Abe the Wizard

Abel pushed his mask upward to expose his mouth and put a slice of beef in his mouth. Afterward, he laughed at k3515 and said, “the beef here is pretty good!”

“K3516, I can see that you are noble, but you still enjoy this sandpaper like beef. I really can’t understand you!” K3515 knew Abel was a noble from his manner. He could buy way better food in the city with magic gems.

After a while, Drillmaster Layard walked in the dining hall as Abel was chit-chatting with K3515. He looked around for a bit and walked towards Abel.

Seeing that Abel had finished his dinner, he said with a laugh, “K3516, I’ll take you to the place you live!”

“Thank you, Drillmaster Layard!” Abel quickly put away his plate and said with a bow.

Even k3515 could see that Drillmaster Layard was especially caring towards Abel. Normally this was a job for warehouse assistant. No other Drillmaster would have time for this.

The accommodation in the training camp was very good. It was a big place, and they only had 16 wizards, so every wizard could have his own house.

Drillmaster Layard led Abel into one of them. The house was not big. It had one room, one lounge, and a toilet. There was even a little mana gathering circle in the lounge. It was for wizards to meditate.

However, there were no magic gems on the circle. It seemed like wizards would still need to pay for themselves.

The cupboard in the lounge was placed with 2 light armor, a shield, and a light longsword. Only a wizard room was equipped with all these weapons, which was a little weird.

“The Long sword and shield are for your training. Although you wizards might not ever need to use these weapons, they can still save your life if your magical power has been used up!” Said Drillmaster Layard when he saw that Abel’s interest in those weapons.

“Since you are new, it’s better to make sure you are clear on the rules here.” Said Drillmaster Layard; maybe that’s why he had personally led Abel to his accommodation. He then followed, “First, you can’t use magic in the training camp. There is no exception; you will get directly kick out of Miracle City if you break this rule!”

This made sense since this place was a battle training camp. If Wizards could use their magic power, they wouldn’t need to worry about a single thing. As long as they didn’t run into any orcs deity, it was very hard for a normal orc to break a Wizard’s defense.

However, if they really ran into an orc deity, these fighting skills wouldn’t do much anyway.

The purpose of this training was to allow a wizard to preserve their life once their magic power had been used up. Just like that round shield, for example. If you didn’t know how to hold it properly, a hit could easily hurt your arm, let alone counteracting an enemy’s strike.

“Secondly, you need to follow the Drillmaster’s command. If you don’t follow through, your military merit will be deducted accordingly. Once your military merit goes negative, you will need to work a lot harder to make up for it once the actual mission starts. Of course, if the mistake you make is serious, you can be kicked out of Miracle City as well!” Drillmaster Layard followed.

Abel understood this. Wizards were born arrogant, so even head commanders as Drillmasters would not make them fully submit. Therefore a merit system like this had to be put in place.

“In the last 10 days, you will need to go through a final exam. You came very late. Even though your strength is not bad, you had to make good use of your time and learn how to use that light long sword and round shield. Looking at your performance today, I think you will be fine, but the final exam is a combination of everything we had learned in this course!” Drillmaster Layard said at last.

Abel immediately threw what Drillmaster Layard said about the examination in the back of his mind as soon as Drillmaster Layard left. If even a head commander can not past this test, there was no way those wizards would.

Abel took out a few intermediate gems and placed it in the energy socket of a protection circle near the door. He then hung his military card on the door, and just like that, the protection circle of this room had been ignited. A protection circle was a must for wizard accommodations. Otherwise, they wouldn’t want to meditate.

After that, he took out a barrier circle and a scroll of the town portal. He ignited the portal door and entered the Dark World.

Early the next morning, as Abel was walking out of his accommodation, he realized the other wizards were casually walking towards the dining hall. It didn’t look like a military camp at all.

After breakfast, Abel went back to his accommodation, but soon a message came through his military card.

“All training wizards bring your light long sword and round shield to the training ground for roll call!”

Abel did exactly that, and it was at that moment k3515 sighed next to him “today will be a torture. We are all good wizards, why do we have to learn how to use a sword and shield!”

Abel knew a Wizard without much fighting experience like k3515 wouldn’t understand the importance of this training, so he smiled and said: “It won’t hurt to learn more things, maybe one day it will come in handy.”

“I know it might come in handy, but Drillmaster Cooper is too strict. It is almost like he is trying to disable us. Since you are new and haven’t learned how to use a round shield, you are going to have a great time!” K3515 said with a sarcastic smile as he suddenly remembered that Abel was new.

Abel helplessly gazed at k3515. How can a person like him even become an official wizard? Wizards had a lonely occupation. If you were too extroverted, no way you could handle all of those lonely training sessions.

As soon as they entered the training ground, the yell of Drillmaster Cooper began to emerge “Line up! You guys are even worse than new soldiers. Even farmers are faster than you!”

If Abel didn’t have to complete this battle of the orcs mission before he could leave the Holy Continent, there was no way he would tolerate the attitude of a head commander like this. But, since he had already gone so far, he had to suck it up.

Abel quickly increased his steps and followed the other wizards. He stood at the old spot, the back of the line.

“Sword on your right and shield on your left. Hold tight!” Drillmaster Cooper yelled and began to examine the line from left to right.

When he arrived in front of the 3rd wizard, he suddenly struck out his fist and punched the shield of that wizard. Abel could clearly feel that Drillmaster had only used a little force. Probably around the force of a rank 2 novice wizard.

Although that punch was only a little bit stronger than a normal person, it knocked that wizard on the ground and blasted his shield away.

By this point, Abel could kind of understand why Drillmaster Cooper got angry so easily. If someone had told him to train new soldiers like this, he would get angry as well. They had been practicing for 2 months, so Drillmaster Cooper had definitely taught them how to use a round shield more than once. But still, Abel could sense that Wizard’s shield holding technique was horribly wrong.

Afterward, a few more wizards had been knocked down by Drillmaster Cooper’s punch. Drillmaster Cooper’s hell began to get louder. It seemed like his anger had been fully ignited.

Of course, when Drillmaster Cooper walked in front of Abel, he directly struck his fist out without even giving him a look. By that point, holding a shield had basically become an instinct to Abel. He quickly analyzed the center point of his punch and held the round shield closed to his arm.

Since Drillmaster Cooper was getting angry, he used a little bit more force on this punch. It probably had the power of a rank 3 or rank 4 novice knight. However, Abel’s technique had scattered most of the force of this punch, and the last bit of power had been counteracted by the round shield. Abel’s body only wobbled a little.

Drillmaster Cooper was shocked; he couldn’t help it “k3516, you’ve learned knight skills?” Although it was just a casual punch, Drillmaster Cooper really did want to embarrass Abel by using more force. However, all he did was make Abel wobbled a little.

Drillmaster Cooper knew that Abel’s technique was not as simple as it looked. No one could do this without long years of training.

“Yes, Drillmaster Cooper. My family has inherited knights, so every member had to learn some knight skills!” Abel yelled back.