"A hundred crystal nuclei above LV50, you have to do it yourself, well, you can also let your honorary knights do it. It's a real problem, and if it weren't for that, that amount wouldn't be a big deal to me. Hed muttered as he walked to the stone roundhouse where the purple-haired girl Sima lived, ready to tell her that he was going to be away from home during this time, and that he would not go to her side to study with her for the time being.

The so-called nobleman's certificate of bravery is a traditional ritual of the Olympian Empire, every time when promoting the title, under the supervision of another nobleman, the nobleman who performs the certificate of bravery must hunt one hundred fifth-order or more demonic beasts with his honorary knight within a certain time limit, retrieve their crystal nuclei and hand them over to the heraldic academy as a proof of bravery, and the limit time is one month.

To put it bluntly, this is tantamount to paying a certain "handling fee" for title promotion to the Imperial Heraldic Academy in disguise. Of course, this ritual was written into the constitution of the empire at the insistence of the founding emperor, Olympus I, who attached great importance to the concept of bravery.

This ritual is not too difficult, even some of the most weak nobles can pass smoothly, because they can go hunting with the selected honorary knights, so they can leave the hands-on work to their subordinates as an outing, and enjoy themselves on the side.

When Hide told Sima the reason, the purple-haired girl congratulated Shadow on his official title of nobility, but then she hesitated for a long time before tentatively speaking to Half, "...... Actually, my mentor wants me to do some practical training recently, but I'm very new to these aspects, can you take me with you?"

"It should be no problem," Hade thought for a moment, "The place we are going to go to is the gray mountain outside the city, this area is close to the black stone forest, the Warcraft tribe is relatively weak, and it is also an area where many hunters often go, there will not be too powerful Warcraft, and it is quite suitable as a place for actual combat training." ”

"Hmm. Sima nodded happily.

"Then let's make some preparations, just because most of the demonic beasts in this area are very weak, it may take a little more time for me to collect hundreds of fifth-order demonic beast crystal nuclei in this trial of bravery. Hade thought for a moment, "Well, it's the cold season again, and it's not easy to search for lurking demonic beasts. Although the weather has warmed up a bit, I guess I will spend at least 10 days there. ”

Seema didn't have much experience with any of these things, so Hide simply took her back to the residence.

"Haha, you've finally got the title of baron, well, it's time to change your name to Lord Head......," Magick said happily.

Hide interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "What is Your Excellency, you can still be called the same, besides, uncle, you are also an honorary knight now, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is half a nobleman." ”

Magik smiled, he also knew that Hede usually didn't care much about the etiquette of these titles, but when there was serious business, it was completely different, "Hede, you are almost sixteen years old, and it is very rare to be promoted from a commoner to a nobleman at such a young age. ”

"It's much easier to do a lot of things with a knighthood. Hede subconsciously touched the faint beard or fur on his chin, he began to grow in this cold season, his height has grown more than ten centimeters, and his body is a lot stronger, but it is still much inferior to the tall Desi.

The purple-haired girl looked at the small and delicate knightly badge of honor on the chest of the silver-haired female apprentice half curiously and half enviously, seemed very interested, and turned to Hade and said, "Hade, can you give me one of this badge?"

Stunned for a moment, Hade reminded, "Sima, do you know what an honorary knight means?"

"You know, I've read a lot of storybooks, and my favorite is the story of the brave man and his honorary knights going on adventures together. The purple-haired girl's natural answer left Hade a little speechless.

"Especially the story of life and death between the brave man and the female knight who silently supports him......"

Before Sima could finish her words, she was interrupted by a cough from Desi, "Mentor, let's discuss the luggage we need to bring." ”

"Hmm. ”

"That badge ......", Sima seemed a little obsessed with the silver badge with the sword and shield design.

"I can't give it to you for the time being, and I need the consent of your mentor Shrutias. Deliberately ignoring Sima's disappointed eyes, Head turned to discuss with the others what needed to be prepared.

There are a lot of things to prepare for wild hunting, and Hede also estimates that this semi-outing hunt will take a lot of time, so it is necessary to prepare simple tents, sleeping bags, cooking tools, portable dry food, spices and many other miscellaneous items in advance.

"It's a pity that I can't get things like space storage jewelry with my ability right now, otherwise I wouldn't need to worry so much about carrying items. "Hede is a little helpless, the space storage jewelry of the Olympus Empire is extremely rare, except for a small number of special space storage jewelry left over from the previous dynasty, the current high-end industry of super luxury goods is monopolized by the imperial royal family.

Space storage jewelry is such a thing as extremely complex and specialized, and even the little goblin master craftsman Kebi is completely unfamiliar with its principles, let alone manufacturing. Holder only knew that this thing not only required extremely rare materials, but also that the manufacturing process was extremely complex and slow, and only a very small number of finished products were handed down in the noble families of high ranks, which were rewarded by the royal family of Olympus to meritorious people.

Therefore, space storage jewelry is really a rare treasure, many families will cherish this thing as an heirloom, and only the most important elite children are likely to obtain the right to use. Even wealthy families like the West family only have a few, such as the red-haired Countess Wella, who has a bracelet-shaped one, and it is not a top-of-the-line product, which means that the storage space inside is relatively small.

"There are still a lot of things to purchase, uncle, you take the two of them to the market to buy this list of things, I have something to deal with. After making a list of purchases, Head split up with a few others, and he had to take care of some other things.

First of all, he went to Kebi's workshop to get some "crystal nucleus cube bombs", this thing has been roughly determined under the crazy research of these little jishu maniacs day and night for several months, and has also produced a small number of relatively stable finished products.

As the royal goblin said, the crystal nuclei that can be used by this source force detonation type weapon can only use crystal nuclei below LV50, although the third-order Rubik's Cube structure is loaded with more than twenty-six elemental crystal nuclei above LV40 and below LV50, the destructive power produced is almost close to the attack of a seventh-order strength powerhouse, but the activation time is very unstable, sometimes it takes more than two or three minutes to explode, and sometimes it will explode within a few seconds, which is really difficult to use as a controllable attack weapon.

The Rubik's Cube Bomb made of the simplest two-order Rubik's Cube structure filled with four crystal nuclei is the most stable, and it will definitely explode within five seconds, but the power is very low, roughly equivalent to the explosive attack power of the filled crystal nucleus level, so even if you add an elemental crystal nucleus of about LV40, it can only produce the attack power of a small magic of a black mage with a fourth-order strength.

At present, the design of the most complex fourth-order Rubik's Cube structure handed over to the goblins is still in the research stage, because the structure of this Rubik's Cube is far more complex than the third-order Rubik's Cube, and there will be many problems after filling in the crystal nuclei of various elements, either it is completely dumb fire, or it is incomplete excitation. It is estimated that this thing will not have to be fruitful in a short period of time.

So this time, Hade took a few third-order Rubik's Cube bombs filled with LV30 or so crystal nuclei, this model of Rubik's Cube Bomb is the most detailed research by the goblins, and it is the safest to use and the power is relatively stable. Considering that there might be some unexpected situation, he also took two of the most powerful third-order Rubik's Cube bombs for backup, anyway, this thing is relatively small, and seven or eight will not take up much space if they are thrown in the backpack.

Later, Hide traveled to a Golden Chrysanthemum stronghold in the city, met Nija, and explained to her where he had been during this time.

"I will lead four fifth-order subordinates to secretly follow and protect Your Excellency. Ninija said after learning about Have's itinerary.

"Well, I don't think so, the situation in Roland City has been a bit strange recently, judging from your intelligence collection, there are several unknown underground organizations entering," Hade frowned, "Although I speculate that it is likely to be the subordinates of the families of the generals of those legions in the imperial capital, but we still need to be vigilant." ”

Seeing that Ninija seemed to have a different opinion, Head smiled, "The gray mountain area is a very ordinary hunting area, and it is relatively close to the fortress of Roland City, so there will be no problem. To be honest, this Martial Arts Certification Ceremony is equivalent to an outing in my opinion, and with an eighth-order master like His Excellency Wella, it is really difficult to go wrong. ”

Ninija was silent for a moment, thinking that the recent investigation had shown that most of the high-level demonic beasts had recently concentrated on joining the dark tide in the south, and it was indeed difficult to see demonic beasts above LV60 in other areas, so she changed her tone and said, "Then I will secretly follow and be responsible for the liaison work." ”

Hade glanced at her, and from Ninija's expression, he saw that this was her biggest concession, and he didn't insist anymore, took out a knight's badge of honor and handed it over.

"It's okay, you can use this badge temporarily, and if Lord Wella detects it, you can also use the honorary knight to explain your identity. ”

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(The second update, the last few chapters are mostly transitions and foreshadowing, well, not too much.) ）