Chapter 10 Captives
The next day, Zhou Zhou left the castle in the afternoon and came to the village where the mercenaries camped.
At this time, the mercenaries had just gotten up, and most of the mercenaries went to the tavern to drink, and only four or five diligent Clouds had already practiced swords in the open space in the middle of the village.
Around the clearing, four or five little boys were holding branches and drinking and imitating their movements.
Zhou Zhou tightened the long sword on his waist and walked towards them.
When the mercenaries saw Zhou Zhou, they immediately stopped what they were doing and started to cheer.
"Hey, that Tatar is here again!"
"I guess he's here to lose. He has been knocked down by me several times."
"Claude, you go here today. I'm a little tired today."
"Hahaha, I saw it yesterday. You can't stand it anymore. So you want me to go, right?"
Claude is a tall mercenary, the most experienced mercenary with swords.
While talking and laughing with other mercenaries, he greeted Zhou Zhou and smiled maliciously: "You are really on time recently. You come here every day at this time. Come on. I just started exercising and warmed up with me."
As he said that, Claude threw a wooden sword to Zhou Zhou and signaled Zhou Zhou to attack him.
Claude faced Zhou Zhou sideways, posed as a bull position, raised his sword high above his head, aiming the tip of the sword at Zhou Zhou, as if it was a horn of a bull.
Zhou Zhou has learned some very basic sword moves this month, such as lower plate slash and lower slash. This is also a routine move commonly used by ordinary soldiers on the battlefield. After the last battle with the Mongols, many feet were left in the castle.
But this trick can't deal with the sophisticated Cloud.
For example, when Claude's bull position is in force, he stands sideways and backwards. In this way, even if Zhou Zhou uses the lower plate to cut, the tall Claude can avoid it by just gently lifting the front foot, while the back foot will not be able to reach the sword. If it goes too deep, it will expose the entire back heart to the other party.
Zhou Zhou might not be able to deal with such moves a month ago, but after more than a month of study, Zhou Zhou has quickly reached the level of a sophisticated veteran.
The mercenaries actually did not teach Zhou Zhou anything, but Zhou Zhou gained various defensive and offensive routines with the NTZ pills enhanced memory and the use of prophetic superpowers.
Zhou Zhou usually constantly imagines attack methods when fighting, and at the same time uses prophetic superpower to spy on the opponent's movements. This way, it is equivalent to hitting five or six times. With Zhou Zhou's superpower proficiency, his efficiency can be further improved.
After constantly thinking and learning, I quickly reached the level of an advanced novice.
The only thing he was worse than Claude yesterday was his strength, but after the karma improved last night, he had increased the power of a seal, and his strength was far better than Claude.
Zhou Zhou posed for a plow position and started to move forward.
This starting position is named after the pointing of the sword body and the plow blade on the plow. This starting position puts the hilt below the waist, the sword body is slanted, and the sword tip is directly pointing to the opponent's face. The plow position plays a role in defending against attacks on the torso and allowing people to use a quick bottom-up thrust to counterattack.
Zhou Zhou stumbled forward and stabbed the tall Claude's throat. That position happened to be the position that the opponent's starting style was not easy to defend.
The tall Cloud had to take a step back.
Zhou Zhou took the opportunity to press on, turned his wrist and slashed across the sword towards Claude's back, which was another difficult place to defend.
Claude twisted his waist and blocked it very awkwardly, and then he felt an unexpected force hit his sword.
The sword in Claude's hand was buzzing and staggered back, and Zhou Zhou stepped forward and kicked the tall Claude who had lost his center of gravity to the ground.
"I won." Zhou Zhou stretched out his hand and said with a high apology.
"It's just a lucky chance." Claude slapped Zhou Zhou's hand heavily, stood up hard, and signaled Zhou Zhou to fight again.
In the next few games, Zhou Zhou completely suppressed the tall Claude. The tall Claude fell three times and finally threw off the wooden sword and turned around and left angrily.
The reason why Claude likes to compete with Zhou Zhou was entirely out of pursuing the pleasure of abuse of novices. Now that he found that he could not beat Zhou Zhou, he naturally lost interest.
"Claude, didn't you say you are the most powerful among us?"
"I usually know how to brag, but I was knocked down by a rookie."
"How about you go."
The mercenaries started to cheer, but no one stepped forward. When they saw Zhou Zhou defeating the most powerful Claude among them, no one wanted to go forward to compete.
Zhou Zhou looked around, hoping to find a new opponent. The mercenaries pretended to be invisible and started practicing on their own.
Zhou Zhou had to practice by himself. After practicing for a while, he felt that he couldn't do anything, so he had to stop, take out a compass from his pocket, and start experimenting.
He thought to himself first: "Where is William?" The compass pointed to the east.
Continue thinking: "Where is Laura?" The compass points to the east.
Continue: "Where is the Lord God?" or point to the east.
"Where is the rookie show?" or pointing to the east.
It seems that the result is the same as last time, pointing to the east.
Like the previous test results, the compass will only point to what the user wants most, not what he thought at the time.
What am I thinking?
Is it really who is the most beautiful beauty in the world?
Zhou Zhou remembered Laura's joke.
Compass, compass, tell me who the most beautiful beauty in the world is.
Just as he was thinking about it, Zhou Zhou heard the neighing sound of horses coming from the entrance of the village, and the rapid sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer.
The mercenaries stopped their movements and looked at the person coming soon.
Zhou Zhou recognized that he was Victor's liaison officer.
The liaison officer dismounted and said to the mercenaries: "The Lord and the Commander of Marcus want you to gather in the castle. Bring all the weapons with you. The food will be prepared in the castle."
The mercenaries immediately returned to the temporary residence, packed up some weapons, and rode their horses towards the castle.
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Inside the castle hall.
When Zhou Zhou entered, Marcus was already waiting there in full armed force. The mercenaries and Victor's knights were divided into two distinct groups and they were talking to each other.
Victor stood in the middle and waved to Zhou Zhou. Zhou Zhou was confused and walked quickly to Victor.
Victor pulled out a sword from his servant's hand, placed it flat, pressed it on Zhou Zhou's right shoulder and said, "Kneel down."
——————Is it not that I want to enthrone me as a knight? It’s useless for me to use this knight.
However, in order to successfully get into Victor's decision-making level and help complete the task, Zhou Zhou fell to the ground on one knee.
Victor said solemnly: "Don't be afraid of powerful enemies, brave and courageous, speak upright and loyal to God. My Duke Victor Nanmi diluted you to be a knight."
Zhou Zhou lowered his head and looked humble, and he looked almost like a medieval native.
————————Fortunately, I used to watch movies like the Heavenly Kingdom.
Victor continued: "Zhou Zhou, now you are a knight, follow me. Get up."
Zhou Zhou held his knees and stood up slowly and walked to Victor. Zhou Zhou noticed that the knights who often followed Victor were gone. Looking at the mercenaries and the sympathetic gazes of the knights, he suddenly realized that this seemed not a good job. The knight was probably sent to the Black Fort because of leprosy.
It turns out that Victor's personal bodyguard is simply a consumable.
Chapter completed!