Han Xing and Roy, along with the mercenary who called himself Ogy, finally arrived at Nassau Castle in a carriage led by Baron Albrecht.

Frankly, the medieval carriage was not comfortable, and the 30-minute journey was a merciless torture for several people's butts due to the lack of design damping parts and the uneven road surface. It is no wonder that most aristocrats would rather ride a horse than a car, on the one hand, to maintain the image of a tough guy, and on the other hand, it feels worse to ride a car than to ride a horse.

The castle of the Earl of Nassau has a stone wall about 10 meters high, which was supposed to be off-white in color, but perhaps due to the recent rains, there are several noticeable reddish-brown water stains on the stone walls that run along the battlements to the base of the wall.

There is a moat about 5 meters wide below, let's call it a moat, but it is actually more like a foul-smelling manure tank, and a large amount of domestic garbage has turned the entire moat into a silted mud pond, on which swarms of mosquitoes and flies are flying.

When they reached the city, the guards on the walls immediately spotted Baron Albrecht, and as the winch on the walls was loosened, a wooden drawbridge was lowered to serve as a passage for several people to enter the castle. Then the guards pushed another winch and pulled the metal gate up, and Han Xing and the others were able to enter the city.

Although this castle is not as large, majestic and beautiful as in fairy tales, the defense of this castle is beyond doubt, after all, it is not a Disney kind of castle, it exists for beauty, it is a real military fortress.

The inhabitants of the castle were clearly at two extremes, either the servants who were ragged, unkempt, and smelly, or the nobles and knights who were well-dressed, had meticulously groomed hair and beards, and were full of a strong fragrance trying to hide their body odor.

Han Xing and Auge followed Baron Albrecht to one of the largest and brightest rooms in the castle, so that Roy was left in the porter, and Baron Albrecht drew a cross on his chest to ensure that he would be taken care of in the best possible way. A blond-haired, stab-haired man sat in a comfortable chair, busy at his desk with his back to the crowd.

Baron Albrecht bent slightly, cleared his throat and said to the man, "My lord, it is my honour to introduce you to Mr. Hanschel Segaard and Mr. Oger, two of the most distinguished of the newcomers. ”

When the man got up and turned back, Baron Albrecht said in a high-pitched voice: "Behold, before you is Count Friedrich von Nassau, a vassal of the Duke of Hesse. ”

Count Friedrich von Nassau put down his knife and fork, rubbed his hands together, and bowed his head to the two of them.

This is a typical Caucasian Germanic man, with blonde hair and a stubble head, he looks weathered, his blue eyes are piercing, and the middle of his inadvertently exposed palm has a thick callus, which speaks of a seasoned warrior with a sword. But the fat on the chin and the slightly bulging belly, as well as the sparse hair on the top of his head, betrayed him, indicating that he had entered middle age and was not there.

When he saw Og, his eyes showed a look of approval, but when he saw Han Xing, he showed a trace of surprise. A look of gloom flashed on his face, and he called Baron Albrecht, and he could vaguely hear a slight anger in his tone, but when Baron Albrecht whispered something in his ear, he immediately asked something with a trembling voice, and Baron Albrecht drew a cross on his chest, probably swearing again.

When Count Friedrich von Nassau turned around, he deliberately suppressed his excitement, trying to put on a grim face, but he couldn't hide his hands trembling slightly with excitement under his sleeves.

"You are all good warriors, and you have proven yourself in many trials, and you have proved yourself by virtue of integrity, bravery, loyalty, and so on, and you have proved by your actions that you possess all the qualities necessary to be a knight. Han Xing wondered for a while? I didn't even know I was so great, noble? You've only known us for less than 10 minutes, and you know us so thoroughly?

The Earl of Nassau cleared his throat and continued: "Therefore, in the name of the Earl of Nassau, I will generously bestow upon you the title of knighthood, as well as the corresponding knightly fief, as long as you swear allegiance to me, and to my rightful heir, and to assume the corresponding vassalal duties. After saying that, he secretly glanced at the two of them.

The mercenary Auge was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately knelt down on one knee and said, "Lord Earl, this is my honor!" My sword will be wielded for Lord Earl and your rightful heir, and I will defend you and your rightful heir to the death until the last drop of blood is shed. "As a mercenary, living a life with no tomorrow and licking blood at the tip of a knife, what could be more appealing to him than becoming a nobleman and owning a territory?

It's a fool not to agree, this is a good thing to send to the door, becoming a knight means becoming a member of the ruling class, even the lowest member, not to mention that the Earl of Nassau generously decided to give them a fief! You have to know how many knights have the title of knight, but they can only wander around, and they are called "Ranger Knights".

This condition is no less than being in the Celestial Empire, and Jinshi was also ordered to be a Hanlin! Han Xing was so happy to see Og, and he also knew something about the Middle Ages, so he naturally knew that this was pie in the sky, don't you see those "knights" who gave up their faces and begged the baron to reward him with a knight's title? That's just a baron's title, and there is no title, let alone an earl's title? And the Earl also gave land.

So Han Xing also knelt down on one knee with a happy look on his face, "Lord Earl, I am willing to swear allegiance to you and your legitimate heir, and bear the corresponding feudal obligations!" Seeing that both of them were so knowledgeable about the times, the Earl of Nassau cheerfully encouraged them, and said that the knighthood ceremony would be performed for them to-morrow.

When Han Xing and Augur exited the room with Albrecht, the baron said to them in a kind tone, "You have made the right decision, and the Earl will not treat you badly!" Your courage and loyalty will be generously rewarded. Today you will rest in the castle, and a servant will come to inform you of the dinner. Then he clapped his hands and asked the two servants to lead them to their respective rooms.

The person in charge of leading Han Xing to his room was a blonde girl in her 20s with a freckled face named Yami. She was naturally not as dressed as the aristocratic lord, but her white linen clothes were clean.

Han Xing asked her to take herself to the concierge to find the red-haired boy Roy first, when he met Roy, the kid was enjoying a cherry pie, looking at his mouth full of jam, it seemed that Baron Albrecht's orders had been thoroughly carried out.

As soon as Roy saw Han Xing, he immediately sucked his hand stained with jam in his mouth, rubbed it on his pants again, and looked at Han Xing with a happy face: "Uncle Hanschel, have you seen Lord Earl?" Did he decide to make you a knight? In his eyes, Han Xing was simply the embodiment of chivalry, and if he wasn't canonized as a knight, God must be blind.

Han Xing smiled and nodded. The red-haired boy immediately cheered, and then said with a look of admiration and pleading, "Uncle Hanschel, let me be your servant!" Seeing this sincere child kneeling down on one knee like a knight, Han Xing certainly couldn't bear to refuse him, not to mention that he really needed a servant, and besides, it was a kind of fate that he saved him. Han Xing nodded.

With the cheering Roy, Han Xing followed Yami to his room, which was not big, only about 20 square meters, and the lighting was quite ordinary, to be exact, only a crack in the wall showed a faint ray of sunlight, and even in broad daylight, candles needed to be lit. But fortunately it was not damp, and there was a fireplace, a bed covered with animal skins, two chairs, and a table, on which a thick layer of dust had accumulated, and in the light of that ray of sunlight the air could be seen to be full of dust.

Apparently no one had been here for a while, but Yami diligently cleaned the inside and out, and it was completely new.

Han Xing lay on the bed heavily, wrapped in a blanket, thinking about everything that happened today, why did the Earl of Nassau and Baron Albrecht seem to look at him differently? Thinking about it, he fell into a deep sleep.

In the chamber of Baron Friedrich von Nassau in the castle.

"Congratulations, Lord Earl, for earning the allegiance of a realm lord!" The bearded Baron Albrecht said to the Count of Nassau, who was sitting in the back chair, with a happy face.

"Yes, yes! This is a real realm master! The number of lords in the empire is only in the double digits, and most of them are earls or even dukes, and even more so the king-level ones such as the one in Bohemia, and it is worth the price of getting the allegiance of a lord to do so. The Earl of Nassau said with a smile on his face.

"My lord, that young man probably doesn't know his worth yet, you just need to reward him more generously, win him over, and don't worry that he will be obediently loyal to you!"

"It's a pity that my daughter is already married!" The Earl of Nassau said with a wistful expression.

Han Xing heard Roy's voice in a daze, "It's dinner time!" Wake up, Uncle Hanschel! ”

At this time, he didn't know that he was originally a fragrant glutton, but he didn't know that even if he was a duke, a king, or an emperor would not be stingy in giving him rewards and status.

How rare are Realm Masters? The Celestial Empire, which has the largest population base, has the largest number of realm lords in the entire continent, and this number is 400; As the Western Christian Kingdom Alliance, it has a total of 380 lords, but this number is divided into Britain, France, Germany and other countries, of which France has the most, with more than 70, followed by the Holy Roman Empire with more than 60, Britain with more than 50, Italy with more than 40 papal states, and other countries with more than 20~30, and as few as single digits.

Do you think the realm lord is very good? Han Xing's becoming the realm master is the result of many factors, first of all, the stronger the stronger the adventure world he enters, and there will definitely be no reason for a master to enter the low-level world, so in fact, the novice world is a rare world that is easy to master, but as a novice, how many have the ability to directly challenge the ultimate boss? It's like asking you to challenge an infantry in armor with a kitchen knife, even if he is a novice, isn't it useless if you can't hurt him?

In fact, Han Xing was able to become the realm master, and it was entirely thanks to the "predecessors planting trees" of the Thirteenth Master and others, so it was his turn to be a "descendant to enjoy the coolness". If it weren't for the Thirteenth Master and others who forcibly entered the low-level world with props, there would be no No. 1, considering the strength of the novice, it is impossible for the zombie boss to have superhuman strength, but in order to fight against the illegal Thirteen Masters and others, they made No. 1, an unprecedented high-IQ zombie. Otherwise, if it was a zombie boss like a "tyrant", Han Xing would have sunk in the Dragon Girl River and would have been the eighth king.

For Han Xing, this dinner came at a good time, although he was invited to the castle in the name of attending a dinner, but it was just a pretense, the main purpose was that the Earl of Nassau intended to accept him as a vassal, and now that the problem had been solved, the dinner party had completely become an opportunity to fill his stomach.

Through the understanding during the dinner, Han Xing got a lot of information about this world from the mouth of Baron Albrecht.

Although the world is very much like the real Middle Ages, it is not.

Judging from the fact that those servants can also eat at the table after the nobles have left the table, this is obviously a sign that they have been influenced by the advanced ideas of a democratic society.

Obviously, this is not exactly the same Middle Ages as in history, but rather a postmodern version of the Middle Ages.