As the sun sets in the west, a colorful sunset is reflected in mid-air, dyeing the plain red.

There was a slender road in the plain, and it was a convoy escorted by a knight, with Cook and Miller riding in front of them.

Cook is determined to succeed in the task of suppressing bandits, and in order to get to Victorian as soon as possible, they have not rested along the way! After the knights had been on the road for an afternoon, everyone was already a little tired, and many of them were muttering in private.

Miller was a very attentive young man, and he soon noticed that the knights were complaining about Cook! The knights felt that they were also members of the Royal Knights, so it was a joke and an insult to them to let a teenager be their chief knight.

In the army of the Knights, he does not pay attention to status and status, only about military exploits and ability, although Cook is the son of the earl, but it seems that it is difficult for Cook to convince the public at the moment.

As evening approached, Miller suggested that the party camp in a grove by the roadside, where they would rest for the night and then continue their journey the following day.

After arranging the task of stationing, Rosharbar personally took several knights to patrol and hunt in the surrounding area.

The knights sat in groups, built a bonfire on the ground, and took out their bread and dried meat to eat and chat. Judging from the content they muttered in private, most of the topics were about Cook, with mixed reviews.

As members of the Kingdom's proudest royal knights, they are understandably suspicious of Cook! After all, Cook was only fifteen years old, had little experience and no actual combat experience, and suddenly took the position of knight captain, which was difficult for everyone to accept. In the past, even if you want to promote excellent generals, you need to be in the top 10 in the knight competition! Everyone knows that this is a special order from Duke Connor, and Cook is just a relation.

The knights spoke loudly, and Cook could hear them clearly, but he remained silent, drinking slowly on the ground.

At sunset, a group of refugees came from the south, and when they saw the knights eating bread, the hungry refugees gathered together to beg for food from the knights.

An older knight stood up and shouted, "Let's go, this is our knights' rations, give you what we eat, give me all go away." ”

A peasant woman begged pitifully, "Your good deeds, Lord Knight. We adults have made it through, but our children haven't eaten a bite in three days, so you can give you a piece of bread, please! ”。

"Get out!" The knight was furious, flew up, kicked the peasant woman far away, and scolded viciously: "Filthy pariah, get out of here." ”

These knights from the royal capital knights, they were all born in the nobility, they have always had no worries about food and clothing, where will they know how to understand the suffering of the poor! When the peasant woman was kicked away, all the knights laughed merrily, and some even whistled and cheered.

An old man stepped forward and rebuked him very sadly: "What kind of knight are you, shouldn't your duty be to protect the people and help the weak?" When did it become as hateful as those thieves, and it was angry with us poor people. ”

The old knight looked back at the old man and said with a mocking face: "Old fellow, I'm afraid your body can't withstand my kick, so get out of here yourself, don't force me to do it." ”

When the old man saw that the knight's face was full of fierce light, he shook his head and sighed and walked aside, and then squatted there and bowed his head silently.

However, the knight still did not give up, strode forward and shouted at the group of refugees: "Are you looking for death, don't you see that this is the camp of our knights, don't you all want to live, do you?" If you don't leave, I'll treat you as spies sent by the enemy, and don't even think about living! ”

The refugees were so frightened that they immediately got up and prepared to drag their hungry bodies on the run.

Miller was born in poverty, and although he has now become a wealthy nobleman by selling goods, he is still very affectionate to these suffering people. Seeing these arrogant knights treating the refugees of the kingdom like this, Miller really couldn't accept it, he got up and roared angrily: "Who made you treat the refugees like this, and is there any royal law?" ”

The knight turned his head to look at Miller, and then mocked him, and said, "Lord Miller, how do you think we should treat the refugees, could it be that we ourselves are hungry and give food to the refugees first?" ”

Hearing that justice was being done, the refugees paused to wait and see, holding on to a glimmer of hope.

Miller was very angry, and he said righteously, "Have you forgotten the oath of those knights? Protecting the people and helping the weak is the mission of our knights! ”

This knightly oath has been recited for three hundred years since the kingdom was founded, and now this cliché is just a symbol that no one really takes to heart. The knight looked down at the short sword on Miller's waist, and then sneered and said, "I only know that women wear short swords, and you are worthy of being called a knight like this?" You're here to be funny, aren't you? ”

As the knight finished speaking, the other knights joined him in laughing, each looking Miller up and down with a mocking expression.

Insulted by this, the angry Miller stretched out his hand and drew his short sword, pointed at the knight and roared: "God of War, I, Miller, for my own honor, I am here today to duel with you!" If you don't have the guts, apologize honestly, or draw your sword!" ”

I didn't expect Miller, who has always been calm, to suddenly get so angry that he even had to duel with someone. Cook hurriedly got up in shock, but he couldn't stop them, because in the kingdom the disputes between knights would be resolved by duel, which was a great custom of knights, and no one had the right to intervene.

The older knight glanced at Miller with a sneer, and with a whoosh he drew the long sword at his waist, looking like he was eating Miller.

Miller has already escaped his anger, for a noble knight, honor is more important than his own life, no one can tolerate being insulted like this, and Miller is no exception.

The knight shook the circle very casually, and said casually: "If you want to bring humiliation on yourself, then I will fulfill you!" ”。 With that, he raised his sword and rushed towards Miller, slashing at Miller with one sword after another.

Although Miller is short and his body is very thin, his hand is very agile! I saw Miller dodge left and right, so that every sword of the knight slashed into the air, and he couldn't touch Miller at all.

The knight was furious, and raised his sword to slam it with all his might, startling Cook into a cold sweat.

Miller was also furious, and he decided to teach this arrogant nobleman a hard lesson! He first kicked away the knight's sword, then jumped violently, and then smashed the knight's helmet with the hilt, shocking the knight several steps back in succession!

Miller seized the opportunity and kicked the knight in the chest again, kicking the tall knight to the ground.

The knight was frightened, and was about to get up from the ground to continue the duel, but Miller's short sword was already pointed at his throat, and he looked up at Miller in astonishment.

Miller snorted angrily, immediately put away his short sword, and said coldly to the knight: "I thought you had a lot of ability, embarrassed, get out of me!" ”

Strength determines everything, the duel has been decided, and there is no suspense left. The knight awkwardly got up from the ground, respectfully saluted Miller and threw himself in defeat, and then sat down on the ground by the campfire!

The knights were dumbfounded, and they were all stunned, looking at Miller in disbelief!

Miller was still angry, and continued to point to the knights and said: "You are all knights of the kingdom, and it is your duty to protect all the peoples, and all the food is taken out and distributed to the refugees!" ”

Although most of the knights were more righteous, and after listening to Miller's reprimand, they all lowered their heads to get food, but still many people were not convinced, they got up, drew their swords and walked out together.

I never expected that these so-called knights would behave like this, and they wanted a few people to go together. Miller was so shocked that he panicked, because with his own strength, it was okay to fight with them alone, but if they were a few people together, he would definitely not be their opponent.

However, just as Miller was terrified, a man suddenly flashed out from behind him.

Before Miller could see his move, he heard three clanging sounds, and then saw the swords in the hands of three knights fall to the ground.

Miller looked in amazement to see Cook lying in front of him, glaring angrily at all the knights.

Cook's appearance stunned everyone, and everyone stood up one after another, and respectfully saluted Cook and greeted: "Knight, sir!" ”

Cook's face was furious, and he pointed his sword at the other knights holding it, so frightened that they immediately put away their swords and bowed their heads without saying a word.

These knights had never seen such a powerful skill, and it only took less than a second to defeat three knights at the same time, and this Cook seemed to be much more powerful than his father Fawkes, how dare he have any other reaction.

While the knights were silent, Cook took his sword and ordered coldly: "As knights, each of us has taken an oath, and you and I know as well as I what the oath is. Now I'm going to give you two choices, either take out all your food and distribute it to the refugees, or I'll get out of here at once, and I won't have any names left in my bandit brigade!" ”

After saying that, Cook reached out and swung his sword, slashing at a large tree beside him. The big tree was as thick as a bowl, but it was cut off by Cook's sword, and the treetops fell to the side with a clatter.

It can be seen that Cook's arm strength is amazingly strong, so frightened that the knights hurriedly bent down to rummage through their bags, took out all the food, and then walked to the side to distribute it to all the refugees.

The refugees, who had complained about the knights just now, were immediately moved to tears, and they kept being grateful while receiving the food.

After the food was distributed, all the knights returned to Cook's side and lined up, quietly awaiting his instructions.

Miller was very surprised, he didn't expect Cook to behave so domineeringly. Miller watched as the refugees poured over with food, bowing to Cook and thanking him repeatedly! This made Miller deeply aware that his good brother Cook was born a general and would definitely become a great commander in the future.

And these knights, when they saw so many refugees bowing to them and thanking them, they felt in their hearts what glory it was to be knights.

Maybe now they just succumbed to Cook's force, but that was enough, at least they didn't dare to have any prejudice against their knight commander.

When Rossabar returned to the camp with his prey and knights, he noticed the refugees gathered around him, and when he learned about it from the camp knights, Rossabal's face showed surprise.

Anger began to burn wildly in Rochabal's heart, and he immediately ordered that all the knights who had committed the crime in front of him be arrested, ready to be punished severely.

But Cook stopped Roshabal and told him to release them immediately and cancel all punishment.

Although Cook said nothing, the mercy warmed the hearts of the knights, and they felt remorse for their ignorance.