Sword Sorcery - Chapter 6

[Chapter 6 Undercurrent]

after six days

Late at night, outside the forest

chap!

A sturdy tree up to the waist was cut off by Aaron’s sword. The sharp blade was like a lumberjack, and the sharp rubbing sound made people frown.

Afterwards, the half-trees that fell suddenly smashed up a pile of flying dust, causing the birds and insects that had been resting in the forest to flee in panic.

Aaron shook the cross sword in his hand, and there was a breathtaking whistling sound in the air, showing the user’s amazing arm strength and mastery of the sword.

Aaron wiped the hot sweat from his forehead, breathing thick white air from his mouth, soothing the physical fatigue caused by running a breathing technique.

At this moment, the white muscles all over his body became red, and heat was constantly pouring out of his body, which was the effect of the improved breathing method—exercising the muscles of the whole body, and there was no dead end for any exercise.

“Number zero, show my current body data.”

“Dip, the host’s current physical attributes are as follows – host: Aaron Strength: 1.8 Sensitivity: 1.9 Constitution: 1.8”

A satisfied smile appeared on the corner of Aaron’s mouth, “Is it approaching the quasi-knight stage? It seems that after training tonight, and tomorrow night, I guess I can break through to the quasi-knight stage!”

In the past few days, under the hidden pressure of survival, Aaron frantically practiced the ‘Reverse Cross Breathing’, coupled with the constant search for plants that can enhance his physical fitness, in just a few days, It actually raised the overall physical fitness to the threshold of being close to a quasi-knight!

If those ordinary city guards were to know about it, I’m afraid they would be completely shocked and go crazy——

A guy who has no foundation at all, has approached the threshold of a quasi-knight in just six days. Most people have practiced the knight’s breathing method for five or six years, and they have not yet entered the stage of a quasi-knight!

Moreover, Aaron is only in his early 14s this year. He has a lot of youth to reach a higher realm, and his future prospects are simply unlimited – let alone a formal knight, maybe you can try to touch the realm above the knight. !

People like George, Simon, Ella, etc. are all around 16-18 years old, and their physical attributes are in the range of 1.5-1.7. If they want to reach 1.9, which is close to a prospective knight like Aaron, I am afraid it will take at least two or three. It’s time for the year!

Aaron secretly judged the current strength: “Now I am alone, hanging Ella alone, Simon and the others have absolutely no problem, it’s just…”

Aaron’s eyes became a little deeper, because of the existence of that ‘exception’ – Bruce!

He didn’t forget that when the zero chip scanned Bruce’s body, the attribute data in the horizon was obviously not in the normal range!

“So far, I still haven’t figured out how the poison was in the first place, but it is absolutely certain that someone wanted to harm me! But, why would ‘he’ want to harm me?”

Aaron muttered to himself while speculating about the poisoner’s motive: “What is the benefit of killing me? Or, if I die, it will help the poisoner’s next actions?”

“Bruce has been showing no interest in me recently, but he has never shown his true strength in front of others, and everyone has always thought that he is at most still hovering before the threshold of a quasi-knight……”

“That cheap adoptive father, Bert, with half of his subordinates, suddenly disappeared in the village farthest from the castle. It was thought that he was out hunting and died in the mouth of a monster…”

“Viscount Steve will send guards out on duty every week in turn. A total of more than 200 city guards, at least half of them are on duty outside, and the other half are recuperating in the Viscount’s castle. ……..”

Sudden,

A flash of light flashed through Aaron’s mind, making him vaguely have a possible idea——

“Hey~, it looks like things might get interesting…”

Aaron muttered to himself inexplicably, seeing a ray of morning light on the eastern horizon faintly emerging, hurriedly packed his things, quietly left the forest, and returned to his house without disturbing anyone.

the next morning

Aaron yawned and walked out of the room, looking sleepy and sleepy, walked to the dining table at the village chief’s house, and sat down lazily, attracting Bruce, Simon and others. Frowning.

This is not the first time.

Except for the first day, for the next five days, Aaron looked like he was lazy and sleepy every morning, as if he hadn’t slept at all. He patted his butt and got up, went back to his room and went back to sleep.

Totally a real ‘sloth’.

In fact, I can’t blame Aaron, who told him to sneak out every night to practice Knight’s Breathing, and pick beneficial plants to take, which basically means that he hasn’t slept for most of the night, and sleep time is naturally very lacking.

Even if the No. 0 chip is very powerful, it can assist Aaron to directly enter the state of ‘deep sleep’ and perform high-efficiency and high-quality sleep – in short, it is the state of ‘deep sleep’ in the true sense.

However, it is not enough for human beings to perform ‘deep sleep’ alone. In fact, ‘light sleep’ is also indispensable, because ‘light sleep’ performs the brain self-restoration that ‘deep sleep’ does not have to some extent.

Even if Aaron has the assistance of No. 0, he can enter ‘deep sleep’ faster and reduce the proportion of ‘light sleep’, which is at most an hour or two less than the average person.

Moreover, practicing Knight’s Breathing is not only physically exhausting, but also mentally exhausting. As a result, Aaron has recently slept a few hours more than the average person – at least 10 hours of sleep, and only enough at night. Spirit to practice knight’s breath.

In this way, Aaron could only take advantage of the daytime to ‘make up for a good sleep’, but in the eyes of the other people, it became that Aaron went back to sleep every day to ‘return to sleep’ – and he still slept for the whole day. kind of god.

“Humph~!”

Seeing Aaron sitting slouched, Ella couldn’t help but snorted heavily. Although she didn’t say much, but with her disdainful expression, it clearly conveyed the implied meaning——

‘Worthless waste’

Simon also had a bad expression, and said yin and yang strangely: “Yo~, Master Ya Da finally woke up, I thought you would sleep so much that you couldn’t even eat breakfast! Oh, it turns out that you are quite a ‘on-time’ person~! ”

This time, his face was completely torn, and he clearly expressed his dissatisfaction. As usual, although everyone felt disdain for Aaron in their hearts, they would not say such words in person.

Obviously, Aaron’s actions these days have touched their bottom line, causing them to completely lose confidence in this nominal ‘group leader’.

However, Aaron didn’t seem to hear the sarcasm in his words at all. He picked up the brown bread on his own, paired it with freshly squeezed milk, and ate it in big gulps. After a few days of adaptation, he was very fond of black bread. There is no longer the initial disgust, and there is freshly squeezed milk to moisten the throat, swallowing without any resistance at all.

Aaron still ignored them.

This time, even Bob felt a little unbearable, and couldn’t help but sarcastically said: “Oh, if I were you, I would resign now, and why are you still in the city guards? After practicing breathing for so many years, I haven’t even made any progress, I can beat three people like you by myself…”

“Okay, don’t talk nonsense with this free-spirited moth, let him go.” Bruce interjected, then got up and leaned in front of Aaron, who was eating the big piece, and said coldly:

“You’d better eat a little more now, you won’t have this chance in the future. When this mission is over, I will report to Commander Willy and ask you to be kicked out of the city guards, our city guards don’t need it. You’re a scumbag with no strength at all.”

Willie is one of the other two official knights besides Viscount Steve. He has a high status in the Viscount’s territory. Profit leader.

Seeing this, George on the side pursed his lips and seemed to want to say something, but under Bruce’s cold eyes, he didn’t say anything after all, sighed and let them go.

Simon, Bob, and Ella remained silent, but the expressions on their faces clearly conveyed the meaning of ‘approval and support’. Got ripped clean.

This is a real tearing of the face. It seems that they have lost Bert’s protection. These people have completely dissatisfied with Aaron.

Aaron still turned a deaf ear to this, finished the brown bread in his hand unhurriedly, and poured a big mouthful of fresh milk, completely ignoring the people who looked at him coldly, and slowly got up and walked back to his room— —

Pa~!

The door was closed lightly, and Aaron continued to start his ‘sleep’ career in a grand manner, ignoring Bruce and the others.

“Hmph~!” Bruce snorted coldly, and said with a hint of anger in his tone: “I will let you be proud of the last day, and I will let you get out of the city guards when you return to the castle tomorrow.”

Ella also said with a sneer: “How dare this waste put on airs in front of us? If this Aaron is still wearing the skin of the city guard team leader, I can’t beat him for the time being. He thought he could be so proud of himself. Go on?”

Saying that, Ella drummed her fists and gave a crisp finger snap: “This kind of thing, I promise to beat him all over the floor with one hand. When we return to the castle tomorrow, we will jointly apply to the commander, Get this asshole out of our group so that he won’t have to occupy the group’s quota every time, and if something happens, it will hinder us.”

“That’s right. Let’s make a joint name when the time comes, and let this lagging waste get out of our group.”

Simon took a bite of the brown bread happily, but the dry bread stuck in his throat, coughed a few times, and then swallowed the bread smoothly——

“Damn black bread, I really don’t want to stay in this bird place for a moment.”

Simon, angrily, put the remaining black bread in his hand directly on the ground. This action made Silent eat breakfast. To the village chief Macaulay, who was pretending to be deaf and dumb in front of him, the movement of his hand was fierce, and his eyes An irresistible flash of resentment.

However, this anger was randomly suppressed by Macaulay. He resisted the anger in his heart and said solemnly: “Master Guard, this kind of black bread is already the best food here, I don’t know how much it will cost. How many villagers’ efforts have been made, please don’t waste it…”

At the same time, a few poor children standing peeking in the distance, saw the brown bread that Simon threw on the ground, and immediately swarmed up, tore each other and snatch it, because it was extremely delicious and high-end in their opinion. food.

“Hmph~, the best food? Who knows if you old man is hiding something else good?”

Simon didn’t save any face for Macaulay. In the past, their group went to other villages, and even the more prosperous town of Dolong to be stationed. The worst thing they ate was the fragrant white bread. The first hamlet that offers rough brown bread can compare?

What’s more, the soldiers stationed here represent the lord – Viscount Steve. The managers of those villages did not dare to disrespect them at all, because they were the Viscount’s private soldiers and the symbol of the Viscount’s right to govern the land.

“you!”

Macaulay couldn’t help but spit out a word, but when he saw Simon put his hand beside the cross sword on his waist, he couldn’t help but swallow the words that came to his mouth. .sonicmtl.com continues to bow his head and become a ‘deaf-mute’——

He finally managed to become a village chief, but he didn’t want to be replaced by the lord because of this. At least being a village chief can indeed intercept a lot of private goods, such as some expensive macaroni…… .

As for those villagers who offended the soldiers stationed there and asked the soldiers to make their own reports to the head?

Stop kidding, it doesn’t matter how many villagers die, as long as you don’t get in your way.

Seeing Macaulay’s performance, Simon nodded with satisfaction, a look of disdain flashed in his eyes, and continued to lower his head to eat and drink.

Bob on the side saw the poor children who were looting the black bread. He seemed to be thoughtful, and quietly picked up two pieces of black bread and stuffed it into his arms……

In the distance, many onlookers watched the end of a morning farce. Most of the villagers’ eyes flashed with hatred, but they could only turn away and continue to do their hard work.

If they didn’t work, they would not be able to pay the heavy taxes every month, and they would feed the garrison soldiers who would come to the village in turn every week to show off their power and eat for free.

Only Bruce seemed to have noticed something, frowned and took a sip of fresh milk, and in a voice that only he could hear, he whispered: “The tax of the Viscount is a bit heavier compared to the territory of other nobles. ……..”

…………………………..

late at night

Aaron quietly opened the door as always, but he just left the house, his eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and his eyes involuntarily swept to a house in the east of the village.

The house was brightly lit, and there seemed to be a faint sound…

[End of this Chapter]