Chapter 684 The Guardian Knight is crowned!
After waiting for just over half an hour, Edward finally came back.
Also coming with him were the two lords of the holy city, Johnson and Bruno.
"grandfather!"
Adela was naturally very happy to see Edward coming back, and she ran up quickly and grabbed Edward's shoulder.
"Duke Johnson! Duke Bruno! Hello!"
After holding her grandfather's arm, Adela greeted the two city lords.
"Hello, Pearl of the Sky City!"
Johnson and Bruno both replied with a smile.
After they greeted each other, Edward saw Adela's surprised look and knew that his granddaughter must be anxious. He patted her hand on his arm and comforted her softly.
"Haha, the pearl of the sky city, can't you wait? Don't worry, grandpa will introduce Gervis to Duke Johnson and Duke Bruno first!"
After saying this, Edward looked at Gervis who was able to walk slowly on his own.
"Duke Edward!"
Greetings from Gervase!
"Well! Gervis, let me introduce them to you. They are Duke Johnson and Duke Bruno. I specially invited these two city lords to serve as witnesses this time!"
"Johnson, Bruno, this is the young killer god, his real name is Gervis Gale!"
"Duke Johnson, Duke Bruno, hello! Nice to meet you!"
"Haha, don't be so polite. In fact, we should thank you. It was you who helped our heir escape from danger that night!"
The holy city where Johnson and Bruno are located is ranked in the upper middle level in the Holy Alliance. Even if the knight makes friends with them as Gervis the God of Killing, he is still not qualified.
But now that Gervis is going to be Adela's guardian knight, the situation is different.
With this halo, Gervis's identity is recognized by Edward, so it will rise.
When Gervis had not yet truly reached the pinnacle of strength, he actually gained more benefits by becoming Adela's guardian knight.
At least the title of the guardian of Miss Adela of the Sky City alone is enough to intimidate most small and medium-sized families.
After Gervis and Johnson greeted each other, Edward looked at Adela and asked.
"By the way, Adela, is Master Weldon here?"
Johnson and Bruno attended a meeting with Edward at the Holy Alliance headquarters in the morning, so they came back together.
But Welton was in the college, and Edward had only arranged for someone to invite him, but it was not known whether he had come or not.
“Grandfather, Master Weldon has been here for a long time, but because you haven’t come back yet, he went to find Grandpa Bedford!”
Adela answered immediately.
"Well, then let's ask someone to invite Master Weldon over, and we'll officially get started!"
Now that everyone was there, Edward naturally wouldn't delay any longer. After all, Johnson and Bruno were also city lords and had a lot of things to do.
"Okay, Grandfather, I'll send someone to invite him now!"
When Adela heard this, she immediately let go of Edward's hand, then quickly called a passing servant and told him to ask Weldon to come over.
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"Father, the humans and beastmen are deliberately ostracizing our elves. It's so infuriating!"
In the small manor in the inner city of the City of Hope, a rare look of anger appeared on Alice's pretty face. This was an expression rarely seen on her, because usually Alice had a cold and serious look.
"Alice, dragons rarely appear on the mainland nowadays, and humans and beastmen are stronger than us, so the rules are naturally made by them. You don't have to be so angry!"
"Look at the Goblins. They took this quota away from them! This is even more infuriating for them!"
Olde sat opposite Adela. Seeing his daughter showing her rare anger, he remained very calm because he had known that things would not be that simple and that his hope of competing for a spot was not great.
Alice went to the Holy Alliance headquarters this morning to discuss the rules and time of the competition with the human and beast tribes.
But after the meeting started, Adela discovered that the beastmen and humans had already set the rules of the competition.
The competition is conducted using a challenge system, where each race is allowed to have ten people participate, and the winner is decided in the end.
Whoever wins gets the spot!
Alice wouldn't be angry with such rules. Although they had already set them, it was fair.
But the problem does lie in the regulations for the participants. According to the rules agreed upon by the human race and the beastman race, the participants in this competition for a spot cannot be over thirty years old!
It was this point that made Alice angry. The elves have a lifespan of a thousand years, which is a racial advantage.
However, the growth period of elves is also slightly longer than that of humans and beastmen.
In the first fifty years of their lifespan, the elves will be half a beat slower than humans and beastmen in their cultivation.
For example, outstanding young people from the human and beast races can reach the level of Golden Knight at the age of twenty.
The elves, on the other hand, can only reach the level of Silver Knights. Although the gap will gradually narrow over time, elves can basically only grow at the same rate as humans and orcs when they are fifty years old.
In various competitions in the past, as long as the competition was mainly among young people and there were elves participating, the age limit would be specially relaxed for the elves.
For example, humans and orcs cannot exceed thirty years old, but the elves can be relaxed to forty years old!
But this time when Alice asked if there were such loan conditions, she got the answer that there were none.
Therefore, Alice knew that the rules that the human race and the beastman race had already agreed upon this time were specifically designed to restrain the elves.
Among the young men under 30 years old who came with the elves this time, the strongest one had just reached the initial gold level.
If this were to go on the field, it would definitely not be able to compete with the human race and the beastman race, and would almost certainly lose.
In order to compete for the spot this time, Alice placed so much thought on it, spent so much effort, and also spent so many gold coins in the City of Hope.
In the end, she was doomed to fail, and she was naturally unwilling to accept this!
Alice said nothing as she listened to her father's consolation. It was impossible for her to let go of the matter with just one word of consolation.
Seeing that his daughter was still sulking, Olde was worried that she would be too upset, so he thought for a moment and said to Alice.
“Alice, although we may not be able to compete for this spot, but since we are in the City of Hope, you can try to lobby the city lords of the Holy Alliance to see if you can get them to give in and let that Gervis kid…”
"Father, Gervis is my husband!"
When Alice heard her father address Gervis, she immediately retorted.
"Good! Good! Good! Let's see if you can get your husband's ministers recognized by the Holy Alliance!"
"As long as this matter is done, it won't be a wasted trip. Even if there is only one passage, at least they will have other places to go after entering the passage."
When Alder heard Alice's rebuttal, he immediately changed his words and continued.
"This is the only way now!"
After listening to her father's words, Alice thought for a moment and nodded.
She also understood that the only solution now was probably to do as her father said. She couldn't travel all the way to the Holy Alliance and return empty-handed!
"Well, Alice, do you have a target for lobbying?"
Seeing that his daughter had finally come out of her previous state, Olde felt relieved and asked a question immediately.
"Although the Holy Alliance has 108 holy cities, only the twelve can really make decisions. Among them, the Sky City is the strongest. I think we should go find Duke Edward of the Sky City and give it a try first!"
Alice spoke slowly as she pondered.
She had this plan before she came here. She originally wanted to wait until the competition for the quota was over before doing it, to see if she could persuade the lords of the holy cities to acknowledge the existence of Stormwind City.
Let Stormwind City join the Holy Alliance with Gervis as its mayor, even if it is the last one.
But now, the competition for the spot hasn't even started yet, but the result has been guessed, so the focus is naturally on the latter matter.
The earlier you start taking action, the greater the chance of success.
"Well, let's go! From what I saw in the conference hall today, Duke Edward is probably the most reasonable one. The Golden Shield family and the other two families are a bit more difficult to deal with!"
"But if you can get Sky City to give in, I'm afraid it will be easier to win over other holy cities!"
Alder agreed with Alice's choice.
"Father, let's go to the Sky City's headquarters to meet Duke Edward now!"
Alice couldn't sit still anymore, so she stood up and spoke to Olde.
"Um!"
Alder nodded!
Afterwards, Alice returned to the small building in the manor, asked her men to take a pile of gifts, and headed towards the base of the Sky City with dozens of guards.
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The sun was shining, colorful flags were flying, and hundreds of people were already sitting or standing in the square outside the luxurious and exquisite building.
Duke Edward sat in the center seat on the pre-built platform.
Adela sat on Edward's left, and Gervis sat next to Adela.
As for City Lord Johnson, City Lord Bruno, Welton and others, they sat on both sides respectively.
There are more than 300 elite soldiers wearing armor standing neatly below the platform. Each of these soldiers has a terrifying aura and is full of bravery.
Among these people, the most eye-catching ones are the thirty griffin knights in the front row, because next to them sits a griffin that is more than two meters tall.
These griffins have shiny and smooth fur, sharp and lively eyes, and claws with long spikes like short blades that shine coldly and look very creepy.
"Thank you very much for coming to participate in the coronation ceremony of the Guardian Knight today!"
Seeing that everything was ready, Edward immediately sat in the main seat and complimented Johnson and others on both sides.
Johnson and the others just smiled and nodded slightly without saying anything.
After saying that, Edward faced forward and continued in a deep voice.
"Then let's start the Guardian Knight Coronation Ceremony now!"
"Adela is the pearl of my Sky City, and just four days ago at the birthday party, the cultists of the New Temple actually tried to kidnap my pearl! And they almost succeeded!"
"Fortunately, a young warrior appeared at the banquet. Although this warrior was young, his reputation was very loud and everyone knew him!"
"He is Gervis Gale! You may not be familiar with this name, but you must know his nickname, which is the God of Death!"
"He became famous for single-handedly hunting down and killing thousands of orcs in the magician's tower. And at Adela's birthday party a few days ago, he single-handedly killed nine white-flag knights and one black-flag knight..."
Since it was a coronation ceremony for the Guardian Knight, Edward naturally said nice things to make Gervis the Guardian Knight of Adela.
Although most people present had probably heard of these things, repeating them so solemnly was a disguised way of praising Gervis so that people would not question the strength of Adela as the guardian knight.
This kind of commercial mutual flattery was not initiated or original by Edward, but was the process of the coronation ceremony of the Guardian Knight that had been passed down hundreds of years ago.
What's more, these were all true things told by Edward, but he deliberately ignored the negative news such as Gervis's killing of those big and small families and destroying the Golden Shield Family's manor.
“Such a brave warrior not only killed the cultists, but also rescued hundreds of descendants of various families, including my Pearl. Therefore, today I formally invite His Excellency Gervis Gale to become Adela’s guardian knight!”
"Guardian Knight!"
"Guardian Knight!"
"Guardian Knight!"
As Edward finished his powerful words, hundreds of soldiers below shouted in unison. All of them were at least at the level of White Flag Knights, and the momentum was enough to rival that of thousands of troops.
Amid the thunderous shouts, Edward turned his attention to Gervis and Adela!
Although Adela's pretty face was slightly red, she was very quick. She glanced at Gervis and then quickly walked to her grandfather's side.
Gervis had also learned the procedure from Waddington, and immediately stood up and walked to Edward's side.
Then, it was Adela who spoke!
Adela came to Gervis face to face, then bent her knees slightly, lifted the sides of her snow-white skirt with her fair and slender hands, and bowed to Gervis, performing the standard etiquette of a noble lady.
After the ceremony, Adela shyly said to Gervis: "Respected Sir Gervis, are you willing to be the guardian knight of me, Adela Bells?"
"I do!"
"I, Gervis Gale, swear here by the honor of a knight! I am willing to be the guardian knight of Miss Adela Bells! When she is in danger, I will save her from the water and fire, even if it costs me my life!"
"The gods bear witness, and the oath lasts forever!"
"Thank you, my knight!"
Although it was just a short sentence, it was actually a very formulaic statement. However, under Gervis's sonorous tone, Adela's eyes turned red and there was a lot of strange looks in her eyes.
Then Adela bent her knees again, held up the sides of her skirt, leaned forward and nodded to Gervis!
“This is what I should do!”
Gervis saw Adela's expression and immediately responded softly.
By this time, today's Guardian Knight's coronation ceremony was mostly completed, and it was Edward's turn to speak.
Edward took out a contract from his space ring.
"Gvis, this is a village on the territory of Sky City. Now it will become your territory! With hereditary rights!"
"This is your reward for protecting Adela in the future! Please accept it!"
"Thank you, Duke Edward. I will keep my promise!"
Gervis was slightly surprised. He thought Edward would give him some gold coins or some precious items, but he didn't expect that the reward would be the territory of a village.
Although he certainly would not look down on a village now, he could still see Edward's intentions, because land is the most precious thing in any world.
Gervis did not refuse and immediately put away the contract.
Because Waddington had said in advance that it was customary to accept the payment in public, and refusing would ruin the ceremony.
"Then Adela will be in your hands from now on! Knight!"
When Edward saw the contract under Gervis's hand, he immediately nodded to Gervis with satisfaction.
Then he turned around and looked at everyone present.
"Today's Guardian Knight Coronation Ceremony has officially ended! Now everyone can enjoy their meals!"
As Edward finished his words, servants began to appear one by one, walked to the long table that had been filled with delicious food, and prepared to start serving.
Although these soldiers are all from the Sky City, a banquet after the coronation ceremony is also a custom, so the manor was naturally decorated today.
When the guards heard Edward's words, they immediately walked in an orderly manner towards the long tables filled with delicious food.
"Duke Johnson, Duke Bruno, Master Weldon, Gervis, Adela, let's go to dinner too!"
As the soldiers below started to move, Edward also began to greet the people on the stage.
"Yes, Duke Edward!"
Afterwards, the group walked down the platform and headed towards a long table with chairs that was placed aside!
After everyone sat down, they didn't exchange pleasantries and started enjoying their meal.
Just as Edward and others sat down to enjoy lunch, Alice's convoy arrived at the gate of the Sky City.
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"Who are you!"
When their convoy stopped at the gate of the manor, the guards guarding the gate immediately came forward and asked.
"Sir, we are an envoy from the elves. Our queen wants to see Duke Edward! Please inform him! Thank you!"
Because she needed a favor, Alice also told Nadine to be as polite as possible.
And Nadine also said something politely to the guard.
"The Queen of the Elves!"
The guard of the Sky City also saw several elves in the caravan, but he did not expect that the queen of the elves was in the carriage. The guard was also shocked.
(End of this chapter)
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