The risks were calculated

Five days later, I fully understood and remembered everything written in the manual. After what Lin Chu told me about needing ten years to learn, I really expected something harder…

Maybe Lin Chu's late mother was just terrible at explaining.

I flicked my fingers, creating a small fire in my palm, and let the manual burn.

Soon, there was nothing left but the ashes that I threw out of the window of my rented room in the White Water town.

My detachment and I arrived there only last evening. The town, wooden except for the wall, was built on a large lake, where a dozen of fishing boats sailed . It was a relatively peaceful place, where even now people didn't fear an attack, because of how removed it was from the front lines.

Needless to say, when the town's mayor heard that I and 300 soldiers will stay as a garrison here until further notice, he was shocked to the extreme.