The Blackstone Tavern at night is as noisy as the center of the world.

Tonight is no exception, with fermented butter ales, spicy windhammer cigars being the absolute protagonists, and a strong distilled spirit from the Habs Empire called "Summoned by the Father" has become a new favorite. Two dwarven warriors stirred up the audience by playing the "Hades Race", a game of wrestling their wrists while drinking, and one of the dwarves finally collapsed from alcohol during the fifth cup of "Summoned by the Father", so the winner was lifted high and the loser was thrown out of the tavern, as is customary.

In the box on the second floor, Damian couldn't stand the persuasion of Shark Gazo, and had already drunk five glasses of butter ale, already a little drunk. On the other hand, Shark Gazo drank almost a barrel of butter ale by himself, and was still very sober, which was so good that Damien was dumbfounded.

"That year, we were transporting munitions to the island of Pale, but we didn't expect to meet the Wick people when we entered the port, and General Capone took us to fight the broadside battle without saying a word, and we were ...... by boat."

Shark Gazobi made a four-way gesture, "Four boats opposite." ”

"But there's nothing to say, just do it, the Lorraine Navy never flinchs!"

Shark Gazo took a sip of a glass of butter ale, and then said: "General Capone jumped down from the flagpole and cut off the mast of the enemy ship with a single sword, and the boatload of Wick people had no choice but to abandon the ship and escape. ”

"We won, one against four, and in the end we won, and that day the whole island of Palle sang the name of Captain Capone. ”

"The Blue Sea Python, forty-eight battles on the board, all victories, the pride of the Royal Navy of Lorraine, and the well-deserved King of the White Bay Sea. Shark Gazzo put his right hand on his chest, and his eyes moistened a little as he thought back to those years.

"When we retired and returned home, many of the veterans couldn't find a proper job and had to drink all day, so General Capone asked me to form the Sea Serpent Party......

"He asked me to take my brothers out of a way to live, and he also said that if there was anything that could not be done, put Capone's name on him. ”

"Without the general, there would be no Sea Serpent today. Shark Gazo pointed to the huge blue sailing flag hanging from the wall.

"And without Lord Merlin, General Capone is only a powerless naval captain, and in Lorraine, even Juan's kind can dictate him. ”

Shark Gazo patted Damian on the shoulder and said sincerely, "So, you are a student of Lord Merlin, a junior brother of General Capone, no matter what you think, the Sea Serpents will always treat you as their own." ”

.........

Over the course of one night, Damian finally figured out the relationship between Merlin, General Capone, and Gazo the Shark.

General Capone is a legend of the Duchy of Lorraine. As Shark Gazzo recounts, he started out as a captain in the Royal Navy of Lorraine and had a proud record of complete victory. Perhaps he was jealous of his excellence, but for a small incident, he was dismissed from his position as captain, transferred back to Lorraine, and left behind on an errand in a deserted department that no one cared about.

Capone was not reconciled, and for some reason, he chose a path he had never been exposed to before, which was magic.

Just like Damian experienced, in order to become a magician, you must pass the magician apprenticeship test. So Capone, who was in his thirties, participated in the test with a group of teenagers, and the final test result was only a second-level arcane affinity, which was ridiculed by everyone on the spot.

To everyone's surprise, Merlin raised his staff and accepted him. Later, some people speculated that perhaps it was this embarrassed middle-aged man who was also a second-level arcane affinity that reminded Merlin of himself back then.

Regardless, like Damian, Capone became Merlin's student.

However, Capone is very competitive, he only has a second-level affinity, but he has traveled a lot on the road of magic cultivation, and soon, from apprentice to beginner mage, to intermediate mage, and finally promoted to high-level mage.

At the same time, his cultivation as a knight is also skyrocketing, from a middle-level knight to a high-level knight, and in the year he became a major general, he finally broke through the ceiling of a high-level knight and became a big knight. ”

"It's either a mage or a knight. "This is a law recognized on the mainland, people who ride the law and cultivate double cultivation often wander at the beginner level all their lives, and Capone has become one of those ten thousand people who break the rules.

Due to the rapid increase in strength, and because of Merlin's influence, Capone was slowly reused, and he returned to the Lorraine military, from captain, to colonel, to forming his own knights, and working his way up.

At the age of 40, the goddess of fate finally favored this hard-working man.

That year, the Duchy of Lorraine received a call from the Holy See of Light to go north to fight against the armies of orcs going south.

In the barren tundra of the north, it was the coldest time of winter, and the wind and snow continued all day, and Capone's motley knights were sent out to inquire about the army.

After walking in the wind and snow for a long time, he passed through a canyon, but found the orcs all over the mountains, and it turned out that he had accidentally bumped into the army of orcs who came to sneak attack.

The orcs quickly surrounded him, and with no way back, Capone blew the horn of attack without hesitation.

This order of knights, with only a thousand men, formed the simplest cone formation and launched a charge, but it cut through the army of tens of thousands of orcs like a hot dagger cutting into butter. Capone was in the lead, leading his soldiers all the way to the heart of the orc army, the commander's tent.

According to the survivors of that battle, Capone on the battlefield that day, standing on the back of two horses, biting the reins in his mouth, slashed all the way with a huge knightly sword in his right hand, knocking over all the orc soldiers who stood in his way, and in his left hand he continued to project mana-condensed arcane magic spears, killing the shamans who were hiding in the crowd and chanting one by one.

For the first time, people have seen the terrifying combat power of the combination of knight + mage, which is simply a killing machine born for the battlefield. While the orcs were still stunned, the knights had rushed to the commander's side, and the guards tried desperately to resist but to no avail, and finally Capone pierced the commander's body with a spear, and the tall orc fell.

As soon as the commander died, the already panicked army was immediately routed, and tens of thousands of orcs fled in the wind and snow, shouting "Kanuman" and "Kanuman" in fear as they ran.

Kanuman means orc god of war, and the orcs believe that Capone is the god of war, and they have no courage to fight him.

In this way, Capone led his knights, defeated the army of half-orcs with one enemy of ten, but he also paid a heavy price, thousands of knights, and finally returned to the barracks only a few dozen people, more than nine hundred heroic knights buried in the tundra.

Later, the human coalition learned that the commander killed by Capone was the leader of a large tribe of orcs, and because of the death of the leader, there was a serious infighting in this tribe, so that it affected other tribes, and the half-orcs fought together, and the winter offensive was eliminated.

Capone's fame grew, and the Duke of Lorraine personally summoned him, promoted him to the rank of major general, and gave him the name "Knights of Kanuman" and awarded the Black Rose as a badge. The Kanuman Knights became the only order in the Duchy of Lorraine that could be decorated with flowers, with the exception of the Royal Bauhinia Knights.

Overnight, Capone went from being an unpopular officer to a sought-after star.

In the military, he holds the second largest knight order in the principality, in the magic world, he has the support of the most favorite arcane department and the most protective teacher, and in the underworld, he holds the Sea Serpent Party, a force that cannot be underestimated in the Lorraine underground world. In terms of strength, General Capone was already not much inferior to his teacher Merlin.

But he has not forgotten who brought him all this, and he is still loyal to Merlin, beyond the ordinary master-apprentice feeling, more like a master and servant. General Capone has said more than once: If the teacher is the tyrant on the Arcane throne, I am a hound, and I will bite whoever the teacher tells me to bite.

A crazy old man with a mad dog, this is what the enemy says about this master and apprentice. There are many powerful families in the Principality of Lorraine, and there are many great mages with disciples and grandchildren, but they are unwilling to provoke this group of madmen with the "three-headed dragon mark", because they are never reasonable, and they all believe in the law of the jungle that "there is nothing that cannot be solved by the dragon's breath technique". If Eduardo's "Knights of a Thousand Birds" is the hegemon of Lorraine, then the biggest cancer of the principality is the so-called "Three-Headed Dragon Cult".

Only then did Damian realize that he had boarded a giant ship.