With red eyes and tears in his eyes, Kalenich inspired the battle ring over and over again. Roy, on the other hand, sat aside and watched quietly.
He understands better than anyone what regaining fighting spirit means to a knight, and he understands Kalenich's mood at the moment better than anyone else.
Like an old man regaining his youth; like a woman regaining her beauty; like a blind man seeing the world again... There are no words that can describe the moment when the knight regains his fighting spirit.
joy.
That's an impulse.
A feeling of blood rushing up all over the body, a heart that feels as if it is about to explode with joy, and an urge to yell, cry, or laugh.
Roy knows this feeling very well. Not long ago, he and Kalenich were exactly the same.
Kalenich gently stretched his arms and looked at his palms.
With the movement of the water fighting spirit technique he practiced, the sixteen battle rings gradually took on a blurry and clear blue color. Some of them rotated clockwise, while others rotated in the opposite direction. As the rotation speed of the battle rings increased,
,Suddenly, the light in the room dimmed.
A large amount of fighting spirit poured out of the battle ring. Under the adsorption of these fighting spirits, the energy of heaven and earth turned into invisible vortices that could be clearly felt by people. This vortex swallowed the surrounding air and light. The darker the room, the darker the room.
The battle ring becomes brighter.
Kalenich stood up and made a fist!
With a bang, the air around him seemed to have been squeezed out. There was a loud noise, and strong winds blew up, lifting up his long hair and clothes.
In the void, several slender and dazzling winding electric lights emerged between the battle rings, like violent snakes, twisting their bodies crazily.
In the electric light, his body muscles swelled rapidly, veins and blood vessels bulged high, and the bones of his body made crackling sounds like firecrackers.
A moment later, a powerful force with boundless power burst out from Kalenich's body. The whole room was shaking. The doors and windows made violent noises. The workbench and the chair where Roy sat,
It was like being pushed by someone and slid away several meters.
"Hoo!" Under this terrifying pressure, Roy couldn't help but activate his battle ring to resist.
Although he knew very well that Kalenich did not have any hostility, the power that a great knight of light unleashed when he was ecstatic and completely forgetful of himself was still not something that a small armed knight could compete with.
This was Roy's first time to feel the power of a big light knight at close range. In the face of this power, he was like an ant in front of a huge wave, or a kite in the strong wind. It seemed that the next moment he would
It will crash through the wall and fly out.
This is the strength of high-level knights!
While resisting, Roy looked at Kalenich, who was immersed in joy, with glowing eyes. He had a deeper understanding of the power of knights. When he thought of such a knight, riding a knight who was also inspired by fighting spirit, he turned into a giant beast.
His horses were galloping on the battlefield, and he was galloping among thousands of armies. His blood was boiling, his heart was shaking, and he couldn't control himself.
This is his and Tom's lifelong dream, no matter what, he will go on!
A battle ring lit up in Kalenich's hand.
As his fingers beat, the round battle ring suddenly shrank together and turned into a solid mass of water. The water mass twisted, first a small head appeared, and then, a
pair of wings, and finally transformed into a blue bird.
As soon as the little bird appeared, it fluttered its wings and was about to fly. However, as soon as Kalenich's fingers closed, it instantly turned into countless entangled light filaments and dots of rising light spots, and disappeared.
When it reappeared, it had turned into a blue dagger in Kalenich's hand.
Poof, the dagger just appeared and disappeared again. What appeared in the light that dissipated in the next second was the roaring head of a tiger. The Holy Temple
The battle ring is ever-changing, and you can do whatever you want. Roy is dazzled by the sight. He knows that these are not toys. As long as Kalenich's mind moves, this battle ring will break through the wall like lightning, passing through dozens of
meters of space, blasting a hole in the warehouse in the distance.
This is the knight's fighting spirit transformation and battle ring detachment. It is an ability that only knights with second-level bravery level and above have.
The image transformed by the battle ring will give the battle ring corresponding characteristics. The agility and speed of the bird, the hardness and sharpness of the sword, the strength and ferocity of the tiger... These characteristics, combined with the corresponding martial arts, can make
The knight's combat effectiveness has increased exponentially.
If it weren't for the fact that the farther the battle ring is from the body, the faster and larger the power decays, and it can't exceed fifty meters at most, I'm afraid there will be no place for magicians in this world.
After a long time, the light of the battle ring gradually faded from Kalenic's body. He stood quietly for a while, turned around, looked at Roy and said.
"Thanks."
In this life, he has thanked people countless times. But never once has it been more solemn and sincere than the thank you at this moment. Roy gave him not only fighting spirit, but also freedom, respect and the professional life of a knight.
!
"No need to thank me, you are my following knight..." Roy smiled and waved his hand, "Guess, would I rather let an ordinary person protect me, or would I rather let a great bright knight protect me?"
I support you so that I can do whatever I want?"
Kalenich laughed. He liked Roy, not only because Roy cured his injuries, but also because the young man always had a smile that made people feel like spring breeze. This is a kind of smile that makes people think
The quality of being close and feeling at ease with someone.
Kalenich said no more words of thanks.
He is a very passionate person. From the moment he knelt in front of Roy and swore an oath, he had regarded the boy in front of him as his lifelong loyalist. The original gantry iron gate had died two years ago.
Now. Kalenich exists only because of Roy.
After calming down his excitement, Kalenich asked: "Master... how many people have you treated before me?"
"One." Roy raised a finger.
"Really?" Kalenich said with a smile: "So, I am the second lucky person, who is the first?"
Roy walked to the wooden cabinet, poured twice as much coffee, handed a cup to Kalenich, pointed to his nose and said: "Me!"
When he took the coffee, Kalenich's hands were still shaking because of the pain in his body. When he heard Roy's words, the smile on his face froze and he asked in disbelief.
"You...treat yourself?"
"Of course." Roy sighed and drank coffee. That kind of extreme pain was something he still didn't want to think about.
Kalenich was completely stunned. Having just experienced this hellish pain, he knew very well what kind of torture it was. If it were tortured, there would be no need to ask questions. The tortured person would be eager to kill the person who wet the bed as a child in one breath.
Talk about things too.
This is still someone else treating him. If he wants to treat himself... He can't imagine how much pain Roy had to endure at that time. What kind of strong will is needed to endure the severe pain and maintain his posture at the same time?
With clarity.
When he looked at Roy at this time, Kalenich's eyes looked like he was seeing a monster.
"It's unbelievable..." Kalenich took a sip of coffee and asked in surprise: "Master, have you been injured before?"
Roy sat down in front of Kalenich, looked dimly at the flickering candlelight on the table, shook his head, and said: "I used to be a useless person who couldn't practice fighting spirit...
"
Drinking coffee, Roy told everything about himself. Starting from Polabel a year and a half ago, and continuing to the present, except for secrets such as the ruling and the identity of the heir to the Farrington Knights, everything else was
He told his first follower.
At first, Kalenich just listened quietly. But the more he listened, the more shocked he became.
From a little good-for-nothing handyman who couldn't cultivate fighting spirit, to being canonized as a guardian knight by Aleshia, then to falling off a cliff and entering a desperate situation, to rescuing Philip and the battle of Meiding City... The boy in front of me
The experience was astonishing and unbelievable.
After Roy finished talking about himself, he smiled nonchalantly and asked curiously: "Karenich, tell me about you. I know that you lost your fighting spirit, but with your status, how could you become a slave?
?”
Kalenich sighed: "That was a year and a half ago..."
After listening to Kalenich's story, Roy realized that after Kalenich lost his fighting spirit, his status in the Ninth Army plummeted. The Ninth Army was a frontier army and a direct descendant of Prime Minister Donald, and was divided among itself.
Very serious.
When Kalenich was the commander of the knights, no one dared to challenge his authority. But after he lost his fighting spirit, not only the commander of the regiment wanted to kick him out, but also the other generals of the regiment couldn't wait to seize his position.
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Originally, in most knights, there was an organization of honorary camps. This camp was specially prepared for those knights who had the status of knights but lost their fighting spirit. Knights who lost their fighting spirit could do some things in the camp.
For auxiliary work, I receive a relatively small salary, but I can still live on it.
With Kalenich's status and achievements, he is qualified enough to enter the Royal Nursing Camp, which has a higher status in the imperial capital, let alone the Ninth Legion's nursing camp.
However, the frustrated Kalenich chose to leave directly.
He is an imperial count, an imperial knight registered in the Knights Hall, and has a fief of his own not far from the imperial capital.
After returning home, he took off his armor and sealed his long sword. Kalenich spent most of his time in the castle, instructing the children in martial arts, doing some carpentry work, and taking walks with his wife. He thought that he would spend the rest of his life in the castle.
, maybe it will be over like this.
But no one expected that less than three months after returning home, the war broke out.
Originally, this had nothing to do with Kalenich. After all, he was just an ordinary person after losing his fighting spirit. Moreover, his fief was located near the imperial capital, three thousand kilometers away from the nearest war front line. Why?
It's not his turn to do anything.
However, the outbreak of the war gave some nobles who wanted to seize his fief a golden opportunity and excuse.
As soon as the war broke out, Kalenich was ordered to pay war taxes, wear armor, and lead the territorial armed forces to report to the local superior lord.
Kalenich's fiefdom was a royal fiefdom and did not belong to the jurisdiction of any noble lord at all. He had every reason to refuse this unreasonable request. However, in order to avoid conflicts and unnecessary trouble, he still complied with the request.
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Because they are far away from the battlefield and the empire has not begun to recruit the nobles here, the gathered nobles and their soldiers have nothing to do all day long.
In the first few days, I pretended to train on the training ground, shouting and sweating. In the following days, there was basically no one on the training ground. What everyone does every day,
Just drinking, having fun, dancing and hunting.
These damn nobles treat this war as a game. They brag, show off their force, ride fast horses through the crowded streets, and put up huge formations at every turn, just to please a few pretentious people.
woman.
A large amount of taxes collected from the common people were wasted like running water. The common people were already overwhelmed before they even saw the shadow of the enemy.
That's all. What made Kalenich the most angry was that as time went by, the extremely bored nobles turned their attention to ordinary civilians. In the name of suppressing bandits and training soldiers, they did whatever they wanted. No.
Do you know how many civilians died because of this?
Kalenich's savings had been exhausted before he could persist for three months. Because he was unwilling to raise taxes on the common people in his fiefs like other nobles, when the nobles asked to turn over war funds again, he
flatly refused.
This is tantamount to poking a hornet's nest.
After buying off most of the nobles and gaining their acquiescence, a marquis who served as the army's financial officer and had long coveted his fief used Kalenich's resistance to the imperial order as an excuse to directly appeal to Kalenich.
The territory dispatched a heavily armed tax collection team.
There is no need to say more about what happened next.
When the territory's people's cattle, horses, pigs and sheep were forcibly collected by the tax team, when the civilians and territory guards who stopped the other party were chopped down in a pool of blood, when several maids and a child in the castle "disappeared" after the tax team came.
"At this moment, Kalenich angrily thrust his sword into the chest of a tax collector.
"This is a trap." Upon hearing this, Roy said flatly: "No matter how arrogant the guy is, he would not dare to go to the castle of an imperial knight to collect taxes."
Kalenich smiled bitterly. He found that in this regard, he was not as good at judgment as Roy. As Roy said, this was indeed a trap.
Originally, killing an ordinary tax collector with his identity would only cost a little money at most. But who knew that the tax collector actually had the status of a noble!
Kalenich didn't know how he got his identity as a tax collector, but this sword destroyed everything for him.
On the day he was captured, the whole castle was filled with blood.
His wife and three children all fell in a pool of blood. At that time, if several nobles hadn't looked down and joined forces to stop it, Kalenich would have been charged with resistance and killed. At that moment, the other party's
The sword was less than one centimeter away from his chest.
In the end, he became a slave and was designated to be sold to the far south.
The only belief that kept Kalenich alive, even willing to be a humiliating slave, was hatred. No matter how slim the chance was, no matter how tortured he was, he swore that as long as he still had breath, he would go back for revenge.
After Kalenich finished talking about his experience, he fell silent, and the room fell silent.
"So, a few prayer hours ago, you were still thinking about running away, right?" Roy asked lightly with a smile on his lips.
Kalenich nodded awkwardly.
In fact, he had already discussed with his two subordinates that no matter where he was sold or to whom, he would escape as soon as he had the chance and return to the imperial capital to avenge his enemies. Of course, at that time, he did not know that he would
Meet Roy.
And now, even if Roy drives him away, he will not leave. Such behavior will only bring shame to his dead family and the honor of the knight.
"I promise you," Roy said: "If there is a chance in the future, I will go with you to talk to your enemy. I think he will be happy to see a great knight of light standing in front of them!"
Kalenich clenched his fists. Thinking of such a scene, he couldn't help but get excited.
"Okay..." Roy looked at the time, "We haven't had dinner yet. I hope there will be hot food by this time."
Roy stood up and walked out of the room side by side with Kalenich.
"Master, I have an idea..." Kalenich looked at the thin boy who was more than half a head shorter than him, hesitated for a moment, and said: "You know, I used to have many people in the army.
Subordinates. I want to recruit them all..."
"Army knight?" Roy was startled.
"The former knights..." Kalenich explained: "The Ninth Legion has been deactivated. However, as far as I know, the Rongyang Battalion will not participate in the battle, and they can leave at any time.
Army. If you can help them regain their fighting spirit..."
Before Kalenich finished speaking, Roy, who had just opened the door, stopped and his eyes suddenly brightened up.
Establishing an armed force of his own is his most urgent need to protect the people around him and compete with powerful enemies in this troubled world.
He can find ways to earn money, and identity can be obtained through knight training camps and military merits. Even fiefs and territories are not hopeless. However, the most fundamental manpower problem of the armed forces is something that Roy cannot solve now.
of.
Not to mention an ordinary civilian, even a noble with a territory, how many people can recruit several powerful knights?
In the past, in Borabel, Baron Bryan was already the richest lord in the three nearby counties, but he could only recruit a few armed knights to serve.
After all, loyal knights have no worries about food and clothing, but they have no chance of promotion. Except for the prince-level nobles who can give some knights the hope of owning fiefs, other nobles are not very attractive to powerful knights.
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In contrast, knights prefer to stay in the military camp or join a knightly order, looking for opportunities to make achievements. Even if this path does not work, they usually choose to join a mercenary group or simply become a free knight. At least this way, it is more free.
Instead of looking at the face of the Lord of Allegiance, he patrols along a few fixed roads every day and feels sleepy.
The problems faced by the nobles are also the problems faced by Roy.
Take Ivan and Sanjie for example. Although they have always been loyal to him, they are family knights of the Hongye Kare family after all. If it hadn't been for him saving Phillip, they would have been daydreaming, and they would not have dared to dream of letting one person
A just knight and three brave knights followed him.
If you can't recruit knights, building your own armed forces is just a castle in the air. In the aristocratic world where the jungle prevails, no matter how rich or prestigious he is, he is just a target for human flesh, let alone a rivalry with opponents such as the Golden Dragon Family.
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But now, Kalenich's words are like opening a skylight in the darkness!
Roy grabbed Kalenich's arm.
Knights are the foundation of an empire's military force. If you want to recruit knights in the army, you are simply looking for death.
Regardless of their own status and wealth, let alone the unwillingness of the knights. Even if they are really recruited, how many nobles will stand by and watch? They will pounce on this daring idiot like wolves and tear this daring idiot to pieces.
!
But the Rongyangyun mentioned by Kalenich is different!
Roy had previously learned about marching and fighting experience from a retired soldier, and knew many things in the army. Naturally, he had also heard of the Yongyang camp.
Not only the twelve legions of the frontier army have honorary camps, but in fact, all knights, noble armed forces and even the royal guard have honorary camps.
Although in the eyes of ordinary people, the Rongyang camp is full of trash who have lost their fighting spirit. But in fact, there are not only ordinary second-level bravery and third-level justice knights, but also fourth-level glory knights and fifth-level great bright knights.
Quite a few.
Moreover, the loss of fighting spirit due to fighting is more sufficient to illustrate their courage and combat experience.
Kalenich was the former head of the Knights of the Ninth Legion, the Knight of Great Light, and an earl. But now, he is his follower, the Knight of the Squire.
How many people are there like Kalenich?
How much loyalty will these knights who have lost everything repay after giving them new life?
When he thought of this, Roy was so excited that he almost suffocated. He only held Kalenich's arm tightly and was speechless for a long time.
"Master Roy... do you want me to tell someone to boil water for a bath?" Outside the door, Ivan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the two people coming out.
When he was reminding Roy and Kalenich to take a shower first and change out of their bloody clothes, he suddenly heard a loud noise coming from the aisle next to them.
The three of them turned to look at the same time, and saw Jesse, Maler, and many elves and human slaves swarming over. And at the front of them, Kalenich's two companions roared in unison, like two