Using transfiguration spells and teleportation, Siegel can dress up the Lamp God as himself. In the past, Janet had an elemental sensitivity and could definitely see it, but now I'm afraid she can't detect it. It's safer to go to the spell lab by yourself and let the lamp god go from there and head straight to the venue.

Everything needs to be prepared, and it's best to stagger your game and your time in the stands as much as possible. For example, on the first day of the opening, he needs to give a speech as usual, so he can't arrange his own game. This involved a lot of work, even to revise the order of the draw. However, this is Myr, and all the magic is under Siegel's control, so it is not difficult for him to do this as a lord.

After thinking about all this, he was in a good mood, and even hummed a little tune on the way to the courtyard for recovery training.

While mages often use meditation to stretch their minds, Siegel has another way: muscles. Sweat is a method of bringing out impurities from the inside out, forcing the body to produce new tissue and replace old and aging parts. Although it can make people breathless and tired, the ethereal and relaxed afterward cannot be replaced by any mental exercise.

Siegel listened to the creaking of his muscles, knowing that they had received a clear order to begin to grow and recover. At the same time, he could hear the clanging of metal and the neighing of horses coming from the racecourse outside the castle. Some fighters preparing for the competition are warming up there and getting used to their new weapons.

Heim had a lot of money, or rather a way out of his sudden forty-fold increase in steel production, announcing that all competitors would be provided with standard blunt swords and shields. If the right armor is not available, Heim Collar also has three body types of cuirassers that can be lent to the contestant for free. If you want to customize the bust plate, you can also reduce the price by 10% for each round you pass. Now it is estimated that the tournament will take twelve rounds, so the champion will receive armor for free. There will also be an extra twenty percent of the armor money.

Serious busts cost 500 gold, while delicate armor requires an additional 200 gold. For some freelancers and mercenaries who are not wealthy, they are often full of confidence - both in their martial arts and in their calculations.

They just don't know how low the price of Heim's iron has dropped now.

This is a plan made by Janet and Lantern God II after calculation, and the income is much higher than the income from selling armor directly. Considering that steel and armor craftsmen were originally important resources belonging to the lord, and were not suitable for selling at a reduced price with the tactics of merchants, Siegel nodded. Agreed to the plan.

In the era of hammer swords and crossbows, armor was especially valuable because of its important protective role, but a new era was coming, and Siegel had foreseen it. Goblins' muskets will put an end to the days of the Knights in Armor, and you may be taking part in the last large-scale knightly tournament.

The knight comes from the warrior and comes from the sword in his hand. When using a sword, it's not just the strength of your hands: your feet must stand firm, your legs must hold on strongly, and your waist must sink down. Keep your shoulders and arms apart. Your ears should listen to all the sounds around you, and your eyes should see the present and future of your goal. You have to make sure that the strength does not freeze in every joint, and you have to make sure that the blade hits the opponent's weak point.

From the beginning of cutting weeds with a scythe and short sword, Sir Bill's teaching of swordsmanship has always accompanied Siegel. But in Siegel's deduction, there is no longer a process of exerting force from the feet to the hands on the battlefield in the future, only the eyes and one finger remain. Pulling the trigger and firing a projectile is only half as simple as the current crossbow, but it is dozens of times more powerful.

When he made a continuous slurry crossbow. For the sake of "chivalry", he made only five rounds of ammunition magazines. Only the crossbow he had made for himself had more ammo than that. I've never seen a goblin magazine, though. But their guns were designed for burst fire, and Siegel estimated the number of ammo to be between twelve and thirty - cost was perhaps the only thing to consider, not the firing mechanism.

Such an improvement would have eliminated all the knights, and Siegel swung his blunt sword with great force, cutting off the wooden pole supporting the dummy in front of him.

"Get me another one, hurry up!"

The next target didn't last long. Siegel used so much force that even the blunt sword was curled. So he tossed his weapon aside and moved his shoulder. The amount of exercise today is enough, but his heart has not been resolved.

On the one hand, there is the knightly class that is about to disappear. He believed that with human adaptability, a new generation of knights with muskets would soon appear. They will be subjected to new training methods. New command methods and new tactics and tactics should be applied. On the road to their rise, there may be a generation to a generation and a half of knights who will be eliminated by the times, but I believe there will be no more.

This is a good thing for humans, as one of the four strongest races, humans have the best ability to adapt and tactical organization. The learning cycle for dwarves is thirty years, and for elves it is sixty years, which is enough for humans to renew two or three generations of warriors.

Orcs have shorter life cycles and reproduce more frequently, but they are slightly less able to learn and organize. As for the dwarfs and halflings, they have not achieved much in the war, but they will be the least affected.

In this process, Heim must not have problems. It is better not to have a big achievement, but to keep the castle and the territory of the knights stable and peaceful. A new generation of knights must be trained by all means, and it must be done on the initiative. Those knights who cling to the traditions of the past may not be suitable for the future, so from this tournament onwards, it is necessary to pay attention to the new generation.

Knights will eventually change, so will the mage face the same problem one day? What will happen to the mage when magic no longer requires a special elemental affinity constitution to be used, or with the help of tools, everyone can cast magic?

Maybe that's not the worst of the worst of the worst cases. The current goblins, although ferocious, have not yet exceeded the mage's endurance limit. For formal mages and archmages, there are hundreds of ways to avoid blows. But if a weapon like the Void Cannon becomes something that ordinary people can master, then the status of the mage will not be guaranteed, right?

Like a knight facing a dense stream of goblin muskets.

Siegel was a little glad that the Void Cannon had been researched by him, a mage, which gave the mage plenty of time to react. So the most powerful power in the world is not the rise of force, but the ability to research and adaptability? If we consider that mortals can never be omniscient, then survival of the fittest is the truth of the multiverse?

Siegel knows that he has been thinking too much about his thoughts again, and he has been overusing his brain for a while now, and he is a little too ambitious. He tossed the sweat-soaked towel to the servant and relaxed his shoulders as he walked towards the castle.

A few days later, the knights, destined to be eliminated by history, were dressed and refreshed, waiting for Segal's reception. There is no need to be so troublesome for a simple tournament member, but in addition to being the earl of Heim Territory, Siegel is also the archmage of the Federation, which makes his identity very sensitive. The archmage is equivalent to a duke in the Kingdom of the Stars, and the territory of Heim's realm gives him real power as a "duke".

In order to avoid the situation becoming too solemn, it was misunderstood as the king receiving his courtiers. Janet arranged singers and dancers in the hall and served a simple meal in the same way as a federation meeting. Rather than wearing the ornate aristocratic attire, Siegel met the visitor like a warrior in the elven-style armor that didn't get too much of an obstacle to spell casting.

So the hall was filled with music, laughter, and the clanging of iron boots on stone slabs. The dancers danced in the prescribed area, and the musicians were instructed to play only songs that sang the praises of courage, mercy, and victory, so the singers turned over and over those songs, and Siegel soon got bored. He looked at the people in front of him, ninety percent of them didn't know each other, and more than eighty percent of them had never seen a family crest. He even saw a young man who used a squid with seven claws as his family crest and frequently glanced at him. What does that mean?

He had nothing in common with these people at all, except for hypocritical polite greetings, the same encouragement and appreciation. Fortunately, a lot of food was provided during the banquet, and meat alone included crocodiles, sharks, yaks, antelopes and other uncommon species. Of course, there are some meats that cannot be served, such as the white goose, which symbolizes holiness, the horse, and the dog meat, which symbolizes holiness. The well-prepared and hearty dishes gave Siegel a lot of ways to get out:

"Oh, the shark was caught from the deep sea by a valiant captain, and three crew members were injured as a result. Sharks are powerful predators in the sea, representing vigilance and bravery, and you should try them more!"

Although he used the method of diverting the conversation to speed up the interview, he soon felt that the corners of his mouth twitched, and it was difficult to even make a smiling expression, which was much more tiring than chanting mantras! You should cast an illusion on your face while no one is looking, and just keep a constant smile.

"Bear with me a little longer, my dear. Janet saw Siegel's anxiety and gently assured him, "It's been more than half over, and I've already ordered you to come up as soon as possible." ”

"Well, I'm just a little tired. The family crest of these knights has basically never been seen, and the thick book is considered to be in vain. ”

I didn't read a single page of "Important Families and History in the Mainland" Siegel, all of them were coolies made by Dengshen No. 2. It didn't expect that it didn't help in any way, and the badge that its master had described to him through teleportation could not be found at all. On a few occasions it retrieved results, but it was nothing more than a few mercenary knights who had created their own coats of arms, which were duplicated by the coats of arms of some famous families. Siegel was embarrassed, but he could not accuse the hired knights of not being knowledgeable enough on this occasion - he himself had not learned this at all.

"There are no important families, most of them are small nobles and newcomers who want to soar to the sky. Siegel said to Janet: "It's a good thing for us to win them, but I'm worried that our influence is still too low to attract real masters." ”

"No, there are also families with a long history who have arrived, and even sent the second and third heirs. It's just that they respect their own identity and don't want to compete for your attention with people who don't usually have a chance. If you meet ......" Janet suddenly stopped and said to Siegel: "Cheer up, dear, the Griffin family of the Starry Kingdom is here. (To be continued.) )