Chapter 498: 498

Once the sun rose, Abel went to the training grounds with his ordinary knight’s big sword . Here, the knight servants have already begun their training . They would engage in combat practice with each other . It was like this every day . Their manly noises filled the entire castle .

Even when Abel came, none of the knight servants were distracted from their training . It was part of the rules here . No training would be paused . Otherwise, all their effort would be wasted, and they would have to start all over again .

“You’ve come, Abel,” Lord Marshall greeted Abel with a knight’s big sword in his hand .

Right now, Lord Marshall was supervising the handful of elites he recruited from Harvest City . They were mostly second sons of noble families . They were well educated, and they served under Lord Marshall because they knew it was the best choice for them . Second sons didn’t get a lot of chances . It’s not that they wanted to become wandering knights, so they would often go to Harry Castle to receive proper education in combat .

“How do you feel lately, Uncle Marshall?” Abel said, meanwhile observing Lord Marshall’s face . He looked a lot younger than before now . It must’ve been the training potion he had been drinking .

Lord Marshall smiled, “It’s been great . I feel like I’ll be promoted anytime soon . Actually, I’d love to learn the same techniques as you, but I also feel like Hoover’s way is the only go-to that I’ve got . ”

Right now, Zach was the only one that learned the ways of the dark knights . Marshall wanted to do the same, but he didn’t have the same talent and resources that Zach had . Zach was younger, so it was easier for him to pick up a completely new training system . Also, he had more golden-quality “qi concentration potions” to learn the same system as Abel .

Anyways, as Abel grabbed onto his knight’s big sword, and he readied himself for his morning practice routine .

Ever since his last battle with Wizard Cliff, he started to gain a new perspective on his own fighting advantages . One crucial aspect was his insanely-strong melee attacks . With his two ultimate techniques, he could bring down almost anyone if he was close enough .

Still, with his advantages, he also got his own disadvantages . The power of the dimension was strong, but it would take too much time for him to activate . Also, it was a unique form of energy, and because of that, it would take him much more time to learn how to master it . Until then, it’d be a long time before he became a knight’s head commander .

Right now, he was just stuck at his current level as a knight . He had no way of controlling the power of the dimension inside him, let alone “shooting” it out as a form of attack . In fact, if it wasn’t for his combat qi, this same energy would’ve destroyed him the moment he unleashed it .

Without a short-term goal that he could achieve immediately, he decided to do things the long and steady ways . He did have Hoover’s guidelines with him, so he followed its content and focused on his basics . Hopefully, if he was patient and diligent enough, he would make enough progress to overcome his limits .

By the way, since it was a rather peaceful, Bartoli had more time to do things other than her regular training . She read Abel’s cooking recipes . After she learned how to make Chinese foods such as fish soup noodles, dumplings, soy milk, and fried sticks, Abel’s breakfast just became a lot more wholesome than before .

Apart from magic and meditation, Bartoli spent most of her time cooking . Because of how much she liked it, she decided to make the second floor of her magic tower into a big kitchen . It was something that no one on the Holy Continent had done before . If it wasn’t for the huge amount of freedom Abel gave her, she would’ve never had the luxury to do something like this for herself .

In the morning, Abel went to the Harry Castle blacksmith shop to pay Master Bentham a visit . When he arrived, he realized the shop was much bigger than when he left . Not only were there more blacksmiths working here now, but there were also people of all fields coming in here . They were all very eager to watch a grandmaster blacksmith do his forging practice .

“Greetings, Master Bentham,” Abel bowed as Master Bentham was focusing on a piece that he was working on .

Master Bentham smiled at him, “Greetings to you too, Abel . Are you here for your own turn?”

Abel said jokingly, “Well, yeah! Uncle Marshall’s been complaining about how little gear I’ve been making for him, so, you know, I guess the only option is to hurry up . ”

Ever since Lord Marshall learned his second knight’s training system, he started investing more in his regular training . That being said, he also became more invested in buying the right gear for himself . Especially now, so it seemed . Since Abel was getting closer to becoming an official wizard, he had to make sure that enough equipment was made before Abel would have to shut down training .

And it wasn’t it was all for Lord Marshall, either . Abel had to make new gear for descendants of both Harry and the Bennett Family . It was part of his obligations now . He wasn’t very stressed about it, though . If anything, forging was very relaxing for him, so it became a habit for him to do forging every morning .

Master Bentham nodded in agreement with Lord Marshall’s decisions, “Lord Marshall was right to have you come here . Right now, the demands have been going up . Once our elite soldiers reach the next rank, it is still up to you to give them the finest weapons . It’s best if you start early, I would say . ”

“I’ll be off now, then,” Abel nodded and proceeded to walk to his own workshop . Strangely enough, Master Bentham was following him inside . He didn’t say it out loud, but he must’ve really wanted to watch a grandmaster work .

When Abel lifted his hammer, he realized that there were a lot of blacksmiths peeping through the windows . These people were all advanced blacksmiths . While none of them could understand all of the techniques that Abel was using, they would still go to lengths just to have a peek of him doing his work .

In the afternoon, Abel would stay inside his magic tower and practice drawing runes . It wasn’t like he didn’t know how to, but without drinking any “soul potions” before getting into it, it would simply take too long for him actually to finish making one .

Due to the use of his dragon crystal, the strength of Abel’s power of Will had already reached its max limit . Drinking soul potions would no longer give him any boost . Since he didn’t want to waste his potions, he thought that only training was going to help him draw runes faster . To be more specific, while his power of Will was at its max, he could still improve his speed . This was evident in his daily training . The more he practiced on drawing runes, the more that he faster he actually drew them .

And that pretty much ended Abel’s day at the Harry Castle . At night, he would go to the dark world to continue exploring there . Due to the time difference between the two worlds, he would spend ten days and ten nights fighting non-stop .

Overall, Abel’s day was very productive . It could even be described as “packed,” despite what many on the Holy Continent would think . As free, easy, and rich as life he might appear to be, it was full of challenges and difficulties that he rarely told others about .