Chapter 292: Robert the Civilian Genius
Chapter 287 – Robert the Civilian Genius
As for why Academy City arranged for this super genius to live with them, I’m afraid it was because all three of them were rather special.
Owen was the first Northland noble to enroll, Peters was the son of the Academy City’s sponsor, and Cowles had a special inheritance, so adding another super genius civilian cadet seemed like a normal occurrence.
Unfortunately, all three of Owen didn’t like this super genius named Robert, even if he acted politely, the alienation and boredom in his eyes couldn’t be hidden from the three of them at all.
Such a gaze was so familiar to Pieters that he even knew the other party’s mental journey, but he still got the other party’s information through his connections to confirm his suspicions.
Robert was a standard country boy, not even having a decent name before he came to Academy City, and without that opportunity, he would have been no different from any other commoner’s son, either farming at home or going to work as a fellow.
But he was lucky, when the lord was hunting, he saw him taking out two kobolds with a woodchipper without any injuries, so he let him follow the hunting party’s hounds, and then witnessed him gutting a full-grown forest wolf with a woodchipper.
Robert, who showed good talent one after another, managed to gain the appreciation of the lord, which gave him the opportunity to come to Academy City to study.
In fact, this experience is nothing, similar experience of the civilian students in the academy city countless, otherwise how can they get the opportunity, but their excitement and expectations of the future will soon be shattered by reality.
College City is right to cultivate geniuses, but it is impossible to send all the resources equally, this is fair, but also let the diamond hidden in the sands no longer release the light of the day, so all kinds of elimination and test from the first day of enrollment began.
You can imagine the pressure that the commoner students who lack foundation will face in the academy city, especially when there are also the noble students who are well-fed and well-dressed to compare with them.
However, with the passage of time, even if the idea that nobles are superior to commoners has been deeply rooted in people’s minds for thousands of years, as the commoner students’ own strength grows, the original idea will be shaken, after all, they know very well that most of the hard power of the noble students is not as good as theirs.
This change in thinking is unavoidable, because ordinary people of civilian origin are not the same concept as professionals of civilian origin, because the latter have the ability to resist.
The conflict between the civilian trainees and the noble trainees in terms of concept and identity was constantly staged in the academy city, with some people sinking, some people transcending, some people gaining, and some people losing everything, the academy city only limited the conflict to a certain range but did not have the intention of stopping it, which fueled the confidence of the talented civilian trainees in the struggle for the power and identity.
Obviously Robert is the champion of this belief, commoner origin, he is not willing to be a dog of the nobles again, every time he dreamed of the year he ran in the forest with the lord’s hound, it is a kind of incentive for him.
But at this time, his own strength is not enough for Robert to be directly on par with the noble trainees, which is why his behavior is so odd.
In fact, there is another reason, every day in the arms of the replacement of Pieters, slightly weak Cowles, and the vain Owen, in the eyes of Robert they are a bunch of only rely on the ancestors of the waste, in addition to the birth, in addition to the title, in addition to wealth, in addition to the territory, in addition to the territories, in addition to the lords, in addition to the
Anyway, Robert just looked down on them, if the two sides’ identities were swapped, he would definitely do better than the other side, and wouldn’t waste a bit of time or fail to live up to those precious resources.
Unfortunately, he is still too young, this idea can’t be hidden from Pieters, nor can it be hidden from Owen and Cowles, so the three of them do not have the idea of pulling him into the small circle, and let him go it alone.
Before dawn, Robert had already gotten up and started to put on his slightly outdated protective gear.
Compared to Pieters’ ostentatious room, Robert’s room could no longer be described as shabby, apart from the original basic furniture and furnishings, there were only his personal belongings that could only be described as shabby. This is still because he is a genius student has a lot of subsidies, more commoner students in the basic course at the same time also have to spend time to earn money to go to the refresher course, as for the cost of the advanced course is not something they can afford, even before Robert was noticed by the academy city, he couldn’t go to the advanced course a few times a year, which is where the conflict between commoner students and the noble students lies.
Taking the weighted practice sword to the open space in the backyard of the villa, Robert started the boring and tedious basic swordsmanship training.
It had to be said that Robert’s genius title was not for nothing, even though he had become the idol of many commoner students, even though many noble students handed him olive branches, he still maintained his basic sword training every day, because he always remembered the words that the first sword teacher said to him after he came to the academy city.
That swordsmanship teacher was also from a commoner’s background, so after seeing Robert’s talent, he specifically said something to him.
In fact, those words were very simple, the swordsmanship teacher just clearly told him that with his origin, there was no way he could come into contact with advanced swordsmanship and fighting qi before he showed enough value.
At the same time, he was told not to underestimate the basic sword arts, because any advanced sword arts were developed on the basic sword arts, and if he wanted to fill the gap between him and the noble cadets who had been exposed to advanced sword arts since they were young, he had to invest ten times the amount of effort into the basic sword arts, and only in this way could he have any hope of catching up.
Robert had always remembered these words, and although the effort he put into basic swordsmanship wasn’t as exaggerated as ten times, it was still two or three times more than his fellow cadets.
One day or two days couldn’t see the gap, three years and five years down the line it wasn’t a gap anymore, it was a mountain apart.
Even now that his contemporaries had begun to come into contact with advanced sword arts, Robert still possessed a huge advantage, and had even defeated trainees using advanced sword arts many times by virtue of his basic sword arts, which had made him invest more energy in his basic sword arts.
Because he came to inspiration, Owen, who had been busy all night in the secret room of the dungeon with faint dark circles under his eyes, brought his coffee to the window with the intention of getting some fresh air, just in time to see Robert training.
Although he hadn’t practiced much combat skills, it didn’t mean that Owen didn’t know anything about it, on the contrary, his eyesight was very good, and he could see that Robert’s downward motion was very stable, and the starting and closing gestures of the two-handed sword downward slash were not different from each other, which had obviously become muscle memory.
“You’ll be useless if you keep practicing like that.” Owen said as he pushed open the window and squinted in the rising sun before taking a sip of his coffee.
Robert made a move, and instead of bad-mouthing him or just turning away as Owen had imagined, he said after a moment of silence.
“The new fencing teacher told you the same thing.”
“Well, your foundation is solid, but it is too solid for your age, which will cause you to have a hard time getting out of the limitations of basic swordsmanship when you learn advanced swordsmanship.” Owen also focused on the foundation, otherwise he wouldn’t have put down his territory to come to Academy City to retrain, but focusing on the foundation didn’t mean that he kept beating around the basics, even if the same was true for sword arts.
“After having a foundation, you need to be exposed to more variations, otherwise you will never break out of the cage you have built for yourself.” Owen knew that the heavy sword has no edge, and the big trick is not to work, the problem is that no one comes up to have such a realm, it’s all a step by step process, it’s undoubtedly a dream to want to stand at the highest peak just by virtue of the foundation, it’s really so easy, but also in the foundation of the development of a what.
(End of chapter)