In the deepest part of Lingyun Park is a small castle, which is the residence of an honorary nobleman. It is rumored that this nobleman was born in a medium-sized kingdom of Luodi, and was the child of an adult and a Handi woman in a noble family in this medium-sized kingdom. Although he was born one level lower than those pure-blood nobles because of his bloodline, he was also higher than ordinary commoners because he had half of the noble blood, which is the origin of the honorary nobles, a class between nobles and commoners.

The men of these mixed-race nobles were destined to be warriors of the Salant Empire from birth, and they had to train and serve in the army. However, most of the mixed-race nobles will choose to return home after retiring from the army, and enjoy a good quality of life with nothing to do for the rest of their lives.

And the owner of this castle is not such a person, he is not willing to spend his life like this, and after seeing that his army can no longer develop, he does not choose to return to the kingdom where he was born. Instead, he applied to the newly established kingdom of Esther in Handi, because Esther was the first time in history that the empire had set foot in Luodi and established a kingdom on another continent. And he was also keenly aware of the profound meaning of the royal family's actions this time, because the Esther Kingdom turned out to be governed by the royal family himself.

You must know that for hundreds of years in the empire, the royal family was only nested in the central area of Luodi, and never opened up new territories. Although the kingdoms still treat the royal family with great respect, everyone knows that the authority of the royal family in the empire is very light. Most of the things were discussed and finalized by the parliament of the two kings of winter and summer and the king of the four directions, and the emperor of the empire only nodded and signed it in the end.

And this move is undoubtedly the royal family increasing their authority, which has been noticed by many well-intentioned people, and many young nobles who want to make a difference have poured into this newly built kingdom for a while. André is one of them, but unfortunately he is not as comfortable as he imagined after coming to the Kingdom of Esther, and he is not even taken seriously at all. Until now, three years have passed, and he has been nesting in the small castle arranged for him in Lingcheng, which is equivalent to being idle all the time.

This made André very dissatisfied, and he felt that he was living a wasted life every day. Especially the guy who also lives in this Lingyun Garden, why does he have the same honorary aristocratic status as him, so why does he have the same honorary aristocratic status as him? Even the city lord favored him, and in such an important competition, the formation of the team was also handled by this guy.

Andre sat in the spacious study in his castle at this time, holding the red wine glass, frowning slightly, and said softly: "Isn't it rich? No matter how rich you are, you can't change your identity as a Han person, even if your family is awarded the status of honorary nobles, there is an unbridgeable gap between you and those of us who have noble blood." ”

At this time, a young butler dressed delicately dressed knocked on the door and walked in, and Andre looked at his young butler and said, "How are those people training?"

"Back to the head of the family, they have trained very well. The young butler said with a slight bend.

"What level is good?" Andre said with a slight frown, "I don't like to hear such vague words, you know. ”

"Yes, Master. The young butler replied respectfully, "In my opinion, we have reached the basic standard of being able to participate in the competition. ”

"Basic standards?" said Andre, shaking his glass slightly, as if he was not very satisfied with such an answer. But then he nodded again and said, "But it's quite acceptable, after all, they haven't been exposed to these before, and it's very good to be able to reach such a level in such a short period of time." I guess the rabble that guy formed is just not up to the basic standards now, right?"

"And my subordinates have investigated, and there is still a person in the team over there who hasn't come to the training these days, so I'm afraid that there is some accident to quit, right?" said the young butler.

"Hahahaha, isn't that guy very good? Now he should know that this kind of competition is not something he can participate in, without professional training and guidance, these Handi buns are nothing. Andrei stood up with some excitement, walked back and forth in the study, and said, "It seems that I am going to find an opportunity as soon as possible to make that guy lose face, and by the way, take this errand back into my own hands." Originally, this kind of matter related to the interests of a city should be handed over to our nobles to be correct. The city lord and those high-ranking people are really rusty in their brains, and they actually handed over such an important matter to a Han man to do. ”

"Look, head of the family, do you want me to arrange it and take someone to find that trouble with Wang Xiaoming?" asked the young housekeeper.

Andre waved his hand and said, "No, no, I want to do this myself." I'm going to slap him in the face myself so that I can feel a sense of accomplishment. ”

In the training ground under the duel field, Yunqing and the others were training hard. Although operating the puppet battle does not directly consume their physical strength, it is very large for their mental consumption, and the mental consumption also indirectly causes a large amount of their physical strength to drain.

So at this time, although they didn't seem to be moving, their backs were already soaked with sweat. At this time, in the field, the five training puppets are constantly cooperating to dodge and block, and there are bows and arrows shooting at them directly in front of them, although the bow and arrows use soft heads to prevent the puppets from being damaged, but the huge force will still transmit the same sense to the controller through the transmission device on the puppet's body, so it is very painful to take a hit.

After studying, Yunqing and the others already have a detailed understanding of the competition system of the City Championship. It's not like they first thought, the two sides manipulated the puppets to fight one-on-one in the ring. It's a five-on-five strategy game, and the reason why this tournament is called grand is not all because of the use of such high-tech puppets to participate, and also because of the venue of the competition. For this competition, the organizers have to build a special competition field.

Set up an arena in an open terrain with rivers and dense forests, and the arena will be arranged in an irregular circle, and a magical barrier will be placed around it as a boundary. The river crosses in the center, creating three paths that connect the farthest points on both sides of the river. Each of these points has an energy crystal, which is the source of energy for your golem during the match. Only if the crystal is intact will the golem have enough energy to carry out its activities.

And on the three paths, there are three turrets each, the first is the arrow tower, and the second and third are energy turrets. Every once in a while, golem creeps will attack in the direction of the opponent along three paths, and destroying these creeps will give you the energy crystal nuclei hidden in them, which can charge your golem and enhance its abilities. In the dense forests beyond the road, there are many delicately constructed beast-shaped golems, which provide the ability to various locations in addition to crystal nuclei.

It is said that these puppets are all transformed by demon beasts through magic technology, and the demon beast puppets are different every time they compete, so the attribute abilities that can be obtained are also different. The rules of the game are to destroy the three turrets along the way by any means, and then break the barrier of the energy crystal in their base camp, and take the crystal to win the game.

So now their training is for five people to practice various combinations to increase their tacit understanding. It takes a lot of resources to build such a venue every time, so even if you are as powerful as an empire, you won't hold this kind of event every year. It is usually held every four years, and sometimes when rare resources appear, an impromptu event will be held to confirm the distribution ratio of these rare resources.

Although the event is very expensive, it perfectly solves the internal contradictions of the huge empire. It's all worth it compared to the losses that can come from the wars between the various kingdoms. Of course, this is the first time such an event has been held in Esther, so most of the Hans who participate here have no experience and it is unlikely that there will be a whole venue for them to get familiar with. Therefore, they can only simulate some scenarios to train them as much as possible for people who have experienced or gone to Xiluo to learn about this kind of competition, and although there are no such simulated scenes here in Lingcheng, Wang Xiaoming was also invited to Luodi to see this kind of shocking event when he was a child, so he also has his own set of ways for the training of his team.

And on this day, just as they were training as usual, an uninvited guest suddenly came to this underground training ground. Wang Xiaoming saw that the person who came quietly got up to receive him, and asked enthusiastically, "Andre, my friend, why are you here?"