Name: Edric Windwalker
Age: 15 years, 4 months, and 10 days
Task: Have a biological child -
• Mirelle: 232 days left, Etc (Display All)
o Reward: A random White-level skill
o Deadline: 463 days
o Non-completion Punishment: Death
Techniques:
• Great Knight Training: 1,401 / 20,000
• Great Mage Training: 39 / 20,000
Talents:
• Knight Talent: Legendary (0 / 2,400,000)
• Mage Talent: Average (0 / 100,000)
Cheat: Low Level - 1,000 XP per day.
Available XP: 25,668
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Edric's eyes were closed, concentrating.
Knights are different from ordinary warriors; while ordinary warriors solely depend on their strong physiques, knights can use internal energy to fight and win against their enemies.
To put it simply, the quality and quantity of the internal energy of a knight depend on one's physical talent; Edric, with legendary physical talent, has a much easier time polishing his internal energy than those without talent; after only less than a month of training, Edric has already managed to gain around 400 XP, even not considering the one-time reward of experiencing a life-and-death situation; to say that it's amazing is understating it; at this rate, he would become a Silver Knight in around 5 years.
"The original Edric didn’t have this kind of talent; the system has other benefits besides the daily 1k free XP," Edric thought.
With the system, any training would result in XP. Other people aren’t like that; they have to fight in battles and experience life and death to have a chance to advance. As long as Edric trains, he will gain XP.
"But still, 400 XP per month is too slow!" Edric thought. He gains 1,000 XP per day, so 400 a month, while better than nothing, is still not impressive; the main reason he trained was not to earn XP but to increase his skill in swordsmanship. Etc.
"Only if the life and death bonus could have been replicated!" Edric thought. In the last few weeks, he had been training with his mom. He wanted to avoid it, but with Lyria insisting, if he refused, he might have been beaten; he had no choice.
Over the last few weeks, he experienced a few other life-and-death crises but didn’t get the XP bonus again.
Shaking his head, Edric put aside the distracting thoughts and concentrated again, trying to feel his internal energy.
A knight can attack enemies ten feet away by mobilizing their internal energy; he has been training this technique for a few days.
The technique is called Sword Ray. It has three steps: first, pouring part of one's internal energy into the sword; second, controlling the sword as if it's part of one's body; and third, slashing and ejecting the sword ray toward the enemy. For now, Edric is not able to even pour his internal energy into the sword. For the last few days, he has been trying to feel and take control of his internal energy.
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His progress has been amazing. His legendary talent wasn’t for show. He can already partially control his internal energy, but he is still a few days away from being able to pour it into external objects.
"It's such a shame the system cannot increase my skills!" Edric thought. The system can increase his rank, but skills such as internal energy management or swordsmanship have to be learned through his own effort.
Even though he already has enough XP to reach Great Knight rank, he didn’t do it for two reasons.
First, his skill in manipulating internal energy is very bad. He cannot even control a knight's internal energy; once he becomes a Great Knight with more potent internal energy, learning how to control it will become even harder.
A Great Knight who cannot control his internal energy is no different than a paper tiger; relying on the physique of a knight, he would be able to defeat other knights but would have no chance against other Great Knights.
Second, his mother would be suspicious if he suddenly becomes a Great Knight; even though his mother knows a lot about him, including his breakthrough into a mage, he cannot tell everything about himself to his mother; his cheat as a transmigrator must remain a secret.
Considering those reasons, Edric simply decided to wait until he hit 100,000 XP. Then, he would break through twice and become a Silver Knight in one fell swoop. When he reaches the same rank as his mom, he will be able to hide it from her.
As for becoming a Great Mage, Edric discarded the idea.
After he told his mom about the matter, Lyria completely prohibited him from revealing it to anyone. She said that once it was revealed, she would no longer be able to protect him; as such, the matter of training via healing commoners was completely abandoned.
Then, there's the issue of talent.
After casting a few simple spells in seclusion, Edric realized he was vastly underestimating the weakness of average talent. His mana ran out after three relatively fireball spells. He could fly, but only for a few tens of meters. Simply put, his expenditure was too high; each spell took a tremendous amount of mana.
He also tested a treatment spell, which was helpful for more complicated wounds, on death row prisoners; simply put, even all of his mana wasn’t enough to treat a single seriously injured person; therefore, the plan of going around in the territory to treat many people was simply dreaming.
Every time his mana was exhausted, it took 2 hours for it to fill back up; it took 10 hours for him to completely treat a prisoner with a deep sword wound. Also, his treatment spell couldn’t regenerate permanent damage to the body; for example, one of the prisoner's wounds caused irreparable damage to his left arm, which wasn't fixed despite Edric's best efforts.
That said, Even though the results were disappointing, Edric continued training his treatment spell; he only had a single subject; after all, there are only so many death row prisoners; therefore, he simply wounded the same prisoner many times and treated him each time; for the prisoner, it was ruthless torture, but for Edric, it was a helpful training.
With his current mage talent, putting more XP into his Great Mage training is a waste; the returns are not half as good as knight training.
Because of his legendary talent as a knight, his internal energy is pure and potent; at least until he reaches Legendary Knight, he doesn't have to think about his knight talent.
Sitting down in a meditative state, Edric continued concentrating, trying to grasp his internal energy completely.
These days, Lyria has completely prohibited him from leaving the castle. She said that there was a tip about possible assassins. Edric, who didn't want to risk dying, listened to his mother and didn't leave at all. He plans on staying in the castle and training for the foreseeable future.
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There are many assassin groups, but few are as feared as the Windslash Group; it's said to have many members of Silver rank and even a Golden rank.
However, hiring a Golden rank assassin is beyond the capacity of even the Marquis of Darkwind; the best they could do was to hire a Silver assassin, known by the code name Slash 5.
Slash 5 was hired over two weeks ago to kill a boy named Edric Windwalker; initially, Slash 5 thought it should be easy, but after arriving, he noticed it was far from simple.
Countess Lyria herself is a Silver Knight; however, she isn't the only Silver Knight in the castle; it turns out there are three other Silver Knights, which nobody knows about.
Fortunately, Slash 5 had magic equipment that allowed him to detect the rank of his opponents; otherwise, if he had acted recklessly, he might have been surrounded and killed.
After all, assassins like him are simply knights who specialize in stealth; they are weaker in one-on-one combat than generic knights.
As such, Slash 5 simply waited for Edric to exit the castle before killing him.
However, unfortunately for him, even after two weeks, Edric refused to leave the castle. Slash 5 was very annoyed, but he didn’t dare to sneak into the castle while 4 Silver Knights were present; even though he is good at stealth, he cannot guarantee that none of those 4 Silver Knights would notice him.
Therefore, with no other choice, Slash 5 decided to wait it out. Either some of those Silver Knights would leave the castle, or Edric would leave the castle. He would act only when he had absolute certainty.