Chapter 88 87 Misleading

Chapter 88 87. Misleading

Hurst has never had a good impression of nobles. They always make random conclusions based on some scattered details.

It is too common for the lord to open his mouth and the people below to run around.

Take Lu Yu for example. It is indeed strange that a person who claims to be a noble cooks by himself and eats at the same table with servants, but he also said that he is his partner.

He was in trouble and was looking for a way home. He had only one person to accompany him. After going through so many things, how could he still be a master and servant?

The deep-rooted and strict hierarchy in the minds of the nobles is nothing in the face of life and death.

Heather knows this better than anyone else because she has been there.

When she was still a fourth-level magician, Heather participated in the mission of attacking the elf station with the Star Knights.

In that mission, she was very unlucky. Before she could show anything, she was injured by the tree spirit, one of the elf servants, with poison ivy.

Heather, who was originally sent by the family to follow and gain some experience, became a burden to the entire Star Knights. The Knights who went deep into the dense forest had to save Heather's life while facing the revived forest.

It is difficult for people who have not entered the forest and fought against the elves to understand the concept of the forest coming alive.

First, there is a sense of overwhelming oppression. All the green things around are constantly moving, and the concept of space in the mind will be blurred little by little.

The lush branches and leaves that cover the sky and the sun make it impossible for people on the ground to confirm the time. Everything is gloomy.

The quiet terror also quietly descended at this time.

The originally withered trees will suddenly be rejuvenated, stretching out branches one after another, crossing the road you must pass, making the marks you made disappear, but you can't recognize them with the naked eye.

People walking behind the team will disappear inexplicably, and when they see them again, they have merged with the trees.

The dead companions will be tied tightly by vines, as if they are embraced by countless trees. It can be foreseen that their flesh and blood will become fertilizer for this land.

For four days, the number of members of the Star Knights was reduced by half, and almost everyone was injured when they escaped from the elves' pursuit.

The Empire's border troops, who also participated in the mission, were completely wiped out.

After returning to the camp, Heather, who was treated by the healing wizard, quickly eliminated the remaining toxins in her body, but she remained silent and would only nod and shake her head no matter what others asked.

During that time, only one voice echoed in Heather's mind.

"Why save her."

Those were the words that the secretary of the Star Knights shouted to Hurst with all his strength before he died.

Those eyes full of resentment and unwillingness once lingered in Heather's mind.

With the strength of the Star Knights, they could have reduced their losses and escaped, but in order to give Heather first aid, they fought a short positional battle.

It was this short moment that made the forest come alive completely and buried forty members of the Knights.

"Because of the pressure from the family behind me."

After a near-death experience and witnessing countless people die, the young Heather realized this truth on her own.

A young fourth-level magician, the hope of the empire.

More importantly, her father is also a marquis.

Her life is more valuable than others.

So after knowing that the news of the operation was leaked, the border troops of the Gran Empire continuously sent troops to rescue in unfamiliar environments.

So the Star Knights stopped to give first aid after Heather was poisoned, even though they knew that fighting elves was a taboo.

When His Majesty's envoy asked who was responsible for the failure of the mission, Heather rushed to admit that she was the cause of the failure of the mission before the deputy commander and Hurst.

Her father was furious and thought she was making a fuss.

It was clear that the Star Knights could find someone to take the responsibility, but she foolishly took the responsibility, which made His Majesty unhappy, deprived her of her honorary title, and finally brought shame to the family.

When a person jumps out of his class to look at the things around him, many things will immediately be different.

My father obviously doesn't care how many people died in that forest, nor does he care that those people died for the empire.

The nobles never mentioned that the person who was not keeping the secret was probably someone in the noble circle who was doing business with the elves, as if nothing had ever happened.

The Star Knights silently held a funeral for their dead companions. In addition to the fact that His Majesty provided a lot of funding to appease the team that was too damaged, the ordinary people were dissatisfied with the fact that the people of the Star Knights, who had risen from the common people, were still in the mood to raise their glasses and drink. The ordinary people attributed the defeat to the Star Knights' lack of strength.

Heather listened to the increasingly unbearable accusations and made a decision.

She wanted to join the Star.

Heather turned a blind eye to her father's warning that "If you join the Star, don't even think about returning home", and turned a blind eye to the invitations from the other two major knights.

When Hurst reviewed her application report, the remaining members, who were still immersed in the pain of bidding farewell to their comrades, voted against it.

"The noble lady has already harmed us once, but we can't even pick up their bodies... Are we going to suffer again?"

The Star Knights, who were left with only more than 30 people, were in a state of excitement. As the leader, Hester thought again and again, and gave Heather a chance to convince the others.

Standing among the crowd, facing those hostile eyes, Heather's eyes became more determined.

"Since I caused the failure, I should make up for it. I will lead the Star Knights to rise again."

"I know the rules of Xingchen's selection. My father said that if I still want to join Xingchen, I will never want to go home again. Therefore, now I am no longer a member of the nobility."

The speech was short, not too lyrical, but every word was resounding and full of determination.

When the final vote came, there were still more in favor than against.

At the age of nineteen, Heather was still a noble.

After that, her identity remained only as a member of the Star Knights.

And she fulfilled her promise, spending ten years to make up for the mistakes she had made, and led the Star Knights to become the third largest knight order in the empire recognized by His Majesty.

Over the years, Heather has become more and more aware that the boring and cumbersome etiquette of aristocrats is actually a ritual of self-deification.

They used this method to distinguish themselves from ordinary people, and contemptuously called those ordinary people who supported the operation of the empire as "untouchables" or "inferior people".

However, every time they fight against elves and sea beasts, these untouchables and low-class people bleed the most.

When have the aristocrats stood in the same trench as these civilians who defend their country?

People like Felton will probably never understand why a magician is willing to cook for his servants.

But never mind, Heather understands.

For this reason, she was willing to be more emotional and believe that everything said by Lu Yu, the strange marquis, was true.

Felton naturally did not have the courage to confront a person who was suspected of being a seventh-level magician. He just kept repeating the words "impossible, I don't believe it", which made the fake smile on Heather's face almost unsustainable.

Felton once again invited Heather to look at the magician's manuscript, but Heather refused because she was looking for traces of the dragon.

After leaving Case City, the secretary of the Star Knights took the drafted letter to Hester to read.

In any case, people in the capital should know that the knights encountered a high-level magician who was suspected of being a foreign marquis.

Hearst habitually gave letters to Heather to read. Although Heather did not have any position in the regiment, her status was no different from his own.

Ten years later, even the early members who were most prejudiced against Heather had nothing but admiration for her.

She gave up her title as a noble, gave up the enjoyment of being a master, came to suffer with them, and insisted on winning respect with strength and hard work. It can be said that Heather's deeds are also the legend of the Star Knights.

Heather glanced at it, smiled and praised the clerk's writing and choice of words, and then tore the letter into pieces in front of him.

"Sister Heather..." The young clerk was stunned.

Heather patted the clerk on the shoulder: "Don't get me wrong, what you wrote is indeed correct, and what you did is correct. You should report this kind of thing to the police, but..."

"Felton's reaction just now gave me an interesting idea." Heather said, "Do you think the group of high-minded nobles in the capital and the arrogant little geniuses from the two knights will meet Lu Yu? what happened?"

"Ah?" The young clerk failed to keep up with Heather's pace and looked around blankly, praying to his companions to help him.

The veteran in the group gave a high-five: "Sister Heather, don't you think that if you change your wording, you can give the stupid young people in the capital a lesson?"

Heather snapped her fingers: "Exactly, remember, don't say that I hit the other party's summons hard, and the other party's summons were unharmed. Write it more vaguely, write it more obscurely, you are playing with words, what should you do? Does organizing language achieve this effect?”

"Then, you said that our Star Knights are not strong enough to judge the strength of this Marquis..."

The clerk immediately sensed Heather's dark side, and he continued speaking while wiping his cold sweat.

"Then the Imperial Knights and the Fengyu Knights will test Marquis Lu Yu in order to prove that they are stronger... But if Marquis Lu Yu gets angry by doing this, something big will happen, right?"

"Don't think that our Grand Empire is incapable of dealing with seventh-level magicians just because we deal with him so carefully. We just don't want innocent people to be affected." Heather smiled, "If we really fight, seventh-level magicians, And he’s still a summoner, so he won’t have an easy time.”

Heather once wanted to take the Summoning School as an elective, but the research on the Summoning School was too stagnant and there were very few references for reference, so she had to give up.

Even so, Heather still had some doubts about the black mist that Lu Yu had summoned to accompany him for a long time.

"It should just be a statue. There is no summoner who can stably summon the same summoned object every time."

"If the summoner's natural weakness cannot be solved, this school will always be at the bottom."