The Sun King's Evidence

After listening to Francois's words, Ryan thought a lot. He had also thought about returning the property rights of the land to the serfs, liberating productivity, and then promoting commercialization, but François' words made him understand immediately.

What is the main contradiction facing mankind in this world? Is it the conflict between serfs and knights, nobles and common people?

No, not at all. What humans in this world face is the fundamental contradiction of life and death. They are surrounded by countless external enemies and countless internal corruptions. Vampires and Chaos sects are lurking in the upper echelons of mankind. Beastmen and greenskins are in the forests and wilderness. Wreaking havoc, in the northern wasteland and the chaotic wasteland further away, the powerful and evil Chaos army is waiting for their master.

What does it take to defend the country? Rely on serfs? No, knights and nobles constitute the main body of a country's combat power. From this point of view, the Empire is the same, and the same is true for Britannia. The slight difference is that the main force of the Empire is composed of diversified troops, while Britannia is Tania is a knight who raises knights with all her strength.

Francois doesn't support reform? No, the Duke himself is actually in favor of reform. The Duke has noticed that the serfdom system in this country is on the verge of collapse. He also believes that hundreds of years have passed since the founding of the country, and the chivalry and codes of the past are gradually declining into superficial decay. Damn, the knights were in great pain because they couldn't touch the Holy Grail, and the serfs were also living in dire straits.

But the Duke is teaching Ryan. I also agree with your idea of ​​reform, but this process must be cautious. The existence of knights is the basis for protecting and maintaining this country. If it were not for the most powerful knight in the old world guarding this country , then Britannia has long been in ruins. It is impossible for the serfs to undertake the task of defending the country. Countless foreign enemies surround it. If chaos occurs, the country may collapse and perish at any time. Chaos and vampires will not leave time. Give humanity a slow reunification, and they will appear immediately to destroy the Kingdom of Knights.

Ryan knows that you can never count on businessmen with little faith and serfs with weak faith to fight against evil. To protect the country, you need knights who firmly dedicate their faith and loyalty to the Fairy of the Lake. Only they are the backbone of this country. .

As the Knight of the Holy Grail, Francois saw it clearly, and Ryan also understood that his series of actions had made many nobles in the kingdom see some clues. Francois found an opportunity to tactfully Warn him: I support you, but now is not the time, the time is not yet ripe, just like what happened with Cavendish, the serfs will not appreciate you at all.

He is already the biggest beneficiary of this system. He will not do such stupid things as picking up the bowl to eat meat and putting down the bowl to scold his mother.

Moreover, there is a god in this world, and as long as you are pious enough, you can be cured of illness through prayer. The first point of some theories is rejected here.

Firm faith and order are powerful weapons against the corruption of Chaos. The more knowledge and wisdom you have, the more firm faith and will you need to avoid being corrupted by Chaos.

In the process of thinking, Ryan and Francois followed the man in black robe to a market.

People were coming and going in the market, and many vendors were selling fruits and vegetables, as well as meat. The man in black robe quickly got into the crowd. Ryan and Francois wanted to try to catch up, but the Holy Grail Knight The appearance instantly ignited the heat of the whole street. The crowd surrounded Francois and Ryan. They loudly sang the name of the Holy Grail Knight and blocked the street.

In order to get rid of the crowd, the two men had to shout loudly to the crowd to get out of the way. As a result, the man in black robe immediately noticed the appearance of Ryan and Francois. He turned around and disappeared into a double-story wooden house.

"Damn it, we are not suitable to come out to find people like this." Ryan said distressedly towards Francois: "Our identity is too obvious, and people will surround us and sing praises wherever we appear."

"You're right, Ryan." Francois frowned: "That seems to be a tavern?"

"In any case, let's go back to the hotel first. If we go to the tavern to investigate, it will expose our intentions." Ryan shook his head: "My Duke, I will tell people to keep an eye on this place."

"Then I'll leave it to you." Francois ordered naturally. At his level, the Duke rarely took action personally. Today's situation happened by chance.

Ryan nodded, so he and Francois returned to the hotel. This three-story hotel was directly booked by the Duke himself. Seeing Francois and Ryan back, the Duke's daughter said strangely: "Father, ? Ryan? Sylvia said you went out together in the afternoon? "

Seeing his beloved daughter, Francois's face was full of smiles: "Father, isn't this just for you?"

Lidya Su's face immediately turned red: "Father...Father, what are you talking about!"

The muscles on Ryan's face twitched. He always felt that Francois's words were more likely to be spoken to him, but he was too lazy to pay attention to it now: "Hex? Amelia? Come with me. "

Hux immediately responded, his expression did not change much, he always had a sad face. Only Emilia, who was sitting next to Sulia, asked in a low voice: "Do you need my help?"

The girl's voice was very excited.

"Yes, I need your help, Amelia." Ryan waved to his little maid: "Follow me!"

"Yes...yes!" Emilia's eyes shone brightly, and the girl trotted to Ryan's side. The sound of her little leather shoes clicked, and she looked like a cheerful butterfly.

"My Duke, Surya, Miss Sylvia, let's set off first." So Ryan took Emilia and Hex and set off to the place where the man in black robe disappeared just now.

Today, Emilia is wearing a blue wool sweater, a black plaid knee-length skirt, a white cloak, a pair of black leather shoes, white opaque tights on her slender legs, and golden long Her hair was tied into a beautiful princess hair accessory, her blue eyes blinked, and she had a charming temperament. It seemed that after being led by the female knight for a while, Emilia became a lot more cheerful again: " Ryan? Are we going there?"

"Emilia, you pretend to be a noble lady and want me to protect you as you wander around the market." Ryan first ordered Emilia, and then said to Hux: "Hex, Just think that you are still a wandering knight errant, go to that tavern to have a few drinks, and ask the owner of the hotel if there is a man in black robe staying there."

"Understood!" Hux, the knight errant, had an advantage. He was a native of Le-Angoulen.

There is such a custom in Britannia. Serfs rarely leave their villages unless they are allowed or ordered by their lords. Therefore, after hundreds of years of accumulation, different customs have been formed in different places. habits and some local language customs.

Hex, who was born in the Principality of Le-Angoulan, understands this best. A knight-errant who can speak some local dialects and understands many inside stories can easily integrate into the environment in the bar without suffering any trouble. To secretly exclude other drinkers or serfs, this will make it easier to detect intelligence.

Sure enough, with a few dialects and a few subconscious actions, the hotel owner immediately regarded Hux as a local: "Dear Lord Knight, what would you like to drink?"

"Have a glass of porter beer." Hux took out some silver coins: "Remember, if you mix it with water, I will overturn your pub! The lighthouse of Le-Angoulan will prove everything!"

"No, no, at least I don't dare to deceive the Lord Knight, hahaha~" Le-Angoulan's giant lighthouse is a high-definition spectacle famous throughout the old world. After hearing this code word, the tavern owner immediately understood what was in front of him. The knight couldn't be fooled, so he reached out from the wooden barrel and filled a wooden beer glass with a cup of Porter beer. This beer showed a black color and a lot of foam. In fact, it tasted better than what Hux liked to drink in the territory. Much worse for ale beer.

It’s just that this porter beer is a specialty of Le-Angoulan.

The knight drank half of the glass in one gulp, and then burped as if he had no alcohol at all: "Hmm~ The taste of hometown."

"Hahaha, the Lord Knight must have returned home after traveling far away to watch the Knights Convention, right?" The tavern owner's business was average today, and he was happy to say a few more words to the knights: "The Knights Convention is about to be held recently, and many outsiders have come. , are all going to see the Knights Convention, and just now, two Holy Grail Knights appeared on the street!"

"Yes, I saw it too." There was no smile on Hux's face. He followed the trend and asked: "A man in black robe came in here just now?"

"Ah? Oh." The tavern owner's face was stunned, and he said smoothly: "Yes, yes, a man in black robe did come in here just now, and he also asked for two glasses of ale beer and some food. ,Take away."

"Can you elaborate a little bit?" Hux's face was full of seriousness.

"Lord Knight, we are in business, and there are basic rules that need to be followed in this business. I can only tell you so much, that is, he asked for two glasses of ale beer, and then left in a hurry. His accent didn't sound right. Like here or over there in the Empire, well...that's all." The tavern owner said to Hux.

Hux, who had a serious personality, clenched his fists. He wanted to ask again, but the knight errant, who was well-educated in the empire, knew that he could not ask anything, so he drank the beer in the wooden cup in one gulp, and then He took out a gold crown and put it into the hand of the tavern owner: "Then did you see which direction he went?"

At the same time, the knight errant placed the long sword on his waist on the bar.

"..." The tavern owner hesitated for a while, then quietly put the gold crown into his sleeve, then looked around, lay down, and lowered his voice and said in Hux's ear: "See outside Is that the black carriage over the road?"

Hux looked outside the tavern. Indeed, in an alley across the street, there was a black carriage.

"He went up." The tavern owner whispered: "Don't say it was me who said it."

Hux nodded, and the knight errant pushed the wooden cup and stood up.

At this time, Ryan and Emilia were pretending to go shopping. The girl was happily following Ryan. The vendors were working hard to sell their goods to the noble Holy Grail Knight, with strange fanaticism on their faces.

"20% off! Your Excellency, the Holy Grail Knight, we have the best fabric from the southern country here, and it only costs five silver coins!"

"This is the sweetest apple around, Lord Knight of the Holy Grail!"

"Pork, good quality pork! Thirty-five copper coins per pound!"

Ryan and Amelia looked around and bought a lot of things. He felt that Amelia seemed to be very happy and wanted to buy things like a little bird, while Ryan was waiting for Hex's movement.

The knight errant squeezed through the crowd and came to Ryan's side: "My baron, have you seen that carriage?"

The black carriage stayed in the alley, alone and unresponsive to the outside world.

"The man in black robe got into that carriage?"

"Well, yes, the tavern owner said that the man in black robe had a strange accent, not like one from the old world. He ordered two glasses of ale beer and some food, and then got into the black carriage." Hux whispered.

"...asking for food proves that the man in black robe is not a dead person or a vampire." Ryan thought for a while and decided to take another look: "Don't act rashly yet, Emilia, I need your help."

"Yes!" Emilia took out many disguise items from her body, and the three of them found a hidden place.

Ten minutes later.

A tall beggar with mud on his face and wearing a tattered robe staggered close to the carriage. He stretched out his withered hand and leaned against the front of the black carriage, and then said into the curtain of the carriage: "Ah~ Sir, sir, please do it. I haven't eaten for three days, sir!"

"Yes, please do it, sir!" Several beggars on the roadside immediately came over and stretched out their withered hands behind the car curtain.

The curtain of the carriage was opened, and a staff burning with green flames stretched out from the carriage and pressed it on the head of the leading beggar.

The leading beggar seemed to be stunned by this terrible turn of events. He immediately raised his hands: "God bless the lady! Praise the lady! I have no other meaning, I just..."

"Get out!" The person in the carriage hesitated for a while, and then whispered after hearing the beggar repeatedly shouting the name of the Lake Fairy.

"Yes, yes! Praise the lady! Praise the lady! I will get out now, I will get out now." The beggar backed away with a pale face, and then rolled out of the street corner like a bereaved dog.

The black carriage began to move upon seeing this. What was strange was that there was no driver to drive the carriage, but the packhorse moved on its own, heading deeper into the alley.

In the carriage, a young voice said: "Godfather, why don't you kill that beggar?"

"No, haven't you noticed? Holy Grail Knights have just appeared nearby. If we kill people randomly, we may attract those two Holy Grail Knights at any time! Now, it is important to complete your goal first. In this Knights Conference, you must obtain winning!"

"yes!"

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