Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 1100 Penelope's Breakdown

So far, he is very satisfied with the performances of both Mikhail and Penelope.

Although Penelope chose her path entirely based on intuition, she actually understood it earlier than Mikhail.

Mikhail's intelligence and talent are both excessively high.

Even though he was only an eighth-level knight, he was already able to add the burning effect to his attack skills.

Sun Knights can indeed learn elemental attacks quite early, but usually only after level ten.

The existence of distinct knight cores allows them to easily mobilize their own unique magical energy.

Otherwise, only a knight like Lady Agris, who can draw upon the innate abilities of her animal companions, could unleash a magical attack.

Mikhail is clearly an exception.

Therefore, he does have some spellcasting ability.

Although they can't use spells like magic-based professionals, they have no problem drawing magic circles, crafting magical artifacts, or using scholar scrolls.

Before forming a mind of knowledge and using the sea of ​​consciousness as a scroll, scholars could only use ordinary scroll spells to cast spells.

Their only advantage was that the special scrolls they made by hand were not disposable items and could be reused.

But it was common for them to have a row of scrolls hanging on their bodies.

Of course, scholars do not need to wait until level ten to complete the condensation of the Heart of Knowledge, like other professions.

Everything they possess is centered on their knowledge.

Once you've learned, understood, and integrated the knowledge, a mind of knowledge will naturally form.

For example, Yuri... The reason why no one doubted his ability to use soul scrolls despite his disguise as an eighth-level scholar was that everyone believed he truly possessed this ability.

Intelligence is actually very difficult to hide.

What can truly be hidden is cunning and treachery.

Just like Mikhail, when he used the scholar's scroll he had carved to cast spells, no one was too surprised... Lori only gave him an inspiration, a guidance, and Mikhail figured it out on his own.

Although his scrolls currently only contain the Purification and Burning abilities, Lori has discovered that he is beginning to grasp the power of healing.

After all, he had recently been able to repair his injuries using sunlight energy while fighting other knights.

That's really amazing.

The two children arrived in Qingfeng Territory, and in just half a month, Mikhail has almost accomplished what a normal person would take three years to achieve.

Even Lowry, who was used to intelligent people and those with exceptional talent, couldn't help but be somewhat amazed.

Therefore, he tried very hard to guide Mikhail in his own way... He couldn't directly teach him what to do, but he had to make Mikhail figure out what he could do and what he wanted to do.

When faced with this child, Lowry unconsciously resorted to the teaching methods she had experienced long ago at the art academy.

It's not about teaching according to aptitude.

Even though their department has only about twenty students, it is still difficult for art majors, especially painting majors, to know each student thoroughly and arrange teaching according to their talents and aptitudes.

Even the most outstanding students rarely receive one-on-one instruction from a teacher... that requires someone with such exceptional talent that they instantly astound the entire school.

It may sound a bit harsh... but kids who really have that talent would never come to a second-tier school like theirs!

However, while students may have average talent, teachers are definitely not bad.

The art department teachers who can enter the teaching system are all highly qualified.

Without a national gold medal and international recognition, how could one possibly stand on the podium?

So, while Lowry may not have any special skills, he did receive the teaching methods best suited for gifted students... all he had to do was point out their shortcomings and show them the world.

Various formal art exhibitions, borrowing original works from real painters, sketching in all sorts of places...

The knowledge he gained from those courses not only helped that child find a way to survive, but also provided him with a solid foundation for becoming Lowry.

Then, Lowry used the same technique on Mikhail and Penelope.

Mikhail is the kind of person who has to see all the splendor and ordinariness of the world before he can understand his own heart.

Penelope, on the other hand, is a typical example of the sketching school... she found her own path as she painted.

Penelope may appear to be the better candidate, but in reality, she has chosen an extremely narrow path.

If there were a powerful figure ahead of her, she might never have been able to continue.

But Mikhail is a wide, main road.

Even if he walks very slowly, there is no one in front of him who can stop him.

Moreover, Mikhail's intelligence also made him as light as a feather, allowing him to walk along the path with lightness and speed.

Lowry had thought he had regained his lost intelligence points, even doubled them, and was considered a smart person in this world. But... Mikhail still made him realize the vicissitudes of life.

However, Lori calmed herself down... Aggris and Pat are probably not that different in intelligence.

But their fathers were far inferior.

Mikhail has a great father who can lift him up to the sky.

And he only had a foolish father who would drag him down the drain.

Lowry felt she was already very lucky, at least she had gotten rid of a lot of negative genes.

Therefore, he certainly doesn't think there's anything wrong with him.

Lori tilted her head and looked at the two children, confirming that even though they knew the house was very safe, Mikhail and Penelope were handling everything carefully and cautiously according to the rules of ruins clearing. They had even cleverly arranged for the two great knights, who only knew how to cause big destruction, to be on the outermost edge after removing the wooden planks. Lori smiled with satisfaction and continued to work on her tasks.
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“Brother?” Penelope called out softly.

"What's wrong?" Mikhail looked at the work in his hands, and after confirming that there was no danger, he immediately sped up the dismantling before turning around and walking over.

The rules for clearing rubble specifically mention this rule: you cannot abandon your work for any reason, unless your life is in danger.

These rules were discovered by explorers of the ruins at the cost of their lives, and Mikhail would not violate them, even if he did not understand them.

Lowry told him that the more absurd and complicated the rules were, the greater the danger of breaking them.

He even found several adventure novels for Mikhail to read... If Lori hadn't told him that all the stories in them were based on true events, Mikhail would have thought they were just absurd novels!

The scariest thing is that it wasn't even an exaggeration.

When Mikhail was in Emilia, he had actually seen similar books, but he ignored them as chivalric romances.

The large library in Laurel Church simply placed these books on ordinary bookshelves.

From then on, Mikhail held all books in high esteem... and never dared to underestimate anyone again.

He also incorporated these repeatedly emphasized rules into his actions, and even though he was somewhat worried about Penelope, Mikhail did not make a single wrong move.

Penelope didn't have it either.

Even after calling her brother for help, she carefully and deftly tossed the dismantled planks outside the campsite.

Even though they had carefully inspected everything, they didn't pile up anything they had taken apart, except for the firewood, which couldn't possibly be carved with spell runes.

Instead, they were scattered outside the camp, and materials in different rooms were kept as close together as possible.

“Brother, there’s a hole here, and there’s a small box inside,” Penelope whispered. “I don’t sense any danger, and there’s no magical fluctuation.”

But under what circumstances would a knight's apprentice have to resort to such methods to hide things?

If you really need to hide something, the bottom of a steep cliff is the best hiding place.

Although Qingfeng led the army camp later, it was still several kilometers away from the bottom of the cliff!
On the contrary, military camps with strict management and the possibility of changing rooms at any time are not suitable.

“Judging from the damage to this box… it must be decades old,” Mikhail said after observing it for a while. “It’s very likely from before Lori came to Maple Territory.”

“Wasn’t the area below the cliff even more…” Penelope’s eyes suddenly lit up, “Ice Dogs!”

“Ice dog,” Mikhail uttered the same word at the same time.

After Lowry arrived, Green Maple Territory was finally free from the threat of Ice Dog.

Previously, packs of ice dogs would come down to hunt from time to time.

The ice dogs are fast and have a keen sense of smell... It would be difficult to completely block their routes unless the entire Cliff Camp was mobilized.

But the Ice Dogs are impossible to kill completely.

Therefore, unless the Ice Kingdom makes any moves, the knights can only pretend they don't know anything.

At their most rampant, ice dogs can even nest and raise their young at the foot of cliffs.

That's why the apprentice was willing to risk being discovered to hide the items in the camp.

"Besides food, what else would an ice dog be interested in that it would dig ten feet into the ground to find it?" Penelope asked Mikhail with a curious look.

"Why think so much?" Mikhail shook his head, first putting on a pair of five-finger gloves, then taking out a sealed leather bag and carefully putting the small box inside. "Just put it in the sealing room and examine it slowly when we get back."

“Then guess!” Penelope pouted, looking dissatisfied. “I think it’s ice crystals.”

“I think you’re crazy,” Mikhail said bluntly. “That box is so rotten! If it were a crystal, it would at least have energy fluctuations.”

Don't sneer. You don't actually think I'm basing this on your perception, do you?
I'm not that naive.

Seeing Penelope's unconvinced expression, Mikhail sneered, "Lowry didn't even look, so there's definitely nothing there."

Penelope was stunned; she found herself completely unable to refute the statement: "What is that? It can't be dog poop, can it?"

(End of this chapter)