Over the next few days, Ryan cut back on some of his workout time and spent time making molds for iron rods.

The materials used to make cooling molten iron molds in this world are completely different from those in Ryan's previous life.

This world uses a tree trunk called fir wood as a material, and takes advantage of the low temperature of fir wood and the ability to easily absorb heat, splitting the fir wood in half, digging out the shape of the instrument in the trunk, and then putting it together to become a cooling mold.

Ryan took a lot of time to make the cooling mold for the iron rod, because the iron rod was too long, and besides, the round groove was really difficult to grasp when dug up, and it needed to be scraped slowly with a small knife.

A few days later, Ryan, who had made the cooling mold, with the help of Moya's father, forged the iron embryo of the iron rod.

The stick, which looked extremely rough and embarrassing, finally formed a veritable iron rod after more than ten days of forging by Ryan, although it did not look very good.

Ryan held this iron rod weighing forty or fifty pounds, and couldn't help but be arrogant, and he couldn't wait to find someone to try it out immediately, to try the power of the iron rod.

When the iron rod is held in one hand, Ryan will feel a little heavy, even if he has a lot of strength. But when the iron rod is played, it is always played with both hands, and when it is played smoothly, it can be used to exert force, so that the force used is less.

"It's been a good day." Ryan couldn't help but sigh.

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Months have passed, and it has been more than five months since Ryan came into this world.

Ryan played with an iron rod and played with a majestic appearance, which made Ryan feel confident and wanted to compete with some junior swordsmen. If you add that in the process of playing sticks, kick your legs from time to time to sneak attack the other party, which is even more powerful and unguardable.

However, in the last few days, Ryan has found that the number of equipment to be beaten is increasing day by day, and the time spent on striking iron every day has gradually increased. This made Ryan, who was very leisurely before, a little unaccustomed, after all, the leisurely days used to be very comfortable, and he naturally felt unaccustomed to doing more work all at once. Ryan was a little worried that he would work more and more in the future, so much that he didn't even have time to exercise on his own.

One day after striking the iron, Ryan couldn't help but express this doubt and asked Moya's father: "Dad, why is the business so good recently?" There is a lot more iron to beat than before. ”

Hearing Ryan's words, Daddy Moya looked at Ryan in surprise, and then said slowly, "Don't you know? In a little more than a month, the annual mercenary tournament will begin. At this time of year, it's the peak season for those mercenaries to buy weapons. ”

"Ahh I know. I can't think of it for a while. Ryan pulled out the memories of this mercenary tournament from his memory, and then said, "Daddy Moya, the workload has increased recently, you need to give me a more salary." ”

"Okay, okay." Daddy Moya's appearance of flesh pain made Ryan a little funny.

Speaking of this mercenary tournament, it is a major feature of Kata City, a mercenary city.

Mercenary tournaments are organized by the Mercenary Guild. The Mercenary Association, as a huge group dedicated to issuing tasks for the majority of mercenaries, is not satisfied with just collecting task commissions as a means of making money, so the Mercenary Association has thought of many ways to increase income. For example, the Mercenary Tournament is a means of making money that the Mercenary Association has come up with.

It should be said that Mercenary Tournament can be regarded as a well-promoted event. Every year, there are many mercenaries in the Duchy of Pouls, attracted by the huge prize money, and they come to Kata City to participate in the tournament. At the same time, some nobles, merchants and commoners of the Duchy of Pools will also come to Kata City to watch the game.

The flow of people from various cities in the Duchy of Pools has made the Mercenary Association a lot of money. The full ticket fees and the bets that make the audience go crazy are all means for the mercenary association to make money. Of course, in addition to making money, the Mercenary Association is even more famous, which can be described as both fame and fortune.

During this period, not only did the Mercenary Association make a lot of money, but the Mercenary Tournament also drove business from all walks of life in Kata City to flourish.

Ryan flipped through his memory and found that the rules of the Mercenary Tournament were very simple, as long as he was a registered mercenary of the Mercenary Association, he could sign up for it after paying the registration fee of 5 silver coins.

After that, in the tournament, you will get a corresponding bonus for each game you win. As the game increases, the more games you win, the more money you win.

Finally, if you get the 1st place, you can get a prize of 1000 coins, as for the 2nd place, you will get a prize of 500 coins, the 3rd place will have a prize of 300 coins, the 4th place will have a prize of 100 coins, and so on. And so on.

The low threshold for registration and the high bonus attract countless mercenaries to sign up. Of course, it's basically down-and-out mercenaries, junior intermediate mercenaries, and a handful of high-level swordsman mercenaries.

After all, a competition of this level really can't attract very powerful high-level swordsmen to sign up. Because 1,000 gold coins may be a lot of money for a junior intermediate swordsman mercenary, but in the eyes of some very powerful senior swordsmen, it is just equivalent to the reward of a big task. Moreover, even if some high-ranking swordsmen with status wanted to participate in the competition, they could not afford to lose this face to participate. Think about it, when have you ever seen an adult compete at the junior level?

Although there are many people who sign up for the mercenary competition, the number of high-level swordsmen is still relatively small, most of them are junior and intermediate swordsmen, and even a large number of them are swordsman apprentices who want to fight their luck.

Last year's Ryan, for example, had the cheekiness to sign up. As a result, in the first match, he encountered an agile level 1 swordsman. At the beginning of the game, Ryan forced the opponent off the stage two or three times. This made Ryan lose the registration fee of 5 silver coins in vain, and it was really painful for a while.

This year's Mercenary Tournament is about to start again, and if it was Ryan in the past, I guess I wouldn't have the courage to sign up again. But in the current Ruian, there has been a earth-shaking change, not only the body and soul have been replaced by another person, but after more than half a year of physical training, there has been a fundamental change in strength.

When Ryan heard the news of the Mercenary Tournament, his heart immediately warmed. Coupled with the fact that Ryan is so short of money right now, he can't help but look forward to the prize money when he thinks that every game he wins. In addition, Ryan, who has greatly increased his strength, is very eager to find a place to test his strength, and the Mercenary Tournament provides this opportunity for Ryan to test his level.

So, after thinking about it for a moment, Ryan made up his mind that he must sign up for the Mercenary Tournament.

Still, Ryan has some concerns. The mercenaries who signed up for the competition were basically swordsmen of the level 1 swordsman or above, and from the perspective of the level of fighting spirit, Ryan, who did not know how to fight and could not even reach the level 1 swordsman, really couldn't compare with them. Of course, if you think about it in other ways, Ryan is confident that he will not be much worse than them. It's just that Ryan, who hasn't competed with anyone yet, can't help but feel a little uneasy in his heart.

"It seems that we have to think of some ways to increase our chances of winning." Ryan still cares more about winning or losing, after all, winning or losing is related to the amount of prize money.

"In what way? In my memory, I can't think of any good way in this world, and it seems that I can only think of some ways from the memories of my previous life. ”

"What is my advantage right now?" Ryan goes with the flow of past life summaries.

"The body is strong, the strength is strong, and after this period of exercise, the speed is relatively fast."

"In terms of martial arts, it is a little leg technique, and a set of stick techniques, which are not available in this world, if you are surprised, it is estimated that the mercenaries at the junior swordsman level will not be able to parry, and if you are above the intermediate swordsman, it is difficult to say."

"In terms of weapons, there is only this iron rod, an iron rod weighing forty or fifty pounds, which is heavier than the heavy sword weighing thirty or forty pounds in this world, it should be very powerful, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for anyone to parry it if it is smashed down with a stick. Other weapons and armor are gone. ”

"It seems that we have to think of a way to deal with weapons and armor." Ryan finally came to a conclusion.