Chapter 226: Show Mercy
Although the cavalry squad suffered casualties, their bravery and tacit cooperation demonstrated the extraordinary combat effectiveness of the Rose Knights. Even if the Frost White Tiger was prepared in advance and the Rose Knights must have studied the strategy for the battle, it was still an extremely difficult task to kill it quickly with such small casualties.
"My lord, the arena has been cleared!"
"Well, let's start the vassal competition!"
At this moment, the center of the arena has been cleared, and the seriously injured Rose Knights have been carried away for treatment, and their lives or deaths are currently unknown.
Eight or nine of the remaining Rose Knights also suffered varying degrees of injuries and limped into the underground passage. Some of them were injured when they hit the ice wall while sprinting, while others were injured by the last dozen or so frost balls thrown by the Frost White Tiger.
Woo! Woo! Woo!
The sound of horns rang out again in the arena. The originally noisy arena suddenly became quiet again, and everyone stood up again.
"The Rose Knights have brought you a wonderful fight between knights and monsters! Now it's time for the vassals to compete!"
"I will send three of my vassals to accept challenges from anyone. Anyone who can defeat any of them will receive a reward of 50 gold coins!"
After saying that, Alice sat back on the sofa again.
At this moment, all the Rose Knights in the field have retreated to the underground passage in an orderly manner. Instead, a Silver Knight wearing full body armor, holding a wooden spear and a long sword on his waist came to the field on horseback. He was officially a vassal baron of Alice.
At this moment, the mask on the helmet of the vassal baron was still on. He rode his warhorse to the central stand, first dismounted and half-knelt to salute Alice, then stood up and waited quietly for his opponent to appear.
"Which of your family vassals would like to be the first to challenge?"
Alice nodded to the vassal baron, then turned to look at the seven earl representatives and asked.
"Sir Alice, my Charlton family is willing to send a vassal to compete with your vassal first!"
Soon, a young man in his twenties stood up on Alice's right.
The Charlton family's territory borders the Jones territory, and the most serious intrusions on the Jones family's borders come from the Charlton family.
When the old earl was alive, the Charlton family and the Jones family had a small-scale conflict over a water source. However, at that time, because of the old earl's presence, they did not gain any advantage. But now that the Jones family's deterrence is gone, the Charlton family has once again provoked a dispute over water sources.
Alice wants to flex the muscles of the Jones family today, and families like Charles also want to take this opportunity to undermine the confidence of the Jones family, whether it is the confidence of the common people, the confidence of the vassals, or even the confidence of Alice. As long as people's hearts are scattered, the decline of the Jones family can be predicted.
After the young man from the Charles family finished speaking to Alice, he turned around and nodded to a tall middle-aged man behind him. The middle-aged man took the order and immediately walked out of the central stand and went downstairs.
After a while, the middle-aged man came to the arena through the underground passage. At this moment, he was wearing full body armor and riding on a warhorse.
"The vassal baron of the Jones family, Bertram Leaf! A beginner silver knight!"
"Baron of the Charles family, Ennis Bass! Silver beginner knight!"
When the two men met, they introduced themselves to each other and their ranks. After that, they staggered their bodies, mounted their horses, and walked to the two ends of the arena.
After Bertram and Ennis rode their horses to the two ends of the arena, they closed the masks on their helmets, bent their arms and held the wooden knight's lance in their hands. In order to make the lance more stable, they clamped the back end under their arms.
Amid the cheers from the crowd, the two men simultaneously urged their horses to charge forward quickly.
As the horses galloped, the two men's speed became faster and faster, and the spectators on the sidelines waved their hands wildly, waiting for a head-on collision between the two.
Boom! Boom!
Bertram and Ennis were both experienced knights with titles, so there was no possibility of failure in such a spear duel. The wooden spears of both sides pierced each other's armor without any suspense. In an instant, the hard wooden spears burst into several sections, and wood chips flew all over the field. The two men were also thrown backwards from their horses due to the huge impact force of the spears.
If the two men were holding real knight's lances, even if they were wearing full body armor, there would be only one consequence: both sides would be pierced with big holes at the same time.
The two men fell heavily to the ground, causing a cloud of dust to fly. However, as they were titled knights and were wearing heavy full body armor, they only rolled on the ground for a few rounds and immediately stood up. Both sides drew their swords.
What follows is the truly dangerous competition, because the swords of both sides are not wooden weapons like spears, but real sharp swords.
Both sides were invigorated with fighting spirit, and light flashed from their bodies from time to time. Even Gervis was watching intently, after all, it was rare to see two silver knights fighting each other.
As the two sides fought more and more fiercely, suddenly a loud shout was heard in the field. Bertram nimbly dodged Ennis's attack and immediately turned around to use his secret skills!
"Wild Wind Slash!"
In less than a breath of time, Bertram had already displayed his secret skill - the Gale of Absolute Slash. In an instant, a huge gale appeared around Bertram, and the gale swept up the sand like a whirlpool and enveloped the two of them.
Ennis was horrified, he didn't expect Bertram to be able to perform the secret technique so quickly, and looking at the scene at the moment, he already knew that this secret technique was definitely not a low-level secret technique that was common everywhere.
Ennis didn't dare to take Bertram's attack head-on, so he could only retreat quickly.
But it was too late. The moment Bertram finished accumulating power for the secret technique, Ennis had no chance. Before he could move, he felt a heavy blow to his lower right rib, as if hit by a huge rock. Ennis was knocked away in an instant, and then lay on the ground powerlessly, unable to get up.
There was a long dent on the armor under Ennis' ribs. The size of the dent matched the width of the side of the sword, which meant that the sword hit Ennis not on the edge but on the spine.
"Thank you!"
When the dust on the scene settled, Ennis finally saw Bertram. Bertram was standing steadily in front of Ennis, and the long sword in his hand was bent.
Ennis knew that the reason he was alive was not because of Bertram's mistake, but because Bertram did not want to kill him. If Bertram had hit him directly with the sword, the force would have easily cut through his full body armor and killed him in half.
"Bertram! Bertram! Bertram!"
All the spectators cheered and shouted for Bertram.
Several guards soon came running from outside the field, helped the fallen Ennis up and retreated to the sidelines.
(End of this chapter)
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