Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 46—Selection about the Future of Life

"This, is this a gift for me?"Claude reached out and grabbed the black rifle on the straw and took it out slowly.

This is a huge surprise, and a gift that Claude never imagined. He told his father that he wanted to have a arquebus. It was just a talk. In his heart, he never thought that Mr. Morssen would allow him to buy a musket, even if he used his own money to borrow his father's name. In memory, Mr. Morssen has never liked weapons very much. He thinks that a smart mind is more important than a powerful weapon…

Why did my father buy me a musket as a gift? While she couldn't help but look at the arquebus in her hand, Claude thought nervously in her heart: Is this a compensation for me? If I said that I had a gift for Albert, then I had already beaten him. Will it be that the parents had to shut up the ten crowns in order to settle the goods, and in order to be fair, I said that I had bought this arquebus as a gift for my two sons, so that I could No longer have opinions on the goods?

At this moment, Claude made a suspicious problem. The black arquebus in his hand is not a second-hand goods. Look at the packaging and the gun oil coated on it. It is clearly a new product that has just been manufactured. It is worth at least five or six crowns. . Why did the father who has always been stingy spend such a big price to buy a arquebus gun to give himself a gift? Does he have any ulterior motives?

If Mr. Morssen knows what Claude would think in his heart, maybe he would be too angry to put the newly bought gun into the furnace and destroy it.

In fact, Mr. Morssen's meaning is very simple. How to say that Claude is also his second son, blood is thicker than water. Of course, he does not know that this second son's body hides the transmigrator soul from another world. He arranged two life paths for the eldest son Albert and the second son Claude. Albert took the path of the civil servant and Claude entered the army.

Mr. Morssen also knows that the road to enlistment in the army is not good. The lucky ones who have not been caught in any war for fifteen years like Welikro's father are a minority. As long as they are on the battlefield, life and death are hard to say.

Out of a father's love, Mr. Morssen certainly hopes that Claude will live as long as possible, so he only thought that when he graduated from Claude, he would send him to the mainland of Nubissia, where the governor of the Tyrrsim region is the nominal godfather of Claude. It is always safer for him to be enlisted than passive conscription.

When Claude said that he wanted to have a musket, Mr. Morssen thought of his enlistment in the future. He felt that it is not a bad thing to let Claude become familiar with the musket now. Maybe he will be familiar with the rifle shooting accuracy in the future. More security. This is why Mr. Morssen made up his mind to spend money on Claude to buy this brand new arquebus.

Mr. Morssen smiled at Mimi's cigarette from his pocket and stuffed it into his beloved pipe. After igniting with the match, he took a deep breath. These expensive tobacco are from the mainland of Nubissia and are also the specialty of Kingdom's overseas direct management.

Smoking is Mr. Morssen's only hobby, even if the price of tobacco is very high, but Mr. Morssen has never been stingy in his luxury hobby, he believes that smoking is very much in line with their status as an executive, while smoking can keep the mind awake, In talking to people, he can also use smoke to cover his expression and carefully observe each other, using matches to light the short time to judge the other's intentions, which is very important to him.

"Do you like this gift?"Mr. Morssen was very pleased to see his second son's love for this musket.

"Yes, I like it very much, and I am very happy, thank you father."Claude is very cooperative and reveals a look of ecstasy. At the same time, he has some fear in the expression of surprise: "Just, but I don't understand, why are you willing to buy such a new arquebus for me? I remember you didn't say hate weapons? ”

Mr. Morssen was just looking. He didn't expect Claude to ask: "Yes, I hate weapons very much. Your brother is the same. This is because we are civil servants. We are used to solving problems with administrative means and clever minds. Instead of being like a coward, holding a weapon to threaten the safety of others.

But you are different, you are a physical student, and you will be seventeen years old after you graduate from the middle school next year. Whether you like it or not, according to the requirements of Kingdom (Rights of the Four Castes), you must make a choice for your future before the age of 18. Is it just a job in the town to find a job as a civilian to spend this life, or to fight for the nationals identity?

In Whitestag town, it's a good idea to be a civil servant with your grades, unless you can become the first in the school, and the exam grades exceed all the liberal arts students, so that you can get the official recommendation from the country to enter the town hall, which requires Look at your luck, the town office is not a shortage of civil servants.

The other way is to join the army and join the army to build merits on the battlefield. Another option is to become a sailor and enter the Kingdom's sea fleet. However, from the perspective of safety, I do not recommend taking this road. The risk at sea is even greater. The loss of a unit on the battlefield is no longer heavy and there are lucky people. If there is a war at sea, the loss is often calculated by how many ships.

You are already sixteen years old this year. In the past few days, you and your friends even hunted such a big python, so that everyone in the town would marvel at your courage. I think, maybe your future is really on the road to enlisting from the army, and you still want to have your own musket, so now you are two years away from the age of eighteen, let you familiarize yourself with the musket, I believe This will be very helpful for your future…"

Claude was a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect his father to talk to him about the future of his future.

As a transmigrator, he did not care about what the rights of the Four Castes. The national identity of the civilian identity is no different in his eyes. It is nothing more than a tax-poor and less legal issue of possession of firearms. Even the Kingdom of Aueras, where he is, has no sense of belonging to him.

As a transmigrator, he believes that he knows what is true freedom. As a free transmigrator, in the future, it is natural that he will not stay here, and he will not be able to pat the ass. Never mind the laws of Kingdom, the classification of the four major classes of Servant civilian nationals nobility seems so ridiculous in the eyes of transmigrator, he will not be bound by these boring legal provisions.

Just like the ambition he and his three friends said, he hopes that he will become an explorer in the future, to explore the mysteries of this different world, to travel through this magical world, to see the strange local customs. Human feelings, this is the meaning of transmigrated this world. Of course, if you can learn magic, that's a good thing.

But now the father has to talk to him about the serious choice of life. For a moment, he doesn't know how to answer: "This, this father, if you don't join the army, be a civilian. Can I not leave Whitestag town? ?"

The fool will leave Whitestag town before he grows up. Then he will say that his father is also the administrative director of the town. He said that the ugly point is the existence of the local snake, and it is not the ground-like snake of the underground. The kind of sitting tiger. Claude believes that even if he chooses to be a civilian, he will live in Whitestag town as well as the average nationals. Anyone should look at his father's face and let himself score three points.

Labor and capital did not want to fight for the Cangs of the Kingdom of Aueras as a cannon fodder. The existence of this shit Kingdom is not my fault. This is the real idea of transmigrator.

Eh…Mr. Morssen shook his head. "I have to tell you the truth, Claude, you are a physical student. In a sense, every physical student is a reserve soldier of Kingdom. Even if you choose to be a civilian, as long as Kingdom has a war, then you are the first person to be forced to join the army. This is not a question you are willing to do. Therefore, it is better to be voluntarily enlisted in the army than to be forced into the army during the war. After all, even if you become a junior officer in the army, the survival rate on the battlefield is much higher than that of the soldiers who become cannon fodder…"

Huh?The physical education students were originally the reserve soldiers of Kingdom…Claude suddenly realized that the courses in fencing are fencing, wrestling, boxing, long-distance running, iron throwing and long stick killing. Right, there is horsemanship training, and the third grade will start training on firearms. No wonder I thought I entered a boot camp…

This is too much, too shameless. Transmigrator thought that he didn't think so. He thought that this dog's education was good. He asked students to choose the road of civil and military. I didn't expect the students to pay tuition, but they cultivated themselves as King's reserve soldiers. This shit Kingdom even recruits. Training costs have been saved…

"In fact, enlisting in the army is not as terrible as you think."Mr. Morssen took a sip of smoke and said, "Claude, you are 16 years old, after that big illness at the end of last year you have a lot of sensible, at home will love your sister and brother, will help your mother work, study grades also improved, but also like reading, these changes I see in the eyes, as a father I am very relieved, Although you have a very good relationship with your eldest brother … "

Speaking of Mr. Morssen suddenly paused here, it is probably related to the day when Claude screamed Albert: "So today I want to talk to you seriously about your future. As parents, we certainly don't want your children to leave us in adulthood. Even if you are a family member, we also hope that the family can live with you and never separate…

However, as a father, I must consider your future. In any case, I hope that you can earn nationals for yourself. If it is peacetime, then I can shelter you in Whitestag town, even if you are a civilian. But now the situation of Kingdom is not very good. The Kingdom of Nasri in the eastern part of the mainland and the four Dukedoms have once again established the anti-Austrian alliance. I judge that in a few years, our Kingdom will once again join the anti-Austrian countries. An outbreak.

If you were a civilian at that time, you would soon be forced into the battlefield, and I would have no choice. So I decided to let you join the army early after graduation, and I will send you to the mainland of Nubissia, where the Governor Jerrihausen Van Cruz viscount is your godfather. By his side, I believe that your safety will be guaranteed. Will also get merits quickly. ”

It turned out that his father had already made arrangements, and Claude was relieved. Father said in a few years kingdom and those anti-Austrian alliance outbreak war judgment is very Claude approval, this time "White Deer Morning News" from the Yorkshire Daily Affairs comments and Kingdom news reports have shown such signs, For example, in the honeymoon time after signing a peace agreement with Kingdom of Nasri Kingdom newspapers would never mention the feud between the two countries in several wars.

However, Claude was very curious about the godfather who fell from the sky. He never knew that he had a nobility godfather. As a father, he seemed to be unable to match the Jerrihausen Van Cruz viscount. That is viscount, more than baron. High level, and also a governor of overseas direct jurisdiction.

Mr. Morssen seems to know what Claude is thinking. He said in a memory: "I was still young at the time, I didn't get the nationals status, it was just an ordinary administrative document in the town office, but at that time I was given an administrative proposal. I won the fourth administrative award, and the one that rewarded me was Jerrihausen Van Cruz viscount.

When he arrived at Whitestag that day, it happened that you were born, viscount was very happy to promise you the name, your Claude name is still his commemoration of the friends who died in the battlefield, so he became your godfather. When he was in the three southwestern counties, he often came to see you, but when you were still young, you didn't remember anything. Later he went to the mainland of Nubissia and the contact was less. But every year we still have a few letters…"

So, Claude thought, maybe going to the Nubissia continent would be a good choice.