Translator: MarcTempest
Editor: Himanshu02
Eurius shook his head without changing his expression.
“You can go back.”
“Excuse ?”
“Do I have to say it twice? You failed.”
The knight who was pointed out felt sowhat wronged. Eurius had only asked him to swing his sword a few tis dryly.
‘Why did I fail?’
The level of the applicants was not much different. He did not do anything rude to the emperor either.
“Stop! You passed.”
“Thank you!”
He looked no different from himself, but he passed and he failed.
‘At least tell the reason. Do you think I have nowhere else to go?’
He grumbled inwardly as he left the training ground attached to the Eles Palace.
He had so reason to be dissatisfied, but Eurius did not do that because of any feelings for him.
‘Anyway, the abilities of the applicants are diocre. I need to recruit people who are persistent and ntally strong so that I can train them hard.’
“Your highness, are you saying that you personally examine all the applicants?”
The knights all frowned, but they could not stop him from doing so.
“Isn’t it better for to see and choose them myself since they are the knights I will command?”
‘Maybe he wants to rember their nas one by one since they are the knights who will serve him?’
‘But still, you could have left the first screening to us, Your Majesty.’
However, Eurius’s intention was a little different from that.
‘It’s a bit annoying, but I have to see it myself to pick them by looking at their stats.’
For example, the knight who just left had stats like this.
[Bill Wise]
Job: Interdiate Knight
Strength: B Agility: B Intelligence: C ntal: C Force Aptitude: B Force: B
Disposition: Cheerful, Arrogant
[Trait]
Swordsmanship (B)
‘His ntal is a problem and his skill is so-so… But he is too confident and arrogant. Fail!’
Eurius’s judgnt standard was simple.
Unless the applicant was exceptionally talented, he chose cases with diligence, sincerity, and high ntal strength.
Of course, he t the basic standard of talent, but he thought it was better to choose people with growth potential than those who had achieved so level of success.
‘Anyway, I can provide a good training environnt for them, so their skills will rise if they work hard.’
The knights who passed this ti would probably suffer a lot in the future, so he selected only those who could endure it.
And of course, the person who could provide a good training environnt for them was Wallace.
“It’s not soone else but between you and , right? It will cost a bit to raise a knight order this ti…”
“Hehe, how can I refuse Your highness request?”
‘He has no sha at all.’
It was no joke to make and maintain a knight order.
From custom-made armor for everyone to well-trained warhorses, and the costs of group training or operations!
On top of that, Eurius demanded a large amount of elixirs and force stones necessary for knight training.
It was a huge amount of money that would make even Wallace wobble in the long run.
Eurius thought it was a small revenge.
‘If you don’t like it, don’t ss with from your previous life?’
Wallace had no choice but to accept Eurius’s request.
First of all, he was the second-in-command of the emperor faction on the surface, so it would be a problem if he did not support the emperor.
And Eurius was in a situation where he held his life line.
‘How did I end up like this? Sigh…’
He recalled when he was scolded by the grand duke.
“You know what? That bastard first prince turned out to be more cunning than the emperor or Marius. Now that things have co to this point, how are you going to take responsibility?”
Wallace had to kneel down and beg again in front of the duke.
He had to keep his head attached first.
He had a grand dream of shaking up the empire’s market under him when he volunteered to be the Grand Duke’s spy.
‘The problem is not that I’m scolded by one side only!’
What made him more angry was that he had to report everything that happened here to Eurius.
The Grand Duke coldly pressured him and Eurius smiled and took everything from him.
Of course, both of them would not hesitate to get rid of him if they were annoyed.
“Sigh”
Wallace’s sigh seed to last for a while.
***
anwhile, Eurius’s knight recruitnt situation was not so good.
‘Unexpectedly, there are not many people left after I weed out the weak ones?’
In fact, his eyes for knights were ridiculously high.
He grew up surrounded by excellent imperial knights, and the knights he worked with in the north were also elites who were in charge of the main front of the empire.
And the important thing was that he realized the importance of power after experiencing the elite group like the ‘shadow’ of the Grand Duke.
‘They can’t be all of them. If I know the Grand Duke, he must have hidden at least twice as much power as that.’
Even considering his own strength, the level of the applicants now was far from what he wanted.
Generally, the empire’s knight order consisted of a hundred people and twenty people ford a squad.
‘I want to fill at least the squad leader and deputy squad leader with master level or close knights…’
The problem was that the standard was the level of the imperial knights, the best elite in the empire. It was a secret power that the Grand Duke had cultivated for decades with hard work.
He who blew up half of that power had such a thought. If he knew this, even the cold-hearted Grand Duke would draw his sword and rush at him.
“Fail!”
“Your Majesty! Please tell why…”
“You have talent but you look insincere.”
“…!”
The knight beca speechless. How could the first prince know his personality when he had never t him face to face?
It seed like a baseless accusation, but he couldn’t do anything about it.
He just didn’t catch the first prince’s attention, that was all.
But there was another reason why the rejected knight was flustered.
‘It was a task entrusted by His Highness the Grand Duke himself… How can I explain this?’
When he heard that Eurius was recruiting knights, the Grand Duke also quickly reached out his hand.
‘I have to plant so loyalists in the First Prince’s knight order this ti.’
The First Prince must be lacking talent right now.
He secretly sent so of his own n who were quick-witted and skilled to apply for the knight order.
Of course, it didn’t work.
They were also rejected by Eurius’s standards.
‘Those who look too talented and smart are also out.’
The knight he had just rejected looked suspicious at first glance.
He had enough skill to aim for a high position in the central knight order, and his personality didn’t appeal to him either.
Because of his strict criteria, he unintentionally got rid of the Grand Duke’s minions, which was a good thing, but the problem was that there were not many left as a result.
“Your highness, you have been interviewing for three days already. How about taking a break while you do it?”
“If they want to join my knight order, they should be willing to endure this hardship.”
He said it casually, but after three days, his complexion started to darken enough for the knights to notice.
Of course, it wasn’t because he was tired.
‘There is no talent. Really none.’
The ones who passed his direct examination were barely eting the minimum standards.
It would take at least two or three years to train them properly before they could be called elites.
‘I thought there would be at least one or two who could be used right away, but it seems like I’m out of luck this ti.’
He grumbled inwardly as he looked at the knights today.
Then, a young knight caught his eye.
Eurius’s first impression of that knight was this:
‘He looks unlucky and scrawny, doesn’t he?’
His face was handso and he seed to have trained well, as he had a toned aura. But from his slow steps to his languid eyes, he looked like he was dragged here against his will.
‘He must be so spoiled son of a provincial noble family. He looks talented, but I don’t need to see his stats to know that his ntal strength is a ss.’
But the examination was still an examination. He lifted his eyes and checked his stats window. And then he couldn’t help but be slightly surprised.
[Bernard Keynes]
Job: Interdiate Knight
Strength: B Agility: B Intelligence: B ntal Strength: B Force Aptitude: A Force: B
Disposition: Lazy, Irresponsible, Kind
[Traits]
Swordsmanship (B )
It was rare to find soone with a force aptitude above A.
He looked like he was in his early thirties at most, and this achievent would put him in the category of a genius.
But what Eurius paid attention to was his na and disposition.
He looked at the docunt again.
[Bernard Keynes – Eldest son of Keynes Viscount from the south, graduated from the Knight Academy in the capital, no other special notes]
‘Is that Dull Sword Keynes Viscount? I heard he was lazy, but he has been like that since he was young?’
If you asked who was the strongest warrior in the continent, everyone would na the Superhumans. But even without them, there were many famous martial artists in the continent who had their own reputation.
In Eurius’s previous life, Dull Sword Keynes Viscount was one of those swordsn who everyone would ntion first among them, excluding the Superhumans.
The remarkable anecdote about him was that he only started to gain fa when he was almost forty years old.
That ant that he lived quietly in his territory until then and suddenly made a na for himself with an opportunity.
And that opportunity was a territorial dispute.
Sotis there were conflicts between provincial nobles over their interests, and the simplest way to resolve them was through proxy duels.
They would accept the outco based on the victory or defeat of the knights they sent as proxies.
Keynes Viscount’s territory was not large, but it was a pri land in the southern part of the empire.
He was lazy and entrusted the managent of his territory to his steward while he enjoyed himself.
The greedy nobles around him couldn’t leave his territory alone.
As soon as he inherited the viscount title, they started to challenge him to territorial disputes over trivial matters.
But the one who ca out as a proxy for the duel was surprisingly Keynes Viscount himself.
“Hmm, I have to finish quickly and take a nap, so I can’t keep you company for long.”
“…?”
The spectators who initially looked at him with disbelief were more astonished by the outco of the duel.
Keynes Viscount had his sword on the opponent knight’s neck in a few moves.
“It’s over, right? The negotiations behind this will be handled by my representative.”
This happened several tis, and Keynes Viscount never lost a single territorial dispute.
When he heard the rumor, famous martial artists from the continent ca to find him.
Keynes Viscount was very annoyed, but he didn’t avoid the challenge.
And after that, his fa rose rapidly.
No one could handle his sword that seed to swing casually.
There were only a few among them who could do that.
That’s why he got the nickna Dull Sword!
He was so lazy that he didn’t join the Grand Duke’s side even though he was a southern noble, but anyway, he was a proven person in terms of skill.
But Eurius was in a situation where he needed talent urgently.
He didn’t have ti to consider other things.
“Pass!”
“What?”
It was like a bolt from the blue for Keynes. He ca here with a blatant attitude of irresponsibility, but what was this?
The people who knew him also murmured.
“His highness has a good eye, but can he really adapt him to the knight order?”
“The instructors at the academy also had a hard ti reforming him, tsk…”
“Well, he can’t be irresponsible in front of His highness, so maybe he’ll have no choice even if he’s like that?”
“No way. If he was going to change, he would have done it long ago.”
Among the people who looked at him with worried eyes, there was Heinz.
“Your Majesty, Knight Keynes is indeed a possessor of outstanding talent, but…”
“Do you know him, Knight Heinz?”
“He was my junior at the Knight Academy. He was quite a famous eccentric.”
“Is there any problem with that?”
Heinz had an expression of difficulty. It was hard to explain how lazy Keynes was with words.
“Aha!”
Eurius got a rough explanation from Heinz and smiled with interest.
“Then I want to see him in my knight order even more.”
“If Your highness says so, I have no choice, but I don’t have confidence in assimilating him into the knight order.”
Eurius smiled slyly.
“That’s my role to do.”
His eyes with a smile on them were directed at Keynes who was standing in the line of passers-by.
Shiver
Keynes felt an unidentified chill for a mont.
The first prince was looking at him with a smile.
‘There are many ways to reform a disobedient guy!’
Wasn’t he himself the epito of a disobedient guy in his previous life as the crazy emperor?
Anyway, Eurius finally hit the jackpot and felt very good today.
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