Section 33 New grouping system

The next morning's exercise

There is nothing wrong with Xu Yun, he has not participated in morning exercises since he entered the training class. It's the same today, I was caught by Clark early in the morning and was busy making breakfast.

Chopping wood, choosing vegetables, and handling ingredients, he is the only one busy today, and his usual two partners have never shown up, which can't help but make Xu Yun feel a little lonely.

There was no shuffling mouth from Shuma and Kerry's occasional complaints, and it was so quiet that people's hearts were empty.

Xu Yun was already familiar with the busy morning twist, and there was still time to go after all the preparations were completed, he approached the back kitchen and looked at Clarke, who was sitting at the door of the back kitchen and sharpened some kind of monster claws with a meat cleaver, it seemed that he was making some kind of special arrow cluster, the tip of the meat cleaver was wrapped in a layer of bright tulip gold, and when the blade was engraved, it would leave a little golden glimmer in the carving.

After Clark finished carving a delicate and intricate pattern, Xu Yun asked, "Superman Boss, why didn't you see Xiuma and Kerry this morning?" ”

Clark blew into the claws, blowing the carved debris away from the texture. Only then did he raise his head and glance at Xu Yun, and then took the Demonic Beast Claw in front of him and turned around, looking for the next place to drop the knife.

"Only then did you remember your two good brothers? If they knew, they wouldn't know how sad they would be. ”

Ahh

"After I came back yesterday, the chief instructor asked me to ask me alone, and when I came back, I didn't see the two of them in the dormitory, I thought they went out by themselves, and I was too tired, so I rested early." Xu Yun said.

"That's right, now that Leah approves of your claim, it's fine." Clark casually spun the beast's claws, carefully examining the original natural texture on the claws.

"What was your main mission to the ruins yesterday, do you remember?" He asked casually.

"Isn't it mining?"

"What should I do when I come back from mining?"

······ Xu Yun finally remembered what he had forgotten, and according to the way Clark and Sasria usually assigned tasks to the three of them, it was likely that when they returned, they would have the three of them smelt the ore that everyone had dug up into metal ingots.

The three of them had been doing this kind of work for the past few months, and now they were considered journeymen, and since their apprentices could smelt metal ingots, there was no reason to spend money on blacksmiths.

"Smelting ingots?"

Clark snorted from his nose somehow, and deliberately said in a pinched tone: "Originally, I wanted to teach some people how to mine usable rare ores from the original spar ore, but unfortunately, some people only care about going back to the nest to sleep, and they can only cheapen two little cubs with poor qualifications and smelly mouths~"

When Xu Yun heard this, he suddenly felt that he had lost a lot. Mining crystal ore and magic crystal ore from the original ore is a rare learning opportunity, and if you find the crystal ore according to the brush point in your memory in the future, wouldn't you be able to make a lot of money?

"That... What about the two of them? Xu Yun pressed the active thoughts in his heart and only showed concern for his companions.

"The task given to them last night was to smelt all the ore into metal ingots, and they were required to distinguish between black and white iron, and not to smelt and mix. I guess they were too late, and they were still asleep when I called you to help in the morning. Like a dead pig, I stood on the edge of the bed and pulled my ears and didn't wake up. ”

"It seems that I am still too merciful to you, if you encounter extreme situations on missions in the future, and sleep like a dead pig like this, then you will become a dead pig." Clark said, the cleaver in his hand pressed again, and the tip of the knife carved into a textured gap in the beast's claws.

"Go and reduce the heat of the porridge, take out the bread from the oven and slice it, and get it ready and call the cubs to eat." Clark commanded.

Xu Yun breathed a sigh of relief, Xiuma and Kerry were already very tired from walking back to Mondstadt yesterday with a cart of ore, and they hurried to complete all the ore smelting, this workload Xu Yun began to retreat just thinking about it. Poor Shuma and Kerry, may Wendy bless you.

Speaking of Wendy, Xu Yun hasn't gone to the angel's gift in the past few months, and I don't know if this unreliable wind god will complain that he forgot to invite him to drink.

Thoughts flowed through his mind, and he strode past Clark into the back kitchen, and as soon as he entered, he was almost overturned by the head-on heat wave in the kitchen.

It's hot in Mondstadt in August, and it's not uncommon to wake up even when you sleep in your dorm room at night, let alone cook in the back kitchen.

Before he could take a few steps, Xu Yun's forehead was already covered with beads of sweat the size of beans, and the beads of sweat flowed down the corners of his forehead and eyebrows, and some of them seeped into the corners of his eyes, causing his eyes to hurt, and tears unconsciously dazzled his eyes. Xu Yun found the sweat towel hanging on the wall on one side and hung it around his neck, pulled up a corner to wipe the sweat from the corners of his eyes, and got to work quickly.

It's not fast, it's too hot, this heat has nothing to do with the fire elemental resistance that has been exercised around the fire in the blacksmith's furnace, the steaming heat, the burning skin will blister,

'It's probably the kind of damage that evaporates the reaction, right?' Xu Yun is irresponsible.

In just ten minutes, the task assigned by Clark was completed, the meal for sixty people was prepared, the bread was put into the tray and placed on the dining room counter, and the wheat porridge, thick soup and eggs were sorted into iron buckets and put them out.

Clark's 'curly-tailed', chameleon lizards, dutifully hunt and prey on buzzing flies waiting for an opportunity to steal food. The flies in Mondstadt are huge, the smallest of them the size of an adult's tiny fingernails, but the 'curly-tailed' sticks out his tongue like electricity, and he eats a dozen of them without seeing the slightest change in his stomach.

Xu Yun had long suspected that it was actually a small alien beast, but the curly-tailed usually lay motionless in the place he thought was comfortable except for eating flies, and he really couldn't see anything else peculiar.

"Superman Boss, it's all done." Xu Yun wiped the sweat with a sweat towel, but the sweat towel was already soaked, and the sweat on his forehead seemed to be more than that, he pulled the sweat towel from his neck and twisted it on the side of the sewer, and the sweat flowed.

After working in the back kitchen for less than half an hour, my clothes were soaked and sticking to my body.

Clark carefully pushed the blade, and a piece of turquoise gold remained on the horn of the beast's claw, which had been completely carved into the shape of an arrow cluster, and the other two converged to form a complete carving, and the tulip gold lit up around the beast's claw and arrow cluster, rippling layers of elemental shimmer, and after a few seconds, it gradually converged, and the carved pattern no longer flashed, but turned into a beautiful golden line, as if it was a decorative pattern drawn on the arrow cluster with gold powder.

He nodded with satisfaction and threw the arrow cluster into the pocket of the apron on his chest, Xu Yun noticed that the small pocket on Clark's chest was weighing on the weight, and there were some bulging pockets, and there should have been three or four of the same arrow clusters in it.

"Alright, you go and ring the dinner bell, and then call Shuma and Kerry to get up and eat, even if you were a little tired yesterday, you should be almost restored from this sleep. How can you always sleep lazily at a young age? Young people should wake up early to rejuvenate the day. Eat more and work more to grow strong. ”

Xu Yun left as he said, while Clark took out a small sealed clay pot from the back kitchen cabinet, opened the lid, scooped out a spoonful of gray-brown powder and filled it into a small casserole stewed in the back kitchen. Sniffing the scent wafting from the casserole, he narrowed his eyes in fascination.

Looking at the direction in which the back was leaving, he paused, "Stinky boy... I'll give you a little more benefit at the end of the day. How can you call me boss, don't you? He scooped two spoonfuls of powder into the casserole like a painful one, and then quickly sealed the clay pot.

At this moment, Capuch Tail used a speed that Xu Yun had never seen before, pulled out the remnant of the Dao and ran to Clark, sticking out his tongue incessantly. The two big bubbling eyes are spinning up and down.

"You little glutton, with a nose as sharp as a dog. Is this mixture of the Arctic Core and the Flame of Flame more than you can handle? ”

Curly Tail still doesn't give up, but sticks out his tongue unrelentingly.

Clark smeared a little leaking powder from the edge of the lid of the clay pot, snapped his fingers to its tongue, and swallowed the curly-tailed tongue into his mouth, his big mouth and cheeks heaving, and in a few seconds, the two bubbling eyes rolled up, and his limbs fell to the ground. After a short while, a snot bubble blows out of the nostrils and becomes larger and smaller for a while as you inhale and exhale.

Clark put away the clay pot, turned around and saw Curly Tail lying asleep on the ground as if he was dead, shook his head and smiled, pinched its dorsal fin with two fingers, and lifted it up to the stump outside the kitchen where it used to sleep.

Xu Yun had already rang the bell for dinner, and the children in the morning training were in line with the instructor's orders. Clark wiped his hands with his apron and went to the restaurant counter, where he saw a few blue-green flies the size of his thumb covering them, eating on the freshly baked slices of bread, and hurriedly waved them away with his big hands in frustration.

Curly tail is slacking off, and he, the master, can only be on top.

Xu Yun went to the dormitory to call Xiuma and Kerry, at this time they got up nearly two hours later than usual to work, and the two of them had actually slept enough, but they didn't want to get up. Xiuma's mouth still counted Xu Yun running away by himself, not enough brothers.

Xu Yun had his own way to deal with the tricky Xiuma, he whispered a few words in his ear, Xiuma jumped up from the bed like a cat being stepped on by its tail, and his sleepiness was instantly swept away.

Of course, Kerry had to complain, but as soon as Xu Yun shouted to eat, he consciously got up. After all, after a night's sleep, my stomach is indeed hungry.

As usual, the three of them ate a small casserole stove outside the back kitchen, the contents of which were the same as usual, porridge soup stewed with Warcraft meat and oatmeal, accompanied by a whole toast, plus two eggs.

It's just that today's porridge soup seems to be a little special, and the taste is still the same, but the spicy taste in the mouth jumps more intensely on the tongue, and a trace of magical coldness pierces back and forth around the tongue like a needle prick.

"What kind of monster meat did Uncle Clark give us today? Why does it taste like this... Odd? Shuma stuck out her tongue and grabbed it with her hand, and her two eyeballs gathered into a cross-eye, looking at her tongue stretched by herself, to see if there was any bleeding. He always felt that there were needles piercing back and forth on his tongue, and it hurt badly.

Kerry looked at the porridge bowl in front of him with a depressed face, and stuck out his tongue to look at Xu Yun. In the morning, the two did not come to help, so they could only ask the parties.

"It's a normal Warcraft, well... Come to think of it, judging from the mane of its outer skin, it seems that today it is an ice peak boar. ”

"Ice Peak Wild Boar, no wonder, this head is not frozen in the ice for hundreds of years, the tongue pierced by the ice element hurts." Shuma ordered the porridge soup in the bowl with a spoon, took a hard bite of the bread and chewed it.

"If you can't eat it, the rest will be mine, I don't have a problem." Xu Yun gulped down the porridge soup, the feeling of the pain exploding on the tongue was a bit similar to pouring a sip of a cold carbonated drink that had just been twisted off the cap, but unfortunately the taste of the porridge soup could not be compared with the iced Coke at all, and it was still hot, which would not help relieve the heat of the summer, but the dry short sleeves that he had just changed when he went back to the dormitory had been soaked with sweat when he was eating.

"You dream, of course this kind of good thing should be divided equally." Shuma swallowed the bread in his mouth and said menacingly as he stared at the porridge soup in the bowl.

With a posture of looking at death, Shuma lifted the wooden bowl containing the porridge soup and poured it into his mouth with a big gulp.

After pouring five sips, he quickly stopped his mouth, put down the bowl, covered his mouth with his hand, his cheeks squirmed, and the Adam's apple, which had begun to take shape, moved up and down, and swallowed the porridge soup in his mouth.

Even if Xiuma's pain doesn't need to be told by him, Xu Yun and Kerry already understand it.

"I said if you don't do it, forget it, as for it? It hurts so much. Kerry sat down and comforted himself, taking a bite of bread and a spoonful of porridge and soup, although it did not seem easy, but he still firmly eliminated the food in the bowl.

Xu Yun drank the last bit of oat grains in the bowl, and filled another bowl for himself, before he could take a bite of bread.

Eating this porridge soup is indeed a bit of a carbonated drink at first, but after drinking, the feeling of being hot, spicy, icy and stinging is not easy for him, but we have an external plug-in, even if it is painful, the body will carry out the instructions given by the will.

And the Warcraft dishes cooked in Clark's small pot are all genuinely beneficial bonuses.

Several people have lived in the training class for most of the year, not to mention anything else, and their physical strength alone has surpassed that of most adults. The third-year apprentice had lost to Kerry in a wrist-wrestling competition, and Kerry wanted to show off about it, but was sternly warned by Sasria after learning about it, and forbade the three of them to participate in similar physical competitions.

On the surface, the clouds are light and the wind is light, but in fact the pain is unbearable, which is the true portrayal of Xu Yun at this time. We adults are forced to pretend to be able to get the benefits, and the pain can only be hidden and swallowed by ourselves.

After breakfast, they sorted out their housekeeping, and today Xu Yun and the three of them did not receive the task assigned by Sasria, but were asked to attend the morning assembly at eight o'clock.

Combined with what happened yesterday, the trio guessed that something unusual might be happening.

At the end of the morning class, the new first-year apprentices were waiting in a line at the large school yard behind the Knights' headquarters, and it wasn't long before they saw Sasria and Hiro walk in with a group of children dressed as nuns.

The leader of the group was a tall young nun, half a head taller than Sasria, with a beautiful appearance and a surprisingly cold temperament.

Her complexion was sickly white, her lips were a rare purplish-red, her nose was high, her eye sockets were slightly sunken, her eyes were thin and long, the corners of her eyes drooped slightly, and there was a tear mole under the corner of her left eye. The cold pale blue eyes are extremely pale in color, and at first glance, it seems that the eye sockets are inlaid with two gems carved from ice.

Her long, ice-blue hair fell straight down to her waist and was neatly trimmed. The slender eyebrows of the same color are straight, with only a slight curve at the tips of the eyebrows.

There was a murmur among the new apprentices, but it immediately became quiet under Hiro's soft cough, which seemed to be intentional or unintentional.

Sasria nodded to Hiro, signaling him to take charge of the next steps.

In Xu Yun's eyes, Hiro has long become Sasria's tool, and he has been working hard for most of the year, except for Sasria's special teaching, the new apprentice is almost brought up by him.

Hiro stepped forward and said to the apprentices, "You have gone through eight months of training in the Preparatory Knight Basic Course, and today it is time to move on to the next stage. ”

"I know that you have grown in the past eight months, learned basic swordsmanship, some fighting skills, and martial arts, and your physique has also grown in training, and you are already the best among your peers.

You can be proud, you can be proud, this is the growth that you have paid for sweat and blood and tears, and it will become the cornerstone of your further progress. ”

The apprentices unconsciously puffed up their chests and stood more straight, not to mention that after several months of training, their military posture had indeed improved greatly.

"But don't be complacent, those are already your past."

"Perhaps in the future, there will be new knights and regular knights among you, but those are the future. But now, in my eyes, you are not qualified, far from enough, you are a bunch of loose sand, a bunch of headless flies, a bunch of strong ants, if you want to achieve that kind of future, you still need to learn more and more practical knowledge that can help you survive in the battle on the battlefield. ”

"Yesterday, I have taken you to observe the actual combat experience of the second-year apprentices up close, even if they are still very immature, there are still many shortcomings, and their performance is not ideal, but they are far from the objects that you can laugh at now."

"But, in the process of observing yesterday, I found that someone was snickering! There are also people who have a trembling leg and stomach all the time. There are also people who have to take time off work to pee from time to time. ”

The apprentices couldn't help but snicker, and some of the apprentices lowered their heads in shame.

"Now that yesterday is over, let's forget about it. I will remember all these mistakes of yours one by one and count them in the evaluation, but I will not take you out and preach them one by one, it is meaningless.

I have decided to forgive you, and I hope to see your enlightenment, your change, your determination and perseverance in the next new phase of training. If it doesn't satisfy me, then the results recorded in the assessment will go into your final evaluation. ”

The apprentices' faces changed, apparently aware of the new crisis and test that was coming.

"What you lack, I will make up for you in the new training stage, and how far you can go is up to you." Hiro said it indifferently, but his big voice was really not suitable for lyricism.

"The Knight's Training Class in 338 was prepared for the year 338 in the Mondstadt Aeolian calendar, with thirty new apprentices. So far, no one has been eliminated, and I hope that no one will be eliminated in the future, even if it is time for graduation at the end of the year, only six of them will be able to become reserve knights and enter the Knights for internships, and the remaining apprentices will be able to learn and enter the various garrison guards, becoming the shield and sword that protects the people of Mondstadt.

Next, I'm going to divide you into groups of four, three Preparatory Knight Apprentices and a Fellow Nun, to form a battle squad.

I know you have your own small circle, but I ask you, what is the first duty of a knight to prepare? ”

"Obey!!" All the apprentices replied in unison.

"That's right! It's obedience! The personnel arrangement of the four-man combat team was the result of consultation between the bishop and me, as well as the church, and cannot be refused. Those who do not obey can leave the school field now, and I will count you as automatically eliminated. Hiro pointed in the direction of the school gate.

None of the apprentices took a step and were able to enter the preparatory knight training class was the result of the recommendation and selection of various places, and in some towns, there were even a dozen children competing for a place, how could they leave at this time for such a trivial matter as grouping?

"Okay, let's read the list of names." Hiro nodded, just as he had seen the crowd for the first time, and pulled the folder from under his arm.

"Sam... Tommy... Floshi..."

The apprentices whose names were read were automatically listed, both male and female, and after the nuns, basically every squad maintained a balance of men and women. However, because the church brought in all nuns, the number of male apprentices was seriously underdistributed, and there was a team with a majority of female apprentices, and it was also the female apprentices with excellent performance who were paired to balance the difference in strength between the various teams.

"Timmy, Kerry, Shuma, Lulumara, Nanqi. You are in a group of five. In the last group, Hiro read Xu Yun's name.

Hearing that they were in a group of five, all the apprentices turned their heads to look, with surprise, doubt, and of course, inquiries and grievances in their eyes.

"Don't be jealous or feel unfair, their team is special enough." A cold female voice sounded, just listening to the voice, everyone in the field felt that the temperature in the school yard had dropped a lot out of thin air.

"Nan Qi studied alchemy at the nun training school, and junior alchemists don't have much combat power before they become intermediate alchemists, not to mention apprentices who haven't become junior alchemists, saying that they are five-person groups, but in fact they are still four-person groups."

Everyone knew that the foursome also brought a burden, having seen the actual combat experience of the seniors yesterday, the apprentices have realized that if they have to be distracted to protect a companion in battle, the actual combat power will only be forced to decrease.

This was also heard by the seniors during their post-war discussions. There are many cases where some monsters can be dealt with with a single sword, but in order to save their companions, they have to temporarily give up the opportunity to kill.

In just one sentence, Xu Yun gained the sympathetic eyes of his classmates, but Xu Yun was nothing, anyway, his friendship with these people was almost equal to nothing, what they thought of him, to be honest, he really didn't care. A bunch of little kids, love what's going on.

It's an alchemist, this is a huge combat power, because he has lived with Furoya for a while, Xu Yun knows a little about alchemists. Alchemists' combat methods mainly rely on alchemy props, if you awaken the Vision of God, it's okay, but if you don't awaken the Vision of God, the alchemy props smashed out during the battle are all exchanged for a lot of gold coins.

This profession can be said to be the easiest and easiest to form combat power, as long as you have money, even if you are an alchemy apprentice, you can beat an ordinary knight to call Dad.

An alchemist who has no money and can't make high-level alchemy props by himself can only be a grandson. Therefore, alchemists spend most of their time immersed in their own alchemy laboratories, either making alchemy props that will be used in battles and researching new methods of making alchemy props.

Or research and develop alchemy products with various functions to make money. Of course, you can also make money by working for others. Anyway, it's just a struggle, and the props are all gathered to go out and come back in waves to continue to stay.

It is precisely because of the characteristics of this profession that the evaluation of alchemists in the outside world can be said to be very polarized. However, it is undeniable that high-level alchemists have the same status as high-level elemental mages, and they are all strategic talents that the state attaches great importance to.

And in Mondstadt, alchemists are rare animals. Mondstadt's abundance of strong men with strong individual forces, combined with a large-scale knightly army with sharp and strong soldiers, is also an important fulcrum for Mondstadt to gain a foothold in Teyvat. Elemental mages and alchemists, yes, have also invested considerable attention and resources in training, but the number has never increased.

Xu Yun, Xiuma and Kerry came out, and the only two girls left in the team brought by the church also walked silently towards the three of them.

"The rest of the time is left for you to get acquainted with each other and get to know each other better. Gather here in the afternoon, and we officially start this stage of training. Disband. Hiro finally spoke.

"Yes! Instructor. ”

Hiro nodded in satisfaction, then turned and went to Sasria and Sister Goleng.

At this time, the two were chatting with serious expressions.

"Yesterday the church cleaned the three temples, fortunately it was discovered in time, the Lion of the South Wind and the Dragon Temple of the East Wind were stopped in time before the pollution ceremony was carried out, but the leylines have been eroded to varying degrees and need to be maintained for a period of time to eradicate the pollution."

"The Dragon of the East Wind and the Wolf of the North Wind are still alive, and the ritual of the Abyss can still work?" Sasria asked.

"Deputy Commander, are you forgetful? Although the two crowns were alive, they did not live in the temple for long. Moreover, the temple has been abandoned for a long time, and the two crowns will not receive the worship faith, let alone take care of the affairs of the temple. But the leylines in the temple are still there, and the statues are still there. These idols were linked to the natal stars of the crowns from the beginning of their establishment, and the abyss could indirectly affect the natal stars of the crowns by polluting the idols.

This kind of contamination is very subtle and extremely difficult to detect, and it is possible that it may affect the body under the crown over time. The blue-haired nun said indifferently.

"His Highness who rose from the abyss doesn't seem to be a simple person, and the layout is so quiet. And the courage is really surprising.,It seems that he thinks the wind god is more kind and easy to bully.。 Sasria clenched her fists, her amber pupils glowing dangerously.

"The abyss is menacing this time, and there is the previous activity of the degenerate, so people have to connect the two together, but the Fatui girls involved this time, I don't know if it's the victim or the party associated with it?" The blue-haired nun plucked the neatly trimmed sea of drift as if she were plucking the strings.

"Regardless of which side it is, there are already three forces that have surfaced, and it remains to be seen whether there will be more, but some time ago, the emissary of Liyue sent an invitation to Mondstadt to send envoys to participate in the Moon Reflection Festival, which I think may be a sign of goodwill from Liyue, and the people of Liyue may also smell the smell of danger." Sasria said, "The Knights have decided to let me go, will the church let you go?" ”

"I don't want to go, I'm tired of going home to see how good it is to fix my nails, and I'm tired from running back and forth to Liyue for two months." The promiscuse nun looked at her fluorescent-blue nails, which refracted beautiful little stars when they were pointed against the sun.

"But aren't you responsible for the external affairs of the church?"

"Don't mention it, what kind of choir body..."

The other side

Xu Yun looked at the two girls who came to meet the three of them, and generously stretched out her hand.

"Timmy, I don't know who of you is who?"

"Lulu Mara, Sister of Battle." A girl who is about the same height as Xu Yun, her hair is covered in a hood, and the bridge of her nose is covered by a white mask, leaving only a pair of gray and blue eyes and slender eyebrows of the same color.

Judging from the curly strands of hair peeking out from under the hood, her hair color is probably grayish-blue, but it is darker. Her overall outfit is somewhat similar to the Church Knight I saw yesterday, the only difference is probably that she has no armor.

The two shook hands, shook them, and then separated.

"Nanqi, Sister Verdanti has already introduced me to my profession just now." The other girl was very tall, even a head taller than Shuma, she was very fat and round, with a round face, a round body, a plump chest that did not match her age, and even the hand that stretched out to shake hands was chubby, holding it in her hand like holding a ball of cotton.

Xu Yun looked at her, thinking of herself, Xiuma, and the snowman that Kerry had built in winter.

Nan Qi was wearing a loose nun's robe, from the chest down, except for the protruding round belly, it was covered by the robe, and the robe swayed in the wind when she walked, like a small mobile tent.