Emperor of Arcane

"How should you defend yourself against someone who is stronger than you and slashes from top to bottom?"

Old John scratched his head and assumed a defensive posture, with a little uncertainty in his tone.

"Um, do this?"

Matthew glanced at it, digitally displayed it, recorded it completely and in detail, and at the same time said to Angela on the side:

"The center of gravity is slightly lowered, the left leg is stepped back, the right leg is bent and stretched forward, holding a weapon with both hands, a shield with both hands, and the contact angle is slightly tilted..."

Angela, who had already thought of something, silently realized it while recording it.

Clicking on all the offensive postures, Matthew continued to talk about item 2:

"Facing an attack from behind that is faster than you, what is your defensive action?"

After hearing this, Angela took the opportunity to make corresponding movements from behind Old John.

Old John, who gradually understood the situation, pounced forward expertly, rolled on the ground, adjusted his body shape, raised his hands and wielded his two swords diagonally.

His entire process of exerting force, as well as the purpose and amplitude requirements of each movement, all fell into Matthew's eyes.

After questioning for half an hour, Matthew squeezed out all the defensive moves from Old John.

Matthew held the Shadow Crystal in one hand and the defensive stance training manual in the other, and handed them to Angela:

"In the next three days, you can read more and take notes when you have time, and rest for half an hour first."

"I'll arrange special training for you later."

With a little hope in her eyes, Angela vaguely guessed the Lord's purpose.

But whether this matter succeeds or not, Angela feels that this matter should be kept secret.

In this world where literacy costs a lot of money, this can already be called the foundation of one's life and can be regarded as a family heirloom.

At the same time, Angela also felt extremely grateful for the Lord's trust, and secretly made up her mind that she must not let the Lord down.

Half an hour later.

Angela, who had recovered her condition, took the initiative to find Old John.

This time, although Angela held a long sword, she only defended but did not attack. She imitated Old John as much as possible in every move.

Old John slashed with his knife, and Angela raised her hand to block. Where the swords met, flying sparks flew up.

Angela withstood the collision of power and took half a step back. The lord's praise came to her ears:

"This defensive action is up to standard."

The reason why Matthew was so sure was because a progress prompt of "Defensive posture experience value +1" floated above Angela's head.

Soon, Angela tried all the defensive moves in turn.

Matthew quickly found out the unqualified movements for her, and Angela asked Old John again for each movement, and made fine adjustments to the notes she had just recorded.

Angela overcame every unqualified move one by one, and the progress of her defensive posture continued to improve.

By the time Angela had completely mastered every move, only two hours had passed.

Taking advantage of the break, Old John quickly ate some food in order to recover his strength faster. Seeing Angela asking the Lord for advice again, he muttered to himself in disbelief:

"This progress is too fast..."

It took Old John several years to sum up the ability of defensive posture in battle after battle.

Now, in just a few hours, Angela had already figured out the door, which gave Old John an unreal and absurd feeling.

Matthew patiently helped Angela summarize.

The first time is always the most difficult. After more times, Angela will become familiar with it.

The day passed quickly.

Old John gasped and stopped what he was doing. Angela, who was walking calmly across from him, saluted him with a sword. Seeing the loneliness in the corner of his eyes, she whispered.

"This should be just an attempt by the lord..."

Old John, who was not sensitive to the lord's behavior, suddenly woke up. Before he could ask more questions, Angela had already turned around and left.

Matthew calculated it, and after groping until the end of training today, Angela's progress increased to 45%.

The next two days.

Matthew documented and refined Angela’s training process.

It took Angela 5 hours to defend against the two people's attacks before reaching the required standards, and the progress increased to 70%.

It only took Angela two hours to defend against the attacks of three people, and she successfully completed the task, and the progress was increased to 100%!

In the afternoon of the third day, I successfully learned the defensive stance feat!

With continuous practice and familiarity, Matthew is becoming more and more confident in the popularization of specialty training.

Of course, all this comes at a price!

Matthew never thought that he was a good person and that some necessary precautions were necessary.

Angela, who had obtained the first expertise, started learning the second low-level expertise under Matthew's arrangement.

In another three days, Angela successfully learned the "battlefield veteran", and her strength increased rapidly.

Such speed made Old John, who knew the inside story, stunned.

He is very excited to strengthen training every day, trying to further improve his physical fitness.

At the same time, Old John continued to train his soldiers with greater enthusiasm.

Try to make them stronger in the shortest possible time.

During this week.

The soldiers were not idle either.

Plenty of food, strict training, generous salaries, and fierce competition with each other have transformed them.

The total number of people increased from 105 to 150.

The number of warrior professionals increased to 40.

Among them, 15 people have been promoted to level 2, and Lyon is the first.

But this is only a change in strength on the surface. The improvement in formation coordination has become even greater.

When they lined up neatly, marched through the entire village together, and returned to the barracks, they were greeted with cheers and praises from everyone.

This uniform beauty gives everyone who watches it an addictive feeling.

Even Matthew, who was very discerning, had to admit that these trained soldiers brought him quite a surprise.

However, this does not come without a cost.

The soldiers and villagers who ate with all their appetites consumed three times more food than usual, and there were hundreds of kobolds waiting to be fed.

In just one week, 1/10 of the food purchased from Adam Smith had been consumed.

After all, with a population of 2,000 in Bay Village, and to support 200 professional soldiers, most supplies can only be purchased from outside.

Maybe the only one worried is the busy butler Ralph.

As he watched the funds in the territory dwindle, he felt a little anxious.

Even though he knew that the lord had hoarded a batch of alchemical potions, he was still a little worried about whether Adam Smith could sell them quickly in exchange for much-needed gold coins and various resources.

Becoming stronger costs a lot of money!

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