The 320 years of the Redemption Calendar are, in the eyes of later historians, a period of particular interest to them and a period that deserves further study. 1――

In particular, in March and April of this year, a series of events occurred in mankind, which is recognized by historians as a sign that the magnificent era really unfolded a legendary picture of endless suffering with the theme of knights and wars.

In that year, the Western Philip Empire began a new offensive against the Saint-Soran Empire.

On that day, Peter I, the most powerful emperor in the history of Fire, announced the order for an all-out attack to the thousands of Fihrish soldiers and civilians gathered below on his towering castle platform. At that time, the fanatical cheers of the Long Live Empire resounded through the clouds.

The shouts of joy were matched by the sound of trumpets in the boundless wilderness, the hooves of horses crossing the borders of countless Filiet iron hooves, the footsteps of the Filiet army advancing on the front line, the screams of the swept villages of Saint-Soran, the sound of slashing and the collapse of houses in the blazing fire.

In just a few days, fighting in the northwest, west and south of St. Solan became fierce. The warring sides fought on a long front. Although in the first half of April, the main forces of both sides had no intention of launching a decisive battle, the skirmishes still caused a large number of casualties.

And the north. The Pompeii Empire began to quietly amass heavy troops on the border, on the one hand, eyeing the two neighboring countries in the south that were fighting each other, and on the other hand, a large number of Pompeii knights were under the call of the Holy See. Walk in a group, or alone, through the deserts of the eastern part of the empire, the black sea, or the bitter cold of Sitonia. Join the ranks of the Third Crusade and launch an assault on the chaotic lands of the East.

And Lanris, the most powerful principality of the Pompeii Empire, in this noisy April. Augustus, who was promoted to paladin at the age of twenty-two, became a well-deserved star of mankind. Surpass all the old nobles on the continent, including the three major royal families. The prestige is unrivaled for a while.

The three royal families, the Basilica of the Holy Virgin and the Holy See, as well as the envoys sent by the most powerful people, almost blocked the gates of the capital of the Duchy of Lanris, known as Cloudsdale.

Whether these congratulators were sincere or not, they had to respectfully offer congratulatory gifts and express their reverence and envy for this family of geniuses under the proud gaze of the Golden Dragon Family's room full of paladins, sword saints, and magic gods.

In the east, the demonic attack on the Farrington fortress is still continuing.

It's not worth the fuss. For three hundred years. The war between humans and demons has never stopped. The hatred between the two sides cannot be washed away even if it is exhausted by the water of the endless sea. This is a race war that has lasted for four hundred years, and either you die or I die.

The Broken Sky Mountain Range, which the birds couldn't cross, didn't give the demons much choice. The only way to the human race, apart from Farrington, is the Holy Light City in the north.

The Holy Light City is located in the northern part of the Broken Sky Mountains, and the entire city is made of white boulders. Standing on the 30,000-meter-high Holy Light Peak, it blends with the endless snow. Legend has it that it was the entrance to heaven and a holy place for the Holy See to serve the gods. A whole Order of the Holy See was stationed on it.

To ordinary people, the Holy Light City, far above the white clouds, is mysterious. They had no way of proving whether it was the entrance to heaven or not. But. Everyone knew that two hundred years ago, there was once a demon master who went up from the other side of the Broken Sky Mountain Range and mistakenly entered the Holy Light City.

After slaying him, it took the papal knight three full years to find a path where the demon master came.

The news sparked a panic at the time. However, it soon became clear that the demons wanted to use the path that could only be used by two people to climb to the top of the mountain for 30,000 meters to attack the land of redemption, and there was no possibility. Rather than that, it would be easier for them to directly knock down the Broken Sky Mountain Range. Therefore, for three hundred years, Farrington was the only attack option for the demons. Attacking Fort Farrington once a year has become a tradition of the warlike race of demons. It's like a ritual or activity that humans hold every year at a festival, and whether it is meaningful or not, it will continue year after year.

It's just that this time the news from Farrington is a little more grim than in previous years. The battle has lasted for a whole month, and the demons have left the corpses of tens of thousands of vassal races and thousands of demon warriors under the fortress city, and there is no sign of withdrawing their troops.

East, West, North...... Events that affect history are happening or about to happen in every corner of the Redemption Continent, but it is the South that interests historians the most.

In the South at that time, apart from the war at Lurian, there was nothing worth writing about. The reason why it is interesting to historians is that it is there that a country boy appears in the people's field of vision with a gesture that borders on bruteness.

If they had to position him, historians would characterize him as a small person at that time. At least in the eyes of the people at the time.

Even if he was the hero of the Battle of Medin City, even if he was the guardian knight of a princess, even if he beat up a county lord and caused a dispute, but at that time, whether it was his own pitiful strength or his side, he was not even qualified to be ranked in this empire.

Many people know his name, but that doesn't mean they take him seriously enough.

And only historians know how much the appearance of this boy meant to that great era, and only they know how much Cheng dù was influenced by this little man to change the direction of progress at the crossroads in the history after that.

When they look back through history, they can't help but marvel at the miracle of fate. I always can't help but guess what history would have been like if it hadn't been for him at that time.

Of course, none of those speculations are true. History is history, and countless accidents are connected into necessity, and finally freeze and cannot be changed.

This makes everyone who examines that period of history rejoice.

They would read over and over again the story of the time that happened to the guy whose name everyone later knew. Relish how wolf he bèi. How to resist in that hierarchical situation, how to turn the world upside down.

At that time, his name was still Roy.

And the future, as well as it is known. It was his nickname that was prefixed with the name.

Demon King Roy.

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Roy's recent days can only be described as miserable.

Since he had completed the training course that took the other students nearly twenty days to get to the guò in one day, Kameni didn't say a word. It was then that the intensity of his training was upgraded. Teachers were also assigned to take turns supervising the training.

His morning running distance requirement is 50 kilometers, and the basic training of swordsmanship is 300 times each. The cultivation of fighting qi is sixty weeks, and the training of fighting ring control is 1,000 punches and 1,000 kicks, in addition to the basic fighting skills and the learning of a basic martial art.

It doesn't sound like these numbers are much more than those of the other students. However, this was all done while wearing an upgraded version of the 300-pound training suit.

In the past few days, the cadets of Team E have seen Roy as if they had seen a turtle in the crowd. Every day, I see him wearing a thick training uniform. Running slowly but sweating profusely, with a red face and a thick neck, he waved a fifty-pound sword to practice the basic skills of swordsmanship.

It's been a long time since everyone finished training, and he's still gritting his teeth. ..., and beside him, there will always be one or two cold-faced teachings staring at him, as long as there is a little dissatisfaction, it is a kick over, a palm slap over, as ruthless as possible.

"See? This is the end of disobedience. Give me a good practice!"

This is the teacher's favorite thing to point at Roy to scare everyone. I have to say that with such a living and tragic example by his side, no matter how unruly the thorn is, he has become honest. Looking at Roy every day, everyone felt that the atmosphere of Team E was not much better than that of the Inquisition.

What the trainees don't know, though, is. This training is just part of Roy's one-day training plan.

After completing the training prescribed by Kameni, Roy will be picked up by Steve or Hough who are waiting on the side, and go to the dark camp to start another stage of cultivation.

Over the course of several days, Roy had gotten to know several members of the Dark Camp.

There were not many members of the dark camp, only about thirty people in total. In the Muni City branch, which has a total of more than 400 faculty members such as teaching and bachelor's degrees, it does not even account for 10 percent. However, if you take a closer look at the information of these thirty people, you will understand how powerful the dark camp really is.

Most of these people have been in school for more than fifteen years. The shortest time to enter the school is more than 10 years. Some are the ace teachers of the knight brigade, some are the magicians doing research in the magic tower, some are the most powerful scholars, and some are the commanders of the school guard or the senior officials of the academy management.

It can be said that the most elite crowd of the academy are all in the dark camp. And these people's subordinates have their own henchmen and diehards. Intertwined forces are everywhere in the academy.

In Steve's words, without the recognition of the Dark Camp, no one should even think of suing the Zhì Muni City Branch. Even the general camp can't do it. In a hurry, the dark camp has completely turned the Muni City branch into an empty shell by its ability. It also has the ability to rebuild a branch in any place.

The lives of the members of the dark camp are no different from others on weekdays. Except for the people in the secret camp, it is difficult for outsiders to imagine that there is such a secret organization in this academy.

And what surprised Roy the most was the underground base camp of the dark camp.

The base camp is located directly below the Tower of Fantasy.

Three hundred years ago, there was no branch of Muni City, and the original role of the Tower of Fantasy was only a magic tower used to fight against demonic beasts. There are only a few shelters underground.

As the role of the Tower of Fantasy was discovered, from the time of the Romance Dynasty, people began to build academies around this Tower of Fantasy. The buildings on the ground have been demolished or destroyed by war, but many of the underground shelters, storage rooms and passages have been preserved.

After the establishment of the branch of Muni City, six knights' castles, a magic academy and other dormitories, libraries, training rooms, living buildings and other buildings were built in the past 30 years, and the underground part was expanded to its current size.

Twenty years ago. After Gustas became the dean, he began to open up these underground spaces, closing them to the buildings on the ground, and eventually turning them into the current base camp of the dark camp.

The base camp is centered on the Tower of Fantasy. It is a circular area with six layers of inner and outer layers, crisscrossed by passages, like a labyrinth. There are hundreds of rooms in the whole area. For more than ten years. In order to protect this place, Gustas and others set up various mechanism prohibitions and defensive magic arrays in the passage. If you don't have the permission of the dark camp, even if you use the army to attack, you may not be able to get in.

Such strict protection is naturally due to the fact that there is something worth protecting.

Roy didn't know how many secrets were hidden here, but he had seen a warehouse with a large number of precious magic cores, bones, herbs, and various materials, a secret library with precious martial arts techniques and magic scrolls, a magical mage tower, and eight lavish fantasy tower rooms. ..., you don't have to go through the entire dark camp. The members of the camp alone and the rooms he had seen were of immeasurable value. It can be said that the dark camp is the essence of the entire Muni City branch.

After entering the dark camp, the first thing Roy did was to go into the Tower of Fantasy cultivation room that Steve had specially prepared for him to meditate.

In the E brigade, wearing that training blessing that isolated spiritual power, every day, his fighting energy would circulate more than a dozen times in depletion and regeneration. This makes his meditation particularly efficient.

If it was the same as practicing in the dormitory in Building C before, Roy would be sure. Even if you endure it, the Ruling Lord Spirit guy will clean up the Fantasy Tower's spiritual power layer. However, now it is different, cultivating in the Tower of Fantasy room, the cultivator himself is a part of the Tower of Fantasy.

Roy consumes a lot of spiritual power, though. However, the frenzy of heaven and earth energy caused by the rulings of Guò during his meditation was of great help to the Tower of Illusion absorbing and transforming energy, and the operation efficiency of the Spirit Gathering Array was far higher than usual. In the past few days, the spiritual power layer of the Tower of Fantasy has not only not decreased, but has risen slightly.

Of course, neither the ups and downs were for Roy to worry about. The most important thing for him now is to seize the time to improve his strength.

Just a few days ago, Mo Ya sent people to send news from the imperial capital. The ranks of knights gathered in Prince Anthony's palace dispersed under the mediation of the chief heraldic officer of the heraldic court, and each returned to his own family.

On the surface, a possible internal strife crisis within the imperial family has disappeared, and the situation in the imperial capital is calm. Roy, who received the secret letter from Moya, knew very well that the royal family and Princess Elizabeth had reached an agreement. After that, the focus of the problem will not be in the imperial capital, but in the city of Muni.

On their own!

Regarding the current situation of the royal family, Mo Ya told Roy in the grove as it was. Roy is also very clear about the role he plays.

During the period when Edward I was in a difficult situation both internally and externally, and Eretia was facing the pressure of the Holy Virgin's Temple, she was a shield in front of the royal family. How much time the royal family can get to solve the problem depends on how long they can hold out in the face of the Golden Dragon Family's revenge.

Mo Ya wrote in the letter.

"In order to avoid infighting within the royal family during this critical period, the Chief Heraldic Officer has agreed to the request that the princess's family come forward to challenge you and wash away your shame. However, because the whole incident was provoked by Scarlett, and the challenges and bets were in accordance with the knightly tradition, the Chief Heraldic Officer warned the princess that this was the Saint Soran Empire, and all means of solving the problem must conform to the traditions of the knights and the rules of the nobility......

He warns the princess that although you are not yet Princess Elethea's official guardian knight, the canonization was not child's play. The royal family has been, is, and will continue to be the most recognizable canonization of its validity, and as such, you deserve the protection of the Royal Order and the Inspectorate.

As a trainee of Camp 1, you are protected by Camp 1.

As subjects of the Duchy of Lulian and heroes of the Battle of Medin City, Archduke Adolf and Miss Sophia voluntarily issued a document declaring that you are under the protection of the Duchy of Lulian.

As a friend and savior of Philip, the heir of the Momiji Knights, the Momiji Knights declare that you are protected by the Momiji Knights......"

At the end of the letter, Moya wrote: "The Chief Heraldic declares to the Princess, that your protector and all the nobles of the empire will be witnesses to this challenge, in order to put an end to any dishonorable means. The Langrith family can launch a fair challenge and demand a bet, and at the same time, this is the only way to solve the problem of Scarlett's identity.

At last. Both parties agree that you will not be disturbed inside the first training camp. Challengers are not allowed to enter the first camp to force you to accept the challenge. At the same time, you will be absolutely protected in the city of Muni. Any attack on you will be considered as a breach of the bottom line of the declaration of war. ..., this is the final result of the balance of all aspects of the imperial capital.

At the end of the letter, Mo Ya's Jian yì is: "Stay in the academy." Don't take a single step!"

Roy genuinely thinks it's a good idea!

But. This doesn't really solve the problem. It's a war for someone else to see. Whether it is the Lanrith family, who are trying to force the Solan royal family to submit, or the royal family, who are trying to really establish the royal authority in this war, they need to prove themselves in front of the audience.

And the audience, it is the Temple of the Holy Maiden, the nobles, the people and the soldiers of the Saint Soran Empire.

Besides, with Roy's understanding of the Golden Dragon Family's strong reputation, he didn't think that the other party would honestly follow the rules. Judging from the subtext outside of the content of this agreement, he is outside the first training camp. will face the challenge of the other party. And outside Muni City, he may have to face a direct attack from the other side.

Therefore, no matter what, improving one's strength is the greatest capital to save one's life.

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Roy stood under a huge ancient tree. It's like an ant standing at the foot of a mammoth.

A gust of wind blew, and the leaves swirled and fell from the canopy of the ancient trees like rain. It is a colorful leaf, shaped like a maple leaf, with crystalline veins and almost transparent leaves. As soon as it hits the ground, it disappears into the dirt.

Roy looked up, and the mountains in the distance were rolling and undulating, and countless of the same ancient trees were like countless towering giants. Occupy his entire line of sight, with no end in sight. The spectacle was so spectacular that his blank mind couldn't think of a single adjective except for his blank mouth.

A slender figure swept in front of Roy like the wind.

It was a female elf in a goose-yellow bodysuit, with pointed ears, a beautiful and solemn face, and a pair of mysterious green eyes like a cat.

She ran, her long black hair fluttering in the wind. As she passed a huge tree root jutting out of the ground, she barely felt the force under her feet, and her body bounced lightly. The body, which was formed by the inertia of rapid running, suddenly appeared a brief pause in the air.

Then, I saw her figure flickering like a candle in the wind, and the whole person suddenly turned into an off-string arrow and shot out. In the blink of an eye, the person was a hundred meters away!

Arrow step in the clouds!

Roy's mouth, which was already wide open, was now enough to fit into his fist.

It was the first time he had seen the bow spirit.

Since the Judgment Evolution, the Main Spirit has been replenishing the energy consumed by evolution. The Bow Spirit Realm, which was supposed to be opened a long time ago, has never appeared. For several days, he had been training with the Axe Spirit and the Sword Spirit, until today, when he entered meditation again, he found himself in this strange place.

The reason why he recognized the bow spirit at a glance was because before that, Roy had learned about the race and identity of his new mentor from the mouth of the sword spirit and the axe spirit.

But he didn't dream about it, the bow spirit had just appeared, and he brought such a big surprise to himself.

The reason is very simple, because this magical footwork called the arrow step in the clouds has long been lost even among the elves who are its creators.

The martial arts system of elves is very different from that of humans.

Although they are all cultivating fighting spirit, however, the elves are not good at fighting on horseback. Ordinary elves are slender and relatively small, and even if they complete the transformation of butterflies and have a combat form, their racial characteristics are destined to be unable to rely on competing head-on with other races.

Their killer feature is speed!

It is said that after an elf is promoted to a paladin, it is far more difficult to deal with than a human paladin. His speed will reach a level that is terrifying. To be against him is to be against a lightning bolt that is omnipresent. ..., and the speed of the elves, in addition to their own talents, the most important thing is the footwork that this race has evolved in battle for thousands of years.

Just like the magic of humans, the casting of dwarves, the trapping of gnomes, the shamanic sorcery of orcs, the horse-taming of barbarians, and the evolutionary secret skills of demons. The elves' archery and footwork are also unique in the world.

With their footwork, they can easily leap to heights, run in treetops, balance on vines, catch up with a flying arrow in an instant, dodge deadly attacks in battle, and escape in any terrain, including deserts and swamps.

It can be said that their footwork is their source.

As a human who bears a lot of similarities with elves in many places, he is salivating over elves' footwork. After all, knights don't live on horseback forever. And in a non-mounted battle, having a set of elven footwork is the magic weapon to win.

However, it is difficult for anyone to succeed. Even Roy, who had lived in Lakeside City for a whole year, had only learned basic footwork skills. Moreover, most of them were naturally learned through chasing and frolicking with elf children. Even so, it made him comfortable in the jungle hunt.

One can imagine how surprised Roy was when he saw the bow spirit's footwork. Without even thinking for a second, he chased after him.

Fortunately, the bow spirit had no intention of leaving this mountain forest and running into the distance, otherwise Roy would not be able to catch up if he wanted to. His speed may be as fast as a horse in the eyes of ordinary people, but compared to the bow spirit, he feels as slow as a snail.

Roy noticed that the Bow Spirit would stop from time to time to look at the ground and listen. This familiar posture that he had used countless times made him understand that the bow spirit was chasing his prey.

This speculation was quickly confirmed with the appearance of demons all over the mountains.

However, this is not a one-sided pursuit, but a contest between chasing and counter-chasing that it is impossible to distinguish who is the hunter and who is the prey.

On the one hand, the demons searched the mountains and forests in groups, trying to find out the bow spirit, and clenched on to the slightest trace when they found it. On the other hand, the Bow Spirit didn't seem ready to jump out of the encirclement and leave. She was like a ghost, silently roaming the jungle, harvesting the lives of demon soldiers.

The Bow Spirit Realm and the Axe Spirit Realm are somewhat similar. Roy didn't need to be involved in the first place. Even if he was standing in front of the demons, it was like air. This allowed him to clearly observe every movement of the bow spirit from different angles. It's not pleasant, though.

Although he didn't have to fight, just running with the bow spirit exhausted him half to death. If it weren't for the fact that the secrecy of the verdict was too heavy, he would have liked to tell him about it, so that he could know how miserable his day was, and not always think that he was living a leisurely life.

After two prayers, Roy's consciousness left the adjudicator and awoke from meditation.

Although the first contact with the bow spirit did not teach him anything, he still gained two things. The first was that during the battle of the Bow Spirit, he saw more than a dozen kinds of footwork, including the three lost ones, and many fighting techniques that he wanted to learn right away.

And the second ...... Roy stretched out his fist, and a full battle ring appeared on his arm.

After the arduous cultivation, today's meditation and Dou Qi cultivation made his Dou Qi break through to the peak of the first order and ten layers. This also means that he has the strength to arm a five-star knight, and he is only one step away from a brave knight who has two battle rings and can drive the fighting spirit out of his body......