The military respects strength under any circumstances.
After personal experience, Benjamin had a deeper understanding of this point.
Using the shooting interface that appeared out of nowhere in the system, he shocked the entire musketeer battalion with one shot. The attitudes of these recruits towards him were as different as a roller coaster. There was no longer any sarcasm in their eyes, but a lot more respect and admiration, and even a little bit of jealousy occasionally.
Benjamin felt a little guilty about this.
Unlike these people who trained hard, he relied entirely on external forces and was not considered glorious. If it weren't for the shooting interface that suddenly appeared, he would have been embarrassed. However, as soon as he got hold of the gun, he wanted to try firing it. After raising the muzzle of the gun, he had no choice but to go back on his word. On the shelves.
Therefore, after a little pretense, he quickly put his tail between his legs and kept a low profile.
Facts also proved that what he did was very correct. Because soon, he was tortured to death.
Even in gunfire camps, physical training is essential for soldiers - whether you are a recruit or a veteran. This morning, except for the first shot, Benjamin never touched a gun again. The middle-aged man put the gun back, asked Benjamin to join the team, and then started training.
The training content is nothing more than running circles.
"A bunch of bastards, they don't even have hair yet, but they still want to touch a gun? Haven't you heard others say that guns can kill people! I'm doing this for your own good, and you will know to thank me when the time comes! "
This was what the middle-aged man—their instructor—said.
But Benjamin couldn't help complaining in his heart. The most dangerous one is obviously you! If you put a gun without the safety on your waist, you are either a loser or a loser.
However, he was the only "recruit" who thought so. Judging from the looks of the others, the instructor's orders are overwhelming, and whatever the instructor does is correct. Obeying this bounden duty, they also performed it quite thoroughly.
There was no way, Benjamin was not a soldier, he just came for military training, and it was difficult for him to be as single-minded as a real soldier. He is a mage. If he loses the ability to think independently and the spirit to question everything, then he might as well just convert to the church now.
Soon, he was picked out by the instructor.
"The last one in the team, come out!"
After running for more than ten laps, Benjamin, who was almost exhausted, walked towards the middle-aged man.
"It wasn't very powerful just now. Where did that energy go? The fastest person has already run twenty laps. Why are you dawdling behind?" The instructor yelled, "Where did all the strength go? No. eat?"
Benjamin held his knees and gasped for a while, regained his breath, and then said: "I really didn't eat..."
"Before you talk to your superiors, you must call the reporting officer first!" Before he finished speaking, the instructor immediately interrupted him, "Go back! Come here! Say it again!"
“…”
Benjamin dragged his staggering steps, first walked back to the running queue, then walked out, came back to the instructor, and shouted with all his strength:
"Report sir! I really haven't eaten!"
“…”
The scene was very embarrassing for a time.
The expression on the instructor's face seemed a little unbearable. After several efforts, he finally maintained his fierce face and yelled at Benjamin: "There is a reason for not eating! The enemy will show mercy just because you didn't eat." Do you? Go back! Keep running! Don’t even think about eating if you can’t finish a hundred laps!”
In the end, Benjamin left the military camp lying down.
Throughout the morning, Benjamin felt like he had run more steps than he had in his entire life. Fortunately, the maid who sent him here also called a carriage at the entrance of the military camp at noon and took Benjamin back, otherwise he would have collapsed on the way home.
Returning to the Reese family, he didn't even have the strength to go to the living room to have lunch with the others. He could only go back to his bedroom, fall down and never get up again. He asked Jeremy to bring him a few pieces of bread, and he lay on his bed to relieve his hunger problem.
After eating the bread, he sent Jeremy to run errands and stayed alone in the bedroom, wanting to fall asleep.
But he didn't, he still cheered up, entered the consciousness space, and started today's magic practice.
This is a daily lesson that must never be stopped.
During this period of meditation, the triangular character almost changed. The light it emits changes from light blue to dark blue, as if it contains infinite magic and has a dazzling mystery. And the water ball summoned by it is already bigger than Ax Foer's fat head.
Benjamin estimated that if he compressed the water balloon in his hand and threw it out, it would knock out a strong adult man unless he was protected by thick armor.
From washing people's faces to punching them, this trick has begun to show its scale.
Not only that, as the triangle character strengthened, Benjamin felt that his control over magic was getting stronger little by little. The speed of summoning water balls is getting faster and faster, and the control of water balls is getting stronger and stronger.
He is now able to use water balls more skillfully to simulate a defensive bubble around himself. Of course, the defensive power of the blister is far from enough. Although it will not burst with a poke, you can still easily break it if you pick up a sharp object.
Benjamin is not satisfied with this. He wants to use this thing to fight with mages and priests. If you can't even stop a mortal sword, how can you talk about defensive magic? Any knight can break it, let alone "Purge".
I still have to keep practicing!
As for the therapeutic effect of water polo technique, Benjamin has also studied it for a while. He deliberately used more than twenty spells and finally summoned a few drops of water of life to observe the difference between water of life and water ball.
After observation, he discovered that the water elements in the water of life were combined in a very special structure, a bit like a strange cube. The combination of water elements with this structure will give rise to a wonderful vitality. It is this life force that brings the healing power of the water of life.
Applying this to water polo, Benjamin discovered that controlling the element of water on a microscopic level is very difficult. Fortunately, with the help of the triangular character, he succeeded in creating a healing water ball. However, it is currently difficult to maintain this structure, and the "shelf life" of the healing ability is very short, only about ten seconds.
How to make a healing water ball that can be stored for a long time can only be determined by further strengthening the characters.
In this way, from attack to defense to treatment, although his level is not high, Benjamin has begun to grow in all aspects, and new skill points are waiting not far ahead. This is a period of rapid growth for his strength.
He wished he could forget about food and sleep and devote all his time to continuing to practice.
If there is no future "military training".
Although it would take up a lot of time, for the sake of the gun, Benjamin did not resist military training. However, judging from today's training, he is still far away from touching the gun, and he doesn't know how many days he has to run.
But looking on the bright side, his physical fitness should gradually improve.
"By the way, how far have guns in this world developed?" Thinking of this, Benjamin suddenly asked the system.
The system thought for a while and replied: "In general, how should I put it... There are pistols, cannons, and rifles. The pistols can be reloaded. The power is okay, but they are not taken seriously."
Benjamin frowned: "It feels like you said it but didn't say it."
The system immediately became unhappy and retorted confidently: "There is no Internet access here, and I am not Baidu Encyclopedia. Do you think I know everything?"
"...Okay." Benjamin could only accept it reluctantly.
He also wanted to know if he could use the system's data to improve the pistol and build an AK27 or something.
However, no one would have so much useful information stored in their computer. He was also curious about how the time-traveling protagonists in those novels remembered so many contemporary scientific principles. Why do people casually promote technological progress after time travel, engage in chemistry, and build artillery, but they can't even make soap themselves
It would be nice to have an author who works hard and is willing to search Baidu for information.
envious.
Fortunately, the system may also want to prove its usefulness, so next it introduces the general situation of firearms in this world.
After listening to the system's answer, he realized that the status of guns was not as high as he thought.
According to the system, as a world with supernatural abilities, magic and divine arts are the dominant ones here. They are not only released in wars, but also those enchanted swords and blessed armors. Ordinary bullets can't even break through a blessed shirt, let alone a magical shield. Divine magic can also bless bullets, but that consumes too much, so usually only the "bullets" of the cannon are blessed.
As a side note, magically or magically enchanting a pistol is useless unless you're using it to hit someone.
Although many countries also have gunfire battalions in their armies, they are only used as supplementary long-distance means and are not taken seriously, and their status is not as good as artillery.
Therefore, pistols are generally used by some agile mercenaries, and are also used by nobles and wealthy businessmen for self-defense. Like the gun Dick took that day, he probably stole it from his own home.
This is the situation with a pistol in the hands of ordinary people, but it is different when it is placed here with Benjamin.
He has a shooting system that was adapted from a web game, so hitting the target with perfect accuracy is not a problem. As for power, enchantment, etc., he can learn it in the future. Therefore, shooting is still very useful for him.
At least, until his water polo can be used for seconds, shooting is still his most direct and effective means of attack.
Of course, the premise of all this is that he has a gun.
He still had to find a chance to get a gun.
The country explicitly prohibits the sale of firearms, but in fact it does not matter. Every noble family would hide one or two guns, and the Reese family was no exception. Benjamin thought about stealing the gun at home, but if the gun was missing, he would definitely be discovered, which would cause a lot of trouble, so he had no choice but to give up.
What he needs is a gun that only he knows about and that he can keep hidden at his side.
After much deliberation, he finally decided to go to the outer city to buy a gun.
Havenright is the largest city on the continent, with the outer city taking up three-quarters of its area. Although this is also the headquarters of the church, over the years, the church has been focusing mainly on its outward expansion. Therefore, some parts of the outer city of Havenlet can even be called chaos.
By using Jeremy many times, Benjamin's understanding of the outer city has increased a lot. One time when Jeremy came back, he told Benjamin that he accidentally saw guns being sold somewhere. Therefore, when Benjamin went to the outer city, he was not trying to catch someone blind.
He was not afraid that the church would know this. People from the church have always been by his side. Although they don't care much, if he wants to buy a gun, it's impossible to get rid of them.
Surely the Bishop would know that he went and bought a gun, but so what
To the bishop he was a frightened nobleman. Especially after what happened in the castle, it was normal to secretly buy a gun on the black market out of fear of witches and the desire to protect oneself.
As long as the church doesn't know about his connection to magic, it won't be suspicious of him.
As for the possible dangers in the outer city. As long as he is in an open air environment and does not enter any small room. There were people from the church watching, and he didn't believe that anything dangerous could happen.
Coupled with the pendant given to him by the church, he is now able to protect himself. Although there is still a certain risk, if he doesn't dare to take this risk, what kind of time traveler is he? After all, a pistol is quite important to him.
However, for the sake of safety, he still planned to sneak into Claude's study first, rely on his memory, steal the pistol hidden by Claude, and borrow it temporarily. When you buy your own gun, give it back.
In this way, I lay on my bed and practiced all afternoon, and the pain in my body recovered a lot. After dinner, he successfully stole the gun in the study, and then slipped out of the Reese family at night.
He set off towards the outer city of Havenright, the place where guns were said to be bought and sold.