Section 61: Disappeared Researcher

Poop!

Oooo

The sound of the impact of gold and iron was like thunder, roaring around the small school field, even the blue brick wall that was half a meter thick and more than three meters high could not be restrained, one after another, wave after wave.

The apprentices engaged in fencing battles in the Colonel Field waved their blades absentmindedly, but no matter how they fought, the sound of their swords crashing was drowned out by the sound on the other side of the wall.

With each roar, the sound seemed to hit their wrists, causing them to shake or pause as they wielded their weapons, so that even a smooth attack became crooked.

In the corner of the campus that was shrouded in the shadow of the building, the two instructors in charge of teaching shook their heads helplessly and sighed, and could only endure the miserable teaching situation with a wry smile.

After a while, the sound of the blade fighting quietly stopped, and the apprentices' attention returned to each other's opponents.

"Get moving, you have to treat the opponent in front of you as the most hated monster, and use all your strength to defeat him, the five people who lost the most today, go and wash the stables in the afternoon!" Taking advantage of the temporary calm restored to the school grounds, the instructor shouted angrily at the distracted apprentice.

There was a wail in the school yard.

"Why, washing the stables doesn't satisfy you, does it? Do you want to clean the toilet septic tank instead?! ”

The apprentices in the big school field instantly seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, one by one they waved the weapons in their hands energetically, and greeted their opponents with fierce moves, and even the nuns who merged in were also assigned opponents, and none of them were left behind.

"It's been a few days, and it's still so intense." He muttered quietly, "I don't know if Timmy's little body will be broken up." ”

The first-year assistant instructor Hiro touched the bridge of his nose, looked at the iron gate of the small school with some envy and awe, silently withdrew his gaze, and fell back on the apprentice he was responsible for training.

"It's really a disciple of Deputy Head Leah..." The older instructor in charge of teaching martial arts glanced at the exterior wall of the small school yard and touched the neatly trimmed beard on the sideburns with some emotion.

"She was a well-known training freak in the training class when she was an apprentice, and now it's her disciple's turn to enjoy this treatment, I don't know if their department will evolve like this in the future, but I clearly remember that Leah's teacher Warren is a good old man with a smile."

Grand Knight Warren is one of the few knights in the Order who can die properly, he has received a lot of apprentices in his life, but only two are still alive today, one is the second disciple who was collected when he was young and later disappeared in a secret operation, and the other is the younger apprentice Saslia who was collected in his later years.

It was with her superhuman efforts and tenacity that Sasria won Warren's favor. It was also after Warren's death that he inherited the network assets left by Warren, and was quickly recognized and promoted to executive deputy chief.

These are not secrets within the Knights of Favonius, but after all, when it comes to elders, as an ordinary knight Hiro who is not qualified and has insufficient status, he can only listen honestly and dare not speak.

This martial arts instructor is a full knight, and he is also much older than Hiro.

"This year, Kai, who was originally scheduled to be the chief instructor, was suddenly replaced by Leah, and I guessed that she might have moved her mind to accept the apprentice." The middle-aged man of the technical combat instructor looked up at the white clouds in the sky as if he were reminiscing

"A few years ago, when she was not the deputy head of the regiment, there were a few good female apprentices, and she refused to accept one. What's so good about this little imp named Timmy? ”

"It's as thin as a firewood stick, and it's not as tall as a little girl."

Poop!

Oooo

After only a few minutes of pause, the thunderous crash of blades roared again. This time was slightly different from the previous one, and Hiro saw that when the roar sounded, the pebbles at his feet actually bounced with it.

The technical combat instructor opened his mouth in surprise, and the words that had not yet been spoken seemed to be stifled, and his face became much more serious. "She's getting serious."

The surrounding ground continued to shake, and the sound waves around the school field seemed to be substantial, starting from the stone wall around the small school field, and the layers of sand and dust were wrapped in the sound waves, rolling up layers of ripples visible to the naked eye.

Zheng!

A golden flash of light slanted upwards from within the stone wall, and disappeared in an instant, as if all the people had seen it were hallucinations.

The wave of pops came to an abrupt halt, and after this flash of light, it suddenly fell silent. All the dust and sand that formed waves and surged towards the periphery seemed to be frozen, stagnant in mid-air, neither falling nor rising. The condensation of power shrouded the main film school area, pressing on everyone's hearts, and after a while, the dust and sand fell back to the ground, and the majestic and majestic momentum slowly dissipated.

A figure with wings attached to his back wrapped in the breeze like a swift arrow, cutting through the blazing sunlight cast by the scorching sun

Bang!

Barely slowing down, he smashed directly to the ground outside the schoolyard, his metal-wrapped boots trampling the stone slabs and floor tiles into fine cracks, and the dust and sand were blown by the wind element that came from him, setting off a layer of dust outward.

Before the dust and waves dissipated, the man had already gathered the wings of the wind that spread out behind him, gathered the short dark blue cloak that turned it into a shawl behind him, and quickly took a few steps forward and approached the schoolyard.

"Deputy Head Sasria is inside." He shouted loudly, inquiring, but in an affirmative tone.

After a pause for a few seconds, a fully armored metal glove opened the iron door of the small school yard, revealing the sweaty cheeks of Sasria in half-body armor behind the door.

"Yes, what's so urgent?" She glanced at the ground behind the person, and the movement of the other party when he landed just now was no smaller than the training on her side.

"There is a letter, the council hall, and the institute jointly signed." The short-haired young messenger removed the cylindrical letterhead containing the letter from his waist, and the emblem on the metal letterhead latch glowed azure to prove that it had never been opened.

Sasria took the letterbox, examined it for a moment, and then used her elemental powers to leave her own emblem on the confirmation form handed by the courier.

The Courier nodded and stepped aside, waiting for a possible reply.

Sasria pressed the bracket in front of everyone, and entered the elemental power to open the letterbox, and the metal cylinder snapped in two, and a folded letter was lying inside. She pulled out the letter and took a few steps back to avoid the courier's possible prying eyes, although the messenger had consciously retreated, but this step still could not be omitted, after all, it was all about opening the rules of the secret letter.

Unfolding the letterhead, Sasria saw the contents inside, the words written on the letterhead were like ghost drawings, and it was messy that it couldn't tell which language it originally belonged to, but its meaning was directly reflected in the minds of the people who read it, and only the divine text could be so messy when writing.

Sasria's face changed slightly, and she crumpled the letter into a ball, reassembled the letterhead, and handed it to the messenger waiting for her.

"I know the matter, I don't need to reply, I'll go over in person later."

"Okay, then I'll go back to my life." The messenger gave a chest-thumping salute, took two steps back, and then turned and strode away.

Sasria watched the messenger leave, and the paper in her hand quickly shattered into a puddle of fine scraps of paper under the rubbing of the sand and gravel she had invited, and then scattered the sand and gravel to the ground with a slight blow of a faint wind.

She turned around and returned to the small school yard with a blank face, and every step she took would make a sonorous sound of nail leaf collision on her body.

"Haven't you had enough rest? The pigs in the back barn of the cafeteria are recovering faster than you. She walked up to Xu Yun, who was lying on the ground, and touched the young man's shoulder with the tip of her shoe.

Xu Yun gasped for breath, but felt like a fish lying on the shore, no matter how he breathed, he couldn't get the oxygen he needed. There is a feeling of being hollowed out in the body, that feeling is not that his physical strength is exhausted, he still has a lot of physical strength left, but this strange feeling of emptiness is much more painful than physical exhaustion, and it is extremely difficult for him to move every finger now.

But... I am open-hanging.

He sighed, rolled over and stood up.

Although the body can perfectly execute every command it gives itself, it takes much more effort to send each command to execute it. If you used to use your body and move as much as you want, now it's like directing a drone remotely through a remote control.

Not only is there a signal delay, but every action cannot be arbitrary.

As soon as he stood up, Xu Yun found that his balance was off, and the person fell to the side, he wanted to take a step to support his body to regain his balance, but the foot stagnated in place until he was held by a palm wrapped in metal armor.

"Consuming too much elemental power at once, maybe that blow just now has already drained all the elemental energy in your body." Sasria's voice rang in her ears

"This lack of elements does put a great strain on the body, causing the body to enter a short period of weakness."

"However, this overload can greatly increase your tolerance to extreme consumption, and it can also slightly increase the upper limit of the total amount of elemental energy in your body."

"When fighting, we often encounter the situation of exhaustion of elemental power, generally before the battle starts, we will take the elemental recovery potion in advance, which can slowly and long-term restore a certain amount of protofalcon energy, and try to avoid all the elemental power being exhausted and entering the weakened one, so as to keep the combat state stable during the battle."

"But I suggest you stay weak and get used to it as much as possible, so that once you reach that desperate situation where all the supplies are exhausted, you have a better chance of surviving than the others... There will be a little more. ”

"Rest assured, the period of weakness lasts only two hours at most, during which the body slowly recovers the most basic elemental energy needed for movement on its own."

Xu Yun struggled to control her body with the help of Sasria, and slowly moved to the bench next to the school field and sat down.

"The most basic elemental energy?" Xu Yun controlled the movement of his tongue, and the sound he made was a little strange even to him.

"We live in a world where elemental power is everywhere, and elemental energy itself is a part of our lives. In the words of my teacher, we are all elements and a form of expression. Slimes can become life with a single element, and that's because they are pure, and the purer the elemental life, the more powerful they are. ”

"So they're often simple, not smart enough."

"And creatures like us are living beings formed by the complex combination and arrangement of more elements, this point of view has been put forward by the Akademiya of Sumeru and the Institute of Fontaine, and of course, there are also priests of the Shrine who put forward the theory of divine creation."

"God's creation?"

"The messenger from the Sky Island once said that the creatures on the earth are the descendants of the gods of the Sky Island, and they are the lives or creations created by the gods with their own flesh and blood."

"And the fallen of the abyss have another set of sayings: they say that we are the lambs of the gods, the hounds, and the ... Toys and experiments. Sasria's voice was noticeably lowered as she said this.

"Having said all this, what I want to say is that elemental power is an important part of our lives, and depleting all the elemental energy in our body at one time is equivalent to draining all the blood flowing in our body, although this will not be fatal, but how painful the weak period is, I think you have already understood."

Xu Yun nodded with difficulty.

"It just so happens that I have something to leave next, so you can slowly experience the weakness period here, try to get used to it as soon as possible, and if you can maintain a little normal mobility during the weakness period, maybe I will give you a reward when you come back." Sasria said, revealing a smile that made Xu Yun almost can't help but sink, even though her cheeks are now soaked with sweat and a little dust, she looks even more delicate.

Although this smile was good, when he heard the word reward, Xu Yun still subconsciously shrunk his neck. In the past few days, Sasria's personal guidance has made the word reward more than impossible to avoid here in Xu Yun.

Whenever she mentioned that there was a reward, the next step was more stormy combat training, and the intensity was increasing every time, so that until now, the training steel sword in Xu Yun's hand could not hold up for a quarter of an hour of practice.

Swallowing his saliva, Xu Yun whispered, "Can I ask what the matter is?" ”

Sasria's beautiful amber pupils swirled in her sockets, and she looked at her only apprentice with a complicated expression.

"Speaking of which, this matter also has something to do with you, and it's not impossible to tell you."

"The stone ball you asked Landis to buy back a few days ago, we sent it to the Alchemy Research Institute. Research has confirmed that it has a very high level of elemental protection, and this morning, when two researchers were experimenting to investigate and decipher the mysterious power on it, it disappeared when the experiment reached the intervention step. ”

"Take the two researchers with you."

"When the research institute is doing experiments, there will be alchemy apprentices as recorders, responsible for recording each step of the experiment and some detailed data, I think this news should be reported to the senior management of the research institute."