Real talent and new class formed

Max started to test the kid. He also took a wooden sword and started to slowly increase the difficulty. It was obvious the kid learned what he knew himself. He had no knowledge of fighting. The kid was fighting by instinct but it was not bad.

"Brat relax your body. How can you block or attack with a tense body. You will move like my grandma and die like one. Again." Max said after he increased the speed by a little and the kid got hit with the wooden sword on the head. The hit was heavy for the kid but he did not falter. He tried his best to listen. This was a senior teacher that was ready to give him a chance. A chance that he may not have anymore. There were possibilities in life that you could not get access to after one fail. It was one of those cases. The kid tried his best. He just relaxed his body and fought by instinct. Slowly he felt that he was improving. He was happy. He just continued to fight until this teacher would be pleased.

Max saw that the kid was getting his pointers quickly. He did not even have much time to get angry. He started to hit the kid with a sword and after that with a leg or hand and made him react. The first few times that kid got hit fell on his back, but he did not surrender. He got up. First he just found the right distance to not get hit by Max. He just stepped back when he saw Max was adding a hand or leg attack to the sword attack.

Max nodded internally and than said: "Brat you need to attack. Try to attack. Try to make me think what will be your next move and not know for sure you will retreat."

The kid thought for a moment and than nodded. Max continued his attack. When Max attacked with a leg or hand the kid attacked the leg or hand.

This fighting continued until the kid started to get slower and get hit more. Max did not really got mad. He was just surprised that a kid could really improve while fighting. While being under a big stress. It was not a normal thing at all. It was a raw talent. Not something you see every day. This kid had talent for fighting and he had brains. That was the most important thing. After squeezing the kid dry of all he could give Max said: "Brat what is your name?"

The kid did not speak much. He said: "Drake."

"Well Drake. Congratulations for getting into my class. For now you will be the class monitor. Rey you will be the second in command when Drake is absent. Drake is the brain power and and you are the muscle power for now." Max said. Rey stayed near Max. He wanted to see his potential future classmates. When he saw Drake perform he was really surprised. It took him much time to get what this kid got by instinct. Max was also very happy. This kid learned while fighting. He was elated to have at least one real talent in his class. He wanted to see to what level this brat he could get.

Drake himself was in shock. He had not talent for knight training from the tests. He thought that he was destined to be a knight because that's the only thing that made him move forward. He lived in a very poor family. His mother and father were farmers. They had eight kids in the family and they did not always had food for everyone. There were times he starved. There were days he did not know how his family will get through the winter. He was sure that they will freeze to death because they had no wood left to heat the house. Somehow his mother and father got by. The kids also did what they needed to survive. His oldest sister even worked as a prostitute behind the back of his parents so everyone could eat enough to survive. This was the only way for her to get fast money. Drake got his piece of mind in training physically and dreaming becoming a knight. He looked at the guards at his town and tried to mimic their movements. When he got the result that he did not have any knight talent he felt that his world fell apart. When he got admitted by Max he felt that there was still hope.

Max looked at the kid for a second and than registered him into his class. After that Max gathered all the kids together. The class had 8 girls and 8 boys. Max looked at the kids. Most of them were looking at him with happy or nervous expressions.

Max finally gathered his thoughts and said: "Congratulations little brats. You got into a very good class. I will make you into real fighters. I will help you to get your robes now and then register you in the academy officially. After that I will sign you up to the commoners accommodations. It will be the first step. We will need to get all of you with books for the first semester. You will need to work hard. If you will slack off I will get your little asses kicked from the academy and I'm not joking. My classes will be hard but if you succeed your peers will be not a match for you at all. I don't really care about the rest of the classes and teachers. My classes are the most important. What I teach has the highest priority."

All the kids nodded solemnly. They got a chance to be teached by a senior teacher. It was a very rare case. Only nobles had such privileges. They talked with some of their friends and relatives and got the point that most commoners would study under novice teachers that were a level one or two apprentice level knight figures. They had a kid that was a third level knight apprentice already in their class.

Max continued: "This is Drake. He will be the class monitor until I will see someone that is better suited for this role. Rey second in command. You all have to listen to them. If you have problems call Rey. He and Drake are responsible for you. If you could not manage then call me, but you must know that all of you will get punished when it will happen. Remember. You are all commoners. You should be together and hold into each other. If you get into small groups and be divided you will get crushed separately. Remember. You are one big unit. Also this is Valeria. She is my assistant. Act towards her like you would do towards me. Any disrespect will be harshly punished by her and me. Don't think that she is just a pretty girl. She is a level two knight. You will get crushed if you anger her. This is Derek. He is my helper too."

All the kids nodded while looking at Drake, Rey, Derek and Valeria. They remembered their leaders for the few next years. The boys looked at Valeria while blushing. She was a beauty.

Max clapped his hands to get them from their stupor and said: "Alright let's move."