Chaos Crown

Chapter 33, Farewell, The Cage
PS: woo woo woo, it’s because I didn’t write well, I didn’t think it through clearly, I was wrong, I revised some of the previous text, and today I’m making an apology to everyone, oh, please forgive me, I would do anything.

Lucian first brought Aaron to the auditorium.

True to its name, this auditorium is quite large, with long tables enough for 200 people to eat at the same time. There are a large number of sculptures and murals carved on the dome made of granite, telling the glorious history of the Purple Dragon Knights for thousands of years. Strips of light from outside illuminated the interior of the Great Hall, and the soft spring sun warmed the thick, dark, oak-paneled walls.

There are also more than a dozen apprentice knights or knight apprentices sitting in the auditorium. They eat or talk about things here, and some of them are doing their homework. Many apprentice knights or apprentices who do not have a place to live in Suzar will live in the knight In the fortress.

"It's him, the kid who fights as soon as he comes in." Someone pointed to Aaron and said secretly.

"This kid is quite capable, don't mess with him. I heard that Sharp was sentenced to be beheaded for messing with him. Disma was beaten black and blue just now for messing with him."

"Crazy, is he really Manuel's son?"

There was a burst of whispering, and Aaron couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly after hearing it.

His purpose has been achieved.

From the big waste lying on the carriage, to the small waste on the way back, to the non-use after entering the knight order, Aaron is changing everyone's impression little by little.

Inherent impressions are the most difficult to change. He has to make some serious preparations, such as going to see the princess, and fighting in the Knights.

"This kind of thing is not an exception, Aaron, and Disma, don't let me say it a second time!" Lucian's flag officer said solemnly in front: "You are lucky today, the head of Stavar Supreme is not here, otherwise You will all be punished...that's why that fellow Ian dared to let you go."

"Yes." Aaron and Disma looked at each other, and they both agreed.

"Open the door! Ridler!" Lucian led Aaron to a door on the side of the auditorium. The heavy door was locked, and a retired knight sat at the door: "There are recruits."

"..." The retired knight opened the heavy door quietly, and Aaron noticed that the retired knight was hardly a complete person. Gone, replaced by a wooden stick with three fingers on one hand and no thumb on the other.

"Come in, recruit."

Aaron stepped into the honor room at the side of the auditorium.

A sense of vicissitudes belonging to the years rushed over.

At the entrance is a huge tapestry with a historical painting on it. The great King of Cormyr, Dual, led a group of soldiers to rush into a high tower in person, beheading the pirate king "Tauren" who occupied the city of Suzar. Magrath regained the royal city, thus completely establishing the current territory of Cormyr.

This was followed by ordination, where soldiers knelt before the victorious king and received his canonization.

Yes, this is the origin of the Purple Dragon Knights.

As mentioned in the previous article, Cormyr has fought wars for more than 400 years from its establishment to the complete establishment of the territory to allow all forces to recognize human sovereignty over this land. It symbolizes the end of the dispute. For the Pirate King, King Duar was forced to flee into the King's Forest with a small group of loyalists while he was out fighting.

When taking refuge in the manor of the King's Forest, King Dual managed to get the support of some nobles and a mercenary group. The nobles provided enough funds and a large amount of supplies, and the mercenary group provided enough force support.

This mercenary group was the predecessor of the Purple Dragon Knights.

After successfully recapturing Suzar, King Dual naturally wanted to give enough rewards to the bloody mercenary group. The king, who was in the midst of employing people, decided to give the mercenary group an official status. He disbanded the mercenary group and sent the mercenary group to They reorganized into the Kingdom Knights and named the Knights the Purple Dragon Knights.

Therefore, the mercenaries are not saying that there is really no chance to soar into the sky, but it is very rare.

Aaron vaguely remembered that there was a mercenary group called the Flame Fist Mercenary Group in Baldur's Gate. It was a similar situation. It has become a semi-official organization, but Baldur's Gate is a free city, which is different from a royal country like Cormyr.

On the left-hand wall behind the tapestry is a series of portraits, with framed busts of each Purple Dragon Knights hanging on them.

The current Grand Master of the Order of the Purple Dragon is Stavar, a quasi-legendary master of the Purple Dragon.

"It's right here." Lucian then led Aaron to a long wall: "See for yourself."

There are no portraits on this wall, but instead there are rows of small coats of arms with numbers written below them.

Aaron quickly understood that this was a wall of remembrance.

Following the direction Lucian pointed, he found the coat of arms belonging to the Salian family on the wall.

father, mother...

Aaron was silent.

In his memory, his father will always be that old-fashioned, autocratic, and unreasonable tyrant. He can hardly think of any good memories, leaving only insults, beatings, verbal abuse, and ridicule. Both sides are like enemies. Fight until the whole body is covered with blood, until one of the two sides surrenders.

It's a pity that my father will never compromise, and it is even more regrettable that Aaron will never compromise.

Until both father and mother were killed in battle, and Aaron got rid of them completely.

So thinking of his father, it is hard for Aaron to say how many heart-wrenching feelings he has. At most, he only has a little sadness. After all, this is the person who gave birth to me and raised me. Anything else is just a painful memory.

"Do you need me to give you a moment?" Lucian might have misunderstood it.

Following behind Aaron, Disma, who was originally quite disdainful, also shook his head.

At least this kid once had it, and I...

"Huh~ No need, thank you." Aaron let out a sigh of relief. Since he awakened his power and remembered his memory, he has experienced too much. He fought, he killed, he met the true god, and he used the extremely weak resource layout in his hands , he entered the palace to fight wits and courage with the regent princess in exchange for a chance. He is now a middle-aged man with a mental age of 50 years old.

He easily accepted the fact that his father was dead, because there was nothing to miss in the first place.

Farewell, prison.

But today in the room of honor, Aaron looked at the place where his father had served, fought, and lived, but it felt like a world away.

"Banner Lucian, what kind of person is father usually?" Aaron turned around and asked his father's old friend.

"Manuel is a loyal and hardworking man, a model of a knight." Lucian stroked his thick beard and gave a standard answer.

"He was a good knight, he was a good friend, and he might have been a good Cormyr, but he was never a good father." Aaron smiled and didn't continue.

Lucian also seemed to know something, he didn't say anything, but took Aaron and Desma to his office.

"Then from today onwards, you will be my trainee knight." The flag officer sat on his chair: "I will do my best to train you into a qualified purple dragon knight and teach you how to become a purple dragon knight." road."

"From the moment you become a recruit, at least in the fortress, you are not a viscount, you are just a recruit. It has nothing to do with nobility or belief. What I want to do is to make you a qualified knight and useful person." Lucian leaned on On the back of the chair: "If possible, I really want you to live in the dormitory in the fortress."

"There are many recruits in the Purple Dragon Knights. I don't care if you are the son of the Duke, the son of the Earl, the son of the Viscount, or the son and daughter of the high priest of the temple. This is a fortress, a place for training, not a salon for nobles!"

"I understand." Aaron didn't care about this, he had already thought about it.

There is a very common practice in the kingdom, which is to send one's own children to other people's homes to be raised for a period of time, nobles send noble sons, craftsmen send craftsman's sons, merchants send merchants' sons, and even farmers send farmer's sons.

In addition to saving a ration, one of the most important reasons why many people send their children to other people's homes is to exercise their ability to be independent and get rid of excessive dependence on the family.

Lucian's flag officer is even just a baron, but in the fortress of the Purple Dragon Knights, he is the superior officer of the knights and Aaron's mentor.

Even outside the fortress, no high-ranking person dared to disrespect Zilong Banner Officer.

If you don't even understand these things, you should go back to Salian House as soon as possible.

"I already know about your talent as a warlock, so you come here for training four days a week, and the magic instructor at the royal family will be responsible for giving you magic lessons for the remaining two days." Lucian continued: "But this For a while, before the instructor came, you had to come to the Knights for training every day except Sunday, and I said you can go, so you can go home."

"I will do whatever you arrange! Mentor!" Aaron shouted directly.

"Good! Very energetic!!!" Lucian roared louder than him, his beard was blown up: "Welcome to the Purple Dragon Knights, recruit!"

"Disma, go and ask the kitchen to cook more dishes. Let's welcome Manuel's son at noon!"

"Understood~" Disma waved his hand impatiently, indicating that he understood.

"You have two seniors, and you have already met one of them. Disma is your second senior." Lucian pointed at Disma's back: "I will take you three apprentice knights now."

In this world, there is no such thing as a teacher and brother. Generally, "brother", "scholar" and "apprentice partner" are used, and even those who are closer directly use "buddy" and "buddy" instead of calling them by their first names.

Anyway, there is no title of Senior Brother, Senior Sister, Senior Brother, and Junior Brother. Aaron searched in the common language in his stomach for a long time but couldn't find it, and finally called Sir Leonard with "brother of the same family".

Wait, Leonard, the head of the university, and Disma, the second senior, why do these two names sound so familiar?
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At noon, in the auditorium, Lucian held a grand welcome ceremony for Aaron, and at the same time introduced him to acquaintances.

"Ian Hutson, the great mentor and chief inspector, you are acquaintances."

The Chief Inspector was pissed all morning, but he still showed up on time at noon.

"Oh ↑ Yo ↓ How are you ↑↓, brother Ian ↑ ​​↓ ↑ ↓." Aaron said with a smile, "It's my first time meeting you. Nice to meet you!"

"You..." Ian's face became even worse, he opened his mouth, and he didn't know what to say amidst the laughter of the crowd.

Hahahaha, everyone laughed together.

"...Let's do it for ourselves." The Chief Inspector said ambiguously.

"... Grand Priest, Helmut Kinchel." A knight chief wearing the holy emblem of Heim, the god of protection, nodded to Aaron.

"Justice Lukas Nmecha." The strong, bald man with the stern face and a hooked nose nodded to Aaron.

"Great Clothing Officer, Bell Stefaniak." The kind elder with a small belly patted Aaron's belly to express his friendliness.

"Master and Admiral of Masamba, Biedrin-Joule." Wearing a navy cap and with a weather-stained face, the iron man drank the rum in the glass in one gulp.

"Fariel Rahlarson, Lord of Thunderstone Town."

"The Lord of the Cliff Castle..."

…………

The long list of names made Aaron's mind a little numb, and he had to say hello one by one. Under the leadership of Lucian, the knight chiefs who held important positions in these knights either looked at Lucian's face, or looked at them. On the face of Aaron's father, they greeted him one after another, and most of them were kind.

There was a gleam of joy in Aaron's heart.

This is the network, this is the background, the relationship network run by my father who has been a purple dragon knight for decades has finally come in handy.

That's why he decided to accept the recruit training of Purple Dragon Knight.

If he hadn't come, those relationships would have quickly disintegrated and faded away.

But now that Aaron is here, with his father-son status, he can easily take over his father's network.

This is something that one thousand gold coins and ten thousand gold coins cannot exchange for!

Since they plan to be active in Cormyr in the future, all these things must be used.

The family network, the father's network, and the Silver Virgin's network are all valuable assets.

Even his uncles and aunts, including his relatives who were exiled far away in Guangze and depended on fishing and hunting (in Kayneth language), could display their value under many specific conditions.

Thinking of this, Aaron poured himself a large glass of red wine, and he tapped the table twice to signal that he had something to say.

The dozen or so people present stopped to listen to him.

"No, I have no siblings, not one!" Aaron raised his glass: "I'm just a recruit!"

Everyone looked at him, not understanding why he said that.

"But now, I realize that I have many brothers and sisters! Because you are all my dear friends, brothers and sisters!"

"For brothers, for friendship, for our health, in the name of Our Lady of Silver, cheers!" Aaron raised his head and drank the wine.

"Brothers! Friendship! Health!" Cheers erupted in the auditorium: "Cheers!"

The flag bearer Lucian also got up, regardless of the wine soaking his beard, he put his hand on Aaron's shoulder: "Our little man, son of Manuel, Aaron Salian didn't talk to us before. It's such a pity to be together."

"But we still have a chance to make up for time we shouldn't have lost!"

"From today onwards, he will join our team, and let the whole country see how the Purple Dragon Knight fights to win his own glory!"

"Raise a glass to our new recruit, Aaron Salian!"

"Aaron! Aaron! Aaron!" Everyone in the auditorium called Aaron's name, bringing the welcome party to its peak.

In one corner of the auditorium, a welcome party was being held, but in another dark corner, two knights were secretly communicating.

"Your Excellency, is that the person you are talking about?"

"It's definitely him, that kind of charm, that kind of appeal, that kind of strange unrecorded magic, absolutely right, he is a god like me!"

"What should I do?"

"Kill him, take away his divinity, and transform it into my power!"

"Finally succeeded in entering Purple Dragon Knight, no one can stop my plan to control Cormyr!"

"Obey or perish, that is the fate of this country."

　Prepare to stay up late at night to watch EDG rattle and kill!Piggy, come rush again with me!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)