The Knight's Journey to the Empire

September 4877, 4 in the Knight Continent calendar.

White Bear Territory, Baron Soran’s residence.

Around six in the morning, the servants in the mansion began to get up one after another, preparing to start the day's work.

At this time, in the training ground in the backyard of the Baron's mansion, Soran had already been carrying out various trainings with his Knight Guards.

Entertainment activities in this society are very scarce, so most people go to bed early after nightfall.

Of course, except for the aristocracy!

The aristocratic circle in the city has its own nightlife!

When recruiting this knight guard, Soran said that he would train them personally, so he would not break his promise and would train them personally.

So Sauron directly ordered Ramos to lead the Knight Guards to move into the backyard of the mansion so that he could teach them in person.

Today is the first day of the establishment of the Knight Guards, and Soran wants to leave a deep and good impression on them.

So early in the morning, as soon as it was light, he asked Ramos to wake them all up and prepare for morning exercises.

According to the training plan developed by Soren, the morning exercise naturally starts with a round of warm-up exercises, such as jumping and stretching, push-ups, burpees, etc.

After the warm-up, the next step is to start the highlight of morning exercise - weighted long-distance running.

This weighted long-distance run is still five kilometers long, but instead of running with sandbags on their backs, they are running in knight half-armor.

This kind of knight's half-body armor is made entirely of iron, but it only has armor and guards on the upper body, plus a helmet, and armor on both arms, and its weight can reach more than 50 kilograms.

Letting the Knight Guards run while wearing it is not only to train their strength, speed and endurance, but also to allow them to become familiar with this half-body armor as quickly as possible and exert their due combat effectiveness.

When they were training in the territory guard team, they wore leather armor, which weighed only about 20 to 30 pounds.

Now the weight has suddenly increased to 50 or 60 kilograms, so it will definitely take some time to adapt.

Wearing it for training is undoubtedly the fastest way to adapt.

In other words, they were born in the countryside, and their current physical condition was still a little weak. Soran wanted to give them some time to recuperate.

Otherwise, this kind of long-distance running training in armor is just an ordinary warm-up exercise.

However, when their physical fitness recovers a little bit, this weighted long-distance running may really just be a warm-up exercise!

Of course, during the entire morning exercise, Soren and Ramos also trained with them.

This method of joint training is the easiest way to improve their training enthusiasm, and increase their favorability, trust, loyalty, etc., and it also makes it easier for Sauron to guide them.

Therefore, Sauron would naturally not let go of such a good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

But in fact, he let the Knight Guards move into the mansion and then personally guided their training. Wasn't this also a kind of spur to himself?

Make sure you have something necessary to do every day, and let yourself set an example to lead them in training hard, so that you won’t be as lazy in training as you were some time ago!

The beautiful and decadent aristocratic life can really corrupt people's spirit and lure them towards depravity!

Soran felt that his spirit seemed to be corrupted in recent times, so he selected the Knight Guards early.

Otherwise, with their current physical fitness, they will have to train in the Territory Guard for a period of time until their physical fitness reaches a level where they can complete weighted long-distance running with spare energy before they can be selected.

Instead of being like now, after a long-distance run with weights, everyone collapses to the ground exhausted, vomiting and sighing a lot.

This is obviously not enough training!

At present, the training plan that Soran has formulated for them is still mainly based on physical training.

The main purpose is to improve their physical fitness, increase their physical strength, or gradually make up for physical deficiencies.

Therefore, today’s morning exercise is definitely more than just long-distance running with weights.

Therefore, after the weight-bearing long-distance running training program is completed, there are still a variety of basic physical fitness program packages such as push-ups, squats, frog jumps, etc. that need to be carried out.

In short, practice until you die.

Sauron recruited them to be his personal guards, but of course he didn't just let them eat and eat.

They must have the strength corresponding to their status and treatment.

Otherwise, Sauron might as well not recruit him.

Of course, in order to motivate their enthusiasm for training, Soran also developed a corresponding assessment mechanism.

In every month thereafter, Soran would conduct a training assessment on them every ten days, for a total of three times per month.

In the three assessments held each month, after the three results are combined, the top three with the best results can have their monthly salary increased by 1-3 silver coins.

If you rank first in all three assessments, then one silver coin will be added; but if you rank last in all three assessments, then one silver coin will be subtracted.

Finally, if you are ranked in the bottom two after the two assessments every two months and have not made any progress...

Then just kick him out and select new ones from the territory guard team.

On the side of the Territory Guard, there are plenty of soldiers who want to replace them into the Knight Guard, and they can be replaced at any time!

Therefore, Sauron was not afraid that they would not work hard or be proactive, but he was afraid that they would work too hard and damage their own foundation!

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White Bear Territory, at the entrance of Flanders Town.

At this time, there were already fifty or sixty people standing here, and more than ten carriages were parked nearby.

Today was the day when the territory's business officer Adam was leading the newly formed caravan on a trip, so Soran came with his own knight guards to see them off in person.

At the town gate, Soran said to Adam, "Adam, in addition to what I told you yesterday, you have to take on two more tasks this time!"

"After the meeting was dissolved yesterday, Javier reported that our food and meat reserves were running low. If we calculate based on the current consumption of the territory, we can only last about three months at most! So when you go out this time, see if you can buy some back!"

The food and meat consumed by the White Bear Territory every day are the collections accumulated by the vampire Mayor Corbitt during his many years of service in Flanders Town.

Now it has been confiscated as stolen goods or relics, which is a good deal for Sauron!

The reserves of these things were originally quite large, enough for Sauron and his party to eat, wear and use for two years.

But since Soran came to the territory, the population of the territory has gradually increased, and as various construction projects have begun to proceed, the burden on the lord's mansion has also increased.

Therefore, the consumption of grain and meat naturally increased.

This means that the current warehouse reserves are somewhat insufficient, and we need to purchase another batch.

Otherwise, we won’t make it until the autumn harvest!