The splendid palace hall of the Prime Minister's Mansion is brightly lit. Donald sat on a high-backed velvet cushion carved from a single piece of iron sandalwood at the front of the main hall, leaning on the armrest, his brow furrowed, and his gaze faintly looking at the ground in front of him like a cold candle.

The marble on the floor reflects a soft glow in the light. On the curved walls, exquisite murals come to life. Winding magic patterns hovered in the void, mysterious and beautiful.

In the center of the main hall, dozens of richly dressed nobles were already arguing. There was a huge sound that shook the crystal dome and rattled.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we must come up with a countermeasure at once. A middle-aged nobleman said loudly.

"What do we think of a countermeasure?" the man next to him scoffed, "This is Edward's trouble, what does it have to do with us." Besides, Nishizawa, the head of the Lanris family, is famous for his granddaughter!"

"Shi has a famous fart, he is obviously going to take advantage of the fire to rob and insert a kick in!" The middle-aged nobleman's face turned pale.

"Needless to say," an old man in front of him glanced at him and said indifferently: "Fools know that Augustus proposed to Princess Ellethia two years ago, and behind his back, wasn't it the idea of swallowing the Solan royal family in blood and ruling the Solan Empire?"

The middle-aged man's companion said angrily: "But it was the beginning! Didn't everyone use the competition to fight for more than three years? Over the years, we have planned and deployed, and we have already mastered absolute superiority, just waiting for a fatal blow." If it weren't for the damned Philaeon, Edward would have abdicated long ago!"

"Yes," the old man sneered, "the problem is that we haven't been able to force Edward to abdicate in the past two years, and now the timing is even worse. Do you want to turn against the Lanris family and build a strong enemy?"

"Before, I couldn't. It doesn't mean that xiàn can't. The middle-aged nobleman snorted and said, "Edward's current situation looks good. But once the battle is lost, it will be a catastrophe immediately. At this juncture, what is the matter with the Golden Dragon Family stepping in?

"The Lanris family is not stupid. After enduring two years, they are not waiting for an opportunity? Since there is an opportunity in front of them, of course they will take advantage of it. The old man retorted disdainfully, "Besides, are you so sure that Edward will lose? How much has the royal family benefited from the beginning of the war until now, not to mention that the grass that had already fallen to us is now turning to look at the wind, let's talk about the three new leg.......ions."

As he said this, he saw Donald's face grow more and more gloomy. With a grim expression, he sneered twice and kept silent.

Hear the words of this old nobleman. in the hall. Gradually, it quieted down. Nobles, look at me, I'll look at you. There was worry in his eyes.

Everyone knows that Master Donald's backstage is Pope Solan.

When Solan founded the country, Grand Duke Solan and the Knights of the Holy See fought bloody battles, and the royal family of Solan has been out of the control of the Holy See for a hundred years, and it has been unruly. Thirty years ago, after Donald ascended to the throne of prime minister, he hit it off with Pope Solan and became the best candidate to replace Solan's royal family with the support of the Holy See.

Over the years, Lord Donald has been in the Saint Soran Empire. Especially after winning the contest with Edward more than ten years ago, he became the uncrowned king of the Solan Empire. Edward's will and the Cabinet's decision could not have been carried out without Donald's nod.

However, after all, Pope Solan is only Pope Solan, not the Pope.

Before the war, the Holy See of Solan was still a part of Vendinoburg and the Holy Court, and could still get the support of the Pope, but after the war, even the Pope of Soran himself was faced with the embarrassing situation of being abolished by the Vatican or annexed by the Holy See after Solan destroyed the country, let alone let the Vatican support Donald again.

Two years ago, when the Lanris proposed the marriage of Augustus and Elethea, everyone knew that the Golden Dragon family had the ambition to annex Solan, and it was quite a headache.

In terms of strength, the Golden Dragon Family has stood on the Salvation Continent for three hundred years, and there are many strong ones. There are countless generals under his command. In terms of relationship with the Holy See, most of the important figures in the Lanris clan were born in the Holy See, and Augustus was the godson of Pope Nicholas II and the future head of the Knights Templar.

If the Lanris family is the eldest son of the Holy See, then Donald is at most an illegitimate child. With your toes you know, who the Holy See will support.

Because of this, everyone tried their best to create an imperial capital competition, trying to delay the Lanris people's entry into Solan. Unexpectedly, just when Donald stepped up preparations to depose Edward, Peter the Great brazenly launched an invasion. And this battle gave Edward I a chance to turn over!

Now, the Donald line is in a very awkward position. Internal divisions are also enormous.

Some people think it's none of their business, and there's no need to tear their faces apart for the sake of royalty and Lanrith. Even if the two sides only maintain the same front on the surface, it must be maintained. Others believe that the Lanrees directly intervened in Solan, clearly in a hurry. This kind of rule-breaking practice cannot be tolerated.

Therefore, when the empty demon ship of the Lanrees passed through the imperial capital today, the Donald henchmen gathered in the Prime Minister's Mansion almost quarreled.

"Watts," Donald's lowered eyelids lifted slightly, and a knife-like glare flashed in his triangular eyes due to his old age, "What do you think?"

A thin old nobleman with a gray horsehair wig, like a ghost, slowly walked out of the shadows on the left side of Donald's chair and whispered, "Your Excellency has a point. However, the focus of disagreement was whether Edward could win the battle. ”

Donald's hand on the armrest lifted slightly, motioning for Watts to continue.

Watts' slender eyes quietly glanced at the middle-aged nobleman who had just spoken, and said, "Count Auger obviously thinks that Edward won't last a few days. Waiting for the defeat at the front is a great opportunity for us. At this juncture, it is very bad for us to intervene. ”

Watts said, his gaze shifted to the old nobleman who was arguing with the middle-aged nobleman just now: "Marquis Jagger obviously thinks that Edward is gaining momentum and is likely to win this round of battle. We need to be more patient and wait for our chances. At this time, Lanrith troubled Edward, and what he lost was the prestige of the royal family. We don't need to provoke an enemy like Lanris. ”

Donald was thoughtful. Raising his eyelids, he asked, "And what do you think?"

"I agree with Marquis Jagger. Watts bowed.

"Oh?" asked Donald, "do you think Edward can win this battle?"

"Your Excellency. The reason why I agree is not that Edward will win, but that Roy will definitely lose. Watts said with a steady. "Roy has lost, and Edward has already lost eight floors. That kid was not only the guardian knight of Elethia, but also the hero of the Battle of Medin City, if Edward couldn't even protect him, how could he gain the trust of his soldiers and lords? Even if he won the war, he also lost the hearts and minds of the people. ”

"And what if that kid wins?" Donald looked at Watts with half-squinted eyes.

"I would have liked him to win. He won, and it's a shame on the Lanrith family, and it doesn't hurt us. When the time comes. We're going to ....... that kid," Watts made a throat-slitting gesture.

Donald's eyes flashed, and the nobles on the side were in a commotion.

"You mean......" asked Donald, "we shot him?"

"Yes. My lord. Watts nodded coldly. "It doesn't matter to us whether we win or lose. But the life and death of that kid had something to do with Edward. When the time comes. Let's just kill that kid on a charge, Lanrith has lost face, and has to accept our favor, and Edward is also roasted on the fire by us......."

Speaking of this, he sneered and whispered, "...... Roy is just an insignificant little man. Edward, in order to keep the royal family stable, can sacrifice that kid once, will he tear his face for that kid and you at the most critical moment of the battle? ”

In the main hall, there was silence, and looking at the sinister face of this old guy under a gray wig, the nobles couldn't help but shudder. The corners of Donald's mouth slowly hooked up a smile.

The fight for the throne has always been a matter that can only be taken from the middle, not from the middle.

He has been playing with power for decades, and knows better than anyone the rules of this world of the jungle. For thirty years, he has never concealed his ambitions and put his war with the royal family on the bright side, because he knows that the bright and bright will always be more advantageous than the dark coveting!

All he had to lose was a little so-called fame, and he could bear the reproach of his usurper. And because of this, he can simply break the orthodoxy of the royal family, can openly suppress the royal family, can cultivate his own power unscrupulously, and can make those wall grasses see the shape clearly.

Forbearance is something he did thirty years ago. And now, what he needs is to show his strength to everyone! It is to strike Edward again and again under the watchful eyes of all the forces of Solan. Until the other person falls!

Although he didn't expect to pull an emperor off his horse by killing a small person, it would at least make the victorious scales more inclined to him. Even if it was just a small weight, he didn't mind a river of blood.

As Watts said.

This is a great opportunity to show off your knives!

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The Empty Demon Ship slowly approached the province of Lulian.

The Lanris did not seem to be prepared to rush to Lulian as soon as possible, and along the way, the magic ship not only flew slowly and leisurely, but also stopped every time they arrived in a big city, or to buy goods, or to hunt and play, and set off when they had rested enough.

The transportation of the Salvation Continent is inconvenient, and the news is blocked. There are also barriers between the noble territories, and what happens in one city may not be transmitted to neighboring cities in ten days and half a month.

The main cities of the major provinces and the large cities that occupy the main transportation routes are relatively good, and people can get a little information from the caravans, well-informed mercenaries, and the announcements of [Shirando], but once they are out of the city, even the manors and villages that are not far away are often not connected.

It was difficult to know what was going on in the world, let alone the challenge of the high-level struggles of the Empire, which took place in the southernmost province of the Empire, and which involved the struggle at the top of the Empire, which they could not even see on tiptoe.

And the stop-and-go of Schilling and Kevin has made this matter get more people's attention. Especially for the people of Solan in the land where the Sky Demon Ship passed, the Sky Demon Ship that flew south under the escort of the Imperial Griffon Knight, whom they had not seen once in decades, was as conspicuous as the sun.

All kinds of theories spread in the streets and alleys. Caravans, wandering mercenaries. Walkers and minstrels. And he spread them out in all directions.

For the farmers busy farming, the women in aprons boiling potato soup, and the teenagers who lie on the straw and fantasize, the empty magic ship and those imperial griffin knights. After all, they are not the same world. At most, I talked to people in the village and town, and I gradually forgot about it.

And for those who have an interest in this matter, especially the upper nobles of the imperial capital and Lulian and the training camp instructors. This has become the hottest topic at the moment, apart from the war between the Empire and Filie

No one expected that the conflict between Roy and Scarlett would develop to such a point. No one even thought that it was the Golden Dragon family who came to take revenge on Scarlett.

With all kinds of news circulating, Roy's other little-known identity gradually spread. When the students heard that Roy was actually the little handyman who had been taken a fancy to by Princess Eretia and canonized as a guardian knight in Borabel. There was an uproar.

The others were just shocked by Roy's identity. And Nicole, Tang Xiaoben, Ling Shuang Ling Xue and others, who knew Roy, were shocked at the same time. Worried about Roy.

It was no secret that the Bollabel Revolution was back then. Everybody heard. Angered by the Golden Dragon Family by being canonized as a Guardian Knight by Elethea, Roy had actually died once. And this time. The reason why the Golden Dragon Family made a move was obviously not as simple as just being angry for Scarlett.

Things have grown beyond their imagination. No matter what camp they are in, whether they are gloating or worrying, they can only watch this storm come to their faces.

However, just as the storm and clouds gradually stirred up with the approach of the empty demon ship, Roy, who was at the heart of the whirlpool, was completely focused on the upcoming challenge.

Master Luo is very busy.

The Green Tower Manor and the city's Bollabel residents have already set foot on the road to Banderz in batches. They will carve out a new home under the leadership of Daddy Ken, Sister Lan, Mr. and Mrs. Hans, and Grandet.

In charge of the escort was a team of Red Leaf soldiers sent by Ivan, Sanjie and Philip. At the same time, Karenich also transferred three just knights and six brave knights from the knights of the Rongyang camp. This strength, coupled with the signboard of the Momiji Knights, is enough to deter bandits along the way.

And the Green Tower Manor has been turned into a temporary military camp after demolishing something that can be removed. Within a few days, with the arrival of the third, fourth, and fifth batches of knights of the Rong Yang Battalion. The number of knights gathered in the manor had skyrocketed to one hundred and thirty.

These more than 100 knights made Roy's shoulders, which he had just felt a little lighter, put a heavier burden on him.

Treating these knights was Roy's first difficulty.

Everyone's injuries are different, and the treatment plan is naturally different. Just probing the root cause of their loss of vindictive energy made Roy's mental power almost exhausted, and when it came to treatment, the double consumption of magic and mental power was even more amazing. At the end of the day, Roy even had the heart to die.

The second hurdle is money.

In order to relocate civilians without the slightest combat effectiveness and survivability to Bandez, to avoid the scourge of war. Grande took most of the money, and what remained in Roy's hands was only 100,000 gold lulangs.

If it is placed on ordinary people, 100,000 gold Lulang is enough to buy a large manor or even a small territory. Even if you spend time in the imperial capital, you can live a good life for ten years. But putting this money on a team of knights is a drop in the bucket!

At this time, Roy realized that not everyone could afford to raise a knight.

A minor nobleman like Baron Polebel recruited eight armed knights to be the strongest of the nearby realms of the same rank, and Archduke Adolf, who was rich in the entire province of Lulian, also needed to release the Bavarian Knights and the Coastal Mercenary Regiment under his command in peacetime to run an estate.

According to the current price, a one-handed sword that can fight can easily cost hundreds of gold Lu Lang, and a strong enough war horse will cost at least seven or eight hundred gold Lu Lang. And that's not even counting shields, riding guns, armor and spare scooters. Casually calculated, the most basic equipment for a knight will cost one or two thousand gold Lu Lang.

And if you want to really give full play to the combat effectiveness of these knights whose general strength is above the level of fairness in the Rongyang Battalion, it is not much for one person to smash 10,000 gold Lulang!

After all, the combat effectiveness of a team. In addition to the strength of the knight himself. The importance of armament accounts for more than half. Especially knights above the level of fairness, after being equipped with a full set of magic pattern equipment, they can become a terrifying knight of the heavenly change. One person kills four or five opponents of the same level. It's a breeze!

Healing the knights' injuries and figuring out ways to make money were already keeping Roy busy. Coupled with the thunderous morning training and meditation every day, where does he still have the spirit to care whether the guy who comes to challenge is a donkey or a horse.

Anyway, the old man stayed in the academy and didn't go out. Can those guys rush in and bite their own eggs?

"Damn. Roy muttered as he recovered from his meditation. The soreness of the devil's training in a turtle suit in the morning hit his body in waves, and he had just been hit again in the world of judgment.

The condition for breaking the seal of the bow spirit is to learn the footwork of the elves.

Although when Roy was learning the fighting technique in the sword spirit realm, the dodge body footwork was an extremely important part, but the sword spirit footwork was mainly concentrated in the combat range, and the left and right were only seven or eight meters in a radius. And. Because the sword spirit is also a human being, although the footwork is mysterious and weird, for Roy. There's nothing special to get used to.

But. The pace of the elves is different.

Elves are born with extremely fast feet, and their bodies are light and stretched. Extremely capable of jumping and staying in the air. And the footwork of the bow spirit is a lost advanced footwork among the elves, even if Roy has been running with the elves since he was a child and has a certain foundation, there is no way to keep up with the rhythm of the bow spirit.

From the opening of the Bow Spirit Realm to the present, the following distance that Roy can complete is only a short hundred meters. Again, this is the result of repeated learning during daily meditation. And at first, he couldn't even keep up with thirty meters, so he was thrown off by the bow spirit.

Roy shook his head, shook his frustration out of his mind, calmed down, and began to check his current state.

After training Kameni and a group of demons these days, he found that his body had changed significantly. The bones become stronger, and the muscles and flesh become stronger. The outer surface of the body is as thin as if a piece of wool iron has been repeatedly forged.

Roy took a deep breath and threw a punch. For this punch, he didn't use his fighting spirit. But he could still feel an explosive force, flowing majestically through the flesh, pushing his fist through the air like lightning, emitting a sharp whistling sound.

Roy was overjoyed.

This punch, with the strength of the flesh alone, already has a strength of 1,500 strengths. It is equivalent to an armed one-star knight who has broken through the first order of fighting spirit, and the full force of the fighting spirit is stimulated!

The body is the basis of the knight's martial arts, and a stronger body brings a significant increase in fighting spirit.

At this moment, the fighting spirit was stimulated, and when I looked at the internal vision technique, I saw the source power like sand, which turned into a fighting spirit and traveled through the Zhou Tian meridians with the operation of the truth. Every time a small week passes, the strength of the fighting spirit grows by one layer. Finally, the combat ring is turned into a combat ring and penetrates out of the body. In the rotation, the energy of heaven and earth is attracted and becomes stronger and stronger.

When Roy raised his fighting spirit to the extreme, the battle ring flashed violently, faintly shaking, as if there was another battle ring hidden in it, and it was about to split. This is exactly the sign of the pinnacle of armament, about to break through to the brave knight.

Looking back, even Roy himself didn't believe that in just one month, he had broken five stars in a row and cultivated to this level.

With such a cultivation speed, it is no wonder that Vice Dean Diarra is defiled as relying on the limit of medicine. You must know that in the Muni City Branch, the most talented S team, after a year of study, most of them only have the strength of three to four stars. And many of the students of the E brigade can't even reach two stars.

When Roy met Nicole and the others in the Warcraft Mountains, Luke was the only one with the strength to be armed with two stars.

Roy didn't know how many cultivation speeds he could rank in a month to reach the peak of five stars in the entire Salvation Continent, but he knew that at least in Lulian, this was unique!

Roy, though, wasn't complacent.

Because he knew that when Augustus was fourteen years old, he was already a just knight. The cultivation speed of the previous low-level knight stage was not mentioned at all.

In their eyes, the two stages of arming and bravery are just the lowest levels of the knight's pyramid. No matter how fast you cultivate, it doesn't mean anything. After the impartial knight opens up the second nebula, the difficulty of the knight's cultivation will increase exponentially. The further you go, the harder it gets.

It can be said that after the just knight, every promotion is a hurdle. Many knights spend a lifetime and may not be able to break through. Especially when it comes to hitting the Holy Rank, it is even more difficult to enter the heavens. That's why Augustus was able to maintain a steady rate of one step every two years, which makes people feel so terrible.

Therefore, for Roy, the current cultivation speed is nothing to be proud of. His goal is to defeat Augustus in the Imperial Capital Tournament in a year and a half!

If this goal is known to others, I am afraid that everyone will think of him as a madman.

Roy himself felt like a madman.

A year and a half ago, he was just a scrap without even a fighting spirit. And Augustus was already a knight of the Great Light. And now, there are only a little more than fifteen months before the imperial capital competition. He is a paladin, and he is just a small armed knight.

It took more than eight years to catch up with the most amazing genius on this continent in such a short period of time, and it is not enough to describe it as an idiot's dream.

However, from the age of three, Roy did not think about his future.

When he was forced by William to run in the snow and ice, to climb rock walls in the biting cold wind, and to hunt in the treacherous jungle, he never thought about the distant future. All the qiē reminded him every minute and every second, only focus on the present!

Roy didn't know what kind of strength he would have when he stood in front of Augustus in the future, he only knew that he would go in that direction until that day came.

Checking his fighting spirit, Roy estimated his cultivation speed, and the corners of his mouth hooked up with an excited smile.

With the spiritual power of the Illusory Tower, he was completely sure that he would be able to break through to the Brave Knight within three days. Once a breakthrough is reached, his close-quarters combat strength and survivability will be improved by leaps and bounds. Especially the attack method of the battle ring out of the body, but he has been looking forward to it for a long time.

Because of the relationship between the same magic and fighting energy, his fighting spirit level is much higher than that of knights of the same level. In the armed knight stage, no matter how strong the source power reserve is, it is just a little more sufficient than the opponent's endurance when fighting.

Just like in the fight with Xia Li, he struck the last punch when everyone thought his fighting spirit was exhausted, and thus won the victory. However, there are not many such opportunities. Especially when he met the knights of the Fifth Legion like the other day, his fighting spirit had no effect.

And promoted to Brave Knight, it's different. He could cultivate higher-level martial arts, and he could use these martial arts and the out-of-body attacks of the battle ring to pour out his abundant source power.

Entering the Brave Knight class, he has received far more promotions than other knights of the same level!

But Roy's eyes narrowed slightly.

Cultivation in the Spirit Power Tower will have limitations after breaking through the Brave Knight. Although the cultivation speed here is still much higher than in other places, for the Brave Knight's source power and tendon expansion that doubles every little week, the cultivation speed will be greatly slowed down.

In addition, the news from the front line these days is not very good. in case of

Roy opened the door to the training room. He felt as if he should use his beautiful blue eyes to take a good look in the dark camp.

A couple of old guys say there's a lot of good stuff here......