novelzi Chapter 34: Army Training Manual
Chapter 34: Army Training Manual
Chapter 34: Army Training Manual
Leon intended to revive the Holy Knights but he knew that finding Holy Knights in this day and age was no easy task.
Yakt Spinner was a rare exception but more importantly, the Holy Knights needed soldiers to support them.
It was for this reason that Leon scraped together a group of low-level Hunters, including the old Dae-sung.
They would be armed with spears and shields and become an iron wall of support for the Knights.
“I wouldn’t say they’re underwhelming, but they’re just okay.”
“Well, they’re hunters, so they have good basic physical strength, right?”
Ha-ri didn’t know what Leon’s world was like but generally speaking, Hunters, despite their low rank, were extremely talented soldiers.
“Hmm. Look at them. They’ve just dealt with four thousand orcs that were all dying, and they look so tired and exhausted.”
“What?”
Ha-ri didn’t immediately understand what Leon was talking about. Even if most of them had been irradiated to death, there were still over a thousand orcs left.
Even if they were sick orcs, shouldn’t they be exhausted from running around trying to catch them?
“I don’t want to give regular warriors the rank of knight. However, they are superhumans in their own world.”
“They are...aren’t they?”
“Then they should be at least on the level of this king Endbringers. I don’t want them to be Elderric Master Guards or Rohana’s Divine Watchers. But even with the protection of Lionheart, they’re not even on par with the Baltaric Orc Crushers.”
“......Your Majesty, I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Leon realized he had said something Ha-ri would not understand. But even so, he couldn’t help but compare the Hunters with the soldiers he had shared honor with.
“To put it simply, the Baltaric Orc Crushers could take on five orcs alone, ten if the War Knights were present and with this king, they could slaughter thirty.”
“......That’s not a knight?”
Orcs are the most difficult and powerful monsters in the Gate, aside from the medium and large monsters. A high-level warrior can take on even a B-ranked Hunter one-on-one.
They could slaughter thirty of them, and they’re not a knight? Even Ha-ri couldn’t handle thirty orcs by herself.
“What kind of existence is a knight in Your Majesty’s world?”
“I’d say you’re about the level of a squire.”
Ha-ri was stunned. Even though she was young, she, the youngest A-rank hunter, was only at the level of a squire?
There were only three Knight Ranks in Leon’s system right now: Squire, Apprentice Knight...and Holy Knight.
Ha-ri realized that Leon’s standards were vastly higher than even the Hunters of modern Earth.
‘If Lord Yappy is a Holy Knight...are you saying that all Holy Knights are above S-class Hunters?!’
If Leon’s Holy Knights were to revive in the modern era... wouldn’t that be a cataclysmic event that would upset the balance of military power in the world?
“For now, we should at least raise their level to that of professional soldiers.”
“Uh, how will you... do that?”
What is the training method of King Lionheart? Would they be able to undergo such training?
At Ha-ri’s expectant gaze, Leon said nonchalantly.
“Physical training.”
* * * *
Koo Dae-sung, team leader Kim Do-han, and 49 other Hunters gathered at a makeshift training center in the Naju Plains.
“Wow, they paid so much for the training?”
“That’s right, we don’t have to worry about making ends meet for a while.”
Even when they were told to train, they couldn’t help but come back, because they felt the same exhilaration they felt at the Orc Gate and actually felt stronger.
All the buffs of Lionheart and of Orc Butcher, plus, they got the Orc Hunter talent and the War Knight’s Man-At-Arms talent, so they can’t help it.
The Orc Hunter buff was only available when fighting orcs, and the War Knight’s Man-At-Arms buff was only available when fighting with Leon.
Besides, it would be better for their future if they were paid to come here for training than to be a porter at the gate.
“By the way, Mr. Koo, what’s wrong with your face and your lips?”
As Team Leader Kim Do-han said, Koo Dae-sung’s face was all over the place.
“Did you...participate in a gate raid?”
“Yes...my body was tired, so I went to the blue gate.......”
After the battle at the yellow gate with Leon, Koo Dae-Sung felt an unknown sense of exaltation and omnipotence.
He wondered if he had really gotten stronger and if he could fight better than usual, so he joined the blue gate raid as a party member.
It was a goblin hunt, but he wasn’t as strong or fast as he had been at the Orc Gate, and he returned home battered by the goblins’ crude clubs.
“You’re going to hurt yourself, boy, you need to tone it down.”
“Yes.......”
Ha-ri shouted as loudly as she could as she entered the hall.
“His Majesty Leon Dragonia Lionheart and his Holy Knight, Sir Yakt Spinner, please enter!”
At those words, everyone stopped dead in their tracks and at Leon’s mere appearance, they stopped as if they were a single unit.
In a nutshell, beat each other until you outpace the Holy Grail’s recovery.
Get hit, beaten, hurt, and broken since you will recover anyway.
‘He’s crazy! He’s crazy!’
‘We’re actually training in this ignorant way?’
The Hunters stared at each other awkwardly then as they remained motionless for a moment, Yappy swung a wire.
-Karang!
An eerie sound rang out, like the crack of an overseer’s whip to speed up the slaves building a pyramid.
“Die, die, die!”
“Die!”
The Hunters tangled with each other and swung their fists as five hellish hours of hitting, pounding, and breaking had begun.
At first, Koo Dae-sung dodged the attacks as best he could, pounding away at the man in front of him but there were 49 people in the ring. There was no escape, and it was less than ideal to just blindly pummel his opponent.
“Aaaaah!”
He grunted and was about to swing his fist when he realized that the person in front of him was familiar.
“Koo, Mr. Koo, it’s me! It’s me!”
“Ki, Team Leader Kim?”
“Wu, we don’t have to beat each other up, let’s join forces!”
“Ha, but.......”
That was when a sharp noise pierced their ears as a ‘live bullet’ that was precisely calculated threatened only the two of them.
-Crack.
There, above the head of Ha-ri, who was making a sad face at the mess, was Yappy, glowing with an emotionless red glow, pointing a minimalist-sized machine gun at them.
“What the hell...!”
Feeling threatened, Koo Dae-sung swung his fist at Team Leader Kim in front of him and as Team Leader Kim fell backwards, Koo Dae-sung screamed.
“This is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy!”
But his screams were short-lived as they were drowned out by hunters from all directions.
It was past noon and the five hellish hours were over.
“Alright, that’s enough! It’s time to eat!”
Leon clapped his hands and the Hunters collapsed to the ground, bloodied and swollen, but thanks to the Holy Grail’s regenerative powers, didn’t have a single broken bone. Or, more accurately, the broken bones were reattached and they were able to fight again.
“Ugh...I really thought I was going to die.”
“I’ve never heard of such an ignorant training method.”
No matter how hard they beat each other, the Hunters felt no pain. All they felt was an unquenchable hunger and thirst.
“I’m hungry.”
“We need to eat something.”
“I heard that the blessed rice here is so famous...Are we going to have it?”
Everyone was looking forward to the hottest “blessed rice” in the Naju Plain since it was a rare item that is said to cure cancer, make you healthier, and increase your ‘physical resilience’ just by eating it.
It had recently become a YouTube sensation, and the Association had announced its benefits. But what they found was food they had never imagined.
“.......”
“.......”
The Hunters scratched their heads at the ‘lunch’ in front of them, as they didn’t understand what the intention behind it was.
“Uh... Ms. Ha-ri, what is this?”
At the questioning stares, Ha-ri gave a guilty look, but Leon remained calm.
“Water.”
“No, that’s not... I know.”
“It’s water with salt and sugar.”
“Oh... I see.”
The Hunters looked like they were about to say something, but when they caught Leon’s mischievous gaze, they lowered their eyes.
“What is it?”
“I feel like my common sense is being denied.”
“After all we’ve been through, our only meal is water with salt and sugar?”
Was this some kind of big deal that they didn’t understand?
Yappy approaches the bewildered Hunters with his robotic arm holding a salt shaker.
-Salt. Who needs more?
Lord Gratas the Giant Slayer army training manual rule zero: You only need to feed a trainee enough to keep him from dying.
Proper feeding is something that starts with the regular army.