Mercenary Wars

Chapter 38 Growth
A few months later.

Grey Eagle Camp, training ground.

"Qiang——Qiang——"

Surrounded by dozens of warriors, a man and a woman demonstrated their swordsmanship back and forth, the clashing blades creating clanging sounds and flashing sparks.

The man was a young man of about twenty years old, with short, neat brown hair. His light, clean white lapel shirt made his sword-swinging movements look quite casual.

He was a big man, but the red-haired female warrior opposite him was even taller, more than a head taller than him.

The difference in strength between the two was just like their body sizes. The female warrior was at ease and easily took all the attacks. Occasionally, she would just counterattack slightly, which would make the young man flustered.

After a moment, both of them put away their swords at the same time.

The female warrior turned to the crowd and said, "Did you all understand the demonstration just now?"

"I understand!" most of the soldiers responded.

There were also some whispers: "They moved a little too fast, I couldn't see clearly..."

"I remember this guy was a pharmacist? A pharmacist comes here every day to practice swordsmanship, how strange..."

"Bah, he's clearly here to see our Instructor Cassandra!"

"When Cassandra is away, Gao Jianuo will also come here to practice swordsmanship. Don't you know?"

On the other side, Gao Jianuo was sitting on the ground resting, while examining his panel attributes.

[Holy Name: Edakondejanus Sandran Alexstasson]

[Level: Level 3]

【Physique: 17/34】

[Spirit: 24/34]

【Strength: 20/34】

[Intelligence: 24/34]

[Agility: 23/34]

[Experience: 257/1200]

【lv4草药学】【lv4箭术】【lv4剑术】【lv4假死术】【lv2猎具】【lv2剥皮】【lv2奥术智慧】……

[Status: Return to youth (9 hours remaining)]

……

In the past year, Gao Jianuo has lived a very disciplined life. Although there is still a certain gap compared with his fantasy plan, it can be regarded as the most fulfilling year of his life.

With the blessing of returning to youth, a year of self-discipline has brought about earth-shaking changes in Gao Jianuo.

First of all, it is reflected in the attributes.

Relying on natural growth, his physique and strength increased by 4 points, agility increased by 3 points, spirit and intelligence increased by 2 points, and the upper limit of all attributes increased by 3 points.

Taking into account the growth brought by skills, Gao Jianuo's various attributes have gained a total of about 30 points!

It is worth mentioning that when the skill is trained to level four, it will bring an additional attribute increase.

For example, swordsmanship, the first three levels all increase strength, the fourth level not only increases strength, but also increases 1 point of physical fitness, and the fourth level of feign death also increases an additional 1 point of physical fitness.

The fourth-level Herbalism increases Agility, and the fourth-level Archery increases Strength.

Among all the attributes, strength is undoubtedly the one with the biggest increase.

Originally, Gao Jianuo's strength was just at the level of an ordinary person, but now his strength even exceeds that of many second-level warriors. Every time he defeats a warrior in arm wrestling while wearing his pharmacist robe, he receives an incredible look.

However, even with both hands, he couldn't shake the powerful arm of Cassandra, the deputy leader and chief instructor of the Grey Eagle Mercenary Group. It was during this power contest with Cassandra that Gao Jianuo realized a problem.

It is best not to have your strength attribute exceed your physique, otherwise it is easy to hurt yourself, causing minor strains or even fractures.

Similarly, intelligence should not exceed spirit, otherwise it is easy to hurt the mind, which may lead to depression at the mildest and madness at the worst.

In addition to his attributes, Gao Jianuo's biggest gain is undoubtedly the change in his body shape - his height has increased by more than ten centimeters, making him a "tall man".

After a while, Cassandra announced the end of the training and the warriors dispersed from the training ground one after another.

Then she looked at Gao Jianuo: "You should have passed the recent Warrior Guild assessment successfully, right?"

Gao Jianuo stood up from the ground and took out the iron first-level warrior badge: "Yes, instructor."

Cassandra smiled. "You actually already possess the combat capabilities of a Level 2 warrior, but the professional guilds are always obsessed with their own assessment standards."

She changed the subject: "If I remember correctly, your main occupation is a pharmacist?"

Gao Jianuo nodded: "Pharmacist and Hunter, both are level two."

In addition to various self-discipline activities in the past year, he also participated in many professional guild assessments. Now he is a second-level pharmacist, second-level hunter, and first-level warrior with official badges.

He also wants to get the badge of a first-level magician.

But this is obviously much more difficult.

He did master quite a few spells. He had mastered all the tricks and first-level spells in the "Blood Magic Notes" except for black magic.

However, these spells are somewhat inconvenient to display, at least they cannot be used to participate in the assessment. After all, there is a difference between what he considers "not black magic" and what the Mage Guild considers "not black magic".

In Gao Jianuo's opinion, as long as it does not involve operations such as human sacrifice and cannibalism, it is not considered black magic. What's wrong with playing with blood?
Kassandra pondered. "Are you interested in fighting?"

After a brief hesitation, Gao Jianuo nodded.

Cassandra: "Next month the mercenary group will have a defensive mission. Lucius, myself, Night Owl, and most of the soldiers in the group will be participating. Do you want to go? Of course, war is always dangerous."

"Instructor, can I ask about the location of the battle and the enemy?" Gao Jianuo thought for a while.

"Prestober Castle," Kassandra said. "The possible enemies are Viscount Uris and the Wolf Hunters, but the situation is still unclear. In the optimistic scenario, there might not be any fighting... Once there, you can continue your work as an apothecary, creating potions for the soldiers defending the city, or you can directly participate in the defense as a combatant."

Gao Jianuo has hardly fought in the past year, except for growing and making money.

Now that the growing up is done and the money is made, it’s time to join some battles.

After all, upgrading is the most important thing, and the fastest way to upgrade is to fight.

"I want to go," he said.

Cassandra nodded, then thought of something before leaving: "Do you have a section on the holy names of body types?"

"Yes." Gao Jianuo nodded. At the age of eighteen, he had grown more than ten centimeters taller. Anyone could guess that it was the blessing of the Holy Name.

"Do you have one too?" he couldn't help but ask, looking up at Cassandra, who was still more than 30 centimeters taller than him.

Cassandra smiled. "Two periods."

After saying that, she left the training ground, taking one meter at a time...

Later, Gao Jianuo came to the Black Gold Corridor with ease, handed a large leather bag of medicine to the strong medicine expert, and then took ten gold coins.

The business of Sislon potion is quite good, and there is no worry about sales - especially the improved yellow Sislon potion, which has even increased in price in the middle, allowing Gao Jianuo to earn dozens of gold coins in the past six months.

From the perspective of ordinary people, this is almost financial freedom. At least when he eats at the Eagle and Whistle Inn, he no longer pays much attention to the price.

"Business needs to be suspended for a while, and I will leave Nanhai Town soon," said Gao Jianuo.

The strong medicine expert seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Are you going to Prestor?"

(End of this chapter)