Wizard Immortal

Chapter 150 Knight's Aptitude

"Isn't there any more accurate data?"

Standing on the wide, flat ground, Adir frowned as he listened to what Sid was saying.

"I'm sorry..."

Seeing the expression on Adir's face, Sid's legs went weak, and he knelt down in front of Adir: "Because there are too many wanderers and wild beasts in the wilderness, the population of those villages is constantly changing, making it too troublesome to count, so there has never been an accurate statistic..."

"If you don't calculate the population, how do you collect taxes?"

Looking at Sid kneeling before him, Adir asked with some curiosity.

"Tax?" Sid was taken aback. "Just collect it directly from the farmland when the crops are ripe."

Hearing this, Adir was speechless: "Send someone to give me a detailed population count in a few days. I need to know the specific data."

"Yes!" Standing there, listening to Adir's instructions, Sid, his face covered in cold sweat, nodded hurriedly.

After finishing discussing these trivial matters, they slowly walked into the manor.

The estate is not very large, but it is not small either, and there are some simple walls around it.

Inside, some servants were working the land, and there were also some children who occasionally made soft noises.

Overall, Adir was quite satisfied with the environment here.

He came into this world to search for resources unique to this world.

To better achieve this goal, it is also necessary to establish a stable rear base in this world and gather some of the world's natives to serve us.

"But before that, we need to train some suitable subordinates."

Walking on the cobblestone path, looking at the dozens of servants kneeling all around him, Adir thought to himself.

The people of this world are too weak. If they are just ordinary people, they won't be able to handle even ordinary mutated monsters, let alone those strange beings. In the end, they might not only fail to help Adir, but Adir might even have to act as babysitters for these people.

With this in mind, walking through the manor, Adir issued his first order as the ruler of the territory.

He summoned all the people under the age of thirty in the surrounding area under the pretext of recruiting personal bodyguards.

However, to his disappointment, perhaps because of the dangers of this world, even within a noble's manor, there were very few people who met his criteria, forcing him to relax the requirements and allow people under forty to participate in the selection.

This age is already the limit.

The practice of Knight Breathing Technique has limitations. It places high demands on the practitioner's own vitality, and the younger the practitioner, the better the training effect.

Once someone is over forty, unless they are stimulated by Adir's violent and precise methods like Thor was before, it is basically impossible to train them to achieve any results, and it will only be a waste of Adir's time.

After the loan conditions were set, out of the more than 500 people in the entire manor, including underage children and women, fewer than 200 met the requirements. In the end, only one person possessed the qualifications of a knight.

"What's your name?"

On the widened flat ground, Adir stood and looked at the young man in front of him, asking a question.

"Sir... I, my name is Sidham..."

Standing in front of Adir was a thin young man wearing a tattered black cloth hat. His sallow complexion clearly indicated malnutrition. He stammered as he faced Adir, Sid, and the others.

He was wearing a worn-out black coat that was obviously too big for him, with many patches on it, and he looked quite tattered. He looked somewhat nervous at the moment.

"Sidem, right?"

Looking at Sidham before him, Adir suppressed his impatience and forced out a sentence: "From today onwards, you will serve as my guard, understand?"

"Yes...yes, I understand." Standing in front of Adir, listening to Adir's words, Sidem nodded hurriedly, his face tense but also showing obvious excitement.

"As a reward for becoming my guard, your status as a private slave can be revoked, and from now on you will be a free citizen."

Seeing his excited expression, Adir said directly, "I will allocate ten acres of land in the manor as your private land, and all the produce there will belong to you."

"Sid, have someone take him downstairs to change his clothes."

Without waiting for the other party to speak, Adir waved his hand and gestured to Sid, who was standing to the side.

Hearing Adir's words, Sid nodded first, then had the servant beside him take Sidham away.

"My lord... isn't this reward a bit too much?"

After Sidm left, Sid couldn't help but stand up and say, clearly somewhat resentful of the reward Sidru had received: "Being selected as a guard by you, sir, is already an extremely honorable thing. There is no need to give these lowly people any reward."

As soon as he finished speaking, an immense pressure suddenly struck him, causing his vision to go black and almost making him faint.

Before him, Adir glanced at him lightly, and with a thought, he exerted tremendous pressure on the other: "Don't worry, there aren't many guards like him."

"Take me to see a few other villages tomorrow."

He glanced at Sid standing in front of him, then walked straight ahead.

the next day.

Accompanied by several knights dressed in green leather armor, Adir walked into the distance.

"Sir, we'll be at the next village soon."

After walking along a path in the wilderness for several hours, a guard reported to Adir.

At the end of the road ahead, a small village appeared, where a few people had already gathered.

Because they were coming to investigate today, Adir had sent people to these villages yesterday to inform them and make preparations to welcome them.

Upon reaching the village ahead, they spotted Adir's figure, and several people quickly approached him.

This was the guard officer stationed in the local village. Upon seeing Adir arrive, he hurriedly came to greet him.

After a brief, casual conversation, Adir walked forward, where some people were already waiting.

According to what Adir had said yesterday, people under the age of forty had gathered here, and now they were all standing to one side with their heads down, not daring to look at Adir.

Most of the people in front of me were dressed in tattered clothes, thin and malnourished, and very few were physically strong.

This is because survival in the wilderness is too dangerous. Without enough meat, and relying on only a few meager rations, it is difficult to develop a good physique.

Quietly riding his horse to the side, Adir frowned as he looked at the people before him: "Are there only adult men? Where are the children and women?"

Standing beside Adir, the village guards were taken aback upon hearing these words.

His orders were merely to select guards, so he excluded women and children without giving it much thought.

Hearing Adir's words, he was puzzled, but he quickly called out the women and children from the surrounding villages who met the criteria.

Soon, in the center of the village, a hundred people stood looking at Adir in the distance, their eyes filled with anticipation.

"Let's begin."

Looking at the people in front of him, Adir dismounted and ordered the guards beside him, "Have them come up one by one."

After saying this, he sat on a wooden chair to the side and waited quietly for the person in front to slowly walk up.

"Next."

After a while, sitting on the wooden chair, looking at the young man in front of him with an expectant look on his face, Adir spoke without expression.

Immediately, disappointment appeared in the young man's eyes. After he turned and walked away, another tall, middle-aged man came up to him.

This was a man with a full beard, wearing a tattered robe, and somewhat cloudy eyes. He stood in front of Adir with a numb expression.

As Adir quietly gazed at the middle-aged man before him, a vast amount of data surfaced in his mind, constructing a detailed image of the human body.

"Detection complete... Target does not meet requirements..." The mechanical voice of the chip echoed in his mind.

Hearing the mechanical prompts in his mind, Adir remained expressionless, but sighed inwardly.

Since he was promoted to third-class apprentice, in addition to the speed at which his supernatural abilities accumulated energy, the chip bound to his soul has also been greatly enhanced. It can now roughly detect whether a person has the qualifications of a knight through detailed analysis of the human body.

Compared to the soul-related wizarding aptitude, knightly aptitude is more physically manifested. Those with knightly aptitude will have certain physical data that differ from ordinary people, detectable by a chip, thus providing a rough indication of whether they possess knightly aptitude.

However, despite this, Adir still hasn't achieved anything in these two days.

In this respect, it must be said that there is indeed some reason why the world of wizards places such importance on bloodlines and families.

Without the bloodline of knights and wizards, it is possible for ordinary mortals to possess the qualities of knights and wizards, but the probability is so small that even Adir finds it hard to accept.

In the past two days, besides the manor, he also visited four villages and saw at least five hundred people. In the end, only Sidham, whom he had previously discovered, still possessed the qualifications of a knight.

This probability left Adir speechless.

"Unfortunately, no knight has ever activated the seed of life in this world before, nor has any family possessed knightly blood. We can only search among these commoners."

After checking the last person, Adir stood up, ready to leave the village.

"Lead the way to the last village."

As he rode his horse along the road, he gave instructions to the guard beside him.

(End of this chapter)