Chapter 13

 Montserrat's willingness to learn is only at the B level, obviously not as strong as Daniel and the father-daughter duo.

 Like the other villagers in the village, everyone knew yesterday that he had started enrolling students, but only Daniel took the initiative to come.

 There is certainly an issue with Montserrat's identity, but more importantly, they do not have such a strong desire.

 Other villagers are interested in reading and literacy, but this interest is not strong enough to make them immediately decide to study.

 Montserrat is one of these villagers.

 Without Daniel's encouragement, he would not have agreed so readily to study with Daniel.

 When Montserrat's talent for marksmanship is combined with his talent for research, it gives Du Mina a lot of ideas.

 Du Mina has not seen the weapons in the village of Gray Rope and does not know how the villagers are accustomed to fighting.

 As for Daniel, it is needless to say; just by looking at the student records, he is definitely a representative of close combat.

 Montserrat may use a bow and arrow.

 This village should only have conventional cold weapons like bows and arrows.

 After all, as far as Du Mina knows, the army under Viscount Hall only has these bows and arrows.

 The Gray Rock Kingdom is vast, and perhaps more prosperous places may have stronger crossbows and weapons, but not here for sure.

 The strongest combat power in this world is the magician, followed by the knight.

 Scholars specializing in research are most enthusiastic about researching magical weapons, and no one puts effort into weapons used by ordinary people.

 This results in few breakthroughs in ordinary weapons.

 The appearance of conventional magical weapons also rarely changes, with most researchers of magical weapons focusing on how to add more magic arrays to the weapons, or how to arrange the arrays on the weapons in various combinations, or researching the magical materials used to engrave the arrays.

 Only a few custom magical weapons may have their appearance specially designed according to the needs of the customizer.

 And among custom weapons, only a few are designed to change the shape to enhance the weapon's power.

 When designing the appearance of more custom weapons, the requirement is usually for a cool and status-revealing design.

 Du Mina quickly recalled some cold weapons he had learned about in his previous life.

 If he only relied on oral descriptions, he might not be able to convey to Montserrat the appearance of the weapon he wanted to make.

 It would be best to draw a picture, which should make it easier for Montserrat to understand.

 But that would have to wait until the paper was made.

 Otherwise, Du Mina was very worried that if he drew the picture in another way, it might be destroyed.

 Perhaps carving on a wooden board would work? What he needed was to ensure that the picture he drew could be well preserved, and not be easily damaged like when using a simple writing board, where a slight tilt could cause the sand to flow and ruin the writing.

 Carving on a wooden board should indeed work.

 While Du Mina was contemplating, Montserrat had already finished arguing with Daniel.

 He bowed to Du Mina.

 "Young Master, I also want to come and learn to recognize characters with you every night, just like with Daniel.

 Is that okay?" The system had already determined that Dora and Montserrat would both become regular students at Du Mina's school, but Montserrat still needed permission from Du Mina to feel at ease.

 When Montserrat asked, the surroundings fell silent.

 The other villagers all unconsciously perked up their ears, waiting to hear Du Mina's response.

 They also wanted the opportunity to learn, but they were equally afraid of being rejected.

 They could also see that Du Mina's house was not large.

 With the burly figure of Daniel squeezing in, they felt the room narrow, and with Montserrat added...

 Du Mina smiled and nodded at Montserrat.

 "Of course.

 You, Daniel, and little Dora are now regular students at my school.

 You must come every day, and if you cannot, you must ask for leave from me.

 You can take a maximum of four days off per month.

" Du Mina said, shifting his gaze to Daniel.

 "Little Dora will also come to study with me during the day.

 If she gets tired of studying, she can skip the evening and only come during the day.

"Daniel, no problem, right?" Dora shouted anxiously, "No, no, I want to come tonight too! Young master, no, teacher, teacher, I want to study tonight too!" Her father and Uncle Montserrat also study at night! How can she not study? Daniel came back from the mountain and didn't have time to have a good talk with his little daughter.

 But looking at Dora's appearance, he knew that his precious daughter must be eager to start studying today.

 He told Dora last night to come with him to find Dominar again tonight, but Dora couldn't even wait for that time.

 If he didn't let Dora study with him at night, would Dora be willing? He could imagine that if he refused Dora to study together at night, when he returned home, Dora would give him a dirty look! That won't do, absolutely not! His beloved daughter is more important than anything else! "The young master has agreed, of course I have no objection.

" Daniel said somewhat bitterly.

 It's not that he has no objection, it's that he dares not have an objection.

 If his daughter also studies at night, then he, who can only study at night, will definitely have a lower literacy level than his daughter in the future, right? As parents, naturally they hope their children surpass themselves.

 But when the child is still young, and he is not as capable as the child, even if it's just a part that is not as good as the child, it can make him feel a little sad amidst the joy.

 Dora cannot understand her father's complex feelings.

 She only knows that Daniel agreed.

 She cheered and turned to Dominar.

 The lovely little girl looked up, revealing a brilliant and dazzling smile.

 "Teacher, my dad agreed! I want to study during the day and at night!" She remembered that when Daniel came home last night, he said that Dominar asked Daniel to call him teacher or principal! She wants to call him that now! She, Dora, is a student of Teacher Dominar.

 She wants to study! Dominar nodded with a smile.

 Even without looking at the student records, he could feel Dora's overflowing enthusiasm for learning.

 How could this desire to learn not be high? Another villager gathered the courage to ask, "Young master, if we also want to study, but we can't guarantee coming every day, can we come to listen to the class?" "You can.

 But if you come late and the classroom is full, you won't be able to enter to listen to the class.

 Also, my teaching plan will be adjusted according to the learning progress of the fixed students.

 If you only occasionally come to listen, you may not understand much." At this point, Dominar had an idea.

 He could try holding an open class! An open class for all villagers! In the class, he could teach some other knowledge, broaden the villagers' horizons and knowledge.

 As the son of a viscount, a nobleman, he didn't study hard before, but he still acquired a lot of cultural knowledge.

 He remembered many historical stories of the Gray Rock Kingdom.

 Shouldn't he be able to talk to the villagers about these things? "Ding! Side mission released: Please complete a public class lasting no less than two hours in Gray Rope Village within seven days! Requirement: The number of listeners must not be less than 30 people.

 Mission completion reward: Teaching tool gift box *1.

 Mission failure penalty: No more public class type side missions will be released in the future.

" Dominar was shaken.

 It must be completed! Fortunately, these villagers seemed quite enthusiastic now, so he could try to persuade them to come and listen to this public class as much as possible.

 After they dispersed, he could talk to other villagers and gather thirty people, shouldn't be a problem, right? Dominar cleared his throat.

 "Everyone..." When he mentioned that he was preparing a public class related to the history of the Gray Rock Kingdom, the villagers looked at each other, and for a moment, no one responded.

 Dominar's heart tightened.

 The mission won't fail, right? He originally preferred to hold the public class during the day.

 Even if there are no blackboards or similar things in this world, he can teach outdoors during the day, making it more convenient to see the reactions of the students and even draw sketches on the ground when necessary to increase the interest in the classroom.

 But if the villagers are indeed busy during the day, coming in the evening is also possible.

 But looking at the reactions of the villagers...

 Could it be that they are not willing to listen? Do they think it's a waste of time? What's going on? Du Mingna almost wanted to use Old John's connections to persuade some villagers who had a good relationship with Old John to meet the required number of people for the task.

 But at that moment, he heard Gus's voice.

 "Young master, what do you mean by a public class you just mentioned? Can all the villagers listen, or is it just this one class that they can understand?" With Gus leading the way, other villagers also started discussing.

 "Yeah, young master, we all come to listen to the class, but is your room big enough?" "What does the history of Gray Rock Country mean? Is it about our country's past? Wow, such a big place, and after so many years, how long would it take to talk about it? How much can be said in two hours?" The questions raised by the villagers became more and more numerous.

 Du Mingna was caught off guard.

 Where could he prepare enough for the public class? He looked around at the villagers surrounding him.

 He didn't know when there were more people.

 Gus, along with several other strong men, stood on the outskirts of the crowd.

 Thanks to their height, they were not blocked by the inner circle, allowing Du Mingna to see them more easily.

 Gus was the village chief and was usually respected in the village.

 But today, when the villagers heard him speak, no one voluntarily made room for him to squeeze into the inner circle.

 The villagers were also curious about what was happening outside! Gray Rope Village is a closed small place.

 When others came to the village before, they were like bullies.

 For example, the Hall family sent tax collectors, or the Ironclad Mercenary Corps that bullied them after arriving.

 Those people didn't speak kindly to them, and whenever they mentioned something, it was in a boastful tone.

 Through those snippets of information, they knew how exciting the outside world was.

 Occasionally, they went to farther places to buy and sell things, and they could see how different the outside world was from their village.

 They were curious, and they wanted to know more.

 It's just that they didn't have the opportunity before.

 Now Du Mingna has come and is willing to talk to them about the history of Gray Rock Country! What about Du Mingna's bloodline from the Hall family?

Du Mingna is different from the other members of the Hall family! He is their new lord of the village, and also... the principal of Gray Rope Village School, the only teacher willing to teach them!