novelraw Chapter 441: Spring Has Arrived
Chapter 441: Spring Has Arrived
Time flashed by, and another month passed. Winter was already half over, and now was exactly the coldest time. The lowest temperature at night had already exceeded minus thirty degrees. It was truly freezing cold and hard as ice.
Li Wei had no choice but to take out two Fire Crystals for each wooden cabin to act as fire stoves. In coordination with the heated brick beds, they barely made the average temperature of the wooden cabins reach ten degrees above zero.
This thing was truly too useful when it was freezing cold. A single piece was comparable to two sets of radiators, and could slightly save ordinary firewood.
However, compared to the refugees' enthusiasm for training, even the Fire Crystals had to pale in comparison.
Since initiating training up to now, it had already been a month and a half. They were indeed mostly very foolish, but their resilience was too abundant, and they were too capable of enduring hardship—regardless of whether they were men or women.
Like the Spearman team, it was mainly composed of women. But even fifteen-year-old girls could manage to run twenty kilometers every day, thrusting their Spears ten thousand times. Even when their hands and feet developed frostbite from the freezing cold, they didn't shrink back.
And the three Heavy Armored Infantry teams were required to run ten kilometers every day while holding Shields, swinging their blades ten thousand times.
The Archer team, because they didn't have enough bows and arrows, temporarily practiced dual-wielding Heavy Swords or horse-chopping sabers.
All the weapons above were cut and planed out by Li Wei using Three-Star logs. The training conditions were crude, the training environment was harsh, yet the training requirements were extremely high.
Because Li Wei truly taught them hand-in-hand and one-on-one. He also burst forth with unprecedented enthusiasm. There was no way around it; things had already reached this point. If he still loafed around and didn't take it seriously, that would truly not be human.From single-person training, all the main points of the movements, Li Wei adjusted them step-by-step and time after time, until every person could precisely mobilize their own body, allowing their bodies to achieve stability and coordination, laying a good foundation.
Then to two-person coordination, three-person formations, five-person formations, the coordinated formation of blade-and-shield soldiers and Spearmen, and the coordination of dual-wielding Archers with the other two troop types.
Five people as a squad, ten people as a file, fifty people as a team. This kind of training was agonizing and crumbling, but they still had to persist.
The good news was that a portion of people indeed stood out. They first served as Squad Leaders. After they could manage a squad well, they then went to be file leaders.
Subsequently, one was selected from among them to be a team captain.
Everyone trained exceedingly bitterly, but they had never Dropped the Chain in the aspect of nutritional supplementation.
Originally two meals, morning and evening, it had now become three meals a day.
For this, Li Wei had already opened four Purple Cards in a row, but it was all worth it.
During this training, not only did no one quit, but many people actually newly joined in. If they weren't allowed to join, they would secretly train on their own. Thus, Li Wei could only add them in, pooling a total of three hundred and five people.
Chris's group of five could only act as Scouts.
The rest was a Royal Guard of three hundred people. Sometimes Li Wei would wake himself up laughing even when dreaming.
When the time arrived two months later, these refugees participating in the training were already qualified to be called Soldiers.
They had completely mastered the things on the Vale Academy training manual. For individual soldier quality, under the same attribute numerical values, if 100 points was a full score, they could all obtain an average of 80 points. They passed.
If given some common equipment to make up for some attributes, aside from being inferior to academy graduates in cultural classes, they could graduate in all other aspects.
Especially in terms of formation coordination!
This point was very miraculous.
The more it was a guy who couldn't even distinguish turning left or right at the start, once they figured it out and comprehended it, they were simply surprisingly good in terms of formation coordination.
For their five-person formations, ten-person formations, and dual-troop-type twenty-person formation combat, Li Wei was willing to give 90 points.
Yes, there was a kind of visual impression of Miraculous Transformation, just like a certain Sanduo (from "Soldiers Sortie").
You must know that on a true Battlefield, unless individual soldier quality was explosively strong, battle formation coordination still held the greatest advantage.
Anyway, in this aspect, Li Wei could no longer propose any suggestions. Currently, every day, he was responsible for riding his Five-Star Warhorse and charging the formation with one percent of his strength, drilling battle formation coordination with them. Or else he acted as a referee, watching two squads Fighting Each Other, and then guest-starring as a first-aid doctor.
Ultimately, it forced him into having no choice but to cut and plane fifty sets of wooden helmets and wooden half-body armor overnight. Otherwise, this bunch of guys truly didn't know light from heavy when striking, and his Life Potions were almost bottoming out!
When winter was finally about to end, and this training had also lasted for three and a half months, all the Soldiers finally ushered in a highly anticipated segment: their Free Attribute Points had been credited to their accounts.
More than three months! Eating three meals a day, with every meal consisting of 1-star, Two-Star, or even Three-Star ingredients! After making up for past deficits, they finally overflowed and bore rich fruits.
On average, every Soldier was able to obtain four Free Attribute Points. The more badass big eaters could even obtain five.
On one hand, this was because the food Li Wei supplied was unlimited and the quality was too good; he even dared to take out Three-Star food.
On the other hand, it was also because their foundations were too weak, so the effect was exceedingly good.
For example, Li Wei. If he was made to drink 1-star mushroom meat broth every day now, eating it for three years wouldn't have any effect.
He needed food of Three-Star and above now. Color, aroma, and taste all had to meet the standards.
And for this wave of adding Free Attribute Points, Li Wei still applied a one-size-fits-all approach. He decided himself: all added to Defense!
Previously, he had made this kind of mistake without anyone guiding him.
In fact, the benefits of adding Defense first were very large, and the advantages occupied were not small either.
Especially for raw recruits.
Like those who added four points of Defense in one breath, they could suddenly obtain an additional one point of Strength, 10 points of stamina, and 10 points of Life.
If they added five points of Defense in one breath, they could still take an extra point of Agility on this foundation.
It was equivalent to suddenly adding nine attribute points from start to finish.
It was too fragrant!
Of course, this kind of effect had a diminishing marginal utility.
But in the early stages, who would dare say it wasn't fragrant?
In short, after this wave of point addition, the state of the three hundred Soldiers immediately improved significantly.
Those middle-aged Soldiers over thirty-five years old would feel they had become younger. Their height increased by a centimeter, their backs were no longer hunched, their waists were no longer bent, and their spirits were even more vibrant.
Then, for the youth Soldiers over twenty who could still be salvaged, they basically all could increase their height by another three or four centimeters, at least reaching an average of one meter sixty-five.
As for the youth Soldiers over fifteen, their heights had actually been constantly growing. Over the past three months, the men's group could increase by 10 to 15 centimeters in average height, capable of charging from an original one meter fifty or one meter sixty up to one meter seventy, approaching one meter eighty!
The women's group could increase by 8 to 10 centimeters, with their average height catching up to one meter sixty.
This was the manifestation of health!
It was as if they were Reborn and Transformed.
Even if they were still in ragged clothes, and even if they still had unkempt hair and dirty faces, their essence, energy, and spirit were completely different.
Compared with the other refugees who hadn't participated in the training, it was simply hard to believe that over three months ago, everyone had been of the same virtue.
However, reaching this stage, something needed to be done. Or more accurately speaking, the time to harvest had arrived.
So in this early spring season when the accumulated snow melted, under the radiant and enchanting sunlight, Li Wei gathered all three hundred and five people together. After activating a 5-Star Heaven-Veiling Card, he then said loudly:
"Everyone, my concentrated training for you stops here. But this is not the end. Rather, it is your remaining lives, your destinies embarking on a new journey!"
"Now, I will officially introduce myself. I am not only George the Ranger, but concurrently also the Flame Viscount, Li Wei. The moment you chose to follow me, you were already my subjects. The moment you were willing to accept my training, you were already my Soldiers."
"Now, listen clearly. You are no longer any refugees or Freemen, but my Royal Guard! You need to follow me through mountains, rivers, and vast deserts, and also follow me stepping over mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Among you, some will die; it's inevitable. The Blades and Swords in your hands will also inevitably slay more enemies. This is a path of blood and glory."
"You need to follow me with blood and Loyalty, and I will repay you and your families with glory and a more prosperous life."
"Just like a Farmer is naturally born to till the land, a Blacksmith is naturally born to strike iron, and a Tailor is naturally born to make clothes, having become a Soldier, one must face slaughter and death."
"But I am merciful. If at this moment, any of you wishes to throw away the Blades and Swords in your hands and wants to go back to being your Farmer, your Blacksmith, your Tailor, I will agree to your request. From now on, you will still be my subjects, and I will still never leave nor forsake you!"
"So, is there anyone who wishes to leave?"
Li Wei wore a smile on his face, his gaze sweeping across these three hundred and five people. He knew they naturally wouldn't leave. Even though their initial purpose for joining the training was actually very simple: not wanting to be abandoned, not wanting to starve to death, and wanting to eat something good. Those two meals a day—and later three meals a day—of meat porridge were simply the most wonderful food in this world.
For such food, even if they had to die immediately, it didn't seem like something difficult to accept.
The crowd remained silent because they were wooden and inarticulate. But their gazes were bright and scorching. This was die-hard Loyalty! As long as they recognized the direction, where were there so many reasons!
Li Wei waited for a full three minutes. Not a single person left.
"Very good. Then from this moment forth, you are my Royal Guard! My Shields, my Spears, my Blades and Swords, and moreover my brothers and sisters. In the future, just follow me in conquest!"
After saying that, Li Wei raised that Prestige Stone. It gradually emitted light, and those three hundred and five Soldiers could also finally see this Prestige Stone clearly.
At the same time, a number of messages also surfaced in each of their minds.
This was a ceremony, and concurrently a vow.
From this moment forth, their destinies would complete binding with Li Wei.
[You have successfully trained and established a Royal Guard. Their Loyalty towards you will forever be anchored at 100. This will be your basic foundation, perhaps one of your sharpest blades for your future conquests of the multiverse.]
[Friendly Tip: A hundred-percent loyal Royal Guard requires continuous tempering with blood and fire. Do you wish to immediately activate a Legion Mission? Description: You can first activate a Six-Star Settlement Card, then register at the relevant department of the province where your territory is located. Subsequently, obtain the Legion Card to activate the Legion Mission, and you can enter the queuing sequence of the Royal Capital's Tactics and Strategy Department. When the Locke Kingdom has foreign wars, you and your Legion will be arranged to launch Legion Missions according to the difficulty.]
[Friendly Tip: Legion Missions must not replace Cross-Border Missions and Conquest Missions. Every Lord of the Kingdom should execute Cross-Border Missions on time.]
(End of Chapter)