The Hero Who Troubles the Heroes

The village is fairly clean, there is no fear of mixed people and animals, and the floor is full of feces, so Charles dared to go inside.

The houses here are all made of wood. On an earth platform about half a meter high, a circle is made of wood, leaving a doorway and covering the top with straw, and a house is built.

It's just that the houses here are broken or new, and the most sturdy one seems to be a blacksmith shop.

Charles didn't take a few steps before he was attracted by the shouting and banging of boys.

Across the village, in the clearing beside the woods, a group of eight to twelve-year-old boys were practicing with rough wooden swords. On the log that was used as a chair, a middle-aged man was sharpening a wooden sword with a knife.

When Charles first saw this man dressed in the same coarse cloth as the other villagers, with a beard, bald head reflecting the sun, and thick hands and feet, he realized that he was not a simple person.

The man felt the gaze of Charles looking at him for the first time, and when he looked at Charles for the first time, he noticed the ring of authority on the other's right hand.

Just as he was about to stand up and salute Charles, he was stopped by Charles extending his hand, then walked over to sit beside him.

"Are these your students?" Charles asked the bald man.

"My lord, they are all children in the village. I am the guard of the village. I usually teach them a little swordsmanship." The man who claimed to be Algernon said, "In two days, several knights from the Praetorian Guard will come to select them. Waiters, they're practicing in anticipation of being picked by the knights."

For a male free citizen to step into the threshold of the nobility, the most direct way is to first become a servant of the knight, then transfer to a servant at the age of fourteen, and become a cavalry after the age of eighteen. knight.

Charles nodded, then picked up a wooden sword that Algernon had just sharpened and played with it. Although the wooden sword looks rough, it feels very close to a long sword made of steel.

"What about you?" Charles raised his wooden sword and made a slashing motion, which was quite smooth. "With your strength, you are more than enough to be a knight, so why would you only be a guard in one village?"

Algernon picked up a piece of wood and cut it, he replied: "I used to be a knight, but my lord was deprived of the title, and I was also deprived of the title. But I can only fight, not planting. In addition, the second young master wants me to help him protect the old lady, so the earl asked me to be the guard in the village."

Charles stretched out his hand and patted Algernon on the shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, I guess Tony won't be a cook for a lifetime, maybe he will be re-titled in a few years, and then you will be so loyal and loyal. The vassal will definitely be restored to the title."

The nobles in the north can be said to be people in a circle. They form a big network by blood relationship and teacher-student relationship.

Mrs Verri is the honorary title given to Mrs Veri Buffay for her artistic achievements. She is the teacher of Charles' mother Winnie McGarden, and the mother of Charles' boss in the caravan, Tonio. The mother of Earl Buffy, who had a conflict with Charles and Diana by the lake, is also the grandmother of the two illegitimate daughters of King Villingen and the grandmother of the fourth and fifth princesses of the Villingen Kingdom. Coupled with her old experience of teaching in Knowledge City, she was able to talk to Charles' grandfather, grandmother, and Professor Wolfe.

Charles figured this out after seeing the young Tonio and the Earl of Buffy in the painting on the porch of the house.

Looking back now, it is estimated that Aubrey and Tonio knew about the relationship, so Aubrey asked Charles to follow Tonio, and Tonio took great care of Charles, and even wanted to take his own pair of cabbage It was given to him for the same reason.

As a person who dared to grow cabbage with the queen, Tonio was either the king's loyal confidant or a confidant who the king wanted to get rid of. Seeing that he dared to follow the caravan to the capital, then it must be the former. Now that the troubled times are approaching, it is inevitable that the king will recall him.

Algernon was a little surprised by what Charles said, and he was relieved when Charles explained to him that he and Tonio were working in the caravan together.

At this moment, the movement in the clearing caught Charles' attention.

The two boys who practiced against each other with wooden swords decided the winner.

A blond boy of about ten years old slashed at a black-haired boy who was a little shorter than him with his sword in both hands. The black-haired boy took a step forward with his right foot and took the sword from right to left with both hands. This blow.

Then the black-haired boy turned around and pushed his arms, the long sword in his hand continued to exert force, pressing the opponent's long sword to the left away from his body, and at the same time the sword body slid, with his own long sword close to the hilt of the opponent's sword near the tip of the sword. Location.

At this moment, the long sword in the blond boy's hand pressed back against the black hair boy's long sword. Although his strength is stronger than that of the black-haired boy, the place where the two swords meet is near the tip of his sword, which makes him less powerful than the black-haired boy who resists with the blade near the hilt.

In the end, the black-haired boy took the intersection of the two swords as the axis, the sword body turned with the hand, and swept the blond boy's shoulder from left to right with the strength of the opponent, and hit the blond boy's right shoulder with a "pop". ~www.readwn.com~ The pain caused the sword in the opponent's hand to fall.

"Nice Yu Guangzhan." Charles, who got Her Lady Queen's golden finger, quickly saw the black-haired boy's sword move, "His pace and posture are considered qualified."

Algernon said: "Alex is the most talented kid I've ever seen. He's only eight years old this year, but his sword skills are already far beyond his peers. It's just... alas..."

"Just what?" Charles entered a state of curiosity.

Algernon shook his head helplessly and said, "It's nothing, it's just that he lacks in practice."

"Maybe it's because the progress is too fast and a little slack." Charles said.

Just like there are many talented young people on the football field, but there are only a handful of people like Cristiano Ronaldo who have been as talented until their thirties.

At this time, someone called Algernon away, saying that a wild boar with a somewhat abnormal spirit appeared outside the gate of the manor.

Charles wondered if it was the dragon's might that sent them over this morning that scared the wild boar.

He didn't follow along to watch the fun. It was easy and enjoyable for a knight like Algernon to kill a wild boar. One chicken.

The blond boy with a sore shoulder stepped aside and rested, leaving Alex standing in the middle of the open space with a proud face.

After looking at it for a while, Charles found that the basic skills of such boys are quite solid. The three basic attack movements of slashing, thrusting, and slicing, as well as footwork and blocking, are all straight-forward, almost reaching the passing level. It can be seen that Algernon has made great efforts in education.

Suddenly, there was a commotion, and the Alex and a boy with purple hair clashed.

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