Finally, Frazier and Ernst returned to the forge and directly announced Emil's victory.

However, the people present did not care about the result for a long time. Even if Frazier said that Grant won, everyone would not reject Emil because of it. They were just curious about what the head of the family said to Grant, and they just hoped not to offend him.

Better.

Next, Frazi didn't say anything else, but continued to work, and everyone had no choice but to muster their energy and return to their jobs.

Emil couldn't help but be moved when he saw them working hard at forging. What was even more unexpected was that Frazi, as a great nobleman, was actually the hardest working one. He didn't have the airs of a nobleman at all. His will could not help but be shaken a little.

.

But it didn't take long for Emil to figure out that maybe Frazie was really a great forger, but no matter how much he wanted to improve his forging skills, he couldn't steal elves without permission.

It's something from the tribe, not to mention that he deceived such a pure race.

On the other hand, the Elf King has fulfilled his agreement, not only helping Emil lift the bloodline curse, but also allowing Ophelia to transform into a real elf, so no matter what, Emil cannot break his promise. After all, the Elf King is

Only those who take a fancy to his character will choose him.

Next, Emil began to seriously participate in the forging work, and the time spent by everyone working together passed very quickly. Fortunately, with Emil's help, they finally completed all the orders for those promoted knights.

This is also the deadline. If it cannot be completed today, the name of their Stuart family will be destroyed.

At this time, Emil also understood how much these tribesmen resented him, and they would rather take the risk of humiliating the family to let him show his strength. And the facts proved that he was indeed not just a fake person.

In addition, according to the information we just received, there are only 100 people who have advanced to the audition stage. From tomorrow on, it will be a 100-50 competition. Emil is a little concerned about Ophelia's competition results.

So that night, he took advantage of his break to come to Anthony's house, because after attending the banquet last night, Anthony suggested that Ophelia stay at his house overnight so that he could take her directly to the competition the next day.

However, when he walked into the living room, he saw Anthony sitting on a chair dejectedly, while Ophelia beside her was closing her eyes and concentrating.

It was obvious that they were waiting for Emil, and he suddenly felt a little sorry for delaying his arrival so late.

Perhaps sensing traces of Emil's magic power, Ophelia immediately opened her eyes.

"Emil, you are here."

"Oh, Emil, you're here," Anthony saw this and quickly ran to Emil and cried, "You don't know how aggrieved we are today."

"Uh, what's going on? Could it be that Ophelia lost?"

"No, Miss Ophelia is invincible. After all, how can a mere human being compete with a dragon knight? But I never expected that those people would resort to despicable methods. Alas, I have never felt sorry for myself.

Humanity has ever felt so ashamed..."

Emil didn't want to listen to his nagging anymore and turned his eyes to Ophelia, who looked at Anthony's appearance and just smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"The thing is like this, I went to register today, but the person in charge of the registration office didn't know what method he used to find out that I can use magic. It is clearly written in the competition manual that people who can use magic

You are not allowed to participate in knight competitions, so even my registration was rejected."

When she said this, Anthony started to complain again.

"It's really despicable. You know you can't beat him, so you don't compete with others, right? Well, the knight competition is nothing to watch, so the so-called Twelve Holy Knights of the Empire must also be very good."

Emil could understand him. After all, the dragon knight had always been a hero in his mind and was naturally invincible. But in reality, he couldn't even participate in the knight competition.

Of course, this is actually his own problem. He should not wishfully think that Ophelia is a dragon knight.

However, Emil remembered another thing, that is, the knight named Cohen whom he met yesterday, who seemed to have expected that Ophelia would not be able to sign up.

At that time, Emil used magic perception, but could not detect any traces of magic from Cohen. So how did he know that Ophelia could not sign up?

While he was deep in thought, Ophelia was about to say goodbye to Anthony. She seemed to have been ready for a long time and was just waiting for Emile's arrival.

"Anthony, I know you are angry, but since the dragon knight rides a dragon and has elven blood, he cannot be considered a human being. The knight competition selects the twelve strongest knights among humans, so naturally he will not let them

Other races participate.”

"..." After hearing this, Anthony also felt that it made sense, "That's right. In fact, I just think that such a powerful knight cannot get the honor like in the storybook. On the contrary, those mediocre guys are warmly welcomed.

This is so unfair."

"Mediocre?" Ophelia whispered softly.

In fact, when she did not obtain the elven blood, she was one of those mediocre people in Anthony's mouth. However, she did not blame Anthony. After all, for ordinary people, knights can only be divided into strong and weak.

"Anthony, I still want to say sorry to you because I failed to respond to your expectations."

"Oh, Miss Ophelia, it's not you who's wrong, it's this unreasonable knight's competition."

"Well, anyway, it's time for us to say goodbye." Ophelia said solemnly.

"...Why?" Anthony's eyes widened immediately, looking very surprised, "As long as you two are in the royal capital, we can often communicate with each other. Why do you say it like we'll never see each other again?"

"That's true, but...well, it's hard to explain this to you. I can only say that we actually all shoulder a very important mission. Maybe we will leave here when the mission is completed, so we don't have much chance to interact with each other.

Walk around... I'm really sorry, whether it's fighting or being friends, we can't respond to your expectations."

"..."

Anthony fell into silence. Although they had only been together for two days, he still hoped to become friends with Emile and Ophelia.

However, when he thought about it carefully, if Emil had not let him ride a dragon and Ophelia was not a dragon knight, would he still be so enthusiastic?

Of course not. At most, I would just thank them as my savior and then become strangers.

So, after a period of thinking, he finally figured it out and smiled.

"That's it. I understand. Although I'm sorry, I'm still very happy to be friends with you two. Even if it's only for two days, I won't forget it."

Ophelia didn't say anything, she just walked up to him and patted his shoulder, and then Emile did the same.

After a short farewell, the two were about to leave. However, suddenly a servant hurried in and said a word to Anthony.

Emil heard it, and it seemed that there was a man named Cohen Frame outside asking for a meeting, because he heard that there was a powerful blacksmith here.

He subconsciously thought that Cohen was looking for him. After all, he was the only blacksmith here, so he planned to stop and see the situation.

"Well, then invite him in." Anthony ordered the servant.

After a while, Cohen walked in. He was still the same as when he participated in the competition yesterday, except that the silver whip around his waist was missing.

"My Lord Knight, my family is in business and usually does not hire a blacksmith, but there is indeed a blacksmith here. Is he the person you are looking for?"

"Haha, of course," Cohen admitted generously, then looked at Emil and continued, "I heard that you are from the Stuart family?"

"Well, what's the matter?" Emil nodded and asked casually.

"Sure enough, we are indeed the family that monopolizes the entire empire's forging industry. To be honest, I would like to ask you to help me forge a weapon. It can be any weapon. Just make your own decision."

Emil then remembered that Cohen's weapon was destroyed during the audition, and he would have to participate in the promotion competition next.

As far as Emil knows, although you can defeat your opponent without weapons in the game, you must have a weapon before you can enter the arena. After all, a handy weapon is the standard equipment of a knight. There is something inexplicable about this kind of thing in knight competition.

of persistence.

"But it's my rest time now, and why don't you go to the Stuart family store to make a reservation earlier?"

"Haha, this... I'm new here, and I don't understand these things yet." Cohen scratched his head.

"..."

Emil was speechless, but he also saw Cohen's performance on the field. If such an excellent knight cannot participate in the game because he has no weapons, then this generation of Paladins will really be mediocre as Anthony said.

Senior.

Seeing Emil's hesitation, Cohen quickly continued.

"Please, it's easy to talk about the price. I set up a stall in the royal capital not long ago and made a lot of money. As long as you are willing to help, I can give it all to you."

"...Business?" Emil couldn't help complaining that this guy was really weird.

"Haha, it's not a big business, but it was unexpectedly popular, so I made more than 100,000 gold coins." Cohen said sheepishly.

"...Ten, more than 100,000?" Emil was dumbfounded. This was probably not because he had robbed a certain noble.

"Well, I'd like to take the liberty of asking, what kind of business do you do?" Anthony suddenly became interested.

"We were selling weapons, including swords, guns, swords and halberds. Then I posted an advertisement saying that these were the side weapons of the Paladins in the past. As a result, the more than 100 weapons I brought were sold out in a few hours.

"

"Uh... How can I sell you the weapons of my Paladin?"

"Isn't this normal? A knight will buy a new weapon almost every year, and the old weapon will be sold as scrap. I recycle it at a high price, and then sell it to others at a higher price."

"Tsk, tsk, it's a pity that you don't go into business." Emil sighed sincerely.

"Hehe, in short, as long as you help me forge the weapon, my more than 100,000 gold coins will be yours. Of course I know the price of a weapon on the market, even the highest quality one does not exceed 10,000, but you don't

Rejection, after all, is more of a thank you to you, so what do you think?"

Regarding this act of giving away money almost for free, Emil naturally refused to accept anyone who came, so he nodded and accepted the commission.

However, when he heard Cohen's business experience just now, he suddenly thought of a brilliant idea, which completely defeated Frazier.

"By the way, how did you know I was here?" Emil asked suddenly.

"Haha, I'm not bragging. There is nothing in the royal capital that I don't know about."

"Oh? Do you have a reliable intelligence network?" Emil couldn't help but guess.

"...I don't need to hide it from you. In fact, I can do magic. Do you know divination? It's that kind of thing. So no matter what I want to know, I can see it by casting a spell on the crystal ball."
To be continued...