Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 327: Home Letter

Claude walked up to the podium and saluted.

General Michelch gave the same salute and then took two steps forward, reaching out and removing Claude's three black star stamps and replacing them with a silver moon stamp, which meant that from this moment on, Claude had crossed the huge gap between lieutenant officers and school officers, becoming an official Major Officer in the Kingdom of Ovilas.

In times of peace, from captain to major, it takes a minimum of five to seven years, and excellence is required to receive more than three accolades for excellence in the military. Claude, who was only 25 years old and enlisted in the army, was promoted to Major after seven years without formal training at any military academy. It has almost become a legend in the Royal Army, just as it has been promoted by fire lines when it stood on the battlefield.

This was a major promotion at the end of the year, with only seven of the twenty-six participants in the advanced seminar taking to the next level, one Lieutenant Colonel being promoted to Colonel and five Majors being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Then Claude was promoted to Major, and his promotion finally made the senior seminar a truly school-level officer seminar.

In addition, more than a dozen school-level officers who were not trained in military schools in the formation of the Rangers were given the opportunity to be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in Major Skerry's ranks. This was actually compensation for him when he was forced to withdraw from the Principality of Kanas, preserving the viability of the first Battalion of Rangers, and when he returned, he was framed by the noble officers of the Front Line Command as having lost his country and was trapped. It was not until Claude wrote a letter asking Lady Maria to deliver a message that the Grand Prince returned to freedom.

It is only in this way that a soldier battalion, alone, has spent more than a year deep in the Principality of Kanas in the struggle for merit, which cannot be recognized by the Army Ministry. After all, that territory had been lost, nearly two years apart, and the war had ended, and such an unrecognizable merit could only be regarded as bad luck. The only consolation is that all the soldiers who have lost their lives have been evaluated for bravery and doubled pensions, which is also a pity that the soldiers who retreated from the 1st Battalion of Rangers did not leave behind.

This grand promotion was a compensation from the Sterling royal family to these civilian officers who were commissioned and suppressed during the war, like a soldier battalion, and essentially all officers and soldiers formerly belonging to the soldier battalion were promoted to the first rank. Like McJackie, he was promoted from sergeant to sergeant, while Big Gemmy was promoted from sergeant to sergeant. In addition, both Muried and Diaved were promoted from lieutenants to lieutenants, and in the case of Berklin, more unfortunately, he was in the 2nd Battalion of the Rangers, which was not promoted this time because of the collapse from the Kanas Prairie.

Today, on November 30, 582, the Holy Light calendar, Claude became a major officer.

This has been a very important and meaningful year for Claude, because Kevin, who was pregnant in October, gave birth to a healthy boy for Claude on the night of August 25, and Claude had his own blood transmission in the other world. Only Claude did not know the good news that day and was instructed on September 2 to lead a motorized field regiment of the newly formed Rangers Corps with his senior workshop classmates, marching long distances to the border of the Kanas Prairie and receiving compensation from the Principality of Kanas for the third horse of war, before returning to the village of Kaleben in mid-November.

Claude, who returned to the military academy, had just received a letter that had been on hold for almost two months, and learned that he had become a father, was ecstatic, and that he had wrapped up a new half-year hotel in the village in the evening, set a banquet, and invited his classmates and friends. Though Claude was eager to take time off to go home and see his own son, he still restrained himself from thinking about it. The journey is too far away. He can only take one month's leave at most. It takes more than half a month for the horses to come and go. It would be better to take family visits together next year, so that he can have two months' leave and stay at home for an extra day.

A letter from sister Anna tells Claude that Kevin and the baby are safe and don't worry. And the child's name is Tess Orey, as agreed before Claude left the house. Fields, Gukherz means the sunshine of hope. In addition, due to having grandchildren, the mother recovered quickly and was surrounded by small babies all day...

There was also a passphrase in the letter that Claude took out a bottle of the cure and applied it to the inner layer of the envelope, which revealed a large passage about his brother Browick. This little Booker is also fifteen years old this year. Sister Anna took the opportunity to test his magic talent and found that her brother Browick is equally qualified to learn magic, although his magic talent is not very remarkable.

In his diary, Master Landers said that Elemental Affinity and Spirituality 7 to 8 represented an excellent magical gift, but the result of his sister's test of Little Booker was Elemental Affinity 7 and Spirituality 6, which was a number between excellent and qualified. Considering that Master Landers was 12 years old and his younger brother, Little Booker, was 15 years old, it was clear that if Little Booker was 12 years old, his magic talent test would only be between five and six years old, only qualified and not excellent.

Sister Anna wrote that if little Brooke wasn't interested in magic, then pretend she didn't know anything. It would be hard to learn magic with his magical talents anyway. Unfortunately, she was a little too excited to find out that her little brother, Brooke, had a magical gift, so that his brother knew she could do magic, and now he was haunting her to learn. It's just that she's worried that her brother's heart is too jumpy, that learning magic will go out and show off, and then bring a disaster to her family. So my sister Anna was very embarrassed and asked Claude what to do in the letter, whether to let Little Booker learn magic.

Claude dropped the letter and thought back to his late father, Mr. Morsan, and his ill mother. It is certain that the father, Mr. Morsan, and the mother should actually have an extraordinary gift of magic, so that the children born also have their own gift of learning magic. Unfortunately, the father and mother didn't know that, and that big brother Albert, who hadn't been home in years, wasted his magical gift.

Claude once saw a piece of literature in the stone cave library left behind by the teenage sorceress Sheila's mother to the effect that both husband and wife were wizards, so most of their first children were born with a magical gift, but whether it was good or bad was uncertain. If they continue to have children, it's hard to say if the second third child has a magical gift. The better the magical talent of both spouses, the better the magical talent of the first child, but the magical talent of the next child will gradually diminish.

According to this literature, Claude can be sure that both parents of his body possess extraordinary magical talents, so Claude, his sister Anna, and his younger brother, Little Booker, all possess magical talents. You know, Claude and sister Anna are just dicks, and their magic talent, though untested, is certainly excellent, and only little brother Brooke's magic talent begins to diminish.

If his big brother Albert had learned magic, perhaps his magical gift could be described as genius. It's just that he doesn't have this opportunity. At this age, his magical gift is useless. He can no longer touch this secret magical world. He can only live his ordinary life without doing anything...

In fact, there is no shortage of genius in any world, except that they are not given the opportunity they can play, or that they are simply not aware of their genius. In a dusty world, they are easily erased from their corners and become one of the countless mortals.

Claude decided to give his brother Little Booker a chance to learn magic, and he replied to his sister Anna in secret, telling her not to teach her Little Book meditation first. Instead, give him the magic recipe and the diary of the Landers magician, and let Little Booker translate the magic recipe and the contents of the two diaries in Gukherz first. Give him a year, and it's not too late to teach him magic if his personality becomes steady and thinkable.

Little Brooke's magical gift is not very good, so the key to learning magic is whether he has the heart and perseverance. If you can stand loneliness, even if it takes longer, there will always be a day to become a five-ring magician. As for going further, Claude had never thought that it was not a question of insistence, but rather a massive amount of magical resources that would be required to become a six-ring magician at great risk.

Sheila's mother wrote on a hand tag that more than 600 years ago, since the magician was expelled from Farea, she had never heard of anyone who could be promoted to a six-circle magician. Even the knowledge of how to be promoted to a six-circle magician was not clear to many magicians. Even on Higros Island, a number of new magicians have always thought that a five-ring magician is the culmination of a magician.

This is also the main reason why Sheila's mother insisted on digging up a magical relic that had not been discovered on the continent of Nubicia, preferring to leave the young Sheila alone on the side of the witch forest. Only after becoming a four-five ring magician will the magician spark further hope to pursue and explore more magical mysteries...

Maybe Claude can take another look at his brother, Little Book, on his next family visit to see if his heart can learn magic.

Claude looked at the lettering on the paper and disappeared one by one. After the paper was blank again, he placed another blank piece of paper on top of the paper, changed a bottle of ink, and started writing officially to his family.

First they told them that they had just returned from a mission, now they had received a letter, were happy to be a father, cared about the body of their younger mother, Kevin, and wished them a happy New Year. Claude also told them that he had been promoted to Major and that mothers, sisters and younger brothers were now entitled to national status.

As long as the sister is unmarried, the younger brother is a minor, and she is an acting parent of the Fields family, the immediate family members with whom she has blood ties will receive national treatment, such as a one-third tax exemption in the family forest farm each year, and a half reduction in taxes on street shops in the new row of two-story houses in the family. These tax exemptions, although small, are also a symbol of identity. At the very least, something has bothered the executive branches of White Deer City, and none of the blind civil servants has been pushed out as casually as they treat civilians.

And the banquets and dances held by senior people in White Deer City can invite their mothers, sisters and Kevin to join them. Of course, that's just saying, as Claude's wife, though she's a national, she never likes to go to these banquets or anything. However, Claude would like her sister to attend, after all, she is in her twenties, maybe attend these banquets or something to meet an outstanding young Junjie, so as to solve her lifelong problems...

Claude told his family in a letter that at the end of this year he was unable to take time off to go home, wondering if he could make two months of family visit leave in the second half of next year. But the first half of next year, after finishing the military academy training, I immediately went to the newly formed Ranger Corps and wondered if I could make this vacation. Claude said he missed his family and his precious son he had never met. He was just throwing himself into the army and not free. He could only wish his family happiness and well-being in silence, without worrying about himself...

Upon promotion to Major, the school's logistics department will send personnel to White Deer City to complete the process of elevating the Claude family to national status, which will allow this examined letter to be sent directly to Claude's family. The officers sent back at the end of December brought another letter to Claude.

The letter said that it was gratifying to receive a letter from Claude, and that for more than two months without Claude's message, everyone was worried that the only consolation was that the letter that had been sent had not been returned with the seal of no such person. I'm relieved to know that Claude went out on a mission and didn't receive a letter, especially knowing that Claude was happy when he was promoted to Major...

The letter also had a secret letter from sister Anna. The sister said that her brother, Little Booker, would do as Claude said. She would keep an eye on Little Booker and let him learn Gukherz. If he could not do this, he would have died before he could learn magic.

At the same time, the sister was pleased that she, her brother and mother had all been treated with national identity in the letter, but was very dissatisfied with Claude's statement in the letter that she and Kevin had been asked to take her to a banquet to meet young talents to solve lifelong problems. She did not expect to marry, even said that if possible, she would prefer to be alone and be involved in the magical mystery exploration...

Claude could only laugh bitterly, and her sister expressed her anger to him in a confidential letter, because if she dared to write in the letter, she would be nagged by her mother for three days and two nights, so she could only express her anger at Claude's dog for taking rats and minding her own business. But think about my sister, who is only 21 years old, there is no need to rush for a lifetime of big things, not later than a few years.

On December 30, the military academy hosted a grand New Year's Eve party, attended by General Michelchi, and joined all officers and soldiers of the academy in welcoming the arrival of the New Year. Lieutenant Colonel Skerry whispered to Claude that after the training at the military academy, General Michelch would relinquish his position as general instructor of the military academy and become the first division leader of the Ranger Division...