"Thank you." Wang Yu clasped his hands together, stood under a huge walnut tree in the forest, and bowed deeply to the small earthen bag under the tree.
This is the grave of the old knight Leonard. It is not big. Wang Yulian buried the old knight's body and his armor together, leaving only the old knight's sword and the gauntlet of the knight's armor.
Wang Yu has a very deep feeling for the old knight. From the time he first came to this world, he has been taken care of by this old man who is just and kind even though he often gets drunk in the tavern.
Wang Yu has always admired and been grateful to Leonard.
The old knight rarely mentioned his family and hometown, and there was no nostalgia or sadness in his tone.
But Wang Yu knew that this strong old man still missed his hometown very much. It seemed that he wandered away from home for a long time because of some changes in his hometown.
But whenever the tavern, the guild, or Wang Yu asked about it privately, the old knight just shook his head sadly and was unwilling to say anything more.
It seems that things have made this old man who has experienced many vicissitudes of life unwilling to recall or talk about it.
Because the old knight has never talked about his hometown, there is no word about his hometown even in his drunken nonsense.
So Wang Yu doesn't know where the old knight's hometown is, but falling leaves returning to their roots is not popular in this world.
Wang Yu is also a real person. When a person dies, he is dead. Funerals and other things are just comfort for the living. The dead do not need these.
So although it was quite sad, Wang Yu just built a small tomb for the old knight. He used a huge walnut tree next to the tomb as a tombstone and engraved the epitaph:
"Damn it, I really regret that I didn't turn into an undead and get up and kill that bitch who stabbed me to death!"
The old knight has always been like this. Although it is partly due to Wang Yu's speaking habits, he is also an optimistic knight himself. He is usually aloof in the tavern and can always liven up the atmosphere.
However, Wang Yu, who spent time with the old knight, could sometimes notice the darkness and heaviness that would never fade from the depths of the old knight's eyes.
In the past, I thought that when I had the ability, I would explore the old knight's past and help him get rid of this knot. Unfortunately, I may not have this opportunity in the future.
Bowing deeply again, as a farewell to the old knight, Wang Yu picked up the old knight's sword, put on the gauntlet, and left the place where the old knight rested.
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Aviya, who was standing in the distance, had already put on some clothes that fit her well, which she found from the thieves' trophies.
Although these guys are poor, they have a lot of miscellaneous things. These are probably clothes made of imitation mage robes that they got from one of the victims.
It's quite a small piece, with a simple brown color and some patterns. It goes just right with Aviya's petite figure. The whole person looks very elegant.
At this time, Aviya was standing next to Torett, sorting out the two large packages hanging on Torett's body.
Inside were the things that the two of them were going to take with them on this trip. Most of them were looted from thieves, and a small part were items that Wang Yu and the old knight had left in their previous campsite.
Wang Yu is still the same, his upper body is naked, his strong body is covered with scars, his lower body is wearing simple and light leather armor, and his boots are thick-soled, but now he has a pair of sophisticated knight armor gauntlets on his hands.
Noticing Wang Yu coming over, Aviya looked back and seemed to be planning to say hello, but her eyes moved and focused on the gauntlet Wang Yu was wearing.
Wang Yu noticed Aviya's strange look, raised his gauntlet to take a look, and found nothing strange, so fortunately he asked directly. "What's wrong with my gauntlet?"
Nodding hesitantly, Aviya walked closer and observed Wang Yu's hands carefully, and then touched twice at the junction of Wang Yu's wrist and gauntlet.
It seemed that she had found something, and she touched and distinguished the things on it carefully. Aviya motioned to Wang Yu to feel it for himself.
"Is this what it is?" Wang Yu took off his gauntlet and found that there were some different bulges in that area. He took a look at it under the sun and found that it seemed to be a small engraving on the metal.
"Is this a seal with a sword through an eye?"
Because of Aviya's height, Wang Yu couldn't see her when he stood up and held her, so she asked Wang Yu if what he saw was what she thought.
"Let me take a look." Wang Yu looked carefully. The metal and leather inner liner made this glove both comfortable and quite protective.
The raised piece before the outer edge does have a small metal engraving that Aviya said.
A long sword with extremely fine carvings, intricately carved with intricate patterns, which looks very exquisite and noble.
But this gorgeous-looking sword blade penetrated deeply into a twisted eyeball.
The eyeballs are carefully carved with raised blood vessels, strange pus flowing on them, and mutated and proliferated tentacles with fine serrations.
For some reason, even though it was just carved from metal, Wang Yu felt the texture of flesh and blood when he saw this thing.
But the moment he felt it, the exquisite sword blade emitted a faint golden light, and then the texture of flesh and blood disappeared in an instant.
Wang Yu's will determined that he would not fall into the illusion, so everything he saw just now should have actually happened.
This made him a little stunned, how could the old knight's armor have such a thing.
You must know that Leonard is a pragmatist like Wang Yu. It is absolutely impossible for him to carve any fancy carvings on his armor just for the sake of beauty.
So this thing should have some special function or meaning.
Turning his questioning eyes to Aviya who was standing aside, the latter pondered for a moment and then said, "I have an image of the style of this gauntlet."
"This seems to be the armor used by a special underground organization in our kingdom. I have seen people wearing similar armor in my father's study."
"My father and those people seemed to be discussing something at that time. Within a few days, a large cult organization in our area was eradicated."
"If I remember correctly, the name of their organization should be "Night Blades". It seems to be a very elite force in the kingdom. It is stationed as an important force in every territory. Its main responsibility is to deal with the problems of the abyss and the evil god. "
Wang Yu raised his eyebrows after hearing Aviya's explanation. The old knight's gauntlets were definitely not picked up by him, and the special changes in the carving that he saw before also proved that the gloves were not fakes.
Then the identity of the old knight becomes strange, but this is still not something Wang Yu can consider now.
What he has to consider is that he should replenish his knowledge of this world, because he doesn't even know what the evil god and the abyss are.
Although he could almost understand the meaning by listening to the noun, the important thing was that he had no idea what it was.
Covering his forehead with a headache, he sincerely bowed his hands to Aviya, "Teacher, please teach me!"
Aviya was stunned...
Regardless of the problem that Wang Yu, an illiterate time traveler, cannot understand many things in this world, there is no problem with the identity of the old knight.
Although he is a wandering knight without a fief, he still has the title of "knight" given by at least a viscount and above, which means that the identity of the old knight must be registered.
Leonard has a name in the local guild, and he usually wears this set of armor.
Usually no one mentions this secret organization called "The Edge of Night", so the old knight probably cannot be a defecting knight.
Therefore, there is actually no need to worry that the identity of the old knight will cause trouble, or that using this gauntlet will be risky.
The fact that the old knight has not been recognized for so many years either means that this organization is secretive enough, or that the organization's power network is large enough to suppress all news.
Wang Yu prefers the former. After all, if the intelligence network and sphere of influence of "Night Blade" were really exaggerated to that point, Leonard might not have died at the hands of Obi-Wan at all.
Regardless of these things, the most important thing for Wang Yu is to improve his own strength and supplement the basic knowledge of this world.
Whether it was history or situations in various countries, these were all things he wanted to ask Aviya for advice during the journey.
The old knight taught him very little, or it was too late to teach him, and Wang Yu needed to work hard to make up for these shortcomings and shortcomings.
Generally understanding that Wang Yu's armor was left behind by the old knight who had passed away, Aviya was very sensible and neither said nor asked too much, and continued to pack her bags for the road.
After the sun gradually rose from the east, it slowly climbed over the heads of Wang Yu and Aviya.
When the sun was blazing again like yesterday, the two packed their bags and set off.
The Aleister Border Forest is a general name. In fact, the forest surrounding the entire Aleister Kingdom is very huge.
If we insist on comparing the area, the entire forest may account for about half of the size of the Aleister Kingdom, but the degree of development is quite poor.
Compared to other territories and capitals, it is almost as deserted as a desert.
If we want to give a rough name to the area where Wang Yu is currently located, it would be the southern border forest of Alestle.
Aviya's destination is also included in this large area.
"Misty forest? Let me see..." Wang Yu held the map and ran quickly on the forest path. Next to him was Torette, who was running at a speed that was relatively fast for humans but very easy for horses. .
And Toret was carrying Aviya, who was carefully holding the horse's back and talking nervously to Wang Yu.
"Yes...yes, when Oka was about to approach the destination, he suddenly attacked and killed two of my maids who had relaxed their vigilance and knocked me unconscious."
"Then when I woke up, I was locked in that dungeon. We should be very close to our destination."
Aviya carefully fixed herself while talking to Wang Yu, who was running and looking at the map next to her.
"Well, it's almost there. If we go fast, we can arrive tomorrow night. But before that, we have to go to the nearby Church of the God of Light to replenish some holy water."
"I've also heard about the misty forest. There are a lot of creatures like forest witches and swamp ghosts in it. If you don't prepare some holy water, you can easily be attacked and poisoned, and the impact will be very serious." Wang Yu said while looking at the map.
A young mage was sitting on the back of a horse, and the horse was galloping happily on the forest road. There was a man next to him holding a map, running at high speed, gasping for air, and looking at the map.
This is a strange scene no matter how you look at it. In fact, this is Wang Yu's way of exercising.
They have been traveling for a day, and it is now the evening of the second day. As the sun gradually sets in the west, the forest is getting darker little by little.
The map Wang Yu got from the bandits marked the location of the misty forest, but Wang Yu had also heard the name of this ghost place.
There are all kinds of dark creatures in it, such as swamp slimes, ringworm goblins, etc. They are not too deadly, but they are quite disgusting and annoying, and they are especially prone to wound infection or poisoning.
Without the holy water of the Light Church, most people would not enter this place that has neither oil nor water nor anything special.
I didn't expect Aviya's aunt to set up a magic academy here. It feels like the old witch in Wang Yu's impression. I don't know what it will be like.
On the way, Wang Yu discovered that he could run and do other things at the same time with the control of ripples, so he chose this method to exercise himself.
Wang Yu is a hard-working person. Ever since he discovered that his body was in the adaptive "bonus period", he would exercise himself spontaneously.
Swing the sword more than a thousand times a day until the arm fatigue reaches a certain level, and then start various physical training.
Because of his strong recovery ability, there is no need to worry about injuries. Wang Yu's exercises are very tiring and scary to outsiders.
But this is nothing to him who is determined.
Running is also a very good way to exercise. Wang Yu's body's recovery ability allows him to maintain a dynamic balance.
As long as the energy can keep up, he can actually run forever, so running with the horse is a very good way to exercise muscles and endurance.
Although it may look a little strange, it will be fine once the effect is achieved.
Sweat dripped on the map. Wang Yu blew it dry and put the map away.
Looking at the forest that was gradually becoming gloomier, his sensitive hearing allowed him to hear the movements of various nocturnal predators that were gradually becoming restless in the forest. It was unwise to rush at night.
"It's time to camp for the night." Wang Yu slowed down his pace after reminding Thoret and Aviya beside him.
Torrett also took Aviya to follow Wang Yu, and the speed slowed down. The two of them found a large pine tree and stopped underneath.
He took out the dry firewood and the flint, and as the sparks from the flint ignited the tinder placed on the dry firewood, a bright ball of light lit up in the gradually darkening forest.
The bonfire lit up the small campsite and drove away the night snoops.
Take out the soup pot, fill it with some prepared water, put in dry food, and as the hot water begins to boil, a simple but filling dinner is ready.
After simply finishing his dinner, Wang Yu closed his eyes, and the secret energy ripples were activated, and the ripples carrying "force" naturally spread on the body surface.
Those sweat stains, sludge, etc. were washed away by the secret energy reverberating on Wang Yu's body surface, and fell off naturally, no longer sticking to Wang Yu's skin and causing discomfort. It was a very simple but very practical method.
Aviya sat opposite the fire, quietly closing her eyes and meditating, improving her mental power level, and guiding the magic power into her own magic whirlpool to expand her magic power reserves.
After a while, Wang Yu added some more fuel to the firewood, Aviya opened her meditative eyes, and Wang Yu took out his notebook.
It's time for tonight's lecture. Wang Yu will now learn some knowledge about this world from Aviya every night.
Aviya was a noble and was not taken seriously. One of her few hobbies when she was a child was reading.
The rich collection of books at home gives her a knowledge reserve that far exceeds that of her peers. She has no problem being a teacher for Wang Yu, an illiterate person in this world.
He looked at Wang Yu, who was staring at him seriously and holding a notebook in his hand, ready to take notes at any time.
Aviya must admit that aside from that strange feeling, Wang Yu is indeed a very studious and hard-working student.
Being his teacher, apart from feeling a little weird, is actually surprisingly quite fulfilling.
"The standard for a formal knight is that fighting spirit can move spontaneously, forming a special matrix and awakening one's own "inner potential"."
"This ability has nothing to do with bloodline, nor is it unique to bloodline knights, but..."
Aviya's eloquent explanation echoed in the woods, lingering in this campground illuminated by warm fire.
