Creed of the heavens

After switching languages ​​several times, Lu Xiao finally heard the barely familiar language English.

"Can you speak English?"

Although Mario's English is very plastic and has a very strong local accent, Lu Xiao's eyes lighted up because of this, and he nodded in response: "Yes, I can speak a little English."

At any rate, they are students who graduated from regular universities. Although they seriously lack the environment for oral communication, facing Mario, who is also not proficient in English, the two finally understood each other's meaning after talking and making gestures.

Mario struggled to confirm his origin to Lu Xiao, and cautiously asked about the origin of the pendant on his neck.

This kind of time is the time to test Lu Xiao's ability to speak up after work.

As soon as Lu Xiao opened her mouth, she started making up stories, falsely claiming that she came from the ancient Ming Dynasty in the far east.

He was a descendant of a certain assassin family in the Ming Dynasty. Because he was persecuted by a high-ranking Templar official, his family was ruined. As a last resort, he left his hometown and fled overseas, hoping to return to his hometown after learning a skill to take revenge.

The story background of Assassin's Creed 2 takes place from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century, when the Italian Renaissance was the most prosperous.

Lu Xiao's history is not very good, and he can't tell exactly which emperor is ruling China today, but he can barely remember that China was in the middle of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and the wild boar skin had not risen yet, so it was a relative relatively peaceful era.

There were very few exchanges between the East and the West in the 15th century, and most Italians' impressions of China were still based on Marco Polo's guerrilla descriptions.

The story fabricated by Lu Xiao and the narration of the customs of the Ming Dynasty fooled Mario. With the proof of the assassin's pendant, Mario began to believe that the young assassin brother was indeed from the distant branch of the Eastern Brotherhood.

The history of the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Knights Templar has a long history. According to the game content of Assassin’s Creed: Origins, as early as BC, during the Ptolemaic Dynasty in Egypt, the predecessors of the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Knights Templar had been established.

The original names of the two organizations were the Hidden Ones and the Order of the Ancients.

Under the evolution of thousands of years, the completely contradictory concepts of the two organizations have spread to all corners of the world through generations of members, and ancient China was no exception.

In the horizontal version of Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China, the protagonist is a female assassin from the Ming Dynasty named Shao Yun.

Shao Yun fled to Italy after his first secret failure in the operation of the branch of the Assassin Brotherhood in the Ming Dynasty, and sought help from the Italian Assassin mentor at that time.

Of course, this is decades after Lu Xiao's current timeline.

Hesitantly, Mario decided to leave Lu Xiao, who had come all the way to seek help, to stay in Monteriggioni to determine his character and true purpose through personal observation.

Lu Xiao has no objection to this. In order to obtain information about the Pieces of Eden, he needs to integrate into the local Brotherhood of Assassins and gain their trust.

Besides, apart from peeping cough and clairvoyance, which he took out from the novice gift pack, he doesn't have any fighting power.

Now that the system has been bound, in the foreseeable future, he will definitely shuttle between multiple crisis-ridden worlds. Without enough combat power, it is difficult to guarantee the smooth completion of the world tasks delivered by the system.

Although the system did not clearly mention the consequences of failing the world mission, but based on Lu Xiao's experience in reading online novels for many years, it is definitely not something he is willing to bear.

Monteriggioni is a miniature city located in the Tuscany region of Italy. It belongs to the territory of the Auditore family. There are less than 1000 residents in the whole city, which is worthy of the name of a small rural town.

Under Mario's poor English description, Lu Xiao probably knew the current situation of Italy or the Republic of Florence.

That's right, there is no complete Italian kingdom in this era, and Italy is just a concept and a place name.

Now the entire Apennines are in chaos, and major cities have successively established kingdoms, principalities, autonomous cities and small feudal territories.

The Tuscany region where Monteriggioni is located is in turmoil. The Florentine Republic controlled by the Medici family is the strongest, and it has been in conflict with the neighboring Siena Republic all year round.

Monteriggioni was just sandwiched between Siena and Florence. In order to ensure the survival of the territory, Mario often swayed between the two.

Yesterday's friend may be tomorrow's enemy, and vice versa.

The specific time for Lu Xiao to travel is the summer of 1474, and it will be more than a year before the main storyline officially starts in 1476.

Although Lu Xiao was wearing the brotherhood's coat of arms pendant, and the story he told seemed to be the same, but Mario didn't fully believe his words.

Bringing Lu Xiao to the guest room on the first floor of the Auditore Manor, Mario said enthusiastically, "Lu, you can stay here temporarily. I will test your foundation as soon as possible and arrange a suitable training plan for you."

"Please forgive me for not fully trusting you yet. You need to complete the Brotherhood's trials and prove yourself through practical actions before you can officially become a member of the Assassin Organization."

Lu Xiao nodded understandingly: "I understand, thank you, Mr. Auditore."

Mario laughed heartily, stretched out his big callused hand and patted Lu Xiao's shoulder vigorously.

"Just call me Mario, as long as you can understand, be prepared physically and mentally, my training is very strict."

"Also." Before going out, Mario turned around and reminded: "You'd better learn Tuscan and Latin as soon as possible."

"There are very few people in the Apennine Peninsula who can speak English. In order to facilitate daily communication and reading, you must master these two languages."

The Tuscan language is the predecessor of the later Italian language. As the center of the Renaissance, Florence spread cultural art to various places. This language gradually became widely known and eventually became the official language of Italy.

Latin is the common language of Europe in this era. Although many countries have begun to use their own national languages ​​more after the rise of the Renaissance, this ancient European common language is still used in formal occasions and most written communications. language.

In order to be able to understand the important information circulating within the Brotherhood, Lu Xiao had to learn Tuscan and Latin at the same time.

Fortunately, many European languages, including Spanish, Italian, and French, originally emerged from Latin.

Latin and Tuscan have a lot in common. Under the one-on-one tutoring of the language teacher arranged by Mario, Lu Xiao, who has been concentrating on learning, has made rapid progress in mastering the new language.

The language learning tasks were arranged at night, and during the day Lu Xiao had to participate in training with Mario or his mercenaries.

As Mario reminded him, his training was very "full" indeed.

After completing the initial physical ability test and intensive training, Mario tailored a training plan for Lu Xiao.

Before officially starting combat training, Mario first suggested that Lu Xiao choose his usual weapon.

"Lu, as you can see."

On the training ground, Mario drew his special long sword from his waist.

"Although I am named the leader of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, I am not as good at assassination as traditional assassins. That is not my character. My younger brother Giovanni is better at this."

"What you can learn from me is mainly the various skills required for frontal combat. After you complete my combat training, I will write a letter to recommend you to Giovanni, and he will help you complete the next step of training. .”

"bring it on!"

Seeing that Lu Xiao hesitantly took out two daggers from the weapon rack, Mario clapped his hands and encouraged loudly in a provocative gesture: "Attack me, and I will correct your wrong posture and bad behavior during the battle." Habit!"

Chapter 4 Information about the Pieces of Eden

Half a year passed by in a hurry.

When Lu Xiao recovered from the fulfilling life of training during the day and studying at night, Monteriggioni had already entered winter across two seasons.

The Tuscany region is located in the central and western part of the Apennine Peninsula. Affected by the warm Mediterranean currents, there will not be much temperature difference throughout the year. Compared with the cold southern city where Lu Xiao used to work and live, the winter here is extraordinarily gentle.

Half a year of high-intensity training has made Lu Xiao, who is already in good physical condition, have improved a lot, and the muscle lines on his body that were not so obvious before have become sharply defined.

His muscles are not as beautiful and flamboyant as those formed after fitness training. Under the training close to actual combat, every inch of Lu Xiao's muscles is full of strength, but from the outside it doesn't look very burly.