“My Lord, please hear our prayers and ask that your majestic hand may bless this sword, which your servants wish to be wielded, to protect the church, widows and orphans, and to protect all your servants. Protected from the ravages of the heathen, it strikes fear into the hearts of the wicked, and performs the dual duties of defense and battle.”
Baron Andager's personal priest looked at a large group of armored cavalry and knight attendants kneeling in front of him, praying to their swords for protection.
Baron Conrad drew out his own knight's sword, Dawn, with a calm expression. According to the rules, the "sword awarding ceremony" should be fully prepared to be held in the church.
But now the evil dragon has begun to attack the monastery, and all the rituals to rescue the monastery have to be simplified.
Conrad stretched out his palm, and a pure white halo appeared in front of his palm.
There are countless lines of light flowing in the halo, as if there is life. According to the church, the prayers and blessings of the clergy will transform the entity of God into the body of each knight, and the power of God , the existence will be with them in the form of a holy seal.
"Giving you this sword means that you have become a warrior of God. May the sincere God grant you courage, and may God be with you."
Conrad gently tapped his holy sword on the shoulders of each warrior and said his blessing.
Prince Brant half-knelt in front of his father. Conrad hit him hard on the shoulder with the holy sword. He gritted his teeth and did not scream.
The original intention of tapping the shoulder with the sword blade is to remind the canonized person that he has become a real knight at this time and needs to strictly abide by his code of conduct as a knight without forgetting his identity, with a vigilant message.
The gentle knocks given by others are too heavy for me. This warning is too obvious, as if to say, "Son, it's not that I don't want you to become a knight, but that you are really worthless." , if it weren’t for the evil dragon attacking the monastery now, which is the time to employ people, I would never have canonized you as a knight.”
The Knight of Lane is extremely strict with his youngest son Hans, and the same is obviously true for Conrad as his father.
Prince Brant's slight depression was quickly ignored by King Conrad.
King Conrad moved away from his son Brant and looked at the knights' attendants with expressions of joy, nervousness and longing on their faces, and his heart sank heavily.
Theoretically, every knight is qualified to canonize others as knights, but the identities of knights cannot be generalized.
The knight's father, family elders, lords, kings, archbishops, emperors, and popes are all qualified to hold sword-conferring ceremonies for others. After being canonized, they are all serious knights.
Is it just that an undergraduate degree from Harvard University is the same as an undergraduate degree from a community college?
For countless people, it is undoubtedly more glorious to be knighted by the emperor like the Knight of Lane, but this honor is not that easy to obtain.
The knight attendants were extremely happy to be canonized by their knight masters, but they did not expect that it was the king who personally canonized them this time.
Because the canonized person and the person who is canonized share the Holy Seal, there will be a relationship similar to that between a teacher and a student. The king's canonization not only means that after surviving, he can naturally become a knight of King Conrad and have a knight of his own. A share of the manor fief.
If no fiefs are given, not only young people want to be canonized by big nobles, archbishops, and even emperors and popes, but even big nobles and kings also like to canonize young people, taking the opportunity to win people's hearts, network with talents, and strengthen their power.
If the dragon slaying can succeed, canonizing so many knights will naturally be financially profitable. If the dragon slaying fails, and if most of the knights present do not die, this will definitely bankrupt the barony.
"Go, my knights!"
King Conrad drew his sword and pointed it directly at the abbot, and in an instant the entire army was advancing towards the monastery.
"Yes, my lord."
The knights rushed towards the monastery, with King Conrad and Knight Ryan at the forefront.
"Please let me and Raymond go first for the next battle!"
Knight Ryan rode up to King Conrad and said solemnly.
"My friend, do you think you are stronger than me?"
Conrad smiled lightly. Although one of them was a baron and the other a knight, one was a lord and the other a vassal, the master-slave status of the two was not obvious.
Not only is Knight Ryan an Imperial Knight canonized by the Emperor, and he has considerable autonomy in his own right, but they are also both knights.
Although knights are known as noble reserve among the people, ordinary people think that becoming a knight means they have half-stepped into the aristocratic circle. In fact, this sentence seems to be okay, but in fact, it is not necessary to prepare.
Knight Ryan is a knight, Baron Conrad is also a knight, and kings and even emperors are often knights.
For example, in the story, King Arthur, King Saint Louis of France, and Emperor Frederick I are all regarded as models of knights. Roland, the protagonist of "Song of Roland", died before the battle as a knight loyal to Charlemagne, but his identity was actually It's an earl.
King Arthur is a king, a knight, and a member of the Knights of the Round Table, so this means that politically he is a leader, but his personal rights are equal to those of his own knights.
"The brilliance of your holy seal has dimmed now!"
Knight Ryan held King Conrad's arm, and the originally dazzling light began to dim.
According to the church's point of view, who can become a monarch comes from God's favor, and the manifestation of favor is the holy seal.
Knights are the lowest monarchs who rule the land and people. Monarchs of different levels have different Holy Seal energies. Therefore, when a baron shares his Holy Seal with other new knights, it undoubtedly dilutes his own favor. , and also weakened his own strength.
"If you want to kill the dragon with human life, then it's okay for you to charge forward, but Ryan, neither you nor I can fly!"
King Conrad's mouth showed bitterness, even though they all possess extraordinary power. After the knights were conferred on them, there were more than twenty extraordinary ones.
But no one can fly. The evil dragon can not only fly but also breathe fire, and the scales on its body are still so indestructible.
You must be able to fight against the dragon's flames, consume a large amount of the power of the holy seal to protect yourself, attack the opponent under the attack of the dragon's flames, jump from high in the air to assassinate the dragon with a heart of death, and use the holy sword to break through the defense.
King Conrad looked at the Holy Sword Dawn in his hand. Since the whereabouts of the real Holy Sword Dawn was unknown, the emperor invited master blacksmiths from all over the world to create batches of secondary weapons.
In theory, users who meet the standards for using the holy sword can make the holy sword resonate, and even the secondary weapon can produce power comparable to the real thing.
Just like the cross where the church is located is a secondary weapon used by Jesus, the Son of God, to be burned in the fire, but in the hands of different clergy, its power is also different.
The Holy Sword of Dawn has the lowest power when darkness comes, and the most powerful power before the first ray of dawn arrives.
"Brother, why is your holy sword suddenly glowing?"
Knight Raymond suddenly pointed at the holy sword in Baron Conrad's hand. The baron looked at the suddenly glowing holy sword in surprise and didn't understand what happened to the holy sword.
"No, this holy sword has become a spirit. He is absorbing my power."
King Conrad said, and the marching army stopped. Everyone gathered around the baron and looked at the holy sword in their hands. A ray of light went directly towards the monastery.
"Power attracts power, and secondary weapons also have strengths and weaknesses. It's little William. No, he can't have such a powerful force. It's Francis."
King Conrad suddenly understood and said loudly, "The brave is not dead yet, everyone rush to me, don't let the brave kill the dragon first."
Hurry, follow me to grab the leader!
