With an uneasy heart, Ellin followed behind Arkz, already mourning for what was about to happen to her in a few minutes.
Arkz usually appeared gentle, but once he entered training mode, he became very strict. Coupled with the stamina potion and a large meal that had healing effects, there was absolutely no need to worry about Ellin getting injured during training, so Arkz showed no mercy whatsoever while training.
However, what puzzled Ellin was that Arkz did not take her to the usual training grounds inside the farm. Instead, he led her to the abandoned fence near the edge of the farm.
When Arkz took over the farm, it had already been desolate for a long time, and the original wooden fence had long since rotted and broken, completely failing to protect the farm.
Fortunately, the wooden people patrolled normally, and now with A Qiu helping to stand guard, there was no need to worry about the farm being ambushed by wild boars and Hilichurls, ruining the planted crops.
But these rotten wooden fences remaining here were indeed unsightly. Moreover, fences could inhibit the growth of weeds, so Arkz planned to beautify and renovate the farm while training Ellin.
This is called achieving both training and farming simultaneously!
Seeing Ellin with a head full of question marks, Arkz pointed at the rotten wooden fences.
"Today's training mission is to repair the fence!"
"Go, pull out all these rotten fences first!"
Although this method of exercise sounded somewhat unreliable, after getting along for such a long time, Ellin had developed a high degree of trust in Arkz. Therefore, even though she didn't understand, she obediently went to execute the task.
Under the scorching sun, Ellin, wearing 20 kilograms of weight, had to perform heavy physical labor like digging out fences. Her stamina was rapidly depleted, and she was mentally tormented.
Anyone who has done farm work knows that to build a good enclosure for a farm, the fence must be deeply driven into the soil. This prevents the embarrassing situation where it can be knocked open by a slight push from a wild boar.
Therefore, pulling out a fence deeply embedded in the ground was not an easy task.
Soon, Ellin was panting, covered in sweat, and her stamina was almost completely exhausted. However, whenever she felt she had reached her limit, she would stop to take a sip of the stamina potion. This self-awareness made Arkz very relieved.
Arkz felt that even without his help in training, with this terrifying self-awareness, Ellin would eventually successfully join the Knights of Favonius.
As for Ellin cheating by quickly replenishing her stamina with the stamina potion to slack off, causing the training to be ineffective, Arkz didn't worry at all. This was because, to prevent Ellin from secretly drinking the stamina potion out of gluttony, he had deliberately made the taste of the stamina potion very strange.
The taste was absolutely at a level where after taking one sip, you would never want another.
Therefore, Arkz didn't worry about Ellin secretly drinking the stamina potion. Either she was tired to the extreme, or even if he held her nose, she wouldn't willingly swallow a drop of the stamina potion!
While Ellin was training hard, Arkz was not idle either.
He was taking advantage of the time Ellin was pulling out fences to train his Geo Element control.
Condensing Geo-attribute creations using Geo Elemental Power is the most basic ability of every geo vision holder. It is similar to Ningguang's Jade Screen or Zhongli's stone pillars, or Arataki Itto's Chocolate bar—all of which were developed based on this initial step.
Take Zhongli's constructed'Stone Stele' for example. It's an ordinary stone pillar decorated with complex and exquisite patterns, but this single skill proves his superb control over the Geo Element. Not to mention that he also endowed the'Stone Stele' with abilities like resonate, shield, and area DMG—it's simply exaggerated.
Arkz's current goal was to imitate Zhongli's'Stone Stele' and create a few Geo pillars for his own farm to serve as the farm's fence!
For the sake of the farm's aesthetics, Arkz also tried hard to manipulate the Geo Elemental Power to sculpt various exquisite and unique shapes while creating these Geo fences. This way, his Geo Element control ability would skyrocket.
Just then, Ellin staggered over.
"Uncle!"
"All the wooden fences have been pulled out!"
"So fast?" Arkz leaned in to look. It turned out that because the wooden fences were already decayed, Ellin had chosen to strike with full force, shattering the above-ground parts of the wooden fences directly with her iron fists, while the underground parts were simply dug out.
Due to a long period without maintenance, these wooden fences were not as sturdy as expected.
Arkz nodded, expressing his approval of Ellin's efficiency.
"See that pile of Geo pillars over there?"
"Smash them into the ground and use these Geo pillars to surround the farm!"
Ellin picked up a Geo pillar from the ground and examined it carefully. Seeing the rough carvings on it, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Hahaha, Uncle, you didn't hire an apprentice to carve these stone pillars for you just to save money, did you!"
"Look at this monkey, it's carved so ugly."
"Such good material, what a waste!"
Hearing Ellin's evaluation of his 'meticulously' carved work, Arkz immediately felt embarrassed and annoyed:
"Go away, go train!"
"What do you know, you little brat? This is called art!"
Ellin stuck out her tongue at Arkz, made a face, and then 'quickly' fled while carrying the stone pillar.
Arkz quietly walked over, picked up the stone pillar Ellin had dropped on the ground, and carefully examined the monkey carved on it.
It really did look quite ugly!
Forget it, remelt and recast!
Arkz immediately waved his hand, destroying all the stone pillars on the ground, and began carving new stone pillars.
Arkz planned to carve the twelve Chinese zodiac animals on these pillars, striving with all his might to make each animal look lifelike.
Unexpectedly, in less than a moment, Ellin ran back holding a pile of rubble.
Seeing Arkz's confused gaze, Ellin said awkwardly: "I used too much force when smashing these stone pillars into the ground!"
"All these stone pillars shattered!"
Arkz looked at the pile of debris in Ellin's arms, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly. After putting on this light armor, the force of Ellin's punches had increased. It wouldn't have been as easy for her to shatter these stone pillars before.
Arkz rubbed his forehead, pondered for a moment, then summoned a giant rock. Afterward, he handed her a carving knife.
"Carve this rock into anything you want. The more exquisite and detailed the carving, the stronger your control over your strength will become!"
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