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Anyway, it is enough to arrange an identity for Gawain, Anna thought that in the past three years, none of the warriors brought by the envoys of Salian Caesar could match Mikhail, and seeing that her father did not ask much, the eldest princess was relieved.

The Emperor's majestic procession, along the path of arrows, stretched from the main gate of the Brachna Palace to the square of Augustam, Alexios wanted to use this grand pomp to tell all his subjects and foreigners that the Roman Empire was still the core of the world, and the Purple Palace Emperor of Rome was still the most powerful man in the world.

As a result, under the porphyry pillar, when Alexios stepped down from his shoulder amid the cheers of the crowd, he saw the Patriarch of Constantinople with a straight face, Maastas, standing in front of several patriarchs, clasping his hands together and not saying a word.

The emperor had an embarrassed look on his face, when he tried to abandon Erin in the past, the scene of Maastas angrily scolding him in front of thousands of citizens seemed to be vivid, but who would have thought that he would be caught by him again in the martial arts competition arena today. At the critical moment, Anna flew in front of Masdas like a lively bird, grabbed him by the sleeve, wished him a happy celebration, and invited the Patriarch to join her in receiving the distinguished envoys from the Salian dynasty.

Next, it was Maastas's turn to be embarrassed, he was originally prepared, burst out to reprimand the emperor, and was forced back by the lovely Anna, and he couldn't do anything unruly in front of the well-behaved eldest princess, so he could only laugh and take Anna's arm and walk towards the theater.

Seeing his daughter's grimace as he turned around, Alexios secretly called lucky, and then he turned back to see the shoulders of his own party stopped one by one.

At this time, Anna, who passed by the corridor under the theater, turned her face sideways and saw the three warriors who were about to play during the break, and especially gave a thumbs up to Gawain, who was wearing a mask and helmet.

And Gawain, who was holding the chalk pillar, also blinked and gave his thumb back to Anna.

"Brother, brother." Just as Alexios turned around and was about to sweep his eyes to Gawain's conspicuously embroidered black eagle robe, which was a very easy thing for the archery emperor, who was only a hundred and fifty feet away from Gawain, the emperor's brother Isaac, who had been named "Sebastoclat", with a look of shame and a desire for forgiveness, walked side by side with the court governor Nicodemia who followed behind, and walked quickly to the emperor and knelt down in front of him. Kissing the back of Alexios' hand and the ring, "Please forgive me for coming all the way, brother. After all, it takes a day to get here from Nicomedia and a sea crossing. ”

"Get up, Isaac. Go in with me right now. The Emperor coughed lightly and gently took his brother's arm, signaling that he had truly forgiven him, not only for being late for the ceremony, but also for the defeat in Asia Minor.

Although Alexios was known for being the bravest and most scheming of the eight siblings, this did not mean that he did not value brotherhood - the first step of his dictatorship was to constantly create new titles of rank and title to give to relatives of the Komnenos family in order to suppress other traditional families in the Roman Empire.

At this moment, the emperor entered the theater surrounded by Isaac and the eunuchs, and did not see the so-called "swordsman" who was sometimes standing up and sometimes sitting, wearing a strange mask and helmet.

"John, John!" Sitting on the shoulder of the back, Marlena, who had not had time to come down, failed to hold the hand of Prince John, and this black and agile ape-like child rushed down directly, and ran out of the honor guard, rude, dressed in gold and silver, but like an out-and-out wild child, she quickly ran to the corridor.

Soon, John saw Gawain, who was extremely tall and wearing strange armor, and asked in a loud voice, "I heard that this time the messenger of the barbarian Caesar will bring a two-handed swordsman of infinite fame, will you, a blue-eyed barbarian, be his opponent?" ”

Gawain didn't speak, but pointed to Mikhail, who was sitting there praying, "The opponent of the two-handed swordsman you are talking about is this one, the chief of the Emperor's bow and arrow guard." ”

"But I'd rather see you fight that guy."

"Your attitude is really undisguised, but by the time this situation arises, perhaps the majesty of the Roman Empire will be swept away." After Gawain finished speaking, several eunuch eunuchs trotted over, hurriedly led Prince John, and returned to the queue.

Soon after, the horn sounded, and under the fluttering of the colorful flags hanging from the edge of the stands, Wittling, the envoy of Henry IV, dressed in a soft hat and a large hat, also stood up and saluted with the other nobles when he saw the emperor enter, and knelt down to the emperor.

Alexios cordially walked side by side with Witterin in front of everyone, and then everyone sat on the seats of the royal box in order, several trumpeters hurriedly sounded the trumpets, and the rest of the noblewomen and bureaucrats who were slightly lower in rank also sat on the seats one by one after expressing their praise and blessings to the emperor in unison.

"A competition is a competition, and no matter how you win or lose, it shouldn't affect the friendship between the two countries, right?" After Alexios sat down, the first thing he said was this, and then he looked at Wetrin, "Bohemond has marched on Amalfi, and I will provide a capable team to come to the rescue, but I hope that your Caesar will also send a helping hand, after all, Amalfi has been a loyal vassal and friend of the empire for three hundred years, and you and I are dissatisfied with the hypocritical Pope of St. Peter in the city of Rome." ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor, our kingdom is also in a difficult situation now, the Duchess Matilda of Tuscany has already united almost the entire city-state of northern Italy, and has also bribed our Majesty's son, and cut off His Majesty's back road and trapped it in Italy. Wittling was blunt.

"My son, this is really a sympathetic and sad thing." Alexios touched his beard in pretended mournful, but in fact he was laughing at Henry IV's predicament in the interior.

"It's better to be like this, if we win today's game, Your Majesty's proposal should not have been said; And if you are victorious, I will go back and persuade my Majesty with all my might to give the Emperor full support to your expeditionary force. "In the end, the envoys from the West made a decision.

After seeing the showdown between the other party, Alexios reassured himself with his hand with the ring and tapped the armrest of the seat below, "I accept it, Mikhail has never lost in the past three years." ”

Witterin also laughed, "Not necessarily this time, Your Majesty the Emperor, it would be better for us to add some more prizes, so as to make the competition more pleasing to the eye." ”