Working Prophet.

Chapter 494
The Red Lion Empire does not have a grand arena similar to that of ancient Rome. Most of the martial arts tournaments are actually random open spaces or hillsides, and the audience surrounds the contestants in the center to watch them fight each other and decide the winner.

However, this time the martial arts competition was held by the royal family, not only invited warriors from all over the country, but also attracted many masters from outside the empire to participate, it seemed to have become a grand event in the entire continent, of course it couldn't be so improvised.

So the venue of the competition was set on a carefully selected grass field outside the Arc de Triomphe, where wooden stands were erected early on, and the red flag symbolizing the royal family was hung.

It is rumored that after the Angry Lion Alessandro pacified the Western Region and solved the last obstacle to the unification of the empire, he returned to Lionheart Castle from here. His descendants named this city gate when they expanded the capital. For the Arc de Triomphe.

When Ilea came here, tens of thousands of people had gathered outside the Arc de Triomphe, including nobles and commoners.

The Royal Knights were dispatched together with the garrison to maintain order at the scene, while the Royal Forest Army was mainly responsible for protecting the emperor, queen and those big shots present.

All of them looked serious, unsmiling, with their palms on the hilt of their swords all the time, as if they were ready to strike at any time, and their silver armor glistened in the sun.

Ilea stood on tiptoe, trying to find her uncle, but there were too many people present, she looked around, but couldn't find Torres.

Instead, I saw Steve, the head of the sixth branch of the First Knights.

The latter came towards her, "Ser Ilea."

"Captain Steve."

"You shouldn't be competing today. The nobles' competitions will only start tomorrow."

"I know, I just came to see it." Ilea said.

There was a flash of surprise in Steve's eyes, and then he lowered his voice, "East, the second site."

"Ok?"

The female lord was taken aback, a little confused, and was about to ask again, but the guard leading the way urged, "Lord Ilea, Your Majesty has arrived, don't make him wait too long."

"Oh oh oh." The girl could only follow after hearing the words.

As soon as Ilea appeared in front of the stands, she immediately felt at least dozens of eyes focused on her.

The nobles of the royal capital are obviously very interested in this female lord from the western region. Whether it is her previous dragon slaying deeds or the emperor's inexplicable love for her, it has been talked about in the noble circle for a long time topic of.

But this time, she set off from the green field with the foreigner named Mei Lin to participate in the martial arts competition, and the locals rushed to follow her wherever she went. The number of participants has already exceeded [-], which seems to prove the wisdom of the girl from the side.

After that, she and her men defeated the challengers from the Second Knight Order and the Third Knight Order successively, demonstrating their bravery.

Looking at it this way, she is indeed worthy of the title of Dragon Slaying Knight bestowed on her by Edward II. She is on par with the other three legendary female knights in the history of the empire, no... even surpassed by a lot.

If she can win the championship of the next martial arts conference, then a new star will really rise. If she is still willing to stay in the capital, and has a little bit of political wisdom, it is estimated that she will be able to do so soon. Climb to the top of the empire and even enter the center of power.

Don't think this kind of thing is weird.

There is a reason why so many people are crazy about the martial arts tournament. This thing is very similar to another plane's college entrance examination, and it is an excellent opportunity to change one's destiny.

In the history of Bratis Continent, many commoners became nobles because of the tournament.

Even if you don't become a noble right away, you may be favored by other nobles because of your outstanding performance, and become a retinue knight, or serve a certain great lord, and be canonized as a knight in the future.

In addition, there are many nobles whose families have been in decline to gain fame and land through the martial arts tournament. The ancestor was the champion of the empire's first tournament.

Therefore, even though the martial arts competition has always been known as bloody and cruel, a large number of people died or were disabled in each session, and even a certain emperor lost his life in the martial arts competition, but until Renshi Andrea ordered the prohibition, no matter the common people Or nobles, they all flock to the martial arts conference.

After all, no matter how dangerous the martial arts tournament is, there is no real danger of going to the battlefield, and the empire has been at peace for a long time, and it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain military merits.

The martial arts tournament has become an important way to rise up, not only the commoners and those minor nobles, but also the second sons of the big noble families who have no inheritance rights, and the illegitimate children also hope to be able to win in the martial arts tournament.

Edward II's re-opening of the martial arts tournament actually received far more voices of approval than opposition, and even the embarrassing reputation of His Majesty the Emperor in the past two years has improved a little because of this.

However, Ilea, who is the person involved, didn't think so much. Miss Rabbit is now thinking about how to sneak away after seeing His Majesty the Emperor.

She still has to learn how to use the Hand of Judgment today, and if she can practice for a while more, when it's her turn to play tomorrow, she will feel more confident.

As for the next match, it doesn't matter whether you watch it or not, anyway, without Merlin's help, she can't beat anyone.

The female lord came to the center of the stand led by the imperial guards.

When I came here, Ilea was still a little nervous, because this area was full of big shots, either princes or princesses or dukes and marquises. She felt like a sheep entering a tiger's den when she was mixed in.

Fortunately, Heloise waved to her at this time.

The elf queen wore a light green long dress today, which is also the color elves have always loved. It was embroidered with intricate patterns with gold thread, making her look even more graceful and luxurious.

Ilea walked up to her and saluted her.

Heloise nodded slightly, and pointed to the seat beside her, "You sit here."

"I'm just a knight, wouldn't it be a bit inappropriate to sit here?"

"This is His Majesty's decision, you don't need to have any psychological burden, come here, the martial arts tournament is about to begin."

Hearing this, the female lord finally sat down beside Heloise. At the same time, she noticed another vacant seat beside the latter, and said curiously, "Your Majesty, I heard that he is here too."

"Well, he should have been here originally, but something happened on the way, and he probably won't be able to come here later." The Elf Queen said indifferently, seemingly not caring about her husband at all.

　There is only one update today, everyone go to bed early.

　
(End of this chapter)