In the second round of the Imperial Elite Academy Tournament, the Blood Academy eliminated the Steel Rock Academy with a score of 3:1, becoming the second team after the Death Academy to enter the next round.

One point was lost because of the loss of the third five-man team battle.

In the team battle, the Blood Academy still sent the same lineup as the previous round, but the opponent made a targeted arrangement, and the five people who appeared included an earth magician.

When the earth magician came up, he unleashed the "Earth Sudden Thorn", and the pillars of earth stabbed from the feet of Becky separated the people, so that they could no longer form a concentrated attack. At this time, the weakness of the team's defense was exposed, because of the lack of adequate protection, Witt and Allen were unable to fight back after being close to each other.

In a three-on-five situation, the captain of the field, Becky, decisively conceded defeat.

In the third lost game, Becky won back in the fourth solo battle on her own, allowing the audience to once again see the power of this little girl with a double cultivation of the wind system.

Strachage was very happy with the result of the match, and the Blood Academy won the first duel with the Holo Kingdom, which made him very face-saving.

That night, the Blood Academy received the King's Commendation Order and a separate promotion to Arthur at the Post House, promoting Viscount Arthur to Earl. and carved out a viscount of the Earldom of Milne next to Arthur's territory to his eldest son, and the rest of the territory was canonized to Arthur.

Although the kingdom has a tradition of giving students who enter the top four colleges to participate in the competition, the ceremony is generally presided over by the king after returning to China to show the prestige of the kingdom. Now that Arthur is knighted alone, what does His Majesty Straggy mean?

In any case, this news will inevitably cause an uproar in the entire wealthy aristocratic circle, and within two years, he will be promoted to four levels in a row, and this Arthur may soon become the youngest powerful marquis in the kingdom after Keno, which can be described as a step to the sky.

Arthur was not in the inn at this time, so Professor Ogu could only send Golly to Joan's palace to secretly call Arthur back to the inn to be crowned.

For Arthur's safety, Joan insisted on following Arthur back to the inn. On the way, Joan was still joking with Arthur, "I wonder if you are Streich's bastard, otherwise how would he think so highly of you?"

Arthur didn't say a word, but there was no trace of joy on his face, because he had learned what imperial power was once when he was canonized for his previous military exploits, and this time he canonized himself alone for no reason, and the matter was by no means as simple as it seemed on the surface.

The truth is exactly as Arthur guessed. The chief chamberlain, who had come to issue the decree on behalf of the king, had read it to Arthur in person, and then asked the others to recuse himself, saying that the king had a few words to convey to Arthur alone.

When Arthur and the chief chamberlain were the only ones left in the room, the chief chamberlain took out a sealed scroll of the king's secret decree from his bosom and gave it to Arthur himself.

Arthur unfolded, and the secret order was written by Strachey himself. The handwritten letter is divided into two sections, one in which Streich expresses his love for Arthur's talents and encourages Arthur to continue to defend the honor of the kingdom. The other section is the main point, but it gives Arthur a secret mission, requiring Arthur to stay with Joan for a moment before leaving the imperial capital, and report Joan's location in real time.

Arthur was completely confused, he had guessed that there might be other meanings behind His Majesty's knighthood, but he couldn't guess why the king had let him spy on Joan.

Arthur also fell into hesitation, if he betrayed his friend Arthur might not hesitate to refuse, now he just let himself secretly watch, can he refuse? Can he bear the consequences of refusal? provoke the gods and the Church of Light, he still has the Blood Glory Academy to accommodate, if he angers Streich, is there still a place for him in the Isaac Kingdom?

"His Majesty's secret order, Earl Arthur, have you finished reading it?" the voice of the chief chamberlain sounded at this moment.

Arthur snorted.

"Then please ask the Earl to seal the secret order and return it to the old slave. ”

Arthur handed the secret order to the chief chamberlain.

After the chief attendant took it, a flame directly ignited in his hand, and the secret order was directly turned into ashes. Then he took out a small golden magic token from his bosom, "Your Majesty said that after the earl reads the secret order, let the old slave give this token to the earl, and the earl will naturally understand the meaning." ”

Arthur, as a magician, instantly guessed the function of this magic token, and I am afraid that as long as he directly enters a little magic power into the token, his location will be displayed on someone else's magic map, and the purpose of reporting Joan's location will naturally be achieved.

Arthur hesitated, but took the magic token from the steward.

Under the royal power, he was powerless to resist at all.

......

North City, the palace of His Royal Highness.

A middle-aged man with a gloomy face was whispering to Alex about the information in the imperial capital in recent days.

Alex interrupted the man's words impatiently, "I'll talk about irrelevant things later, what I'm most concerned about now is who the emperor has met and what he has said in the past two days?"

"In the past two days, the emperor summoned Timothy, the king of Holo, and Nuatos, the king of Luge, respectively, because he met the emperor alone, and only Aru was alone, and no one else knew what they talked about. ”

"It's all this time, hasn't the emperor revealed a little bit of the news?" Alex's face was full of bitterness.

"Although we can't get information from our channels in the palace, His Majesty Timothy took the initiative to send us a message. ”

Alex's eyes lit up suddenly, "What does the intelligence say?"

"His Majesty Timothy said that when he met with the Emperor, the Emperor took the initiative to mention the matter of the throne and asked for his opinion on His Highness, His Highness the Second Highness, and His Highness the Eleventh. ”

Alex was slightly stunned, "After the seventh is out, the two of us are fighting for this storage position, why did Joan suddenly pop up?"

The middle-aged man smiled coldly, "Your Highness is in the bureau and doesn't know it, who has the advantage in this battle for the storage position is for us outsiders to guess the emperor's thoughts, but the so-called people's hearts are difficult to guess, and who the storage position will eventually pass on depends on the emperor's thoughts." ”

"Joan has not been in Anantis all these years, and she has no foundation in the court or the army, how can she serve the people if she inherits the throne?"

The middle-aged man said thoughtfully: "Has Your Highness thought about it, although His Highness Eleventh does not have any foundation, although it is his weakness, but it is also the biggest advantage from another angle, and it has no interest with any faction in the court, if any faction in the court and the prince will not strongly oppose it." As for the foundation, the emperor is the biggest foundation of the dynasty, as long as the emperor's body can be delayed for another two or three years, it will remove any obstacles for the prince to ascend the throne. ”

Alex was completely stunned at this time, and muttered: "I thought I was fighting with the second child, but in the end, I am afraid that I will have to make a wedding dress for Joan." ”

The middle-aged man said in a cold voice: "The matter is not a foregone conclusion, I hope His Highness will make up his mind as soon as possible!"