61: Chapter 61 Knight's Breathing Technique

Ross, Vera, and Edmund were all wizards of Elius Wizard Academy.

Although the three of them were only Wizard Apprentices, to the local lord, they were still lofty big figures.

Not to mention that all three of them possessed absolute strength that could rival a lord.

Therefore, the lord of Boulder Town naturally did not dare to neglect the three of them.

The Western-style castle in front of them, made of bluestone, had an unconventional height.

Massive stones formed the walls of the castle, along with watchtowers meant for vigilance.

The road in front of the castle was also different from the muddy land in the residential area; instead, it was a straight avenue paved with gravel.

Near the core area close to the castle, the ground was paved with smooth, polished cobblestones and poured lime.

The delicacies and fine wines inside the castle were laid out one by one on a long table covered with a pristine white tablecloth.

There were not only white bread, various fruits, and roasted meat, but for wizards who had not eaten these foods for a long time, these were also a delicacy.

However, ever since Ross stepped onto the path of a Wizard Apprentice, he rarely had worldly appetites.

At the moment, not only were servants pouring fine wine for Ross in a timely manner, but it was also a homemade fruit wine exuding the fresh fragrance of grapes.

For Ross, who did not like hard liquor, the texture was fairly smooth, leaving a lingering sweetness after entering the mouth.

There were also maidens dancing gracefully in the ballroom at the center of the banquet; although Boulder Town was remote, there were still quite a few pretty beauties.

As for the beauties arranged by Boulder Town, they were mostly maids from the castle or some residents the lord had picked from who knows where.

Edmund, however, after getting drunk, hugged a girl dressed in a black-and-white maid outfit and returned to a room.

As for what they were doing, adults all knew.

But Ross had no such blessing to enjoy.

As for Vera, seeing her brother's disgraceful behavior,

she couldn't help but feel a bit embarrassed, and having eaten and drunk her fill, she had nothing to say, returning to her own room to rest after finishing the meal.

Ross hadn't expected that Edmund, who had always maintained a cold and steady face, would have so little resistance to the opposite sex, without even the slightest intention of refusing.

But in Ross's view, this wasn't much of a flaw.

The mutual affections between men and women, the pleasures of fish in water.

It's just that his own ambitions lay elsewhere.

After eating and drinking his fill, Ross also began to communicate with the lord.

Looking at the lord of Boulder Town before him, whose path of power was different from his own,

Ross couldn't help but grow curious.

The power of a knight was not a particularly unfamiliar kind of power.

In the Wizard World, anyone without Wizard Aptitude, as long as they were a noble or someone with an opportunity, could potentially embark on the path of a knight.

The key to embarking on this path was having a "Breathing Technique".

It was said that this kind of "Breathing Technique" was a secret art passed down from generation to generation among descendants.

Generally speaking, they were top secrets.

"Lord, I am quite curious about the power of knights. I wonder if you could explain it to me?"

Ross's words did not arouse any confusion from the lord.

After all, wizards' powers were stronger than knights', but there was a reason why knights could still hold a place in the Wizard World.

Because of this, looking at the young and promising Wizard Apprentice before him, the lord naturally answered every question asked.

"The power of a knight stems from utilizing the Breathing Technique to develop the body. Originally, it is said to have evolved generation after generation from the trajectory of magic power flowing within magical beasts' bodies."

"By transforming one's body through the Breathing Technique, and then accumulating magic power in the body by consuming a large amount of magical beast meat. After a long period of martial arts training, one can attain the power of the knight's path."

Through the lord's explanation, Ross also gained a more intuitive perception of the path of a knight.

This was a perception that he could not acquire from books.

The lord before him also demonstrated the operation of battle qi that he had developed using the Breathing Technique.

As well as the effects of its use.

In Ross's view, during the process of operating the Breathing Technique, strands of so-called battle qi transformed from magic power appeared inside the lord's body.

Then they circulated through his limbs and hundreds of meridians, and what enabled the fragile human body to contain this strand of battle qi originated from a seed of a knight observed under Ross's mental power.

It was also called "Seed of Life", which was also a condensation and display of a knight's power.

However, after studying it for a while, Ross no longer held any expectations for this power.

The limit of magic power that this seed of a knight could contain was merely half of a Level 3 Wizard Apprentice's magic power.

This also explained why, even with a breathing technique that could develop the body, wizards never thought of dual-cultivating the paths of knights and wizards.

The slight physical strength honed by the so-called breathing technique was not even higher than the physical strength passively enhanced by wizards.

Dual cultivation not only wasted one's time, but as for the development of the body,

the portion of the wizard's body strengthened through the nourishment of magic power would overwrite the portion trained by the knight's battle qi.

Therefore, there was no need to learn any breathing technique and then become some sort of knight.

To reiterate, most of those forced onto the path of knights were beings without Wizard Aptitude or with very shallow Wizard Aptitude.

Even if one reached the peak of the knight's path, it still couldn't match a single finger of an Official Wizard.

However, compared to the arduous and tortuous path of wizards,

as long as knights had a large amount of magical monster meat and a complete "Breathing Technique", they could achieve a certain level of tempering and skill through years of accumulation.

Therefore, among the mortal worldly society of the Wizard World, wizards were still quite rare, but knights were quite common existences.

Generally speaking, they served as independent lords in the mortal realm or as vassals of some major lord,

simply enjoying the adoration of the mortal realm.

The Wizard World also needed a large number of knights with extraordinary power to manage those vast territories and the ordinary mortal world.

After all, the cornerstone of civilization did not rely solely on high-level wizards; it also required a continuous stream of reserve wizards to serve as replenishment.

The massive material mining and collection in the Wizard World also required these lords to gather and then offer them up as tribute.

Some rare materials could only be processed by wizards, and these materials often required extraordinary power to be properly preserved.

Seeing that Ross was somewhat interested in discussing the power of knights with him, the lord was quite tactful.

He handed a copy of "Knight Breathing Technique" in his hands to Ross.

"My lord, this is a breathing technique in my possession. Although it is not the breathing technique passed down by my family, there is almost no difference in quality. If you are interested, you can study it."

Seeing that this lord gave him a transcribed version of the Knight Breathing Technique, a smile appeared on Ross's face.

Although it was said that the power of a knight didn't have much major use, it would be fake to say that Ross wasn't interested at all.

Right now, being able to obtain a breathing technique from the lord of this Boulder Town would naturally save him some trouble.