Iron Powder and Spellcaster

Swordsmanship lessons are held once a week, starting after lunch, and the duration depends on how late the sun sets.

The longer the summer, the longer the swordsmanship lessons. Winter is short, so swordsmanship lessons are short.

In principle, give the cadets an hour to eat before it gets completely dark.

Which leads to a problem: It's the last hour of summer fencing class and everyone is hungry.

After going to the equipment room to return the training armor, Winters and Ike didn't even have time to change into their regular clothes, and ran all the way to the school cafeteria to wolf down their food.

After they had dinner and took a shower, the sun had already set when they returned to the student dormitory.

Oil lamps were lit in the dormitories, and the military cadets who were not from the federal provinces had already begun to pack their bags and prepare to return home tomorrow.

Axel's home is in Guitu City, within walking distance, so there is no rush at all.

He was about to wash his armed clothes, but found Winters lying motionless on the bed.

"Are you going to sleep now?" Ike gave Winters a hard slap on the back: "Aren't you going to pack your luggage?"

"Let's talk tomorrow." Winters was very full, so he was weak.

Fatigue, pain, and sleepiness hit Winters in turn, and all he wanted to do was sleep.

"What to do with your armor? If you don't wash it, it will be rotten tomorrow." Ike asked with a frown.

Winters weighed "get up and do the laundry" versus "go back to sleep," choosing "go back to sleep" without any suspense.

"No, throw it away." He buried his head into the pillow: "Give it to whoever wants it."

"A good set of clothes, just throw them away. He also said that he should practice swordsmanship when he goes home..." Axel rambled as he picked up his friend's armor and threw it into his laundry tub.

But Winters could no longer hear what Ike was saying. His friend's voice came in from his left ear and out from his right ear.

The second before he lost consciousness, Winters suddenly remembered that there was something else to do tonight.

He jumped out of bed, startling Ike and taking a step back.

"I remembered." Winters frowned and said, "I still have to go on duty tonight."

He took a deep breath and let out a cry from the deepest part of his chest.

"Don't you also sleep when you are on duty?" Ike asked, holding the wash basin.

Before Winters could answer, he grabbed his shirt and hurriedly ran out of the dormitory.

The Army Officers Academy, located southeast of Guitu City, has three gates.

Each door has two shifts a day. There are six students in each class, two from each of the first, second and third grades.

There are three disciplines in the Army Academy: Cavalry, Infantry and Artillery. The number of students in each discipline fluctuates between 55 and 60 per year.

Therefore, on average, officer cadets have to work one shift of day duty and one shift of night duty every month.

Winters ran all the way to the north gate. The officer cadets on duty at the daily post had not left yet, and the first-year and second-year cadets who came to change the guard were already waiting in advance.

"Hello, monitor." The junior students saluted Winters when they saw him.

It is the tradition of Lu Academy to call senior students class monitor.

Because when new students enroll, the second-year students will serve as their deputy monitors and the third-year students will serve as their monitors to lead the training of the new students.

Therefore, in the Military and Military Academy, junior officer cadets will call their seniors "monitor" when they see them, regardless of whether they recognize him or not.

Winters returned the greeting casually and hurried into the duty room. Another third-year cadet on night duty was waiting for him.

"There you are, Bud." Winters greeted.

The officer cadet named "Bud" is over 1.7 meters tall. He is a stocky young man with thick shoulders, big hands, a broad mouth and a broad nose, thick eyebrows and big eyes.

In Winters' eyes, all the physical characteristics of the other person showed that he was a gentle, simple and tolerant person.

When Bud saw Winters coming over, he lightly punched Winters on the shoulder and grinned, showing two rows of teeth.

Winters gasped in pain when he touched the bruises left during today's sword fight.

"What?" Bud didn't understand how a light punch caused Winters to react so much.

"I was in swordsmanship class today and was hit hard on my shoulder. It's nothing serious."

"Master did it?" Bud asked with a smile, he understood everything at once.

Wen Tesla passed a chair, Damajintao sat down, and said proudly: "You haven't seen that I scored seventeen points in Ike's hands today. Even Ike was beaten anxiously by me. It’s a pity that I don’t have enough energy, otherwise Ike’s unbeaten record would be broken today.”

"Seriously?" Bud laughed.

So far, no one has been able to defeat Axel, the master swordsman, and there are also not many people who can score 17 points in Ike's hands.

Winters was confident: "How can I brag? There are so many people watching in class."

Bud moved to Winters' other shoulder and punched him hard: "Seventeen points! Awesome! What a pity!"

A head poked through the door, it was a first-year student.

The junior student raised his hand to salute and reported in a low voice: "Squad leader, the instructor on duty is here."

The two Winters tidied up their appearance and walked out of the student duty room.

The night shift is different from the day shift. The day shift does not have patrol duties. Six people are on duty for a whole day, and a group of people is on duty for four hours.

Arrive at work before your shift and leave immediately after your shift is over.

But the night shift is more complicated, as it also has patrol duties. Therefore, the night shift duty process is that each group of people stands for four hours, patrols for four hours, and sleeps for four hours. This ensures that at the same time, one group of people is patrolling, one group is standing guard, and the remaining group is sleeping.

Night shift workers cannot go back to the dormitory to sleep, so two small brick buildings were built next to the gate and inside the wall, which serve as the student duty room and the teacher duty room respectively for those who work the night shift to rest.

The guards resting in the duty room can also play the role of "available to provide support at any time in case of emergencies."

Why is there a faculty lounge? Because teachers also have to take turns working night shifts. The school believes that the night shift situation is complicated and that just having students is not enough. Once an emergency occurs, an active-duty officer must be present to ensure safety.

In theory, all teachers, from principals to lecturers, are obliged to work night shifts.

But in fact, only poor young teachers are required to work the night shift. Their common characteristics are: "newly hired, with low military rank, living in staff dormitories, and singles."

However, teachers do not need to stand guard, as long as they sleep in the teachers' lounge.

The person who came was a short weapons teacher with rosy cheeks and his jacket was unbuttoned to the third button under the collar. He was obviously drunk.

The two people who had not left their posts during the day shift and the six who were on the night shift, a total of eight people, led by Winters, formed a horizontal line.

Everyone stood up energetically, while the teacher who came on duty nodded expressionlessly - no one on the night shift was in a good mood - picked up the duty list and began to call the roll call.

"Winters Montagne!"

"arrive!"

"Gerald's Bard!"

"arrive!"

Bud's name is odd because Bud doesn't have a last name.

Gerald was his hometown and they called him "Gerald's Bud" to distinguish him from other "Buds".

Maybe one day Bud will adopt Gerald as his last name. But now he is called Bud, formally Gerald's Bud.

Afterwards, the teacher called the names, picked up the quill, dipped it in his tongue, and marked the names in the signature book.

"Have you fired your weapons?" he asked again.

Winters only chatted with Bud and did not count the weapons.

But Bud touched Winters lightly, and Winters immediately understood - Bud had clicked.

Then Winters answered loudly: "Six halberds, six muskets, all counted."

"Okay, dismissal! Call me if you need anything." The teacher on duty nodded again, got into the teacher's duty room and went to sleep.

The two juniors who were standing guard said goodbye and hurried to the dormitory.

Winters and Bud began their final night shift.

Surnames are a very interesting thing. The surnames, surnames, and given names of the Celestial Dynasty are three independent things. Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, common people had names but no surnames. After the merging of surnames in the Qin and Han Dynasties, common people valued surnames much more than first names.

The Roma also have a strict naming system of real name, clan name, and family name. However, the "barbarians" who replaced Silome are not so particular. For a long time, they had first names but no surnames, and nicknames were used for people with the same name. differentiate.

In fact, other places also use the joint naming method of father and son, that is, real name·father's name. The meaning of this nomenclature is A's son, B. Because the society is small, the listeners will understand it when talking about the son of a certain hero. For example, Odinsson is the son of Odin. Iceland still retains this nomenclature.

Later, many titles of "son of so-and-so" were directly used as surnames.

Other areas also have the naming method of real name, father's name, and family name, and the naming method of real name, multiple ancestor names, and family name.

To put it simply, compared to Eastern surnames, which contain more inheritance meanings, Western European surnames are the product of pragmatism. It was the census that made surnames popular.