Chapter 21: Freshmen Brawl
“Baron, stab his lower left!”
“Suolin, go for it, take down that guy.”
Inside the field, two young men were sparring with wooden swords, the battle intense, while other students watched from ten meters away, some cheering them on.
The environment here was open, and on the wooden frame at the edge of the field hung many unsharpened weapons, this was Viscount Xue Feng’s training ground, located inside the castle in North City District.
Because Scholar Heide and Viscount Xue Feng had a deep relationship, this knight training ground was also free for these students to use, and not far away one could see the stables and several war horses.
On the high viewing platform, Viscount Xue Feng and Scholar Heide sat under the wooden shelter, discussing the two training.
“Baron, the son of Baron Kuid, is not bad, his footwork is pretty good.” Viscount Xue Feng evaluated one of them.
“That commoner young man named Suolin, this is the first time I’ve seen him.”
“Suolin, his father is a warrior who returned from the frontier, currently living in seclusion in Jiaoshi City.” Scholar Heide recalled this student’s background.
“Oh, there’s such a warrior, how is his strength?” Viscount Xue Feng stroked his short mustache, inquiring with interest.
“He should be in the mid-tier of ‘Second Order – Blood Law’, but he said he won’t go to the battlefield again.” Scholar Heide shook his head.
“It’s said that because he experienced too much death on the battlefield, and his wife also passed away too early, so now his only hope is to raise his child healthy and grown.”
“That’s somewhat regrettable, but for someone who has been through the battlefield, if he were willing to come here as a training instructor, it should be a very good choice.” Viscount Xue Feng suggested.
“I will inquire on behalf of Lord Viscount later.” Scholar Heide nodded slightly.
……
‘Bang.’
With a fierce strike, the wooden sword in Baron’s hand was directly broken, wood chips flying, the break full of wooden splinters and fibers, taking advantage of the opponent losing his weapon, Suolin also kicked Baron to the ground, thrusting the sword into the soil beside his neck.
This action scared Baron, and only after a few seconds did he react, his face then full of rage.
“You filthy commoner!” He felt this was an insult to himself.
“You’re the lowly one!” Suolin refused to back down, striking back directly.
“You dare insult a noble!”
“Lord Heide said that here we are all students, no distinction between noble and commoner!” Suolin cited what the teacher said on the first day.
“You!”
Baron, unable to contain his anger, clenched his fist and punched at Suolin, but Suolin dodged, and instead took a punch himself.
Seeing Baron get hit, two noble students who were bad friends rushed up to help, at this point several bold commoner students also came to help Suolin.
The three noble friends swung fists and feet without restraint, while on Suolin’s side, except for him who wasn’t afraid, the others didn’t dare to hit hard, just trying to separate the two.
Facing the boys fighting on the training ground, the girls on both sides were relatively calm at this moment.
“A bunch of idiots.” Iona crossed her arms over her chest, not wanting to watch such rude and boring scene.
“Lady Iona is right.” Valenie had completely become Iona’s shadow these past two days.
On the other side, Karen looked worriedly at the field, “Should we go stop them? The teacher said fighting is wrong.”
Komiya shook her head vigorously: “No no no, let them fight, just don’t drag us into it.”
“We can’t afford to offend the nobles, and Suolin’s side isn’t pushovers either.” Komiya analyzed in a low voice.
“Also, Tiya’s body is relatively weak, it’s not good for her to go over.” Using her companion as a shield, Komiya stopped Karen from going forward.
“Okay, we’ll protect Tiya.” Karen looked at the frail long-haired girl beside her, deciding not to join this fight.
For the situation on the training ground below, Viscount Xue Feng and Scholar Heide had seen almost everything.
“Hehehe, what a lively bunch of kids.” Viscount Xue Feng said with a smile.
“Young people are like that.” Scholar Heide also shook his head slightly.
Because the Regas Kingdom was founded on martial prowess, it actually encouraged such non-lethal fights, which was why the young men in the arena started fighting over words—they were all familiar and accustomed to this style.
“Let them fight, you go pull them apart later.” Viscount Xue Feng instructed the retainer beside him.
“Yes, Lord.” This retainer respectfully acknowledged.
……
Half an hour later, the fight on the field ended, several injured students leaned against the wooden rails at the edge of the training ground, receiving healing medicine applied by classmates.
“Hiss— it hurts.” The burly student ‘Lei’ blocked the fingers applying medicine beside him with his hand, he had a bruise at the corner of his eye, and was now grimacing.
“No, there’s still a lot that hasn’t been applied.” Komiya complained grumpily, then continued applying medicine with her fingers.
Opposite, Baron and the others also leaned on wooden chairs, beside them Valenie applied medicine to two of them, as for Iona, she wasn’t minding these few at the moment, but was talking beside Viscount Xue Feng, seeing her smiling sweetly, it was hard to imagine her usual arrogant demeanor in front of classmates.
On the other side, Xilutiya also held healing medicine in her hand, applying it to the restless boy in front of her.
“You have quite a few hidden injuries on your body.”
The maiden wiped the medicine with a cloth stick, then retracted the cloth stick into the medicine bottle, slightly sizing up this boy named Mike, who was like a beast from the wild, somewhat ferocious, with various scars on his body.
“You don’t need to bother.” Mike responded grumpily to the maiden beside him.
“Mm.” In response, Xilutiya didn’t argue, but quietly stepped back.
For her obedient behavior, Mike was instead a bit surprised, now turning his head to look at Xilutiya carefully a few times, this black-haired maiden had excellent looks, but under that loose robe, her frame appeared quite slim.
Pretty good-looking, just a bit less than Iona, if she had a bit more meat, she could probably match Iona, the boy evaluated in his heart.
Perhaps seeing Xilutiya was quite obedient, Mike’s attitude became a bit more polite.
“Thanks.”
“No problem.” The maiden shook her head, then went to the other side to tend to other injured classmates.
Cleaning wounds, applying medicine, she did these things skillfully, surprising the other students.
“Did Tiya often do this before?” Komiya asked curiously, the others also wanted to know.
“A while ago many people from the village were injured, I helped take care of them, so I learned some.” The maiden answered like this.
“That’s still pretty impressive.” Komiya gave a thumbs up.
Seeing these students temporarily rested enough, an instructor walked over, he was sturdy, wearing leather pants and a white shirt, with a bit of mustache.
“Scholar Heide sent me to train you, to see your foundations.”
“Just in time, I was there the whole time during your fight earlier, and saw some of your skills.” He paced back and forth in front of everyone with hands behind his back.
“The boys are all not bad, all know breathing technique.” If they didn’t even know breathing technique, they probably couldn’t follow Scholar Heide for advanced study.
“Now pick up swords, challenge me one by one, I’ll point out the flaws in your sword technique and footwork.”
This instructor shouted loudly, gathering the students present, and then the afternoon training began.
