Chapter 57 (1/2)

Chapter 57: Selection of Young Knights

Mission accomplished. Reward: a potato elvish insect.

Mission: Your territory is always in danger without the defense of knights. Your squires have no potential, but more talents are waiting for you to find them. Please select suitable young people for training. Reward: the egg of a monster bird that’s about to hatch.

The misty Ophidian words gradually dispersed.

Liszt returned to himself. The mission in Potaton was accomplished very easily. As a matter of fact, none of the misty missions were really challenging. He only needed to do what he must.

A monster bird about to hatch? In other words, I’ll have a flying monster.

Looking at Dudderson which was crouching next to his foot, he suddenly pictured himself going hunting with the dog and the bird in the future.

The dog already had conditional reflexes after training. As long as Liszt gave an instruction, it would lunge, bite, sit, crouch, jump, and climb. It was much smarter than regular dogs.

However, the dog still hadn’t been able to release Rocky Spur yet.

I know how to train a dog but not how to train an eagle. I wonder whether this monster bird is clever enough. If it can’t be tamed, I’m afraid I can only roast it and eat it. Liszt licked his lips subconsciously.

Few hens were kept in Flower Town, and their eggs were important. He had never seen a duck or a goose.

There were a lot of wild animals on Thorn Hill. It was more than easy for Marcus to shoot a few birds, but he was too proud to be a hunter.

Nobles could go hunting for fun, but since he was not a noble, hunting was only demeaning.

For Liszt, it was a hilarious idea, but for Marcus, it was his lifelong belief. So Liszt did not want to ask Marcus to shoot a few birds for him to eat.

I didn’t plan to establish a knight squad so soon, because my subjects are too few and there can’t be too many talents. However, now that the mission is released, I’d better make one. There should be several hundred young people in the town. I’ll select twelve of them and make a squad.

Every knight squad was made of twelve people, including a captain, a deputy captain, and ten members.

The grand nobles would set up knight academies. Children would be trained and eliminated in these academies until qualified knights were picked. Marcus was one of such knights. His father sent him into a knight academy when he was very little.

The sons of many nobles would also study in knight academies. Liszt was once in a knight academy, too.

It was impossible to establish such a school in Flower Town. He could only choose a few healthy young men and train them for now in order to accomplish the misty mission.

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“My lord, you’re going to select new squires and establish a knight squad?” Thomas grew excited after learning of Liszt’s intention at dinner.

“There’s more food in Flower Town now. We can afford more people. The patrolmen are unreliable. Carl and the other squires haven’t grasped combat aura yet. I need new forces to defend Flower Town… Winter is only half a year away.”

Liszt blinked as he continued, “Also, I will march to Thorn Hill sooner or later. It’s an obstacle for the development of Flower Town. Marcus, I need you to supervise the selection and training of the knight squad.”