Chapter 3: 3 Secret Medicine and Black Air
"Knight Madman".
Levi had heard of this term before, referring to those knights who had gone astray in their practice.
Now he personally felt the primitive desire to turn into a terrifying beast, eat raw meat and drink blood, and overeat.
He was a little shocked and even doubted whether the path of knight was correct. According to the standards of martial arts novels in his previous life, these knight breathing methods were all magic skills. Should he continue to practice?
But when he thought of the terrifying evil spirit, those greedy and insidious noble colleagues, and the continuous wars brought about by the disputes between kingdoms, he immediately strengthened his knight's path.
Of all things in the world, life and death are the most important.
If you are alive, everything is possible!
Knight is the only way to protect the way that he can currently access!
"I will pay attention. Thank you, Sir Fred, for reminding me." Levi said gratefully.
Maybe he has to find a way to make money. If he continues like this, the barren Blackwater Valley can't afford to support two knights. Don't let them become two knight madmen and be eliminated by the "Glorious Knights" of the church.
Fred nodded and continued, "Next, you need to wear armor and hold a shield every day to practice with weights, increase the difficulty, so that you can exert the power of breathing method in actual combat, and not be dragged down by armor, or not adapt to fighting with armor."
"In addition, there is a formula for black snake secret medicine on the inheritance scroll. Master, you should have written it down." Knight Fred reminded.
Levi nodded. Generally, in order to speed up the practice of excellent quality breathing method, corresponding secret medicine is needed.
The formula of black snake secret medicine is not complicated: 50 grams of snake blood, one snake gall, 10 grams of green water turtle shell powder, 10 grams of plant ash, three mandrake petals, one drop of ambergris, one drop of liquid amber, and 100 milliliters of pure water.
Except for ambergris, these materials are not difficult to find and are not expensive.
Among them, snake blood and snake gall can be from any snake, but different snakes have different effects.
Ambergris, this is a bit troublesome.
The ambergris in this world is not a product of the stomach of the sperm whale in the previous life.
Instead, it comes from the glands in the mouth of a land giant called "Earth Dragon Beast".
The Earth Dragon Beast, in the mouth of the kingdom's bards, is known as one of the most dangerous animals in the wilderness.
They are extremely powerful and invulnerable to swords and guns. They are frequent visitors in the Knight's Journey and the bard's story, similar to the dragon in the story of the Dragon Quest.
In addition, the Earth Dragon Beast has another characteristic. They like to swallow shiny things, such as gold coins and gems.
Under normal circumstances, to deal with an adult Earth Dragon Beast, either the humanoid Tyrannosaurus Knight will kill it directly with the best weapons, or more than five formal knights will use traps, trap the Earth Dragon Beast with poison, and design a hunting with a big killer such as an armor-piercing crossbow.
One of the legendary deeds of the legendary knight "Lionheart Knight" Ryan before he became a legend was that he single-handedly hunted down an adult male Earth Dragon Beast that was a disaster in the north of the kingdom.
Previously, three great knights had gone to hunt this earth dragon beast, but all ended in failure, and even a young great knight died because of it.
In the end, the Lionheart Knight succeeded, and he also found a full 8,000 gold coins and priceless jewelry in the stomach of the earth dragon beast.
In the era of cold weapons, hunting earth dragon beasts was really not easy, so the price of ambergris has always been high.
A small bottle of ambergris, worth 100 gold coins, can be exchanged for five sets of well-made knight armor, 20 healthy young and strong serfs, or 100 cows...
With the financial resources of Levi, a down-and-out lord, even if he sold his pots and irons and exploited the serfs below to death, he couldn't afford it.
"I'm just starting out now, and I don't need to match the secret medicine yet. Let's take it slowly."
In the following time, Levi began to work step by step to gain experience, and he didn't find it boring at all.
In addition to gaining experience, Knight Fred would introduce Levi to some basic theoretical knowledge of knights, which benefited Levi a lot.
Knight breathing is a training technique that adjusts the breathing rhythm and makes different movements and postures to stimulate the blood potential in the knight's body, thereby strengthening the body and improving the knight's physique, strength, endurance, speed and other aspects of physical fitness.
This improvement is far beyond normal fitness training, so you must eat a lot of food to supplement calories after each practice. After all, there is no so-called "spiritual energy" in this world.
Although it is an all-round improvement of physical fitness, different breathing methods have different focuses.
The black snake breathing method focuses on defense.
After practicing this breathing method to a small success, you can start to try to condense the seed of life and advance to a formal knight. After that, the comprehensive physical fitness will be greatly improved, and you will have a resistance to blows that is more than many times that of ordinary people.
In addition, a layer of light black fluid-like film will appear on the surface of the knight's arms, making the skin and flesh of the knight's arms as tough and durable as rubber products.
Although it is not yet invulnerable to swords and guns, and indestructible, ordinary blunt attacks can offset most of the force.
Knights generally refer to this film as "black air", while the official statement of the Holy Light Church calls it "holy power", saying that the power of knights comes from the sacred father of heaven.
In this era of divine right of kings, the masters behind the major kingdoms are often the church. Levi thinks that the church's statement is purely to gild itself. In order to facilitate PUA knights, religion is best at this kind of thing. Since the god of your church is so awesome, why is it not the priest who can divine arts who guards the church, but the "Glorious Knights" composed of our knights.
In short, "black air" can be born not only by the black snake breathing method, but also by other breathing methods, but the quality, quantity and function are different.
If it is a breathing method that focuses on speed, "black air" may appear on the legs, allowing the knight to have extremely strong burst speed and agile maneuverability, far exceeding the athletes in the previous life.
This is the power of the breathing method. It is not just a method to strengthen the body. When the "black air" is born after advancing to a formal knight, to some extent, the knight has embarked on the road to transcendence.
After reaching the level of a great knight, the black air generated by the black snake breathing method will cover the whole body and become harder.
Except for a few places such as the eyes, in a short period of time, the great knight can be invulnerable to swords and guns, and his ability to resist blows is comparable to that of the earth dragon beast.
In this era of cold weapons, this is a superman. With such strength, equipped with armor, weapons, and war horses, with the great knight's powerful combat skills and combat awareness, he can completely defeat thousands of people on the battlefield and change the situation of a small battle.
Therefore, Levi never believed the nonsense that his father died on the battlefield.
How could his father, who is already close to the ceiling of human combat power, die on the battlefield? With his strength, even if he can't beat thousands of troops, it is easy for him to leave, and even a great knight of the same level will find it difficult to stop him.
As for the legendary knight taking action, it is possible, but not very likely. The legendary knight is like a dragon that is hard to find, almost detached from the world. Even the kingdom and the church find it difficult to command him to move.
A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind.
Levi can conclude that his father's death was a conspiracy by the church and the kingdom.
Therefore, he must learn a lesson.
Before he has absolutely overwhelming power, he will just have to stay in the Blackwater Valley.
"Store up food, build high walls, and slowly become king."
The nine-word policy of Taizu to pacify the world still applies to Levi.
It's just that he doesn't want to be king, he just wants to be a wealthy little lord.
The Game of Thrones is not something that ordinary people are qualified to participate in.
Levi is very clear about his political IQ.
Please read it again. This is about the life and death of a book. Thank you!
(End of this chapter)