two, and a few wooden railings were simply erected on the low wall, and the terrace of the dormitory next door was full of lush flower pots, and there were some small items such as underwear and white socks hanging on the clothesline, it seemed that the dormitory next door should be a women's dormitory.
After the terrace was cleaned, a chair was moved out and placed on the terrace, standing on the terrace just enough to see the main school building and the playground shaded by the plane trees, at this time there were some energetic teenagers running in the playground, they wore wooden swords on their waists, and they used to hold the hilt of the sword with one hand when running, so as not to scratch others, and some people were doing offensive and defensive exercises with each other.
The afterglow of the setting sun paved the entire academy with a layer of gold, and even the mountains and forests in the distance seemed to have a layer of gold.
The senior cadet knights on the knight training ground were still lined up, holding large wooden guns in their hands, charging at the straw men at the end of the field.
After dinner, Surdak returned to his dormitory, sat alone on a chair on the terrace, and took out the Roman sword with a blade that had cracked like a saw, which was a gap that had been knocked out by the double-edged broadsword during the battle with the Scarlet Knight, and some of the gaps were even cracked, and the Roman sword had no repair value, and Surdak decided to find time to go to the blacksmith shop and buy a new knight's sword.
Roman swords were short swords used by hoplites, and knightly sabers and elven swords were more convenient for knights. Accordingly, Surdak was more accustomed to sword and shield foot combat, and felt constrained when riding on a horse.
The whetstone in his hand is still a gift from the merchant Larkin at the beginning, the palm-sized whetstone has been sharpened into a groove that conforms to the Roman sword blade, the whetstone rubs on the blade to make a clattering sound, the blade is sharpened and then backlit with an oil stone, and finally the daily maintenance of the long sword is completed by applying a layer of animal fat.
Then, Surdak took out the blue skinned iris shield that had accompanied him for nearly three months, but the main skeleton of this iris shield and the front of the shield had been cut apart by the double-edged broadsword of the Scarlet Knight, and it was obvious that this shield that was strong against demons on the battlefield was also abolished by the Scarlet Knight in battle. Surdak also had his own ideas for buying a new shield, the iris shield was still a bit too light for him, maybe the heavier dwarven chain shield would suit him.
It wasn't until it was almost dark, and the night watchmen had begun to light the street lamps, that the students on campus returned to their dormitories, and as the dormitory lights came on, the night soaked into the campus silently.
The sound of footsteps and girls chattering came from the hallway, as if there were still people frolicking as they walked.
The lights next door were lit, and the corridor was quieter at this time, and Surdak put the worn-out iris shield on the wall of the terrace, and heard a crisp and pleasant voice from the dormitory next door: "Linna, there is still a basic training class tomorrow!" The last time I ran and I felt like my bowels were about to break, and I had to find a way to escape, and if I continued like this, I felt like I was going crazy. ”
"Forget it, what can we do?" Another girl, Linna, said coquettishly.
Surdak could even feel the girl's sigh.
"What do you think of faking your illness?" The crisp and pleasant voice continued.
Linna's voice came again: "Last time Wood was found pretending to be sick, do you know how he got over this month?" ”
"......" The crisp and pleasant voice did not speak.
Lina said: "Every day before dawn, I have to go to the playground to run laps, and the whole person has lost a lot of weight. ”
The room in the dormitory was quiet, and there was a small sound of chattering in the middle of the night, as if she was changing clothes, and then the door of the next terrace was suddenly pushed open, and a little girl in a nightdress walked to the terrace, and reached out to get the little clothes on the clothesline on the terrace, but suddenly saw a chair on the terrace next door, and a person sat there quietly in the twilight, which startled the little girl.
Her face turned a little pale, but she didn't scream, but put her hands on her chest, looked over carefully, and after seeing the side face of Surdak with vicissitudes or scars, she asked with some disbelief: "You...... New to the instructor? ”
This question made her look a little embarrassed, how could an instructor live in a student dormitory, which was only separated by a wall from it was a series of townhouses, and the accommodation there was many times better than here.
Surdak didn't expect the little girl next door to be so bold that she would take the initiative to talk to her, so he turned his head and said to her, "No, I'm here for class." ”
Through the wooden grille, Surdak saw clearly that there was a blonde girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old with unusually fair skin, her big blue eyes fell on Surdak's knight badge, and the last trace of panic in her eyes disappeared without a trace, and she smiled sweetly at Surdak and said, "Hi, new classmate, hello!" My name is Lina. ”
As he spoke, another short-haired girl from the terrace of the dormitory next door looked over, and the girl named Lina introduced to Surdak, "This is my roommate Nedra, and we are second-year probationary knights...... Shouldn't you be studying Year 2 as well? ”
In fact, Surdak didn't know how he was going to study, after all, he was only going to be trained for six months in the Knight Academy, probably not like the way these young students were taught, so he said, "I'm not sure yet, probably!" ”
"I know, a knight like you, there are ...... in our academy every year," Lina said with a smile.
However, it was clear that she was not going to talk to Surdak about it, so she just nodded to him and pushed her roommate into the dormitory.
The wooden door to the patio slammed shut.
The next morning, Surdak was on the balcony practicing sword swinging, slashing, and parrying, a habit he had developed during his time at the tree camp, and he got up early every day to do these basic trainings.
With each swing, Surdak was meticulous.
In the morning of the city of Highlandza, the mountains, the fields, and the streets and alleys of the city are filled with morning mist, and a ray of sunlight shines into the city through the morning mist.
The door to the next terrace was pushed open, and the short-haired girl named Nedra was bouncing up to the balcony to water a few flower pots, and when she turned around with a watering can, she happened to see Surdak doing a slashing motion.
With pale blue eyes and wheat-colored skin, Nedra asked Surdak with some curiosity, "Do you have to practice these basic movements every day?" The instructor also asked us to sit every morning to practice some basic movements, but no one wanted to get up early......"
Surdak said, "Did I wake you up by practicing here?" Sorry, I should have practiced in the garden downstairs in my dorm. ”
Nedra quickly shook her head vigorously and said, "No! ”
She just thinks that the practice of this basic movement is really unnecessary, such a simple action, the worst students in the class also did it very standard in the first grade, after all, this is the content of the final assessment of the first grade, only those untalented trainee knights will have nothing to practice, she Neidra belongs to the quite talented trainee female knights, every time the instructor teaches some new techniques in the class, she is the first group of people who can master the skills.
Surdak nodded politely to his new neighbor, and once again swung his Roman sword earnestly, meticulously with each blow.
While Nedra and Lena were washing up in their dormitory room, they heard someone shouting to Surdak from downstairs in the dormitory, "Knight Surdak, have you had breakfast?" Do you want to go together......"
Standing under the grape trellises, Assistant Teacher Paplo looked very energetic as he looked at Surdak on the terrace with his head tilted back to greet Surdak on the terrace, wearing a white linen shirt and sheepskin waistcoat, breeches and a rapier at his waist.
Surdak propped his hands on the terrace, poked his head out and said to Assistant Coach Paplo, "Okay, come down right away." ”
Assistant Teacher Paplo stood downstairs waiting for Surdak, and when he saw him walking out of the dormitory door quickly, he led him to a path in the dormitory garden, and said with a smile: "The breakfast in the college cafeteria is still quite rich, but if you want to eat the most popular honey bread and milk oatmeal porridge here, you have to order it again, and not every breakfast can be sold until the end......"
Nedra stood on the terrace and happened to see Assistant Coach Paplo smiling and introducing some details of life in the academy to Surdak, and couldn't help but say in his heart: "Sycophant Bapro, Sycophant Baprolo......"
Of course, Assistant Coach Paplo couldn't hear the inner slander of the trainee knight on the terrace, and he took advantage of the morning time to take Surdak around the cafeteria, and the two of them bought the honey bread that Assistant Paplo highly recommended, which was rolled like a sheep's horn shape, and baked out full of milky and honey sweetness, and looked quite attractive in color.
In fact, Surdak doesn't like sweets very much, instead of eating this, it is better to sell a crispy scone and tear it up and soak it in the broth, all kinds of food in the college cafeteria are basically sold for a few copper plates, and if you want to eat a full meal here, you don't need to spend much.
Assistant Coach Paplo's somewhat rounded face clearly had a double chin, and a honey loaf of bread was casually pinched in his hand and stuffed into his mouth, followed by a large gulp of hot oatmeal porridge, which could swallow the food in his mouth with a grunt.
After two mouthfuls, Assistant Coach Paplo swallowed the food in front of him, and then he took out his handkerchief and wiped his mouth before saying: "Knight Surdak, you just participated in the plane war, I think you probably don't need to take the basic training course and physical training course in the academy again, although you need to major in the second-year course, in fact, you can also use the vacated class time to learn the history of the country and knightly etiquette, history and culture, moral beliefs, astronomy, geography, mathematics, during the six-month commission training period, You need to complete at least three years of other apprentice knight courses, and you need to pass the pass to successfully get the knight certificate, I think if it is not necessary, you can also just take the final exam, as long as you pass the test, you will get the corresponding credits......"
“……”
Surdak just listened to it and felt a little big, so many subjects have to pass the exam and pass in half a year, it seems that this knight certificate is not as easy as imagined, and he originally planned to enter the knight academy, that is, to systematically learn some knight combat skills and riding skills......
Seeing that Surdak was very talkative, Paplo quickly took out more than a dozen class schedules from his coat pocket, which were the schedules of each grade in the academy.
Assistant Teacher Paplo first found out the curriculum of the eleventh class of the second year from these schedules, and then took out a carving knife in his hand, crossed out all the physical training classes on the curriculum, so that the blank spaces were exposed on the curriculum, and then skillfully took out the curriculum of other grades and put them below, so that new courses would appear in those blank spaces......
The proportion of cultural courses in the Knight Academy in Hylanza City was already a bit small, until the entire curriculum was filled with cultural classes, and the cultural subjects that Surdak asked to study actually covered a huge part of the subjects in the first to third grades.
This series of operations also made Surdak dizzy.
In fact, the exams for each subject in the junior knight academy are not as strict as Assistant Teacher Paplo said, Assistant Teacher Paplo arranged so many subjects for Surdak to study, just worried that he was usually too idle and would stir up the Knight Academy, this kind of thing has not happened before, in the end, the knight who was commissioned to train withdrew after six months with his deep background, leaving a lot of mess and the academy being responsible for wiping his ass, that is the worst.
Then Baplo took Surdak directly to the bottom of the notice board in the main teaching building, where the corresponding courses were written, Surdak's courses ran through the three grades, if you couldn't figure out the location of the class, in the end, Assistant Teacher Paplo's thoughts would be in vain, so Assistant Teacher Baplo patiently explained to Surdak for nearly a morning.
In the end, he personally led Surdak to find the instructor in charge of the eleventh class of the second year, Migno, and handed Surdak into the hands of the Migno instructor, which was considered to have completely completed his mission, watching Surdak be taken into the classroom by the Milono instructor with a dead face, and arranged in the corner of the classroom under the gaze of a group of young trainee knights, he was relieved and hurried to the registration office to resume his life.
And this Milono instructor also thought that Surdak was a relative of a certain nobleman in Highlandsa City, and probably came to mix the knight credentials, so he didn't care about arranging the seats at will, and even omitted the self-introduction link.