In the early morning, the heavy gate of the military camp in the south of the city slowly opened with the vigorous push of eight guards.

"Whole group, let's go!"

With Leng Jin's order, the knights lined up in a row of four, like a long dragon, from the barracks, diagonally through the small square in the south of the city, turned into Shengli Street, and walked towards the south gate.

Leading the way are Rondelo, Bolon, Lake and Larry.

Everyone's expressions were solemn.

Around the square, on both sides of the road, and even on the rooftops, there were already people standing onlookers.

On the balcony of the Hera Hotel opposite the barracks, there are many nobles looking from afar.

The city was particularly quiet at this moment, and only the sound of horses' hooves beating on the bluestone of the road as the procession moved forward, and the clash of swords and armor as the horses rose and fell.

"Are you really leaving?"

"Didn't you say you hadn't even finished the basic training?"

"Who knows?"

"Where are they going? Heading north?"

"I guess I should go to Count Leo's fiefdom, in Anthos, His Majesty personally rewarded him. I've heard that it used to be a royal domain. ”

"But I've heard that the situation in the north is getting worse and worse. If I go to the fiefdom, I think it would be better to stay in Lulian and finish the training before leaving. ”

I agree. ”

"Yes, Count Leo is now an upstart in the Empire, and the Order has just been formed. Whoever is in the turn of the demon clan in this kind of thing, can't it be his turn, right? Even our Lulian, because we just fought with the abyss demons, were specially allowed to postpone our northward journey?"

"I don't know if there's anything going on here. I've heard that during this time, those nobles have been jumping up and down, waiting to see the jokes of the Knights of the Southern Cross?"

"Jokes? Aren't they enough jokes of their own?"

"That's it, I think, these guys are jealous!"

The civilians on the streets chattered, and occasionally some applauded and cheered for the marching knights.

And as more and more Southern Cross knights appeared, the cheers grew louder and louder.

For the Lurians, the Knights of the Southern Cross are their own team.

In particular, the hundreds of mercenaries who followed Leo out of the abyss were heroes that every Lulian was sincerely grateful and respected.

Although they didn't know where they were going, everyone knew that this team that sacrificed the banner with demonic blood had never existed to endure humiliation and steal life from the day it was established.

Say goodbye today, one day in the future, when the world hears the name of this team again, it must be when she shines brightly and turns out to be born!

"Take care!"

"Let's do it, everyone!"

Many people stretched out their hands from a distance through the guards, high-fived the knights on horseback, and exhorted them with sincerity.

And as the rows of iron horses rolled by, with the sound of horses' hooves, with the fluttering flags and the forest of cavalry spears, the mood was stirred, and someone in the crowd shouted Long live the Empire.

Then the second person, the third person......

Such a sound was like a trickling rain at first, and then gradually converged into a violent storm, diffusing and resounding in the sky.

Listening to this voice, the nobles on the Hera Hotel platform had mixed expressions.

"Hmph...... a nobleman from the Northwestern Prue Province said sarcastically, "It's just a local knight order, and it deserves to be so grand, even the long live of the empire has been called out." It's just inexplicable. ”

Someone next to him chimed in: "Although Lulian is now known as the small imperial capital, it is still in the southern countryside after all." How many of these people here have seen the world?"

"You say, here Ao has disappeared for so long, and this time he will lead the knights to the north, what is the plan?" An old nobleman with gray hair frowned: "He doesn't really think that if he puts these mercenaries together, he will be able to conquer the world and make great achievements?"

"That's naïve, isn't it?"

"I received news that they were going north, and I thought it was a rumor. I didn't expect it to be true. ”

"Maybe it's not going to fight the demons, right? Maybe it's going to the fiefdom. ”

"Hey, if you really dare to go to the front, then it's a lot of fun...... I'm just waiting to see this kid fight!"

"I think Leo made the right choice to leave Lulian. You say that he, the so-called knights, is not as uncomfortable as being roasted on a fire when he sees the sky being watched by us? If he can be trained, it will be a joke if he can't be trained. ”

"Yes, if I were him, I would simply pull the team to the fiefdom. If you really can't train, you can simply disband quietly, so as not to be embarrassed here......"

A bunch of gossip and cynicism.

However, there are also those that are not eye-catching.

A sneer came, and not far away, a burly nobleman with a beard looked at this side and sneered: "You guys have a lot of heart. I wonder if everyone was so worried when Count Leo was fighting with the four major families, or when he smashed the abyss demon invasion?"

The atmosphere suddenly became a little gunpowdery.

Everyone frowned. How can they not hear what the other person is saying?

That is to say, the predicament that Leo encountered before was far more difficult than the current one, and he also overcame. Now it's just training, and there is no need for others to worry about it.

"What?" said one of the former nobles, rolling his eyes, "Leo isn't here now, and you're in the wrong place if you want to make a fuss." ”

The aristocrats all laughed.

"Sycophants?" said the bearded nobleman disdainfully: "A few days ago, I don't know who walked around in front of the Grand Duke's Mansion all day long, jumping up and down, just to be able to meet people. What, forget it all now?"

As soon as these words came out, the laughter around them suddenly disappeared without a trace, as if they had been choked by the neck.

On the surface, it sounded like the beard was aimed at the guy who rolled his eyes.

But in fact, there were so many people present, who didn't rack his brains to meet Leo, and even asked people everywhere to beg for help?

The threshold of those local noble lords of Lulian was almost flattened by them.

All because of the appearance of the hundred Heavenly Transformation Demon Knights under Adolf's command. After that day, everyone received a death order from the family - to establish a relationship with Leo at all costs.

Whether it's cooperation or friendship, even if it's just a simple dinner for the Empire's hottest magician, it's a credit to those of them who have been sent to Lulian.

However, no one made it happen.

After that day, Leo vanished.

And finally when he returned, he was leaving. And where he was going and what he was doing, no one even knew.

Because of this, everyone present was somewhat resentful.

This cynicism is not so much about worrying about the training of the Southern Cross Knights, but rather about the jealousy of not being able to eat grapes and saying that grapes are sour. After all, among them, there are many people who have fought with Leo for the ownership of mercenaries.

Annoyed and angry, the nobleman who rolled his eyes snorted coldly and said, "What's the use of a person being so powerful? We are looking for him because of his identity as a demon pattern master, not because of this so-called knight order established by his own strength!"

"Yes!" someone next to him said, "A good Demon Pattern Master is not necessarily a good commander. Besides, these people of the Southern Cross Knights have not even completed the most basic training, and they are not vulnerable to attack at all when they go to the battlefield. ”

"Vulnerable?" This time, without waiting for the beard to refute, a middle-aged nobleman standing beside him laughed: "You take a closer look at the lineup of others, and dare to call it vulnerable?"

The bearded nobleman laughed as if he had heard some big joke, and laughed: "Leo can give Adolf a hundred sets of Heavenly Transformation Demon Costumes, but his own knights are not equipped with them?" I heard that almost all the magic gold armor that can be collected in the south of the empire in the recent period has been collected by Lulian's Golden Skull Auction House, and I don't think it needs to be said where it will end up?"

The nobles on the opposite side were speechless.

This is something that even the hardest people can't refute.

"Besides, even if we don't put aside the Heavenly Transformation Demon Costume, we also put aside the two holy realms among the mercenaries, the fifty-six Great Light Knights and the nearly four hundred Glory Knights......" The middle-aged nobleman pointed in the direction of the military camp: "Nu, look, those elven hunters, and those dwarven heavy armor warriors......"

The faces of the crowd became even more ugly.

At this moment, it was four hundred elven hunters and six hundred dwarven heavy warriors who were walking out of the barracks.

It's been a few years since you've seen these two alien formed troops appear in the human army sequence.

And at this moment, they did not appear in the army of the Holy See, did not appear in the sequence of the royal army, and did not appear in the private army of these families, but appeared in the newly formed knightly order of a little earl.

What does it mean for these aliens to join?

No one knows better than they do.

Elven Hunter, known as the King of Hunters. And the dwarven heavy armor warrior is the emperor of the heavy armor warriors.

This is the power that comes with the talent of the race, and it is not cultivated by training at all.

Their addition also means that the Knights of the Southern Cross have reached the pinnacle of what a knight can achieve in terms of battlefield intelligence reconnaissance and heavy infantry!

What does it mean to be at the top?

That means that if you play battlefield intelligence with them, you'll be killed by them.

Hundreds of elven hunters who come and go like the wind and archery will slaughter or play with the scouts you have scattered around the battlefield.

They'll know everything about you, and you'll only know what they want you to know.

Before this battle is fought, you will lose half of it.

And if the elven rangers decided the beginning of the war, then on the battlefield of the official confrontation, a dwarven heavy armored army is even more desperate.

Normally, these heavy warriors would not have been dispatched.

Their armor was too heavy for any mount to carry them on their charge. Therefore, in the battle of the knights, they often just stand in the center of the main formation, quietly watching.

But no one can ignore them.

Even if they only stand there, they are already a terrifying deterrent and pressure in themselves.

Because when your knights charge, you will know how strong the wall of iron is that stands in your way.

In front of them, you are like a wave on a reef, and you will eventually be crushed!

Conversely, when the opposing cavalry charges at you, you will not only have to deal with the knights galloping on their horses, but you will also have to keep an eye out for these short tin cans.

Usually all your foreboding will come true when you get into the scuffle.

At that time, you will find that these dwarves, singing the song of the angry warriors, have already stepped on their little short legs, and rushed into your array at a speed no less than that of galloping horses.

They are not good at long-distance running, but when it comes to short-distance sprints in heavy armor, they are definitely the best in the world.

There is no doubt that as long as they rush in, it will be a one-sided slaughter.

These blood-covered killers will chop off your head, smash your skull, and smash your chest, turning your whole body into a splattered mass of flesh in an instant.

That's what Elven Rangers and Dwarven Heavy Warriors are all about.

Their presence is enough to raise the combat effectiveness of any knight order to several levels.

"What a luxurious lineup...... the middle-aged nobleman had already ignored everyone at this time, and said almost to himself, "I really can't imagine how terrible such a team will be once it completes its training." And even if you don't train......"

He turned his head, and the sarcasm on his face was not concealed at all: "Of all the people present, which one is willing to touch them?"

Suddenly the conversation was meaningless.

The atmosphere completely cooled down.

......

On a hillside outside the city, the noble lords of Adolf and Lulian who saw them off were all quietly watching the team out of the city gate, with complicated expressions.

Roy stood beside Adolf.

"This time, it's really ......" Adolf was embarrassed for a long time, and finally spoke.

At the beginning, he took over the training task in a big way, but in the end he couldn't complete it, so that when Roy was eager to go north, he could only lead a "mercenary group" that was almost intact to leave.

It made him blush a little.

"Then you will pay me a hundred less Heavenly Transformation Costumes as compensation?" Roy asked seriously.

"No way!" Adolf flatly refused.

Fano, Karn, and the others on the side all laughed.

Roy tossed his hand, and a ring fell into Adolf's hand.

"Two hundred, one set is not a lot. He laughs.

Adolf was stunned for a moment when he caught the ring. The lords and generals around them also fell silent all at once.

Everyone looked at Roy in silence.

Some people's eyes were red at that time.

Everyone inside Lulian knows that the original Count Leo promised Adolf that the Heavenly Transformation costume was 300 sets. Before entering the city, he had already given a hundred sets and still owed two hundred.

However, knowing is knowing, and people don't usually think about it.

After all, a hundred sets of Heavenly Transformation Demon Costumes are already a wealth that ordinary people can't even dream of.

Especially Fano, Karn and others, who really know Roy's identity, understand that it has always been Lulian who owes Roy. And Roy has only a favor to Lulian, and no debt.

Even if he didn't give anything, he wanted to recruit mercenaries in Lulian, Adolf wouldn't say a word.

He was able to come up with a hundred sets of Heavenly Transformation Demon Costumes, which was completely for Adolf's favor.

As for the remaining two hundred sets...... Don't look at Adolf's "no way" answer is categorical and non-negotiable, but in fact, Roy doesn't say no, even if he wants to go back the previous hundred sets, he won't have any complaints.

But now, Roy has given it.

The golden space ring, in a shining arc in the air, fell into Adolf's hand.

For a while, everyone didn't know what words to use to describe their feelings.

Everyone knew that the ring contained two hundred Heavenly Transformation Costumes, and they even knew that this meant that from today onwards, Lulian would have three hundred Heavenly Transformation Knights!

Three hundred Celestial Knights!

Everything was like a dream.

Many lords and nobles only felt their hearts beat faster and their breathing was short.

Under the agitation of the mood, I couldn't help myself for a while.

Lulian has always been known as a knight's desert, and coupled with Archduke Adolf's policy of living with the people, Lulian's military strength is the weakest of the four major provinces and five principalities of the empire.

And since the invasion of the Philip Empire, Lulian has suffered many disasters.

It is no exaggeration to say that after the Demon War, Lulian, not to mention other provincial principalities, even the second-level noble lords can unceremoniously step on it.

Everyone can already fully imagine how awkward Lulian's position must be when he went to the north, where the nobles of the empire were gathered and the battle flags were like clouds.

The weak will be bullied.

This is the truth that has been unbreakable in this world for thousands of years.

However, when a hundred Heavenly Transformation Knights made a stunning appearance at the entrance ceremony, everything was turned upside down.

No one despises Lurian anymore.

Those wealthy families who had unscrupulously recruited troops in Lulian before, did not care about Adolf's face at all, and ignored the rules for nothing, stood on the viewing platform in a daze, dumbfounded.

Everyone swears, I have never been so happy in this life, and I have been so proud!

Moreover, those people only knew about the Lulian of that day. No one knew that what Lulian had now was three hundred sets of Heavenly Transformation Demon Costumes, a whole medium-sized Celestial Knights!

You can definitely imagine what it will be like when this team appears in the north.

What a wonderful look on the faces of those who had always been high above and looked down on Lulian with contempt.

And all this is thanks to the young man in front of him!

In the excited eyes of everyone, Adolf clutched the ring tightly, stepped forward, and hugged Roy heavily.

"Thank you!"

As he spoke, his voice was distinctly trembling.

"You're welcome. Roy smiled and hugged him, then hugged Karn, Fano and the others goodbye.

"Alright," Roy rolled over his horse, "I'm leaving." ”

With that, he turned his horse's head and galloped away.

The crowd stood still on the hillside, watching him watch a gust of wind sweep across the rice paddies below the hillside, kick up the dust on the road, and pull the banner of the rolling iron horseman, and hunt.

And the back of the boy blended into it like this.

In the distance, the morning sun is like fire.

A brilliant pillar of light broke through the clouds and projected on the vast land.

Everyone was in a trance, as if they saw a magnificent gate of the times, slowly opening at the end of the young man's road.

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