The room in the dusk was filled with silence. (《》7* The breeze carried the distant shouts of Oliver, the clear laughter and curses of Malt, the sound of the carpenter's saw, and the angry shouts of the kitchen stewardess when greeting people for dinner.
The sound of banging an iron basin.
Kalenich and Ivan looked at Roy strangely.
"Young Master..." Ivan licked his lips and asked uncertainly: "You mean...restore fighting spirit?"
Kalenich looked directly at Roy, with an expression of disbelief in his deep-set blue eyes, like a dream.
"Yes." Roy nodded simply and said to Kalenich: "Mr. Kalenich, I can treat your injury and restore your ability to practice fighting spirit."
Roy's affirmative answer made Ivan's eyes suddenly widen. Kalenich's face also turned red due to the sudden surge of blood.
Fighting spirit is the life of a knight.
Only with fighting spirit can they have a battle ring. Only with a battle ring can they become one with the war horse and become a member of the most terrifying steel torrent on the battlefield. Only with this indestructible impact and powerful close combat effectiveness
, which allowed the knight profession to achieve its current glory.
Losing fighting spirit means losing everything for a knight. The pain of having one's skills crippled is unimaginable to anyone. It's like an eagle losing its wings, like a tiger losing its claws.
It's like a fish losing the ability to breathe in the water.
In history, I don’t know how many great knights took off their armor, put down their swords and shields, and disappeared into the vast sea of people because they lost their fighting spirit. To all the people who admire them and all the children who regard them as idols,
Leaving behind a painful and desolate figure.
Before, now, and even in the future, countless knights will take the same road. Kalenich is not the first, nor the last. This is a problem faced by all knights. Including Ivan, including Philip, including all
knight.
As we all know, just like the human eye, the seven inches of the snake, and the wings of the bird, the knight also has some fatal points. The most famous one is the knight's restricted area around the first nebula in the knight's lower abdomen.
Because the waist of the human body is a key area for the entire body's activities. To ride a horse or perform martial arts, you need to keep the waist flexible. Therefore, except for the close-fitting chainmail, other armors do not protect the lower abdomen.
And this part is the place where the knight is most likely to lose his fighting spirit after being attacked. Once injured, the knight can only pray to God. Most people are lucky, but there are always a few who are unlucky and have since become ordinary.
people.
No one can solve this problem. No matter whether it is doctors, pharmacists or the magicians of the Holy See, they are helpless.
They can treat the injuries and save the knight's life. But they can't figure out why the injuries to the skin, flesh, bones and internal organs can be recovered, but the fighting spirit cannot.
Research on the knight's forbidden zone has been going on for many years. But so far, no one has been able to find a way to avoid losing fighting spirit, let alone a treatment.
But now, Roy told them clearly that he could restore Kalenich's fighting spirit!
Kalenich and Ivan could not describe in words how shocked they were at this moment. For them and all the knights in this world, this was no less than a terminally ill person who heard that he could come back to life!
They can fully imagine how much change and shock this news will cause if it spreads - it will make every knight crazy!
Kalenich's lips trembled, and after a long time, he squeezed out a low, hoarse and deformed voice from his throat: "Is this true?"
"Mr. Kalenich, I am not kidding. Every word I say is very serious." Roy said calmly: "It will not do me any good to deceive you. If you can restore your fighting spirit, just give it a try."
Got it. Your body won’t lie to you.”
"I believe you." Kalenich said without hesitation.
There was no way he could not disbelieve the young man in front of him.
In terms of identity, he is just Roy's slave. Roy does not need to gain his trust in this way. He can not give him freedom, he can deal with him as he pleases, he can use his words to turn him into the world in a few minutes.
The most miserable person in the world.
However, Roy was talking to him now, trying to gain his trust with a voice that was not rich enough for a teenager and a sincerity that was hard to refuse.
This is a kind of respect!
In fact, from the moment he stepped into the manor, Kalenich felt the difference here.
He took a shower, put on clean clothes, ate something, and had his hair cut. Everyone was smiling and kind to him. A few maids even giggled and commented on his physique and appearance.
, blushing and pushing each other back and forth.
The manor was quiet and peaceful. Everyone's face was filled with smiles. There were no whips and scoldings from thugs, no dark and damp dungeons, and no food that even pigs wouldn't eat. Even on the way to this room, as a
Ivan, a knight, also took the initiative to chat with him.
It was a feeling of equality that he had forgotten for a long time. The gap between this feeling and his status as a slave made him once think that he had an illusion.
But at this moment, he knew that this was not an illusion. As a slave with nothing, he had nothing that could be calculated by others. In this case, what reason did he have to doubt a boy who had always shown kindness.
Hearing Kalenich's answer, Roy clapped his hands, smiled, showed a few white teeth, and said relaxedly: "Okay, now, Mr. Kalenich, I need to see your injuries."
"Wait a minute." Kalenich suddenly said.
Under Ivan's surprised gaze, Kalenich walked up to Roy and knelt down on one leg.
"Master Roy." Kalenich said solemnly: "I don't know how to express my gratitude. I must say that no matter whether I can finally regain my strength, I am lucky to know you in my life."
His right hand touched his heart. This was a knightly ceremony that he had forgotten for a long time. When this ceremony was completed, Kalenich's whole person changed.
His back was straight and his eyes were bright.
"If you are willing to accept the allegiance of a humble slave with no fighting spirit, then I, Kalenich, swear..."
His voice echoed in the room.
"I will always follow you. No matter how difficult and dangerous the road ahead is, I will move in the direction pointed by your sword; no matter how powerful the enemy I face, I will defend your honor with my life and protect you and your family.
Your family, fight to the end, until the last breath of your life. ("")"
At this moment, time seemed to have stopped.
"Please, accept my allegiance."
Under the setting sun, the whole room took on a sacred tranquility due to the man's vows. It seemed to be frozen in an oil painting.
Looking at Kalenich kneeling down, Ivan couldn't help but feel moved.
Perhaps most people in this manor, including Roy, don't know who Kalenich is. But he knows that Kalenich, who is known as the Dragon Gate Iron Gate, is a member of the Red Leaf Knights, including the Red Leaf Knights.
How respected Saint Solan is among the soldiers.
Among the three major empires in the Land of Redemption, the Feile Empire has always been the sworn enemy of the Saint Solan Empire.
The Fei Lie Empire is a very aggressive country. This aggression has been engraved in her bones from the moment she was born.
For more than a hundred years, the Philip royal family and the Philip nobles have been trying to expand their territory all the time, planting the flag of the Philip Empire in every corner of the Redemption Land.
They have never stopped expanding their army, they have never stopped building their already world-famous cavalry regiments, and they have never stopped harassing neighboring countries. They are barbaric and powerful. Wherever their iron hooves pass, they leave only ruins.
and corpses all over the ground.
Even as powerful as the Pompeii Empire, they did not dare to look down on the Philip Empire. More than 60% of their troops were stationed on the border with the Philip Empire to prevent the cavalry of this warring country from flooding like a tide in the early morning of a certain day.
pouring across their borders.
As the weakest of the three empires, the Saint Solan Empire relied entirely on the natural dangers of the Warcraft Mountains to compete with the Fei Lie Empire.
Over the past hundred years, although no large-scale war broke out between the two empires, conflicts on the border have never stopped. The most famous one is the border town of Longmen, which is regarded by all Saint Solan people as the city of hell.
Longmen is a small city in the western part of the empire. It is famous because when the Warcraft Mountains extend to this area, the bulging plateaus on both sides act like a sky bridge, smoothing out the natural barriers of the Warcraft Mountains.
On the border between the two countries, there is a huge gap that is twenty kilometers wide from north to south and nearly a hundred kilometers long from east to west.
And Longmen is less than five kilometers away from the border of Fei Lie Empire, and it is a battleground for military strategists at this pass!
Kalenich is the head of the Knights of the Ninth Legion of the Frontier Army stationed in Longmen. He fought with the Fei Lie Empire in Longmen for twenty years. He has a resolute, calm and calm personality. He always maintains a clear judgment on the battlefield situation and fights
Brave and decisive in command. He is a natural warrior and leader.
Kalenic's combat style is famous for his tenacity in defense, pervasiveness in attack, and his ability to roam around in search of opportunities.
During his more than 20 years in Longmen, the knights he led had smashed the Feili people's attacks countless times. They had also appeared on the enemy's rear flank at the most critical moments countless times.
Not only that, he believed in tooth for tooth and blood for blood. After Fei Lie's cavalry massacred a mountain village southeast of Longmen, he personally led the knights with red eyes to rush thousands of miles and make surprise attacks behind enemy lines. He transformed dozens of towns west of Longmen in Fei Lie's empire.
Make a sea of fire.
At that time, the world was shaken. Because of this, he was called the Dragon Gate Butcher by the people of Fei Lie.
In the minds of all the people of Saint Solan in Longmen, he is the patron saint of Longmen and an iron gate that blocks all the Fei Lie cavalry!
Unfortunately, two years ago, Kalenic gradually disappeared from people's sight because he was injured in a battle.
No one expected that this legendary figure would become a slave, and no one expected that he would kneel in front of Roy in such a solemn manner at this moment.
Only those who truly know him know how precious it is to win Kalenich's oath of allegiance.
No one can take away the pride and dignity of a strongman like Kalenich. Although he has lost his fighting spirit at this moment and has become an ordinary person who cannot even beat an armed knight, you can torture him and treat him as the most powerful person.
A despicable slave, even kill him. But you can never tame him.
If Roy hadn't treated him as a slave from the beginning, if Kalenich hadn't really felt Roy's kindness, no one would have asked him to swear allegiance. Even Philip, in his eyes
He's just a newbie.
"I accept your allegiance, Mr. Kalenich." In the silence, Roy replied solemnly, imitating the ceremony when Baron Bryan accepted the knight's allegiance ceremony, he used the team to cut off a corner of his collar and handed it to
Kalenich.
This means the trust of life.
"Okay, Mr. Kalenich, I have to fulfill my promise," Roy helped Kalenich up and said with a smile, "But you have to hold back when I treat you later."
"Does it hurt?" Kalenich asked with a smile.
"It hurts so much that you want to kill me." Roy laughed loudly and motioned for Kalenich to take off his shirt: "Let me see your injuries."
As he spoke, he quickly formed a hand seal with his hand in the air. He pressed a leaf-like elemental array between his fingertips to the center of his eyebrows.
Eyes of the Dead!
A small black hole suddenly appeared between Roy's eyebrows and quickly submerged. Immediately, the blood element on Kalenich's body appeared in front of his eyes.
Kalenich took off his shirt, revealing a strong and well-proportioned body. A long and domineering cut diagonally from his chest to his lower abdomen, making him look like two halves of a person pieced together.
"Can I ask, who did this?" Roy asked as he checked the location of Kalenich's scar. He was really curious. As the Great Light Knight and the leader of the Knights,
How strong does the opponent have to be to injure Kalenic like this?
"Magic Sword Reyes." Kalenic sat down on the chair and said calmly.
But when he heard the name Reyes, not only Ivan opened his mouth wide, but even Roy was startled. The two looked at each other in shock.
"It's him!"
If it was Reyes, it would not be surprising at all that Kalenic almost died.
Reyes is the famous ninth paladin of Feile Empire.
The ninth here does not mean that Reyes's strength is ranked ninth in the empire. It is a title that symbolizes the identity, glory and merit of a royal knight. Only the most loyal knights who have made outstanding contributions to the empire can obtain it.
.
Among the ten royal paladins of the Ferret Empire, Reyes is an anomaly.
The other nine holy knights were either generals and marshals of the Fei Lie Empire, ministers of certain departments or commanders of the royal guards. But Reyes did not hold any position.
At the same time, Reyes's martial arts are also very different from other knights. He does not even ride a horse, use a lance, or charge into battle.
The reason is simple, he is an assassin. He is the sharpest butcher knife in the hands of Emperor Peter I of the Felix Empire.
Although in terms of strength, Reyes is not as good as other royal paladins. But he is recognized as an assassination expert. He is proficient in hiding, disguise, poisoning and escaping.
His iconic silver mask.
This man is the most difficult to deal with. In the words of a certain knight from the Pompeii Empire, he would rather face thousands of troops alone than face Reyes' magic sword in the dark.
Roy and Ivan didn't expect that the magic sword Reyes would actually find Kalenich, and they didn't expect that Kalenich would actually survive Reyes' knife.
I really don’t know whether to call Kalenich unlucky or lucky.
After carefully examining the knife that Reyes left on Kalenic's body, Roy discovered that the culprit that caused Kalenic's loss of power was the section that passed diagonally across Kalenic's lower abdomen. This knife cut
Kalenich's two meridians were severed at the waist.
Meridians are channels in flesh and blood, the larger ones are meridians, and the smaller ones are collaterals. Because Qi and blood are connected, they are the natural channels for Dou Qi in the human body. The operation of Knight Dou Qi skills, transforming the energy of heaven and earth, and strengthening or stimulating source power, all rely on meridians
transfer.
These two meridians are the two most important lines in terms of the human life magic pattern. One is the main energy line of the Nebula, the first source of Dou Qi in the lower abdomen. This meridian was cut off, making Kalenich unable to
Unable to gather source power.
The other one is a connecting line that connects other functional lines. This meridian is very hidden, hidden behind the blood vessels, and winding. Without this line, no matter how powerful Kalenich's skill is, he will not be able to let Dou Qi flow to other meridians.
, let alone completing the Qigong Week.
Once you find the root cause, the next thing will be easier to handle.
"Mr. Ivan," Roy took out a sharp dagger as long as the palm of his hand and as thin as a cicada's wings from the space ring, and said to Ivan: "You stand guard at the door. No matter who it is or what happens,
Can’t put it in.”
"Yes! Master Roy!" Ivan knew the seriousness of being interrupted during the treatment, and immediately bowed and responded. He turned and walked out of the room, closed the door, pulled out his sword, and stood guard at the door.
"Then, Mr. Kalenich," Roy took a deep breath, holding the knife in one hand, and a faint white light glowed in the other hand, "I will use the knife to cut your wound now, and then use the healing technique to repair it again.
.This process......"
Roy didn't say any more. Even now when he thought back to the pain he felt when he was treating himself in a desperate situation, he felt frightened.
"Healing!"
Kalenich looked at the white light on Roy's left hand in surprise. It was only then that he confirmed how lucky he was to meet Roy.
"The healing technique is painful, I know. However," he looked at Roy calmly, and a smile slowly appeared at the corner of his mouth, "I'm not even afraid of death, but why am I afraid of pain?!"
The setting sun casts the last trace of bright red on the treetops of the mountains and forests in the distance, adding the last trace of bright red to the clouds in the sky.
Two men, one big and one small, looked at each other and smiled.
Sometimes, pain does not mean despair, but represents hope. After the dark night, it is a new day.