Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 49 Literacy Education
Pierce, who was temporarily appointed as the commander of the new territory militia, is now increasingly unable to understand Harvey's thoughts.

Before, he asked him to lead the reserve militia to run around the playground and asked them to stand in the sun. Pierce could understand that Lord Harvey wanted to train a team with extraordinary endurance and absolute obedience.

When Mr. Asdalen was giving Pierce a private lesson, he inadvertently mentioned that his wizard family had a complete set of methods for training knights.

But it takes a full eight years, from the age of eight to sixteen, to train a warrior who is proficient in various weapons and fighting skills.

With another six years of use, using large amounts of medicinal supplements and special training methods to stimulate the warrior's bloodline power, a qualified knight can be trained to serve as the wizard's personal attendant.

But the most important prerequisite is that the trainee must be born into a knight family with a bloodline power inheritance!

Pierce thought again about the group of stupid civilians he had trained, and felt more and more that wanting them to exert their combat effectiveness was pure fantasy.

So after he had completed a month of team training, he finally couldn't help but find Xavi to seek answers.

"Don't worry, and don't worry about the wrong approach." Harvey patted Pierce's shoulder. "In my territory, background doesn't matter. Strength alone matters."

He stood up and handed Pierce a thin booklet. "Select two outstanding captains in advance. The militia will expand in the future. You need to learn how to train your right and left hands. Take a look at this training manual. I think it will be of great help to you."

Pierce took the manual, opened it, and read it quickly. He felt his head buzzing and was completely dumbfounded.

This training content is simply unheard of!

The assembly whistle was blown at six in the morning, and the team was assembled within fifteen minutes, and then began to run around the training square.

This is followed by standing military posture training, which is repeated several times for one hour until noon.

After lunch, he led the entire team in a cross-country run around the territory wall, requiring an assessment of all militia members. Team members were allowed to assist and cooperate with each other, but everyone had to complete the run without anyone giving up midway.

After lights are turned off at night, emergency assembly whistles will be blown randomly between 10:00 and 1:00 in the morning, requiring all militia members to assemble within five minutes.

"Sir, if we continue like this, I'm afraid the team will fall apart in less than a week, right?"

He casually flipped to the last page of the manual and fell into complete stupor.

[Every day after dinner and before lights out, all militia members must receive literacy training from Asdaren.]

"Sir, what do you mean by literacy...training? Do you want them to learn magic as well?"

Harvey smiled and said, "I wish they had this talent, but that's wishful thinking. I just asked Asdaren to teach them how to read and write, so that they can try their best to understand the command documents in the future."

……

Tommy poked his head out from the upper bunk of the wooden double bed and looked at Vaughn, who was struggling in the lower bunk.

He laughed and teased, "Brother Vaughn, you haven't memorized the contents of this one page yet?"

Vaughn didn't look up to pay attention to him, but his big protruding ears turned red instantly.

He felt a little ashamed. Five days ago, all the members of the militia started learning to read at night, and they were taught by Mr. Asdalen, who was made of metal like Mr. Reiner and had a tall and majestic figure.

Mr. Asdalen had a very gentle temper. In the first two classes, he taught them some basic reading, writing, pronunciation and alphabet comparison.

They also thoughtfully gave everyone an alphabet pronunciation chart so that everyone could memorize it in their free time.

The task he assigned to everyone was to memorize the pronunciation table within a week. If they did not make any mistakes, they would receive a reward prepared by him personally.

Tommy and others who were familiar with him were obviously young and smart, and they were able to memorize most of it in just two nights.

Only Vaughan felt embarrassed. The test time was approaching, but he was still stumbling and unable to recite fluently.

As for Duff, he was completely clueless and simply gave up. Vaughn wasn't as carefree as Duff. Ever since being discriminated against and insulted by Wayne's gang, he had never forgotten what Lord Harvey had said when he stood up for him.

"After becoming my territory's militia, we'll compete in strength to see who's unworthy."

He cannot fail, he must be the best and must not let Lord Harvey down!

……

Harvey's prediction was very accurate. As time went on, the traces of evil orcs appearing in the glacial valley area became more and more frequent.

It seemed that the demons' invasion of their territory had become more fierce. Those small and medium-sized tribes that were unable to resist migrated southward, burning, killing and looting along the way.

"Before long, the entire Divine Ridge Mountains will probably be crowded with evil orcs heading south." Harvey looked at his only three capable assistants with some anxiety.

Reiner now leads his subjects to open up the fields every day, manipulating the few "agricultural" alchemy beasts to plow the land and sow staple crops such as barley and wheat.

Apart from participating in Harvey's research experiments, he spent all his time in the fields. Several times he even forgot to recharge his energy and could only be carried back to the main castle after his energy was exhausted.

Asdalen took the opportunity to replace Reiner as Harvey's experimental assistant, assisting him in completing the large-scale transformation of alchemy beasts, as well as the research and development of energy ores and new weapons.

But he also needed to find time to run between the two, teaching literacy to the militia and taking charge of the basic education of more than 40 children under the age of 16 in the territory.

After all, Harvey had repeatedly stressed to him the importance of educating his subjects, so he didn't dare to neglect it at all, for fear of affecting Harvey's subsequent arrangements.

As for Pierce, he was extremely busy.

We must keep a close eye on the militia's daily training five days a week and not relax at all.

He also has to spend two days every week with the wolf spider beast to repeatedly search and guard the area near the glacial valley, guarding against the evil orcs crossing the river and rescuing the scattered refugees from the wasteland.

"You only regret not having enough people when you need them!" Harvey sighed silently in his heart as he looked at his three overwhelmed assistants.

In order to defend the new territory he had painstakingly opened up when the evil orcs invaded the Divine Spine Mountains in large numbers, Harvey felt that he had no choice but to take a risky move because he had no abundant food and supplies reserves and no battle-hardened army that had seen blood.

He needs to use magical technology that is ahead of his time to create weapons to gain absolute advantage in war.

And the "magic gun" that is close to successful development is undoubtedly the best answer.

But this also requires him to face a cruel problem.

The emergence of this kind of weapon will undoubtedly bring down the spellcasters who used to be of noble status and powerful strength.

This includes himself.

Asdalen had repeatedly expressed to him his anxiety and worry about the matter. He believed that once the matter was exposed, or the weapon technology was cracked and imitated, it would inevitably lead to a violent conflict between the aristocracy and the spellcasting class.

The church will also take the opportunity to muddy the situation and plunge the entire human kingdom on the continent into a full-scale civil war among the three interest groups.

But Harvey felt he had no choice.

As long as the core technology and raw materials for manufacturing weapons are firmly in our own hands, and these weapons are given to the army that is absolutely loyal to us.

Harvey believes that he should be able to control the direction of events.

"I need to find a way to enhance my personal strength. A beginner spellcaster is indeed vulnerable."

(End of this chapter)