After thinking it through, Raine returned to the inn and took off his gear.
Next, he planned to go to the association's backyard. The abrupt change in his physique still needed to be slightly disguised. He quickly put on a loose linen shirt and stepped out again.
Although Raine came to the association's backyard in as loose a linen long-sleeved shirt as possible, Liya quickly noticed something different about Raine.
"Raine, why do I feel like you're getting stronger?" Liya said, sizing Raine up and down in curiosity.
"Haha, maybe it's just the age for building muscle." Raine chuckled.
"Well, it could be. This is just the right age for growing strong. By the way, why are you here today? Do you want to continue learning the one-handed sword?" Liya nodded and inquired.
Because she clearly remembered that Raine had completed a month of basic training, mastering spear stabbing and shield block.
"I want to find Tutor Humbert to see if I can learn the warhammer." Raine spoke frankly to Liya.
"Learning the warhammer?" Liya's eyes widened with surprise upon hearing this.
After all, Tutor Humbert was famous for his stringent requirements for learning the warhammer.
Many young adventurers had been turned away by him.
Yet, seemingly due to sensing the change in Raine's physique, Liya hesitated but didn't say anything discouraging. Instead, she nodded, "Well, Raine, I wish you success."
"Thank you." Raine nodded and walked towards Tutor Humbert.
"Tutor!" Raine slightly bowed in greeting.
"You are... Raine." Humbert had some impression of Raine, considering his good performance during previous practices.
After all, there were always many people coming and going in this place, with quite a few new young people arriving every month and others leaving, thinking themselves accomplished.
"Tutor, I came this time wanting to learn the warhammer from you. I'm willing to undergo your test."
"Hmm?" Hearing Raine's words, Humbert couldn't help but take a more serious look at him.
After all, the young man before him had trained under him for a month, showing diligence, and Humbert believed he wouldn't speak without basis.
He must have at least some confidence to approach him with this request.
"Hmm? You?"
With a closer examination, Humbert immediately noticed the change in Raine's physique.
Even though Raine did some disguising, Humbert could spot many details that revealed the improvement in Raine's physical attributes.
"Hmm, go give it a try, pick up the warhammer with one hand, and strike the bell on the wall." Humbert nodded.
He was also a bit curious, as the young man before him seemed to have changed significantly.
"Yes, Tutor."
At this moment, the conversation between Humbert and Raine caught the attention of nearly thirty young trainees present, just like that day.
They all paused their actions and focused their gaze on Raine as he walked towards the heavy hammer.
The plain and simple heavy hammer placed in the corner of the field was known to be very heavy.
All the young people present, whether new or old, had secretly tried it when Humbert wasn't around.
Basically, only a few could lift it.
But the challenge was, lifting it was just the first step.
Raine crouched slightly, grasping the hammer handle with one hand, and this time was different from the last.
Just by holding the handle, Raine felt an instinctive sensation.
It was as if he had a natural familiarity with the warhammer he was gripping.
Though it was far from being as natural as flexing a muscle, it was as if the feel of gripping a warhammer from the past remained in his hand.
With a slight bulge of muscles in Raine's arm, he effortlessly lifted the seventy to eighty-pound warhammer.
"Oh, he lifted it."
"It looked easy! Do you think he can do it?"
"I don't know, it's the second step that's hard."
Raine stood up and looked at the small bell hanging on the wall about two meters high.
The requirement for the second step was to lightly strike the bell's edge without damaging it or scratching the wall.
This couldn't be done by brute force alone.
And the second step was what stopped most young people who came to learn the warhammer.
Raine's triceps swelled, the muscles in his forearm tensed, and the warhammer, glinting with a dull metallic sheen, swung over his head.
"Ding!"
As a gray shadow flashed by, the bell emitted a crisp sound.
"He actually succeeded!"
"Oh my god! He didn't damage the bell or scratch the wall. He really did it!"
"That was amazing!"
The young people in the backyard were suddenly excited, whispering to each other.
He really did it....
Liya watched the scene of Raine swinging the warhammer to strike the bell and sighed inwardly.
And at the moment Raine swung the warhammer, Humbert's eyes narrowed slightly.
He knew that there should be no problem with the young man before him.
With the ringing of the bell, Humbert couldn't help but reflect, indeed, humanity is the race with the greatest individual differences.
"Raine, come with me."
With that, Humbert turned and left the courtyard, heading towards a room further inside.
"Okay, Tutor."
Raine immediately put down the warhammer and followed Humbert.
Humbert opened the door to a room in the backyard, and Raine followed him in, only then realizing that it was an independent indoor training room.
Judging by the arrangement of weapons and the iron-and-wood dummies around, it seemed to be Humbert's own training room.
"Raine, do you know why I set such a threshold for learning the warhammer?"
"Well..."
Raine had thought about this question for a long time.
It was clear that Humbert was not about making money, if he wanted to, he could easily double, triple the tuition, even increase it tenfold for the warhammer.
But Raine believed that even then, the number of people learning the warhammer here wouldn't be small.
"Is it to protect the reputation of the dwarf warhammer?" Raine thought for a moment and said.
This was the only reasonable explanation he could think of.
"No. Not everyone who uses a warhammer in this world inherits it from the dwarves, many have their own independent lineages, and using a warhammer poorly wouldn't tarnish the dwarves' reputation." Humbert shook his head.
"Then why?" Raine couldn't help but ask, his curiosity and confusion growing.
"Because of the subsequent paths of the classes." Humbert revealed the mystery.
Hmm?
Classes' paths?
Raine's eyes widened slightly, feeling a surge of excitement.
He never expected Humbert to actively bring up the topic of classes.
He originally thought that after becoming more familiar with Humbert, he could subtly inquire about classes, or at least matters related to the warrior class.
The situation before him was indeed a pleasant surprise.
So, Raine immediately pressed on, "What do you mean?"
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