Chapter Fifty: Awakening

  Fiete expressed his feelings to Liu Yu with a "I'm watching you" gaze, and Liu Yu turned back and sat down in his original position with some helplessness. Gieron saw Liu Yu's performance and didn't make any extra expressions, he just got up and took out a white porcelain bottle from the cabinet on the side.

  Liu Yu's gaze was fixed intently on Jiren, and he could see that the ceramic bottle was roughly the size of a beer bottle. However, the military usually used small leather bags to hold liquor. Ceramic vessels were rare in the Beastman Kingdom, as they did not produce them domestically, instead importing them from the Northwestern Elf Empire. Only wealthy families within the kingdom could afford to use such items.

  Ji Lun brought over two wooden cups and placed them in front of him and Liu Yu, gently opening the wooden stopper on the porcelain bottle, first pouring a red liquid into Liu Yu's cup.

  "Liu Yu looked at Jiren with great puzzlement. This barren Cordillera Highlands didn't produce wine, and wasn't Jiren the one who said he didn't drink? By the time he finished thinking, Jiren had already filled both wooden cups to the brim with this red liquid."

  "Come have a drink, we can talk after finishing it." Jiren said without even looking at Liu Yu's expression, picked up the wooden cup and drank it all in one gulp. Liu Yu hesitated for a moment and also picked up the wooden cup to finish it in one gulp, as his clansman Uncle Jiren had no reason to harm him.

  The red entrance felt extremely good, warm and slightly sweet, but quickly turned cold after passing through the throat. Liu Yu only felt a chill rising from his abdomen to his head, and with a slight shake of his head, more than half of his intoxication was dispelled, and even the lingering pain in his head disappeared.

  "This is a hangover cure." At this point, Liu Yu was certain that it wasn't grape wine, but something with a hangover-curing effect.

  "How are you?" Seeing Liu Yu finished drinking, a smile appeared on Jiren's face.

  "Ah, great, very comfortable." Liu Yu said honestly about his feelings. To be honest, he hadn't drunk something so good since his rebirth.

  "This is a detoxification medicine made from the blood of a fifth-order magical beast, the Ice Snow Bear, combined with several special medicinal herbs. After drinking it, even someone who is heavily intoxicated can quickly sober up." Gillen smiled faintly, confirming Liu Yu's speculation.

  "Hmm, General Du, why are you giving me this to drink." Liu Yu, who had sobered up a bit, also sensed that Jiren didn't have any malicious intentions, and the feeling of constraint also dissipated somewhat.

  "Hehe, from now on, just call me Uncle in private, our blood relationship can't be distant because of the large family." Ji Lun said with a smile, although his smile still looked terrifying to Liu Yu, but Liu Yu nodded and accepted.

  "You've sobered up, now guess why I'm keeping you instead of Zephyr and the others. Remember, this has nothing to do with His Majesty or Gaia." Gillen said as he sealed the ceramic bottle with a wooden stopper.

  "Hmm, because I am the Golden Baton." Liu Yu thought for a moment and then had an answer. If he put aside his family identity, then among the five younger members of the Weilin family just now, only Liu Yu was the Golden Baton, and apart from this, Liu Yu couldn't think of anything else special about himself.

  "Many years ago when I was still a Huo Wei, I was in charge of leading a team to patrol the border in the Fifth Regiment. You had an uncle named Valle Wulian who was assigned to my fire as a new recruit. At that time, I loved drinking and always found ways to get something to exchange for wine with the Wolf people. Later on, it almost became a habit to drink several cups with every meal."

  During a patrol, we didn't encounter the enemy for several days and felt very relaxed. At night when setting up camp, I drank a few more cups and passed out. In the dead of night, Fanore's border patrol teams launched a surprise attack on us. I was still fast asleep and woke up to the sudden chaos. The troops were in disarray without my command, many soldiers died in battle, including Valle.

  "We were beaten and could only escape with our lives, fortunately we met another patrol team who supported us, I was able to survive." Jiren said a few words that left Liu Yu at a loss.

  "Walle Wulfgar, the fierce flame that once was, died twenty years ago in a probing attack by the Fano Empire on the Kingdom of Wolf's territory, at the age of seventeen. He was killed because of the greed of his subordinate, Fire Guardian." Giren's eyes turned crimson red, and his hand holding the wooden cup trembled slightly.

  "He is my own younger brother, three years younger than me." These last words shocked Liu Yu greatly.

  But only a short while later, Gilen's emotions returned to normal, all the emotions on his face disappeared, whether it was the initial smile or the final anger and pain, replaced by the usual coldness and ferocity in the military.

  "As a golden general, your future is not just a soldier, you will be an officer. I don't want to see you drunk again, keep your head clear at all times, do you understand?" Gilen lectured Liu Yu with the tone of a superior officer.

  "Yes, General, your subordinate has taken note of your teachings." These last words struck a chord in Liu Yu's mind for many years. He stood up straight and responded to Gilen's lecture.

  "This bottle of medicine is for you." Jiren stood up and handed the white porcelain bottle to Liu Yu, then waved his hand to signal him to leave.

  The higher the position, the harder it is to keep a clear head. Han Wudi 'had the fault of destroying Qin but was able to avoid the loss of destroying Qin', Tang Taizong was able to create a complete era of governance, all because they were at the peak of power and still maintained a clear head.

  Although we are ordinary people, keeping a clear mind is equally important. Only in this way can your life be better." This was a motto of life told to Liu Yu by a teacher he liked very much in his previous life. Liu Yu always remembered it as his motto.

  Tonight, Jirong's last words corresponded with those of this teacher, which is very much in line with Liu Yu's thoughts.

  Three months later, a few miles away from the fourth division camp, on a small hillside, Huang Jinbei stood at the waist of the mountain, reciting some sort of incantation with the wind. As his incantation changed, the air around him seemed to get hotter and hotter. When he finally spoke his last word, a three-meter-high and over-ten-meter-long wall of flame suddenly appeared in front of him.

  As soon as the firewall appeared, a hint of a smile floated onto Huang Jin's face. He pushed his right hand forward and the firewall immediately charged forward, quickly traversing several meters in mid-air. Then, with another pull of his hand, the firewall dissipated into thin air.

  "Firewall technique, mastered." Huang Jinbi muttered to himself as he gazed at his right hand.

  This Huang Jin Bei is Liu Yu, who has been hiding in the mountains to cultivate. Now it's the third month after the Beast God Festival. As the weather warms up, Liu Yu and his team's patrol missions have gradually increased, but they haven't reached their peak yet. Taking advantage of this gap, Liu Yu seizes every spare moment to practice outside the camp.

  After spending more than two months, he finally mastered the fourth-level fire magic "Fire Wall Technique". He had been practicing this spell for over a year, starting from when he was in the Blood Refining Camp. The incantation was profound and difficult to understand, not to mention that the fire element was still hard to control, so it wasn't until today that he made some small progress.

  Liu Yu looked up at the sun that had already passed noon and knew he should head back. Soldiers in the military camp didn't have tasks during the day, so they could go out for a bit, but they had to return to their barracks at night.

  In the evening, Liu Yu and his ten soldiers sat on the ground in their large tent eating dinner. The military rations were simple, just black bread and a bit of roasted meat. Before, when they were in the Dessa Mountains, Liu Yu and his men would often find mouse people to cook for them, and occasionally they could even get some wild vegetables. But now that they were getting food from the camp, this was the treatment they received.

  "How long until our next patrol, Geli?" Liu Yu asked Geli, swallowing a mouthful of black bread. Since the last Beast God Festival when everyone got drunk together, the relationship between the three new recruits and Geli's old soldiers had become much more familiar, with Geli allowing them to drop the honorifics like "Sir" and address him directly by name.

  "It's not very clear, but Lieutenant Travani's orders are for us to be on standby at all times. I heard that the patrol squad from Fanord has been pretty quiet lately, so there might be some changes in the patrol schedule." Glei said as he pulled out a small leather pouch from his pocket and lightly poured something into his mouth.

  Liu Yu recognized that it was a small leather bag of wine, and this guy Ge Li was a wine worm. Normally, he could save up on rations to go find the wolf tribe warriors from the Second Battalion and exchange some wine with them.

  "Give me a drink, old chap." Fadi grinned mischievously as he leaned in next to Geli, wanting to mix drinks.

  "Scram, you can take some provisions to exchange for yours if you want, now thinking of mixing my wine? Dream on!" Geli firmly refused the guy, then carefully put away his own wine skin bag. Fadi could only envy as he watched Geli put the wine bag into his bosom.

  Liu Yu, who was standing by, saw Fadi's pitiful state and couldn't help but stifle a laugh. At the same time, he also remembered a rule of the Fourth Squad: no matter who it is, when executing a mission, they must not leave camp with alcohol, otherwise, severe punishment will be meted out. It was said that this was a rule set by Gilen, which others like Meng might not understand, but Liu Yu understood the meaning behind this order.

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