Thor didn't wake up from his sleep until the middle of the night, feeling so heavy that his shoulders looked like they were filled with lead, and he looked much more tired than he had imagined. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

His head was groggy and unconscious, he had several dreams, but when he woke up, he forgot all of them, which made him feel very hard in his sleep, and he couldn't really relax his tired body and mind.

"Have you been thinking too much lately—" Rubbing his eyes, Thor propped himself up on his hands, and beneath him was a pile of soft, dry grass, and when he had finished writing his letter to Miss Conrad, he lay down and fell asleep in the interval.

At this time, Thor half-squinted, leaned against the cold stone wall behind him, slowly sat up, and as soon as he moved, he heard an excited shout from the side:

"Lord Thor—you're awake. The torch in the middle of the room provided light to the room, and Thor didn't need the light to tell who was in front of him.

The two candle-like eyes glowing red in the darkness were no one but kobolds.

Ketuma was also wrapped around a bandage of cloth on his shoulder blades, and he looked very energetic, and he gathered around Thor in the room, except for the sound of snoring one after another, except for the sound of "hissing" kobolds' tails dragging back and forth on the ground, sweeping hay.

"Shhhh

"Don't wake up Morey—" Obviously, Morey and the others must have been very busy during the time he had slept, and now Thor didn't want to disturb their rest because he woke up.

"Oooh-" Ketuma lowered her voice and barked twice like a puppy.

"Lord Thor—you saved Ketuma's life—" The kobold seemed to have been by Thor's side since he woke up, as if to say something to him.

It had only said a word and became agitated, and its voice became high-pitched again, and there was a heavy turning sound from the partition beside it, and Ketuma hurriedly paused, took a deep breath, and then continued to whisper to Thor:

"Ketuma doesn't know how to repay you - though he's just a kobold living in the sewers...... But Ketuma - willing to repay you in any way, Lord Thor!"

"yes, I see. Thor used his hand to stop the kobold from speaking excitedly again, and looked at Ketuma calmly.

"Then how about you stay with me and be my subordinate from now on?" the corners of his mouth turned up, and Thor looked at the other with a smile.

He had already seen the kobolds in the sewers, and he was definitely a first-class swordsman, if he wasn't unprepared for a sneak attack, the warrior called "Jason" might not be Ketuma's opponent, and Thor was of course very willing to recruit such a subordinate.

"Subordinates ......" Ketuma looked at Thor in a daze, as if he had forgotten to speak.

"You see, I'm not very far from here, and I have a small territory. Thor scratched his head, not knowing whether the other party was willing or unwilling, so he tried his best to tempt:

"If Ketuma doesn't mind not being baptized by the church, I can make Ketuma my knight—" Then he said with some embarrassment:

"Although it may not give you a large piece of land or a manor or anything - we don't have these things there. ”

"Knight...... "Knight " Ketuma muttered to himself, as if he had lost his soul.

"But—but there will definitely be in the future, and I'm sure there will be these things in the future—" Thor hurriedly added, and he smiled bitterly, what did he say, no fiefdom, no baptism, and what would he say to let someone else be his knight?

"Can Ketuma really be a knight of Lord Thor!" However, unexpectedly, the kobold seemed to remember the word knight, and his eyes, which were originally as red as candles, now looked like a burning torch.

The expression on his face was palpable in a desperate longing even in the dimly lit room, which held its small paws in front of its chest, as if in disbelief at Thor's words, and then scratched at the ground, and finally grabbed its long knight's acpier.

"Uh- of course, but like I said, maybe a lot of the rituals aren't supposed to be...... I'm not from the Wotan continent either......"

"Ketuma...... Ketuma can finally become a knight!" the kobold excitedly stretched out his paws and put them on Thor's hand, his slender rattail sweeping back and forth, showing his irrepressible joy.

"Suo...... From now on, Lord Thor, I'm ...... Am I your guardian knight?"

Thor looked at the kobold with an extremely serious expression, and couldn't bear to tell him that a true knight must make a vow before the priest or bishop of the Church of Light and be baptized before he can obtain a fief and become a glorious knight.

"But......" After a moment of silence, Thor smiled and said affirmatively to Ketuma, "Of course!"

The barbarians from the Corner had never trusted the God of Light, and Thor didn't care about the so-called oaths witnessed by the gods, could the gods stop people from breaking their oaths?

Hearing Saul's answer, Ketuma was about to faint with happiness, and it remembered what the teacher had said to him:

"As long as you persevere—keep the way of chivalry, even if it's a kobold, I'm sure there will be people who can appreciate Ketuma. ”

"Teacher...... At last, someone was willing to accept Ketuma—" It muttered in its mind, then clenched its long knight's sword, and knelt on one knee before Thor with the sword in his hand, as a human knight did.

"Suo...... Lord Thor - Ketuma...... Certain...... I will defend you and all that you hold dear—" It suddenly became clumsy, full of things to say, but did not know which one to say, and finally had to abandon the embellishment of rhetoric and express its most straightforward heart.

"Then please, Ketuma—" Thor laughed and lifted the kobold up with his big big hands, this simple kobold was really very likable, especially since he still had a fairly reliable skill, and it was hard for Thor not to be happy that he had obtained such a knight.

Then a new question came to his mind: "Ketuma - are you the leader of the other kobolds in the sewers?"

Ketuma was stunned for a moment, still immersed in the joy of becoming a knight, and for a moment could not think about other questions, but replied according to Saul's words:

"Because Ketuma fights very well, the rest of the clan listens to Ketuma, but the sewers are huge, and Ketuma's people are just a small kobold. ”

"So there are kobolds from other tribes?" Thor lowered his voice again, so as not to wake the others, in fact, even if Ketuma was so excited just now, he had been trying to restrain his tone, and the snoring in the room was not afraid to wake the others.

"Hmm-" Ketuma nodded, not understanding why Lord Thor would suddenly ask this.

"And how many kobolds are there in your community?"

Pulling and pulling his fingers, Ketuma thought seriously, he was a knight of Lord Thor, and every task must be completed flawlessly for the sake of glory.

"About 500 ......"

Thor's heart moved, five hundred-that's the labor of five hundred kobolds, although kobolds are small in stature, and rarely do outdoor work, but isn't his own mine in the corner of the cliff suitable for them to live in?

Besides, since they can survive in the sewers, the food on the cliff corners should be enough to support their supply, but the management is ......

Thor fell into deep thought, and after a moment he looked at Ketuma, who was fiddling with the two small horns on his head, and said:

"Ketuma - would you like to try to change the living conditions of your people?"

"Huh?" the kobold didn't understand Thor's words.

"I mean, maybe you can let them live in my realm - there's a deep, dark cavern there, and I think your people will love it. ”

"Is this—really!?" said Ketuma, whose paws trembled with excitement, and he almost couldn't make out the familiar lingua franca, and asked Thor in a trembling voice:

"Is it not only Ketuma - but also the people who live in the sewers - can they also go to Lord Thor's territory?"

"Absolutely. Thor smiled satisfactorily again.