The town of Woma is located in the southwest of the Mayan country, the town is not big, there are four or five hundred households, the center of the town is a crossroads that communicates north and south, there are taverns, inns, grocery stores, and blacksmith shops, compared to the rest of the town, this is obviously the most lively place, merchants and mercenaries from the north and south will rest in the tavern, will replenish a little supplies and utensils in the grocery store, will repair weapons in the blacksmith shop, of course, if it is late, they will also rest in the hotel for the night, although the conditions of the hotel are not very good.

Seth lived in a house on the east side of Woma Town, near the edge of the city, and at a very young age he wandered here, where he was taken in by a kind old man in the town, who died when he was twelve.

The old man has no family, and he has no relatives, in Seth's impression, he is quite gentle, and he speaks slowly and logically, although he has a long scar on his face, which looks a little hideous, but in fact, the old man is very popular in the town, almost never blushing with anyone, nor has he quarreled with anyone, this popularity, so that the people in the town, after the old man passed away, more or less extended a helping hand to Seth, who became an orphan again.

The old man treats Seth very well, but what he remembers most is his madness when he gets drunk and the 'abuse' he does not take for less than three hours a day.

The old man was not an alcoholic, but every year when the full moon came in August, his face would become gloomy, and on the day of the full moon, he would definitely buy a few catties of ale wine and come back, and he would not eat dinner, but began to drink, and drank until the moontop treetops, and began to become abnormal.

He stared at the moon, he would look at it for a long time, and when he finished drinking, he would stand up, point at the moon and scold angrily with a syllable that Seth didn't understand, what he scolded, Seth couldn't figure it out, the old man looked scary, and he was very excited, but he wouldn't vent these emotional things on Seth, but for a child, the usually kind 'grandpa' suddenly became a vicious appearance, causing psychological fear It is a matter of course.

When Seth was a little older, when the day came, he sensibly ran far away, leaving the old man alone to vent his emotions.

As for the 'abuse' of three hours a day, after Seth became a little sensible, he knew that it was actually the old man who was helping him to train his body, to put it simply, to lay the foundation of his body for practicing martial arts.

But......

Although there are no famous samurai in Woma Town, there is a mercenary group in the town itself, and some mercenaries often gather here or pass by, and Seth has also seen their cultivation of martial arts, holding long swords or scimitars in their hands, wielding them in the wind, or running or jumping with some heavy objects on their bodies, and practicing until they are sweating profusely and exhausted.

And the three hours a day that the old man arranged for Seth, although there are also weight-bearing piles and the like, only occupy less than an hour, and the rest of the boring things, such as staring at things for a long time with wide eyes and not allowing blinking, and sitting and breathing according to the breathing method he taught, will take up most of the remaining time-what kind of cultivation is this? Isn't cultivation holding a weapon and slashing until you force out your potential? What can you cultivate just by sitting?

Every few days, the old man soaked him in a black liquid that stinked like excrement in the toilet, the first time he was still young, wow wow crying, but the old man mercilessly threw him in it, and gradually grew up knowing that he couldn't resist the old man, and he didn't bother to resist.

He was suspicious that soaking in the liquid might be the old man's bad taste.

Fortunately, these are not completely useless, at least, his body has always been very good, he has never been sick, although his body does not look very strong, but his strength is much greater than that of his peers, and even the strength of some ordinary adults may not be able to surpass him.

Now Seth is fourteen years old, only a year away from the coming-of-age ceremony, and when he reaches the age of fifteen, he is an adult, what the old man left him is the dilapidated house, some books in the house, and nothing else, in the two years since the old man died, Seth doesn't know what psychology, still according to the old man's three-hour daily 'cultivation', but that black liquid he somehow got it, naturally he no longer let himself suffer that sin- Of course, even if he knew, he didn't want to continue to suffer.

As for some of the strange things that the old man usually said by chance, Seth couldn't figure it out, and he didn't want to waste his brain thinking about it, anyway, the old guy was dead, wasn't he?

......

In his dilapidated house, Seth sorted out the longbow, an ordinary longbow, which he had bought for ten copper plates in the town, and the arrows were homemade, and he could make a longbow from the feathers of birds and hard bamboo branches, and if he wanted to be sharper, he could add a little sharp metal to the tip of the arrow.

After arranging the longbow and arrows, and putting two short daggers at his waist, Seth stood up and prepared to go out, and he would go out every day to walk around the town to see if there was anyone in need, and in one of the old man's words, he worked for a short time, and if there was nothing to do, he went out of the city to try his luck and see if he could get some prey.

He seldom practiced the bow and arrow, but his archery skills were good, and in general, as long as he saw small beasts or birds, almost could not escape the palm of his hand, and some of the prey was kept for his own consumption, and some were sold to the town in exchange for some copper plates.

He was about to push open the door when suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside, followed by a loud shout: "Seth, Seth......"

The door opened, revealing a ...... Oh, and if you had to describe the man in front of him in one sentence, you could use the phrase 'the stripped monkey', in a word, this man is ugly, has big eyes, looks a little weird, has a thin body, and has a short head, but he is Seth's best friend in the town.

Barton, the grandson of Uncle Martin in the blacksmith shop in Wolmar Town, has almost the same background as Seth, his father is a mercenary and did not come back during a mission, his mother disappeared without a trace after his father died, Barton grew up with Uncle Martin since he was a child, although he has an ugly appearance, but he has a loyal personality and is still a good person.

As soon as Barton entered the door, he panted and said, "Seth, the mercenary group is back, they are back, and they are back with some demonic beasts that they have never seen...... Of course, someone was hurt, but thankfully, no one died, and that's simply the best news of all these days......"

The mercenary group he said is the 'eternal' mercenary group that is stationed in Woma Town, this mercenary group is actually a mercenary group spontaneously organized by the people in the town, but in the eyes of the young people, the people in the mercenary group are all heroes with bold and powerful personalities, and they are also the objects of their envy, although in reality, there are only some low-level samurai in this mercenary group, and even more than half of them, not even samurai, relying only on physical fitness, but this does not hinder the aspirations of the teenagers.

Barton's father was a member of this mercenary group, when he was a child, Seth's wish was to enter this mercenary group in the future, but the old man who adopted him scoffed at this, as if he looked down on this mercenary group, Seth had secretly guessed that this old guy was probably also a mercenary, otherwise how did the scar on his face come from?

As for why he looked down on this mercenary group, Seth couldn't guess, one day the old man whispered, which he happened to hear, and this sentence was like this: "A group of farmers, thinking that they are mercenaries with weapons?"

Seth didn't quite agree with this sentence, although some of the people in the mercenary group were indeed farmers, and they participated in mercenary tasks in their spare time to obtain some benefits, but after all, there were real samurai in the mercenary group, such as the head of the regiment, Aragorn, who was a junior samurai, and it was said that he had reached the level of a third-level samurai, and he only needed to go one step further to reach an intermediate samurai, and his strength was the highest in the entire Woma Town or the entire mercenary group.

Although the old man did not look down on this mercenary group, from the head of the regiment to Aragorn, he had great respect for the old man, and every time he came back, he would bring some rare prey to the door, and then talk to the old man for a long time.

After the old man's death, the people in the mercenary group also helped Seth a lot, I don't know if it was in the face of the old man, or because Seth was more sensible, for the people in this mercenary group, Seth still liked it, he had already made a decision, and after his coming-of-age ceremony, he would apply to the head of Aragorn to join the mercenary group.

Hearing Barton say that the mercenary group had returned, he was also happy, opened the door and ran out.

Barton shouted from behind, "Hey, wait for me, Seth, you...... You're running so fast, who can keep up with ......" just shouted such a sentence, and Seth's figure had disappeared around the corner.