Lord of Hyranza

Suldak explained his purpose, and took out a specially reserved piece of salamander back meat and two salamander hearts and stomach pouches from his magic pouch. Then magician Francis remembered what he said a month ago, and remembered what he had said in the I bought some salamander meat from the underground market. Unexpectedly, only a month later, the other party actually delivered some salamander meat to the door. Magician Francis quickly asked his assistant to bring a glass container and put two salamander hearts into a petri dish middle.

Then he asked his assistant to bring two cups of hot drinks with light blue stars shining, and sat across from Suldak and asked curiously, "Are you a professional witcher?"

"In fact, it's not. I just found some sulfur mines on the side of Pagros Mountain. These big guys also like to eat sulfur mines. If they run out of the mountains and don't want to hunt them down, the sulfur mines will be gnawed by them. Light, that's why I prepared some traps." Suldak didn't hide anything, and said truthfully.

Francis listened carefully to Suldak's story. At this time, a magic assistant took out a large map of Hailansa City from the bookshelf and spread it on the coffee table.

Magician Francis followed the Paglos Mountains all the way down to the vicinity of Pustule Mountain. He pointed his finger at this place and said, "I know that there is always a little bit outside the Paest Volcano in the depths of the Paglos Mountains. Sulfur mines, but it’s a little far away for us magicians, and there are dirty volcanic ash everywhere, the environment is extremely harsh, are you digging sulfur there?”

Suldak didn't expect Magician Francis to find out the approximate location of the sulfur mine all at once, so he could only say: "There are some stalagmites accompanied by sulfur in the lava river at the foot of Paist Volcano... "

Seeing the hesitation on Suldak's face, Magician Francis smiled heartily and said, "Don't worry, although no one from the Magic Union has set foot on Paist Volcano in recent years, it doesn't mean that we don't know where it is. What is the situation, generally speaking, as long as it is an active volcanic crater, there is a high probability of associated sulfur ore."

"I guess you won't climb to the top of that mountain to mine sulfur. The sulfur mines you find at the foot of the mountain are mostly caused by the magma pool of the crater bursting, or a small-scale eruption, causing lava to overflow from the mountain top into a river. Those lavas washed some of the gravel containing sulfur ore from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, so that the sulfur mine you described appeared."

"If you want to get richer sulfur, you can only find it near the crater of the lava pool, but I don't recommend you to go to the lava pool of Paist Mountain, it is very dangerous."

"But I didn't expect that this sulfur mine could attract salamanders. This only shows that your luck is really good."

Magician Francis did not hide anything, and told Suldak what he knew.

"Did you know that there is a sulfur mine on the pustule mountain?" Surdak asked in surprise.

Magician Francis took it for granted, and said bluntly: "Of course, it's just that the cost of mining is too high. There are no professional alchemists in Hailansa City, and the demand for sulfur is not that great. Who wants to go there to eat ashes?" , it’s not the group of dwarves in the western lands, just buying some of this thing is enough for magic experiments, but since you have sulfur in your hand, you can trade it with me... the market price!"

Suldak smiled and said, "That's no problem, Magician Francis."

Magician Francis talked with Suldak for about a quarter of an hour. This magician has a wide range of knowledge. He seems to know everything about Hailansa City, especially the distribution of monsters in some mountains. I heard that Suldak Ke's home is located on the edge of the barren land, so he casually asked about the situation there. Hearing that Suldak said that there would be sand wolves occasionally appearing in the barren land, Magician Francis frowned and said, "If it's not Driven to nowhere, those sand wolves probably wouldn't set foot in the barren land."

Unexpectedly, the magic guild in Hailansa City had known for a long time that there was a sulfur mine in the pustule mountain, and it was only because of the harsh environment that they gave up their plan to mine the sulfur mine.

In the eyes of magician Francis, the mine should probably be located in the crater, and it might be regarded as a serious sulfur mine.

……

Walking out of the Magic Union, seeing that it was still early, Suldak decided to visit Karl at the Casement Mansion.

This time Suldak was lucky, just in time for Karl Casement to be at home. Hearing that Suldak was visiting, he rushed to the door to greet him. Seeing that Suldak was still wearing the monster leather armor, Carl smiled and asked, "Did you report to the Knight Academy when you came to Hailansa City this time?"

"He just came over from there," Suldak said.

The two walked through the courtyard, and Karl invited Suldak into a living room. It seemed that this was where Karl usually received guests. Sitting on the soft leather sofa, Karl said to Suldak: "Here in Hailansa City, if there is anything that needs me, just come to me."

"It's nothing bad." Surdak replied.

Seeing Suldak glance at the butler next to him, Karl said to the butler: "Butler Kingsley, please check if there are any delicious muffins or hazelnut cakes in the kitchen, I want my friends to taste them. "

"Okay, Master Carl, I'll prepare it for you now!" The butler saluted decently, and then left with the maid next to him, and closed the living room door behind him.

The butler was also very winking, and actually took away the maids in the living room. There was no need for Karl to find any reason to distract them.

"What's the matter, what happened?" Karl asked Suldak.

Suldak hesitated, but decided to tell Karl about it.So he said: "A week ago, a constructed knight entered the barren land and investigated some news about the bandits in several villages near Wall Village. I think he seems to have some relationship with those bandits."

He didn't directly say that the Dark Red Knight was a member of the Black Magic Priory, mainly because he couldn't produce any strong evidence, and everyone had already been reduced to ashes in the sulfur mine. Now Suldak just wanted to know about him. origin.

When Karl heard what Suldak said, he also put away the smile on his face, and said with a serious expression: "Constructed Knight? Can you tell me about his characteristics."

Suldak thought about the outfit of the dark red knight, and then said: "He is riding a black scaled horse, wearing a full-cover black iron magic pattern structure, and wearing a dark red cloak..."

After Suldak mentioned the characteristics of his attire, Karl said directly: "You said this is the Dark Red Knight, a follower of Baron Grenfell."

"However, he is really mysterious. He usually lives in seclusion and has few friends. No one in Hailansa City knows his true strength. Anyway, no one has seen him make a move. However, some people say that his strength is unfathomable. You also know that after the outbreak of the Plane War, most of the Constructed Knights in Hailansa City set off with the legion to participate in the Warsaw Plane War, and there are very few Constructed Knights still in the city." Almost none Using investigation, Karl confirmed his identity in one go.

Suldak secretly wrote down the name of Baron Grenfell.

"You said he has something to do with the bandits?" Karl asked Suldak.

Suldak nodded, and said, "He doesn't seem to be inquiring about the whereabouts of those bandit groups, but more like investigating the patrol teams of the villages that participated in the nearby bandit groups."

Karl lowered his voice and said to Suldak: "The matter of the Dark Red Knight is related to the reputation of Baron Grenfell. Although he is just a baron, he has many friends in Hailansa City, which can be regarded as very influential. He is a powerful nobleman, and he is also a councilor in the council hall of Hailansa City, his identity is a bit sensitive, unless he can produce conclusive evidence, any speculation will have no effect on him."

Then Carl said: "Even if we investigate the news of the patrol team, it must have something to do with the bandit group, maybe it's for the reward task on the bulletin board..."

Seeing that Suldak was frowning, obviously disapproving of his conjecture, Karl also said quickly, "Okay... I will investigate."

Karl said it a little perfunctorily, obviously not believing the statement that 'the Dark Red Knight colluded with the Bandit Group'.

Seeing that he failed to convince Karl, Suldak could only sigh softly in his heart. He could not produce any evidence, nor could he act too eagerly. After all, the Dark Red Knight died at his hands. Before his crimes were revealed, killing a Constructed Knight would be sent to the court for Suldak.

After eating hazelnut cake and drinking two cups of black tea, Suldak said goodbye to Karl.

……

Then Suldak went to a grocery store and bought some daily necessities. After all, there was almost nothing in the dormitory except for a bed and a desk, and the dormitory also needed to be cleaned thoroughly, but Suer Dak didn't even have a rag in his hand, he needed to buy these things from the grocery store.

When entering the Junior Knight Academy again, Suldak stopped at the gate for a while, chatted with the guard, and then walked into the gate of the academy.

In the afternoon, there were obviously a lot more apprentice knights on the playground. Many people gathered together in twos and threes to communicate, and some simply practiced with wooden swords on the playground. Most of these youngsters didn’t seem to have participated in the coming-of-age ceremony. Su Erdak walked through this group of young people, as if walking in a chest-high reed pond. In his eyes, those thin and small bodies were not much different from the chickens in the henhouse.

Many trainee knights saw the knight badge on Suldak's chest and thought he was an instructor in the academy, so they all stood up straight and saluted him somewhat cautiously.

Looking at those young faces, Suldak couldn't make any excuses, so he could only quickly walk across the playground and walk directly back to the dormitory area.

Under the sycamore tree in the dormitory area, this group of thirteen or fourteen-year-old teenagers were gathering together, probably watching a teenager wearing light leather armor. When they entered the dormitory building, two faces walked out. Delicate girls, seeing that they were also wearing the robes of apprentice knights in the Knight Academy, Suldak was still guessing why the female students came to this dormitory building, and when he climbed to the third floor, he passed through the long corridor At that time, through the door of a half-open room, I saw two young girls chatting casually in the room, and there were some small ornaments hanging in the room. It took Suldak to realize that this dormitory building is the place where all the two girls live. Dormitories for first-year students, these dormitories are co-ed.

Suldak patted his forehead vigorously, and once again doubted whether it was a mistake for him to choose to study in the Junior Academy. Maybe he should choose to go to the Advanced Knight Academy. Maybe in the Advanced Knight Academy, the age gap between himself and other students It won't be so obvious.

But things have come to an end, regretting nothing is of no use, for that piece of paper certificate, no matter what hardships or hardships, you have to grit your teeth and persevere. Fortunately, it is said that there is only half a year, that is, a winter thing, and it will pass after a while .

Suldak has never been a pampered person. It is not difficult to clean up the room. After returning to the dormitory, he started to clean the room. He cleaned it inside and out, and wiped it several times. The oak floor in the room Only when the original dark red paint was revealed, the tables and chairs were wiped clean, and the beds were replaced with brand new sheets, this dormitory looked a little bit occupied.

Afterwards, Suldak threw the rag in his hand into a wooden basin, and then sat on the single bed placed against the wall, took off his monster leather armor, hung it on the shelf, and only wore a pair of A linen shirt and trousers went out to the patio to dispose of the withered pots on the railing.

Chapter 320 The First Day in the Knight Academy

When tidying up the terrace, Suldak found that the terrace of this dormitory was connected to the terrace of the next dormitory, but a waist-high low wall was built to divide the terrace into two parts. There are a few wooden railings, lush flowerpots are placed on the terrace of the dormitory next door, and some underwear and white socks are hanging on the clothesline. It seems that the dormitory next door should be a female dormitory.

After cleaning the terrace, I moved a chair out and placed it on the terrace. Standing on the terrace, I could just see the main teaching building and the playground covered by plane trees. At this time, there were some energetic teenagers on the playground They were running recklessly. They wore wooden swords on their waists. When running, they used to hold the hilt of the sword with one hand to prevent the wooden sword from scratching others. Some people were doing offensive and defensive exercises with each other.

The afterglow of the setting sun covered the entire college with a layer of gold, and even the mountains and forests in the distance seemed to be covered with a layer of gold.

The senior trainee knights on the knight training ground were still lining up, holding big wooden spears in their hands, charging towards the straw man at the end of the field.

After dinner, Suldak returned to the dormitory and sat alone on the chair on the terrace. He took out the Roman sword with a broken edge like a saw. The gaps made by the double-edged broadsword, and some gaps even showed cracks. This Roman sword is no longer worth repairing. Suldak decided to find time to go to the blacksmith shop to buy a new knight's long sword.

Roman swords belong to the short epee used by heavy armored infantry. For knights, knight sabers and elf long swords are more convenient to use.Correspondingly, the fighting skills changed accordingly. Suldak was more used to fighting with sword and shield on foot, but he would feel like his hands and feet were bound while riding a horse.

The whetstone in his hand was a gift given to him by the businessman Larkin back then. The whetstone the size of a palm has already ground a groove that fits a Roman sword blade. There is a sound of "chacha", after the blade is sharpened, it needs to be backlit with an oilstone, and finally a layer of animal fat is applied to complete the daily maintenance of the long sword.

Afterwards, Suldak took out the blue-skinned iris shield that had been with him for nearly three months, but the main frame and front of the shield had been torn apart by the dark red knight's double-edged broadsword Apparently, this shield, which was used to resist evil spirits on the battlefield, was also abolished by the Dark Red Knight in the battle.For buying a new shield, Suldak also has his own ideas. The iris shield is still a bit too light for him, and perhaps the thicker dwarven chain shield is suitable for him.

It wasn't until the sky was about to get completely dark that the night watchman had already started to light up the street lamps on the street, and the students in the campus returned to the dormitory one after another. As the lights in the dormitory were turned on one by one, the night was silently immersed in the campus. .

The sound of chaotic footsteps and girls chatting came from the corridor, as if there were still people playing while walking.

The lights next door were turned on, and the corridor was quieter at this time. Surdak placed the old iris shield by the wall of the balcony, and heard a clear and sweet voice from the dormitory next door: "Linna, it's still open tomorrow. There is a basic training class! Last running training, I felt that my intestines were about to burst, and I had to find a way to escape, and if this continued, I felt like I was going crazy."

"Forget it, what can we do?" Another girl named Lin Na said delicately.

Suldak could even feel the girl sighing.

"What do you think of pretending to be sick?" The clear and sweet voice continued.

Linna's voice came again: "The last time Wood was found pretending to be sick, do you know how he got here this month?"

"..." The clear and pleasant voice did not speak.

Linna said: "I have to run laps on the playground every day before dawn, and I have lost a lot of weight."

The room in the dormitory was quiet, and there was a soft voice for a long time, as if changing clothes, and then the door of the balcony next door was suddenly pushed open, and a little girl in a nightgown walked onto the balcony and reached out to take it. The small clothes on the clothesline on the terrace, but suddenly saw a chair on the next terrace, sitting quietly in the twilight, which shocked the little girl.

Her face became a little pale, but she didn't scream out loud. Instead, she covered her chest with her hands and looked over carefully. She saw clearly the resolute side face of Suldak with vicissitudes or scars Afterwards, some asked incredulously, "Are you... the new instructor?"

This question made her feel a little embarrassed. How could an instructor live in a student dormitory? The instructor's dormitory was only separated by a wall.

Suldak didn't expect the little girl next door to be so bold that he would strike up a conversation with him, so he turned to her and said, "No, I'm here for class."

Through the wooden grille, Suldak could clearly see a fair-haired girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old on the opposite side. Her big lake blue eyes fell on Suldak's knight badge, and there was a last trace of panic in her eyes. He also disappeared without a trace, smiled sweetly at Suldak, and said, "Hi, new classmate, hello! My name is Linna."

While talking, another short-haired girl looked over from the balcony of the dormitory next door, and the girl named Linna introduced Suldak: "This is my roommate Nedra, and we are second-year trainee knights... ...You don't want to study the second-year courses, do you?"

In fact, Suldak didn't know how to study. After all, he was only going to receive a six-month training in the Knight Academy. It probably couldn't be like the teaching method of these young students, so he said: "I still Not sure, probably!"

"I know, there are knights like you who have been trained in our academy every year..." Linna said with a smile.

However, she obviously didn't plan to discuss this matter with Suldak in depth, she just nodded slightly to him, and then pushed her roommate into the dormitory.

The wooden door on the terrace slammed shut.

The next morning, Suerdak was practicing chopping and parrying with his sword on the balcony. This was a habit he developed in the forest camp, and he got up early every day to do these basic training.

Every time he swung, Surdak did it meticulously.

In the morning of Hailansa City, the mountains, fields, and the streets and alleys of the city are filled with morning fog, and a ray of sunlight shines into the city through the morning fog.

The door of the balcony next door was pushed open, and the short-haired girl named Nedra jumped up and down to the balcony to water some flower pots. When she turned around with the watering can, she happened to see that she was doing Suldak in the slash' motion.

Nedra has a pair of light blue eyes, which look particularly healthy with wheat-colored skin. She asked Surdak curiously: "Do you practice these basic movements every day? The instructor also asked us to sit on some basic movements every morning." Practice, it's just that no one likes to wake up early..."

Suldak said: "Did I wake you up here practicing here? Sorry, I should practice in the garden downstairs in the dormitory."

Nedra quickly shook his head vigorously and said, "No more!"

She just thinks that there is really no need to practice this kind of basic movements. The worst students in the class can do such simple movements very standard in the first grade. After all, this is the content of the final assessment of the first grade. Apprentice knights who are not talented will have to practice when they have nothing to do. She Nedra belongs to the talented apprentice knights. Every time the instructor teaches some new techniques in the class, she is the first batch to be able to master them. people.

Suldak nodded politely to his new neighbor, and swung the Roman sword seriously again, doing every stroke meticulously.

When Nedra and Linna were washing in the dormitory room, they heard someone shouting to Suldak from downstairs in the dormitory outside: "Knight Suldak, have you had breakfast? Do you want to go together..."

Assistant Professor Pablo stood under the grape arbor, raised his head and greeted Suldak on the terrace. He was wearing a linen white shirt, a sheepskin vest, breeches, and a rapier on his waist. Very spirited.

Supporting the terrace with both hands, Suldak poked his head out and said to the assistant coach Pablo, "Okay, come down right away."

Assistant Professor Pablo stood downstairs waiting for Suldak. Seeing him walking out of the dormitory door quickly, he led him to a small path in the dormitory garden, and said with a smile: "The breakfast in the college cafeteria is quite rich. , but if you want to eat the most popular honey bread and milk oatmeal here, you have to order it again, not every kind of breakfast can be sold until the end..."

Standing on the terrace, Nedra just happened to see the assistant teacher Pablo introducing some details of life in the college to Suldak with a smile, and could not help but slander in his heart: "Papulo the sycophant, Pablo the sycophant ..."

Of course Assistant Pablo couldn't hear the trainee female knight Nedra's inner slander on the terrace. He took advantage of the morning time to take Suldak around the cafeteria. The two bought it and strongly recommended it. The honey bread, which is a kind of bread that is rolled like a croissant, is baked full of milky bits and the sweetness of honey, and the color looks quite attractive.

In fact, Suldak doesn't like sweets very much. Instead of eating this, it's better to sell a piece of crispy scones torn up and soaked in broth. The prices of various foods in the college cafeteria are basically a few copper coins. One serving, you don't need to spend a lot of money if you want to have a full meal here.

Assistant Professor Pablo has a round face with obvious double chins. He squeezed a piece of honey bread and stuffed it into his mouth casually. Then he drank a big mouthful of hot oatmeal, and he could swallow the food in his mouth with a gurgle. go down.

With three or two mouthfuls, the assistant teacher Pablo swallowed the food in front of him, then he took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, and then said: "Knight Suldak, you just participated in the war of planes, I think the academy You probably don’t need to take the basic training course and physical training course again. Although you need to major in second-year courses, you can actually use the free class hours to study imperial history and knight etiquette, history and culture, morality and belief, astronomy, Geography, mathematics, during the six-month commissioned training period, you must at least complete other subjects that apprentice knights have studied for three years, and you need to pass the qualifications to get the knight certificate. I think fighting skills, riding skills, etc. are not necessary , you can also just take the final exam, as long as you pass the test, you can get the corresponding credits..."

"..."

Suldak felt a bit overwhelmed just by listening to it. There are so many subjects to pass the exam and pass within half a year. It seems that this knight certificate is not as easy as imagined, and he originally planned to enter the Knight Academy. Learn some knight fighting skills and riding skills...

Seeing that Suldak was easy to talk to, Pablo quickly took out more than a dozen schedules from his pocket. These are the schedules for all grades in the college.

Assistant teacher Pablo first found out the schedule of the eleventh class of the second grade from these schedules, then took out a carving knife in his hand, and crossed out all the physical training classes on the schedule, so that the schedule showed One after another, he skillfully took out the curriculum schedules of other grades and placed them below, so that new courses would appear in those blank boxes. Assistant Pablo compared them, and put the one with the most culture classes in the blank boxes. Zhang's schedule was left behind, and the corresponding physical training class was crossed out...

The proportion of culture courses in Hailansa City Knight Academy was a bit small, until the entire curriculum was filled with culture courses, and the culture subjects that Suldak asked to learn actually covered a huge part of the subjects from the first to third grades.

This series of operations also made Suerdak dizzy.

In fact, the various subject examinations in the Junior Knight Academy are not as strict as Pablo Assistant Teacher said. It's not like this kind of thing has never happened before. In the end, the knight of Wei Pei left after six months with his strong background, leaving a lot of mess and the academy is responsible for cleaning his ass. is the worst.

Then Pablo took Suldak directly to the notice board of the main teaching building, where the corresponding courses are written here. Suldak's courses run through the three grades. In the end, assistant coach Pablo's thoughts were in vain, so assistant coach Pablo patiently explained to Suldak for nearly a morning.

In the end, he personally led Suldak to find Migno, the instructor in charge of Class [-] of the second year, and handed Suldak into the hands of the instructor Migno. Only then did he completely complete his mission. Ke was led into the classroom by instructor Mirono with a dead face, and was arranged in a corner of the classroom under the watchful eyes of a group of young apprentice knights. He was relieved and rushed to the registration office to report back.

And this Mirono instructor also thought that Suldak was a relative of a certain nobleman in Hailansa City, and he probably came here to get the knight certificate. After arranging the seats at random, he didn't care, and even omitted the part of self-introduction up.

Chapter 321 Life in the Knight Academy

The bright sunlight shone into the classroom from the window, leaving spots of light on the floor, and the classroom seemed very quiet.

Suldak was sitting in the last row of the classroom near the window, all the immature faces were attracted by the Mirono instructor on the podium, and everyone listened intently to Mirono instructor's talk about the Fourth All-Race War One of the battles - the famous Battle of Constantinople in the province of Pena.

Instructor Mirono was standing on the podium and was explaining what kind of role the heavy cavalry-based regiment could play. Instructor Mirono hung up a map of Bena province on the blackboard, with cities and mountains and rivers on it. The markings are very clear. Instructor Mirono drew two large arrows with red and blue pencils, and drew some battlefields around the two arrows.

800 years ago, the coalition forces assembled by human, orc, elf, and dwarves defeated the powerful dark forces from the three realms of flame hell, underworld, and dark hell.It is said that the archangels of the Sky City and the giant dragons of the Dragon Kingdom also participated in this war. The instructor Mirono described the fierce battle between the Benar Berserker Legion and the Undead Zombie Legion along the Pagros Mountain.

It is said that Bena Province is the only way to enter Majaro Mountain in the south of the Green Empire. The undead army on the South Road has assembled nearly a million zombies. Almost all the mountains and plains in Bena Province are full of undead zombies, and the heavy cavalry regiment of Bena Province, There were several very bright performances in this battle.

But after all, it is not 800 years ago. Now the main force of the Grimm Empire has become a more well-equipped Constructed Knights. If the current war of planes only relies on the heavy cavalry, Suldak can't help but guess. After a while, I am afraid that the Warsaw plane will be completely occupied by the evil ghost army within three months.

A large field of golden sunflowers was planted in the flower pond outside the window, and Suldak stretched secretly when instructor Mirono turned around.

He was sitting among a group of young apprentice knights. The tables and chairs here were obviously designed for those young people, and the size was a bit small. He was almost curled up in the corner, and he saw the shadow left by his own arm on the light brown floor , his hand unconsciously raised, chasing the ray of sunshine, the sun shone on the back of his hand, very warm.