Neverwinter, flight training ground.
"Quick, quick! Walk fast and keep your balance!"
"Your legs are weaker than a baby's!"
"Direction, pay attention to your direction!"
"Hey, where are you going? I should have put braziers on both sides of the aisle."
"Spit to the side and spit, don't spit on the board, or lick it clean for me!"
"Next, Goode!"
"Yes!" Good suddenly shuddered, he took a deep breath, walked to a swivel chair and sat down.
The grim face of the instructor's eagle face also caught his eye.
Even if he just looked at each other, Goode would feel shivering. He heard that the other party was originally the commander of the garrison in the North, and returned to Neverwinter after the rotation. member. This meant that he not only experienced the battle of the church, but also gave up the vacation he should have and threw himself into a new training.
In other words, the other party belongs to the kind of character who is ruthless towards others and ruthless towards himself.
Being stared at by such a person, he only felt a lot of pressure.
As soon as he was seated, two of his teammates, Finkin and Heinz, surrounded him.
On their faces, Goode saw a self-sufficient look.
Then the chair was spun up quickly
This is one of the most troublesome trainings after he joined the reserve team: in front of the swivel chair is a five-meter-long, palm-wide wooden board called a flyover. And they had to be turned for half a minute before walking over the plank.
Things that anyone can do easily in ordinary times, become completely different after the rotation, the body seems to have lost its center of gravity, the world is shaking, not to mention walking on the flyover, and even maintaining a standing posture is not an easy task. Usually the eagle faces ten workouts into groups, and the worst performers are punished by things like "cleaning the toilet", "cutting the weeds", or going all day on weekends off.
Goode tried it once.
As a result, he vomited in the dormitory while everyone else was happily eating dinner.
Such a bad experience, he doesn't want to do it again.
"stop!"
With an order, the rotating chair was suddenly stopped by the companion, and Good resisted the dizziness that rushed to his brain and jumped off the chair.
"Quick! Don't be stunned, get up!"
He gritted his teeth, raised his eyes, stepped on the plank staggeringly, and walked towards the other end. After ten days of practice, he discovered a little trick, that is, staring at the feet will make it easier to lose stability. Look straight ahead and use your body memory to control your steps.
When a solid touch came from the soles of his feet, Goode realized that he had already completed the overpass.
"Okay, awesome..."
"Not a single step was lost!"
"Is this the first time?"
There was a voice of discussion behind him.
He turned around and looked at the eagle face, and the latter raised the corner of his mouth rarely, "Yes, it seems that you are not hopeless."
"However!" The instructor paused, his tone changed, "Only one person has really passed today, and this result is the worst of all the classes! His Highness Tilly said that the Aerial Knights are one in ten thousand, if you don't want to be rejected Brush with the whole crew, always do some groceries on the ground, just cheer me up, double down to practice, take a five-minute break, and then do another set!"
Everyone suddenly let out a wailing sound.
"Hey, how did you do it?" Finkin leaned in front of Goode and winked.
"Remember the range of steps, imagine that you are not dizzy, and just walk as usual."
"Is this even imaginary?" Heinz also followed, "Doesn't that mean you're lying to yourself?"
These two were the same batch of applicants who passed the assessment as Goode, so they became acquainted within a few days. In addition, the air cavalry grouped them together according to the division method of three people and one team. Now they have almost become inseparable "comrades in arms" ".
"You don't care whether it's cheating or not, as long as you can pass it." Goode knocked his head. "Generally speaking, the smarter people are, the harder it is to deceive themselves. It should be easy for you to do it."
"Come on," Finkin said in disbelief, "Isn't it just a success, let's see how proud you are."
"Let's make a bet, in a group later, I can succeed three times... no, five times!"
"Then I'll pack all the clothes you need to wash this week!"
"Does it count as underwear?"
"Uh… "
"Let's stop fighting," Heinz interjected. "What I want to know is, can you really become an air knight by practicing these things on the ground?"
The two were dumbfounded for a while, and this question could be regarded as the unanimous confusion of all the preparatory students. What about walking on flyovers, passing rollers, discerning the wind direction... It's more like a juggling act than cultivating warriors. Her Royal Highness's personal teaching also disappeared, but after teaching the method to the backbone of the First Army, they would lead the class.
In addition, the training is quite hard. I don’t say anything from morning to night. After nightfall, I have to give intensive lectures to learn to read and write. If it wasn’t for Her Highness Tilly’s personal promise, I’m afraid most people would doubt the authenticity of the announcement.
But the instructor's attitude was so severe that no one dared to bring it up in person.
"Who knows," Finkin shrugged after a while, "at least the food here is good, you can eat meat every day, and there are snacks on weekends."
"I think... It's impossible for His Highness to lie to us." Goode pondered, "Didn't we get a bag of books that day, my sister told me that there is a book called Principles of Flight... It was written by Her Royal Highness the Princess. When we fully master reading and writing, we may be able to understand the meaning of these exercises.”
"You're quite optimistic," Finkin grinned.
"If things don't look good, I would have died on the road of exile."
"Okay, it's time to rest!" At this moment, Eagle Face's voice instantly overwhelmed everyone's chatter, "Come and line up, and practice again in the previous order!"
"Yes..." Everyone said weakly.
But an accident happened.
The door of the training room was suddenly pushed open, and a man in a military uniform walked in and said a few words in the ear of Ying Mian.
Ying Mian nodded, and after a military salute to him, he turned to look at the crowd.
"Congratulations, the follow-up practice is cancelled, you can continue to rest."
Finkin and Heinz breathed a sigh of relief, but Goode held his breath. He clearly saw an unintelligible smile on the other's face. There's sarcasm, banter, and... schadenfreude
"But not here." Sure enough, Eagle Face continued, "Don't think I don't know what you are complaining about in private, but unfortunately with your poor brains, even if you explain it, you can't understand it. But good luck to you. Now there is an opportunity for you to see for yourself what the word Aerial Knight stands for."
What is the true meaning of the sky knight
Goode suddenly felt his heart beating a little faster.
"Come with me," the eagle face slowly swept over everyone, "just remember not to be scared to pee your pants later."