Knight and Wand

Chapter 349 The Eve of Departure
The Lord's Bastion within Castle Avalon.

On the track of the training ground, war horses were galloping, and the surrounding bugles and shouts resounded through the sky.

A company of knights from the Griffin Wings followed the castle lord Lohak, swinging their long weapons swiftly and accurately, knocking down the target stakes erected along the training ground.

For traditional Feru knights, there are usually two types of main weapons in battle.

One type is the assault lance, which has a relatively uniform shape and is a killing weapon that is faster to train and more efficient.

The other category is various long-handled weapons that can better demonstrate personal martial arts, such as halberds, battle axes, etc.

This includes a long-handled spear that is different from the common impact lance. In Orland, this long-handled spear on horseback is called a "dragon spear" because the dragon riders of the Drakmar family are accustomed to using this type of spear.

And right now, Leon is personally experiencing the power of the traditional weapons of the Orland Kingdom.

In the open space of the arena, streaks of cold light that were difficult for ordinary people to capture kept flying, interweaving into streams of light as fast as lightning.

Leon frequently counterattacked with the Nine Swords of Hydra, wielding his magic spear to resist Olivia's more ferocious spearmanship than ever before.

Thanks to the "many years" of combat experience accumulated in his remaining memories, he managed to avoid being defeated as quickly as in past sparring sessions. However, he was not the only one who suddenly gained more combat experience "out of thin air".

The swing of the magic spear wing blade just deflected Olivia's spear tip, and the spear blade in the girl's hand immediately flew straight towards his waist at an incredible angle.

As soon as the idea of ​​exchanging injuries came to his mind, Leon foresaw the fatal move of Wing Blade slashing in the air while the opponent bent down and twisted his body like a cat, and at the same time stabbing his own waist firmly.

He had no choice but to withdraw, but the dragon spear that was originally attacking the middle part actually bypassed Gungnir like a swimming dragon and immediately attacked the upper part.

Without the use of lightning and thunder to speed up his body, his defeat was almost certain. His physical hardware could not keep up with the opponent. Without magic, he was even a level lower than the opponent in terms of martial arts alone.

With a loud bang, there was a crisp collision as the force was retracted, and the blade of the dragon spear touched the visor of the wing helmet, and the victory or defeat was decided.

Leon was not discouraged. Overall, he was much stronger than before. At least he lasted nearly a hundred moves from Olivia before being defeated. Although the opponent did not use her full strength, the same was true for him.

Stepping back and retracting the gun, Olivia lowered the tip of the blade with one hand, took off her helmet, and looked at Leon in confusion: "Why haven't you used that lightning-like movement method recently?"

She still remembered the flashing lightning movements in her vague dream. Even for Olivia, such a terrifying speed was difficult to handle.

Leon opened his visor and breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his hand and weighed the Gungnir in his hand, shook his head and explained, "I'm afraid that if I continue to toss it like that, this wand will be completely broken."

I still remember that the ancient Yanyang Guard Garron once said that the function of this magic wand to transform elements into entities should not be used more than once a day.

Once this ability is used beyond its limit, the material structure of the wand will become increasingly unstable over time.

But over the years, there were some critical moments when he really couldn't care less about the restrictions on the use of the weapon in his hand. After all, his life was more important than the wand.

Moreover, he didn't see any signs of damage to Gungnir during the previous overloads.
Until in that other life, I used it in the same way for six whole years.

Although there was no undead disaster, I was still tortured by many life-and-death moments during those six years.

Especially since he hadn't obtained the Neti card in the past six years, the excessive use of this ancient magic spear had naturally become more frequent.

The lightning spell he developed after joining the Warlock Society to study magic is, in hindsight, an extreme overload of the wand's form-transformation technique.

Although the world went back to the time before everything changed, when everything was restored, it was not just himself and Ines that were independent of the great magic. The wand also retained the "wear and tear" of the six years it had experienced in that life.

After years of oppression, Gungnir's transformation technique has become a little "pineapple-pineapple".

In the days after the night at the palace, Leon had already discovered that the process of the wand's transformation had become extremely slow and unstable.

Now he no longer dared to switch the elemental state of the magic wand easily. Now he almost carried it in a physical form as a normal weapon.

Naturally, one would not dare to use that powerful lightning magic casually in daily life.

Walking aside to take a short rest, Leon fumbled with this ancient wizard weapon which had been with him for so long, pronounced as a magic wand and written as a magic gun. Some weird things that he couldn't understand at all still lingered in his mind.

Although not every "past" has been restored, at least Leon now clearly remembers all the relatively important memories of the past six years.

Learning from Greenthorne, spending time with many relatives and friends, or recalling the countless bits and pieces of memories with Ines, Leon lowered his head and frowned at the silver magic gun in his hand.

However, to date, he still cannot find out when and where he obtained this thing in his fate.

You know, in this destiny, I found this ancient magic spear in the workshop in the tower of Aphrodite.

But in the time and space when he met Inis, the Bauhinia Mage's Fortress had long been reduced to ruins, and he had never been to this place, let alone obtained the Neti Card.
Perhaps because of the great magic of time and space, the Boiling Heart Neti Card was able to follow its own subjective consciousness and appear on itself at that moment three years later.

But Gungnir, in that destiny, had indeed stayed with him for six years and never left his hand.

Why did this magic wand appear in my hands during those six years as if it was natural?
Thinking with a headache, Leon took the kettle handed to him by Olivia, took a sip of boiled water, and relaxed his frown.

In the past two days, he has been reading the Aphrodite Tower of Magic, which contains various theories about the concept of time and space in magic, such as "Dream of the Masses" and "River of Time".

Try to analyze the principles of Lady Aphrodite's magic that can change the world, and figure out some strange questions that have not yet been solved.

There are quite a few magic books in this field in the library, but the more Leon reads, the more headache he gets.
Compared to the relatively intuitive elementology, the theories in the field of astronomy would probably take countless years of study to understand, even if one has a certain academic foundation.

What's more, he has no mentor to guide him in this field, which is equivalent to flipping through books to study the most cutting-edge advanced physics before completing nine years of compulsory education. Even with the help of the memory of joining the Warlock Society on the other end, he still wants to pull out all his hair just to understand some terms and concepts that transcend common sense and rational logic.

And calculating the various data of the magic pattern structure inside the great magic is an impossible task. Even if he is given a computer immediately, he doesn't know how to start the analysis.

If I had known earlier, I should have asked Ines three years later if she knew where she got the magic wand.

Leon was helpless. At that time, he was troubled by countless more important confusions, and his memory was slowly recovering. He thought he would soon be able to remember these unimportant details. But now he could remember how he and Lohak had taken the opportunity of Azerien to "seduce" the soldier, killed the mercenary guards and escaped from the town of Mamor County, but he still had no idea about the origin of this magic spear in that time and space.

"Olivia." Leon looked at his wife and pointed at his head: "Do you still remember, in those memory fragments, when and where I got Gungnir in those six years?"

Olivia thought about the dreamlike dream and shook her head apologetically. "I don't remember much about the different fates I told you about. As for your magic wand, it seems that it has been with you since you became famous on the continent. People say that it was the magic wand given to you by 'Thunder God Novadin'."

After hearing this, Leon had no choice but to give up trying to get the answer from her temporarily.

Unlike herself, Olivia recently discovered that her memory of that period of time seemed to be fading rapidly, just like a normal person who can remember the content of a dream just after waking up, but soon after waking up, can no longer remember it.

This is also the reason why I was dragged to accompany her in practicing martial arts intensively in recent days.

Olivia wanted to consolidate the advanced martial arts she still remembered before completely losing those dreamlike memories.

Honestly speaking, if Olivia could consolidate the combat experience and skills that she could still remember, Leon felt that what she said in the royal city before, that she would teach the great knight Valensis a lesson on his behalf, might not just be a mere joke.

During the break, Leon couldn't help but look at Treia who was fighting fiercely with other Avalon knights in the distance.

After experiencing the Undead War, and with Olivia's hands-on martial arts teaching over the past year, as well as the daily confrontation and guidance from many brave warriors in the Knights Templar, this girl with pigtails is not as strong as an ordinary Knight of Arms due to the inherent limitations of her age and gender, but in terms of combat skills alone, she is already a leader among the knights.

After all, a good teacher produces good students. To be taught personally by Olivia, a martial arts master who is like a Valkyrie, his abilities must be quite good, unless he is a hopeless idiot who is willing to be lazy.

Even Azerien, who was busy with government affairs and had average talent, became a pistol-skiller far superior to that of an ordinary knight under Olivia's instruction.

What's more, this knight's daughter, who had studied martial arts under Olivia in Selva at an early age, was already very diligent and serious.

In another time and space, although she did not have the opportunity to become Olivia's apprentice, she was still unwilling to be weak, so she became her own ranger attendant and embarked on the path of martial arts.

The six-year master-disciple friendship and life-long friendship are still in Leon's heart. He can't help but pay more and more attention to her during this period. Although Olivia has taught her everything she knows, as another master of Theresa, Leon couldn't help but start to teach her martial arts experience, hoping to make her an independent "Swift Knight" as soon as possible.

The master-apprentice relationship between a knight-errant is not just as simple as that between a teacher and a student. The knight-errant's inheritance tradition makes the rangers and their squires and apprentices generally have a father-son relationship.

It's a bit like the master-disciple relationship in the martial arts novels of the previous life, but the rangers don't have so many rules and regulations.

Thinking of this, Leon couldn't help but miss Lord Greenthorne, or rather, Mentor Greenthorne.

The other party was originally his comrade-in-arms in this world who fought against the undead and demons together with him. In his eyes, he now had a master-disciple relationship with him. Now that he had enough Neti cards, he would try no matter what to see if he could summon this northern hero who died in the Battle of Rolandar back to the world if the other party was willing to be resurrected as a card spirit.

The body and belongings of the water monster killer had been sent back to his relatives in his hometown by the rangers after the war. He could not write to his family and tell them that he wanted to use Greenthorne's body for summoning, otherwise he would be suspected of practicing some evil witchcraft that desecrated the dead.

I can only wait until I come back from this trip south, then secretly go to the north to find the location of Greenthorne's tomb and try to summon him privately.

Leon put down his empty canteen, stood up and looked around at the knights who were busy training.

In the more than one year since the Undead War, the Knights have already rebuilt and recuperated to their best condition. The morale and combat effectiveness of their troops are at their peak so far, and they can follow him south at any time into the Shannan Territory and Roslava Territory where the Undead are entrenched.

Those training in the fortress garrison today are the Griffin Wings, a company of veterans from the Knights of Avalon.

The other four companies, including the 2nd Company of Fire Crow Wing, were training in the vast suburbs of Castle Avalon.

After the reconstruction, the Knights of Avalon reconstructed the military system based on the achievements of the Undead War.

Originally serving as the captain of the guards, Corvis, in addition to retaining the position of "Curtain Officer" of the Knights Templar, devoted more energy to the research of magic, so he no longer directly led the most elite First Knight Company, but became the "think tank director" of the Knights Templar.

Of course, this name was naturally chosen by Leon. At the beginning of the meeting, according to the culture of Orland, it was originally called either the chief magician or the magic mentor, but Leon overruled the majority and still stubbornly finalized this coined word that sounded a bit strange in the Feru language, which was a combination of the etymology of wise and knowledgeable and librarian.

After Corvis got rid of the burden of managing the guards, the position of the first captain of the Lion Wing Company fell on the shoulders of the old guard Zabron. Pavel, the standard-bearer of the Knights Templar, also served as the standard-bearer of the first company.

The captain of the Second Company of the Fire Crow Wings is Sir Filippo of the Anquila family. The standard-bearer is his good friend, Sir Colinte, who joined the Knights Templar at the same time as him and survived the Battle of Rolandar.

Among the three sergeant companies of the Wings of Blades, which are the backbone of the Knights Templar, the captain of the third company is the old guard Brunan, and the flag officer is Hawke.

The captains and standard-bearers of the 4th and 5th companies were all veterans of the Crusade who stood out in the Undead War, survived the Battle of Rolandar, and were awarded the titles of Crusade Knights and Knights of Avalon. They were named Jon, Korsun, Benus, and Panon.

Although they are not a company of Griffin Wing, they belong to the inner circle of Deathwing, that is, part of the Deathwing Knights.

In addition to the one hundred elite warriors of Avalon led by each company commander, the Knights Templar have now more or less exceeded the original establishment limit of 500 knights approved by Count Elliver.

Not to mention the more than one hundred knight squires who are not included in the roster of the Knights Templar, there are at least several hundred "recruits" in Selva who are trained day and night according to knight standards by Uncle Brian.

To the outside world, they are just the reserve militia of Selva Town, but as long as the Knights suffer casualties in battle, these new recruits have enough capabilities to immediately take over as sergeants of Avalon.

With the support of abundant financial resources, the army is now overstaffed. Leon naturally has no intention of disrespecting Count Elliver, but various practical factors force him to expand his military forces.

The defense of the land of Sobonitz Territory, the threat of the undead, and the most important thing at the moment, the search for the vampire army and the whereabouts of Elifer himself. Without a sufficient number of reliable warriors to guard the territory in the rear, how can he send out the Knights to launch an expedition?

But before setting off on this journey, there are still some things that need to be taken care of.

Among them, screening magic apprentices is the most important.

The experience in the Undead War taught Leon that Father was right. You have to use magic to fight magic.

Whether facing the undead or the demons, if it weren't for the various methods that Corvis had invented and discovered from the magic book of Lorelit, everyone would have been doomed if they had relied solely on the courage and brute force of the warriors to confront the disaster head-on.

Regardless of whether King Eric can calm down from his current hatred and hostility towards spellcasters, he still has doubts about whether he will come to him to restart the plan of training court mages that Ledwin III intended to do during his lifetime.

I have to first build the prototype of a magician team for Avalon.

(End of this chapter)