Emaar is the captain of the third detachment of the Kingdom Knights of the Einsar Kingdom, and at the age of twenty-three, he has the strength of the third order and the twelfth level of the senior warrior. At the same time, there are nobles of the kingdom who have the title of viscount. Young, rich and powerful, he was inevitably jealous, so at the instigation of some people, Emaar had to take on a bizarre task - to find a slime-looking creature from a labyrinth, and capture or retrieve enough creature bodies.

For such a task, Emaar was originally reluctant to accept it. He is a knight of the kingdom, not an adventurer, and the soldiers of the kingdom are tools to defend the kingdom and not to profit for the great nobles. However, the king's offer made Emmaar unable to refuse, at least to be promoted to baron, and to marry him and the duke's daughter of his long-cherished desire. If that creature can be captured, it is not impossible to be promoted to the fifteenth duke of the kingdom. And the duke's daughter secretly revealed to her beloved man that this mission would not only be rewarded by the kingdom, but also more likely to be rewarded from the Atlantean Empire.

The news surprised Emaar a lot. Although the Kingdom of Einsar is stronger than the surrounding kingdoms and principalities, it is still a world of difference compared to the Atlantean Empire, and even if an earl in the Atlantean Empire arrives, His Majesty the King of the Kingdom has to greet him personally. Even some of the nobles of the Atlantean Empire, who were nominally like themselves, had more power than the kingdom. And this time the mission was actually connected to the Atlantean Empire, and judging from the news revealed by the duke's daughter, at least a nobleman at the level of an imperial duke sent someone to the kingdom. If you can successfully complete the mission, you will become a nobleman of the Atlantean Empire, even if it is just a lord. Then even if there is no marriage from the king, it will be enough for his future father-in-law, the Duke, to no longer refuse his marriage proposal on the pretext that he is only a promotion to the rank of viscount and too low.

For the sake of her own happiness and future, Emaar suddenly changed from a perfunctory attitude to an imperative.

Although the Knights of the Kingdom are directly under the jurisdiction of the King, in fact, the titular head of the Order, His Majesty the King, is never in charge. And the titular deputy head - Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess only advocates personal force, although he has the top eighteenth-level terrorist force in the mainland, it is a terrible mess in management, so that the entire Kingdom Knights are almost in a state of fragmentation. Fortunately, although Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is not good at management, she is very discerning in knowing people, and although the seven personally promoted team leaders are independent and have a lot of contradictions with each other, they are all loyal to the kingdom. Coupled with the overall deployment of Grand Duke Doma of the Logistics Department, even if it is in a state of fragmentation, the Kingdom Knights are still one of the strongest combat forces in the Kingdom.

Due to this divided state, after accepting the mission, even if he was fully mobilized, the only thing he could use was the 580 knights of the 3rd detachment, as well as 1,200 servants and the same number of coordinated infantry. This is the upper limit of the number of members of the Kingdom Knights, although the seven detachments have secretly supported their own adventurer teams as the reserve force of the detachments, but the powerful adventurers do not disdain to become the subordinates of others at all, and the people without strength even if they become the adventurer team, they can only do some ordinary work to provide additional income for the knight detachment, and the actual combat power is basically negligible. Of course, no matter how weak the strength is, it is still a team of adventurers, and in this mission, even if Emaar does not count on their combat ability, he can expect their skills and experience in maze exploration. Sometimes a good guide is far more useful than a strong team of soldiers.

Because it was an order from the Kingdom, Emaar could take almost all of the 3rd Detachment with him, and could pick up "whatever he thought was needed" from the Logistics Department. Therefore, it is rare to let go of the third detachment that received almost the entire amount of equipment supplies of the Knights, which makes Emaar sigh that with these alone, this mission has not been in vain. It also made the other six squad leaders grit their teeth and plan how to wait for Emaar to fall into the well after he failed, and let him spit out most of his stuff if he didn't die.

After knowing that Emaar was going to explore the labyrinth, the Grand Duke also specially transferred some lighting and fire equipment for the cave, as well as some infantry weapons that were more convenient for the cave to use. In addition, he secretly transferred ten heavy siege crossbows to Emaar. This huge mechanical crossbow, which requires more than ten people to operate, is a rare killer weapon in the kingdom, and it is enough to pierce through the iron city gate within 100 meters of a close shot, and can cause a large number of casualties from a distance of 100 meters. In a place like a cave maze, it can be easily killed against a fifteenth-level beast. With these ten siege crossbows in hand, Emaar is not to say that victory is in sight, at least he is absolutely self-protecting.

For Grand Duke Doma's overture, Emaar was very moved. Therefore, he did not hesitate to agree to the Grand Duke's request to share some combat power. At the same time, Emaar learns why the kingdom values the unknown creature so much.

A month ago, an adventurer returned from the depths of that labyrinth. Brought out some tissue that was supposedly taken from a large slime-like creature. Those jelly-like body tissues exude a very strong breath of life. Even after a week away from the creature, the tissues remained quite active. After several tosses, these tissues unexpectedly fell into the hands of Master Sandra, a famous life mage in the mainland. After the master's research, it was discovered that these body tissues can be formulated to prolong life after a series of concoctions. Less than one-tenth of the body tissue is capable of concocting a longevity elixir that prolongs life for nearly 50 years.

After this news was confirmed, it was immediately blocked by the great nobles. According to the adventurer, it was a giant creature that inhabited the fifth layer of the labyrinth, and the acquisition of these tissues had awakened the creature, and in order to obtain the body tissues, it was not only necessary to break into the fifth layer of the labyrinth, but also to find this huge creature that could be even more dangerous in the extremely dangerous labyrinth. And if the news were to be known to the adventurers, the powerful adventurers would definitely try to attack the creature and sell its body tissue at a high price.

The great nobles didn't mind spending money on it, but they could choose a more economical way to send troops in.

Sending an army, and sending an army that doesn't belong to you, even if the thousands of Emaar died in the labyrinth, as long as one person retrieved the biological tissue, it was far cheaper for these nobles to buy it from those powerful and terrifying adventurers. A small kingdom is just a detachment of knights, could the king of this kingdom still blame an imperial nobleman for this?

That's the real reason why Emaar was given this assignment. As for why Duke Doma was able to know so clearly, Emaar probably guessed it. A good old duke can sit in the fat position of the logistics department for so long, compared to the fact that there are people behind him who the king can't easily touch.