The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Ryan looked up and saw a group of Templar Knights escorting Archbishop Rudolph, who was about to arrive at the door of the mansion.

Immediately, Ryan stepped forward and said with a smile: "Archbishop Rudolph, why bother you to come all the way here?"

Rudolph looked at the young man in front of him with a smile, and couldn't help thinking in his heart that he didn't expect that Ryan's progress had been so rapid in just a few months. Now, even he couldn't see through his depth.

"Baron Ryan, I am here to see you off on Bishop Sheen's behalf. I hope you can successfully join the Imperial Sword Bearers this time and win glory for Meister."

"By the way, Baron Ryan, here is a handwritten letter from Bishop Sheen to His Excellency Brandul, the Punishment Knight of Munster Cathedral."

"His Excellency Brandul is a long-time friend of Bishop Sheen. If you encounter any problems in Munster, you can take this letter to seek His Excellency Brandul's help."

"In addition, His Excellency Brandul is also a well-known warhammer master in the church. He should have a lot in common with you, the 'Baron of Hammer' in Meister County."

Rudolf said with a smile, while taking out a letter printed with red wax from his arms and handed it to Ryan.

"Punishment Knight?"

Noticing Ryan's slightly puzzled look, Rudolf smiled and explained: "Punishment Knight is the exclusive title of the great knight who specializes in combat in the church?"

"I see."

"Thank you, Archbishop Rudolf. Please also tell Bishop Sheen for me that I thank the Bishop for his concern." Ryan bowed slightly and said.

Warhammer Master?

Ryan understood Bishop Sheen's meaning a little bit. Although the meaning was more obscure, the subtext was that he hoped he could consider joining the church. This Lord Brandor might be his mentor.

The girl with twin ponytails looked at this scene with bright eyes, thinking in her heart that it seemed that Lord Ryan had a close relationship with the Goddess Church.

Soon it was time to leave. Ryan said goodbye to his mother Emma, ​​whose eyes were red, his father Old Ryan, and his sister Mint.

He and Haas also patted each other heavily and waved goodbye to Jennifer.

The group set off immediately.

Ryan did not ride a black horse this time, but took a private luxury carriage that the beautiful woman Jennifer had arranged long ago.

At this moment, there were three luxury carriages in the entire team, one for Jenny and Agatha, a pair of best friends, one for Ryan, and the other for Veronica from Rossby County.

But at this time, the three girls of similar age were chatting happily, so Veronica ran to Jenny's carriage.

Ryan didn't mind being alone at all, and he just wanted to think about some things.

But in the afternoon, Veronica came to Ryan's carriage, nominally to discuss the assessment matters.

However, women are very sensitive in some aspects.

Looking through the window, seeing Veronica entering Ryan's carriage, Agatha couldn't help but push Jenny beside her and said:

"My eldest lady! Your competitors have entered Mr. Ryan's carriage, why don't you react at all?"

Jenny glanced at her friend with her beautiful eyes, thinking, what reaction can I have?

Baron Ryan is already my mother's boyfriend, how should I react?

But she must not reveal this secret, even to her best friend.

She can only keep this secret deep in her heart.

So, Jenny said unhappily: "Agatha, how do you think I should react?"

"Shouldn't you also find a reason to enter Baron Ryan's carriage?" Agatha said as a matter of course.

"Thank you, no need!"

Hearing Jenny's refusal, Agatha looked at her best friend, looked at her carefully, and said: "Jenny, I think something is wrong with you!"

"There was a period of time before, weren't you obsessed with Lord Ryan? Why do you seem to be particularly cold recently?"

"Hey~ As a best friend, I have to warn you! If you are really not interested in Lord Ryan, then I will go for it." Agatha said with a blushing face.

"What do you mean?" Jenny's beautiful eyes widened, staring at her best friend beside her in a daze.

After all this time, could it be that her best friend is also interested in Lord Ryan?

Hearing Jenny's words, Agatha rolled her eyes.

"Jenny, don't you know how popular your Baron Ryan is in the county city recently?"

"I can guarantee that if Lord Ryan doesn't go to Munster this time, there will be many noble ladies lining up to visit him every day!"

After listening to Agatha's explanation, Jenny nodded woodenly.

Although her best friend exaggerated a bit, she was not wrong.

"In addition, Baron Ryan is really tall and handsome. Sometimes I can't help looking at him." Agatha said this, her pretty face blushed, and her round and white legs under her skirt couldn't help but tighten a little.

Seeing her best friend's lusty look, Jenny held her smooth forehead with her slender little hand, and said helplessly and slightly irritably: "Go if you want to, don't be lusty here!"

"You agreed to it! Then I'll go now." Agatha heard Jenny wave her little hand, and immediately lifted her skirt happily and got off the carriage without looking back.

After all, as a good friend, she couldn't just snatch the person Jenny loved openly.

But now that her bestie has decided to let go, that's different. Agatha's guilt has greatly reduced at this moment, so she will naturally take action.

As for Miss Veronica, well, she is her strong opponent, but the problem is that before the relationship is confirmed, she always has a chance, right?

At this time, since there were only Ryan and Veronica in the carriage, Ryan raised his question at the right time.

"Veronica, how did you get the Imperial Sword Bearer Assessment Invitation?"

Hearing Ryan's question, Veronica couldn't help but chuckle.

"Sir Ryan, don't you know? Our Ubrek School, as a medium-sized wizard school that is friendly with the Empire, has a certain number of places every year to obtain assessment invitations from major special departments of the Empire."

"Although the invitation letter for the Sword Bearer is a little more difficult, Teacher Enius still helped me get it."

"Of course, it's just to get the assessment qualification. Whether you can finally enter depends on your performance during the assessment, but I am still very confident about this." Veronica stretched out her white little fist and waved it, saying with confidence.

"I see." Ryan smiled and nodded.

This was similar to what he had expected.

"I thought your mentor, Master Enius, was an advisor to the South Sea Fleet, so you would choose to join the Imperial Navy."

Veronica was slightly startled when she heard this, and looked at Ryan with a pair of beautiful watery eyes, saying:

"Originally, my mentor also wanted me to join the Imperial Navy's Tide Walker in a while. But last time I heard that Sir Ryan was going to participate in the Imperial Sword Bearer Assessment, so..."

"Knock, knock!"

There was a knock on the door outside the carriage, and then a familiar and crisp female voice sounded:

"Sir Ryan, I would like to ask you about some business matters, is it convenient?"

Veronica raised her eyebrows. This was the voice of Jenny's bestie Agatha.

Hearing that Agatha was suddenly coming to Ryan's carriage, although Veronica had always been fascinated by witchcraft research, her female instinct made her quickly understand what was going on.

Ask about business?

What a poor excuse

"Come in." After thinking for a while, Ryan said.

Although Agatha came at a very bad time, he couldn't turn her away.

After all, Agatha had helped him collect spiritual books, and the current Wiggins family was still a shareholder of the Hammer and Rose Chamber of Commerce.

Although Veronica's words just now were a little unfinished, Ryan had already understood what she wanted to express.

After Agatha got on the carriage, Ryan smiled slightly and said, "Miss Agatha, if you don't mind, I'll let Jenny come too. She's bored alone."

Hearing Ryan's words, Agatha glanced at Veronica and felt a little depressed, but she had no choice but to nod and said, "Of course, Baron Ryan."

A minute later, Jenny was a little confused and was invited to the carriage by the short Matteo, and the three women sat in the same carriage with Ryan.

With the company of three noble ladies, Ryan's originally slightly boring journey became more lively and interesting.

If it were to go from Meester to the provincial capital of Munster, it would normally take ten days, according to the speed of the convoy.

From today, there are still twelve days until the last day of the month of vitality, and Ryan reserved two more days.

From the location on the map, there is a Welsh County between Meester County and the provincial capital of Munster, which means that Ryan and his group only need to cross the Welsh County to reach the border of the provincial capital of Munster.

Since there are main roads between counties that the government has invested its main efforts in repairing, the road conditions are relatively good.

There were some blind bandit groups that attacked the caravan along the way, but Ryan did not take action at all. He just let the Greyhound War Dog and the Blood Feathered Hippogryph fight a little "ground-air cooperation" and killed the other side.

Of course, the bandits are not useless. At least they contributed a wave of experience points to Ryan's tamer profession.

Seeing a dog and an eagle so majestic in the battle, the little Matteo's eyes widened immediately, and he took care of them more carefully.

"Tsk tsk, Mr. Ryan's strength is getting stronger and stronger. Even the strength of the dog and the eagle beside him has surpassed me!"

"Alas!"

Matteo couldn't help but recall Ryan's thin figure when he just joined the Night Watch in Shining Gold Town more than half a year ago. Now he looked at Ryan again, and he was just like a different person.

Six days later, Ryan found that the environment on both sides of the road had gradually changed.

If most of the territory of Mayest County is located in the hilly area, then when they came to the central area of ​​Wales County now, the surrounding environment began to change to plains.

Originally, through the carriage window, some traces of white snow could be seen on the top of the hills on both sides of the road, but now, the road is basically surrounded by newly grown green grass.

The dense forests are gradually becoming scarce, replaced by patches of scattered farmland.

And the farmers in Wales County are already preparing for spring plowing.

After entering the plain area, Ryan and his party have not encountered any robbers for three consecutive days, and even the ferocious beasts that occasionally jumped out of the forest have not encountered a single one.

In terms of public security, it seems that the closer you are to Munster, the better the public security conditions are.

In addition, while traveling, Ryan did not forget to practice.

There is a proverb in the past life, ‘The fist never leaves the hand, the tune never leaves the mouth. ’

Therefore, unless there are special circumstances, Renn will practice meditation and breathing every day.

The effect of practice is very obvious.

After today's breathing practice was completed, two consecutive system prompts sounded:

【Congratulations! Your physical attributes are improved! 】

【Congratulations! Your strength attributes are improved! 】

Renn couldn't help but nodded inwardly when he saw that his physique was +1.

Not bad, even after adding 1 point back to the previous -2 constitution, the constitution has reached 29 points again.

In addition, when setting up camp, Ren would take time to practice ax and shield. After seven days, Locken's ax and shield combat skills had been improved to level 4.

Three more days later, Renne and his party were about to leave the edge of Welsh County and were about to reach the border of Munster.

Looking far into the distance, I could see more and more small roads converging in the distance from this main road.

After the convoy passed a huge boundary marker, the width of the road gradually expanded from about six to seven meters wide to more than ten meters.

At the same time, as the branch roads converged into the main road, there were more and more people on the main road at this moment, including people riding single horses and caravans like Renn and the others.

There are small caravans consisting of three or five caravans, and there are also teams that are not even caravans, but are just one or two horse-drawn and ox-cart teams of nearby farmers transporting fresh vegetables and fruits.

Of course, there are also larger caravans than Ren's, with more than twenty carriages, and are surrounded by dozens of elite teams wearing swordsmen's light armor or archers' leather armor.

Ren even sensed several times that one or two wizard apprentices were riding fast horses and hurried past his carriage. The faint fluctuations in their mental power could not hide from his perception.

After all, his current mental power is as high as 36 points.

In addition, there are noble knights who occasionally appear.

Renn saw several well-armed knights several times, some with one or two attendants behind them, and some alone, quickly overtaking his carriage and galloping forward.

After the entire convoy crossed a steep slope, Renn heard an exclamation from the front of the convoy!

This immediately attracted the attention of the four people in the carriage.

The sound sounded more like surprise than attack.

This made Ren and the other three women curiously lift the curtain and look out of the car window.

What they saw was a huge green plain, with a winding river running through the center of the plain. On the plain, farmers were working hard.

In the distance is a stretch of towering, gray-white mountains.

What is amazing is that under the main peak of the majestic mountain range, there is a huge city that is obviously made of white boulders and built on the mountain.

Obviously, this is the provincial capital Münster!

Although Renn had heard various stories and descriptions about Munster before coming here, he was still shocked when he actually saw this scene.

The establishment of the magnificent city in front of us must have the intervention of extraordinary power.

However, after the three girls sighed, they were quickly attracted by the huge blue lake not far ahead.

The lake is just beside the road, not far from the convoy.

Due to the clear weather, the lake surface reflects at a specific angle. The blue sky and white clouds are reflected on the mirror-like lake surface, which feels like a mirror in the sky.

"Baron Wren, let's go to the lake to rest for a while." Jenny was the first to say.

"sure."

Facing the three women's expressions of joy and yearning, Renn immediately nodded in agreement.

Soon, the convoy set up camp on the edge of the lake.

At this time, they also learned from the conversation of tourists on the side that the lake was called Zhisui Lake and was one of the famous lakes in the provincial capital Münster.

And when Renn took the three girls down from the luxury carriage, their beautiful looks and crisp laughter immediately attracted the attention of several groups of people not far away.

There are two groups of people who seem to be similar to Ren and the others in terms of attire. They are either wearing robes or knight plate armor. They should be a certain noble or the heirs of a noble. The other group of people, after getting water, have already planned to Reassembled and hit the road again.

Since it was a break, Renn naturally asked Mateo to let Cookie, the greyhound war dog, out for a spin.

When the greyhound, which was as tall as a pony, got off another carriage, a group of people wearing aristocratic costumes seemed to be a little ready to move, and they frequently looked over.

After a while, a middle-aged man dressed as a guard came over, holding a dark bottle in his hand, which seemed to contain fine wine.

"Dear lords, this is a gift from my lords to you, aged Bordeaux wine from Wales."

Among the group of people, a handsome young man wearing a slim-fitting aristocratic hunting suit raised the wine glass in his hand and gestured towards Ren and the others.

Renn nodded slightly and asked the little Matteo to accept the other party's wine.

At this time, there was a middle-aged man beside the young man, who lowered his head and whispered a few words in the ear of the noble young man.

I saw a noble young man in hunting attire looking at Ren and others with a rather surprised look.

A few minutes later, the noble young man came over gracefully and said with a smile:

"Excuse me, sir, this dog should be a ferocious beast mutated from an ordinary greyhound, right? It is too rare. I don't know if you can give it up, I am willing to pay one thousand imperial gold coins."

Hearing this offer, many people around couldn't help but whisper.

This is one thousand imperial gold coins, ordinary people dare not imagine.

Ryan smiled, shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, 'Cookie' is my partner."

"That's really a pity." The noble young man was not angry at Ryan's refusal, but continued to chat for a while, and then returned to his side.

After setting up the camp, Jenny seemed to think of something, turned to Ryan and asked: "Sir Ryan, will our stay here affect your participation in the sword holder assessment?"

"I mean, do you need to arrive earlier?"

"It doesn't affect. In terms of time, the assessment day is the day after tomorrow." Ryan smiled and shook his head.

He didn't worry about the initial test.

At the bonfire, another group of young people looked over in surprise when they heard that Ryan was also here to take the Imperial Swordsman Assessment.

Several people looked at Ryan, and then paused at the three women. One of the women in leather armor muttered, "How can this person be here to take the assessment? He should be the offspring of a noble family, right?"

"It's possible, but looking at the other party's emblem, hammer and sword? It doesn't look like a noble family." A young man looked puzzled.

Another person nodded and said, "Yes! As far as I remember, the Marquis of Munster didn't have this style of noble emblem. As for the Duke, it's even more impossible. The Duke of Munster's emblem is the shield of the python."

Soon, the topic of several people turned to the assessment again.

"I heard from the grapevine that in this noble enthronement assessment, there is a young man who is very strong. It is said that he has a big gap with the second place."

"Noble enthronement assessment? No, Steve, you may not know that in general, the strongest group of people in the sword bearer assessment are actually from the army."

"Hmm? Is there any explanation here?"

"The age limit for young people who normally participate in the sword bearer assessment is 28 years old in the empire. But you may not know that for soldiers serving the empire, this age can be appropriately relaxed to 35 years old."

"So, the biggest competitor we face in the assessment is not the young people who are invited through the noble enthronement assessment, but the elites from the army. They have been tempered by actual combat, and all kinds of extraordinary combat skills or witchcraft have been polished to be extremely proficient."

"Of course, some of the third-level wizard apprentices from major wizard schools are also very powerful."

"Alas! It seems that there is little hope. I hope the goddess of luck will bless me and let me pass the assessment smoothly!"

Ryan used his super perception to almost hear all the other party's chat.

Military elite?

A third-level wizard apprentice of the wizard school?

Interesting.

After a short rest, the team continued to move forward.

As the saying goes, 'If you look at the mountain, you will die.'

This time it was well portrayed.

They saw the towering city early, but it took Ryan and his team almost a day to walk from the lake to the city gate.

As the team gradually approached the huge city built on the mountain, Ryan could see the huge bird of prey hovering in the sky.

"Is that a griffin?" Veronica on the side also saw the bird of prey in the sky, and as an expert in birds, she almost recognized it as a griffin at first sight.

"Yes." Ryan nodded. This was the second time he saw a griffin.

At this time, the flying blood feather also saw the griffin and couldn't help but cry loudly. It seemed that he was not afraid of the griffin, but rather had a taste of eagerness to try.

Half an hour later, the team arrived at the city gate.

At the tall city gate stood a huge obsidian statue of 30 meters high, a human knight fully armed with a sword and shield.

A troubadour in bright clothes was introducing a group of young people: "This is the first Grand Duke of the Bavarian family more than two thousand years ago, and also a close friend of the then Emperor of the Empire."

"He made outstanding contributions to the stability of the province of Munster."

Ryan cast his eyes on the huge city gate, which had three gates, one large and two small.

The small gates on both sides should be used to deal with pedestrians or single-person teams, while the caravan needs to enter from the main gate, which is arched, about fifteen meters high and about seven or eight meters wide.

Of course, the nobles can naturally get the privilege of cutting in line.

So, soon, the caravan entered the city.

"Mr. Ryan, thank you for your escort all the way. Then Agatha and I will go to the Tianya Inn first."

"If you need anything, you can come to the Tianya Inn to find us." Jenny bowed slightly.

"Okay, Miss Jenny, Miss Agatha, see you later." Ryan smiled and nodded.

After Jenny arranges her business affairs, she will rent or buy a house. As for the little Matteo, he will also stay at the Tianya Hotel temporarily.

The Greyhound War Dog and the Blood Feather Hippogryph were also handed over to Matteo for temporary care.

After saying goodbye to Jenny and Agatha, Ryan and Veronica went to the address indicated on the invitation letter without stopping.

Munster, No. 1 Boulevard!