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When I heard this...
Having suffered a lot in his training of the third combat skill, Arthur couldn't help but yearn for the day when he could break through to the Silver Knight level.
in fact.
Regarding the resonance between the "origin of the soul" and the seed of life.
He has already experienced it.
A review of the Battle of Blackrock Territory.
When he went to chase after the witch apostle Franky, he unexpectedly received a prayer from his loyal knight subordinate Gawain, and thus gained the temporary Lv.2 "Blessing of the Sun".
At that time.
With the blessing of Lv.2 "Blessing of the Moon" and Lv.2 "Blessing of the Sun".
Two distinct supernatural powers surged within him: the "Power of the Moon Goddess" and the "Power of the Sun."
They have a strong connection with each other and inspire each other.
Within him materialized a blazing white sun and a pitch-black moon, which then encircled his seed of life.
Driven by the extraordinary phenomena within his body reflected in the sunlight and moonlight.
Arthur's life seed underwent a qualitative change, resonating prematurely with the "soul essence" hidden deep within his body.
The resonance between the two gave him an unprecedented sense of exhilaration.
Looking back on this experience, Arthur is certain:
If at that time I had already accumulated enough life force to reach the late stage of the Black Iron Rank (500/500).
With the help of this extraordinary phenomenon of the sun and moon shining brightly, he was at least 50% confident that he could break through to the Silver Rank Knight.
But things didn't go as planned.
The extraordinary phenomenon within the body, where the sun and moon shone brightly, did not last long.
The qualitative change in his life seed was only temporary, and it had already subsided when he encountered the witch apostle Franky.
However, this experience still helped him gain an understanding of the "origin of the soul" and the resonance of the seed of life.
Therefore, if he can trigger the resonance phenomenon between the "Soul Origin" and the Seed of Life next time, his chances of advancing to Silver Knight will greatly increase.
And this is the key to how to inspire the advancement to Silver Rank Knight.
The butler, Leon, spoke to him for the first time about something that would be crucial to his future knightly training.
—Search for extraordinary external objects that are compatible with the attributes of the Knight's Breathing Technique.
As one of the two extraordinary professions alongside mages, knights, in addition to being able to generate powerful wave energy by relying on special breathing techniques, also possess other unique abilities.
Another important characteristic is its tough physical body.
Their resilient physical bodies allow them to consume extraordinary external objects that other extraordinary professions cannot withstand, in order to break through the bottleneck of their realm and increase the strength of their life seed and "soul origin".
Therefore, the value of extraordinary items is self-evident; for knights of Silver rank and above, they are practically priceless.
The butler, Leon, explained in detail the extraordinary external objects used by knights to break through their bottlenecks.
Generally speaking, extraordinary objects are naturally occurring energy aggregates that contain complex energy circuits that allow them to exist stably.
However, their birth and existence do not follow the natural laws of life.
Whether in barren land or fertile plains, extraordinary things can be born.
Their appearance can be a strange fruit growing on an ordinary apple tree, or a beast running in the forest, or a beast or bird soaring in the sky.
The quality of extraordinary artifacts is also graded, according to the knight's rank that can withstand their energy, with the lowest being a silver-grade extraordinary artifact.
This is also why the butler Leon didn't tell Arthur about the existence of extraordinary objects before he advanced to the late-stage Iron rank knight.
However, the fact that Silver-tier extraordinary items are available does not mean that Iron-tier knights cannot consume them.
On the contrary, extraordinary external objects of the Silver rank are the best help for late-stage Iron rank knights to advance to Silver rank knights.
Back then, Leon the butler was a squire knight serving the Eighth Prince, Richard Grey.
He used nearly two years of accumulated battle merits to exchange for an ice-attribute silver-tier extraordinary artifact that was compatible with his knight breathing technique from the royal treasury.
It was with the help of that ice-attribute silver-tier extraordinary artifact that he was able to stimulate the resonance between the life seed and the "soul origin," ultimately advancing to the realm of a silver-tier knight.
This is why the royal city is so attractive to many young knights.
There, by serving the royal family and accumulating military merits, one can obtain extraordinary external objects that allow them to break through their rank.
Several years later...
His chosen master, Richard Grey, lost the War for the Throne and was exiled to this remote northern frontier.
So he took out all his savings and, relying on the connections he had built up over the years, borrowed battle merits from his fellow knights of the same rank.
Finally, before leaving the royal city.
He managed to gather two more silver-tier extraordinary artifacts with ice attributes.
these years.
He barely managed to break through and advance to the mid-stage of the Silver Rank by absorbing these two extraordinary external objects.
Fortunately.
After arriving in Blackrock Territory, he obtained another extraordinary artifact with ice attributes from a resident of Frostraven Town by chance.
It is shaped like a snow lotus the size of a palm, but it always exudes an unusual chill.
When an ordinary person touches it, they will feel a chill that penetrates to the core and is unbearable.
He discovered that this snow lotus was a superior extraordinary object to all the extraordinary objects he had ever digested and absorbed, second only to the gold-tier extraordinary object that he had once seen the Eighth Prince Richard Gray consume.
He originally planned to rely on this ice-attribute extraordinary object, which was extremely compatible with his knight breathing technique, to break through to the late Silver rank.
In the future, it will be able to provide greater assistance to its young master, Arthur.
But unfortunately.
Not long ago, a crisis occurred involving the demon bandits, and his mount, the Tier 3 Frost Raven King, was attacked by a cursed power.
The third-tier Frost Raven King suffered severe injuries and nearly retaliated against himself.
Faced with the life-or-death crisis of Blackrock Territory, he had no choice but to reluctantly part with the snow lotus, a transcendent treasure, and allow the severely injured third-tier Frost Raven King to consume it.
Generally speaking, high-level magical beasts have very strong physical bodies, so the extraordinary external items that knights consume for advancement are also highly beneficial to them.
Later, the Tier 3 Frostraven King recovered in time and rejoined the battle, fighting alongside Gawain against the monstrous one-armed black-armored knight Ugo in Frostraven Town.
Although at the end of that battle.
The monstrous one-armed black-armored knight, Ugo Life, was killed by an arrow from Tristan, the Wind Lord from the late Silver Rank.
But at that time, if the third-tier Frost Raven King hadn't entered the fray in time...
The battlefield within Frostraven Town has likely long since turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Therefore, the butler Leon did not regret his decision.
Back to the present.
After Arthur was promoted to the late-stage Iron rank knight.
Besides telling him the importance of the Silver-tier extraordinary external object for him to break through the bottleneck, the butler Leon also...
He also specifically told him that two extraordinary silver-tier artifacts are secretly preserved in the Field family's treasury.
Unfortunately, the attributes of these two silver-tier extraordinary artifacts were not compatible with the attributes of his "Flame Lion Breathing Technique".
In fact, ever since he chose to practice the "Flame Lion Breathing Method".
Butler Leon had been dealing with various people in the North, searching for information about silver-tier extraordinary artifacts with fire attributes.
Although the birth of extraordinary external objects does not follow the natural laws of life.
However, despite living in the perpetually snow-covered North for many years, he never received any information about extraordinary objects with fire attributes.
He frequently received news of extraordinary external objects with ice attributes that were compatible with his "Frost Raven Breathing Technique".
But he resisted the temptation and did not use the two extraordinary items from the family treasury to exchange for what he needed.
Regarding the fact that there is no fire-attribute silver-tier extraordinary external object that can help Arthur break through the bottleneck.
The butler, Leon, told him:
In the coming period, he will focus all his efforts on finding a fire-attribute silver-tier extraordinary artifact that is compatible with the "Flame Lion Breathing Technique".
Arthur naturally took his own realm and strength breakthrough to heart.
So he reassured his loyal steward and told him to go ahead with it.
Now, after a month of rest and recuperation.
The Black Rock Territory under his control has gradually returned to its former order.
His three strategies for developing his territory are also progressing steadily.
First, a large forging workshop located between Linfeng Village and Hanwu Village is in operation.
The Badger Knight Lawson received his orders and returned to oversee the large forge.
The workshop has been operating for half a month and has already repaired most of the equipment damaged in the Blackrock Territory defense battle and transported it back to Frostraven Town.
Among them, naturally, is Arthur's armor, "The Blazing Blood".
But when Arthur received the fully repaired armor "Bloodstained Blaze", he also received a letter from its forger, Mr. Lawson.
In the letter, Mr. Lawson pointed out many damaged areas on the armor that could have been avoided in battle, and then severely criticized Arthur for not cherishing the armor that he had painstakingly crafted for him.
Arthur was deeply ashamed of this.
During the defense of Blackrock Territory, he used "Blessing of Valor" multiple times and adopted brutal, life-or-death tactics to fight against a powerful enemy.
Therefore, his armor would suffer extremely severe damage.
Therefore, he didn't blame Mr. Lawson for saying that about him.
In addition to repairing battle-damaged equipment, his large forge is currently working at full speed to manufacture new equipment for soldiers.
After all, this concerns his second development strategy—the Black Rock Legion, which has doubled in size to three hundred men.
Two weeks ago, Yu received 210 new recruits at the newly established Heroes' Cemetery.
He and his butler, Leon, subjected them to the same rigorous military training.
The content and intensity of the training will be gradually increased on a weekly basis.
He improved the physical fitness and combat capabilities of the recruits who initially trusted him with a loyalty level of 30 (initial trust) in the most reasonable and fastest way possible.
Two weeks later.
They have changed a lot since they first joined the Black Rock Legion, and now they have begun to show the temperament of iron-blooded warriors.
As for the veterans who survived the trials of the Blackrock Territory defense battle...
Arthur valued them more and naturally gave them special "care".
Through the tempering and accumulation of experience from numerous battles, all ninety veterans transcended the realm of ordinary people and embarked on the extraordinary path of knighthood, becoming apprentice knights.
After they were promoted to apprentice knights.
Arthur's gift to them was a hellish, grueling training regimen that was far more difficult than that of a regular recruit.
In addition to regular but increased physical and tactical training.
Arthur focused on training in combat skills.
The soldiers of the Black Rock Legion practiced the rudimentary "Toothed Pig Breathing Technique," which was easy to learn.
But for these poor farmers from remote border regions, even a rudimentary knight's breathing technique was extremely difficult to master.
Therefore, Arthur devised a rigorous but reasonable training regimen to compensate for their innate deficiencies.
In the "Baby Breathing Technique," the first combat skill recorded is called "Baby Charge."
The threshold for mastering this combat skill is only the initial stage of an apprentice knight.
Unlike his "Flame Lion Breathing Technique" first combat skill "Blood Boiling," which he only mastered in the later stages of his apprentice knight training by exchanging for "Blessing of Humility."
Since the addition of a combat skill to their training, these veterans have been exhausted every day when they leave the training camp, walking like swaying zombies.