Darkening Guardian Knight

The bitter battle with the chief made him deeply aware of his lack of ability. If he wanted to protect his eldest lady, he had to become stronger.

So he braced himself off Jessica's lap with his hands.

As an intermediate knight, he has extraordinary skills. If he didn't intentionally disturb Jessica, Jessica would not wake up.

Breaking away from the gentleness of the eldest lady, Carter thought of the mysterious energy that repaired his body. He remembered that the energy finally disappeared in his chest, and his chest...

He touched his chest, and took out a bead from his chest pocket—it was the bead entrusted to him by the poisonous mushroom king.

"Did you help me restore my body?" Carter held the beads and looked at them carefully.

Of course, Zhuzhu would not answer him, but just quietly stayed in Carter's palm, the color as dark as night seemed to be able to swallow all light.

Carter chuckled lightly, clenched the beads tightly, and looked at the vast and distant night sky, motionless.

No.14 Entering the city

The rays of the sun parted the thin clouds and rained down warmly, paving the ground into a golden yellow.

Under the glare of the sun, Jessica reluctantly opened her eyes: "Is it already morning?"

"Yes, Jessica. Time to get up."

Jessica woke up suddenly when the boy's kind answer came from her ear.Her showy hand patted her forehead, which made her head clear a little, and gradually recalled everything yesterday, and even remembered that the boy was seriously injured in that battle.

So the girl shouted eagerly: "Carter, why are you up? You are seriously injured! Lie down!"

When Carter heard Jessica's concerned words, a warm current flowed through his heart.

He smiled at Jessica and said, "Thank you Miss for your concern, but I'm really fine."

As he spoke, he patted himself on the chest and gave a knightly salute to Jessica, indicating that he was in good condition and there was nothing wrong with it.

"Hey!!" Jessica said in surprise when she saw that Carter was indeed full of energy and didn't appear to be seriously injured. "What's going on? Shouldn't you have suffered an extremely serious trauma? I thought it wouldn't take more than ten days to recover."

"I am Jessica, your knight. Naturally, I have rough skin and thick flesh, and my resilience is different from ordinary people." Carter replied in a serious manner, "Besides, if Jessica is delayed on the road for more than ten days, I will I was blamed by Uncle Karl under the Nine Springs, after all, he handed you over to me."

Jessica couldn't help but feel a little feverish when she heard the words: "It's annoying, no one is serious. I don't care about the delay of more than ten days, the important thing is you..."

"Don't worry, Jessica, I'm really fine." Carter tied the iron sword firmly around his waist, raised his head and said.

"Hey, Carter. Did you already know that this village is like this?" Jessica's big eyes were facing Carter, and her blue eyes contained a certain attitude, or a certain determination.

Of course, Carter knew the real situation of this village. The map given by the Poison Mushroom King clearly and detailedly marked this village as a bandit village, that is, the gathering place of bandits.

The picture also said that the martial arts practice of the bandit leader here is level four, which is equal to him, so Carter decided to stay here.

On the one hand, it was because of the lack of resources around him, and he really needed supplies;

Furthermore, he also wanted to verify his own strength, and let Jessica grow up by the way... Four birds with one stone.

However, he thought that this trip would be relatively smooth without any twists and turns.Now it seems that he still overestimates himself, or in other words, he is still too weak.

Carter actually wanted to lie and say that he didn't know, and that the two of them just had bad luck and happened to meet bad guys.

But the virtue of chivalry forbids him to do so, that would be dishonest.

So he still told the truth: "Well, I know."

"I know!? Then why do you still do it?" Jessica reprimanded angrily, "It's very dangerous, okay?"

"I know it's dangerous." Facing Jessica's scolding, Carter just said indifferently, "But if we can't even get through this level of danger, how can we face greater danger? We must know that our opponent is the entire Principality of Doverville!"

"..." Jessica was silent.

Indeed, she and Carter still have bloody vengeance, and the road to revenge is long, and they must become stronger.

After experiencing so many things, Jessica also understood that in this world, the weak will always only be bullied.

Only having absolute power is king.If she doesn't change and become stronger, she will be swallowed by this world sooner or later.

Carter's injury made her understand her own weakness, and she also understood that the power of her knight is limited after all. With her current self, she is just a drag for Carter.

She was so scared, she was so afraid that one day Carter would die in front of her, but she could only cry helplessly.

She didn't want that kind of tragedy to happen.She wanted power, and for that she had to change.

Perhaps Carter's behavior originally had the intention of prompting her to make changes quickly.

Thinking of this, Jessica relieved Carter and stopped reprimanding him.

"I know, I will grow up." Jessica imitated Carter's attitude, and said lightly, "Let's go to the urban area of ​​the Principality of Folia."

Carter noticed that Jessica's gaze had changed at that moment, and he couldn't tell the details.

In short, he felt that Jessica had gradually become stronger, as if she had made some kind of decision.

"It should be a good change..." Carter smiled and thought with relief.

After tidying up his clothes for a while, he leisurely called Jessica and said, "Jessica, don't worry. Have you forgotten the main purpose of our coming here?"

"The original purpose?" Jessica hesitated for a moment, but immediately remembered, "That's right, we're here to find supplies and camouflage materials."

"Bingo." Carter snapped his fingers and said with a smile, "This village no longer exists, so let's get what we need."

He walked straight to the largest stone house in the village—it was estimated that it was originally the house of the great commander. There were many things in the house, including miscellaneous things, which surprised Carter a little.

"This, this, and this. Wow! There are even such things! I have never seen them in the family."

Carter rummaged through boxes and cabinets in the commander's house and found many things he wanted.

This made him can't help but lament the richness of the Grand Commander's collection, he really deserves to be a bandit leader.

Jessica stood at the door, quietly watching someone's very un-cavalier behavior, which reminded her of the reckless appearance when she played with him when she was a child, and finally felt some relief and long-lost joy in her heart.

"Fortunately, you are here... Thank you for being here..." Jessica clasped her hands in front of her chest, silently thanking for something in her heart.

"Jessica, what are you doing!" Carter ran towards Jessica with many bottles and jars in his arms.

Seeing Carter striding towards her, Jessica quickly stopped thanking her, and immediately withdrew her clasped hands behind her.

She coughed lightly, concealing the abnormal blushing on her face, and said hurriedly: "No, it's nothing. By the way, Carter, are you ready?"

"Well, Jessica. I've found everything we need, and the Grand Commander's collection is really rich!"

Carter didn't notice Jessica's strangeness, and happily showed her his "trophy".

"Really? That's good. Let's go." Jessica flicked her pale blonde hair and walked out of the village.

"Wait a minute!" Carter stopped Jessica again.

"What's the matter?" Jessica turned around, with a puzzled look on her face.

Carter smiled wickedly and said, "Jessica, as I said, your light blonde hair is too conspicuous. In order to make you less conspicuous... I have no choice but to..."

"I did it!" Before Carter finished speaking, he rushed towards Jessica with bottles and cans.

"Carter! What are you doing?!" Jessica screamed in anger, surprise and embarrassment from the small village.

"Miss, I'm really sorry for the offense!" The young man deftly pointed the sticky paint at Jessica.

Meanwhile, the girl's mournful cry came from the small village.

No.15 Entering the city

Holt City is the closest city to the border of the Principality of Folia, and the Holt family is the patron saint of this city.

Unlike the declining Lavinas family, the Holt family has made great achievements in the border defense campaign, and the Holt family has a seventh-level magician sitting in the town. As a result, the Holt family also has a certain status in the Principality of Feria. You must know that there are only a handful of seventh-level magicians in the Principality of Feria.

Because of the existence of the Holt family, the border between the Principality of Folia and the Principality of Holt will always be the most unbreakable one.

Therefore, the Holt family has the reputation of "the eternal wall" in the Principality of Folia.

On this day, there was no difference from usual, Holt City was still majestic, with huge and magnificent gates welcoming and resisting pedestrians coming and going.

There are guards at the gate of the city conscientiously reviewing the people entering and leaving, preventing any factors that may endanger the Holt family from entering the city, let alone allowing any factors that may endanger the Holt family to leave the city.

"Next!" the guard at the pass called.

In fact, he is also a little bored with this boring job. The number of people in Holt City is hundreds of thousands a day.

However, the salary of this job is not cheap, and in order to support his family, he has to work hard.

"Here." Answering the guard was a black-haired, black-eyed boy who looked about 14 years old, and beside him was a little girl with brown hair. Both of them had sallow complexions, pitiful, and completely looked like malnourished refugees.

"What's your name?" The guards saw too many refugees like this. The Holt family has set up a special refugee shelter, but the price is to become a soldier of the Holt family.

Despite this, there are still many refugees who come here especially, wanting to join Holt City.

The guard guessed that these two probably had the same mentality, so he relaxed a lot towards them.

"I'm Carter, and this is my sister Jessica." The black-haired, black-eyed teenager reported his real name without any scruples.

"Carter and Jessica?" The guard wrote down their names on the form, but he didn't ask for their last names.

Because in his opinion, most of the refugees do not have surnames, and then he continued to ask, "What is the purpose of your coming here?"

"I want to join Holt City's army and protect my sister!" The young man replied sonorously, with the firmness in his brows unquestionable.

"Oh, not bad, little guy." The guard raised his eyebrows with appreciation in his eyes.

Carter is not the first person to enter Holt City with such determination, but he is the youngest one.

With such awareness at such a young age, the guards had to look at him differently: "Good guy, let's go. The shelter is 3000 meters to the left of the Holt family mansion. I am optimistic about you."

When the young man saw the guard let him go, he couldn't help but smile: "Thank you, Uncle Guard, we're going in now."

So the boy took his sister's little hand and slowly entered the city.

"What a kid," the guard exclaimed, before returning to his work, "Next!"

The boy with black hair and black eyes and the girl with brown hair are of course Carter and Jessica of the Ravinas family.

The two disguised finally passed the pass and entered the city of Holt smoothly.

Jessica stroked her hair that was dyed brown, and sighed softly: "The man was pretty good just now, it can be seen that he takes good care of us."

"En." Carter just replied lightly, "But it's not for us, it's for the refugees. Thanks to your blond hair, otherwise you would definitely be suspected."

In this world, only noble blood can have blond hair.In other words, those with blond hair are basically nobles, and it is almost impossible to be refugees.

"..." Jessica was speechless. If she told him that they were exiled political prisoners who fled here from the Principality of Doverlart, the guards would probably not have such an attitude.

"By the way, why did you report your real name?" Jessica asked.

"I said it was because of the knight's honesty and virtue, do you believe it?" Carter said with a smile.

"I don't believe it." Jessica categorically denied Carter's knighthood, "Tell me, why?"

"Because it's not necessary." Carter replied, "Even the Duchy of Doveralter doesn't know of my existence, and Jessica, although your name is a little sensitive, is also very popular. In this way, when the Holt family asks us how we entered the city, we can answer."

"I see." Jessica nodded in understanding, "Then why don't you just reveal your identity and let the Holt family pick us up?"

"Because I can't trust them." Carter said, "Although Uncle Carl said that their family owes Ravinas a favor. But now that the Ravinas family is gone, who knows if they will admit it or not."

"Well, that makes sense." Jessica nodded, "Then what shall we do next?"

Carter smiled, facing the Holt family's mansion and said, "Let's go there first and have a look."

No.16 Holt Family

The Holt family's mansion looks extremely magnificent and gorgeous, and it is several times larger than the Ravinas family's mansion. This also reflects that the Holt family's status in the Principality of Folia is much greater than that of Ravinas in the Duchy of Doverville.

Carter and Jessica slowly approached the Holt family's mansion. Looking at the luxurious mansion, Jessica felt a little sad in her heart.

Carter noticed the girl's sorrow, and tightly clenched the girl's little hand.

Feeling the power coming from Carter's palm, the girl shook her head violently, discarding all unnecessary thoughts, and restored her firm eyes: "Let's go."

"Okay, Jessica." Carter replied with a smile.

The two walked towards the main entrance of the Holt family mansion together, but were stopped by the guards at the entrance.

Of course, the guards wouldn't let dubiously dressed people like them through the gates of Holt's mansion.

"Hey! Who are you guys?" The guard yelled at them, his eyes wandering around the two of them.

Carter smiled and said kindly to the guard: "Don't worry, we are not suspicious people. We are just here to visit His Majesty Holt."

The guard smiled disdainfully when he heard the words: "Just you? Still want to see the Patriarch? Don't you even look in the mirror to see how you are dressed? Still want to see the Patriarch? There is no door!"

"You!" Jessica was a little annoyed, she hated this kind of guy who used his appearance the most.