Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 8 Training
The next day, Rhodes woke up and found himself lying on a bed in a tavern.

Rhodes vaguely remembered that when he returned to Icestone City, he was still asleep because he was too tired yesterday, and Baron carried himself back to the tavern.

He touched his waist, and the long sword he got from the grave was still pinned to it. Fortunately, the sword still had a scabbard, or else he might have been unconsciously killed by the sword when he fell asleep last night. cut.

Rhodes stomach growled a few times, he felt very hungry, and felt that he could even eat a cow.

After he got up from the bed and washed up briefly, he ran downstairs to find something to eat.

As soon as he arrived in the lobby of the tavern, he saw Baron dancing and telling others what happened yesterday.

"At that time, there were only four of us, and there were more than 100 powerful ghouls on the opposite side. My teammates were so scared that they couldn't even hold their weapons steadily.

And such a small scene didn't scare me at all. I encouraged them loudly and told them with actions that we can defeat these ghouls.

Just when my teammates were about to be unable to support me, I rushed into the ghoul crowd to fight my way out alone, beheading that powerful necromancer.

However, I still have a teammate who died heroically in battle, and I believe he will be protected by the Holy Spirit. "

"This is the third time you've told this story today. The last time you told me there were more than 80 ghouls." Said a strong adventurer with blond hair and a ponytail sitting next to him.

Baron was a little embarrassed, and scratched his head in embarrassment, "Maybe you misremembered, it must be, didn't you just learn to count recently? Besides, what's the difference between more than 100 and more than 80..."

Rhodes thought it was quite interesting to listen to them bragging while eating.

While eating, Rhodes thought that he hadn't learned the combat skills recorded on the scroll of animal skins, so he speeded up his meal and hurriedly emptied the food on the table.

Although they didn't get a commission in the last adventure, the money they have now is still enough to support them until the beginning of spring next month.

After eating, Rhodes walked to Baron's table, patted Baron's shoulder, and whispered next to Baron's ear: "Last time I found a picture of a beast that recorded combat skills in that tomb." Leather scroll, help me translate it."

Baron made an appointment with his drinking buddies to come back tomorrow to brag, no, to drink, and then he followed Rhodes upstairs.

"You're really amazing. It's already night, and you just woke up." Baron said, closing the door of the room. "Now get that scroll out."

Rhodes took out the scroll and handed it to Baron, and gave Baron a complete account of his experience yesterday, and also handed "The Disaster of the Wise Men" and the note to Baron, subconsciously he felt what he was doing. There is no need to hide it from Baron, whether it was influenced by the original owner.

"This is a very ancient language. Although the characters look similar to today's, there are actually big differences. I can only recognize the simplest few of them, but this is of no use to learning this combat technique. Help." Baron put down the scroll in his hand and frowned.

Baron picked up the "Wise Men's Calamity" and looked at it again. He flicked the blade with his finger and put it next to his ear again, "So the last time the necromancer suddenly became nervous was caused by this sword. Not only the blacksmiths of the Nord Kingdom participated in the forging, but I also saw the style of the elves."

In addition to humans, there are elves and many strange species on the mainland. The elves live in the depths of a huge virgin forest at the junction of the south of the Nord Kingdom and the north of the Roman Empire. This forest is very tall because of the trees. , so it is called the giant wood forest, and some people call it the elf forest.

This forest is a no-go zone for humans, both for solo adventurers and for large armies.Once the Nord Kingdom sent 8000 elite soldiers through the forest to surprise the Roman Empire. As a result, the entire army was almost wiped out in the forest, and only a few dozen people escaped back. Therefore, the Nords are very hostile to the elves.

And every time the Roman Empire attacked the Nord Kingdom, they avoided the Giant Wood Forest and attacked the fortress of the Nord Kingdom - Winterfell Fortress. The two countries had countless wars at Winterfell Fortress. There is a bloody smell that cannot be washed off.

"By the way, when are we going to check what good things the necromancer left after his death?" Rhodes said to Baron who was still studying the long sword seriously.

Baron put down the long sword in his hand and said, "Wei Bo and I can go tomorrow, and you can come if you want."

"No, no, no." Rhode shook his head quickly. It was too cold outside the city, so it was better to be in the tavern.

In addition to the low temperature, there must be other magic traps in the necromancer's lair, and a rookie might add to the chaos.

"How is Hamer?" Rhodes asked again.

"He is as tough as a troll like me. As long as his head is not cut off, he will not die." Baron yawned and said, "If there is nothing else, I will go back to sleep first. I didn't sleep well yesterday."

After Baron left, Rhodes sat on the bed and thought about what he hadn't dealt with.

The smell in the room was not pleasant, the musty smell was mixed with the smell of alcohol and stench left by the previous residents, but Rhodes was able to get used to it after traveling for a few days.

It's night now, but Rhodes just woke up and wasn't sleepy at all. He wondered if he should go out to exercise at night.

Arriving at the entrance of the tavern on the first floor, Rhodes just opened the door when a gust of cold wind blew by, making all his hairs stand on end.

Most cities in the Nord Kingdom do not have a curfew at night. Because Icestone City is far away from war, no one patrols at night. The guards usually drink and brag like ordinary adventurers in a tavern.

As for the maintenance of law and order, it is completely self-conscious. In Nord, thieves are looked down upon by everyone. People who have been caught as thieves are not even allowed to enter the doors of shops and taverns. If they enter, they will be accompanied by the people inside. Throw it out.

Rhodes arrived at the open area used by the city guards for training. He just thought in the room that the effect of force is mutual. If he hits hard or hits something hard, can he also upgrade the iron cloth shirt? Decided to give it a try.

He slammed his body against the wooden stakes in the clearing. These wooden stakes were used by the guards to practice chopping, so they were of good quality and very hard.

Rhodes hit it hard with his shoulder, and his shoulder went numb, as if the shoulder wasn't his own anymore.

Fortunately, he received a reminder that the iron shirt's proficiency has improved.

It seems that this method is useful. If one shoulder is numb, switch to the other side. If it is numb, use your legs to kick, punch, and lean on your back.

Just hit it with the head, in case you hit yourself stupid.

Rhodes kept hitting the stake in front of him. He felt that the thick clothes on his body seemed to be a hindrance to him. He took off his shirt and left his upper body naked.

The wind was very strong and cold at night. Before he took off his clothes, he was covered in sweat. As soon as he took off his clothes, a gust of wind blew over, and he felt that the sweat on his body would be frozen into ice cubes.

However, Rhodes felt that the effect of exercising was better after taking off his clothes. As long as he kept on, the cold could barely be tolerated.

He felt that the airflow produced by the Divine Illumination Kung Fu was stimulated by the cold and the impact to move faster and faster in his body, the pain caused by the impact was weakened, and it was not as cold as before.

Rhodes had been punching, kicking and bumping against the wooden stake all night, and the time soon came to the next morning.

"Boy, have you been stimulated by something? You haven't been beating this stake all night, have you?" Baron walked up to Rhodes at some point and said to Rhodes who was hitting the stake with his fist.

"I'm fine. I found that driving stakes can increase my pain tolerance and exercise my strength." Rhodes explained to Baron.

"Baron, you're punching me with all your strength." Rhodes suddenly said again.

"You won't be affected by your sword, right? But I can meet your request. I will use a special technique to punch with all my strength, so that you can feel the difference between my strength and yours. It will hurt you. Get ready now," Baron said.

Rhodes didn't continue to hit the stake, and took a defensive posture towards Baron, saying, "You can attack me now."

A mysterious purple light lit up on Baron's fist, and it hit Rhodes in an instant, and even Rhodes hadn't reacted yet.

Rhodes didn't fly out like before this time, but he felt extremely painful, as if the bones of his whole body were smashed one by one, he couldn't bear the pain, and he fell to his knees directly on the ground.

"Every time you are sent flying by me, it actually reduces my strength to impact you, but this time I used a special technique to allow you to completely withstand my punch, but the force of this punch is distributed all over your body , so it won't hurt you very much." Baron said out of breath.

"I just learned this technique recently, and it consumes me a lot." Baron continued, as if explaining to Rhodes why he was out of breath.

Rhodes felt a little difficult to breathe on the ground, and the internal force generated by the divine illumination skill in his body began to run at an accelerated speed. It didn't take long for him to get up and fell into a state of thinking.

After he was hit just now, he received a prompt to upgrade the iron shirt's skills. The iron shirt has reached lv3, and he still needs to choose a branch ability of the iron shirt in the system.

"The Iron Cloth has reached level 3, please choose one of the following three abilities."

Ability [-]: It can temporarily make body parts have the hardness of metal.

Ability [-]: Reflect part of the power of the next attack to the attacker.

Ability Three: Greatly enhance the body's defense ability and improve the ability to unload force.

Rhodes didn't know which option was more suitable for him, and all three abilities felt good.He recalled his few battles. In the battle with the Frost Eater Spider, if its leg attack could not break through his defense, then he might have been cold at that time.

Therefore, in the end Rhodes chose ability three and decided to go all the way to the end on the road of the tortoise shell.

The hardness of the metal in Ability [-] does not say which metal it refers to, maybe it will be cheated, after all, mercury is a metal.

"You've practiced all night, go back and eat something and sleep now, Webb and I made an appointment to go back to the cave we visited the day before yesterday." Baron said.

Rhodes and Baron said goodbye and walked towards the "Frostwolf Fang" tavern...

(End of this chapter)