Chapter 93
The Secret Tower Federation of the country is very strange. It does not have a decent government. The Great Parliament consists of mages. The Great Parliament is divided into two parts. The House of Commons composed of senior mages is responsible for handling the country's main government affairs, such as finance, taxation, and personnel, all handled by the House of Commons. The House of Lords composed of legendary mages is only responsible for diplomatic and military affairs. The Masters are very busy and have no time to pay attention to those small matters.
"What are those legendary wizards busy with?" Sui Xiong asked curiously.
Lei thought for a while and said, "Basically, he should be studying how to break through the limits of biological creatures and enter the realm of demigods - anyway, the masters I know are all studying these."
"Do you still know the legendary wizard?"
"I can't say I know each other, but I know others, but I probably don't have any impression of me." Lei said with a smile, "I came here to study for a while when I was a teenager. At that time, I was in the capital of the Secret Tower Federation, the Supreme Tower. Because of some luck, I had the honor to meet two masters, and I also met two other masters, plus that Master Green. Among the fourteen legendary mages in the Secret Tower Federation, I met exactly one hand. It would definitely envy many middle and low-level mages."
"With your current strength, even if you don't consider your background, you are fully qualified to visit those legendary wizards." Sui Xiong said with interest, "Will we pass through the territory of any legendary wizard along the way? I think we can visit them."
Lei recalled carefully and shook his head: "To be honest, I don't have a lot of impression of where the masters live - for example, the 'Green Sea Residence', I know his existence, but I don't know that he was originally in Green Tree City."
“Is this kind of news kept confidential?”
"It probably didn't keep it confidential, but I was not interested in intelligence and the like at that time. When I was a little older and started to be interested in these things, I had already..." Lei's face suddenly darkened, and he sighed deeply, and stopped talking.
Obviously, he remembered some sad past events again.
Sui Xiong patted his shoulder lightly to show comfort: "Don't be sad, people can't always live in memory. You have a bright future, why bother with those unhappy things in the past!"
"You're right." Lei nodded with a smile, but his expression was still depressed.
But he is an old adventurer after all, and is good at regulating his emotions. He soon returned to normal and buried those sad past events deeply in his heart.
The Secret Tower Federation is composed of towns. Because of the protection of the Magic Tower, the security in the city is often good. But once you leave the city, all kinds of demon moths emerge one after another. Even on the road, many monsters often appear.
This is because the terrain here is very high - the south of the main plane continent is a plateau with a high magic concentration. This is why the mages chose to build magic towers here in a concentrated manner.
The higher magic concentration caused a large number of mages to gather here and gradually developed into a country of mages. However, the higher magic concentration also caused the monsters here to emerge one after another, just like weeds on the wilderness, which could not be cut off and destroyed. Sometimes, even the patrol team had just swept through a certain area, but in a blink of an eye, a large number of monsters were like mushrooms after the rain, and they emerged from somewhere.
Lei swung his sword and slashed a roaring miracle into four and half with his axe. Then he didn't even look at it, stabbed a long spear with his backhand, stabbing a bird-body screaming and whistling. At the same time, he was not idle at his feet. He ran like flying, and kicked a mutant slime with a spike all over his body. The extremely clever force exploded when it hit a big tree, shaking the monster that should be immune to most physical attacks into a pool of mud and splashed everywhere.
In a blink of an eye, more than a dozen monsters were killed by him, and the ground was covered in blood, and it was in a mess.
"Why are there so many monsters here?" Sui Xiong said in wonder, "Not even the greystone mountains or the ancient woods and wilderness, there are not so many monsters!"
Stile flew back from not far away, holding a wooden board in his hand, with a line of big words on it: Ask me, whom should I ask?
So each person and a pig turned their attention to thunder.
Among them, Lei is the only one who has been to the Secret Fat Tower Federation before.
"I don't know either. I came by the water by boat, then landed from Baita Harbor, and directly used a short distance to teleport the magic array to the Supreme Tower." Lei said, "When I was in school, I basically never got out of the Supreme Tower at all, so I also learned about the actual situation of the Secret Dharma Tower Federation through books."
"You turned a blind eye to the things outside the window and only read the books of sages - you had a very test-oriented education style back then!"
“What is exam-oriented education?”
"Just like you, concentrate on studying and don't care about anything else."
"That's a really good lifestyle." Lei said with a smile, "Still and calm, and without competing with the world. My teacher always wanted me to be a scholar back then and not to learn from others to fight and kill and become a knight."
Stile laughed, took out the wooden board, and wrote two lines of words: Scholar who killed and set fire? Specializes in robbers?
Lei couldn't help but smile bitterly, shaking his head while laughing.
Sui Xiong thought for a while and asked, "What about you now? Do you want to be a scholar or a knight? Or... have you made up your mind to be a successful robber?"
"If possible, I still want to be a knight." Lei said, "but it's unlikely, the knight's requirements are very high."
"I don't think so. You are all powerful people who are almost at the legendary realm. If this is not enough, how many knights can there be in the world?"
Lei sighed: "This is not a matter of strength, but a matter of morality. To become a knight, one must follow eight virtues: humility, honor, sacrifice, heroism, mercy, faith, honesty, and justice. I will not elaborate on the corresponding oath... In short, I have deviated from the virtues of knights. No matter how strong I am, I cannot be considered a knight."
"It seems that the knight seems to be very high-end..." Sui Xiong murmured in a low voice, "There is such a high moral standard..."
Stile laughed again, took out the wooden board and wrote a big word: "Cai!"
"Lie? What does it mean?" Sui Xiong asked curiously.
Seeing Stile take out the wooden board again, he simply waved his hand and gave everyone a temporary and informative language so that Stile could communicate directly in language.
"Knight virtues or something are nothing more than a formality when you cannon a knight. The lord or bishop presides over the ceremony, and the cannoned knights pretend to be swearing—in fact, no one will take it seriously." Stile said with a smile, "I have seen many knights, let alone the eight virtues, I have never seen half of them."
“Not only meet half of it?”
"Of course." Steele took out the wooden board and wrote the eight virtues on it, explaining one by one, "Humility requires the knight to be humble to anyone, lower his attitude, do not be proud, and cannot be arrogant. Most of the people with strength are proud, and only the weak will be humble. The knights I have seen are indeed humble when facing people with higher status than them, but that's all."
"This is also half a piece," said Sui Xiong.
"Okay, even half." Stile continued, "Honor requires the knights to firmly protect their honor, not to do anything that is detrimental to honor, and never retreat in order to maintain honor. This is the most often mentioned in the knight's character. 'Honor is my life' is talked about by many people - but when they really need to take risks to maintain honor, or pay the price to maintain honor, most of them retreat. I have only occasionally seen knights willing to maintain honor - fortunately, there are still some."
"Then this is one."
"Well, there is no need to say about sacrifice. After all, the knight is obedient to the lord or the warrior of the church. What does it mean to retreat when he is a warrior? So this one is considered the best executed among the knight's character."
"Two and a half."
"Many young men can do it. But most young men cannot be knights. Not many of them can become knights anymore." said Stile. "There are basically no heroes among the noble knights, but if the knights of the church are included, then there are still some heroes among the knights of the church."
"This is one?"
"At most half," said Stile. "The next one is mercy. I have never seen a knight with this virtue. When you see it, you can ask me to visit and open my eyes; believe that the noble knights have no faith, and the knights of the church have faith, but what they believe in is not justice or justice, but their own gods-even evil gods, the same."
"Is this a virtue in line with a virtue?" Sui Xiong asked.
"Perhaps some people think, but I don't think that believing in gods is a virtue to anyone who conflicts with their own gods."
Sui Xiong smiled: "This is indeed not counted."
"Honestness and justice, these two things must be counted together - because I have never seen them before. Like mercy, these three virtues are rare. Not only have I not seen them in the knights, but I have never seen them in the nobles." Stir painted on the wooden board and finally smiled.
There are only three remaining virtues in total.
Sui Xiong turned to look at Lei, his expression was a little gloomy. It was obvious that Stile's criticism of the moral level of the knights made him very unhappy.
"Only by following the eight virtues can one be called a knight." He emphasized, "There are fakes everywhere, and it is not only the knights. Aristocrats also have regular virtue standards, but who has seen a few nobles who can fulfill it?"
Stile smiled twice, not caring about it: "The nobles are already terrible! Look at me, are there any other shortcomings besides being a little lustful? Is it still deprived of the right of inheritance..."
"You are not 'a little' lustful, you are too lustful!"
"It doesn't matter, it's just a matter of personal style..."
Lei and Stile started to make noise again, and Sui Xiong looked at it silently, thinking in his heart.
Maybe...when your church is built, should I hold a canonization ceremony for Lei?
Chapter completed!