Chapter 159: Guards' Uniforms
When Gervis finished asking the question, the vestibule suddenly became quiet. Thanks to the deeply rooted discipline, none of the SS members whispered to each other. Gervis was not in a hurry and continued to wait, his eyes scanning the faces of each SS member.
"Sir, the personal guards are the guards who follow you!"
Finally, after Gervis glanced around twice, Alex broke the stiffness, raised his hand, and answered Gervis' question in a somewhat uncertain tone.
"Your answer is correct, but I said this on the day I announced the selection of the Guards!"
Gervis looked serious at the moment, and fixed his gaze on Alec, nodded at him expressionlessly, and then continued.
"I'm telling you now, the duties of the Royal Guards, remember this!"
"The duty of the Royal Guards is to protect my safety. When someone wants to harm me, you are my last line of defense, just like the King's Royal Guards! Do you understand?"
Gervis spoke to all the guards in front of him in a serious tone.
"I understand, sir!"
"Very good! Since you are to protect my safety personally, I told you that your equipment will be better and more sophisticated than other guards! These are the weapons and equipment I specially customized for you, and they cost me hundreds of gold coins in total!"
As he spoke, Gervis pointed to the longswords and armors neatly stacked on the side and stated their value in an affirmative tone. Of course, Gervis was not talking nonsense about the price of hundreds of gold coins. The value of the mithril plus the cost of forging, if Gervis's own full body armor and weapons were not deducted, the price of hundreds of gold coins was very real.
Buzz~
Gervis stood in the front with a calm expression, but when the guards heard about the hundreds of gold coins, they all looked stunned and their bodies shook. Then they looked at Gervis and the piled up equipment with red eyes, as if they had come across a treasure mountain. If Gervis hadn't said it himself, they would never have dreamed that they could equip themselves with weapons and equipment worth several gold coins.
"100 gold coins? Oh my god, why didn't I work harder these days! Ah..."
"If I were holding such an expensive sword and wearing the leather and chain mail of the royal guards, I would dare to fight against the monsters!"
"100 gold coins can buy a lot of white bread, and can find a lot of beautiful girls!"
The guards standing in front of Gervis did not dare to whisper to each other, but the guards stationed on the city wall were already furious. A few days ago, they saw the guards training with wooden sticks, and they all gave the guards a good scolding.
But after hearing what Gervis said about the value of those swords and armors, they all felt like they had lost their parents and regretted their decision. They regretted why they didn't grit their teeth and work harder. That way they would have the opportunity to join the Royal Guards, and they would have a share of the equipment worth several gold coins.
"It's incredible, isn't it? 100 gold coins, no discount! Now I'll show you what kind of power a 100 gold coin piece of equipment has!"
Gervis could hear the whispered discussions on the city wall clearly. He wanted to make the Royal Guard the dream of all the guards, a dream that was within reach, so that the ordinary guards would continue to strive for this dream.
Members of the Royal Guards will feel proud of their identities, and if they enjoy the glory they must fulfill their due responsibilities. This is actually a shackle that Gervis has put on them, but this shackle is definitely what serfs and ordinary guards dream of, and they are willing to fight for it.
"Ike, bring over those swords and armor!"
After he finished speaking, Gervis turned around and gave orders to Ike.
"Yes, sir!"
After giving Ik the order, Gervis came to the neatly arranged new equipment, randomly selected a long sword and chain mail, took them in his hands, and then returned to the group of guards.
"Sir! The sword and armor you requested"
Gervis waited for a while with a mithril sword and chain mail, and Ik came to Gervis with a broken sword and iron armor with great difficulty.
"Put it on the ground!"
The sword and armor that Ike brought were the spoils obtained on the day of the ambush on Lanny's convoy. The armor was the one that only the titled knights under Lanny could wear. Although it was made of ordinary iron, Gervis had already witnessed the defensive power of this armor when Lanny's men fought with the masked man that night. The heavy weight alone meant that ordinary swords would hardly cause damage to the armor.
After Ik put down his sword and armor, Gervis stuck the mithril sword in his hand into the ground and picked up the ordinary sword that was a little damaged.
"Now I see clearly!"
Gervis raised the chain mail in his left hand and slashed it hard with his sword.
Squeak~
Gervis swung the long sword with great force, and it instantly scratched the surface of the chain mail. Visible sparks appeared at the moment the sword blade collided with the surface of the chain mail, which was enough to prove the power of Gervis's sword.
When the sword cut through the chain mail, Gervis didn't care. He didn't even look at the chain mail. Instead, he held the intact chain mail directly in front of him and showed it to all the guards.
"This is the chain mail specially made for you!"
After making sure that all the guards had seen the surface of the chain mail clearly, Gervis did not stop at all. He put the chain mail aside and pulled out the mithril sword from the ground. Gervis held the mithril sword in his left hand and an ordinary sword in his right hand. He swung both hands vigorously, and a crisp sound of "ding" was heard in the vestibule.
The two long swords clashed fiercely, and the ordinary long sword was instantly cut into half, with one third of the width of the sword body sunken. It can be imagined that if the force was enough, the mithril long sword could easily cut the ordinary long sword in half with one stroke!
The guards on the city wall had been secretly paying attention to the movements in the vestibule. After seeing the effect of Gervis's sword, they all gasped. Because Gervis was not far from the city wall, the huge gap on the ordinary sword was clearly visible. They were just ordinary guards, and had never seen the power of mithril equipment. The effect of Gervis's sword just now made the mithril sword a magic weapon for them!
"This long sword! If I had it, I would have been able to chop off a piece of flesh from the storm wolf that day!"
A guard on the city wall once followed Gervis to participate in the operation of killing the storm wolves. When he saw this scene, his tone was quite sad and he murmured something. The guards beside him were like deflated balls and were too lazy to even answer him.
Different from the ordinary guards on the city wall, after Gervis conducted two tests in succession, the guards finally understood intuitively how powerful the weapons forged with hundreds of gold coins were, and what kind of equipment the lord equipped himself with. The bodies of these team members began to tremble slightly unconsciously.
(End of this chapter)
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