Dinner time at Bennett Castle is always on time, because there are several knights in the family, so the dinner time is set at 8 pm. Today's dinner is as usual, beef, wheat porridge, and mashed potatoes.
Due to economic reasons, there are no spices in the beef. Only wealthy nobles can afford the expensive spices. Those spices are transported from the elven territory of the distant Twin Moon Forest. After the elves and human merchants have increased the price, the price has become so high. To the point where ordinary people smack their tongues.
After the silent and warm dinner, Abel was about to go back to his room. He went to Fort Lee during the day, and after a battle, he drove another two hours. Now he wanted to go back to his room to wash up.
Everything else about the castle is good, but washing is inconvenient. Abel, who had just arrived here, was really not used to the hygiene habits here, so he had to design a water diversion facility by himself.
Bennett Castle was built on an underground spring. Like most castles in the world, if there is no separate spring, the castle is basically a dead land. After being surrounded by enemies, the castle will perish, so The construction of the castle was based on the amount of spring water. It is said that the underground spring water of the Grand Duke's castle can supply domestic water for thousands of people.
The amount of water produced by the underground spring in Bennett Castle is not small. It is enough to feed hundreds of people. There are only less than a hundred people in the castle including attendants, guards, and their families, so the spring water is enough. .
Abel hired a carpenter from the castle and built a waterwheel powered by the drop of the spring water. The spring water was sent directly to a large wooden water tank high up in the castle, which was then connected by fire-processed bamboo pipes. When I got to the room, I didn't think about using copper pipes. The price was too expensive, plus the cost of processing. The castle had no iron mines, so it didn't have its own blacksmith. It was difficult to process even iron pipes. There was no way to start, so Abel thought of using bamboo pipes to connect them. After the bamboo pipes are roasted with fire, they can change direction and become stronger and more durable.
A wooden bathtub for bathing, a wooden washbasin for washing, and even a toilet were made in the room, which allowed Abel to finally find a sense of modern life.
In this world, wood is really worthless, unless it is very expensive wood. As long as you have the strength, you can cut it down yourself. All the trees in the 100-mile Bennett Knight Territory belong to your own family. The wages of carpenters are not to mention. The carpenters of the castle are people who rely on the castle to make a living. When there is no carpenter work, they still have to work in the farmland. Only when carpenters are needed, the carpenters will put down their farm work.
The final result of this incident was that all the rooms in the castle were changed to look like Abel's design, and the carpenter was also signed a confidentiality contract by Knight Bennett. He was not allowed to help anyone make this set without the owner's permission. system.
This wooden castle water diversion system was carefully recorded and stored in the family secret room by Knight Bennett as the heritage of a noble family. Knight Bennett knows very well that this set of equipment is fine for his own use. If it is revealed, it will bring disaster to the family. Those big nobles will collect this technology into their own families and kill everyone who knows about it. Knight Bennett has seen too many of these things.
After this incident, Abel never made any inventions again. Making some inventions when there was no basis for strength was very dangerous for the family and himself. This world has existed for countless years. Just look at history. Seeing the history of thousands of years ago, it has always existed and has not changed. I don’t know what kind of power maintains the stability of this world. Just like on the earth, under this kind of social form, it can take a few hundred years to give birth to a new generation. system, and this world has been running according to the same rules for tens of thousands of years.
"Abel, you stay with Zach." His father, Knight Bennett, stopped Abel who was about to go back to his room, and then said: "You are already a level 1 trainee knight, you can stay and listen to my teachings."
In the training room of the castle, the attendants had prepared the wooden man. Knight Bennett took a wooden sword from the weapon rack on the wall, then stared at Abel's face and said: "I heard about your "It's a shadow leopard at the junior knight level. Although you had Norman's help, you, a level 1 trainee knight, managed to kill it. I'm very surprised."
"On my growth path, there were countless geniuses who were more qualified than me, more powerful than me, and faster than me, but most of them did not live to be as old as me. Do you know why? "
Knight Bennett's expression was very serious, and he spoke much more than usual. Abel had never heard his father say so many words since he came to this world.
"That's because the knight's strongest shield is the fastest sword. When the knight mounts his horse, he can charge, and when he dismounts, he can draw his strong bow. Some of those geniuses have trained themselves to be the fastest, and some have trained their strength to the maximum. Strong, but as someone who comes from a knight family with a complete heritage, I can let myself not be the fastest, not the strongest, but I am the strongest among the fastest, and I am the strongest among the strongest. The fastest, I am the most able to withstand attacks in front of them.”
Knight Bennett shouted with some excitement: "Because our ancestors gave us the most complete knightly inheritance, and our family has handed over this inheritance completely to me from generation to generation, and will hand it over to you in the future. Compared with gold coins and precious weapons and armor, inheritance is the most precious wealth in your hands.”
Knight Bennett threw the wooden sword to Zach and shouted: "Zach, show your brother the true way of attacking the knight."
When Zach took the wooden sword in his hand, his eyes had changed. He stared fiercely at the wooden man in front of him like a beast. He held the sword in front of him as if he were a knight who had been tempered for thousands of times in a defensive movement. Then he let out a breath and made a defensive movement. It has been converted into a knight's charge in an instant. During the charge, the wooden sword in his hand has been thrust forward. The wooden man was killed in a breath. During the short time when the wooden man was in the air, Zach's sword was already on the wooden man's leg. Three consecutive sword strikes on the chest, waist and throat, the whole process was done in one go, like flowing clouds and flowing water, and all the movements were as standard as a knight's textbook.
"You can do it faster." His father's requirements are always very strict. Zach, who usually always smiles, nodded seriously to show his understanding.
"Did you see clearly? This is a typical knight attack. He first uses a charge to open the enemy's defense, and then uses a sharp sword to end the battle. Every combat action of the knight has been perfected for thousands of years. What we want to do It is completed perfectly according to the combat movements, and there is no need to modify them. These combat movements of the knights have been summarized and perfected by countless senior knights with their blood and lives. "
Having said this, Knight Bennett seemed to have thought of something and said with a mocking tone on his lips: "There are always some so-called geniuses who want to change these combat movements. No one of the geniuses I met is alive anymore."
"What you have to do is make these fighting moves instinctive to your body so that your body remembers it and at all times you move faster than you want to."
Abel had just woken up from his pride in killing the Shadow Leopard during the day. His little cleverness was completely useless to a real knight, or to a trainee warrior like his eldest brother Zach who received formal inheritance education.
In the following days, Abel practiced knight fighting movements during the day, put on armor to practice muscle compression at night, and practiced knight breathing techniques before going to bed.
The portion of beef every night was much larger than before. Every night, Abel could get the same amount of beef as his eldest brother. In a silent family, Abel always felt that his father had made some decision. .