The first day's 'run-in' for the ronin group seemed to be fruitful.

These ronins gathered from the nearby towns never said anything about what Lan En was an 'outsider' or a 'foreigner'.

Ran's memory and knowledge let him know how to build his authority, and the ronins adapt quickly to authority.

Or rather, Lan let them adapt quickly.

"Good morning, Kumito-sama!" *N

In the longhouse, Lane wakes up from meditation, and all the ronins come to him cross-legged on the ground and bow their heads to say hello.

Lan was still not used to being greeted solemnly, but he had to endure it in order to maintain an authoritarian atmosphere.

"I'm ready to go out on patrol."

"Yes!" *N

The Demon Hunter's physique already regained his energy quickly, and the Gene Seed and the [Second Heart] made Lan En's vitality extremely vigorous.

Although he took a good picture of the patrol shift on the first day, because he wanted to focus on learning new knowledge, he basically followed more than eighty percent of the patrol shifts in a day.

The area outside Hirata is spacious, and more importantly, the ninja who is alleged to be a teacher, the wolf, can only be encountered outside Hiratawa.

According to the reward agreement with Kuro, he can only go up and ask some questions when the wolf is not busy.

The lack of manpower in the Hirata clan can be seen.

What makes Lan En feel a little abnormal is that, judging from the information collected in recent days, the status of the Hirata clan in the country of Reina is not ordinary.

They were the first-class ministers of the Ashina Province, and they also served as the southern gateway to the Ashina in the terrain, and they were the barrier that the Inner Prefecture Army had to face when it invaded.

It is a bit abnormal to let a retainer manor with such a status have a staff crunch to such a point.

What's more, this invasion of the Inner Government Army is not a menacing posture that will be completed in one battle. It's more like a regular offensive and defensive battle.

Then it is even more deserving that the Hirata clan should have had such a hard time coping with this campaign.

This abnormality made Lan En worried.

I'm afraid that before the celestial sphere convergence rift opens again, the Hirata family will be pushed flat, right?

The witcher shook his head, putting aside the unfounded assumptions.

Several of the ronin's men followed behind Lan En respectfully and neatly, and walked towards the gate of Hira-Taso.

Although the number of Hirata clan's armed forces has decreased, the formation and defense are still tight. The soldiers were generally energetic and strong. The armor and weapons are also the best in the country.

Yesterday, Lan En's group also helped gather all the ferries within more than ten miles of the upper and lower reaches of the Longquan River to the side of the manor.

If you want to cross the river on a large scale, unless you conjure a boat out of thin air, you can only cross the wooden bridge at the main entrance of the manor.

In such a situation, if you want to attack this manor, even professional soldiers have to come hundreds or nearly thousands of people.

And if an enemy army of this size can enter the territory, then the people of the Ashina country on the frontal battlefield will simply collectively seppuku.

The neat formation of the ronin group surprised the people of the castle town, after all, even the soldiers of the own family are not able to maintain such a serious attitude in normal times.

But for Lan En, a small organizational structure of less than fifty people, if it can't be controlled like an arm, it is a bit too unusual.

Delineating rules, formulating rewards and punishments, setting up high and low status and promotion channels, and guiding the crowd of thought do not even need him to make a detailed personality plan, and the rigid routine plan made by Mentos is enough.

After saying hello to the soldiers guarding the gate, the ronin patrol walked towards the outside of Hirata Village.

Now with the visibly tense situation, the soldiers guarding the gate have also begun to change their muskets.

And under Lan's sense of smell, he found that there were still a lot of gunpowder and projectiles in the small position at the gate.

It's a well-guarded sentence.

In the Ronin, Kotaro follows behind Lan, and he and the rest of the patrol are on guard the moment they step out of the gate.

This guy seems to have looked at Lan En with an excited face after he pressed the ronin to apologize to him.

He was still a little nervous.

Later, he repeatedly followed Lan En to patrol teams that did not have his shifts at all. Use the energy of ordinary people to chase a witcher with a [second heart].

Later, it was Lan who gave him a lot of shifts, and he gave up this kind of behavior, which was almost indistinguishable from suicide.

Lan En didn't know what to say about this situation, but he vaguely felt that Kotaro's obscene appearance was now a little more amiable.

The ronin holds the scabbard in their hands, and their thumbs against the gauntlet on the hilt, ready to be unsheathed.

Those who are armed with spears carry their weapons on their shoulders and follow their footsteps.

The few who carried bows drew an arrow and put it on the string, looking around alertly.

As the situation and atmosphere became more and more tense, the nerves of the ronin group and the other patrol members became more and more tense.

But what is slightly inconsistent is that these wanderers who look around always have to look around before looking at the front of the line.

It wasn't until he saw the tallest figure with silver hair that he breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed his nerves, and then continued to look.

The reason for this is that Lan En's breath and voice are too thin.

As a result, his subordinates must use their gaze directly to confirm that he is still walking in front of the group.

It's really like his first impression after getting the cracked version of "The Book of Ninja Moves of the Lonely Shadows". The practice of assassination and silence breath holding is progressing very quickly.

This kind of technology, which is more knowledgeable than the feeling of operation, is easily overcome in the learning mode of Mentos.

In a matter of days, Mentos was able to transform Rann from a young man who had never even touched a horse to a riding habit that was almost like a horseback nation.

The current knowledge of the ninja is only for Mentos to take one hour a day from the deduction calculation of the [Light Body Technique].

After a week, Ran's habits were close to the ninja's mode of action.

He retains subtle but adequate breathing when he is not fighting, and his body's sweat glands are less active, and his body odor is reduced.

Based on this, he developed a technique to control the activity of the original heart and the second heart within a certain range through breathing.

On different textures of the ground, his steps will change accordingly, and he will step on it silently like a ghost.

This is close to the level of a ninja who has just been trained to perform tasks.

And even the country ninja organization that Toei is the least on the stage has never heard of an apprenticeship of less than five years.

Less than five years of apprenticeship, if let the wind go. It will even make this group of ninjas lose the opportunity to be loyal to their master!

Because of this short cultivation time, people can't trust their level at all.

But for Lan En, the only thing he lacked from a novice ninja was the [Light Body Technique].

As the team walked, Lan En's eye caught a little orange shadow in the cracks in the branches and leaves of the trees by the river.

He cheered softly: "Ha, good luck today!" ”

He waved his hand in that direction.

"Wolves! See you again! ”

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