Hearst has never had a good impression of aristocrats. They always draw random conclusions based on scattered details.
The leader opened his mouth and the people below him ran away and broke their legs. This fact was too common.
Take Lu Yu as an example. Indeed, it was a bit strange for a man who claimed to be a noble to cook himself and eat at the same table with his servants, but others also said that he was his companion.
He was in trouble, looking for a way home all the way, with only one person accompanying him. After going through so many things, how could he still be a master and a servant?
The strict hierarchy deeply ingrained in the minds of nobles means nothing in the face of life and death.
Heather knows this better than anyone, because that's what she's been through.
When she was still a fourth-level magician, Heather and the Knights of the Stars participated in the mission to attack the elf station.
During that mission, she was very unlucky. Before she could show anything, she was injured by a dryad, one of the elf's servants, with poison ivy.
Heather, who was originally sent by the family to gain some qualifications, became a burden to the entire Knights of the Stars. The knights who went deep into the dense forest wanted to save Heather's life while facing the resurrected forest.
It is difficult for people who have not entered the forest to fight against the elves to understand the concept of the forest coming alive.
First, there is an overwhelming sense of oppression. All the green things around are constantly moving, and the concept of space in my mind will become a little blurred.
The lush branches and leaves that blocked the sky and the sun made it impossible for people on the ground to confirm the time, and everything was gloomy.
The quiet terror also came quietly at this time.
The originally withered trees will suddenly come to life, stretching out branches one after another, crossing the path you must pass, making the marks you made disappear and become invisible to the naked eye.
People walking behind the team will disappear inexplicably, and when they are seen again, they have merged with the trees.
The dead companions will be tightly tied by vines, as if embraced by countless trees. It is foreseeable that their flesh and blood will become fertilizer for this land.
For four days, the members of the Star Knights were reduced by half, and almost everyone was injured while escaping from the elves.
The imperial border troops who also participated in the mission were completely wiped out.
After returning to the camp, Heather, who was treated by the healing mage, quickly eliminated the remaining toxins in her body, but she remained silent. No matter what others asked, she would only nod and shake her head.
During that time, there was only one voice echoing in Heather's head.
"Why should you save her?"
Those were the words that the secretary of the Star Knights shouted to Hester with all his strength before he died.
Those eyes full of resentment and unwillingness lingered in Heather's mind.
With the strength of the Star Knights, they could have reduced their losses and escaped, but in order to provide first aid to Heather, they conducted a brief positional battle.
It was this brief moment that brought the forest to life and buried forty members of the Knights.
"Because of the pressure from my family behind me."
After a near-death experience and witnessing countless people die, young Heather realized this truth on her own.
A young fourth-level magician, the star of hope for the empire.
What's more, her father is also a marquis.
Her life is more valuable than others.
Therefore, after knowing that the news of the operation was leaked, the border troops of the Grand Empire continuously dispatched troops to carry out rescue operations in unfamiliar environments.
Therefore, the Star Knights would stop to give first aid after Heather was poisoned, even though they knew that fighting elves was a taboo.
When His Majesty's envoy questioned who was responsible for the failure of the mission, Heather admitted before the deputy commander and Hester that she had caused the failure of the mission.
Her father was furious and thought she was fooling around.
It was clear that the Knights of the Stars could find someone to shoulder the responsibility, but they foolishly took the responsibility, which made His Majesty displeased, deprived her of her honorary title, and ultimately brought shame to the family.
When a person breaks out of his own class and looks at the things around him, many things will immediately become different.
My father obviously didn't care how many people died in that forest, nor did he care that those people died for the empire.
The nobles never mentioned that the person who kept the secret secret might be someone in the noble circle doing business with elves, as if everything had never happened.
The Knights of the Star silently held a funeral for their dead comrades. In addition to His Majesty's generous support to appease the damaged team, they couldn't bear to see that the Knights of the Star, a group of civilians who came up from the ranks, were still in the mood to toast and drink. , the ordinary people blamed all the defeat on the Star Knights' lack of strength.
Heather listened to the increasingly unbearable accusations and made a decision.
She wants to join the stars.
Heather turned a blind eye to her father's warning "Don't even think about returning to this home if you join the Stars", and turned a blind eye to the invitations from the other two major knights.
When Hester reviewed her application report, the remaining members of the regiment who were still immersed in the pain of bidding farewell to their comrades voted against it.
"The eldest lady of the noble family has already harmed us once, but we can't even pick up their bodies... Do we want to suffer another loss?"
With only about 30 people left in the Knights of the Stars, the crowd was excited. As the leader, Hester gave Heather a chance to convince the others after much thought.
Among the crowd, facing those hostile eyes, Heather's eyes became firmer.
"Since I caused the failure, it is up to me to make up for it. I will rise again with the stars."
"I know the rules of Xingchen's selection. My father said that if I still want to join Xingchen, I will never want to go home again. Therefore, now I am no longer a member of the nobility."
The speech was short, without too much lyricism, but every word was resounding and full of determination.
When the final vote began, pairs of hands went up.
At the age of nineteen, Heather was still a noble.
After that, her identity remained only as a member of the Star Knights.
And she fulfilled her promise, spending ten years to make up for the mistakes she had made, and led the Star Knights to become the third largest knight order in the empire recognized by His Majesty.
Over the years, Heather has become more and more aware that the boring and cumbersome etiquette of aristocrats is actually a ritual of self-deification.
They distinguished themselves from ordinary people in this way, and contemptuously called the ordinary people who supported the operation of the empire as "untouchables" or "inferior people."
However, every time they fight against elves and sea beasts, these untouchables and low-class people bleed the most.
When have the aristocrats stood in the same trench as these civilians who defend their country?
People like Felton will probably never understand why a magician is willing to cook for his servants.
But never mind, Heather understands.
For this reason, she was willing to be more emotional and believe that everything said by Lu Yu, the strange marquis, was true.
Felton naturally did not have the courage to confront a person who was suspected of being a seventh-level magician. He just kept repeating the words "impossible, I don't believe it", which made the fake smile on Heather's face almost unsustainable.
Felton once again invited Heather to look at the magician's manuscript, but Heather refused because she was looking for traces of the dragon.
After leaving Case City, the secretary of the Star Knights took the drafted letter to Hester to read.
In any case, people in the capital should know that the knights encountered a high-level magician who was suspected of being a foreign marquis.
Hearst habitually gave letters to Heather to read. Although Heather did not have any position in the regiment, her status was no different from his own.
Ten years later, even the early members who were most prejudiced against Heather had nothing but admiration for her.
She gave up her title as a noble, gave up the enjoyment of being a master, came to suffer with them, and insisted on winning respect with strength and hard work. It can be said that Heather's deeds are also the legend of the Star Knights.
Heather glanced at it, smiled and praised the clerk's writing and choice of words, and then tore the letter into pieces in front of him.
"Sister Heather..." The young clerk was stunned.
Heather patted the clerk's shoulder lightly: "Don't get me wrong, what you wrote is indeed correct, and what you did is correct. You should report this kind of thing to the police, but..."
"Felton's reaction just now gave me an interesting idea." Heather said, "Do you think the group of high-minded nobles in the capital and the arrogant little geniuses from the two knights will meet Lu Yu? what happened?"
"Ah?" The young clerk failed to keep up with Heather's pace and looked around blankly, praying to his companions to help him.
The veteran in the group gave a high-five: "Sister Heather, don't you want to change your wording so that the stupid young people in the capital can give you a blow, right?"
Heather snapped her fingers: "Exactly, remember, don't say that I hit the other party's summons hard, and the other party's summons were unharmed. Write it more vaguely, write it more obscurely, you are playing with words, what should you do? Can organizing language achieve this effect?”
"Then, you said that our Star Knights are not strong enough to judge the strength of this Marquis..."
The clerk immediately sensed Heather's dark side, and he continued while wiping his cold sweat.
"Then the Imperial Knights and the Fengyu Knights will test Marquis Lu Yu in order to prove that they are stronger... But if Marquis Lu Yu gets angry by doing this, something big will happen, right?"
"Don't think that our Grand Empire is incapable of dealing with seventh-level magicians just because we deal with him so carefully. We just don't want innocent people to be affected." Heather smiled, "If we really fight, seventh-level magicians, And he’s a summoner, so he won’t have an easy time.”
Heather once wanted to take the Summoning School as an elective, but the research on the Summoning School was too stagnant and there were very few references for reference, so she had to give up.
Even so, Heather still had some doubts about the black mist that Lu Yu had summoned to accompany him for a long time.
"It should just be a statue. There is no summoner who can stably summon the same summoned object every time."
"If the summoner's natural weakness cannot be solved, this school will always be at the bottom."
