knight

The atmosphere in the Big Beard Pub was still noisy and lively.

However, the atmosphere in the corner where Sarroux and the others were at suddenly stagnated.

"Knight … … Knight?" The old mercenary opened his mouth wide and looked at Colin in shock.

He knew that Colin's identity was not simple, but he did not expect him to be a knight.

One should know that the knights in this world were fundamentally different from the warriors on the streets.

Any well-developed commoner who could afford to eat meat, as long as they had a few silver coins, could learn how to activate battle energy in the warrior union and become a warrior apprentice.

But knights were different.

To become a knight apprentice, one must first have a certain level of talent, and more importantly, one must accept the baptism ceremony conducted by the priests of the Church of Light.

The baptism ceremony in this world was completely different from the one on Earth that was only symbolic. The baptism ceremony in this world was performed by the priests of the Church of Light to communicate with the God of Light and engrave a sacred brand on the baptized person.

This process was very taxing on the priests, so each priest could only conduct a limited number of baptisms in their lifetime.

Therefore, these baptisms were very precious, and were basically monopolized by the nobles. It was almost impossible for commoners to come in contact with them.

It was easy to imagine the scarcity of knights.

For example, Baron Angele only had three loyal knights under his command. Including himself and his son Colin, there were only five knights in the Baron's territory.

Among them, Colin had not even entered the ranks, and was only a knight apprentice.

The professions in this world could be divided into nine ranks, with rank 1 being the weakest and rank 9 being the strongest.

Of course, there was still the apprentice rank below rank 1, which was set up for the rookies who had not officially entered the ranks.

Knights and warriors of the same rank did not have a huge difference in battle strength. Knights did have a slight advantage, but in a direct confrontation, they might not be able to win against warriors. After all, they had to consider martial arts, willpower, weapons, equipment, and other factors.

The real reason why the nobles flocked to the knight profession was because of its potential.

The peak of the warrior profession was rank 6.

That's right, looking at the whole continent, there had never been a rank 7 warrior, whether it was humans, trolls, beasts, elves … … There had never been one.

According to the first pope of the Church of Light, His Holiness Peter Myrcell-

"For mortals to enter the holy realm, they need the blessing of the gods."

Above the seventh level was the Saint-level. Thus, knights of the seventh level were also known as Holy Knights.

Therefore, according to this theory, warriors who had not been baptized would not be able to receive the blessings of the gods and would not be able to reach the seventh order.

Currently, in this world, there were only five people who could break through to the sixth tier.

And without exception, they were all professions that believed in a certain god.

They were the human knights who served the God of Light, the troll warriors who served the God of War, the elven rangers who served the Goddess of Fate, the Naga royal guards who served the God of Storms, and the beastmen who served the God of Destruction.

Even those Spell Casters who claimed that they did not believe in gods and only believed in the truth of Arcane Spells were unable to break through to the Sixth-level.

However, they could release Forbidden Spells of the Seventh Step or even above.

However, casting such a forbidden spell required the caster to pay a terrible price, so it couldn't be considered a conventional attack.

Of course, it was not easy for knights to enter the Sage Realm.

Once a clan gave birth to a Holy Knight, the entire clan would become extremely prominent.

And all clans that had given birth to Holy Knights would receive the honor of having the word "Holy" in front of their family name.

For example, the master of the Northern Frontier of the Empire of Light, the Hilde family, was the descendant of the founding Holy Knight of the Empire, so they were honored as the House of Saint Hilde.

In the entire history of the Empire of Light, there were only seven Holy Knight clans.

The difficulty of entering the Sage Realm could be seen from this.

As for the eighth order, it was called the Legendary Realm.

The founding emperor of the Empire of Light, Garner Lorenzo, was a Holy Knight in the Legendary Realm, and the only one recorded in history.

For more than a thousand years after him, there had never been another Holy Knight who entered the Legendary Realm.

Not to mention the ninth order.

The ninth order was also called the Demigod Realm, and it was said that only the dragons who had once dominated this world could reach it. After their extinction, no race could give birth to another Demigod.

As for the realm above the ninth order, it was the realm of the gods …

In short, knights were a noble and rare profession that could even be said to only belong to nobles. Obviously, they should appear in castles and not places like the Big Beard Tavern.

Generally, knights would not choose to follow mercenary groups to another city. After all, they had their own squires, servants, and even an army.

Therefore, Colin's appearance was particularly strange.

Just as the atmosphere in the corner became more and more solemn, a small furry head suddenly popped out of Colin's shirt.

"Meow —" As if it was very dissatisfied that its good sleep was disturbed, the kitten "roared" at Big Beard.

Colin smiled slightly, stuffed the guy who woke up grumpily back into his clothes, and then asked Big Beard, "How did you know that I was a knight?"

In fact, Colin felt that he had been careful enough.

He did not equip any armor, and his sword was just a standard one-handed sword. His clothes were also the casual clothes of a guard who was about the same size as him.

Moreover, according to the memory of his predecessor, although warriors and knights did have different battle performances, there should be no difference if they did not fight.

Moreover, for Colin, who had not yet entered the Knight Apprentice level, because he could not activate the Holy Light to assist in battle, even if he really fought, there would be no difference between him and a warrior apprentice.

Was there really a way to distinguish between these two professions at a glance?

Colin felt that this might be the blind spot of his predecessor's knowledge.

But who knew, Sarroux smiled slyly, "I guessed."

I was fooled!

Colin immediately realized that he was fooled by this seemingly reckless and honest Big Beard.

Sarroux should only be suspicious, but Colin's subconscious reaction made him confirm his identity as a knight.

The main reason was that Sarroux's appearance was too confusing.

Colin did not have much vigilance, and as a result, he was tricked into revealing his true profession.

Firefox Mercenaries.

Hehe, no wonder it was called that.

He looked like a bear, but was actually as cunning as a fox.

"I have been in the mercenary world for more than forty years, and I don't know how many people I have seen with my eyes. Hehe, you brat, although you are dressed plainly, you don't look like a commoner at first glance. Sure enough, you were exposed when I tricked you! "

Colin took a deep breath, and kept reminding himself in his heart that he must be very careful when dealing with an experienced veteran like Sarroux.

But on the surface, Colin appeared calm and composed, and was not nervous at all when his identity was exposed.

He first took out ten copper coins in front of Sarroux and threw it to the old mercenary, indicating that he could leave first.

Then, he pulled out the chair beside Sarroux and sat down naturally, "I admit that the little trick just now was not appropriate, and I apologize to you. But you wouldn't refuse a knight to travel with you, right? "

"Your name?" Sarroux stopped smiling, and stared

into Colin's eyes as he asked.

Colin looked straight into Sarroux's eyes, and replied with the most sincere tone:

"Kahn, Kahn Suduo."