The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

I saw that the young man who had just led the way suddenly became quite enthusiastic. While leading the way, he also talked more.

"So your name is Renn, my name is Basque, my father is the Baron of Landonia on the Gold Coast, and I have an older brother."

Hearing this, Ren glanced at the other party.

No wonder, judging from what I sensed, the opponent should have just become an official knight, and his strength is not considered strong. There is a clear gap between him and the few who practiced on the island.

It turns out that it was because of the ‘local snake’ that he probably got some kind of preferential treatment from Master Gunther.

This is also easy to understand. It is true that Master Gunther is obsessed with studying swordsmanship, but there is always someone to help with chores.

Apart from anything else, someone must make extra preparations for this piece of food.

For example, like Ren, he would have to eat more than ten kilograms of ordinary food in one meal to meet his nutritional needs.

However, it would be much better if some ferocious beast meat could be added, but the cooking process is time-consuming and labor-intensive. If there is a dedicated person to serve, it will definitely save much time and worry.

Just listen to Basque continue: "You have to work harder later."

"According to Master Gunther's practice, you will be given a maximum of three days to complete the first training task. If you cannot complete it, you have to leave."

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Renn felt a little strange why the other party became so enthusiastic all of a sudden.

But after thinking about it for a moment, Ren seemed to understand something.

Basque is like this, most likely not because of Master Gunther, let alone himself.

Then the answer is ready to come out - because of Claire.

Sure enough, after a while, the boy named Basque immediately changed the topic to Claire.

He rubbed his hands and asked a little embarrassedly: "Ren, you and Miss Claire should be familiar, right?"

"Familiar, otherwise she wouldn't write a letter of introduction to me, right?" Renn smiled and said.

"Yes, yes, what is the relationship between you?" Basque continued to ask.

Seemingly seeing Ren's slightly frowning expression, Basque immediately waved his hand and said quickly: "Ren, don't get me wrong, I want to ask, Miss Claire doesn't have a fiancé yet, right?"

Ren was stunned when he heard this!

It seems that Claire's influence is far-reaching.

People have been gone for so long, but her legend is still circulating here.

After thinking about it, Ren shook his head.

"Ah! Miss Claire actually has a fiancé!" Basque looked shocked and frustrated.

Renn glanced at him speechlessly and said, "I shake my head because I don't know."

"Ah? So that's it, that's great!" The young man's mood always changed so quickly.

"But don't worry about it. Claire likes people who are stronger than her. Your strength." Renn glanced at the other person and immediately poured cold water on the boy named Basque.

"Don't look down on people, Ren! I'm only sixteen years old now, and I'm already an official knight. I'm receiving training from Master Gunther here just so that I can excel in the canonization assessment!"

"Although my strength is slightly inferior to Miss Claire, I'm just a little bit close. I think I still have a chance." The young man changed the topic and said with confidence.

Ren glanced at the other party and did not continue to speak. However, he silently added in his heart, 'You have no chance because of your opponent.'

The two of them soon arrived at the middle of the island, where there was a simple stone house made of stones.

Only then did Ren realize that he was on the coast just now. Due to the angle, he could only see seven or eight stone houses.

But in fact, some stone houses are blocked by the stone houses in front, so there are more than ten stone houses here.

"If there is a circle on the door, it means there is someone there. If there is no circle, it means it is empty. Renn, you can just choose a room to live in." The young man on the side waved his hand and let Renn choose.

Ren walked around and found that these stone houses seemed to be cleaned by special personnel, and they were all very clean, so he randomly picked one and took his luggage inside.

At this time, Basque patted his head and said: "Ren, there is one more thing. If you let someone be responsible for the food here, you will have to pay a sum of money, and so will your horse."

"How much?" Renn nodded, it was reasonable.

"If it is a nutritious meal with ferocious beast meat added, the price will be a little more expensive. It is 10 imperial gold coins a day, including three meals. However, most people will choose to add meals in the evening, which will be much cheaper."

"As for the horse, you can take care of it for one empire silver coin per day."

"Okay! Pay one month in advance."

Renne directly gave Basque 303 imperial gold coins.

"Tsk, tsk, you are really a rich man. Let me make it clear first, it's not that I don't want to wipe out your change, but this money is for the family and has nothing to do with me." Basque sighed after taking it.

Although he is also the heir of a noble family, he is the second son after all. If he gets the family's share, most of it will be divided by his elder brother. This is based on the premise that he has demonstrated his own investment value.

Of course Renn doesn't mind. He happened to make a lot of money from the Zalal Resistance stronghold recently, and he doesn't feel bad about spending this little money.

In addition, Jennifer, a beautiful woman who can make a lot of money, also prepared an extra sum of money for him before leaving.

Therefore, money is not a problem for Rennes now.

"Well, who should I give the horse to?" Renn nodded, then looked around again and found that there was no stable nearby.

"This is simple, just leave it to my servant. Grando!! Take good care of this gentleman's horse."

Suddenly, a young male servant quickly ran out from a stone house at the farthest side. He bowed to Ren and Basque and said, "As you command, Master Basque."

After briefly settling in, after thinking about it, Ren put the chrome iron sheath and pig head hammer in the room, wearing a black tunic with gold and silver thread embroidery prepared for him by the beautiful woman Jennifer. Walked out of the stone house.

Seeing Ren's handsome low-key luxury outfit, Basque was stunned for a moment and muttered in a low voice: "It looks good, but this is for training, not for show."

Ren didn't care about the jealousy that he was more handsome.

The two of them walked towards where Gunther was just now.

At this time, Ren couldn't help but ask: "Basque, what is this first task?"

Basque smiled mysteriously and said, "Guess!"

Ren's face darkened!

You are not a beautiful woman, but I am still guessing!

Guess what?

Seeing Ren's unhappy expression, Basque stopped smiling, looked a little more serious, and said: "Cut the seaweed."

Ren was stunned!

The steps paused slightly.

It's not too difficult, it seems too easy.

"Cut seaweed?" Ren asked in surprise.

He originally thought that the first task would be a fight with some kind of marine creature, which would most likely be quite difficult.

Otherwise, why are there so many young people sweating and practicing swordsmanship near the lighthouse?

Obviously, he was stopped at the first level, and he was not allowed to enter!

But is it possible that there is something weird about the seaweed in this sea area, so it is quite difficult? Renxin said.

"Yes, it's just cutting seaweed, but this kind of seaweed is very tough. I can't explain the specific reason. It's just that it's difficult to cut. You'll know when you try it yourself." The young man nodded with certainty. said.

He is regarded as the person responsible for logistics here. While practicing with Master Gunther, he is also responsible for doing some chores. He is also very familiar with some of the master's habits.

The first step, the first task, always starts with cutting the seaweed.

The seaweed in the sea here is called tough seaweed by the locals. Compared with ordinary seaweed, the surface has a layer of secreted mucous membrane that is insoluble in water all year round. After being chopped with a sharp weapon such as a sword, the force is often relieved.

Even after this kind of tough seaweed is pulled out from the seabed and the mucous membrane is removed, the toughness of the seaweed itself is extremely amazing.

After multiple ropes are dried and twisted together, they can be used as cables on sailboats.

It is conceivable that its toughness is amazing, so it is called tough seaweed.

"However, Ren, you will suffer more if you use a two-handed sword."

"If you know how to use that kind of knight's sword, the difficulty of completing the first mission should be much lower." The young man reminded after taking a look at the shimmering giant sword behind Ren.

Ren's heart moved slightly, and he already understood why Basque said that.

Because the cross-sectional area of ​​a two-handed sword is much larger than that of a one-handed sword, the resistance when swinging in water is naturally much stronger than that of a one-handed sword.

But Ren thought for a while and asked: "Is it possible to complete the first mission with a two-handed sword? Or what does Master Gunther mean?"

"Yes, but very few. The master never cares whether you use a one-handed sword or a two-handed sword, and will not remind you, but I heard him say before that you can use whatever you used to fight before."

"Otherwise, if you listen to the master, there is a high probability that you will not be able to complete the subsequent training tasks."

"In that case, I don't need to change it! But Basque, thank you for the reminder." Renn shrugged and said with a smile.

Apart from being a bit chatty, this young man seems to be a pretty good person.

The two came to the other end of the island.

Master Gunther was still on the spot, instructing the young men on their swordsmanship. When he saw Renn and Basque coming over, he nodded slightly and motioned Renn to follow.

I saw Gunther taking Renn to a nearby reef, pointing to the water and saying: "There is a kind of tough seaweed under the water. If you cut ten of them with your sword within three days, you will have completed the training mission. "

"Be careful, use the sword to pull it out, not your hands."

"Understood, Master Gunther." Renn nodded.

When Ren followed Gunther's direction and looked at the blue water, he discovered that because this was an island about twenty or thirty meters away from the coastline, the depth of the water around the reefs here had already exceeded Two meters.

About ten meters away from where he was currently standing, he could vaguely see the bottom of the sea, where many slender plants were swaying.

Presumably, this should be the tough seaweed that Master Gunther mentioned.

Without asking any more questions, Ren took a deep breath and slowly stepped into the blue water.

Suddenly, a cold feeling coupled with the squeezing feeling of seawater coming from all directions hit my face.

Since it was winter, the temperature of the sea water was much colder than that in summer. Even with Ren's physical condition, he couldn't help but shiver slightly.

However, with a physique as high as blackjack, Renn quickly adapted to the entire cold sea environment.

After only diving three or four meters, Ren saw green belt-shaped seaweed growing upward one by one at the bottom of the water. At this moment, a large group of tough seaweed was swaying slightly in the seawater with the undercurrent.

This kind of tough seaweed is different from what Ren expected. It looks more similar to the kelp from the previous life, but it is much narrower.

Without thinking much, Ren waved the shimmering giant sword in his hand and struck directly at the swaying tough seaweed.

On the shore.

A short-haired young man frowned slightly, glanced at Basque, and said, "Basque, didn't you tell him that cutting tough seaweed underwater would be a disadvantage with a two-handed sword?"

Basque shrugged and said helplessly: "I told you, but they don't listen. What can I do?"

"It seems that this is another person who doesn't understand the situation clearly. He may have thought that the seaweed here is the same as what he has seen before." Another young man said.

"That's not necessarily true. The person introduced by Claire might be very powerful."

"No, you see he is not old. He may have great talent, but at this age, his strength is not very strong. After all, strength takes time to accumulate."

"I also think that he will surface soon and ask Master Gunther to replace the one-handed sword."

"Then let's wait and see. When he finds out that it doesn't work, he will remember what you said, Basque."

So a group of people continued to practice their swordsmanship, while looking at the sea where Ren was from time to time.

In sea water.

Because the resistance of water is much greater than that of air.

Therefore, Renn's originally swift strike was much slower than the one on land.

When the sword struck the soft tough seaweed, the tough seaweed was like catkins in the wind, hardly bearing any force. It was just shaken, but it was unscathed.

Huh?

Renn really didn't expect this to happen.

His casual attack was in vain.

You know, ordinary knights may not be able to resist his casual attack.

This made Ren narrow his eyes slightly, and he began to observe this tough seaweed carefully.

Although it is a sunny day with the sun in the sky, because Ren is located in the sea, the sunlight shining into the sea is dappled by the algae, plankton, various fish and aquatic plants in the sea. Therefore, the visibility is not high.

However, Ren had dark vision and was not affected too much.

He could see that the green surface of the tough seaweed had a layer of nearly transparent gel.

It should be this thing that took away the force of the sword he just struck.

Of course, in addition to this, the state of the tough seaweed body floating in the sea water also makes it difficult to bear force.

Coupled with the resistance of the sea water, the combination of the three made Ren's sword just return in vain.

Now that he knew the reason, Ren struck out with his sword again!

This time I used more force and the effect was better than last time.

I saw that there was already a pale white sword mark on the seaweed. Obviously, this time it broke through the obstruction of the gelatin and chopped into the body of the seaweed, without causing almost any damage like the previous time.

Ren continued to observe for a while, and then slashed a few times with his sword.

Immediately afterwards, Renn vaguely grasped the trick.

Because he found that he had to always pay attention to the direction of the undercurrent of the sea water. When the seaweed swayed to the front or the end, reaching a certain limit, it was at this time that the most force was exerted when chopping it up.

He plans to try again.

This time, his feet touched the bottom of the sea, and the mud instantly stirred up, but at this moment, Ren felt a sense of stability.

‘Break the limit! ’

"Whoa!" The giant shimmering sword passed by, bringing up a burst of bubbles.

A piece of tough seaweed was successfully cut off. Renn saw this scene in the sea water and nodded slightly.

He did not stop, but continued to chop, because he was in the water, and the more intense the exercise, the higher the oxygen consumption.

And even Ren couldn't breathe in water like a fish, so he had to hurry up.

After mastering the trick, it would be relatively easy to do this as Renne has already reached 83% of the body breaking limit.

After all, this is just the first training mission and it can't be very difficult once you get the hang of it.

Finally, before he ran out of breath, Ren emerged from the sea.

As for the people on the shore, when they saw from a distance that Ren had surfaced so quickly, their expressions were all uniformly "Sure enough."

Including the young man who just said that Renne might be very powerful couldn't help but look disappointed.

Because less than five minutes had passed, even Burnett, the strongest among them, only succeeded in entering the water for the second time.

Obviously, it was impossible for Ren to succeed in such a short time, so when he surfaced this time, he was either going to take a breath and try again, or he was going to propose to Master Gunther to replace the one-handed sword.

"Look! Let me just say that even if the talent is very strong, the strength will not be very strong. I understand the nature of most noble children very well. They enjoy excellent training conditions but..."

Suddenly, the young man's speech stopped abruptly, with an expression of disbelief.

Several people suddenly looked at him in confusion, and immediately had the same dumbfounded expression.

hiss!

Many people took a breath.

I saw Ren dragging a long bundle of tough seaweed behind him. Judging from the number, it was obviously more than ten!

"How can this horse ride so fast!" The young man couldn't help but raise his finger and pointed at this scene and said.

"Are any of us that fast?"

"How long did it take you? Doug"

"About two hours." The young man named Doug said solemnly.

"What about you? Arturo"

The young man named Arturo blushed slightly and said, "Half a day."

Suddenly, everyone stared at Ren, silent!

"Very good, faster than I expected. You passed the first training mission."

"Now, give these tough seaweeds to Basque, and then you follow me." Gunther showed a rare smile and led Ren to a stone house.

"Sit cross-legged on the stone slab." Gunther pointed to a large stone slab in the middle of the stone house.

"Okay, Master."

"Now I teach you a set of underwater breathing methods. In fact, to be precise, it is called internal breathing method. This is an auxiliary method passed down from ancient times that can be combined with the knight's breathing method you have practiced to further transform yourself. means."

"No matter what kind of breathing method you have practiced before, this internal breathing method is compatible with it."

Huh?

Aren't you learning swordsmanship?

Why did you learn this internal breathing method?

However, it is always a good thing to learn something good.

At this time, footsteps came from outside the door. The sound was a bit familiar to Ren. It was Basque's footsteps.

Sure enough, I heard someone outside the door say: "Master, I have ground the tough seaweed juice."

"Bring it in!" Gunther said.

I saw Basque bringing in half a wooden barrel of green juice, which exuded a burst of herbal fragrance and a hint of fishy smell.

Ren knew that these should be the tough seaweeds he cut down, but he still didn't know what the functions of this stuff would be after being squeezed into juice.

"You want to learn to breathe through your skin, not your mouth and nose. It's going to be difficult at first," Gunther continued.

"The idea of ​​breathing through the skin is relatively abstract and difficult for ordinary people to understand. If you can apply this fresh tough seaweed juice on the skin of your whole body, it will help you accelerate your understanding of this kind of inner breathing."

"However, the juice of this kind of tough seaweed evaporates very quickly in the air. After about half an hour, the effect of helping people to understand will begin to weaken."

"This is the second training task. I hope that within three days, you can master this internal breathing method. If you still want the tough seaweed juice, just go to the sea and cut some more." After Gunther finished speaking, he left Stone house.

Basque, who was on the side, muttered to himself: "Hey, it's strange. In the past, it was not always required within seven days. Why did it become three days when we arrived in Rennes?"

"Could it be that Master Gunther has an opinion about Ren? That shouldn't be the case."

After listening to Master Gunther's words, Ren suddenly understood!

I see.

He now understood the significance of the first step of the training mission.

First of all, the first step is very difficult. It has high requirements on the knight's breathing method and swordsmanship level of the person being tested.

For a senior knight, it is estimated that it would take several hours of trying to complete this task through repeated collection. For a formal knight, it is even more difficult.

But this is a threshold. Only when this requirement is met, the subsequent training content will be meaningful.

It turns out that this tough seaweed is used to speed up the comprehension of this inner breathing method.

Obviously, it takes you a long time to barely complete the task of 'cutting the tough seaweed'.

Then the subsequent task - 'Master the inner breathing method within three days', without the help of tough seaweed juice, it becomes almost an impossible task.

Therefore, Renne has understood that these training tasks are most likely to be interlocked.

Ren took off all his clothes and smeared the light green seaweed juice on his skin.

Soon, he felt a bit of cool substance, which seemed to be slowly seeping into his skin. Ren held his breath and concentrated on feeling it.

Half an hour later, the system prompt sounded:

[You have undergone internal breathing training, and your relevant understanding has improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill - internal breathing method]

[Your skill Breathing is improved, experience value +1]

good!

Looking at the new skill that appeared on the Knight (Extraordinary) panel, Renne has now learned this internal breathing method, although it is only internal breathing method lv1 (1/100).

Renn glanced at the attribute panel:

Name: Ryan Callan

Occupation: Wizard Apprentice (Extraordinary) lv4 (345/1000)/Knight (Extraordinary) lv4 (277/1000)/Beast Tamer (Extraordinary) lv5 (64/2000)/Armor Caster lv1 (17/100)

Constitution: 21

Strength: 19

Agility: 17

Spirit: 25

Remaining attribute points: 2

Skill points remaining: 6

Although he had six remaining skill points, after thinking for a moment, Ren decided not to rush to add more points, but to improve step by step according to Master Gunther's requirements.

After all, he only had three days, and if any problems arose in the middle, he would have enough time to solve them by adding more points.

Because, Renn could vaguely feel that every step of Master Gunther's arrangements had some kind of purpose, and the ultimate purpose should be to make the apprentices understand something.

After Ren used up the bucket of tough seaweed juice, he came to the beach again.

This time, when Renn came to the reef, seven or eight young people on the side looked at him because they knew that Renn was not the heir of a nobleman in the general sense, but a powerful and powerful dragon crossing the river.

However, Renn had no desire to talk to them at the moment.

The continuous use of tough seaweed juice just now gave him a vague understanding of the internal breathing method, so he should hurry up and harvest some more tough seaweed, strike while the iron is hot, and speed up the mastery of the internal breathing method.

I saw Ren's burly figure slowly submerging into the sea water.

Suddenly, Renn felt the coldness brought by the sea water and the pressure from all directions.

The biggest difference between this time and the last time is that Renn seemed to be able to faintly feel that his skin was 'breathing'.

This amplitude is very slight, but he can faintly detect it with his keen perception.

If we say before, mouth and nose breathing accounted for 99% and skin breathing accounted for 1%.

So now, mouth and nose breathing accounts for 95%, and skin breathing has increased from 1% to 5%.

Renn closed his eyes, carefully comprehending and experiencing this change.

After a while, Renn began to wield the shimmering giant sword and harvest the tough seaweed!

After understanding the inner breathing method, Renn's stay time in the sea was slightly increased.

When Renn dragged a large bundle of tough seaweed like a bucket and slowly walked onto the rocks on the shore, the setting winter sun shone on the sea and Renn.

Whether it was the young people around the white lighthouse or the young people practicing swordsmanship on the island, looking at Ren from both angles, their eyes were filled with brilliant golden light.

And Ren, who strode onto the shore, felt like a god descending to earth for a moment.

The young Basque looked at the scene in front of him and murmured to himself: "There is a gap between this man and other people."

"But it shouldn't be that big!"

Suddenly, he realized something and ran towards Renne quickly.

Judging from the posture, it seems that he is planning to take the tough seaweed in Ren's hand and actively grind it.