The early morning sun lit up the entire castle, revealing its enormous shape. Compared to other knights' castles of the same level, this castle was already huge. It was inherited from the first Baron Bennett, who spent 10 years to build this castle.
Due to the incompetence of some of his successors, the Knight of Bennett lost his title. He only kept his title as a Knight, which made him very upset every time he talked about it.
The Knight of Bennett's biggest regret was that he didn't get enough war glory. Although the Knight of Bennett was brave and tenacious during the war with the orcs, he still didn't get enough war glory to get a title.
Therefore, the Knight of Bennett put in a lot of effort into his children's education, especially his eldest son Zach. As long as Zach could become a Knight before 30 years old, the inheritance of this castle would be guaranteed. The next step would be to see how hard Zach worked and whether he could raise his title.
The Knight of Bennett didn't have any requirements for his youngest son. He was planning to find someone to teach his youngest son some arithmetic when he was young, and then find him a good job in the city. However, his youngest son had chosen the path of a Knight, which made the Knight of Bennett a little worried. His youngest son had chosen a path that was even harder than his older brother's. He didn't have his own castle, battle horse, or armor. His youngest son would become a wandering Knight in the future, a profession that wasn't recognized by the nobles. He would slowly earn some money to buy his own battle horse and armor. It would be good if he could settle down before 40 years old, and most of these wandering Knights would die on the way.
"You leveled up?"
The Knight of Bennett was surprised to see that his second son, Abel, had successfully become a level one novice knight after only two months of training. It took him four months to become a level one novice knight, and his eldest son, Zach, had spent four and a half months to become a level one novice knight. However, his youngest son, who he did not pay much attention to, had only spent two months to become a level one novice knight without any resources.
"Yes, father. I leveled up last night."
Zach stepped forward and hugged Abel. The tall Zach directly picked up Abel and spun him in the air. He laughed and said, "My dear little brother, you are a genius!"
As Abel kept struggling, Zach put Abel down. He patted Abel's shoulder and said with certainty, "You are a genius."
The Knight of Bennett was a little happy and a little sad as he shook his head and sighed, "What a pity."
If Abel was his eldest son, or if he had a higher income as a Knight, he would definitely do his best to train Abel. However, the current situation was not easy. It was not easy to train Zach, let alone Abel.
Abel got the Hradik cube yesterday. Although he couldn't use the Scroll of Town Portal, the cube was still a divine artifact. After waking up in the morning, Abel had been trying to recall the formula of the Hradik cube. There weren't many formulas that he could use, so he wanted to go to the town today to see if there was anything that could help him.
"Father, I want to go to the town of Fort Lee today." Abel didn't hesitate and directly asked his father. This was a characteristic of the Knight family. They didn't need to beat around the bush. Abel was not used to this at first, but now he was completely used to this way of speaking.
"Well, you just leveled up. You don't have to train today. It's good to go to the town and relax."
Zach said, "I'll help you with the horse."
He ran to the stable and found an old horse. He helped Abel on the saddle and helped Abel get on the horse. He also secretly gave him a gold coin.
Knight of Bennett saw everything. He didn't say anything, but his face was full of comfort. Countless noble families had brothers who killed each other. This kind of brotherhood was very precious.
Other than warhorses, all other horses were called old horses. This was because warhorses ate special oats and soybeans. Every month, they needed 10 gold coins of feed. Without this special feed, the warhorses would lose weight in a very short period of time. They wouldn't be able to run fast, and they would become ordinary old horses.
The old horse Abel was riding was a 2 year old pony. Although it was an old horse, it was still a warhorse in the family. It was just that they couldn't feed it.
Abel was riding the horse. Behind him was Norman, who was wearing leather armor and carrying a long sword. Norman didn't ride a horse. He just ran behind the old horse. Luckily, it was a small horse. Old horses weren't fast to begin with, so it wasn't hard for Norman to run.
Norman was a veteran Knight of Bennett brought back from the battlefield. After he came back from the battlefield, he followed the Knight of Bennett and settled down in the Bennett Castle with his family. This was the way nobles treated their servants. It made them feel grateful to the nobles, and at the same time, it guaranteed their loyalty.
Norman's swordsmanship was outstanding. He relied on the secret warrior technique that the Knight of Bennett had given him to become a rank six warrior. Although he didn't have any special skills, his swordsmanship was still very powerful. Therefore, whenever Abel went out, the Knight of Bennett would let Norman go with him.
"Young master, stop."
Norman pulled out his sword from his back and held it in his hand. His eyes were looking at the forest beside the road. They were half an hour away from the castle and half an hour away from the town of Fort Lee. If something happened in this position, they couldn't ask for help from either side.
Abel pulled the old horse and pulled out the fine iron dagger Zach gave him from his waist. He asked softly, "What did you find?"
Abel was much taller than Norman on the horse, but he couldn't find anything. Just as he was wondering, a black shadow rushed out of the forest with a roar. At this moment, Abel saw clearly that it was a shadow leopard.
The shadow leopard was too fast. It ran in front of the old horse in a few steps and bit its neck. This old horse was the descendant of a warhorse. At this critical moment, the old horse neighed and jumped back, just in time to avoid the bite of the shadow leopard.
Norman had already rushed up and slashed forward with his sword. The air whistled as his sword slashed at the shadow leopard. The shadow leopard wasn't an ordinary leopard. It usually didn't appear in the daytime, and it would only appear on the road. It liked to hide in the dark and wait for prey to pass by before biting off its neck. Today's situation was probably because the shadow leopard was too hungry and had no choice but to rush out of the forest to find prey.
The shadow leopard's speed was too fast. Norman's every attack was dodged by the shadow leopard, and the shadow leopard's attacks didn't have much effect. The experienced Norman was always able to successfully block the shadow leopard's attacks with his greatsword.
Abel jumped down from his horse and slowly approached the battlefield. The shadow leopard didn't care about the short human. Experience told it that as long as it defeated the sword-wielding human in front of it, there would be enough food for it.
He didn't enter the battlefield immediately. Instead, he circled the battlefield and slowly looked for an opportunity. If he entered the battlefield now, it would only cause more trouble for Norman. To the shadow leopard, it was a weak, short human. Even if it used all its strength, it wouldn't be able to break its skin.
At this time, the first contact between Norman and the shadow leopard began. Norman's sword slashed at the shadow leopard's back. The sword was originally aimed at its neck, but when the shadow leopard twisted, it missed its vital point. The shadow leopard's tail whipped Norman's leg. Norman's face showed a painful expression, and he staggered back because of his leg injury.
At this moment, Abel took a deep breath, and a powerful force surged out from his meridian. This was a way for a Trainee Knight to overdraw their body. With only one attack, a large amount of Qi in the meridian would be converted into power in an instant. If there was a second attack, the meridian would be shattered beyond repair.
In the instant that the shadow leopard was hit by the sword and its tail whipped out, its body paused in the air. This was the opportunity that Abel had been waiting for. He stomped on the ground and rushed out. The shadow leopard in the air also saw Abel's figure. Although the injury just now wasn't fatal, it still affected its movement. Abel's dagger reached out and stabbed into the shadow leopard's back door.
"Owww ~ ~" The shadow leopard let out a sharp howl. At this moment, Abel had already let go of the dagger in his hand and retreated backwards. Following that, a black tail swept in front of Abel.
Norman limped with his injury and pulled Abel behind him. At this time, the shadow leopard was already rolling on the ground, and its cries were getting softer and softer. Slowly, it stopped moving.
Abel was about to go forward and check, but Norman grabbed Abel and said, "Be careful." After that, he took the scabbard from his back and threw it at the shadow leopard. Just as it was about to hit the shadow leopard, the shadow leopard suddenly stretched out its claws and scratched the scabbard. Then, it stopped moving.
Norman went forward and picked up the scabbard from the ground. Looking at the claw mark on it, he said to Abel, "Young master, many beasts have a habit of attacking last."
Then, he lifted the shadow leopard's body from the ground and looked at the wound on the back door. He took out the dagger from the wound and said with a smile, "Young master, this was killed by you. How do you want me to deal with it?"
"Take it to town and sell it."
Abel looked at Norman's leg and said, "Next, ride the horse and put the shadow leopard on it."
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