Chapter 49: The Feast
(The strip just finished writing the manuscript and was about to sleep.,It turned out that the collection was just 160, so the third additional update will be offered!Blessed are the book friends who haven't slept yet!The condition for the next update is that the collection reaches 320.,Let's get a lot of Amway~PS:Tomorrow's normal update is the last chapter of this volume.,So be patient.,The wonderful content of the second volume will start on Sunday~)
Christmas Eve, considered a contemplative holiday, has a tradition of reuniting close family members on Christmas Eve. On this unique evening, Germans go to church for worship, then give gifts to each other, and finally enjoy a Christmas Eve dinner as a family.
In the group of two, the three elders are all Catholics, and Lilia, a Russian, is an Orthodox Christian, so they can only be divided into two groups and go to their respective churches to worship.
Originally, Caroline was more opposed to Feng Longde going to worship, the reason was naturally "the dignified immortal king, who is himself a believer, why would he bow down to another god", but after Feng Longde took great pains to persuade for a long time, he reluctantly relented: as long as he didn't recite the prayer at that time
Usually everyone is making a fuss, but when they are doing the service, everyone looks like "this is definitely a good baby, a standard Christian embryo": the reasons for the existing beliefs have converged, and more because those who are still dying on such occasions really want to die
After the service, Feng Longde felt quite delicate - he didn't believe in God very much, not only did he come over to join in the fun, but he also came by the way with a silver-haired girl who was not religious at all, and it was estimated that it was easy to cause religious conflicts, he felt that the religious war did not break out from beginning to end, it was really fateful!
During the day, Von Rond and Caroline had finished decorating and arranging their homes, and before they had returned home from church in the evening, the eighty-one Teutonic knights began to come back one after another.
In less than half an hour, the entire courtyard was crowded with phalanx of knights, wearing black suits, blue overalls, daily sportswear, and casual clothes. Standing at the front of the line in a white shirt and dark blue jeans, with a black cap on his head, Feng Longde was sure that if he had a small flag in his hand, he would recognize at first glance that a tour guide had not run away
"Your Majesty, the chivalrous knight banner team has been assembled. Yarman gave a Teutonic salute with all the chivalrous knights with a serious countenance, "Do you celebrate the festival according to the custom of the Teutonic Empire?
"As long as you don't let outsiders find out about your movements, I won't stop you no matter how you toss. Feng Longde scratched his head, "I still know that the people of the Teutonic Empire are on the spot, and the knights no longer exist - from today on, all the members of the Chivalrous Knights Banner are disbanded, and everyone is formed into the King's Guard, Yarman, from now on, you are my guard captain." ”
Originally, Yarman's body trembled slightly when he heard the second sentence, but when he heard the third sentence, not only did he tremble even more, but even the faces of the colleagues behind him changed slightly, and the soul connection between them fluctuated constantly.
The King's Guard, during the Teutonic Empire, was composed of the most fanatical, skilled, and tenacious warriors of the noble and commoner soldiers. They exist as the undead king's escort force, but they always follow the king to fight on the most tragic battlefields on the front line, and their combat experience can even rival the elite troops in the Teutonic Knights, and in the case of a one-to-three situation, almost no other unit can resist their charge head-on, and their individual combat ability is almost unmatched with the group shock.
The elite units of this elite are not only small in membership, but also very strict in their selection: whether they recruit new members from the Teutonic Knights or from the Imperial Legion or those in them to sign up, they must meet three major conditions - the racial identity of the deceased, the fanatical believers in the undead king, and the ability to fight as a soldier at least equivalent to the Marquis of the Black Knight. Only those candidates who meet all three of these requirements can be officially accepted as a new member of the King's Guard, charging into battle as the most ferocious and fanatical warrior around the Immortal King.
Under this extremely harsh selection criteria, "You can enter Valhalla, but you can't enter the Guard." It became the mantra of the soldiers of the Teutonic Empire, saying that it is easier to die than to be selected into the King's Guard, and now, these guys of the rank of Black Knight and Sir can become the whole of the King's Guard under the command of His Majesty?
Perceiving everyone's doubts, Feng Longde explained: "Caroline has been exploring the entrance to the inner world for the past few days, she has already discovered that there is a spatial rift in central Japan that opens steadily and regularly, and when it is confirmed, we will have something to do - you will enter the inner world with me as an advance army, and rebuild the empire from scratch there." At that time, you may be killed and wounded in that unknown world, but there is no room for development here, so the only remaining knights of the Teutonic Empire, this is the only thing I can give you. ”
"Your Majesty. The souls of all the knights were silent for a moment, and Yarman spoke: "Will we face a battle, a fight, or even death?"
"Quite possibly. Von rond shrugged, "According to Caroline, even during the Teutonic Empire, the study of the inner world was almost blank, and who knows what would happen in a strange world."
"It's enough to have a fight. Yarman interrupted Von Ronde.
"Uh, are you sure?" Feng Longde was a little surprised.
"Sure. Yarman nodded, and all the chivalrous knights followed him and said, "It is enough to have a battle." With that, their eyes glowed scarlet—the color of the black knight's eyes in the living body kept by magic was the same as before, and only when there was a great change in mood or extreme emotional stimulation, their eyes would radiate the color of soul fire.
Feng Longde was dumbfounded for a while, then spread his hands and said, "I can understand your desire to fight, but isn't what we need to do today to celebrate the festival? ”
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Triumph Festival, as the most solemn and popular festival during the Teutonic Empire, is equivalent to the double effect of the Chinese Spring Festival and the Victory Day of the Anti-Japanese War.
These days, Von Rond also made up lessons from Caroline, and learned that the origin of the Triumph Festival came from an earth-shattering decisive battle in the history of the predecessor of the Teutonic Empire, the Principality of Harun: at that time, the enemies in the Haroun region were on all sides, the Kingdom of Boye, the Kingdom of Huaye, the Grand Duchy of Vladimir and the Demon Clan that had invaded from the Abyss of Annihilation, and the Principality of Harun, which had just been established through the Unification War, was eyed by their neighbors - even during the Unification War.
Hermann Duwakin, who had just been crowned Duke of Harlan from Earl Ronald, was the Duke of Harlan. Ronald, in the inheritance of the family earl before the travel to obtain some friends and the deceased to join, and the Holy See because of its own various affairs and through the agreement to acquiesce in the fact that the deceased collectively moved to the Duchy of Harun, so Herman rebuilt the Knights of Temanias among the four major knights of the Holy See, renamed the Teutonic Knights, the ancestral name of all the northern peoples of the Ilibu continent (that is, Europe), and established an undead legion composed of the deceased, and the Duchy of Harun also became a knightly state led by Grand Master Herman。
It was during this period that the humans of the Harlan region lived together with what they considered to be the undead, and began to coexist peacefully with each other under the measures of Herman and Caroline. Under the military might of this new biracial force, the kingdoms of Boyer and Vhayer fell to the tomahawks and lances of the Teutonic Knights in just three years, so that the Holy Romulod Empire in the west no longer had to face the ambitious enemies in the east and could concentrate on the provocations of the Hugo Kingdom and the southern city-state republics, and signed a bilateral trade opening agreement with the Teutonic Knights。
The Knights with a complete Order of Knights and an undead legion are almost indestructible, and they can only use a small number of elite knights or a large number of cannon fodder to fight against demons, while their allies Knowles Kingdom uses dragon boats to come and go freely on the coastline to attack and plunder the supply lines, towns and small forces of the Demon Territory, and even the Grand Duchy of Vladimir to the east of the Demon Territory was attacked by the Knowles Kingdom and had to give up the territory within the coastline.
After four years of bloody battles, the Knights finally defeated the Demon Clan and their vassals in the Dimitri Snow Plain, and incorporated a large territory into the territory of the Knights. The demons were completely defeated in this battle, and the army facing the enemy's approach had to urgently retreat to the abyss of annihilation through the portal, and only the tens of thousands of succubi clans who had no time to evacuate had to pay tribute and become the third race of the Knights, and the Grand Duchy of Vladimir, which had almost exhausted its national strength after a hundred years of stalemate with the demons, became the training ground of the Knights.
If the calendar of that era is converted into the current calendar, then on December 24, while the people of Ronald City were anxiously waiting, the herald rode back with the good news of a great victory, and the whole city and the entire Knights Kingdom fell into a sea of joy, and on December 25, Herman led his army to return triumphantly, and was surrounded and cheered by soldiers and civilians along the way, and held a ceremony to enter the city, just like the victorious Kessel and his army of battle in the ancient Romulud Empire, and finally on December 26, Herman officially proclaimed the succession to the Duchy of HarunAfter the Teutonic Knights, the name of this land covered with snow and forests was called the Teutonic Kingdom.
During the Teutonic Empire, it was a national holiday, but today it is just a small gathering of veterans and their leaders.
On Christmas Eve, Feng Longde's house was brightly lit, and the small banquet in the living room did not fade in the slightest in the evening, and the knights of the guard rushed to the dining table with Feng Longde, who had long been impatient, after Caroline said a few words. If these guys lined up in the courtyard before and felt like a tour group, then the current posture is like a group of military training students who have just rushed into the cafeteria after being hungry for two weeks.
Feng Longde has seen the virtues of these guys who say they are barons and the rest are all knights, and they can no longer be informal, and their behavior patterns are too rough - but Feng Longde is very adaptable, if he is really a group of nobles like the Victorian era, he will have to be killed by those cumbersome aristocratic etiquette. The knights of the Guards had the same impression as the Junker nobility, but they were more belligerent and had simpler rituals than the famous military nobility in history
Christmas Eve was spent so lively,
The next day was Christmas or Triumph Day, and it was also Feng Longde's birthday: both Feng Longde and Herman had very coincidentally their birthdays on the same day. Originally, the two-goods foursome wanted to have a birthday party at Feng Longde's house, but on this day, German families generally wanted to have a lively family reunion like the Spring Festival of the Han people, so they could only postpone it to the next day, and Feng Longde was also happy - if they really came, the eighty-one Teutonic chivalrous knights in the family were estimated to be able to scare them
When celebrating at home, Feng Longde also curiously asked Caroline what her birthday was, but Caroline said that when his memory could be restored, he would naturally know, and Feng Longde had to give up.
In the custom of the Triumph Festival, this day is a parade of local garrisons in various places, and in the capital, even the immortal king himself leads the royal guard and the elite of the Teutonic Knights' headquarters to participate in person, and now, after eating and drinking, everyone is basically left in groups of three or five to gather in various corners of the living room to chat, and Feng Longde and Caroline are in the bedroom discussing some things to pay attention to if they are going to the inner world.
The day after Christmas, the members of the King's Guard also began to return to their respective posts, and Feng Longde was able to gather with his friends to have a party with his old friends, and let off the pressure of the year together. At the party, the two-for-four group decided to wait for the next semester to start if they decide on the course of the third academic year, and everyone will apply for the three-semester college preparatory course prepared for studying abroad, and the only headache for everyone at that time is IELTS, but Feng Longde said in his heart that he is not under much pressure to switch his language system. Caroline was simple, and Feng Longde decided to do the same for her, and Caroline was also interested in using her student status to continue spying on modern society.
Soon in the midst of the hustle and bustle, December was blown away by the bitter cold wind. With the sound of bells, Tokushima City ushered in the New Year of 2015.