In the afternoon, Aaron and Lucian sat in the flag officer's office, and Lucian made a hot cup of coffee for his new apprentice: "Drink, tomorrow you will start training with the recruits." ”

"Recruits?" Aaron sat on the comfortable and soft sofa, and he drank a lot of wine at noon, he was a little dizzy, and a little excited.

"Well, Her Royal Highness the princess decreed, the Purple Dragon Knights will train two batches of knight recruits in the past two years, the first batch of knight recruits is recruited before the spring, and by the end of the autumn harvest, the time is about six or seven months, this batch of recruits is mainly a reserve knight recommended by small nobles, knights, churches and even craftsmen, manor owners, and wealthy merchants, just like Disma, he is still a trainee knight, and he doesn't even have the title of knight, only after passing the assessment can they become knights and obtain the title of knight."

"It means that they become nobles, little nobles."

Lucian sat behind the table with coffee in his hand: "The second batch of knight recruits are mainly professional soldiers who already have the title of knight, or the children of big nobles like you, whether you pass the assessment or not, you already have the title of knight or knighthood, and they will supervise the spring ploughing a little later before joining, which is also the assessment of the autumn harvest." ”

"The first and second batches of recruits are essentially the existence of two worlds, and for the former they are their only chance to step into the door of the nobility, the only chance in their lives, and the latter ...... Most of the children of the great nobles have taken this course. ”

"So I, who was supposed to join the second batch of recruits, became the first batch of recruits?" Aaron understood: "No wonder many of the recruits I saw today were from outside Susar. ”

"If this is what Her Royal Highness means, then we can only accept it." Lucian nodded, and the flag bearer said to Aaron: "The good news is that Aaron, Manuel has at least trained you at the most basic, the bad news is that we can't have a special training class because of you, you need to be with the first batch of recruits, you are a transfer student." ”

"I'm fine." Aaron replied in the affirmative.

"It's for the best." Lucian saw that Aaron showed great adaptability, and thought that he had been able to tie with Disma today, and there was nothing to say for a while, so the flag officer simply provoked a topic: "Now, in addition to you, you have also seen the other two trainee knights I brought, do you have anything to say about your two brothers?" ”

“…… I'm concerned about one thing, mentor, Ian ......" Aaron paused for a moment, and added in Lucian's stern gaze, "Why did the Grand Inspector General say that you are going to open an orphanage?" ”

"............" Lucian's expression suddenly darkened a lot, he touched his beard, and the strong and prosperous hero image in Aaron's impression also showed a little vicissitudes: "Renard Grosskreutz, my first apprentice knight, my first apprentice, his father is the famous Kevin Grosskreutz. ”

"Kevin Grosskreutz, nicknamed 'The Grand Cross,' was an outstanding paladin, and his mother was a beautiful young lady, and these two men were so beautiful and this marriage was so enviable."

"It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, I don't know why, the original couple who were so close finally chose to divorce, Kevin handed over the young Renard to me to take with me, and asked me to take him well, and Renard's mother committed suicide soon after, from that day on, Kevin fought every time he fought without fear of death, and finally died heroically in a pursuit of the Santalin Society, and Renard became an orphan."

“…… I've seen Renard, he's like a little sun. Aaron looked away and turned his attention to the portrait on the wall, which was Lucian holding Reynard, who was about ten years old, with Disma: "What about Disma?" ”

"Disma is an outcast I picked up next to Longhu." Lucian's eyes fell into memory, and the flag bearer smiled: "I don't know what happened that day, I just wanted to go to the Dragon Lake for a walk, but in the saddle vine on the beach, I saw a baby, he was still crying in swaddling clothes, I held him along the Dragon Lake for several hours, but I didn't find anyone, so I took him back to the Knights, and named him Disma, which means robber, after all, I may be a robber, this child was robbed by me." ”

"He's really like a robber, and he has a really bad temper." Aaron understood, and he complained directly: "You don't even have a surname, so you dare to pull the trigger on Lord Viscount?" That is, he is your adopted son, and if he is someone else, it is very likely that he will trouble him afterwards. ”

"Disma's strength has long passed the knight assessment." Speaking of this, Lucian also felt a headache: "Disma is only half of my adopted son, but he just doesn't want to give me the surname Buckman...... This is just a trivial matter, his strength is actually enough to pass the knight assessment, but he can never control his temper, he is unwilling to learn the etiquette of knights, he is really a saddle vine by the Dragon Lake, and his nature is barbaric and disorderly. ”

"I don't know what will happen to him if he goes on like this, I can feel that his desire to fight, his desire for martial arts trumps everything, and rules and order are inconvenient things to him......" Lucian didn't continue.

Before Aaron could reply, he heard hurried footsteps in the hallway.

"Stinky old man! You're talking badly about me again! ”

Bang~ The door was pushed open, and the angry Disma blushed: "Didn't I tell you, don't talk to others about me all day long?!" ”

"Huh~" Lucian grabbed the board on the table that was used to press the parchment, and with a flick of his big hand, the board hit Disma's head with great precision, knocking down the "robber" with one blow.

"He's your junior! I'm obligated to let him know about his seniors! The knight mentor's roar followed:

"Also, how many times have I said it! In the fortress of the Order, call me a position!! ”

————I'm going to call the dividing line of my position————

Early the next morning.

Aaron stood with a group of recruits, and on the wide training ground, the master of swordsmanship made the recruits stand in a semicircle and listen to him.

The spring sun was very comfortable, and after changing out of the tattered clothes from yesterday and handing them over to the Knights' logistics to repair, Aaron changed into a standard training uniform, a cotton-like armor made of coarser linen clothes that was layered and sewn together to cover the vital points from the shoulders to the knees, and was basically unbreakable.

Each man had a wooden sword, and the severe scratches on it indicated that the thing could break at any time.

Aaron noticed that his contemporaries were all scrappy, and that he was out of place.

There were nearly 20 of them, and since they were the first students, almost all of them were the sons of middle- and high-ranking bureaucrats, ordinary knights, high-ranking craftsmen, high-ranking priests, large merchants, manor owners or estate managers, and highly wealthy yeoman farmers.

They caught up with the good times - due to the Sage Hoambolism and the Goblin War, the kingdom suffered unimaginable losses, not only was Ahsan IV killed, but the Knights of the Purple Dragon were also half vacant.

The regent Alice Serre issued an edict to recruit knightly recruits from all over the country, so these "mud legs of the lower town" (Ian's language) were also given a valuable opportunity.

Cormier, who has now experienced the Sage Havoc and the Goblin Wars, has a total population of only 1.3 million people, half of what it was during the heyday of Kiasan IV's reign.

There should have been a total of 6,000 people in the whole Komir who had knighthoods, but now there are less than 4,000 people who actually hold knighthoods, and the Purple Dragon Knights should theoretically have 500-600 official knights, but now there are only 300 members.

This is a rare opportunity to rise! It's an opportunity that makes all the Clay Legs (Ian in the Ian language) of the kingdom jump for it!

The door to class ascent is rarely being opened to all the off-duty people in the kingdom!

In Cormier, in order to obtain the title of great nobility from baron and above, one must have the blood of great nobility, so it is very difficult to obtain a title from baron and above, and the knighthood can be granted to every commoner to wrap outsiders as a status symbol of low-level nobility.

However, this kind of thing is not so absolute, for example, as far as Aaron knows, there is a piece of land in the north of the kingdom, north of Arabell, and east of Tifanton, called "Rock Land", with an area of about 250,000 acres (acres) of sand, desert, and hills, and this area has been granted a charter by the regent, that is, any domestic or foreign adventurer who can conquer this land can obtain the title of "Rock Baron" granted by the royal family, hereditary replacement.

But no one wants to do that at all.

Because the rocks are home to tens of thousands of orcs, dozens of gnolls, hordes of human bandits, the stronghold of the famous evil organization Santarin, and many darker things lurking beneath the dunes.

In the same way, Cormier said the same thing about the Moon Sea region in the north, as long as you can conquer it, establish a stronghold, and gain the recognition of nearby powers after withstanding thousands of attacks, then the royal family will not be stingy with the title of great noble.

It's just that adventurers are not stupid, and for the vast majority of people, there is only one life.

The reward for the title of great nobility is indeed rich, but it also depends on whether you have the life to get it!

Now, the vast majority of people present (except Aaron) have the opportunity to obtain the title of knight and become one of the minor nobles of the kingdom, how can this not excite them, everyone's eyes seem to be glittered with a dazzling light, the light called hope, the light called ambition, the light called dream.

Aaron noticed that the nearly 20 midshipmen present were all men, and none of them were women.

This does not correspond to the fact that there are many strong women in the country, and as far as Aaron knows, there are also two percent of female knights in the Purple Dragon Knights.

But after thinking about it, Aaron also felt that this was normal, human males were born with advantages in strength and physique, and for these children of the petty nobles or wealthy burghers, if they could support one or two knight recruits who were out of production, they would definitely give preference to men.

The recruits of the Purple Dragon Knights are most welcome to the three professions of warrior, ranger, and paladin, and there will be a few wanderers, bards, and priests in special cases, while barbarians, who are too free and do not like discipline, are turned away, and in the same way, druids and warrior monks, who obey their own natural laws by choosing the path of faith, are higher than the rules of the Knights.

Mage? Warlock? They usually go to the War Mage Regiment as apprentices, and do not come to the Purple Dragon Knight for training.

Similarly, the Purple Dragon Knight also has requirements for factions, and the Purple Dragon Knight generally only accepts 4 factions: Orderly Kindness, Orderly Neutrality, Neutral Kindness, and Absolute Neutrality.

Aaron also participated in this test, and after being tested by the paladins within the Order, his camp is currently Neutral Good.

Interestingly, Aaron remembers that the first time he tested the camp was to be orderly and kind.

It seems that due to the awakening of his memories and the changes in the events he suffered, his camp has begun to shift.

One thing to remember here is that in the kingdom, it is never about what a person makes because of what side they are on, but about what they make and what they do to determine what side they belong to.

"Recruits!" The knight instructor appeared, he was holding a wooden sword in his hand, he was about thirty-six or seventeen years old, with a pair of blue eyes with deep sunken eye sockets, a deep forehead with a "three" character written on it, a high nose bridge, a slender mustache, and a black hair cut into a simple board inch: "Stand up!" ”

"I'm Instructor Simeone, and I'm the future knight brother of some of you, yes, only partially, because some of you will soon pack up and go home because you can't pass the exam!" Instructor Simeone slapped his palm with a wooden sword: "So, when you are still a recruit, you better call me an instructor, why wait until some of you have passed the test in the fall, you can call me brother, do you understand?" ”

"Got it!"

"No energy! Is this how you guys come to recruit training? Also, what do you call me?! ”

"Understood, instructor !!"

"Good! Just be so energetic! Instructor Simeone paced in front of the recruits: "I'm glad to see you here, you are all my Cormier's recruits, the future of my Purple Dragon Kingdom!" ”

"I see your desire to serve the Kingdom, and in the eyes of many of you, I see ambition, bigger, thicker, and more powerful ambition, and that's good, because without ambition you don't want to progress, and without ambition, you can't pass recruit training!"

"As you all know, this is a special time and the Kingdom needs you more than ever, so you are here, and I welcome you."

"I know that some of you have basic training, some of you have solved problems near the village, some of you have even killed a owl alone, you may be the hero of the village, the king of the neighborhood, but...... None of you are qualified recruits yet, and I cannot put the future of the kingdom in your hands. ”

"Therefore, today you will receive the first training, that is, to master the two most basic combat abilities of an apprentice-level warrior."

"Breath back, and the action is like a tide!"

Simeone clapped his hands and motioned for everyone to pay attention.

"It's a pity, except for a certain transfer student, all of you here today are warriors, none of you are spellcasters, and the basis for your ability to defeat the enemy is the iron in your hands and the blood on your bodies!"

"But the warrior does not mean that he has no chance of enjoying the blessings of magic, because in the realm, every stone, every straw, every breeze contains magic."

"In the same way, there is magic in your body, and with a lot of training and repeated muscle memory, a warrior can also use this power by activating the potential in his body to integrate magic into his body."

"This is the return of qi and the movement of the tide, the former can allow you to stimulate the body energy to recover from injuries in a short time, and the latter allows you to break through the limits of the body in a short period of time and attack continuously."

"Now, watch my demonstration and start practicing!"

Instructor Simeone demonstrated these two abilities, he cut open his palm, the power of the return qi caused the wound in his palm to heal instantly, he used a wooden sword to attack a straw man, and when he had already used up the strength of the straw man, he suddenly violated the mechanics of the human body to make up for the blow and knock the straw man flying.

He then taught the essentials of arm force, how to control and release the spirit within the body.

This kind of exercise is very hard for the vast majority of recruits, warriors are not spellcasters, they do not feel magic, they can only form muscle memory through thousands of exercises, to stimulate the energy in the body, to obtain these two abilities.

Except for one guy.

Just a minute after Instructor Simeone had demonstrated the two abilities, Aaron raised his hand.

"Instructor, I've mastered it."

“…………”