The Original Vampire

The atmosphere in the Beard Tavern was still noisy and lively.

However, the atmosphere in the corner where Saru and the others were stagnated instantly.

"Ride... knight?" The old mercenary opened his mouth wide and looked at Colin in surprise.

He knew that Colin's identity was not simple, but he never thought that he was actually a knight.

You know, the knights of this world are fundamentally different from the warriors of the bad streets.

Any civilian who can afford meat and is well-developed, as long as he can get a few silver coins, he can learn the method of arousing vindictiveness in the Warrior Guild and become a warrior apprentice.

But knights are different.

In order to become a knight apprentice, you must first have a certain talent, and, more importantly, you must accept the baptism ceremony hosted by the priest of the Radiance Church.

Completely different from the kind of baptism on earth that only has a symbolic meaning and sprinkles water, the baptism ceremony in this world is performed by the priests of the Church of Radiance to communicate with the Lord of Radiance, and to engrave the holy brand on the baptized.

This process is very expensive for pastors, so the number of baptisms that each pastor can preside in his life is limited.

Therefore, such baptism places are especially precious. Basically, they have been completely monopolized by nobles, and it is almost impossible for commoners to access them.

The scarcity of knights can be imagined.

For example, Baron Angele has only three loyal knights under his command, adding the baron himself and his son Colin, the entire baronial has five knights.

Among them, Colin has not even entered the stage, and is currently only a knight apprentice.

Professionals in this world can be divided into ninth orders according to their strength, the first order is the weakest, and the ninth order is the strongest.

Of course, there is an apprentice level below the first level, which is set up for the rookies who have not officially entered the level.

In fact, the difference in combat power between knights and warriors of the same rank is not particularly large. The knights do have the upper hand, but in a head-to-head confrontation, they may not necessarily win the warriors. After all, factors such as martial arts, will, weapons and equipment must be considered.

The reason why the nobles really flock to the profession of knight is actually because of its potential.

The apex of the warrior profession is the sixth order.

That's right, throughout the entire continent, there has never been a seventh-order warrior, whether it's humans, trolls, orcs, elves...never.

According to the words of the first Pope of the Radiance Church, Peter Messier——

"Mortals need the gift of gods to enter the sanctuary."

The seventh-order or higher is the sanctuary, so the seventh-order knight is also called the paladin.

Therefore, according to this statement, warriors who have not been baptized, of course, cannot obtain the gift of the gods, and they will miss the seventh order.

At present, in this world, there are only five occupations that can break through the sixth-order.

And without exception, they are all professions that believe in a certain god.

They are the Terran Knights who serve the Lord of Radiance, the Troll Warriors who serve the God of War, the Elf Rangers who serve the Goddess of Fate, the Naga Royal Guards who serve the God of Storms, and the Orc Skullbreakers who serve the God of Destruction.

Even those spellcasters who claim not to believe in gods and only believe in arcane truth cannot break through the sixth order.

However, they can release forbidden spells with seventh-order or even seventh-order power.

However, releasing such a forbidden spell requires the caster to pay a terrible price, and cannot be regarded as a conventional means of attack.

Of course, the sanctuary is by no means easy for knights to enter.

Once a paladin is born in a family, the whole family will be very prominent because of it.

And all the families that have been born with a paladin will be honored with the word "Holy" before their family name.

For example, the Hilde family, the masters of the Northern Territory of the Radiant Empire, are the descendants of the paladins, the founding country of the empire, so they are honored as the Saint Hilde family.

Throughout the history of the Shining Empire,

Only seven Paladin families have appeared.

The difficulty of entering the sanctuary is evident from this.

As for the eighth order, it is called the legendary field.

The founding emperor of the Radiant Empire, Garner Lorenzo, is a Paladin in the legendary realm and the only one recorded in history.

In the more than a thousand years after him, there has never been another Paladin who entered the legendary realm.

Not to mention the ninth order.

The ninth order is also known as the demigod realm, and it is said that only the dragons who once dominated the world can reach it. After their extinction, no race has ever been able to give birth to a demigod.

As for the ninth order and above, that is the realm of the gods...

In short, knights, a noble and rare profession, can even be said to belong to nobility, obviously should appear in the castle rather than in places like the Bearded Tavern.

Generally, no knight will choose to follow the mercenary group to another city. After all, they have their entourage, servants, and even an army.

Therefore, the appearance of Colin is particularly strange.

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

"Meow—" Seemingly dissatisfied that his good sleep was disturbed, the kitten "snarled" at the beard.

Colin smiled slightly, tucked a guy who was very angry when he got up, and asked the bearded man, "How do you know that I am a knight?"

In fact, Colin felt that he was careful enough.

There is no armor, the saber is just a standard one-handed sword, and the clothes are also the uniforms of a bodyguard who is similar to himself.

Moreover, according to the memory of the predecessor, although warriors and knights do have different fighting performances, there should be no difference in the case of not fighting.

What's more, for a knight apprentice like Ke Lin who has not yet entered the stage, since he cannot inspire the Holy Light to assist in the battle, even if he really fights, it is no different from a warrior apprentice.

Is there really a way to distinguish the two professions at a glance?

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

But who knows, Saru smiled slyly: "Guess."

be cheated!

Colin immediately reacted, and he was tricked by this seemingly reckless and honest bearded man.

Mainly because the guy's appearance is too deceptive.

Firefox Mercenary Corps.

Haha, no wonder it's called that name.

It looks like a violent bear, but is actually cunning like a fox.

"I've been in the mercenary world for more than 40 years, and I don't know how many people I've seen with these eyes. Hey, you kid, although you dress plainly, you don't look like a commoner. It's gone!"

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

However, on the surface, Colin appeared to be calm and composed, and there was absolutely no nervousness about his identity being revealed.

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

Then he pulled away the chair beside Saru and sat down with a natural face: "I admit that the previous tricks were really inappropriate, and I apologize to you. However, you shouldn't refuse a knight to accompany you, right?"

"Your name?" Saru put away his smile and asked Colin's eyes.

Colin looked directly into Saru's eyes and replied in the most sincere tone:

"Kahn, Kahn Sudo."