When Perfikot woke up from her slumber, it was already the next day. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by novᴇlfire.net
The good news was that the snow had finally stopped, but the half-meter thick snow cover still kept Perfikot from smiling.
Perfikot and her assistants weren’t the only ones at the Eagle’s Beak Cliff camp; members of the Knight Order, now named the White Bear, were diligently clearing the snow within the camp.
Perfikot was quite invested in this Knight Order.
She combined her military training knowledge from her original world and her parents’ legacy research on human transmutation to design a set of promotion ceremonies and training methods specifically for them.
The training method was fairly ordinary, mostly simple military training courses Perfikot encountered before transmigrating, yet for this era, it still counted as very advanced knowledge.
After all, while anatomy had made some progress and development in this era, understanding of the human body was still very limited.
Traditional knight training methods were still based on experiential summaries like most disciplines and technologies in this world, lacking any systematic and scientific foundation.
With Perfikot’s training method, an ordinary person could reach the standard of becoming a formal knight within one to three years, surpassing the limits of the human body.
Do not underestimate this; it means Perfikot can train ordinary people into knights in batches, no longer reliant on the knight system and framework, where nurturing a qualified formal knight took at least ten years.
Of course, Perfikot’s training method only enhanced ordinary people’s physical fitness to the level of knights, while military knowledge and martial arts still required time accumulation for cultivation.
However, with Perfikot’s quantity training method, knights originally serving as grassroots officers could be turned into an abundant supply of ordinary soldiers, and no extensive emphasis on military knowledge and martial arts cultivation would be needed.
At worst, officers could be trained separately, with these expedited knights used as basic soldiers.
Compared with the training method, Perfikot specially designed the promotion ceremony, which was very powerful, involving a lot of human transmutation knowledge.
In this promotion ceremony, the person being promoted would consume an alchemy potion specially prepared by Perfikot and undergo a human transmutation adjustment.
During this process, any dark injuries resulting from prior training would be repaired, and any parts of the body with poor development or deformities would be corrected.
In short, it’s somewhat akin to Perfikot’s own perfect life transmutation, though not as comprehensive—more of a simplified version.
Moreover, the effects weren’t immediate but required strict training with Perfikot’s designed training method over the coming year to achieve optimal results.
On one hand, this was to allow the promoted person’s body to develop more reasonably, given different exercise methods yield different results, and training can enhance the potion’s transformations, making them more practical.
On the other hand, it was also to avoid the Knight Association’s prohibition.
Even though Perfikot could now completely disregard the Knight Association, whether or not it existed in the future was another matter, but it was still a powerful organization that Perfikot did not want to provoke.
Perfikot currently had no experimental data on what effects this process would ultimately produce; after all, she had just taken charge of the Knight Order, and the relevant rituals had yet to formally commence.
But according to her calculations, she could at least guarantee that a knight who underwent this promotion ceremony could easily reach three times an ordinary person’s physical fitness after a year of training, with extraordinary individuals even reaching five times.
This was a terrifying figure, for even Perfikot’s old steward had only three times an ordinary person’s physical fitness before Perfikot treated him, and only when he broke through to a rank knight did this figure become seven times.
Though this was due to Foster’s old age and frailty, three times an ordinary person’s physical fitness was sufficient to match a newly breakthrough or aged and frail grand knight.
In other words, Perfikot could use four years to batch ordinary people into grand knights.
Combined with the steam knight armor she designed, a powerful military force was almost at her fingertips.
Even though cultivating such an armed force required a huge investment of costs, for the Northern Guardian who controlled the entire Northern Territory, it was still affordable.
Moreover, as the Northern Guardian, Perfikot did indeed need such a powerful armed force to tackle future potential issues.
That’s why she had already started nurturing the White Bear Knight Order, not only issuing steam knight armor to the ten grand knights in the order but also changing the training methods for all knight apprentices, aiming for them to quickly form combat power.
Currently, the morale and military spirit of this Knight Order were still fairly usable, and their allegiance had shifted from the Empire to the Northern Territory, becoming her direct subordinates, unlike the former imperial army.
Though not yet completely loyal to Perfikot, she had at least gained initial control over this team.
The rest was merely further capturing military spirit and replacing any hidden agents within the Knight Order.
Though Perfikot didn’t know how to handle these issues now, they were things she had to learn, so she intended to learn from the old steward once he finished handling matters with the guard troop, and then deal with the Knight Order herself.
As for now, she simply watched as they brought out several steam knights, leveraging the steam knight’s powerful output to clear the snow within the camp.
Despite having a unique architectural structure ensuring the entire Eagle’s Beak Cliff camp would remain unaffected even if buried by snow, clearing was still necessary.
Additionally, it was a form of training for these knights.
"Even accounting for the impact of this snowstorm, everything is proceeding according to my plan; now I can focus my energy on several research projects," Perfikot said, reaching out to touch her Eye of All-Seeing. Her dedication to her research was unwavering: "It’s just that there’s still a shortage of manpower. The maid dolls have to be used as nurses... Ai, still short of people!"
Perfikot sighed, sincerely hoping that in Langton, Eldest Princess Annie and that palace attendant could recruit sufficient manpower for her; otherwise, what could be achieved in the Northern Territory was already reaching its limit.