Chapter 235: What I Saw and Heard (Two chapters in one)
Ryan looked up and saw a group of Templar Knights escorting Priest Rudolf to the gate of the mansion.
Immediately, Ryan stepped forward and said with a smile: "Priest Rudolf, why do you bother to come all the way here?" Rudolf
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 in just a few months, Ryan's progress would be so rapid that even he couldn't see through his depth.
"Baron Ryan, I'm here to see you off on behalf of Bishop Theon. I hope you can successfully join the Imperial Sword Bearers this time and bring glory to Meester."
"By the way, Baron Ryan, here is also a handwritten letter from Bishop Theon. It's written to Sir Brandoth, the Punishment Knight of Munster Cathedral."
"Sir Brandoth is a long-time friend of Bishop Theon. If you encounter any problems in Munster, you can take this letter to seek help from Sir Brandoth."
"In addition, Sir Brandoth is a well-known warhammer master in the church. He should have a lot in common with you, the 'Baron Hammer' of Meester County."
Rudolf said with a smile, taking out a letter printed with red wax from his arms and handing 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, and please tell Bishop Sheen 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 obscure, the subtext was that he hoped he could consider joining the church, and 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 set off, and 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 an exclusive luxury carriage that the beautiful woman Jennifer had arranged long ago.
At this moment, there were three luxurious carriages in the whole team. One was for Jenny and Agatha, a pair of best friends, one was for Ryan, and the other was brought by 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. He just wanted to think about some things.
But in the afternoon, Veronica came to Ryan's carriage, nominally to discuss the assessment.
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 Lord Ryan's carriage, why don't you react at all?"
Jenny glanced at her best friend with her beautiful eyes, thinking, how can I react?
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 could 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!"
"Didn't you have a crush on Lord Ryan for a while before? 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 do it." Agatha said with a blushing face.
"What do you mean?" Jenny's beautiful eyes widened, staring at her best friend beside her.
After all this time, could it be that her best friend is also interested in Lord Ryan?
Hearing Jenny's words, Agatha immediately rolled her eyes.
"Jenny, don't you know how popular your Baron Ryan is in the county town recently?"
"I can guarantee that if Lord Ryan doesn't go to Munster this time, many noble ladies will line up to visit him every day!"
After listening to Agatha's explanation, Jenny nodded woodenly.
Although her best friend exaggerated a little, 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 lustful look, Jenny supported her smooth forehead with her slender little hand, and said helplessly and a little irritably: "Go if you want to, don't be lustful here!"
"That's what you agreed to! 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 lover of her best friend Jenny openly.
But now that her best friend has decided to let go, it's different. Agatha's guilt has been 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 car, Ryan raised his question at the right time.
"Veronica, how did you get the invitation letter for the Imperial Sword Bearer Assessment?"
Hearing Ryan's question, Veronica couldn't help but chuckle.
"Sir Ryan, don't you know? As a medium-sized wizard school that is friendly with the Empire, our Ubrek School has a certain number of places every year to obtain invitations to the examinations of the Empire's major special departments."
"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 obtain the qualification for the examination. Whether you can finally enter or not still depends on your performance during the examination, 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 before.
"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 her beautiful watery eyes, and said:
"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 best friend Agatha.
Hearing that Agatha suddenly wanted to come 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 about it, Ryan said.
Although Agatha came at a very inappropriate time, he couldn't just turn her away.
After all, Agatha had helped him collect spiritual books before, and the Wiggins family was now 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 get on 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 you go from Mester to the provincial capital of Münster, it normally takes 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 has reserved two more days.
From the location on the map, there is a Welsh County between Mayster County and the provincial capital Munster, which means that Ryan and his group can reach the border of the provincial capital Munster by crossing the Welsh County.
Since there are main roads between counties that the government has invested a lot of energy in repairing, the road conditions are relatively good.
There were some blind bandit groups attacking the caravan along the way, but Ryan did not take any 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 better care of them.
"Tsk tsk, Mr. Ryan's strength is getting stronger and stronger. Even the strength of the dog and the eagle beside him has surpassed mine!"
"Ah!"
Matteo couldn't help but recall Ryan's thin figure when he just joined the Night Watch in Shimmering 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 occasionally 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.
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 to Munster, the better the public security conditions.
In addition, while on the road, Ryan did not forget to practice.
There is a proverb in the past life, "Fist never leaves hand, song never leaves mouth."
Therefore, unless there are special circumstances, Ryan will practice meditation and breathing every day.
The effect of practice is very significant.
After today's breathing training was completed, two system prompts sounded in succession:
[Congratulations! Your physical attribute has been improved!]
[Congratulations! Your strength attribute has been improved!]
Ryan saw the physical attribute +1, and nodded in his heart.
Not bad, it can be regarded as adding 1 point back to the previous physical attribute of -2, and the physical attribute has reached 29 points again.
In addition, when setting up camp, Ryan will take time to practice the axe and shield. After seven days, Locken's axe and shield combat skills have been upgraded to level 4.
After another three days, Ryan and his party are about to leave the edge of Wales County and will soon arrive at the border of Munster.
Looking far away, you can see that there are more and more small roads converging from the distance of this main road.
After the caravan passed a huge boundary monument, the width of the road gradually expanded from about six or seven meters wide to more than ten meters.
At the same time, as the branch roads converged into the main road, at this moment, the flow of people on the main road was increasing, including people riding alone and caravans like Ryan and his team.
There were small caravans consisting of three or five caravans, and there were also teams that were not even caravans, but were just teams of one or two horse-drawn carts and ox-drawn carts for nearby farmers to transport fresh vegetables and fruits.
Of course, there were also large caravans larger than Ryan's, with more than 20 carriages, surrounded by dozens of elite teams wearing light swordsman armor or leather archer armor.
Ryan even sensed several times that one or two wizard apprentices on fast horses hurriedly passed by his carriage, and the other party's faint mental fluctuations could not be hidden from his perception.
After all, his current mental power is as high as 36 points.
In addition, there are occasional noble knights.
Ryan saw several fully armed knights several times, some with one or two attendants behind them, and some alone, quickly surpassing his carriage and galloping forward.
After the entire convoy crossed a steep slope, Ryan heard a cry of surprise from the front of the convoy!
This immediately attracted the attention of the four people in the carriage.
From the sound, it sounded more like surprise than being attacked.
This made Ryan and the other three girls curiously lift the curtain and look out of the car window.
What they saw was a huge green plain. A winding river passed through the center of the plain. On the plain, farmers were working hard.
In the distance was a continuous, gray-white mountain range.
What was amazing was that under the main peak of the towering mountain range, there was a huge city built on the mountain with white boulders as raw materials.
Obviously, this was the provincial capital of Munster!
Although Ryan had heard all kinds of stories and descriptions about Munster before coming, he was still shocked to see this scene.
The establishment of the magnificent city in front of him must have involved extraordinary power.
However, after the three girls sighed, they were soon attracted by the huge blue lake not far ahead.
The lake was on the side of the road, not far from the convoy.
Due to the clear weather, the lake surface reflected at a certain angle, and the blue sky and white clouds were reflected on the mirror-like lake surface, giving a feeling of a sky mirror.
"Baron Ryan, let's go to the lake to rest for a while." Jenny was the first to speak.
"Of course."
Facing the joyful and yearning expressions of the three women, Ryan immediately nodded in agreement.
Soon, the convoy camped by the lake.
At this time, they also learned from the conversation of the passengers nearby that the name of this lake is Zhishui Lake, which is one of the famous lakes in the provincial capital of Munster.
When Ryan led the three women down from the luxurious carriage, the beautiful looks and crisp laughter of the three women immediately attracted the attention of several groups of people not far away.
Two of them seemed to be similar to Ryan and his group in terms of attire, either wearing robes or knights' plate armor. They should be some nobles or noble descendants, while the other group, after fetching water, now planned to re-equip themselves and set off.
Since it was a rest, Ryan naturally asked Matteo to let the greyhound war dog Cookie out for a ride.
When the greyhound war dog, as big as a pony, got off another carriage, one of the people in aristocratic costumes seemed to be a little restless and cast their eyes over.
After a while, a middle-aged man dressed as a guard came over with a dark bottle in his hand, which seemed to be filled with fine wine.
"My dear lords, this is a gift from my master to you, a Bordeaux vintage from Wales."
A handsome young man in a slim-fitting aristocratic hunting suit raised the wine glass in his hand and gestured to Ryan and his friends.
Ryan nodded slightly, asking the short man Matteo to accept the other party's fine wine.
At this time, there was a middle-aged man next to the young man, who lowered his head and whispered a few words in the ear of the aristocratic young man.
The aristocratic hunting suit young man looked at Ryan and his friends 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 really 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, which ordinary people dare not imagine.
Ryan smiled, shook his head and said: "I'm sorry, 'Cookie' is my partner."
"That's 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 bearer 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 was not worried about the preliminary test.
At the campfire, another group of young people heard that Ryan was also here to participate in the Imperial Sword Bearer Assessment, and they couldn't help but look over in surprise.
Several people looked at Ryan, and then stopped at the three women. One of the women in leather armor muttered: "How can this person come to participate in the assessment? He should be the offspring of a great noble?"
"It's possible, but looking at the other party's emblem, hammer and sword? It doesn't look like a great noble." A young man looked puzzled.
Another person also nodded and said: "Yes! I remember that the Marquis of Munster does not have this style of noble emblem. As for the Duke, it is even more impossible. The emblem of the Duke of Munster 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 assessment for the nobility, there is a young man who is very strong. It is said that he has a big gap with the second place."
"Noble 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. But you may not know that for soldiers serving the empire, this age can be appropriately relaxed to 35 years old."
"So, our biggest competitor in the assessment is not the young people who are invited through the nobility assessment, but the elites from the army. They have been tempered in 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?
Third-level wizard apprentices from wizard schools?
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.
The towering huge city was seen early, but it took Ryan and his team almost a day to walk from the lakeside 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, Blood Feather flying in the air 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 has made outstanding contributions to the stability of the province of Munster."
Ryan focused 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 through 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 are also temporarily taken care of by Matteo.
After saying goodbye to Jenny and Agatha, Ryan and Veronica went to the address indicated on the invitation letter without stopping.
Munster, Boulevard No. 1!
(End of this chapter)
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