Lorist slept in a dark sleep, and was not awakened by the noise from the hall downstairs until noon the next day. Leaning lazily on the head of the bed and not wanting to get up, I don't know how long it took, and felt that the noise downstairs was not so noisy, so Lorist slowly got up.
On the stool next to the bed was a stack of new clothes, gray and white linen underwear, blue and black woolen sweater, black leather waistcoat, gray lambskin long coat, black bloomers, and a pair of white wool socks, Next to the stool was a pair of black leather boots.
Lorist was very satisfied. Eldest sister Louise knew what she liked, so she chose darker colors when buying clothes, unlike some mercenaries who wore colorful ones, which were even more like clowns than clowns. However, the price of this new clothes is not cheap, it is estimated that it will cost more than one gold coin.
The clothes fit perfectly and so did the boots. Insert the two daggers into the boot shaft, put the crossbow on the left arm, hang the shorter sword on the sword buckle at the waist, and put the longer sword on the back, and sort out the money bag and pocket, checked the room and found nothing missing, then Lorist went out, locked the door, and went downstairs.
It was already past the peak meal time at noon, and there were still more than 20 or 30 people sitting idle in the tavern lobby with wine glasses, listening to the red-nosed old Mike recite "Peace of the Gods" in a deep and sad voice. This is an epic long poem describing the war between magicians and gods thousands of years ago. The only regret is that the author stands on the side of the gods and condemns the magicians who are also human beings for waging war against the gods as madness. Much saddened by the fall of the gods. In addition to this flaw, this long poem has beautiful language, twists and turns, and ups and downs, and has always been loved by the people. In addition to being sung by countless singers everywhere, this poem has also been adapted into dance music, plays and sketches, and performed in large and small tavern theaters.
Lorist came to an empty table and sat down. Some drinkers who knew him raised their glasses and greeted him silently, and then continued to listen to Old Mike's singing.
Sister Louise appeared at the table and lowered her voice: "I saw that you slept soundly in the morning, so I won't wake you up. This dress looks handsome and fits you well, right?"
Lorist nodded: "It's very comfortable to wear, and I've troubled my eldest sister. What else do I have to eat now?"
"A batch of fresh cod came in this morning, how about one?"
"Well, let Madoff cook me cod, a bowl of pork rib soup, a plate of scrambled egg rice with sausage, and a glass of black plum ale. I have to report to the college in the afternoon."
"Okay, let's go right away. I'll tell Madoff to hurry up and don't delay your going to the academy to do business."
"Wait a minute," Lorist called to Miss Louise who turned to leave: "There is no rush to go to the college to report, Big Sister, leave the room on the second floor for me for a few days, and put my clothes boxes in there after they are cleaned. , and give old Mike a rye ale, and charge it to me."
After eating and drinking enough, he left the tavern and waited on the side of the street for a while, then he saw a light open cab passing by.
Lorist hurriedly waved his hand to stop: "Go to Dawn Academy."
"Okay, fifteen coppers, you sit down." The coachman in brown uniform shook the reins, and the Draymond striped horse pulling the cart started to run briskly.
Ten minutes later, the carriage stopped at the gate of Dawn Academy. Lorist handed the coachman a small silver coin, and took the five copper coins he should find as a tip, and walked off amidst the coachman's endless thanks. carriage.
Dawn College is located in the western college district of Morente City. It is a comprehensive college, ranking fifth among nearly twenty colleges in Morente City, and among the top ten most prestigious colleges in Galintia. Ranked ninth.
A statue of a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl wielding a sword and beheading a huge dragon is located in front of the gate of the college. This brave little girl is Loria, the Goddess of Dawn. She is the eldest daughter of God of Light, God of the Sun, God of War, Sigva, and Goddess of Silver Moon, Daphne. In the myths and legends of the Galintia continent, the dark dragon king of the West Sea hated the sun god Sigvar who sat in his chariot and emitted light when he patrolled the world every day, and set a trap to lure the five horses pulling the chariot into the abyss. . At this critical moment, Loria, who was still a little girl, stepped forward to fight against the Dark Dragon King and successfully beheaded him, making the five magic horses pulling the cart back on the right track, and letting the sun god's light disperse the darkness of the sky. Darkness also won the priesthood of the Goddess of Dawn for herself.
Dawn, when dawn breaks, light is coming. In the biography of the gods of Galintia, the goddess of dawn represents courage and hope.
Bypassing the statue that was privately complained by the academy students as the dragon pushing down the young girl, Lorist stood in front of the gate of Dawn Academy. It is said to be a gate, but there is actually no such thing as a door frame, door frame, or door leaf. In fact, the boulevard in front of you and the statue of the Goddess of Dawn behind it are the gates to the Dawn Academy.
Lorist sighed softly, took out a two-finger-wide black iron plate from his pocket and fastened it on his chest. The black iron plate was in the shape of a broad sword with three silver stars dotted on its body. This is the badge of vindictiveness that represents the three stars of the black iron.
There is no way, one must wear a fighting spirit badge when entering and leaving the academy. This is one of the regulations of the academy. In addition, professors have a professor's identity badge, teachers have an instructor's identity badge, and students have a student's identity badge, which is also mandatory.
Lorist pinned another badge next to the fighting spirit badge. A long sword was pierced into the ground, with half a rising sun behind it. Different from the Black Iron Dou Qi Badge, this badge is made of gold. In Dawn Academy, this badge represents the dual teaching status of swordsmanship and Dou Qi.
A few young boys and girls wearing the uniforms of the Chenxi Academy came bouncing in front of them, around fourteen or fifteen, probably new students who have just entered the academy. Lorist knew that more than a month ago was the day to recruit new students. Looking at these boys and girls, he couldn't help but recall himself ten years ago. Just like them, time flies so fast.
These boys and girls didn't pay much attention when they saw Lorist for the first time. There are many students of this age in the academy, all in their 30s and 40s, but when they saw the golden badge on Lorist's chest When he was startled, he hurriedly stood by the side of the road, bowing his head respectfully and saluting.
Lorist nodded with a smile and continued on his way. In Dawn Academy, it is the most basic polite requirement for students to give way to teachers.
There was a murmur of chatter and surprise from behind: "He is Teacher Locke, the legendary black iron and gold teacher in our academy!"
"The black iron three-star fighting spirit badge and the gold teaching badge, what they said is true. It is said that even the silver swordsman is no match for him. He claims that silver is invincible..."
"I really hope he is the instructor of our battle qi. It has been three years in a row, and all the students he has led have awakened their battle qi. Those students from three years ago are now all members of the Black Iron Rank..."
"I heard the seniors say..."
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In Galintia, fighting spirit and swordsmanship represent power. Fighting Qi is divided into bronze, black iron, silver, and gold four levels, and each level is divided into three levels of strength, one, two, three stars, and the third level of gold fighting energy is the Great Sword Master and Juggernaut. It is unique for Lorist to stay at the peak level of fighting spirit for three or four years like Lorist. Except that the promotion to the Great Swordsman at the peak stage of the third gold level requires comprehension to break through. The three stages of Bronze, Black, Iron, and Silver will soon break through when they reach the peak of Samsung. This is the main reason why Lorist has become a legend and a joke of Dawn Academy.
Ten years ago, a carriage with a badge of a roaring bear's head transported a fourteen-year-old nobleman from the far north of the Cressen Empire to Dawn Academy. Madoff, the current fat chef of the Red Crow Tavern who was still setting up a food stall with his parents at the gate of Chenxi Academy, still clearly remembers that the young nobleman who got off the carriage had a hundred and twenty dissatisfaction written on his face, and the corners of his eyes were full of dissatisfaction. Out of the corner of the eye, the Madoff family looked at them as nothing, dismissively, coldly, and extremely arrogant.
In less than a month, Madoff heard that this proud young aristocrat had a conflict with others in the academy, was severely injured, and had to stay in bed for three months.
It has been more than three months since I saw this young nobleman again, and Madoff found that the proud young nobleman was gone, and standing in front of him was a curious young man with a sunny smile, who was stretching out a hand towards himself. : "Hey, hello, my name is Norton Lorist, how about you?"
It took a long time for Madoff to understand that the reason Lorist and himself became friends was because he really couldn't bear the clear soup, brown bread, mashed potatoes, and vegetable soup that Chenxi Academy provided students with, three meals a day, and the meals remained the same. . Lorist had no choice but to go to the food stand of Madoff's house to make himself some hometown delicacies to satisfy his hunger.
Madoff couldn’t forget the first time Lorist showed his cooking skills at a food stand. He and his parents were stunned to watch Lorist use the simple ingredients from his own food stand to make a series of unheard of delicious dishes with extremely attractive colors and aromas. Delicious food, my younger brother and sister are drooling looking at these delicious food.
At that time, Madoff’s food stall only sold boiled apples, boiled edamame beans, baked potatoes and sausages, plus some appetizers such as braised lamb haggis, and earned a few large silver coins a month to make ends meet. As a result, after Lorist came, Madoff's food stall quickly became a gourmet place passed on by the students. Its teppanyaki flavor and scrambled egg rice with pork sausage became popular in the entire college area, and the business was booming for a while.
The young Madoff worked hard to learn from Lorist the so-called traditional cuisine of Lorist's hometown, and Lorist also taught him everything. In his words, Madoff has the talent to be a great chef. In the heart of the young Madoff, Lorist's hometown must be the legendary and mysterious food town, and he hopes that he can visit it with a pious heart in the future.
Finally, Lorist couldn't stand Madoff's entanglement and his inquiring about his hometown. He told Madoff very seriously that in fact these dishes are not traditional delicacies of his hometown, but a recipe book handed down by his family. . It is said that this is a cheat book for making dishes enjoyed by magicians thousands of years ago, and it is also a coincidence that my ancestors got it. It's a pity that many ingredients can't be found now. I just changed it and used the existing ingredients to choose some common production methods to make the delicacies that appear now.
Only then did Madoff die of the heart of going on a pilgrimage to the land of gourmet food.
Time flies like an arrow, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye. Madoff's parents, who made a small fortune, were tired of the busy life of setting up stalls in the city. They bought a small farm in the suburbs and took Madoff's younger siblings to farm. Dolph was also hired as a chef at the Red Crow Tavern with a high salary. Lorist was only nineteen years old at the time, with a two-star Black Iron Dou Qi rank. Because of his superb swordsmanship, he had just been invited by the academy to become an apprentice swordsmanship instructor. It was the first time he became an instructor, and his future was bright.
Another five years have passed, and Madoff is still the chef of the Red Crow Tavern, while Lorist has become the legendary golden instructor of swordsmanship and vindictiveness at Dawn Academy. It's just that the winner of the gold teaching badge, his grudge has been stagnant at the peak level of the black iron three stars. It has been nearly four years now, and he still cannot break through to the silver level. A joke that the swordsmanship genius and vindictive waste refer to Lorist.
Except for those colleges that are not well-known, the professors hired by some well-known colleges are basically above the silver rank. Like Dawn Academy, which ranks in the top ten in Galintia, some of the trainee teachers in it are Silver three-star rank. However, Lorist is unique in that he has become a double golden teacher of swordsmanship and fighting qi with the black iron rank of vindictiveness, and he is naturally ridiculed and hostile.
The reason for obtaining the golden training of fighting qi is that for three consecutive years, all the students in the fighting qi enlightenment class led by Lorist have awakened their fighting qi. This 100% success rate is unprecedented. Even the fighting qi enlightenment class led by a great sword master once Of the twenty-six noble students, only twenty-five had awakened their battle qi, and the remaining student was judged to be weak in blood and unable to awaken his battle qi. The success rate of awakening the fighting qi of the students that time has been hailed as the highest. Like the general fighting qi enlightenment class, if two-thirds of the students can awaken the fighting qi, it can be said to be extremely successful.
As for the fighting qi enlightenment class that Lorist led for the first time, there were seventeen students in the class, none of them were nobles, and all of them were civilians. No one was willing to push the results to Lorist. Awakened fighting spirit, shocked the whole academy. In the second year, Lorist led a total of thirty-one people in the fighting qi enlightenment class, and all of them awakened their fighting qi within one semester. So in the third year, Lorist's fighting qi enlightenment class had 59 people, among them more than ten were noble students who came here especially, and the most notable ones were the three students who had failed to awaken their fighting qi.
It's not that if you fail to awaken your battle qi, you won't be able to awaken your battle qi again, it's just that the success rate is extremely low. But at the end of a semester, these three failed students, like other students, successfully awakened their battle qi. This time, not only Chenxi Academy was a sensation, but also the rest of the academy in Morente City were extremely shocked. Lorist instantly became a legend. The achievement of all the new students awakening their fighting qi for three consecutive years and three semesters made Lorist indisputably adorned with the golden badge of fighting qi teaching.
As for the golden badge for swordsmanship teaching, it was won by Lorist in a duel. In the past three years, he and Chenxi Academy's silver class students have taught nearly a hundred duels without a single defeat. Not only did they earn a fortune, but they also won the title of "Silver Invincible".
Walking along the boulevard, Lorist recalled every detail of the past ten years in the academy, with gains, losses, sweetness and bitterness, all of a sudden, filled with emotions...