The promotion ceremony of this group of probationary knights was simpler than that of the canonization, but as the lord of this group of palace guard knights, the Marquis of Burgundy, Ivrea, personally sat on the iron seat of the main hall to participate in the promotion ceremony.

Art and six other trainee knights stood in the palace hall, and the other five seriously injured knights were attended by their attendants with heraldic banners, and the court herald used a pair of silver scissors to cut off the swallowtails on the heraldic flags for the twelve trainee knights, and the twelve who were promoted to knights half-knelt in front of the marquis and followed the heraldic officer to swear allegiance to the Marquis of Ivrea, and the marquis personally rewarded each of the new knights with a pair of iron spurs, and then the court clerk read out the division of the seven new knights in front of the palace ministers who filled the hall.

In the evening, the court held a banquet for twelve people, but the marquis and most of the nobles did not attend the banquet, partly because the protagonists of the banquet were only a small group of knights, and it was not worth their personal attendance. On the other hand, it is also because the palace giants are now troubled by the war in the east, and they really have no energy.

Art just took Ron and Angus to show their faces at the dinner and left, because the knight Dean, who has become Art's rival in life and death, has blocked Art everywhere, and he has many "friends" in the court, so naturally there are many small magnates who have isolated Art with Dean.

On the morning of the second day, the court clerk sent to the camp of Yat to deliver the canonization of the knights of the palace guard and the knights of the knights issued by the Marquis of Ivrea, and after receiving the documents, Yat went to bid farewell to the Earl Balwyn, the vice-minister of the court, and rushed to Lucsin with a dozen cavalry.

"Master, that guy Dean is embarrassing you everywhere, and when we get back to Tignac, we'll definitely find a chance to beat that bastard to death." On the way to Lucesine, Ron said to Art, who was driving his horse.

Art replied disapprerovingly: "What's the use of beating him, I will make him remember the name Art firmly and never forget it."

"My lord, didn't you see Dean's look of wanting to tear us apart, if he hadn't known that we had brought a dozen elite soldiers, he would have dared to lead troops into the camp." Ever since Art was promoted to Knight, Angus changed his name to Art.

"Sergeant Major, I'm not afraid that he will pounce like a wolf, after all, I am a knight now, and he has not yet dared to kill a new nobleman with a lord for no reason. But the wolf is easy to prevent poisonous snakes and difficult to hide, we have been poisonous snakes and know the danger of poisonous snakes. Art replied coldly.

"You're saying they might set a trap for you? Or is it against you? ”

"There is this possibility, since he can collude with the guild to seize our caravan goods, it is possible to do even more vicious things~ especially since I have formed an endless rivalry with him."

"Shall we strike first?" Angus raised his hand and made a motion to wipe his neck.

"Not for the time being, don't do these things without absolute certainty, now we are not in the enemy territory, our every move will be restricted by the royal law." Art rejected Angus's proposal, because now that he is a knight, he must have a bottom line, and this is not an enemy territory, and there are constraints everywhere.

"The best way to defeat your enemies is to make yourself stronger than your enemies. You two will always remember this sentence......" Art said as he gently clamped the horse's belly, and the horse under him felt the master's intention, and slowly accelerated the pace of galloping......

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On the afternoon of their departure from Besançon, the group arrived in Lucesin and spent the night in a hotel north of the city.

Early the next morning, Art took Ron to the Cathedral of Khwof, and instead of going directly to the church to visit Bishop Orlov, Art first found the deacon in charge of the church, who was in charge of the Holy Tribute, and donated a huge donation of 5,000 fennigs to the church, and he specially instructed the deacon to report the matter to Bishop Orlof only after he left the church.

With everything in order, Art took Ron to Bishop Orlov's office accompanied by a religious guard, who was already familiar with Art, and he kept asking Art about the war on the eastern border, apparently a guy who wanted to make a name for himself on the battlefield.

At the sight of Art, Bishop Orlov looked as kind as ever, and the luster on his face became more and more ruddy.

Orlov picked up Art, who was half-kneeling on the ground, put his hands on Art's shoulders and looked Yat up and down, and said with a smile: "Very good! Be able to return from the battlefield in one piece. ”

"Lord Bishop, it was the light of the Holy Lord that shone on me, or I would have died by the arrows fired by the enemy." With that, Art felt the cross that Bishop Orlof had given him hanging around his neck.

"Well, I already know about your heroic deeds in enemy territory from your letter. While many of your practices fall short of the traditional morality of knighthood, a clever hunter will never fight a wolf face to face. ”

"Child, you must always remember that you must learn to be half saint and half devil, to be as fierce as the devil in dealing with your enemies, and to be as merciful as a saint in your dealings with others." Bishop Orlof was a man who had returned from the Holy Land, and he knew that Art's tactics of war had been learned from pagans, and that Orlof was not a pedantic saint, so he was not disgusted by Art's endless "conspiracy" against the enemy.

"I made a note of it!" Art nodded heavily.

"Well, by the way, did the court give you a reward for your merits this time? I haven't received any news from the palace yet. In order to prevent the helpless Arter from being obliterated by the powerful ministers of the court, he wrote twice to the court vice-chancellor, Earl Balwin, hoping that he could help Arte fight for a fair treatment, which is precisely because of Art's own outstanding military exploits and Bishop Orlov's special advice, Earl Balwyn will try his best to fight for Yat in the court meeting, although this favor is mixed with the struggle between the two powerful people of Balwin and Bernard.

Art told Bishop Orlov, who had not yet received a report from the court of Besançon, that he had obtained a knighthood and two knightly fiefs.

"I didn't expect that the struggle between the various forces in the palace is so fierce now, and a meritorious warrior can't even get the most basic fair treatment." Bishop Orlov still regretted and resented that Art had not been awarded a decent knight's fief.

"You'll have to go back to that wooded valley eventually, but are you sure you can make that place a true knight's domain?" Orloff was still a little worried about Arte's plans, because Orloff had no idea what was going on in the barren valley.

"Lord Bishop, my father's bones are buried in that barren valley, and where the Wells family falls, I, Art, will rise up!" Art said firmly.

Bishop Orlov looked at Yat's determined eyes, drew a cross on his chest with his hands, and after a long time, asked, "Child, can I give you any help?"

"Thank you, Bishop, for your generosity, I have come here to report to you on my current situation and personally thank you for helping me several times, and I do want to ask you for two things." Art didn't want to be fooled in front of his father's best friend, and he knew that Bishop Orlof was genuinely willing to help him.

"Son, you say, if I can get busy, I will do my best." Orloff said.

"First of all, I now have my own knightly domain, and I have some peasant farmers and soldiers in my domain, who live with me in the wilderness, hoping that God's light will pierce through the jungle and barren valley and shine on every saint who believes in him. Therefore, I am going to build a chapel for the Lord in my knighthood, but I need a parish priest who is willing to pashop the saints for God, and if not, a priest who preaches the gospel of my Lord in my domain. Art planned to build a chapel in the valley, and instead of being forcibly assigned clergy by the church in the future, it was better to ask for the church to do so.

Bishop Orlof devoted his life to spreading the Gospel of God, and he would never refuse such an offer to find religious protection for the saints.

"This is a good thing to spread the gospel of God, and I will definitely help you with this favor. What's the second thing you're talking about? Orloff asked.

"Your Excellency, you must already know about the last time my caravan was seized in Besançon......

Art told Bishop Orlof in detail about his plan to build a territory and support the army by making money from commerce, and clarified the biggest problem encountered by the caravan at present, and he proposed that he hoped that the church behind Bishop Orloff would support his caravan, and in return Art was willing to donate one-twentieth of the caravan profits as the church's income for building churches, spreading the gospel, and relieving the congregation.

The second thing was not a matter of Bishop Orlov's words, and Bishop Orlof hesitated, but he finally agreed to carefully consider the second thing that Arte had proposed.

We talked for a long time in Bishop Orlov's office, and it was not until almost noon that Yat left the church with a letter written by Bishop Orlov himself, and came to the Seerankf Monastery with it......

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"What? Why let me go? At the Seelancofu Monastery, when the monk Hamish, who was wiping the floor of St. Gong's Church, learned that the abbot had sent him to a small church in a deserted valley that had been abandoned for hundreds of years to spread the gospel, he immediately refused.

The priest who delivered the order glanced at the guy in front of him in disgust and said, "Why? Just because you're only half a saint! ”

The monk, who was called "half a saint," was Hamish Matthew and was twenty-five years old. His father was a merchant, and his pagan mother died in childbirth because she gave birth to him, and his father could not accept that this little demon who had taken his mother's life at birth was considered to be God's punishment for him. So Hamish was thrown to the monastery by his father when he was five years old, and his father never appeared again, and he didn't know if his father was dead or alive, but he didn't care.

Hamish did not become a devout saint when he grew up, he was not a child of self-control, he always did naughty and debauched things when he was a child, either cutting off the hair of the monks, or stealing holy food, not only liked to play tricks on confessed saints, but also often went to the convent to peek at the nuns to change clothes, in the past twenty years he stayed in five or six monasteries (churches), but none of the monasteries could tolerate him for more than three years.

However, Hamish had the gift of being able to read the Bible by heart at the age of twelve, and by the age of sixteen he was able to memorize the entire Bible and write beautifully in Latin. It is precisely for this reason that so many monasteries (churches) are willing to pinch their noses to take in this guy.

The Monastery of Serankfer was the only place where he stayed for more than three years, because the former abbot of the abbey, now Bishop of Lucesen, Orloff, was a very tolerant man who took a fancy to Hamish's extraordinary talents for the Bible, magnanimously tolerated his shortcomings, and promoted him to deacon shortly after Hamish arrived at the monastery.

However, after Bishop Orloff was promoted to diocesan bishop, the new abbot was not so polite to this fellow, and after Hamish secretly ran to a hidden tavern in the city and was drunk and carried back to the monastery the previous week, the new abbot locked him up for two weeks, and then punished him to kneel in front of the icon and wipe the floor for a month. This kind of thing was a common occurrence for Hamish, and he was used to it.

However, when he heard that the abbot was planning to send him to be a priest in a barren valley on the southern border of the Count of Burgundy, he instinctively refused.

He immediately left the temple and went to the abbot's office to argue.

The abbot of the monastery received Hamish very rarely, and patiently persuaded him: "Hamish, this is what Bishop Orlov meant, and he said that let our monastery choose a young monk of great knowledge and extraordinary ability to go to his realm with a knight to spread the gospel of the Lord and bring the light of the Lord to the darkness. Is there a young monk in the whole monastery who is more knowledgeable than you? Therefore, after my counsel with the elders, I will send you. ”

Of course, Hamish would not agree, he had grown up in the abbey, he did not have much awe and affection for these creatures shrouded in holy light, and he knew with his toes that it was the abbot and the elders who wanted to take this opportunity to drive him out of the monastery and remove a scourge from the monastery.

"Abbot, you said this is what Bishop Orlof meant, did Bishop Orlof ask me to go by name?" Hamish wouldn't be so easily fooled.

"You!"

"Even if the bishop doesn't say it explicitly, can't I and the elders in the courtyard decide?" The dean was annoyed.

"Can't! When the Bishop left the monastery, he told me to devote myself to the study of the Bible and to understand the holy will, but I have not yet grasped the essence of the Bible and I cannot leave this place. "Hamish started playing scoundrels.

The abbot was a little powerless to deal with this guy, and after holding back for a long time, he still took a breath of relief, took out the prepared "candy", and said: "I have also discussed with the elders, if you are willing to go there, we will promote you to a parish priest!" A twenty-five-year-old parish priest, this is a miracle. ”

This "candy" is tempting enough for Hamish......

Eventually, Hamish agreed to the monastery's arrangement and agreed to go to the knightly area to become a parish priest.