"How should you defend yourself when faced with a slash from top to bottom that is stronger than you?"

Old John scratched his head and assumed a defensive posture, with a little uncertainty in his tone.

"Um, do this?"

Matthew glanced at it, displayed it in data, recorded it in perfect and detailed manner, and at the same time said to Angela on the side:

"The center of gravity is slightly lowered, the left leg is stepped back, the right leg is bent forward, holding the weapon with both hands, and the shield with both hands, the contact angle is slightly tilted..."

Angela, who had already thought of something, silently realized it while recording it.

Click on all the offensive postures, and Matthew continues to talk about item 2:

"Faced with an attack from behind that is faster than you, what is your defensive action?"

After hearing this, Angela took advantage of the situation and made corresponding actions from behind Old John.

Gradually getting to know Old John, he pounced forward expertly, rolled on the ground, adjusted his body shape, and raised his hands with two swords at an angle.

His entire force exertion process, as well as the purpose and amplitude requirements of each movement, all fell into Matthew's eyes.

After questioning for half an hour, Matthew squeezed out all the defensive moves from Old John.

Matthew held the Shadow Crystal in one hand and the defensive stance training manual in the other, and handed them to Angela:

"In the next three days, if you have time, read more and memorize more, and take a break for half an hour first."

"I'll arrange special training for you later."

With a little hope in her eyes, Angela vaguely guessed the Lord's purpose.

But whether this matter succeeds or not, Angela feels that this matter should be kept secret.

In this world where literacy costs a lot of money, this can already be called the foundation of one's life and can be regarded as a family heirloom.

At the same time, Angela also felt extremely grateful for the Lord's trust, and secretly made up her mind to not let the Lord down.

Half an hour later.

Angela, who had recovered her condition, took the initiative to find Old John.

This time, although Angela held a long sword, she only defended but did not attack. She imitated Old John as much as possible in every move.

Old John slashed with his knife, and Angela raised her hand to block. Where the swords met, flying sparks flew up.

Angela withstood the collision of force and took half a step back. The lord's praise came to her ears:

"This defensive action is up to standard."

The reason why Matthew was so sure was because a progress reminder of "Defensive Stance Experience Value 1" floated above Angela's head.

Soon, Angela tried all the defensive moves in turn.

Matthew quickly found out the unqualified movements for her, and Angela asked Old John again for advice on each movement, and made fine adjustments to the notes she had just recorded.

Angela overcame every unqualified move one by one, and the progress of her defensive posture continued to improve.

By the time Angela had completely mastered every move, only two hours had passed.

Taking advantage of the break, Old John quickly ate some food in order to recover his strength faster. Seeing Angela asking the Lord for advice again, he muttered to himself in disbelief:

"This progress is too fast..."

It took Old John several years to sum up the ability of defensive posture in battle after battle.

Now, in just a few hours, Angela has already figured out the clues, giving Old John an unreal and absurd feeling.

Matthew patiently helped Angela summarize.

The first time is always the most difficult. After more times, Angela will become familiar with it.

The day passed quickly.

Old John gasped and stopped what he was doing. Angela, who was walking calmly across from him, saluted him with a sword. Seeing the loneliness in the corner of his eyes, she whispered.

"This should be just an attempt by the lord..."

Old John, who was not sensitive to the Lord's behavior, suddenly woke up. Before he could ask her questions, Angela had already turned around and left.

Matthew calculated it, and after groping until the end of training today, Angela's progress increased to 45%.

The next two days.

Matthew records and improves Angela's training process.

It took Angela 5 hours to defend against the two attacks before reaching the required standards, and the progress increased to 70%.

It only took Angela two hours to defend against the attacks of three people, and she successfully completed the task, and the progress was increased to 100%!

In the afternoon of the third day, I successfully learned the defensive stance feat!

With continuous practice and familiarity, Matthew is becoming more and more confident in the popularization of specialty training.

Of course, all this comes at a price!

Matthew never thinks that he is a good person and some necessary precautions are necessary.

Angela, who had obtained the first expertise, started learning the second low-level expertise under Matthew's arrangement.

In another three days, Angela successfully learned the "battlefield veteran", and her strength increased rapidly.

Such speed made Old John, who knew the inside story, dumbfounded.

He is very excited to strengthen training every day, trying to further improve his physical fitness.

At the same time, Old John also continued to train his soldiers with greater enthusiasm.

Trying to make them stronger in the shortest possible time.

During this week.

The soldiers were not idle either.

Plenty of food, strict training, generous salaries, and fierce competition with each other have transformed them.

The total number of people increased from 105 to 150.

The number of warrior professionals has increased to 40.

Among them, 15 people have been promoted to level 2, and Lyon is the first.

But this is only a change in strength on the surface. The improvement in array coordination has become even greater.

When they lined up neatly, marched through the entire village together, and returned to the barracks, they were greeted with cheers and praises from everyone.

This kind of uniform beauty gives everyone who watches it an addictive feeling.

Even Matthew, who is picky, has to admit that these trained soldiers brought him quite a surprise.

However, this is not without cost.

The soldiers and villagers who let go of their appetites and ate like crazy consumed three times more food than usual, and there were also hundreds of kobolds waiting to be fed.

In just one week, 1/10 of the food purchased from Adam Smith has been consumed.

After all, with a population of 2,000 in Haiwan Village, to support 200 professional soldiers, most supplies can only be purchased from outside.

Maybe the only one I'm worried about is the busy butler Ralph.

As he watched the funds in his territory dwindle, he felt a little anxious.

Even though he knew that the lord had hoarded a batch of alchemical potions, he was still a little worried. Adam Smith could sell them quickly and exchange them for much-needed gold coins and various resources.
Chapter completed!