Chapter 1: Knight Selection
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Countless residents go about their daily lives in the town. At one corner of the wall, hundreds of soldiers were surrounding that corner of the wall, leaving only a small clearing in the middle.
In the center of the clearing stood four young men, each holding a wooden stick in their hands, staring at each other and moving their joints to warm up. One of them stood out, not because of his appearance, but because of what he was wearing.
He was wearing a tattered leather armor with a dirty wallet covered in patches. Compared to the beautiful leather armor worn by the other three, he was almost like a slum begging for food.
This is a knight who is dressed in a bright suit and walks down from the city wall, his armor is polished with every metal leaf of his armor, he is not wearing a helmet, and he does not look more than 40 years old. His position is that of a real knight, a Qatari nobleman, not a squirrel.
He shouted as he walked down, "All right, you bunch of trash. The squire who can be recognized by me today will become my knight squire. ”
The knightly squire was the reserve of the knights, and it was also the main way for commoners to advance to the nobility, and it was the only way in peacetime.
The young man in tattered leather armor was named Garenne without a surname, because his parents were only the lowliest commoners. In this war-torn country, the commoner was sometimes worse off than a slave, and his parents had already starved to death in a famine. He hated poverty, so he resolutely left his peaceful hometown to join the army in Prague, and finally became the best of the soldiers with his hard work.
He had no hope at all in peace, but some time ago, the empire suddenly turned against the elves, and Prague also urgently strengthened the city walls, although it caused panic among many people, and some even fled south, away from the quiet forest in the north.
But Garenne saw this as his chance, and his hard-earned swordsmanship was finally put to use. Sure enough, within a few days, it was rumored in the army that Lord Knight Horsa was going to recruit knight squires in the army. He quickly rose from the thousands of soldiers and became a reserve squire, and as for his current opponents, they were all gilded by the sons of nobles in the army, and Garenne did not consider him a threat.
At this time, Josa's shouting interrupted Garen's musings: "This is your last test. The winner will not only get the title of knight squire, but also the steel sword. ”
With that, Jossa walked up to Galen's side, and he looked into Garen's eyes and continued, "There is also a good prize to be awarded. Then he patted Garenne on the shoulder, walked over to the viewing seat specially built for the knights, and sat down beside the others.
Then one of the youngest knights shouted, "Trial, begin." ”
Immediately afterwards, the four young men in the field quickly found their respective enemies, rushed to each other, raised the wooden sticks in their hands, and swung them down. The sound of ping-pong sticks clashing quickly sounded on the field.
Garen's opponent was a man with a golden mushroom head, his name was Hubert, and his father was a baron. Even though Garenne thinks his mushroom head is hilarious, he has to give his full attention at the moment. He used great force to hit Hubert's wooden stick continuously, and he knew that Hubert's noble son had long been hollowed out by wine, and his physical strength was very insufficient. But they have been practicing swordsmanship since they were young, and they are not at all comparable to their own wild way, and only by crushing each other with strength can they achieve victory.
Sure enough, under the continuous blows, Hubert gradually could not hold the wooden stick in his hand, so he had to drop the stick and turn to run away. Just as Galen was ready to take advantage of the victory. He heard a gust of wind coming behind his head, and hurriedly turned back to resist, but it turned out that two other people had come to attack him.
He hurriedly exended a great deal of physical strength to force the two of them back, and then saw that Hubert had already pulled out the steel sword from the sword rack in the corner.
"Don't take it so seriously, none of you three will be knights anyway. I'm sure you'll all be the best creeps. Garenne said to Hubert with a smile.
Hubert said, "I will be the one who receives orders, and I will give orders." Then he saw Garenne walk to the other side where he had placed his sword.
Hubert hurriedly shouted: "Pick up your sword and defeat the promise he promised before!"
When the other two noble children heard this, they hurriedly found a nearby sword stand and drew their swords. Garenne walked slowly to the side of a sword rack and drew the steel longsword inside. He couldn't figure out why the two swords were put in one sword stand, and the sword stand was so scattered, but this time it helped him a lot.
Hosa looked at the four people who drew their long swords, and whispered to the other knights, "Finally, it's a little interesting." ”
Garenne looked at the steel long sword in his hand, the sword was about one and a half meters long, and the sword was about 4 centimeters wide, it felt heavier than he expected, and it felt like it was made for him.
This is the three people of the other side all surrounded and began to attack Garenne together, Garenne could not resist at all, so he could only retreat again and again.
Garenne scoffed, "Can't you just fight me alone, coward!"
Hubert was not at all annoyed: "I am destined to be a member of the knight's table, I have been waiting for this moment for a long time, Galen, and I can finally scold your mean mouth." ”
The three of them began to take turns in battle, so as to drain Garen's physical strength.
"Admit defeat, Galen, you better give up!" said one of the nobles' sons with a playful laugh.
"You'd better save it, I'll never give up. ”
Although Garenne said it lightly, he was secretly anxious in his heart: "If you continue like this, you will soon be defeated, and you must find a way to defeat them one by one." Galen suddenly saw the stairs of the city wall that could only be passed by one person at a time, and immediately took it into his mind, and deliberately led the three of them over. The three of them attacked again and again, feeling that the so-called first swordsmanship in the barracks was not very good, and Hubert was the last to follow Garenne up the steps of the city wall.
Retreating to the halfway point of the stairs of the city wall, Garene suddenly and quickly attacked a few swords, and when the other party had not yet reacted, he directly hugged the other party and threw him off the city wall.
Then Garenne quickly retreated to dodge the follow-up attack, turned around and ran up the wall. Then he went back and fought with another noble son. After a few fights, a quick close punch knocked the opponent unconscious.
Although these noble children are good at swordsmanship, they are not good at improvisation. After all, the elders of the family generally don't teach them swordsmanship at the same time, and then tell them what to do if the enemy uses a fist close to them.
Garrell panted and pointed his sword at Hubert, who apparently hadn't reacted yet, and rushed to the wall in a daze. As a result, he saw his last little brother knocked unconscious.
Garenne smiled, "It seems that you are finally willing to go it alone with me." ”
(The main character is on his way to fly.) )