Chapter 125: The Knight's Carnival

It was the fifth day that Lorist had received the news of the urgency and rushed to Rock Castle.

The horn outside the city sounded again, and another knight was engaged in a challenge duel.

Yesterday afternoon, there were a total of three challenge duels, and Ovikis won two games in a row, earning two ransoms for himself, adding up to more than 30 Kimford, but he was slightly injured in the arm during the second challenge duel. He was replaced by Pat, who fought with his opponent on foot, and then used his defensive advantage as a shield defender to drag the opponent of the silver two-star for more than an hour to exhaustion, and reluctantly abandoned his weapon and admitted defeat.

In the early morning, when Lorist went to inspect the city walls, he found that the tents built by the lords yesterday were still left in the open space in front of the castle, and he felt that the lords would still come to challenge the knights today. Sure enough, at about nine o'clock in the morning, another knight came to the castle to blow the trumpet challenge.

Pat stepped out again, this time in a matchup, but Pat had a dynamic vision of artificial training, and he was entangled on the horse for more than ten minutes, picking off his opponent who was also a silver star and won the victory.

Normally, a knight challenge duel like this one shows fairness, and the winning knight can rest for half an hour before taking on the next challenge, so Pat returns to the castle. Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the field, a wandering knight rushed out of the camp of the war merchant group and challenged the family knights of the lords. Then it was lively, and I don't know where so many wandering knights and freelancers came running, challenging the duel in the open space in front of the castle, turning the battlefield into a knights' carnival, and the castle and knights of the Norton family have been forgotten.

Wandering knights vs. wandering knights, wandering knights vs. freelancers, wandering knights vs. family knights of those lords, freelancers vs. freelancers, freelancers vs. family knights, challenge duels. In the afternoon, several more lords came, they were not invited by the Kenmasse family, but heard that there was a knightly challenge duel here, and after arriving, the knights of these lords' families did not wait for the completion of the camp to devote themselves to the enthusiastic challenge duel.

"Hey...... We are forgotten. Ovikis lamented as he watched the bustle in front of the castle, his left arm wrapped in a bandage.

There are three pairs of knights in a fierce battle below......

"My lord, I really don't understand why so many wandering knights and freelancers rush over to participate in this kind of challenge and duel, and everywhere else, a certain lord holds a jousting tournament before wandering knights and freelancers rush over. We're a battlefield here, and now we're all dominated by these wandering knights and freelancers. "Butler Boris has an inexplicable feeling.

"This ......," Lorist thought for a moment before replying, "Compared to other places, the Northland is relatively poor, and it is true that the nobles of the realm rarely hold knightly tournaments, because it costs a lot of money. In the past two years, the northern land has not been peaceful, wars have been frequent, many lords have lost their territories or been annexed, and the family knights below them have become wandering knights and free knights, losing their income and the security of life. ”

"You should know that if a knight challenge duel like this wins, the ransom is about the income of a family knight for two or three years, so why don't they rush to it when they hear that there is a knight's challenge duel here, they don't care if this is a battlefield or not, anyway, the rules of knight challenge duel are like that, if they show excellent bravery, maybe there will be lords who recruit them to be family knights, why not?"

"Well, Jim came back at noon, and he said that four wandering knights had lost all their weapons and mounts in the morning, and had to join the mercenary group as temporary mercenaries. Pat interjected.

"By the way, where did Jim go?" Lorist remembered that he hadn't seen Jim since the morning.

"Nu, over there, right in front of the camp of the war merchant group, he is making a bank in the opening plate, betting on the victory or defeat of the knights who are challenging the duel, as if he has made a lot of money. Pat said.

"Day, this bastard still can't change the customs of mercenaries, it's okay to gamble, gambling is a big taboo for knights, and when he comes back, I have to find someone to teach him what is the etiquette and cultivation of knights. Lorist said.

"My lord, shall we choose a few of these wandering knights and freelancers to be family knights?" Father Barrick thought to himself as he looked at the knights facing off below......

"You can consider this, but since I saw it in the morning, I haven't found a few favorites, and I feel that the level is average, and the martial arts are not particularly outstanding. If you look at the three pairs of knights who are facing off in a challenge duel, they are no match compared to Ovikis. In the morning, the freelancer named Vashima who won three games in a row was okay, and Pat went with Sedecamp in the evening and asked him if he would like to go to our family for some time?" Lorist said.

"Yes, sir. Pat replied.

It's not that wandering knights and freelancers become family knights as soon as they are recruited by the lord, it's just that the lord gives these knights an opportunity, and at the same time a choice that these knights make about their future fate. Recruiting and being recruited is a very serious two-way choice for the lord and these knights, after a lord hands an olive branch to a wandering knight or a free knight, these knights can follow the lord for a period of time if they agree to the invitation, as short as a month or as long as half a year, to see if the temperament of both parties is similar, and the treatment during the period is the same as that of the family knights. Just like the sentence that Lorist heard in his previous life, "The king chooses the minister, and the minister also chooses the king." "Again, if the lord dislikes these knights, they can leave and continue their wanderings or go home.

Daddy Balek shook his head, "My lord, that Vasima knight may be difficult for us to recruit. He's a freelancer, not like those wandering knights. In the Northlands, this Vasima knight has a great reputation and a good family. His father, a Golden Knight, had fallen in the last battle against the Fort Merchant Alliance with the Emperor. He was only seven years old at the time and inherited the knight's estate left by his father. It's just that when he was a child, he was called the dull Wasimma, and many people thought that he was not a martial arts material, and he was slow to react, not smart, and difficult to enlighten. But this Vasima knight has been very resilient since he was a child, he has been practicing the martial arts secrets left by his father, and finally awakened his fighting spirit at the age of twenty-three, and now he is only twenty-nine years old, he is already three stars of silver, and I heard that he has also refused the solicitation of Grand Duke Lukins. I don't think he's going to look up to us in the Norton family......"

"No wonder I think his martial arts make people feel very stable in the morning, I understand when I hear you say this, he has worked hard, and his foundation is very solid. Go ahead and try it, how do you know if he's willing to do it if you don't try?"

"Hehe, I'm thinking about what that Viscount Kenmax will look like now, he wants to attack our castle but it becomes a carnival of knightly challenge duels, which will make him half angry. Pat burst into laughter.

"Those lords are not stupid, if we occupy the Red River Valley Manor Castle of the Kenmmax family, then they will fight to the death to recover the Red River Valley Manor Castle if they are invited by Viscount Kenmaz. But now we are burning down the Red River Valley Manor Castle to the ground and withdrawing to our own family territory, how do you let those lords choose? Say to recover the Kenmas family territory, but there are no people from our Norton family in that territory, when it comes to attacking our Norton family, they are just a few family knights, dozens of guards, two or three hundred peasant soldiers, look at the rock castle, you know that the attack is self-defeating. Therefore, it is most appropriate to adopt this kind of knightly challenge, which not only perfunctory Viscount Kenmax, but also does not completely offend our Norton family, the best of both worlds. ”

"It's just that they didn't expect that this aristocratic war would turn into the current carnival of knight challenge duels, which they didn't expect and couldn't control. You see, there's another group of people over there, and it may be that the lord of the family has rushed to join in the fun. Lorist said with a smile as he pointed into the distance.

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Viscount Kenmax was already so angry that he smashed everything he could in the tent.

He did not accept the invitation of the lords to watch the knights' challenge duel, but instead felt that he had been greatly insulted. I invited those lords to attack the Norton family, not to hold a knight carnival, and those lords knew that they didn't have family knights, but what kind of knightly challenge duel did they have, which was clearly mocking the Kenmasse family as a commercial family, not from a territorial aristocracy?

Of course, Viscount Kenmax is also a two-star silver fighting strength, and he can also play. It's just that Lord Viscount himself knows his ability to do these few times, and he has worked hard to train his fighting spirit to the silver level, not to compete with others, but to seduce women and be majestic in bed.

What Viscount Kenmeth didn't expect was that the family had managed to recruit more than 2,000 armed soldiers who almost mutinied after suffering two failed attacks, so that they still refused to obey his orders, accusing him of indiscriminate command. And the seven lords he invited with great effort also didn't contribute to the work, and they didn't go to attack the city but carried out some noble wars, now it's okay, the Norton family, the object of the crusade, is watching the excitement in the castle, and there are so many wandering knights running below to challenge the duel, it's really unreasonable, he can't wait to kill the family soldiers who refuse to obey the order and the wandering knights who make trouble.

"You're doing a really good job as a lord, staying alone in the big tent and smashing things......" A cold voice came from the door of the big tent.

Viscount Kenmax was like a lightning strike, and a clever man hurriedly stood up: "Father, father, you are here......

"If I don't come again, will I see you cut off the hope of our Kenmax family's future?" Three people came in from outside the big tent, the first one was a stout and kind old man, but at this moment his face was tense, and his eyes showed a cruel anger. He is the head of the Kenmasse family, the former president of the largest building guild in the Cresson Empire, and the father of Lord Viscount.

The head of the Kenmax family came to the Viscount, and without saying a word, he raised his hand for two slaps.

Although Lord Viscount was a second-order silver, he was silent in front of his father in the black iron order, and he didn't dare to move, so he could only be beaten obediently.

"Do you know why I hit you?" asked the head of the Kenmas family.

"I don't know......," replied the Viscount.

"Bang, bang!" Two more slaps, the corners of the viscount's mouth were fanned, and blood flowed out.

"I ask you, why did you force the family soldiers to attack the castle of the Norton family?" asked the head of the Kenmax family, snapped.

"No, didn't they burn down our manor, rob us of our supplies, and take possession of the site where we were building......?" replied the viscount, covering his mouth.

"Really?" "Smack!" six slaps.

"Still quibbling! Do you think I don't know that you have 100,000 goldfords full of money? Tell you, the 100,000 goldfords have fallen into the eyes of Duke Lukins, and he sent people to ask the Norton family to give him the 100,000 goldfords and the materials that were stolen from our family, but the people sent were driven back by the Norton family, and the arrogant golden knight Tabek who went with him was deprived of his hands and covered with injuries that would take a year of treatment. The Lord of the Kenmas House told the Viscount a piece of news that shocked him.

The viscount was overjoyed: "Then, then let's hurry up and attack the Norton family, and snatch it back before the 100,000 goldfords are taken away by Duke Lukins......"

"Stupid, why are you attacking the Norton family, they don't even care about the Grand Duke of the Northland, and they have abolished Tabek, how sure can you get back 100,000 gold fords?"

"But, but I hit their family's manor castle last time, and they besieged it for three months. "Lord Viscount was not convinced.

"Then do you know why the Norton family is so tough at this moment? The Flying Feather Mercenary Group has no news?How was our manor castle burned and looted? I don't know, right? The second young master of the Norton family is back, and he brought a group of people, among them, I heard that there is also a golden archer, and Tabek was seriously injured by the second young master's own hands. Do you still have the confidence to go to the Norton family's manor castle again?" the Kenmax family master sighed deeply and found a chair to sit down.

"This, is this news reliable?" the viscount was a little skeptical.

"It was Duke Lukins' butler who told me personally, and I also paid a lot of money to buy a few Silver Knights of the Northland Legion who went to the Norton family, and they saw it with their own eyes. When I arrived, Lukins was assembling a team to punish the Nortons. The head of the Kenmax family said.

"That's great, we can go with the Grand Duke's army to attack the Norton family. The viscount said.

"Bastard!" the head of the Kenmax family was furious: "Do you have a pig's brain? In your eyes, just a Norton family or your 100,000 gold fords? Do you think it will end well to be entangled with the Grand Duke? When his army arrives, our family armed forces are guaranteed to become their cannon fodder, do you want to cut off our family's last hope? The top priority is that we must avoid the Grand Duke's army, find another target, and abandon the original plan. ”

"But we have lost so much, and the Norton family has robbed us of so many supplies......" Viscount said weakly.

"Let's spend money to buy a lesson! When the slaves are gone, we can buy them again, when the supplies are gone, we can raise them again, and when the gold coins are gone, we can earn them again. If we find that the strength of the target is no longer something we can swallow, and we still die and don't look back, then it will be a real catastrophe. We are willing to gamble and lose, but we have not found a good opponent. The Norton family is worthy of being an aristocratic family with a heritage of two or three hundred years, I thought they were exhausted, and I didn't expect that their exiled second young master would turn the situation around as soon as he returned. That's fine, with the Nortons in front of us, I believe that Duke Lukins will not notice our movements until the Nortons surrender, and I hope that they will fight and lose......" said the head of the Kenmax family.

"So, what are we going to do next?" asked the Viscount.

The head of the Kenmax family took out a map of the Northland with animal skins and smashed it with a fist: "Here, let's attack here......"

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