Chapter 85: Competition (Please Collect and Recommend)
The competition events of the Knights Conference are very simple, there are only three. Lancer jousts, knightly melees, knightly jousts.
The lance competition has been mentioned before, so I won’t go into details here. The knight's joust is also very simple, it is a one-on-one battle between two knights. The most interesting one is the knight melee. The rules of the knight melee are quite simple and crude.
It's a group fight, with no limit on the number of people. You just need to randomly divide into two teams and use blunt weapons to collide and confront each other. The winner of the game is the last person standing on the field.
However, in order to concentrate on participating in the final lance competition, many knights will not participate in the melee. If you are injured and cannot participate in the jousting later, it will be a small loss but a big loss. Unless someone wants to get the title of Champion Knight and the high prize money for winning the melee.
The Knight Melee is perhaps the most lively competition among the three events, so it is also the most popular among the public, because in this competition, winning requires not only strength, courage, wisdom, but also luck!
That's right, it's luck. The strongest knight may not necessarily win in a knightly melee, but many mediocre knights have a chance to win in one fell swoop. In short, there are many unexpected factors, so it seems to be ups and downs, and the people like this. kind of scene.
Therefore, the bonus for knight melee is also the highest. This makes many knights who want to make a fortune but do not have the confidence to stand out in the other two competitions choose to participate in the Cavaliers Melee.
In addition to these knights, there is another type of knight who will participate in the melee, and that is the guy who is extremely confident in himself and thinks he can become a champion knight.
The Champion Knight of the Knights Conference is a very special title. This title does not refer to the champion of any event, but only knights who have won three championships at the same time are eligible to receive this title.
This is also the reason why after Kai won the title of Champion Knight in one fell swoop, some people predicted that Kai would likely become the number one knight in all countries in the future.
Although it is difficult to be the winner of one competition, it is not uncommon for someone to win every year. However, it is extremely rare for people to win three consecutive championships. At least in King Uther, who has held so many world knight conferences, it is really possible to win. Kai is the only one who holds the title of Champion Knight.
After all, there are too many accidents that may happen in these three competitions. Once there is a problem in one link, it is likely to result in nothing.
Not many people dared to do this before, but since Kai accomplished this feat, many rookies have begun to imitate Kai's feat, hoping to copy Kai's feat and become famous all over the world.
Not to mention, there are some people who almost succeeded. For example, Knight Perino almost succeeded back then. Even though Knight Perino was very low-key in the Knights, I think he was also a passionate man back then. He participated in the Knights Conference in the Kaihou world. At that time, he had already won the knight's jousting championship, leaving only the lance competition and the knight's melee championship.
Because the final of the lance competition is the highlight, it was placed on the last day of the Knights Conference. The Knights melee was on the penultimate day of the Knights Conference. As a result, in the melee of the Cavaliers, although Perino won the championship, he was also injured. On the last day of the finals, although he reached the final victory, he still lost because his body could not support it.
This is also the closest person to a champion knight after Kai.
In short, with these two role models, young knights who want to win the title of Champion Knight will have more success every year. This year is no different, and Arthur is also here for the championship title this time. But privately, neither Kai nor King Uther had much expectations for this. Their psychological bottom line was that Arthur must win a competition.
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Accompanied by cheers from the audience, Arthur's first game soon began.
According to the tradition of the Knights Conference, the first and last games are jousting contests.
Arthur sat on the horse, arranged his full body armor, and slapped his dragon crest shield hard. After feeling that the shield was tied very tightly, he put on his helmet. Then he took over a four-meter-long competition knight gun from Merlin.
This kind of knight's lance is made of cork and decorated with gorgeous patterns. The tip is specially made into a ball and wrapped in cloth. This kind of lance will break immediately once it stabs the enemy. Of course, this does not mean that this kind of lance is not lethal. On the contrary, every year, knights die because of internal bleeding due to being stabbed in the breastplate. Its lethality is only lower than that of a lance used on the battlefield.
The lances used in war are all equipped with a sharp metal cone on the head of a long rod of about two meters. The hardwood gun body has a hand guard at the hand position and a weighted wooden cone at the rear. At the same time, A "butt hole" was made in the saddle to absorb the impact of an assassination during a charge. This kind of weapon is designed to fight against heavily armored units. Once stabbed by this weapon, it is very normal for both men and horses to pierce it.
Arthur grasped the handle of the gun behind the huge guard, began to adjust his breathing, and carefully observed his opponent through the gap in his helmet.
As the gong of the race was sounded, the two horses began to accelerate towards each other, accelerating and impacting! Hold on to the gun! ! Sprint! ! !
In the center of the arena, two war horses passed each other at high speed.
"bump!"
After a loud noise, Arthur's lance accurately dodged the opponent's shield and hit the opponent's breastplate first. The opponent almost flew into the air from the horse, and then fell heavily to the ground, stirring up dust all over the sky. , rolled several times before stopping, leaving a deep groove on the ground.
Arthur had already reached the end of the track. He turned his horse and saw his opponent lying motionless on the ground. He immediately raised his lance and cheered for his victory. Arthur had reason to be happy. The lance competition looked simple, but in fact, it was the most comprehensive competition that tested the knights' comprehensive qualities. The lance competition required the knights to have superb equestrian skills, stable hands and amazing accuracy. The most important thing was that they needed a strong psychological quality. After all, if you didn't have a good attitude when charging face to face with the enemy, you might retreat and become timid at any time.
Once the mentality went wrong, the movements might be deformed at any time, and the consequences would be very serious. You might get injured or killed at any time. Every lance competition was not only an all-round competition between knights, but also a contest with death, so any victory in the lance competition was worth cheering for.
The people of Camelot also gave their prince the warmest cheers.
If it was a normal knight competition, the people of Camelot would probably want the other side to fight for 300 rounds so that they could enjoy the show, but when it was their own prince's turn, the people of Camelot naturally hoped that Arthur could crush them all the way.
When Arthur announced his victory, Gaius, who had been waiting on the side, immediately rushed into the field with several soldiers and began to treat the unlucky guy who was knocked down. Gaius struggled to open the knight's helmet to see if the knight was dead. If he was dead, there was no need to do the follow-up actions.
Fortunately, the knight's luck was not too bad. Although his breastplate had been deformed, it still protected him well. He just fainted from the fall. His bones were not broken, and there was no sign of internal bleeding. He only needed to rest and observe, and then he could go back. The physical constitution of people in this era is good. If it were in Kai's previous life, let alone the chest collision, even the fall from the horse would cost him half his life.