At the back of the booth there is a wooden staircase that leads to the top of the stump, which looks spacious enough for two carriages to travel on.

Like the staircase to the top of the mountain that the Emir had seen in White Peak, the wooden staircase had a gentle slope that allowed the carriage to travel on it, and it was basically a straight road, so you didn't have to worry about falling down when you turned a corner.

However, the fact that the people who came here to watch the game, despite their noble status, did not do so, which may indicate the pious attitude of the people of the royal capital towards the World Tree.

Emile watched Cohen walk away and retracted his thoughts, when the head of the registration office came to the two of them, and he looked at Ophelia.

"Is this knight here for the tournament too? Anyway, you saw it just now, it's too late, I guess we can't find the opponent, and then we have to clean up the mess left by the game, so you better go back. ”

The emir hurriedly explained with a smile.

"You misunderstood, we're here to watch the game, and as for the knight next to me, she's not going to play until tomorrow."

"Oh? You still came to watch the game so late, didn't you see that the audience only came out and didn't go in? The person in charge was puzzled, but still sighed, "Alas, okay, then you pay the ticket money, one hundred gold coins per person." ”

“…… Belch. The emir was frightened by the price.

"Why do you have to pay to watch a game?" Ophelia asked.

"Hahahaha, what you said," the person in charge couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, "Why don't you need money in the royal capital, oh, don't you think that we are doing charity by holding this knight competition?" ”

"Tsk." When the emir saw his face, he looked disgusted.

"Forget it, Emile," Ophelia reminded him, and continued, "I'll pay for it. ”

She then began to rummage in her pockets, but after searching for a long time, she could not find thirty gold coins, and she was immediately embarrassed.

"It's a countryman, no wonder he asks those stupid questions that make people scratch their heads." The person in charge looks like he is on top.

Although Emile hated the tone of his voice, he was an outsider and tried not to get into trouble, and at this point, he only thought about relieving Ophelia, so he took out the gem that Cosette had given him.

"We don't have that much cash, can you see this?"

"Oh?" The person in charge took the gem, his eyes lit up obviously, but he still looked down on people, "This gem is in good condition, and it is indeed worth a few hundred gold coins, but how can a countryman have this thing, it shouldn't be stolen, right?" ”

As soon as Ophelia heard this, the anger in her heart suddenly rose.

As a knight, she has always adhered to chivalric etiquette, and she will not get angry with ordinary people unless she has to, but now, if this person insults her, she doesn't care, but she can't insult her friends.

"Do you want to pull it down, Emir, let's go, what kind of broken knight competition, we are not rare."

She snatched the gem, shoved it into the emir's hand, and dragged him away.

"Wait, wait, Ophelia." The emir hurriedly shouted.

"What are you waiting for! I can't stand that kind of guy, you know, I didn't give him a punch just now. ”

"But it doesn't matter, does it? We're just here to see the game, and the Knight named Cohen looks like a great guy, don't you want to see his game? ”

Ophelia heard this, thought about it carefully, and finally stopped, and she also felt that it made sense.

So, she glanced back at the person in charge, thinking that if you weren't in the royal capital, I would definitely let you walk around without eating.

"Hey, have you changed your mind?" The person in charge saw that they were back, and he had a mocking tone.

Ophelia ignored him, and then, Emir threw the gem into the air and walked straight over, the person in charge behind him scrambled to catch it, and then put it into his pocket with a smile.

……

Ten minutes later, the two of them finally arrived at the auditorium, where there were about 2,000 seats, and since it was not early, most of them had already gone back, so they could find any seats to sit in.

Naturally, the Emir took a fancy to the closest place to the arena, and the spectators who continued to stay did the same.

Only at such a close distance can the two knights be discerned, and it is Hydes and Cohen, who have just been seen outside, who are already standing in the center of the field under the instructions of the referee.

After the two saluted each other, the game officially began with a bell.

With torches around the arena, they were able to see their opponents' movements.

The first to attack was Hydes, who used a long sword, which was about a meter long and had elaborate jewels on its scabbard, but he threw it on the ground, the blade was extremely sharp, shining in the light of the fire, and when it was wielded, it could even produce a sound of breaking wind.

"Hehe, a good sword, worthy of a knight's name." Cohen couldn't help but admire.

"Cut, don't talk about these things that you don't have, the knight can only speak with strength." Hydes looked impatient.

"Well, I love to hear that." Cohen nodded earnestly.

In the next second, Haydes' longsword stabbed at Cohen, and since he had fought outside, he didn't keep his hand anymore.

Cohen really saw that something was wrong, and it was precisely because of the brief encounter outside that he really underestimated the other party.

He had always felt that the so-called knightly family was just a showmanship, and then relied on the hard-earned honor of the family's predecessors to make a living, but Hydes broke this stereotype of him.

In the face of this compelling attack, Cohen hurriedly stepped back, and at the same time drew his silver whip to defend.

Hydes's move was very ruthless, and it was obviously murderous, Cohen's silver whip was soft, it was impossible to block it, he could only keep retreating, but it was not a way to go on like this, once he crossed the edge of the arena, he lost.

Finally, as he approached the edge, Cohen finally stopped, and shook the silver whip with great skill, and then the two-meter-long silver whip wrapped around Hydes' sword like a snake.

At this time, after about ten meters of pursuit, most of the power of Hydes's move had been removed, and he didn't know how to attack the whip, so he was quickly hit.

He tried to pull his sword back, but found that he was tightly wrapped in a silver whip, and the situation seemed to have turned into a tug-of-war.

At this moment, there were bursts of boos from the audience.

"Come on, you can't beat people like this."

"Hey, what are you two doing, putting this tug-of-war aside, right? What a waste of my ticket money. ”

"Yes, yes, the organizer will return the money quickly!"

……

"Alas, how can the current knights be like this, it is really not as good as the generation."

The last sentence was uttered by an old man in his seventies, who happened to be sitting next to the emir, so he could hear it clearly.

Seeing that no one cared about him, the old man tilted his head and continued to the emir.

"Alas, there is really no need to watch the knight competition now, you know, old man, I have watched six knight competitions, not to mention the finals at that time, even the auditions are very exciting, the most memorable thing is twenty years ago, when the legendary paladin Zelens was in the limelight, and won three consecutive championships in his life, but unfortunately he only won the sixth place in the last session, which makes people have to sigh, the legendary character also has a day of aging, and then from that time, the knight competition is nothing to see, and this year's is even more boring, I've seen all the auditions in the past seven days, to be honest, it's so chilling, what a mess of this, if I hadn't had a longing for knights since I was a child, how could I waste money on this, but unfortunately my family didn't understand me, and warned me that if I came to see the knight competition again, I would sweep me away, but I still came, because I always thought that if this knight competition can regain its former glory, then I have to save money to support even if I don't eat or drink. ”

Emir could hear that this old man had special feelings for knightly competition, but he also knew that this person had watched so many knight competitions in vain, how could any knight tell the winner as soon as he came on the field, unless there was a huge difference in strength, and the stalemate situation showed that the strength of the two sides was about the same, which was the most interesting.

"Old man, don't jump to conclusions so early, you haven't seen this final yet, so let's be patient."

"Hehe, you young man is not arrogant or impatient, you are really patient, okay, as a senior audience, I should be patient."

Perhaps someone responded to his words, and the old man's face was full of smiles, and his eyes were full of hope as he looked at the arena.

By the time Emile interrupted, Hydes and Cohen had already fought for several rounds, and with the initial tug-of-war, there were constant boos from the audience, but after a few more fights, the audience saw the door and began to watch patiently.

Hydes did have two hits, he had been trained as a knight since he was a child, he was harder than the other children in the family, and when others were trying to please the elders of the family, he was still training hard, even when he was sick, and the end result was that the elders were more satisfied with him, so this caused a lot of rejection from his peers.

He had heard a paladin from his family say that in order to achieve something in swordsmanship, it is better to be proficient in one than to spend time studying a variety of bells and whistles, so that he has a better chance of surpassing most knights.

That's exactly what Hydes did, so for five years after he became a full-fledged knight, he had been honing the simplest sword skills, which were basic swordsmanship that any knight could master.

At this point, he found that all of his tricks had been defused by Cohen, and although it didn't seem easy, it was worth it for him to treat him as a real opponent.

However, what he didn't expect was that Cohen had not used his full strength, after all, this was only the audition stage, and the other knights who had advanced to the table might be watching from the audience, and if they were serious at this time, they would probably fall into a disadvantageous situation in the subsequent games.

After a few more moves, Haydes finally found a chance to unleash his sword skills, only to see his leg muscles tense, and then with a sharp force, the long sword stabbed forward, and extremely fast.

In Cohen's opinion, this is just a very simple move, and it doesn't even count as a sword skill, so he doesn't care, and plans to use the silver whip to wrap it again, maybe he can get the opponent's sword out of his hand.

As a result, this blow contained extremely brutal force, and the blade shattered it the moment it touched the silver whip, and in the end, only half of it was left, and it could not cause damage at all.

Hydes couldn't help but be overjoyed, he felt that he was too unlucky before, and he actually encountered a difficult bone in the audition stage, if he failed to advance, it would be strange if he was laughed to death by those people in the family, but now that the other party is on his way, his victory will be inevitable.

Next, Hydes looked at Cohen, who was in a panic, and the long sword in his hand stabbed out again, this time he deliberately left room for him, as long as the other party conceded defeat in time, he could stop.

However, seeing that the longsword was getting closer and closer, Cohen had no intention of surrendering, and he was looking directly at the blade.

Haydes felt inexplicable, but he didn't dare to stop immediately, he always felt that something was wrong.

In order to avoid hurting his life, Hydes temporarily changed his mind and aimed it at his shoulder, which would also make him unable to resist.

But what happened next surprised him, and at the moment when the blade was about to stab, Cohen finally acted, only to see that he suddenly lowered his body, and perfectly avoided the attack, and then took a step closer and threw a straight punch to Hydes' jaw while he was retracting his defense.

"Wow!"

Haydes screamed and fell to the ground, but Cohen didn't stop and punched him in the stomach again.

The skill of this punch is no less than Hydes's research on basic sword techniques, which is guaranteed not to seriously injure the opponent and can also get the opponent on his feet for a while.

Haydes only felt weak and struggled several times to stand up, while Cohen stood next to him with a hearty smile as he waited for Hydes to admit defeat.

At the same time as Hydes raised his hand to signal surrender, the referee rang the bell to officially announce the end of the match.

Immediately after, the moment Cohen's hand was raised by the referee, the audience immediately burst into applause and cheers.

Emile and Ophelia were also applauding, and at this time, since the old man was right next to them, they could naturally hear him.

"Oh, that's good, this knight should be the seeded player of this year's class, I need to hurry up and place a bet, maybe I can get back to my capital before my family kicks me out."

When the emir heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, it seemed that the old man had no feelings for knightly competition at all.

He looked at the arena again, and Cohen stretched out his hand to Hydes who had fallen to the ground, Hydes was stunned for a moment, as if he had not recovered from the defeat, but he quickly reacted, smiled slightly, and held Cohen's hand tightly.