The Lord Of Blood Hill

Chapter 639: Educating the Next Generation

"Father, why do you always practice these basic sword forms? The guards say you are powerful. Why do you not train stronger moves?"In the manor training field, Henwell hears his eldest son's question and puts away the longsword in his hand.

He comes before Pabos and crouches down. "Because all combat methods are made from the simplest chops, cuts, thrusts, and lifts."

"Those so-called powerful sword forms and moves are mostly abilities that instantly mobilize fighting spirit and make it erupt."

With that, Henwell rises and casually cuts a cross slash toward the distance. Then he reverses his hand and uses the secret art of the Silver Wolf Sword Style, Silver Wolf Strike.

The two sword forms create almost solid phantoms and leave deep marks across the training field.

Seeing this, Pabos immediately claps in excitement.

Then Henwell thrusts his longsword forward, but nothing happens.

Henwell turns back and asks his child, "Do you understand?"

Pabos shakes his head. "What is different about that move just now? I cannot understand it."

Pabos is only seven, so of course he cannot understand the essence of the move Henwell just used.

Even the Lord Iron Guards present do not understand it. They only feel that the move just now is unusual and makes them deeply uncomfortable.

Henwell's light thrust just now creates no friction with the air. It seems to simply slide through.

After the sword thrusts out, the space around the blade shows a faint distortion.

This is the result of Henwell's spiritual power interfering with and affecting the material world.

More than ten years have passed, and Henwell still has not broken through to Glory Rank.

Although with daily exercise and cultivation, Henwell's physical quality continues to slowly grow, and the energy in his body continues to increase and condense again and again, he knows clearly that he is still missing something.

In short, he still has not broken through to Glory Rank.

But that does not mean Henwell's combat power has not increased.

Henwell is now thirty-three years old, and he is far stronger than he was a few years ago.

The last time Henwell made a move was when he strongly warned the Western Federation.

Three years have passed. If he faced Leopold, the lord of Lake Wheat City and a peak Iron Knight, again, Henwell could easily cut him down on the spot.

Going back a few more years, Henwell's most dangerous battle was against the Veil's Glory Rank warlock, the Abyss Sin Shepherd.

Now, Henwell no longer needs any auxiliary setup. One-on-one, he can kill him.

After attending Obilian's coronation ceremony, Henwell has not left Peace Haven again.

He still remembers the Lady of Calamity's warning. There are still two assassins outside looking for trouble with him.

For his own safety and his family's safety, Henwell cannot run around before solving those two.

Because Henwell still has not broken through to Glory Rank, the Peace Haven professionals who grew up because of the Light of Civilization are all stuck at the peak Grand Knight stage.

Fortunately, no one is anxious. In everyone's eyes, what they have already achieved is a pleasant surprise.

Iron Knights are not common at all. Anyone who can break through to Iron Knight before fifty can be considered a genius.

Although Peace Haven's current top combat forces are only peak Grand Knights, they are numerous, well equipped, and better at combined attack techniques.

Three or five of them working together can take down a professional who has just entered Iron Rank. That is not hard to believe.

More importantly, most of these professionals are not yet forty.

Their future is still long. As they continue polishing themselves in the years to come, they have a strong chance of breaking through on their own.

Henwell now begins deliberately lying low. In the previous ten years, every major event on the continent had something to do with him.

For the next ten years, Henwell plans to slowly fade from the continent's view.

After giving his son a demonstration, Henwell puts away his longsword and begins personally teaching his child to cultivate.

The fighting spirit Pabos cultivates is not what Henwell previously obtained from the Church.

It is the cultivation method Newwood left Henwell. It is the same fighting spirit path, but it is fundamentally different from the fighting spirit cultivation of this world.

Or rather, this is a cultivation method from beyond the world. It is simple and brutal, pointing directly to the essence of cultivation.

As Henwell's eldest son, Pabos has excellent talent.

Since birth, he has lacked neither nutrition nor potions and supplements for strengthening his foundation.

Some people are born to toil, while some people are born in paradise.

As for Pabos, he was born beside paradise's throne.

When Pabos was five, Henwell began teaching him orthodox training methods.

At seven, Pabos is already much stronger than children of the same age.

Henwell personally teaches his son, allowing Pabos's talent to receive the best and most reasonable development.

However, starting next year, Henwell will send Pabos to a Peace Haven school.

Growing up entirely in Blood Hill Manor will only turn Pabos into a second-generation elite detached from society.

Henwell would rather his son have a sound childhood. That will be very helpful for shaping his outlook on life in the future.

Peace Haven's primary schools have no noble schools. Forty-five primary schools and thirty secondary schools are all in the Peace Haven education district.

After more than ten years of reform, Peace Haven has formed its own unique education system.

The entry age for primary school begins at seven or eight. The school system lasts five years.

After advancing to secondary school, the school system still lasts five years.

That makes exactly ten years of study. After graduation, those with talent continue to study at the various academies. Those without talent are considered adults, and Peace Haven has plenty of work waiting for them.

All schools use a compulsory boarding system. Food and lodging are provided, and students can only go home once a month.

Because of the Midsummer Festival, Peace Haven has summer vacation, but no winter vacation. Each year, students spend ten months in school.

From primary school to secondary school, everything is under militarized management.

This militarization is not a metaphor. There are real military programs.

Every school has a small military camp. It contains Silent Iron Guards, elites from the Military Intelligence Office, and hundred-man units that the major legions must send to assist in defense for a year.

Near the education district, the First Garrison Legion and the First Cavalry Legion are stationed as well.

One can say that the defenses here are stricter than those of Blood Hill Manor.

Everyone inside is Peace Haven's future. On this point, Henwell believes no amount of attention is excessive.

In this damned age, there is no real moral bottom line. People can do any disgusting thing.

There was once an Ogiro intelligence agent who infiltrated the education district and poisoned the cafeteria, killing more than ten students.

Henwell was so furious that he mobilized the army and almost went to war with Ogiro.

This was not Henwell overreacting. He had to do this.

He had to make everyone understand clearly that the education district is his core interest. No one may touch it.

In the end, Sundike, Ogiro's sixth prince, showed great courage.

Under the pressure of Diversion Bay, he still led people to deliver the head of the Ogiro intelligence high official who planned the incident to Henwell.

Although Sundike faced heavy criticism afterward, he felt it was worth it to avoid a war.