Characters in this chapter: ('Fearless Little Giant' Royce Dane), ('Giant's Buster' Tormond).

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Chapter 033: (Knight Medal)

Inside the castle hall.

A young knight was reporting to Baron Royce: "Your Excellency, the body of a knight has been found in the city. ”

The corpse of the knight?Baron Royce frowned and asked, "Where did you die?"

It was a time of war, and Nimecar was only separated from the Rhodoc area by a river, separated only by a Rochester Bridge. As a result, the city gathered many knights under the command of noble lords and some freelancers seeking the opportunity to go south to join the war.

Knights, although at the lowest level of the nobility, served in the lord's army and received fiefs. And you need to bring your own weapons and horses. They also usually only have a small fief (manor).

But both kings and nobles need these troops with overwhelming superiority in war to defend their territories and even expand their territories. To this end, they will carefully nurture some excellent young men to become knights.

In order to better protect the knights, it was not permissible for civilians to kill a knight under the laws of the Kingdom of Swadia. Even if a baronial nobleman wants to try a knight who has committed a crime, he must obtain the consent of his vassal lord or the Imperial Council.

The knight stood upright and replied truthfully, "In a mercenary tavern in the south of the city, the knight wears a robe embroidered with a golden lion pattern. ”

In order to distinguish knights on the battlefield, a system of emblems called medals was developed. Each nobleman would design a unique emblem, such as a lion, a black eagle, a stag, a bull, etc., and make it on his shield, tunics, armor, flags, and seals.

These tunics, adorned with knightly emblems, became his battle robes, making it easy to identify which nobleman the motifs belonged to. The Genealogical Heraldic House is an independent organization in the Kingdom of Swadia that specializes in designing unique emblems and ensuring that each one is unique.

The officials of the Genealogical Heraldic House would record the various patterns of the emblems in a special book and keep them for safekeeping. Each medal pattern has a specific meaning to its owner, and certain designs that show power and status are reserved for royalty.

Baron Royce whispered to himself, "The Craggs family?" he cleared his throat to hide his surprise, and then asked, "What about the corpse?

"The body has been handed over to the priest of the church," replied the soldier with a serious face. According to the owner of the tavern, a group of mercenaries did it, two black-haired, black-eyed mercenaries, one of whom was a young mercenary with a scimitar in his hand. ”

The little giant frowned in thought, with black hair, black eyes, scimitars. The only one who meets these qualities is the Charlonnay continent in the east, the Charr native to Virginia! Baron Royce then asked, "What about them?"

"After the incident, he had already left the city. ”

"Where did they go?"

"Southside!"

Baron Royce pondered for a moment, then ordered: "Send a team of cavalry to chase these mercenaries immediately, take the owner of the tavern with you, and let him come forward to identify any suspicious person." ”

The knight saluted with his right hand on the chest and replied respectfully, "Yes, my lord!"

"And let Maester Mormont send a bird to the Rochester Bridge Pass," added Baron Royce. "Let the defenders there keep a strict check, arrest suspicious people with black hair and black eyes if they find them, and execute them on the spot if they resist. ”

The young knight took the order. I saw a majestic boar embroidered on the knight's robe. Boars fight to the death in desperate situations until the end of their lives, so brave knights are willing to mark this on their shields as a symbol of their own.

The Knight of the Order of Baron Royce is a griffin motif, which is rare in the Order of Knighthood. Its meaning: It symbolizes the fearless soldier, the resolute person who will not give in after a long and arduous siege, and achieve the final victory in this way, a kind of person who cannot be stopped.

Twelve years ago, the Rhodoks in the south, with their absolute superiority in strength, had forced their way through the Rochester Bridge Pass, which was holding the border between the two places. 30,000 Rhodoc soldiers besieged the trading town of Nimega for several years, while Baron Royce and 3,000 defenders held the town.

In that great battle with the Rhodoks, Lord Luther Wharton, Lord of Ruestone, commanded the Thunderbolt Crossbow Battalion and the knights of the Second Banner Battalion of the Knights of Sanction commanded by Sir Locke Dalewilliam held the Gaunt Bridge Pass to defend against the Roddock army from the north.

The Duke of Harungos led the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Banner Battalions of the Sanctioned Knights and the Black Hawk Infantry Corps under the command of Tormund, as well as the private armies of other noble lords in the southern provinces, and repelled 50,000 Rhodok soldiers under the command of Count Talba himself on the heights of Hekos.

The 50,000-strong army of Rhodok led by Count Talba was defeated, and Count Rezisen, who was besieging Nimeca, was forced to abandon the siege and retreat to Rhodok with tens of thousands of soldiers under his command. Since then, Baron Royce has had the title of fearless little giant.

At this time, Tormond, the 'Giant's Buster', came down from the upper floors and asked, "What happened?"

"A knight died in a mercenary tavern, a member of the Royal Order. Baron Royce bowed his head in response. It is said that the knight was about to assassinate a drunken mercenary, but was killed by the mercenary's companion. ”

Tormond dragged his chin, frowned slightly, and said suspiciously, "Why would a knight of the Royal Order disguise himself as a drinker and assassinate a drunken mercenary?"

"The man is dead, no one will answer your question!" Baron Royce did not care about the entanglement between the knight and the mercenary, but the death of a knight of the Royal Order at the hands of the mercenary was a matter of great importance, and he had to investigate it clearly.

"Maybe it's because of a personal vendetta, maybe the mercenary slept with his woman?, or maybe the daughter of Prince Craggs slept with the mercenary?" said Tormond with a kind of amusement.

However, to the surprise of this Vegian archer, the mercenary he was ridiculing was Victor, who had fought with him against the Nord invasion at the head of the city of [Rivacheze] more than ten years ago.

"Then you'll have to ask the mercenary!" the dead man would not answer the question, neither would Prince Craggs, nor would anyone dare to ask him that to his face. Baron Royce thought to himself. The only way to get the answer is from the mercenaries.

"Forget it, I don't have time to do it," Tormund objected. "I'd better leave this kind of troublesome matter to you, the baron, to deal with! After all, people die in the territory under your jurisdiction, and if you are questioned by your lordship, it will fall on your head. ”

Baron Royce digressed. "Did the little master agree?" This is his current primary concern, and Iris's safety is more important than anything else in the eyes of the little giant.

"Leave tonight!" Tormund replied in a gruff voice. The Virgians didn't like the job, and leading their troops to battle was what King Tomon, the 'spear bearer', really had to do. But he could not disobey the orders of Master Harongoth.

The intrepid little giant breathed a sigh of relief. "I just saw Iris running down the stairs looking embarrassed," he asked quietly. "What did you just tell him upstairs to make him so angry?"

"None of this matters," Tormund replied in a low voice. "The important thing is that he has already decided to go to Albel. ”

"Iris is the heir to House Harungus, the future ruler of the Southern Province," Baron Royce reminded. "Don't say that my old friend didn't remind you, as a vassal of the Harungus family, it is not a wise move to anger his future feudal lord!"

A boy who cares about his servants like a friend will not be upset by a few good-natured taunts. Tormund grinned at this, and said casually, "This boy has a good heart!

"Lord Ed wouldn't want to hear that," the little giant emphasized. "Iris will always grow up and become a solitary Black Hawk. The Harungoth family has solitary arrogance and inviolable dignity in their blood, and anyone who insults them will have to pay the price!"

"If you are humiliated, you will not give up. Tormund replied impatiently. "I remember the language of the Harungus family!"

"Then you should know what to do!" he re-emphasized.

Baron Ralph Maggs once paid the price for insulting Duke Ed Harengoth. In the year when the King's army was about to make its sixth expedition south to Rhodock, Baron Maggs cursed Duke Harongoth in front of everyone in a tavern that he was an old bastard.

Although that was in the case of drunken, gibberish. Baron Royce, who heard the news, still led a team of soldiers to arrest the drunken Baron Maggs in the tavern, and then sent someone to escort him to Harongosburg to be placed at the disposal of Duke Harongoth.

Because of a drunken remark, Baron Maggs was imprisoned in the dungeon of Harengosburg for half a year. If it weren't for Prince Craggs personally interceding on his behalf, Duke Harengoth would not have any intention of letting him go.

From then on, all the nobles and commoners of the Swadia kingdom memorized the language of the House of Harungas: if you are humiliated, you will not give up.

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