After finishing breakfast, he threw half of the sausage to Oliver. Roy continued to watch the knights training.
He dreams of becoming a knight.
There are many types of knights, some are noble, some are profitable, some are famous, some are respected... Roy doesn't care about these, he just wants to be one.
The richest knight!
Now Roy is just a small handyman. The meager salary makes him and his grandfather William live on the subsistence line. They live in poverty.
Becoming a knight is the best way to change your current life situation.
That way, he wouldn't have to be a handyman anymore, let alone wander around.
The knight's fief, the beautiful maids who serve, the retinue who follows him, the beautiful armors and weapons, and the flirtatious glances from the noble ladies...
When I think of myself lying in my own castle, dominating, sleeping in whichever room I want, sleeping with whomever I want, drinking heavily and eating large amounts of meat, and grabbing beautiful maids when they pass by.
He dragged her to his lap, laughed, and stretched his body into his underwear... Roy's mouth was watering.
Then your life is not in vain!
"Woo..." Oliver's voice came from beside him.
As soon as Roy turned his head, he was tapped on the shoulder. A brown-haired boy with freckles shouted excitedly: "Roy."
The boy is Roy's only best friend in Borabel, Tom, the son of the blacksmith father Ken.
Tom has a strong build and is enthusiastic towards others. He has determined to become a great knight since he was a child. Every time Roy was bullied by other children, it was Tom who stood up.
"Hey, man, aren't you going to work today?" Roy asked in surprise when he saw Tom.
"Dad gave me a day off," Tom excitedly shook Roy's shoulders and pointed eastward: "Tell you, man, we have a new bard here."
Roy jumped up and looked in the direction of Tom's finger. In the distance, a bard he had never seen before was sitting on a stone, with many people surrounding him.
At this moment, Buck, who was in the training ground, had already thrown his sword to the boy beside him, jumped onto the horse proudly amidst compliments and cheers, and led several other knights towards the horse and spear training ground behind the castle. They
Spear training will be conducted there to prepare for the annual knightly competition in Lullian Province.
Seeing the knights leaving, Roy and Tom looked at each other, and in unison they spread their feet and ran quickly across the open space in front of the castle, squeezing into the crowd in front of the bard.
The fat dog Oliver rolled and crawled behind the two boys.
"...Although the annual competition in Lulian Province is lively, if you really want to see the most heroic figures in the world, you have to compete in the imperial capital knight competition three years later."
Roy and Tom heard the minstrel's voice just as they squeezed into the crowd.
"Imperial Capital Knights Competition?" A traveler next to him opened his mouth half-open, his eyes suddenly lit up. He shouted: "I remembered it. I heard that the competition scheduled for three years later is specially held for Princess Aleshia.
The champion of the tournament will become the husband of the princess. It is said that the most outstanding young knights from the royal families of various countries and all the knights will come to participate."
The traveler's words immediately aroused a lot of discussion among the people around him.
"Really or not?"
"Isn't this a competition to recruit a bride?"
Amid the commotion, Tom, who had just sat down on the floor in front of the bard, bumped Roy with his arm and said excitedly: "Did you hear that?!"
Roy's head snapped.
He wandered around various places when he was a child, and was no stranger to knightly contests.
Knights wearing beautiful armor, riding horses, and holding lances gathered in the competition field... As the commander sang the knight's family pedigree and the name of the knight, and hung up the coat of arms of both sides, the knights put aside their respective
wearing a mask, holding a lance, and galloping along the central guardrail of the jousting arena.
Finally, at the moment when they passed each other, they stabbed each other with their lances.
If it misses, try again!
The winner sometimes gets rewards such as gold sculptures, weapons and armor, and good horses. Sometimes he gets a good position, and sometimes he gets a kiss from the queen of the tournament.
These things are all big brains dream of, not to mention, we are talking about a competition for the most beautiful Princess Alessia of the Saint Solan Empire.
Fighting for the princess is so exciting!
People around were talking a lot. Finally, they all turned their attention to the bard. After all, the most well-informed people were those who relied on all kinds of news and stories.
"That's right!" The bard nodded and confirmed the traveler's words.
"But how did I hear that Princess Aleshia originally had a fiancé?" an aunt asked.
The bard smiled and said: "You are right, Princess Alessia does have a fiancé who is married to her fingertips. He is the grandson Roy of Roland, the old Duke of Farrington, who has been missing for more than ten years..."
The bard wearing a white robe and a long gray beard just said this, and the audience gathered in a circle suddenly laughed and turned their attention to the big-headed boy at the front of the circle.
"Hey, Mr. Roy, it turns out you are Princess Alessia's fiancé." One person jokingly shouted: "That is the most beautiful woman in our empire."
People suddenly burst into laughter.
"What a joke, Mr. Big Head, I really want to marry a princess one day and hang out in front of you every day to make you a bunch of bastards jealous." Roy thought to himself, but his face still looked confused and had a silly smile.
Seeing the silly and fanciful look on Big Head's face, people laughed even more happily. Everyone was unaware that a girl wearing a veil next to her was frowning slightly, and the female swordsman next to her had a face full of anger.
Hearing people's jokes, the bard looked at the little country bumpkin in front of him, also named Roy, and shook his head with a smile.
"The blood of the Duke of Farrington's [Hanshan] family is not blue-eyed."
The crowd laughed again.
The female swordsman on the periphery gave the big-headed boy a hard look. She seemed to be angry that this stupid little country bumpkin was also named Roy.
"Huh?" A young passerby suddenly asked in confusion: "Since there is a marriage contract, why are you still competing to choose your consort?"
Everyone looked at the young passerby with disdain, and even Roy couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Didn't I just say that the princess's fiancé has been missing for more than ten years!"
"How ignorant."
"Boy, let me tell you, more than ten years ago, Roy, who was engaged to the princess, was taken back to the imperial capital by his mother Sarah to seek medical treatment, but was attacked on the way. Sarah and her guards all died in the battle by the Frost River.
, only Roy and a guard captain are missing."
In the commotion, a businessman leading a camel turned around and asked a topic that interested everyone.
"I don't understand why His Majesty the Emperor wants to marry the [Hanshan] family?"
This question made everyone present look equally curious.
The Knights of Farrington, stationed in the demon border town fortress [Farrington], are also known as the Knights of Sinners. The knights under their command all have rare black hair and black eyes.
In a human society where blond hair and blue eyes are the majority, although there are such people, their number is extremely small.
It is said that when the demons invaded, these warriors with devil-like black eyes fought from their home in the east all the way to the Broken Sky Mountains. Not only did they participate in all the battles between humans and demons, but they also advanced in every battle.
If you retreat, you must kill the enemy and cut off the enemy. You will be fierce and unparalleled!
However, they were also the ones who made fatal mistakes in the final battle more than three hundred years ago, leading to the defeat of mankind.
If the Holy Emperor hadn't used the Great Cross Cutting Technique to break open space that time, allowing humans to migrate to the land of redemption in the west of the continent, humans would have been exterminated by the vicious demons long ago.
It was from that time that the [cross] became the symbol of the holy religion that would unify the religion in the future, and the Knights of Farrington and the then leader, Duke Luo Zhan of [Hanshan], became sinners of mankind and were ordered to
Permanently stationed at Farrington Fortress on the border of the demon clan.
This defense lasted for more than three hundred years.
The Land of Redemption has experienced racial wars, melees between princes, the unified Roman Empire, and now it is divided into three parts. It can be said that it has changed a lot. But Farrington is still the same as before. Generations of children of the Farrington Knights,
Carrying his destiny, he fights the never-ending war with the demons on the border between humans and demons.
No one is going to provoke them, and they cannot interfere with human society.
Although in terms of geographical location and name, Farrington is actually a province of the Saint Solan Empire. But in fact, in the minds of the Saint Solan people, Farrington is a completely unfamiliar world.
Because of this, the people were a little confused as to why the then prince, who was also the current emperor, His Majesty Edward I, would marry the Duke of Hanshan, who had no intention of participating in the struggle for secular power.