Wizard: I have ten trillion nanomachines

The noise from the training ground surged like a tide, with soldiers either practicing on targets or finding partners to spar with.

The crisp sound of wooden swords clashing together mingled with the shouts of the soldiers, making the ground seem to tremble slightly.

Centurion Layton huddled under an old oak tree in the corner of the training ground, his back pressed against the rough bark.

He is twenty-four years old and a newly promoted centurion.

The Ashvale-Liuli River region currently has a standing army of 1,000 men, which is equivalent to ten 100-man squads.

Ignoring the noise in the arena, Layton closed his eyes and recalled the family breathing technique his father had taught him.

Adjust your breathing frequency, allowing the airflow to slowly fill your chest cavity during inhalation, and then sink down along the gaps between your ribs, as if you are trying to push the cold air into the area below your navel.

At the same time, imagine the airflow as a warm stream, flowing along the meridians of your arms and legs, nourishing every inch of your muscles.

Then, following the rhythm, slowly swing the sword, inhaling as you raise it and exhaling as you slash down. The movements should be slow and steady, and the rhythm of your breathing should be integrated with the sword-swinging motion...

When he was twelve years old and learning breathing techniques, he always felt it was a waste of time.

Why waste time standing still and panting when you can clearly build strength by gripping the sword hilt and swinging it?

Only after he grew up did he realize how ridiculous his childhood thoughts were.

Breathing techniques are top-notch secret skills. Even his family's Iron Blood Breathing Technique, which is just an ordinary and mediocre one, is still better than those commoners who are born with superhuman strength and train their strength their whole lives!

"After several months, I finally received guidance from Knight Walton."

"Practicing breathing techniques in noisy places, if one can overcome this and achieve a state of mental stillness, undisturbed by external influences, will be of great benefit to both chivalry and actual combat..."

Recalling that trick, Layton forced himself to ignore the noise and curious stares from the outside world and focused on practicing the breathing technique.

Meanwhile, ten meters away, a pair of eyes were scanning his body for changes, recording them, and building a model.

"What a pleasant surprise."

While pondering, Luo Kunlun casually blocked the wooden sword that his opponent was wielding. With a flick of his wrist, his wooden sword struck the back of his opponent's hand, knocking the wooden sword away.

What good luck! The breathing technique information I've been wanting to collect has come to me.

Luo Kunlun thought it would take him several years to climb the ranks and gain the trust of a nobleman in order to gather this information.

"Ding, model built, information scanning in real time."

Name: Layton

Physical fitness: 2.8

A value of 2.8 is not far from the limits of human endurance.

Once you break through the limits of the human body and reach a certain standard, you become a knight.

But that's difficult; limits aren't so easy to break.

Not all ten captains of the hundred-man squads were knights. Including Hand, there were only six in total, two of whom were even defectors from the Norton family.

In reality, very few practitioners of breathing techniques can reach the standard of a beginner knight. Regardless of age, those who reach the standard are all talented individuals.

This medieval-like society obviously didn't have anything like the nanomachines on Lokunlun's body that could quantify data; the standard for checking whether a nobleman was a knight was mainly based on strength.

He could lift a stone weight weighing over 300 jin (approximately 150 kg) overhead with both hands, and still have the strength to swing a heavy sword weighing over ten jin (approximately 5 catties) fifty times in succession...

With this standard, a knight who has broken through the limits will have reached a physical fitness level of 4.

Layton is currently 1.2 short of his current rating. If nothing unexpected happens, his physical fitness will never reach 3, which is still a long way from being a Cavalier.

No wonder Layton hasn't come to the barracks at all in the past four months. Rather than training, he longs to become a knight who breaks the limits.

As for the purpose of the other party's sudden arrival, Luo Kunlun didn't know and had no interest in it at all.

..................

Time flies, and a day has passed in the blink of an eye.

At night, lying on his bed, Luo Kunlun began receiving the data from the zero scan.

"Is that how breathing techniques work...?"

Having received the information from Zero, Luo Kunlun had already understood the essence of the breathing technique.

"By influencing and optimizing the endocrine system and gastrointestinal motility through breathing techniques, we can accelerate and enhance the absorption of food. Combined with physical training such as swordsmanship, we can break through our limits."

"This method is feasible. In addition, there should also be elements of psychological guidance and self-hypnosis."

Lo Kunlun approved of this approach and also understood why Layton had come to the training ground.

Just like reading books in a vegetable market, it's all about training your inner self.

Judging from this, it is indeed impossible for an illiterate commoner to learn the secret method. Apart from oral instruction and teaching by one person after another, it is impossible to learn this breathing method by oneself by following the manual.

Fortunately, Lokunlun has nanomachines, so he can simply scan the process.

But this leads to the second unsolved mystery.

Because the nanomachines in his body can also regulate the endocrine system, and not only can they, but they are even better at it.

However, the physical fitness of the high-ranking knights in the Breathing Technique Knights reached a terrifying twelve, while the nanomachines only had five without side effects.

Further strengthening is not impossible, but that would cause abnormal changes in the body.

Unless nanomachines completely replace a part or even the entire body, becoming a mini-Superman or even the Terminator wouldn't be a problem.

But that wasn't a feature that the initial version of the Zero product could have.

"It seems there are still aspects of the breathing technique that I don't understand, but unless I practice it myself and continue to gather information, it will be difficult to fully comprehend its essence."

However, in this society, it is a serious crime for ordinary people to come into contact with breathing techniques; they are not even allowed to think about it.

As a new recruit, with neither personal space nor enough free time, Luo Kunlun would definitely be discovered and executed if he practiced now.

New recruits have no free time; their days are filled with training and chores, and they have no time for personal outings or alone time.

However, veterans do.

Becoming a veteran like Jack means you won't have all your time filled with training and chores. You'll be able to squeeze out 1-2 hours of private free time each day, mostly concentrated in "fixed time slots," which you can use as you see fit.

During busy farming seasons or peacetime, we sometimes help with harvesting crops. After the task, we can go home.

If there is a long period of peace, with no bandit suppression or border conflicts, the intensity of training will decrease and the amount of free time will increase.

Last time, Gray and the other veterans went to the town's tavern for some ale.

To be like the veterans, one must reach a certain level of proficiency and master the basic skills.

Spears, swords, weighted running, weapon maintenance, etc.

But none of this is a problem for Luo Kunlun. With the nanomachines, he can now guarantee that he can easily defeat any veteran in the barracks in any way.

Having mastered the skills and met the physical requirements, and having experienced fierce battles, what remains in the end is recognition.

Loyalty takes precedence over combat ability; it's about personal relationships, showing that he's one of our own.