The Strongest Knight

The second intake of Knight Cadets at Grey Knight Castle was successfully completed.

Although the standards were relaxed, the castle's income actually doubled due to the academy's recruitment this time, reaching a terrifying 4,000 gold coins!

This made Holm and Angele quite jealous, because the talents of wizards and mages were measurable, and they couldn't make as much money from recruiting students as Gray did.

In fact, once there are young people with wizard or sorcerer talent in the Red River Valley, Holm and Angele will recruit them into their respective academies at a very small tuition fee.

Especially in Angele's case, since the last battle of the mithril mine, his apprentices suffered heavy losses. In recent days, he has been very proactive in holding several free wizard talent tests, which has increased the number of wizard apprentices to more than 20.

This time, a total of more than 800 knight trainees moved into the land surrounded by mountains and rivers where the Grey Knight Castle was located.

The land of Grey Knight Castle is wide enough and there are enough sub-castles, which is more than enough to accommodate 800 knight trainees.

However, the training of knight students cannot be as detailed as it was at Birch Castle, with more than a dozen academies corresponding to one knight apprentice.

Gray decided to use the college program.

A Grey Knight Academy was established, and Grey naturally took on the position of principal.

After organizing an opening ceremony, the college was officially opened.

The teachers who give lectures are the disciples of the school.

Gray would occasionally show up in person to teach some basic sword techniques.

Even the Red Army's commander, Andre, would be pulled over by Gray to give a guest appearance in a few military classes.

Gray was not stingy with the first batch of 800 students of Gray Knight Academy. If the knight's martial arts were to develop rapidly, necessary investment was required.

The tuition income of four thousand gold coins, which is 40 million copper kels, is a huge sum of money.

Gray used the money to buy many body-hardening herbs and even body-hardening potions as rewards for outstanding students.

The body-tempering medicine recipe is very precious and cannot be exposed directly, but a ready-made body-tempering medicine bath can also be used as a reward.

This group of students quickly realized their good fortune and burst out with unparalleled enthusiasm for cultivation.

At the same time, they are extremely grateful to their principal, Red River Valley Knight Councillor Gray Christian.

Under Gray's reward mechanism that ignored all costs, soon, the first student named Jonas, who had received many awards from the academy, condensed the soul of a knight.

Gray summoned him personally and gave him two choices. One was to leave the college as a graduate. Gray would not interfere in his future life and he was also welcome to visit his alma mater in the future.

The second option is to become Gray's disciple, and be able to enter and leave the Knight's Castle freely, but must swear to never betray Gray for the rest of his life, and abide by eight rules such as "not killing each other".

Jonas didn't think much about it and chose the second one.

"Very good, since you chose the second one, from today on you are my eighth disciple, Gray."

"You have five senior brothers and sisters above you. The fourth and fifth have already died in the battle of the Mithril Mine. Even if you become my disciples, I cannot guarantee your safety. You still have to rely on yourself."

Jonas nodded vigorously to show that he understood that the eaglet could not live under the wings of its mother forever.

"Since you have become my disciple, I will invite you to join an organization in another identity that requires you to keep it confidential. You can choose whether to join." Gray continued.

Jonas was stunned. "Teacher, can you tell me what kind of organization it is?"

Gray's expression turned serious. "This is an organization that I founded. In the near future, it may become famous throughout the Barrow world. Its name is - Martial Arts Society."

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When Jonas came out from the top floor of the main castle, although he tried his best to suppress it, his expression still revealed a bit of excitement.

Today, he has not only become a true disciple of his idol, but more surprisingly, he may become one of the pioneers of a knight school...

Not long ago, he was just the son of a coachman and a coolie.

If the teacher had not suddenly announced a reduction in tuition fees, his coachman father would never have been able to help him and raise the two gold coins originally required before he turned fifteen. After all, he had two younger brothers and three younger sisters at home.

After the tuition was reduced, Jonas saved up enough money from his odd jobs and with the support of his father, he successfully collected a gold coin and was able to enter the Grey Knight Academy, thus starting his legendary career.

"Father, brothers and sisters, I will never let you down..."

"And teacher, thank you. I, Jonas, swear that I will never betray you! No matter what the circumstances!"

Turning around to look at the main castle that was bright even at night under the decoration of magic lamps, Jonas swore secretly in his heart.

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Soon after Jonas' breakthrough, Gray realized that it was time for him to break through as well.

The advanced version of the Acupoint Tempering Method is twice as effective as the Ice Tempering Method. Under this effect, Gray's already extremely fast breakthrough time was shortened by more than half again.

Early that morning, Gray dismissed the others, took out five divine stones, and began to break through.

With the advanced version of the acupuncture point body tempering method in place, Gray's physical fitness, comparable to that of a lower-level knight, began to improve.

When Gray's physical strength reached a certain limit, there was a buzzing sound!

The existing body frame is broken!

A life breath that was purer than the current one combined with Gray's spiritual will and quickly condensed into a knight's soul!

According to the normal progress, this is the tenth knight soul condensed by Gray. It is a sign that he has entered the upper-level apprentice stage and can try to condense the life cyclone!

But when Gray reached the realm of six knight souls, he differentiated into three gray yin knight souls.

This meant that Gray's knight training progress could not be compared to that of an ordinary knight apprentice.

Inside Gray's body, in the abdomen, there are a total of seven normal yang knight souls on the right side.

The newly born seventh knight soul was located in the middle, and the other six knight souls slowly revolved around it.

The strength of each newly condensed knight soul is basically the sum of the energy of the existing knight souls.

It is no exception, possessing energy that is clearly comparable to the sum of the other six knight souls.

This energy was no different from the tenth ray of knight's soul condensed by ordinary upper-level apprentices. Gray even felt that he could rely on its energy intensity to trigger the birth of a life cyclone and be promoted to a formal knight.

Gray suppressed this desire because he felt that he could continue to condense three stronger knight souls!