Lu Daguan accompanied Captain Otto and watched several matches in a row: in almost every game, the guards lost to the paladins without any suspense; in the closest one, the two sides fought to lose, and the judges took into account Captain Otto's face and reluctantly ruled that the guards won.

So, Lu Chen watched Captain Otto's face turn black to the color of the bottom of the pot.

Obviously, the guards who came on the field also felt ashamed to lose so badly in front of the divine envoy, and they looked at Captain Otto one by one with dodgy eyes, as if they owed a huge foreign debt.

However, Lu Chen himself felt that it was nothing, and the guards who met the end would say a few words of encouragement.

After all, from the beginning of the establishment, the guards and paladins are two armed departments with completely different functions: the guards are only responsible for the daily security work inside and outside the church, while the paladins are to go out to fight the cultists and monsters with real swords and guns.

In such a situation, the top warriors of the Church would surely flow to the Holy Knights, while the guards in the Guards would be second-rate warriors at best.

Rather, if the guards defeated the paladins, it would be a strange thing.

The talent gap at the basic level is the main reason for the balance of strength between the two sides: the one-sided battle situation is not the problem of Otto, the captain, nor the guards who fought hard.

Captain Otto apparently didn't think so, though: he was at first cheerfully giving the Emissary a few words, but after a few rounds he obediently shut his mouth and focused on finding a crack in the ground to get into.

Lu Chen suddenly remembered something, patted Captain Otto on the shoulder and asked:

"By the way, is there a man in your guard named Alexander?

According to his impression, although Alexander is not the best fighter, he is also a notch better than most of the guards who played today.

"I want to send him on the field, too!" said Otto, with a sad face, "Alexander boy is also a good member of the guards, but I don't know what the hell he does, he disappeared after breakfast in the morning, and I can't help it!"

Lu Chen sighed, turned his gaze back to the school ground, and happened to see a guard being cut to pieces by the paladin.

"These hell-seeing paladins ......" Otto spat hatefully on the ground and lay on the fence weakly, "more than ten years ago, how could there be any arrogance in this Holy Church!"

Lu Chen glanced at him: If you really want to win so much, you usually train hard......

Usually sit on the training ground and fish, but when it comes to the competition, you can't win?

"You said more than ten years ago?" Lu Chen asked, "Isn't the paladin more than ten years ago powerful?"

"It's not that it's not amazing...... But there are more powerful than them. Otto shook his head, "At that time, you were still young, and you may not have much of an impression, but at that time, the "Rose Crusaders" had not yet been disbanded!

"Rose Crusade" ...... This noun, which had been sealed in his memory for a long time, made Lu Chen's heart tremble slightly.

Indeed, for thousands of years, the Rose Crusaders have been the proudest testament to the Church's prowess, a group of religious forces that have chopped off the ugly heads of countless barbarian orcs under the banner of crusading against paganism.

Even in the early days of history, due to the weakness of the regular army, 80% of the battles of the empire were won by this church army, and the "Rose Crusader" was the ultimate weapon in the hands of the empire, the lifeline of the empire to occupy a piece of land!

In those days, the Pope said that if you go east, the emperor will not dare to go west!

But who would have thought that with the rapid development of the empire's industry, the once world-famous "Rose Crusader" would be quickly disbanded in just a few days because of a proposal issued by Parliament?

Many of the top-notch equipment I saw in the underground warehouse a few days ago once belonged to the powerful Rose Crusader, but now, due to the loss of their master, these treasures that have accumulated military exploits can only be tragically sealed in the darkness underground.

The good old days are gone...... Lu Chen sighed for a while.

"Captain Otto, let your guards train well in the future—without the Crusaders, the Church will rely more on the strength of the guards in the future. ”

Lu Chen dropped a sentence and turned around lightly and left the training ground.

Otto stared at the back of the Divine Envoy for a moment, then smiled wryly—

According to the situation of the church today, do we really have a "future"?

......

Just next to the back door of the cathedral, Lu Chen found what An Jie called the "knot competition".

Leaning against the stone façade of the main building of the church, a nun and grandmother set up a long table with dozens of intricate knots tied with hemp rope of various sizes.

In front of the long table, there was a sign that read, in lingua franca:

"Knot Contest: Winner of the knot will receive a pair of pearl earrings. ”

Obviously, this contest was completely different from barbaric events such as jousting tournaments, and was basically for the female members of the church, and it was true that most of the participants around the long table were nuns and maids, and birds were chattering non-stop.

But the power of the beauty is endless, and next to the table of the knot competition, there is also a group of young guards staring at each other, their faces full of covetousness for the girl.

Something that doesn't make a living...... Lu Chen glanced at the gang.

He glanced through the crowd of participants and soon found his maid Anjie: the little girl was studying the knot in her hand while pulling idle with her female companion next to her.

Lu Chen walked straight towards An Jie.

An Jie was obsessed with the knot in her hand, and she didn't even notice the arrival of the Divine Envoy, but the female companions around her were different—seeing him coming, they all took a few steps back in unison to make way for Lu Chen, while staring at the Divine Envoy with little starry eyes.

Lu Chen walked behind An Jie and coughed twice in embarrassment.

I don't know why, being stared at by a group of girls made him feel stressed.

"Lord Elliot!" An Jie hurriedly turned around and saw Lu Chen, and then smiled, "Why are you here?"

"I just watched the martial arts tournament for half a day, so I'll just go around now. Lu Chen coughed dryly, "It's almost time, if there's nothing to do, I'll go to the hall first to prepare for the luncheon." ”

An Jie snorted, suddenly remembered something, looked up and smiled:

"Lord Eliot, don't go yet, do me a favor!"

"How can you help?" said Lu Daguan looked down at the maid.

"Wow. The knot that An Jie was holding with both hands was held up in front of Lu Chen's eyes, "Help me untie it before leaving!"

Lu Chen couldn't cry or laugh: This little girl actually participates in a knot competition and asks for foreign aid?

He took the knot, looked at it a few times, and only felt dizzy: this kind of thing is like the chess endgame that the old man put on the street, so complicated that it doesn't really want people to untie it at all - just kidding, let the participants clear the customs so easily, don't you need money for the prize?

Lu Daguan stared at the knot and groaned for a while, and his already nervous mood became more and more irritable. He shook his head, snorted, and walked over to the young guard next to him.

The guards stared blankly at the oracle.

"Lend me a little bit. Lu Chen said, and without waiting for the other party to answer, he easily drew a short sword from the waist of one of the guards.

A flash of white light. When the blade of the sword passed, the knots in the hands of the great man were broken into two knots.

Lu Chen hummed a little song and returned the short sword to the guard, and then slapped the broken knot on the table:

"Unraveled!"

Whether it was the grandmother stall owner, or the nuns and maids around him, and the young guards, they were all dumbfounded.

- Can you still untie the knot like a fucking way?

"Really!" An Jie also glared at the Divine Envoy dissatisfied, "What are you?

"The rules of the game?" Lu Chen smiled slightly, "Little girl, you must know that in this world, some people abide by the rules, but some people make rules." What's more, the real game hasn't started yet......"

The cold fingers of the divine envoy had already clenched the thin speech in his sleeve at some point.