By the time the guards sent Spartt's good news to Dragon City, Caldis and his party had already returned to Alto's territory and started to get busy.

After Prince Relton's double reward, the entire land on the south side of the Dragon River became Alto's territory, and Count Xordo moved his family to Alto New Town, becoming an important staff member under Caldis.

When Maria learns that Cook has won the Knights' Tournament, Maria is overjoyed. To congratulate Cook on his return, Maria selected the finest materials from the leather Miller had brought back, and La sewed two pairs of delicate leather boots for Cook herself.

After receiving this gift from Mariala, Cook wore his boots on his feet in turns every day, which made everyone envious.

A few days later, two distinguished guests arrived in Alto's territory, Duke Quat and Marcello, who had come to Alto's territory to visit the newly cultivated fields and ditches. In fact, Marcello came here for other purposes, naturally for the Duke of Caldis.

One morning, Marcello got up early and went straight to Caldis's lodgings to find him.

After walking in the door, Marcello saw that Lisa was waiting for Caldis to wash, and her intimate appearance made Marcello very envious. Marcello asked, "Ah, the servant of the Duke is really good, and he takes good care of the Duke. ”

Lisa's face became a little unhappy as she looked at Caldis, then turned and left the room.

Marcello felt a little strange, and with a woman's intuition, she found that there didn't seem to be so much between Lisa and Caldis. So Marcello asked, "Lord Duke, is this Lisa your servant?" ”

Caldis replied, "Oh, she came to the territory with the refugees, and she is not a servant who came to serve me on her own initiative." ”

Marcello immediately sighed, "It's over, I may have said the wrong thing just now." ”

Caldis smiled and said, "It's okay, Lisa is very good, she won't mind." ”

"Oh!" Marcello nodded, and then she said goodbye to Caldis and went directly to Lisa's residence. In order to make it easier for Lisa to take care of Caldis, Miller deliberately arranged for her to live in the same compound as Caldis.

After arriving at Lisa's room, Marcello asked with a smile, "Lisa?" Why did you just leave because I said the wrong thing? Every nobleman has servants, I thought you were ......"

Lisa looked up at Marcello, looked at it carefully, and said, "Miss Marcello, you are so beautiful, and this dress is extraordinarily gorgeous, and it matches your appearance perfectly." ”

After hearing this, Marcello lifted her skirt and looked left and right, then said with a smile, "Do you like it?" If you like, I'll ask someone to make you an identical set and give it to you. ”

"No, no." Lisa immediately got up and excused herself, "Thank you very much Miss Marcello for your kindness, we poor people are not suitable for such expensive clothes." ”

Marcello said indifferently: "What is suitable and unsuitable, I am just an ordinary Nate woman like you, I can wear it, of course you can wear it." ”

Lisa secretly glanced at Marcello's skirt, then shook her head and said, "No, you can't serve the Duke if you dress like this, so forget it." ”

Marcello couldn't resist her stubbornness and had to give up giving her the dress.

Then Marcello visited Lisa's room and asked, "Lisa, did you go to serve the Duke because you liked him?" ”

Lisa was panicked after hearing this, and she explained with a flushed face: "No, no, no, I'm just an ordinary rural girl, how can I be qualified to like Lord Duke." When I was in Reesburg, the Duke saved me and my brother Carter, and I was a lifesaver to our brother and sister, so I went to serve the Duke in order to repay the favor. ”

"Oh!" , Marcello suddenly realized: "It turns out that you are the sister of Carter, the elder of affairs." ”

After saying that, Marcello stared at Lisa, and read a lot from her expression. Then Marcello asked softly, "I'm also a girl, I can understand your mind at a glance." The Duke is actually very easy-going, and if the Duke knows that you like him, he will definitely accept you. ”

Lisa immediately shook her head and said, "No, never." Don't get me wrong, Miss Marcello, I just admire the kindness of the Duke, and have no other meaning. Believe me, Lord Duke, Miller said, that he is the best fit for you. ”

"Really?" Marcello burst out laughing.

But soon Martharo's expression became heavy, and after thinking for a while, she said: "I think you have probably misunderstood, I don't like Duke Caldis, my father and I simply respect the prestige of Lord Caldis, and we want to ask you about your experience in governing the territory." Anyway, it's time for us to go, and I hope to see you again in the future! ”

After saying that, she smiled at Lisa, then turned around and left the compound, and then just said hello to Miller, and directly urged Duke Quat to go on the road.

Marcello's farewell to Caldis, Miller seems to see something wrong. He sneaked to Cook's room and whispered to Cook, "I guess Marcello is unhappy, that's why she left in such a hurry." ”

"Why?" Cook was puzzled by this.

Miller frowned and said, "I heard that Marcello went to see Lisa before leaving, and I guess she saw that Lisa also liked Caldis, so she should have left with disappointment." ”

"Oh!" , Cook shook his head and said, "This is a trouble, how can this Marcello be like this, can't he allow other girls to like my cousin?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Caldis's voice came from outside the door: "Cook, are you there?" ”

"Here comes cousin!" Cook pouted at Miller and immediately got up and ran out of the room.

When Caldis saw Miller walking out with Cook, he smiled and said, "Yo, Master Miller is here too, that's just right." Isn't it winter, and the big guys are idle and have nothing to do, so I discussed it with Robitt and decided to set up a knight training camp in our Alto territory as well. So that all our knights can go into the camp to train, so that we can improve the combat strength of the Knights. What do you guys think? ”

Miller immediately agreed, "Well, that's a good thing, Cook is most familiar with it." ”

Cook also smiled and agreed: "No problem, my father used to be an instructor in the royal capital knight training camp, and I will take care of this matter to ensure that my cousin will not be disappointed." ”

Caldis nodded and said, "Okay, then it's hard for you, Cook, I'll work with Robit to assist you when I get back." ”

After saying that, Caldis smiled and waved his hand at the two, and then turned to leave.

Looking at the back of Caldis's departure, Miller glanced at Cook, and then whispered to Cook: "Don't mention the matter of Marcello to the Duke. ”

Cook nodded his head in response, but Caldis had a keen sense of hearing, and Miller's words stopped from a distance.

Caldis continued to wander away, and his mind began to recall Marcello's appearance, as if he couldn't feel sorry for her.

As the commander of the First Legion, he had just taken over the strength of a Knights of Seoul from Kudonster, and Caldis had a lot of things to do, and he couldn't even think about Marcello at the moment.

In order to command this strange order well, Caldis selected one of the most capable young knights from among the five knights, and made him his personal knight commander, conveying orders to the knights for himself. The knight was in his early twenties, his name was Tarret, and he was born tall and powerful, and he was very prestigious in the Order.

In the following time, every day Caldis personally led the knights to train in the snow, mainly to carry out some formation and formation drills, which was not taught in the previous knight training camp. War was still fresh in Caldis's memory, and in the arena fights, gladiators often formed teams to fight against each other, and at this time, formation and organized attack and defense were very important, which was no different from the regular battlefield.

The first time they received tactical training, the knights seemed very excited, after all, winning and surviving on the battlefield is very important, and no one dares to slack off.

A little more than a month later, the members of the Order prepared for Cook, Mompott, and Anne began to arrive at Alto in batches. Just in time for Cook to set up the knight training camp, these newly recruited knights went straight to the camp.

The newly built knight training camp is much larger than the previous training camp in the royal capital, and the entire camp can accommodate more than 10,000 knights, which is a camp specially built for the knights of the Second Legion.

Cook formally took over his father's duties, and he carefully developed a training plan for the knights, divided the knights into camps, and appointed the experienced Derain and Rochabal as the camp's assistant instructors, who were responsible for supervising and guiding the knights in formal training.

The knights were naturally respectful to Cook, but the nobles from all over the world didn't seem to care much about the two assistant instructors, Deran and Roshabal.

As early as a few months ago, Carter had arranged for Assel to begin recruiting a new army of knights for the kingdom. In order to select as many good soldiers as possible, Assel sent people to post notices in all territories, regardless of their status, as long as they met the requirements for enlistment. Therefore, in this new army of knights, the vast majority of people from various territories were born as farmers, which made those from noble families particularly dissatisfied.

Brawls were not uncommon in training camps, and it was usually the nobles who provoked and bullied the commoner-born knights, which caused Cook a headache.

One afternoon, Rochabal came to inspect the training camp alone, and he went into one of the camps to check on the training of the knights. But when he entered the fence of the camp, he saw that the knights of the detachment were all lazily hiding in their tents.

Rossabar was furious, and he strode into one of the tents, and shouted angrily, "What are you doing, knights? ”

Hearing Rossabar's angry rebuke, most of the knights immediately got up and lined up to stand aside, but there were still a few knights lying motionless on the bed.

Rossabar glanced at the men, frowned, and asked one of the knights in line, "Tell me who your chief of guard is." ”

The knight timidly pointed at one of the lying men, and the man was so angry that he jumped up from his bed and rushed at him.

Rossabar stretched out his hand and pushed him away, angrily scolding him, saying, "You are the chief of the guard? Why are you hitting someone? ”

The head of the guard glanced at Roshabal and said impatiently: "He is my subordinate, I teach him my duty, please don't interfere with the instructor." ”

"Really?" , Rosharbar sneered twice, and then said directly: "You are an official who crushes people to death." ”

"Not really." The chief of the guard looked triumphantly at the tent overhead, and was very dismissive of Rosabar.

Rossabar stretched out his hand and pointed at him and said, "Since you are so bullish, you must be terrible at swordsmanship, you come out, I will duel with you." ”

"Come out, come out, I'm afraid of you." , the chief guard was as bold as an ox, and he didn't take Rosabaar in his eyes at all. He immediately drew his sword and followed Rosabar out of the tent.

Hearing that there was going to be a duel, all the knights swarmed out of the camp tent and gathered around to watch the duel between the instructor and the chief of the guard.

Rossabar turned to the chief of the guard and said, "Don't say that I bully you, just a useless person like you, I, Rosaba, can deal with you with my bare hands." ”

The insulted chief guard was furious when he heard this, and he didn't bother to pay attention to whether Roshabar would draw his sword, so he directly grabbed his long sword and slashed at Roshabal.

Rossabar turned slightly sideways, easily dodging the blow, and his right hand clenched into the right side of the guard's face with a clenched fist.

Then Rossabar struck the guard chief with another left fist, followed by a fierce right fist, and the guard who hit him was bleeding from his mouth, and he was so dizzy that he couldn't find the south, south, west, and north, and coughed in pain in the snow.

At this time, Rossabar finally stopped, and then suddenly said angrily: "From today onwards, you are no longer the chief of the guard. If you still want to be a knight, stay here and let me be a normal knight, and if you have no interest in our Second Legion, you can get out of me immediately. ”

The captain of the guard had not yet recovered his strength, curled up in the snow and desperately spat out the blood in his mouth.

Soon the chief knight of this knight brigade hurried over when he heard the sound, and when he saw the chief of the guard vomiting blood on the ground, he looked at Rochabal in surprise, not knowing what was happening.

Rosabar stretched out his hand and pointed to the knight who replied in front of him, and said to the knight chief who had just arrived: "He will be the chief of the guard of this knight detachment in the future, do you understand?" ”

The chief knight immediately straightened up, held his breath and said loudly, "Yes, Instructor." ”

After speaking, the chief knight turned around on the spot and said to the new chief of the guard: "Quickly assemble the team and start training immediately." ”

Inexplicably, he was promoted to the chief of the guard, and the knight didn't react at once, but when he heard the order of the chief of the guard, he tidied up his armor, and then walked out of the crowd and said loudly to all the knights: "Everyone listen, all of them will go and get my weapons and come back to line up, if anyone moves fast enough, I will serve with a whip." ”

Upon hearing the order of the new chief of the guard, the knights immediately went into the camp to fetch their swords and spears.

Roshabal stood in front of the former chief of the guard and asked him, "How is it, go or stay, and make a decision at once." ”

"Hmph, I'll leave it to the fart, just go." , the man was a typical aristocratic stubborn temper who hated Rochabal to the core. The stubborn guy got up from the snow and walked straight to the camp entrance.

The chief knight immediately scolded: "Presumptuous, you stop me." ”

But the man ignored him and walked out of the door without looking back.

The chief knight anxiously asked, "Instructor, please allow me to send someone to capture him." ”

Rosa Bar shook his head and said: "No need, a person with such a bad attitude is not qualified to be a knight at all, let him go, we don't need this kind of guy." ”

The chief knight nodded, snorted indignantly at the man, and then turned to assist the chief guard in arranging the knights' training.