Before the competition began, the discussion became quite lively with everyone.

This is a rare event in the Jianshi Pass for several years.

In retrospect.

The last time a competitive meeting of this magnitude was held at the Solid Stone Pass, when Baron Dylan had just received the title of baron and became the lord of the place, and it had been a full 10 years since then.

As for the athletic tournament that can radiate the entire North County Territory.

Only Viscount Wayne, who replaces Archduke Cameron and rules the entire North Shire, can only meet once every 3 years in his Rogerburg.

After all, the cost of holding a competitive conference is not something that ordinary lords can afford.

The banquet ended at noon.

Everyone left the lord's hall of the mansion and followed the carpet prepared by the servants and walked up the spiral staircase to the south side of the city wall, where a 10-meter-wide area of the wall was close to the mountain wall and the mansion embedded in the rock.

It is a viewing platform that was built to participate in the athletic competition.

The next athletic tournament is located on the square on the south side of the city wall, and sitting on this 7-meter-high viewing platform, you can see it clearly, and any discussion will not affect the competition in the square below.

As early as the early hours of the morning.

The servants had prepared linen shade tents in advance, which were pulled up with hemp rope and hung above their heads to protect them from the scorching sun.

With the gentle mountain breeze, there is still a little coolness.

Although close to the Narun Desert, a cold current gushes out of the ground in the Sanwaya Mountains all year round, so that it can neutralize the heat waves in the desert and allow the flora and fauna to thrive in the mountains, making them a natural hunting ground for the villages of the Rocky Pass.

The scholars and mages of the Lion Principality have jointly conducted a survey of the Sanwaya Mountains.

Such a conclusion was given.

The conclusion claims that the cold snap in the Sanwaya Mountains is negative energy, and long-term exposure to it will be harmful to animals and plants.

However, the temperature of the Narun Desert containing positive energy and fire energy has been washed away for a long time, slowing down the overflow of negative energy, so it can be safe, but even so, there are dozens of more demonic creatures in the Sanwaya Mountains than in other areas, and there are often hunting teams in the villages that encounter them, or rush into the lumberyards and quarries, and the knights need to step up their rescue to suppress it.

But this is not worth caring about the vassal knights and gentlemen and celebrities who are currently on the viewing platform.

They have been living in the Solid Pass for 10 years.

Some of the villages and families that have been established in the Solid Stone Pass have lived for hundreds of years, and they have not seen demonic creatures rushing down the mountains, but those gnolls from the Narun Desert have caused more damage.

There is now a fortress called the Solid Pass, and a large number of regular troops and more than 20 knights are stationed.

Absolutely foolproof.

Compared with the problem of dwelling on this issue, the landlords and merchants who are coming now all bring the best children of their families and are close to those vassal knights, just like selling their own children, wanting to become the attendants of these vassal knights.

And these vassal knights were also willing to talk to these rich and powerful landlords and merchants.

The overall atmosphere is very harmonious.

Although knights are nothing in the eyes of true nobility.

But knights still belong to the reserve of the nobility, and there is a chance to become a nobleman, after all, there is a good slang saying in the Duchy of Lion, a knight cannot be a nobleman, but a nobleman is definitely a knight.

After all, the Lion Principality is established by force, and the high-end military class of knights has been listed separately as a class.

And the other human principalities are not much different.

That's why these landlords and merchants are so keen to let their children know knights, and once they are accepted as squires, they have the possibility of becoming knights, and they have the qualifications to become nobles!

If the knight is a noble reserve.

Then the knight's squire, which is the knight's reserve!

Kant and Baron Dylan stood at the side of the viewing platform, surrounded by no unscrupulous merchants and landlords, only Manid and two close vassal knights, talking to each other, smiling and saying pleasant things.

Preparations are still being made.

But just outside the city walls, the infantrymen in iron-clad armor had blocked the square.

There are already more spectators waiting around, after all, the athletic conference is often not the entertainment time of the nobles, but also the entertainment time of the commoners, and many residents of the Jianshi Pass have come to watch this grand event that has not been seen once in several years, and the whispered conversation is also full of crowds and noisy sounds.

There are even many small traders who have found a business opportunity, using rattan baskets to sell a lot of snacks, mostly fruit platters made of chopped wild apples from the mountains, mixed with other chopped wild fruits, in simple wooden bowls, 1 small silver coin can buy a large portion.

Residents living in Jianshi Pass often have this spare money to buy snacks.

Soon these small traders made a lot of money.

In such a grand event, everyone was willing to spend money, even the housekeeper on the viewing platform sent someone down to buy a few rattan baskets, threw away the wooden bowls, replaced them with more exquisite silver bowls, and placed them on the wooden table of the viewing platform for others to eat and drink.

At the same time, various pastries are also served and placed on the table.

and liqueurs diluted with honey and water, as well as ale.

There is also a juice drink made with freshly squeezed lime juice and honey water.

They are all placed on the viewing platform in barrels and barrels.

After all, those who can come to the viewing platform are all decent people with heads and faces who have been invited, and ordinary small merchants and small landowners can not accept invitations, so they can only huddle with the crowds outside the city wall under the viewing platform.

"It's hilarious."

Kant held a silver wine glass in his hand and couldn't help but sigh softly.

Baron Dylan smiled and nodded: "This is specially arranged to welcome you." ”

"Thank you very much, Uncle Dylan." Kant's grateful acknowledgments.

At the same time, holding a silver wine glass, as if a toast, he gently took a sip of the malt wine with lime juice in it, and couldn't help but sigh lightly, and said with a slightly bitter smile: "I haven't participated in the athletic conference for a long time." ”

Baron Dylan looked at Kant's graceful movements, his eyes filled with jealousy.

This is the calmness and elegance that only the children of the aristocracy who have been cultivated since childhood.

But soon Baron Dylan's heart returned to calm, looking at Kant's embarrassed and lost appearance, the corners of his mouth curled up a slight smile, and his eyes were a little complacent. Even if you are elegant and calm, you still have to respect him so much, even calling him you, and calling him uncle.

To know.

If Kant really is still the eldest son of the Grand Duke.

If this is in the southern county of the principality.

It is estimated that just by the title of this uncle, he can attract the most severe reprimand from the Lion Castle!

But now.

He, Dylan, this martial arts nobleman who was originally looked down upon by everyone, can become the uncle of Grand Duke Cameron's youngest son, and he can stand in front of him and accept this rightful title!

"You seem to have something unpleasant in mind?"

Baron Dylan chuckled and said firmly to Kant: "You can talk to me, no matter what, I will still be your strongest backing, if there is any problem, I will settle it for you, just in the name of Princess Sophia, I have sworn loyalty to her, and you who belong to her bloodline, I will also do my best." ”

"You are reassuring to me. Uncle Dylan. Kant bowed his head, shook his head slightly, and smiled bitterly.

Like a lost child, he sighed softly and said, "I was not qualified to participate in the competition of the Lion Castle, and even if I could, I could only go down there, looking at my father and brother on the viewing platform, and they couldn't see me in the crowd at all. ”

Baron Dylan's eyes were a little smug.

When his tone was steady, he even sowed discord and said: "It's okay, now that you have your own territory and have mastered the salt mine, why do you have to obey their arrangement?" You can live more like yourself, like your mother, with your own opinions, and don't rely on too much, because she herself has the power to control the country. ”

"My mother?" Kant seemed curious.

"That's right." Baron Dylan sighed slightly: "Princess Sophia, there was a powerful Silver Light Knights in the beginning, but after your mother died, this Knights were disbanded. ”

Kant was slightly stunned.

This has never been recorded in history, nor in those books.

Once in the academy, Kant specifically looked up the records of his mother, in order to find clues.

The purpose is also to use the power left by his mother to get some support, at least until the golden finger is manifested, so that he can live a less depressing life.

But no matter how much he searched, he couldn't find any record of his mother, only that he knew that it was the wife of the second Grand Duke Cameron.

When he was sick and forgotten, he lost all records.

In this way, it seems that someone deliberately erased all of his mother's account.

Think of the nobles of the Lion Principality, and the taboo topics that can only be talked about except in this remote place, even in the academy with a strong academic atmosphere, Kant's mother, Princess Sophia, is not allowed to talk about it.

If you think about it, even some teachers deliberately did not lend Kant certain books.

It seems that it is because of this hidden reason.

Some people just want Princess Sophia to disappear in time, and completely block this news from Kant, so as not to have any accidents or touch some secrets that should not appear.

Just like the Knights of the Silver Light now.

Kant didn't know anything about it.

"If you have the help of the Silver Light Knights, I don't think those gnolls outside are your opponents at all."

Baron Dylan also seemed to be embarrassed.

Glancing at Kant next to him, he also said nostalgically: "It is said that the Silver Light Knights are composed of 1,000 skilled knights, and the highest commander is 10 great knights who have mastered extraordinary powers, which is really powerful." ”

"10 Grand Knights." Kant was slightly stunned.

If he used his understanding of the Great Knight, it was indeed extremely terrifying.