Chapter Seventy-Three: Stagnant Water
By the end of the ceremony, the square had been transformed into a sea of joy.
On the streets, parade floats, carrying bands, slowly walked. Behind them, men and women with joyful smiles clapped their hands and walked like a pair of brightly colored butterflies, dancing briskly. Thornmen blew trumpets on the city walls, and countless petals fell from the rising balloons, shrouding the city in a thousand shades of purple and red.
The jousting knights in the knight jousting arena have begun to warm up. The gladiatorial arena was overcrowded. The artists on the roadside are performing their best tricks hard. The soldiers of the Muni City Guard rolled out huge barrels of wine, and to the cheers of the drunkards who were already impatient, kicked off the prelude to three days of free drinking.
And the atmosphere of the phalanx of the first training camp under the celebration stage gradually became a little subtle.
By this time, Archduke Adolf and the guests had already left, and most of the students and instructors had dispersed and dispersed. Some joined the revelry crowd, and some returned to the academy on their own. Those who didn't leave were just the students in the first few rows.
The first three rows were still immersed in surprises and couldn't help themselves, and the fourth row was depressed and depressed to the extreme.
The noblest, the most powerful, and the richest of all the Loulian people have gathered here. And he is only one step away from this qiē, but he is close to the end of the world.
As soon as they thought of this, everyone was eager to change their shapes with these guys in front of them, or simply destroy their souls.
However, this is just a thought.
This time, in addition to the twenty or thirty instructors at the front of the queue, there were a total of seventy students. Most of them are the most beloved disciples taught by the various teams.
The first-year students have Hei Ming, Tina and Andre, the genius magic prodigy Gomez, Ling Shuang Ling Xue, as well as Morey, Pei Zhan and Annie.
In the second grade, there is Scarlett County Lord, Xia Li, and Ning Maoer. Xiang Feng and Siwalker and others, as well as another noble group composed of children from the military. Its core leader is a student named Qiu Bihuan. It is said that he is the son of Qiu Shanhai, the commander of the 12th Army of the Border Army, who has just entered Muni City.
The representative of the third grade is Morgan, who has just turned twenty years old and already has the strength of a second-order brave five-star. He was the son of a native nobleman in the city of Muni, and his father was the Marquis of Freeman, a general under the command of the Grand Duke of Adolf. Commanded an army formed by the private armies of the noble lords of Loulian during the war. The status is extremely prominent.
Representative of the fourth grade. Naturally, it is Pierre, who is known as the first son of the first training camp.
At the age of sixteen, Pierre joined the academy with the strength of an armed two-star. At the end of the first grade, he was only seventeen years old, and he already had the strength to arm the five-star. In the second year, he broke through to the three stars of bravery, and before he was halfway through the third year, he had become a just knight. And now he is. It already has the strength of a fair three-star!
coupled with his handsome appearance and free and easy personality, Pierre has always been the prince charming in the minds of girls. It is also the symbol of the first training camp in Muni City.
Soon after, in the Inter-Camp Challenge, Pierre was the only one of the right players in the minds of all the First Camp supporters. And the other two major training camps have always regarded him as their biggest opponent.
For these people to be invited to the ball, no one felt that there was anything to be jealous of. After all. Even if Miss Sophia didn't click on them. With the family background of some of them, it is not difficult to get an invitation post. Like Lord Scarlett, Morgan, Pierre, these guys. It's a part of the ball.
And what makes many noble children unhappy is that their noble status did not get this opportunity. But among the seventy people invited, there was a group of dirt buns that shamelessly mixed in. Especially looking at the waste hillbillies of the first-grade E brigade, a few grumpy aristocratic children immediately scolded and scolded. ...,
"They can also participate in the Grand Duke's Ball, God is blind!"
"Hmph, it's just luck!"
"A group of poor ghosts, they still want to go to the ball, I think they can't even afford the cheapest dresses, and it's a shame to go!"
"I want to see who dares to go where we haven't been!"
With this undisguised ridicule and contemptuous gaze, the surprise on the faces of those civilian students who had just been hit on the head by luck had not faded, and they became pale with panic.
They are just lowly civilians. The ball invited by Archduke Adolf was certainly attractive, but if it offended the nobles, it would be much more expensive than giving up a ball.
No one wants to be kicked out of the academy like the cadets who are targeted by the aristocracy. Since childhood, they and their families have endured so much hardship, don't they just look forward to the day when they can get ahead? If this qiē is cut off because of a dance party, it will be a fatal blow to themselves and to the relatives who are looking forward to it at home
Feeling a few glances, Roy half-squinted and turned his head to look over. Through the chaotic crowd, his gaze met Scarlett's.
In the crowd, Scarlett had a lazy and cold smile on her face, Xia Li was still as cold as iron, and Siwalker and the others did not hide their disdain and hatred. Everyone met Roy's gaze like knives.
They didn't expect that this guy was lucky enough to stand in the first row of the E team, and he was also qualified to participate in the party. The thought of being at the same dance party as this damn hillbilly made everyone feel like they had eaten a fly.
"What do you see, jealous lord, I'm lucky?" Roy thought to himself, the corners of his mouth hooked up a villainous smile, and his eyes glared back unceremoniously at the same time.
He wasn't really interested in that ball. However, it is an added bonus to make these guys uncomfortable. The more the other person's eyes looked like they were about to eat someone, the happier he smiled.
The eyes of Roy, Scarlett and the others collided, and everyone around them immediately caught it.
Seeing Scarlett and the others walking towards Roy, the voices of the scolding aristocratic children gradually became quieter, and some of the teaching students who were about to leave also frowned and stopped. The atmosphere gradually became a little tense.
With the rejection of Gustas's plebeian line, Diarra pursued an elite policy and tilted resources towards the aristocracy, and there has always been an irreconcilable undercurrent surging between the commoners and the nobility in the first training camp.
And if you want to choose a representative of the conflict between commoners and nobles, there is no doubt that it is Roy and Scarlett and others.
About the conflict between them. Everyone knows a little bit about it. Everyone knows that Roy beats Quincy and Bruno from admission day. became a public enemy who challenged the aristocratic order of the Academy. Later, he spat on the challenge book and broke Klaus's arm, which was equivalent to a slap in the face of a noble student in public.
For so many years. This kid was the first guy to dare to openly call out to the nobles as a commoner.
What he did, not to mention that it was inconceivable in the eyes of the civilian students who had always pursued the practice of swallowing their anger and calming things, even in the eyes of the arrogant and arrogant aristocratic students, they were also arrogant and lawless!
It's like a wolf popping out of a flock. Roy touched. It is the bottom line that no nobleman can tolerate for his own interests, authority and rule!
The subsequent development of events can be imagined.
On the first day after enrollment, more than a dozen large and small aristocratic groups in the first and second grades. all unanimously declared Roy a public enemy. They let out the words to drive this guy out of the academy completely. Even the senior aristocratic group, which held their identity and did not speak, privately targeted Roy. ...,
And the civilian cadets. The collective remained silent.
Let's be honest. Whether it is a civilian or not, any young man with strong blood will not want to be ridden by others. Especially in the training camp where Grand Duke Solan declared the equality of the noble and the low a hundred years ago, the nobles were domineering. It's long since enough for the commoner children who have the same knight cadet status.
They are the knights of the future, with the blood necessary to be a warrior!
But. Reality, but it is forcing them to bow their heads again and again, and destroying their arrogance again and again. In the face of the invisible shackles of the hierarchy, all their rebellion was the result of being forced out of the academy by the nobles using the rules!
Swallow the humiliation. This is the status quo of all civilian cadets. Except for a small number of soft-boned guys who are attached to the noble students and are willing to be their thug vassals, the other civilian students are respectful of the noble students.
They don't conflict with them, they just train silently, and strive to graduate as soon as possible and get registered as a knight. Only then will they be able to straighten up a little in front of the nobility.
Regarding the conflict between Roy and Scarlett and others, although the civilian children are indifferent on the surface, and no one dares to openly support him, in fact, many people are silently watching.
When Roy, Nicole, and the others beat up Quincy and Bruno on admission day, they secretly applauded. When Roy spits on the challenge, gets hurt, and crushes Klaus's arm, they scream in private. And when Roy and Xiang Feng competed, they didn't know how many times they cheered for Roy in their hearts.
The battle with Xiang Feng was a great shock to the civilian students.
When they saw Roy and Xiang Feng confronting each other, and when they saw him covered in blood and his broken arm and gritted his teeth to persevere, everyone felt admiration from their hearts.
Regardless of the final outcome, at least, Roy did what they wanted to do but didn't dare to do!
Even if he could only leave the academy in the end and never be able to register in the Knights' Palace, he would at least be able to hold his head high and have a life experience that he could be proud of than all the civilian cadets in the academy.
Of course, that was a scene that all civilian cadets did not want to see.
In their eyes, Roy has already become a symbol of all civilian cadets. They hoped that he would persevere, that he would finally win the contest with the noble cadets, and that the plebeian cadets would break free from the shackles of oppression.
But they also understood that Roy's final result would not be much better than that of the other students who were kicked out of the training camp. It could even be worse.
Because the people he offended were no longer just members of minor aristocratic families like Quincy and Bruno. He offended Lord Scarlett, which almost meant that he offended all the nobles.
In the whole of Muni City, there will not be a single nobleman to speak for him. Scarlett is the niece of the current Emperor Edward I, the cousin of Princess Elethea, and Prince Anthony's favorite treasure. The aristocrats didn't have time to stammer, so how could they risk the condemnation of the heavens to speak for a commoner boy?
And, in terms of strength, he doesn't have any chance of winning.
Not to mention that his strength can't beat geniuses like Scarlett and Xia Li, even if he can, is it in Muni City Academy. Can't find a few students who can clean him up?
Don't use someone like Pierre to do it, just find a brave knight in the upper class. You can trample him to death.
The atmosphere became more and more tense as Roy, Scarlett and the others looked at each other. The aristocratic cadets sneered and half-squinted their eyes. And the civilian cadets pinched a cold sweat in their hands. Scarlett and the noble children who surrounded her were outnumbered. If there is any conflict, it will naturally be Roy who suffers. ...,
In the blink of an eye, the children of the nobles had arrived in front of Roy.
"I actually don't understand," Scarlett took two steps forward, stepped out of the crowd, and whispered in Roy's ear, "You fight us." Just to fight for a breath?"
"It's not. Roy didn't glance at Scarlett.
"Why is that?" Scarlett wondered.
She already knew from Seawalker's mouth the whole process of Roy accepting the challenge and smashing the challenge book in SeaWalker's face.
From the very beginning, Scarlett didn't see the dark-haired kid as an opponent, if you want to talk about mentality. Probably because of boredom, under the pretext that the order of the aristocratic students was provoked, he played a game of cat and mouse.
Scarlett has been smart and clever since she was a child. The best at perceiving people's minds. Over the years. Although she is growing up, she can see everyone around her clearly. Only, she didn't understand Roy.
Roy doesn't look like an idiot. He should know what will happen to him against all the nobles. If he hadn't spit in the challenge book at the time. Instead, he told him to forgive after losing a game, and perhaps Scarlett let him go. But now. This stinky and hard boy has become the public enemy of the entire aristocratic group. What he did made her interested.
Scarlett wondered how long the prey commoner boy could hold out in this aristocratic game.
"Want to know?" Roy turned to face Scarlett.
His eyes were less than thirty centimeters away from Scarlett's delicate face, and he could see the reflection in each other's pupils, and he could smell his breath.
Scarlett stared into Roy's eyes and nodded gently. If you don't know about her relationship with Roy, I'm afraid everyone wouldn't have thought that this beautiful and charming girl is preparing to ruin the future of the boy in front of her.
Roy laughed, baring his white teeth.
"Because I'm happy, sir. ”
Scarlett's eyes froze, and it took a long time for her eyes to become smart. She turned her head to Xia Li, and asked without looking back, "Do you dare to come to the dance party at night?"
All eyes were on Roy's face. Although Scarlett's tone was soft and smiling, anyone could hear the slightest hint of unkindness in it.
Roy sneered inwardly. A year and a half ago, he had already seen the faces of the nobles. And a year and a half later, in this academy, he once again saw the faces of the children of the nobility.
Since you want to provoke Lao Tzu, don't blame Lao Tzu for being black.
"Of course I'll come," Roy said with a smile, "and whenever there's a pretty girl, I usually like to go there." ”
After speaking, he glanced at Scarlett's back with a smile as if he was looking at a piece of goods, said see you in the evening, and turned to walk towards Julie and the others who were waiting in the distance.
Behind him, a cold light flashed in Scarlett's eyes
Before noon, the conversation between Roy and Scarlett had already spread throughout the first training camp after the ceremony. Just touch the meaning of these two short conversations a little, and then connect with the challenge that Seawalker gave Roy before the celebration begins, even fools know that the two sides are probably in an endless situation this time.
And what makes everyone even more horrified is that judging from the last two sentences of Roy and Scarlett, their conflict may break out in the castle of Archduke Adolf, at tonight's ball!
For a time, the whole academy was in a sensation.
There are those who bet that Roy can't get out of Grand Duke Adolf's castle, there are those who gloat and assert that Roy will be driven away in less than a week, there are those who show off their previous judgments vividly, there are those who shake their heads and sigh, and there are those who secretly worry about Roy. ..., "I can't help myself!" In the quiet living room of Xiaolou, a cold snort from Rice sounded. After hearing what his sister Anne told about Roy, Rice jerked to his feet.
Under the sunny balcony, the music of the carnival team was heard, but this festive sound. But he couldn't get rid of Rice's anger.
"A lowly handyman, who has done so many things back in Bollabelle. Now he's provoking Lord Scarlett again, huh, is he relying on himself to be Princess Elethea's guardian knight? Even if it was true, he couldn't fight Lord Scarlett. Who would embarrass their cousin for the sake of an outsider, let alone Prince Anthony."
At this, Rice froze as if he had encountered some taboo. Turning his head to look at his sister Anne who was sitting on the sofa with her chin propped up, she changed her head and said, "You go and persuade this kid." Although he is not a servant of our family now, if something happens and others know his identity, we will still have to be implicated. You tell him. Let him"
Anne looked out the window and interrupted her brother faintly: "Needless to say, he won't listen." As long as he believes in things. No one can pull it back. ”
Rice and Anne were talking at the same time. In the small building at No. 301 Tulip Street in the east of the city, Ling Xue was lying on the bed, looking at her sister Ling Shuang with a pair of big eyes: "Second sister, do you think Roy will be okay?
"Who knows what this idiot thinks!" Ling Shuang, who was distraught about choosing a dress for the evening, threw away her clothes angrily. One butt sat down on the bed and bounced several times. said, "That guy is a stubborn cow, if you want to talk about strength, as long as he uses magic, he will not lose to those people." But last time he was beaten like that, he still doesn't need to!"
"Roy is the ultimate nuisance. Ling Xue wrinkled her nose and snorted, "Why do I always think that since we met him, he has always been screwed with us. I think he's like this, he's like that. I'm. It's not worrying at all. ”
"Huh?" Ling Shuang looked at her sister with a strange expression, "What do you think of him?"
Ling Xue's face turned red all of a sudden, and she distinguished, "I didn't mean that, I mean"
"Come less," Ling Shuang leaned down and looked into Ling Xue's eyes and said, "You have this guy in front of me eighty times a day." In the academy, you prick up your ears for everything related to him. Dare you say you don't mean that?"
"It's because he saved my father. Ling Xue straightened her arms, propped herself up, and shouted.
"Your dad is also my dad, why am I not like you" Ling Shuang pouted, got up and picked up two more skirts, and compared them on her body, "Which one does I look good within?"
"I don't know," Ling Xue ran out of the room with the corner of her skirt: "I'll go to the eldest sister." ”
Seeing Ling Xue's back disappear into the corridor, Ling Shuang was deflated, put down her skirt, lay on the bed with a fit fit, holding her chin, and her mind was just a thought: "If that guy really fights with the nobles tonight, should I help?"
"Got that, Roy and Scarlett," Steve asked, walking beside Gustas.
"Hmm. Gustas nodded, returned the salute to a few students who passed by, suddenly laughed, and said to Steve, "This kid is really not worrying. ”
"I think that's the way it is. Steve sneered: "The only disciple of the dark camp, who do you want him to give worry? If something happens, we will take it down for him! I'm afraid he's too honest!"
"Isn't this kid going to suffer?" asked Hough interjected on the other side. "If it were another commoner student, he might suffer a loss if he fought with the children of the nobles at the aristocratic ball, but, this kid," Gustas smirked, "it would be good that he didn't let others suffer." Don't forget, he was the hero of the Battle of Medin City. Sophia invites the first three rows of students, and he is actually the only target!"
Hearing this, Steve and Hough looked at each other with amusement.
Looking back now, they were still snickering at the way the old rivals in the second and third training camps looked at them in the square. That kind of taste, don't even mention it. It's cooler than eating chilled bayberry in the summer!
In the entire square, including the first training camp, only a few people knew that this kid who made the other two training camps salivate had become a disciple of the dark camp. Whether it's Diarra's gang or the other two major training camps, trying to win him over is a pipe dream!
"To be honest, I'm curious about what this kid is holding back," Gustas said, "but from the moment he entered the school, I knew that this guy who was hiding everything was not doing anything good." ”
Speaking of this, Gustas waved his hand, "Let's go." I'd like to see what this kid can do tonight. The stagnant waters of the first training camp should also be stirred!"
I'm grateful. They all cried. It's true. The fat man can do my job, which is also content, and there are so many guys who like fat people to support, and I am only grateful in my heart. A single chapter that sells meat cuteness, no gray hair!haha.
One day, monthly pass 2520. If not double, it's more than a thousand. Moreover, everyone knew that I was protecting me, and they didn't even ask for anything.
But I know shame. Just because you didn't mention it doesn't mean I don't understand. I'll write well, update it well, and have a more correct attitude. Repay everyone for their support.
In addition, today, I would like to thank you all of you for your red rewards, the promise of the gods forever, the little stupid o, the stupid little watermelon, Miao Ran, and then smile, the naughty little girl and other alliance leaders, your support has made me a hundred times more motivated.
At the same time, I would like to thank Dandan's melancholy, the Nine Dragons Demon Venerable and all the alliance leaders, and all the brothers who rewarded and voted for the month. Thank you.
Finally, I said two words, 1, Miao Miao, do not call to urge the draft. 2, gods, you are too domineering. 3. Small leaves, begging to bring a rub to eat and drink to rub the car.