Chapter 84: Opening of the Conference (Please Collect and Recommend)

In the end, Morgause stayed in Camelot, which was inevitable. After all, Morgause was a living person, and she didn't want to leave. What could Nivi do to her? Could she rush into Camelot and take her back?

In fact, Nivi also understood Morgause's thoughts, because if it really came down to it, Morgause's hatred for King Uther was much deeper than Nivi's hatred. Both her parents died at the hands of King Uther, and she saw her mother killed by King Uther with her own eyes!

And her mother was King Uther's lover, the wife of Glos, Duke of Cornwall - Vivianne!

Of course, Morgause was not the daughter of King Uther, she was the daughter of Vivianne and her husband, Glos, Duke of Cornwall. Morgause in her childhood can be said to be the most loved one in the world. She was born noble and her parents loved each other.

But all this changed after the failure of King Uther's rescue of Glos, Duke of Cornwall. Her father had just died in battle, and King Uther brought people to the Duke of Cornwall's castle, killed her mother Vivianne, and took away her sister Morganna.

At that time, Morganna was still young and didn't know the truth, but Morgause knew the whole story. In her opinion, all this was King Uther's way of eliminating dissidents. He first killed her father, and then planned to kill her mother and herself in order to eradicate the roots.

If Gaius, who was beside King Uther at the time, had not been kind and secretly let her go, she would have suffered from King Uther's murderous hands. Morgause was even more fortunate that Morganna was still young at the time, and King Uther was afraid that his reputation would be damaged, otherwise Morganna would not have escaped the murderous hands.

This time Morgause must stay in Camelot, and he also wants to see his sister.

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On December 15th, the originally rainy weather finally became clear. It seems that because of the official opening of the Knights' Conference, God gave face. Kai also relaxed for a rare time.

With the opening of the Knights' Conference, those trouble-making knights were finally attracted by the Knights' Conference and had no time to fight and make trouble. Kai didn't have to go around like a firefighter to solve troubles.

Today is the first day of the opening. As a member of the Camelot royal family, King Uther, Arthur, Morgana and Kai all need to attend the opening. So Kai can sit in his seat and watch the violent people fighting each other in the duel field today, instead of having to find ways to stop them from fighting like before.

King Uther is very keen on knight duels. It can even be said that the two things that King Uther is most proud of in his life, in addition to completely getting rid of the rule of magic in Camelot, are to hold the Camelot Knights' Conference to its current scale.

Take this Knights' Conference for example, there are more than 500 knights participating in the competition!

Maybe just looking at this number doesn't seem to be a big deal, after all, 500 is not a lot. But if you add the word knight after the number, it will be different. For example, let's take Camelot as an example. As the richest and most prosperous city among the Celtic countries, the city only supports 150 knights!

And the entire Kingdom of Camelot, all the knights added up to less than 300.

Because knights are very expensive!

Even the most destitute wandering knight needs to be equipped with a warhorse, a set of chain mail and a set of knight armor, several lances, a knight's sword, and a shield. This is the standard equipment of a knight. If you don't have these, no one will believe you are a knight.

And how much does it cost to equip these things?

Here is an account.

First of all, war horses. This is the island of Great Britain, which is not rich in horses, so the price of horses is very, very expensive. Let's take Camelot as an example. The price of a bullock on the market is only three gold coins, and a sheep is even less than a few silver coins. But what about a qualified warhorse? At least thirty gold coins are needed! Remember that this is just a qualified warhorse. The price of warhorses with good bloodlines and good condition will only rise exponentially.

And chainmail. In Gwen's blacksmith shop, the cheapest set of chainmail also costs ten gold coins, while knight plate armor costs ten to twenty times more than chainmail! As for knight lances, swords, shields and other things, they are just small money in comparison.

Calculated in this way, the standard equipment of a knight alone requires at least two hundred gold coins! For example, the previous rogue knight Gawain, although this kid looks poor and doesn't even have a squire, in fact, his own wealth exceeds that of most middle-class families in Camelot.

This is just the most basic. The cost of nobles canonizing knights is even higher. First of all, you want the knight to be loyal to you, you must give land, and this land cannot be less, at least a village. Then there is the monthly salary of the knights, and this salary cannot be low. Let's put it this way, the monthly salary of a qualified soldier is at most three gold coins, and the salary of a knight must be at least ten times this number!

So even a rich kingdom like Camelot can only support less than 300 knights. King Uther has 150 knights, which is very powerful among the countries.

And the Knights' Conference can gather 500 knights to participate in the competition at one time, so you can imagine how great its influence is. You know, these knights came here to make a name for themselves, so most of these knights are young and inexperienced. Those knights with monarchs and fiefs rarely participate in this kind of competition. This basically catches the young generation of knights in one fell swoop.

King Uther was very satisfied when he saw the scene of the forest of flags in the duel field.

The opening speech was naturally given by King Uther. Throughout history, the more grand the scene, the more high-sounding the speeches made by leaders are. To put it bluntly, they are all correct nonsense. The speaker was drowsy, at least Kai had no interest in listening. This is just like the summary meeting of the police force's anti-pornography and anti-illegal publications in the previous life, all clichés, without any novelty.

But those King Uthers spoke very enthusiastically and didn't feel bored at all. Maybe all leaders are like this, so Kai always thought that he didn't have the talent to be a leader.

In short, after a long speech, the knight duel finally began.

And the first person to go on stage was naturally our Prince Arthur!

Because it was the first round of the preliminary round, the officials in charge of the process would not choose any strong players to fight against Prince Arthur. After all, as a prince, he must have the right cards. If he fought with an unknown knight for three hundred rounds in the preliminary round, it would be too embarrassing.