Liam looked at William carefully, his eyes were scrutinizing, and he didn't speak for a long time.
William was a little confused by Liam's eyes. Why did he suddenly look at him with such strange eyes? Did he say something wrong just now?
"What's so good about my face? Am I the legendary Adonis?"
William said half-jokingly to ease the weird atmosphere at this moment.
Adonis is a handsome man in Greek mythology. His handsomeness made both Aphrodite (Venus), the goddess of love, and Persephone, the queen of the underworld, fall in love with him. The two goddesses competed for Adonis. Two handsome men refused to give in to each other, and their dispute once went to Zeus.
In the end, Zeus ruled that Adonis would live with the two goddesses for four months each year, and the remaining four months would be arranged by himself.
Although the little blacksmith William's appearance is not too bad, it cannot be compared with the handsome appearance of the protagonists and princes in fairy tales. William said that he was Adonis, and William wanted to ease the atmosphere at this time.
What a person looks like is really not decided by himself.
"I'm not looking at your face, I'm looking at your head," Liam replied.
"There are no flowers growing on my head, so what's there to see?"
William was puzzled. If a beautiful woman stared at him like this, William would be embarrassed. But if the target was a tall and mighty 1.9 meter muscular man, William would feel a little creepy.
Scary, scary, so scary.
"The gold coin of fate on your head is spinning, and fate's favor continues." Liam said with a frown.
"Really?" William raised his head and looked up above him but never saw any trace of the gold coin of destiny. He knew that the power of the gold coin of destiny seemed to maintain the trajectory of destiny, so it helped him a lot.
"What you say makes sense, but if it makes sense, it may not be correct, and it may not be beneficial to me. It is good to let you join in, compete, and find out information for me, but it also means that you will never My status as a servant has become my competitor, and you want to steal my wife from me."
Liam shook his head and said, "You know what? When I accept you as my servant, it means that our master-servant relationship has been established. You cannot betray me, and I must respond to you with loyalty." of loyalty.”
William's heart sank and he said, "What are you suspecting? Your Highness Liam, you are suspecting that I will rebel and question my loyalty."
Although the identity of the two men as master and servant has only just been determined, both Liam and William made the contract sincerely. This is an exchange, just like a knight provides military service to his monarch, and the monarch You must protect your knight's territory and protect the knight's interests. This is the relationship between king and minister in this era.
William may not be very loyal to Liam, but loyalty is just a behavior and a business ethics code pursued by the entire knight class.
British knights never paid for fighting for the king, and they also brought their own weapons and food. If the king asked the knights to pay wages, the knights not only disagreed, but also thought it was an insult to their knightly honor.
In fact, what the knights and nobles want is not money at all but land. If they fight for the king, they can get at least half of the territory. Once the king infringes on the interests of the nobles at will, then the nobles will have reason to rebel.
The medieval kingdom was a system connected by the relationship between lords and vassals. The king was only the lord at the highest level of the private loyalty system, not the supreme ruler in the power system. The king is only the first person among the nobles. The country not only belongs to the king, but also to all feudal nobles. Everyone has shares, and the nobles even have more shares combined than the king.
This is the relationship between kings and nobles, and the same is true for the relationship between Liam and William.
"Miss Lily, you are not my wife yet. Both you and I can participate in the martial arts competition. As long as we become the final winner, we can marry Miss Lily. I am your monarch, so I issue an order to tell you not to You can't compete with me when you participate in the tournament. If you were not my manservant, you could completely ignore my order and defeat me to win Miss Lily. But just because you are my manservant, you cannot disobey the order. I order you not to participate in the tournament."
Liam explained that his words were so realistic, but he said them with sincerity. The status of king and minister has been established, and in many cases both parties must obey this relationship.
For example, if the Knight of Lane is not a vassal of Baron Andager, then the Knight of Lane, as an imperial knight canonized by the emperor, is actually equal to the Baron. Even if there is a dispute between the two, the Knight of Lane will directly lead his troops to kill Baron Andager. , no one can say anything more when taking away the baron's territory, but as the baron's vassal, Knight Ryan did the above behavior, which is an out-and-out rebellion.
The birth of a new king is often the fall of the old king.
As the "goddess of royal power", Eliu always instinctively favors younger and more powerful kings. The King of Ireland is her mortal husband. If she becomes fatuous and no longer suitable to be a king, the goddess Eliu will abandon her original husband and choose a young partner who is full of youthful vitality, wise and wise, and make him the king. This will restore prosperity and stability to Ireland.
Elliot's nature as a goddess is such that Liam cannot guarantee whether Miss Lily, her adopted daughter, will have such a habit to a greater or lesser extent.
Thinking of this, Liam directly ordered William not to participate in the tourney. William was in a state of favor from fate. Although Liam claimed that he was also a lucky person, he did not dare to take risks in the tourney.
In history, the choice of the goddess Eriu was not without its consequences. Her incarnation as a mortal woman became the object of competition between the old king and the new king. She favored the new king, gave the new king the legitimacy of his royal power, and defeated the old king.
But sometimes, the new king that Eliu likes cannot become the real king, because the identity of the "new king" is the knight of the old king. Even if he falls in love with the king's woman, the knight's honor requires him to be loyal to himself. As a monarch, the protagonist in the final story can only suffer.
"Do you think I will be attracted to the person you like?"
William frowned and felt incredible, "You are far more powerful than me. Why are you so unsure of me and you?"
"Be careful with the ship that sails ten thousand years." Liam took out a gold coin from his pocket and said slowly, "I will throw this gold coin into the sky later. This is also a gold coin of destiny. It is now It will not judge the fate of you and me, but it will weigh our fate on the same golden scale, and ultimately determine who has a better chance of winning the tournament and who can marry Miss Lily. prophecy."
The gold coin of destiny was gently tossed by Liam, and it was thrown into the sky, glowing golden.
The gold coin of fate was spinning, glowing golden, and a golden scale phantom suddenly appeared between William and Liam. The gold coin fell in the middle, just like a seesaw. The gold coin of fate fell where William was. tray.
The gold coin of destiny made a prediction about the future based on the fate of the two people. Compared with Liam, William is more likely to win the tournament and win the favor of Princess Lily.
William opened his mouth, not knowing what he should say, and wanted to apologize, but he had done nothing wrong at all. Liam said with a dark face, "Sure enough, now you have to fight against the evil dragon, so you With the blessing of fate, it is best for me not to let you participate in the martial arts tournament. As expected, I am the protagonist in the story."
William was speechless for a while. Am I considered a sidekick who was robbed of an opportunity by the "protagonist"?
Prince Liam should be the protagonist of the fairy tale world.
William thought to himself, and did not express any objection. He just watched Liam turn and leave, feeling a chill on his back, and a familiar feeling came over him inexplicably.
It seems that when the brave Francis once said that he could slay the dragon and go to heaven, it gave him the same feeling as when Liam said that he was sure of victory.
