Since the Bronze Age, the Golden Knights have had a tradition of congratulating their new Highnesses, and most of their gifts are Mithril armor, Mithril weapons, as well as pure elemental crystals and some rare and transcendent materials. These gifts were enough for the new highness, who was poor and white, to get the dignity that the Golden Knight deserved. On top of that, the Golden Knights arm a new Highness by giving gifts.

As long as life will always die, the Golden Knight, although powerful, is not invincible. In an era when the Bronze Horsemen were the mainstream, the blood of the Golden Knights was far more valuable than their strength. However, when the human kingdom encounters foreign enemies, the golden knights still have to go to the battlefield in person, fulfill the lord's duty of protection, and use the blood of strong enemies to boost the morale of the army to maintain the dominance of the knight class.

Sophisticated weaponry can protect the new highness on a treacherous battlefield, and it also shows that the Golden Knights have a pact not to kill each other. Just like Sylvia, her collection of dozens of Mithril weapons and three sets of Mithril armor were all gifts from the Golden Knight, with the name and greetings of the giver engraved on them.

His Highness Randall was not a high-ranking knight, and the precious Mithril and Elemental Crystals were of little use to him. His Highnesses of the kingdoms and churches took a lot of thought to give him gifts. Victor harvested dozens of beautifully shaped warbows and adamantite swords, two pieces of gold centaur leather, some antique art, jewelry, and many unengraved adamantite gold ornaments, as well as 120 places to reshape his body, and a large number of precious medicinal herbs.

Unnamed Adamantite ornaments can be smelted to create Adamantite Arrowheads or Adamantite Equipment, and the 120 places to reshape the body plus precious medicinal herbs can be used to train a group of Arcane Warriors or Secret Knights.

Although Victor had suppressed the Gnoll Wind Fang in melee combat, His Highness of the Human Realm generally did not want the Wind Whisper Archer to melee with foreign enemies, especially since His Highness Randall's golden blood had not yet spread. The loyal and tough guards seemed to be the shield blade that Randall's highness lacked.

Of course, with the status of the Sword Saint Draven, these gifts were not enough to reflect the Golden Knight's recognition and kindness to His Highness Randall. Directly using gold coins to make up for the difference between Mithril equipment and Adamantite equipment makes it seem that the Golden Knights have no taste. As a result, the powerful lords of the kingdoms also sent many white crystals to His Royal Highness Randall, with an average of 20 white crystals given to a family, a total of more than 800 white crystals.

White crystals can be purchased in the church for healing magic below level 3, which is a hard currency, and 800 white crystals are worth 240,000 gold soles.

His Highness's gifts, whether they are given or received, are very strong signals of hostility. Victor accepted the gifts, and naturally set up a banquet to entertain the envoys of the major families. This is both a courtesy and a promise, which means that His Highness Randall will not take the initiative to harm the high-ranking knights of the major families.

His Royal Highness Randall's Appreciation Dinner was held as scheduled at Wimbledon Marques' House. The scale of the banquet was not large, and the powerful lords of the kingdoms only sent one or two envoys to attend, and the number of guests did not exceed 100. But the banquet was of a very high standard, with Patriarch Tamor and the four Highnesses of Cambis all present, and the new queen Angelina, as a pupil of the Marquess of Wimbleton, brought the king's husband to the dinner. Among the VIPs, half of them were silver knights, and the rest were young senior knights from major families.

This is the dinner party of the transcendental, and the nobles of low blood can only envy at home. After the feast, Randall danced the first lead dance with Sylvia in the order of the Extraordinary Knights, followed by Her Royal Highness Roland August, then the Marquess of Wimbledon, then the Knight of the Storms, Trisley, the Countess Dolly de Caesser, and so on.

Tonight, Victor invited every female knight to dance and greet every guest warmly. However, the guests also noticed the second protagonist of the banquet, the Marquess Sophia Wimbledon.

She was beautiful with purple hair, and she took Angelina to talk and laugh with the guests, whisper to Sylvia, and talk cordially with the regent Williams. She even accepted an invitation from Viscount Sauron Wimbledon to dance with him. The active Marquess of Wimbledon is the most eye-catching feature of the ball.

The high-ranking knights can feel the presence of the three golden knights of Sylvia, Roland and Marquis Goron to enhance Sophia's presence. They couldn't help but think that Sylvia accepted gifts for His Highness Randall, and that Randall had Sophia entertain guests on his behalf. The royal family and descendants of Cambys are undoubtedly sending a clear signal publicly that the Marquis of Wimbledon will return to the Kite.

Sophia had disgraced the Auguste family, and she rejected Sylvia's offer. If she doesn't, she can be promoted to the Golden Knight, and seems destined to be marginalized by the aristocratic circles of Cambys.

However, there is no precedent for the silver female knight of the purple-eyed bloodline to be promoted to the gold knight. It's not easy for Sophia to hit the pinnacle. What's more, the Golden Knight must first establish a guardian goal, and the neutral business aristocracy is originally a dead end. In the eyes of the high-ranking knights, Sophia's promise to give up the dominance of the Wimbledon Chamber of Commerce after 15 years is obviously impossible to believe in creating a business family, and bringing the Marquis of Wimbledon into the power center of the Kingdom of Gangbis is her only choice.

On the other hand, Sophia is a half-golden knight of the Angry Waves, and a purple-eyed bloodline noblewoman. She and His Highness Randall can have noble heirs. A royal of Wimbledon with golden blood is very important to the Augustian family, and indeed to the whole of Cambys.

It is not surprising that the Marquess of Sophia Wimbledon and Viscount Soren Wimbledon, once sworn enemies, now have a good conversation.

The Kingdom of Gombis has the potential to become a great empire in the South. In the future Cambis Empire, the Marquis of Wimbledon will have a prominent position, not an empty title of nobility. Aware of this, the envoys of the kingdoms fully and implicitly expressed their inner enthusiasm to the marquisess.

Sophia's grace even overshadowed her husband, His Royal Highness Victor Wimbledon, Earl of Golden-Eye, the protagonist of the banquet.

The Earl's thank-you dinner lasted until late at night, when the guests left the Marquis of Wimbledon in the hazy moonlight. The next day, the envoys of all nations bid farewell to the king of Cambes, and they set out on their journey home with the news of the harvest. The lords of Cambys, on the other hand, will remain in the city of Blinor for some time to attend the new queen's first royal hunting celebration.

The young Queen Anna came from a well-known family, but she was still inexperienced in organizing hunts in the Kingdom of Gombis herself. Strangely, King Edward's mother, the Duchess of Ausvid, declined Anna's request for assistance on the pretext that she was pregnant and needed to recuperate, and recommended the Marquess of Wimbledon to help the new queen.

Sophia had zero experience in organizing royal hunts, and she couldn't refuse the students' requests for help, so she had to come forward to handle the relevant matters.

The lords of Gombis seemed to smell something unusual.

Just when Sophia was anxious and everyone was waiting to see the excitement, the four guardians drove out of the royal capital and headed north to the largest inner lake in the Kingdom of Gombis, Lake Basel.

Twenty-four days later, on the shores of Lake Basel, Port Carlil.

The newly built port was originally a fishing village and belonged to the lord of the Hunters of Moncent. Since the kingdom of Gombis decided to cross the river to the south, the local lord of the mining province was ordered by the regent to move away from the fishermen of the village of Kalil. The Janissaries took over the fishing village and converted it into an inner lake military port, which was specially used to train the sailors of the Gangbes.

The buildings in the port are simple and rugged, and many of the houses are built directly from logs, giving them an air of nature. In the evening, half of the sunset fell into the vast Lake Basel, and the afterglow of the setting sun reflected on the green water, pulling out a gorgeous orange red. On the west side of the pier, a long trestle juts out into the lake, and Victor and Sylvia sit side by side at the end of the trestle, holding a fishing rod and watching the driftwood fish float on the water.

The driftwood rose and fell with the waves, and there was no sign of sinking, and as soon as Victor pulled the fishing rod, the spider silk fishing line instantly tightened, and a palm-sized red-scaled fish was dragged out of the water and swung in front of Sylvia.

Like a carefree young lady, the god knight giggled and grabbed the red scaly fish that was jumping hard, unhooked the fish, stuffed it into the fishing basket, and reloaded the bait for Victor, the snow-white and slender jade feet were lifted out of the water, leaning obliquely towards Victor, kissing him lightly on the face, and praising happily: "The fish basket is almost full...... Honey, you're amazing. ”

Victor turned his head to look at Sylvia's radiant and beautiful face, and said with a wry smile: "Baby, I am going to blush if you praise me so much." The hook was flung out, and he sighed, "I used to love fishing...... Now, as soon as the fish bites, I know what kind of fish it is and how big it is...... Knowing the results in advance, no surprises, no fun. ”

Sylvia blinked her blue eyes, curled the corners of her lips, and said with a sly smile: "So I don't fish, I just want to watch you fish." ”

After a while, Victor couldn't help but ask. "Say, aren't we bullying the fish too much?"

"Are you referring to Sophia, or the Four Great Princes?" Sylvia raised her slender willow eyebrows and said with a chuckle: "People are much more complex than fish, and even if the four of us decide the future political structure of Gambis, it is impossible to control all the changes. For example, you probably didn't expect that the four princes would win over Sophia in this way. ”

Victor thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I didn't expect Catherine to choose to help the four princes get close to Sophia and deliberately alienate her. But thinking about it, Catherine made the most reasonable and correct decision. ”

The royal family's hunting celebrations were as much a social event as they were an important political event. If Anna messes up the hunting celebration, she will not only lose face for herself, but also damage Edward's reputation.

If you can't do a good hunting celebration, what else can you do?

Catherine was reluctant to help Anna and recommended the inexperienced Sophia, and the Duchess of Ausveld seemed to be ready to see Sophia make a fool of herself. However, the Kite Castle will not let the queen's political debut fail. The four princely families have a wealth of experience in organizing all kinds of court ceremonies, and Sophia can solve all problems with their help.

On the surface, Catherine still resents Sophia's betrayal and deliberately wants to embarrass her. In fact, she was paving the way for Edward's pro-government. Just because the little king is not interested in politics now does not mean that he will not care in the future. Even if Williams was willing to back down in the future, Edward would need to enlist the support of the four princes. But it was not easy, since Roland abdicated the throne, the Imperial Guard, the Knights of the Dragon, and the Knights of Glory were once again in the hands of the four princes, who were loyal to Edward but supported the Regent Williams. In order to prevent Edward Riana's heir from becoming the heir to the throne, the four princes have put Williams' eldest son, Charles, on the throne of the Grand Duke of Kiteburg.

No matter how powerful the power behind Anna is, her direct influence on the royal palace is very limited. Edward really couldn't fight Archduke Charles August. If the Duchess of Ausveld joined forces with the Marquess of Wimbledon against the Four Princes, it would only keep them firmly united by Charles's side. The Four Princes also did not want Catherine and Sophia to be together, and Sophia betrayed Catherine, but they had always opposed the former queen. Even when Edward ascended the throne and Catherine became pregnant with the heir of His Royal Highness Randall, the four princes did not let the Tyrells join the inner circle of the Kite Castle. Catherine could only start House Osvid, and her followers were inextricably linked to the four princes.

Although Sophia is unruly, she refuses Sylvia's solicitation, which is enough to prove that her political position is neutral. The four princely families can fully accept her, and they must also accept the fact that the Marquis of Wimbledon has risen. Catherine created an opportunity for the two sides to make contact.

Only by sending Sophia, a big catfish, into the inner circle of the Kite Castle can it be possible to shake the position of the four princes. For this, Catherine did not hesitate to offend Queen Anna.

Victor said with a smile: "I originally thought that the four princely families would make some trouble for Sophia, but Catherine really gave me a 'surprise'. ”

"Sophia is definitely going to be in trouble. Sylvia pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "The half-golden Knight of the Furious Waves can't argue with the four court marquis face to face, otherwise Goron will have to watch her." Sophia had to find an ordinary nobleman to act as an agent of the Marquis' Palace...... If a small character wants to participate in the Imperial Meeting, he will inevitably encounter all kinds of difficulties. I promise Sophia will love this life...... If it weren't for my status, I would have wanted to make trouble with the four marquis in person. ”

Habitually touching his nose, Victor said in a deep voice: "I hope that Sophia will use the tax reform of the kingdom as a starting point and make a voice at the Imperial Council. This is crucial to the survival and development of the Golden Regiment, and I hope the four court marquis don't trouble me......"

"For us, dear, the uncertainty of the political struggle is the fun. The snow-white slender feet stirred up a splash in the lake, Sylvia stood up barefoot, looked sideways at the shore, and said with a smile: "It's like the southern expansion strategy, we obviously occupy the initiative, Borui and Patriarch Tamor sent a barbarian prisoner, a warning, a piece of information, and the initiative of both sides immediately changed hands." Don't you think that's interesting?"

"How can we do what they want?" said Victor, putting away his rod and standing up, looking at Trisley as she walked up the pier from the shore.

She saw Victor's narrow smile, and a faint blush appeared on her beautiful face, which looked particularly delicate.

"The Regent's car has arrived, and His Highness Goron has sent someone to ask you to listen to the report of the staff of the Kite Castle. As she spoke, Trisley glared at the grinning Victor fiercely and continued, "It's about the Barbarian Kingdom information provided by Andrea Christopher. ”