Chapter 116 (1/2)

“Rank, what are you coming back for?” When he saw the students returning, Ray was unhappy, and he frowned.

“I want to fight. I want to help my teacher. I want to protect the refugees!” Rank was afraid, but he answered seriously.

“If you help to maintain order, you are helping me and are protecting them.”

“As Liv is there doing these things, it’s enough, because she can do it very well. When teacher Parne was young, a large number of monsters haunted the Golden Tower City, and he temporarily gathered a group of people. They swept that area for two months and almost extinguished the monsters that had attempted to form a beast army. Liv is the child of Pahn. She inherited his blood and talents, grew up under his guidance, and she can do a good job of maintaining order and leading a group of refugees to escape.” Rank had consider this and replied without hesitation, “I can’t help over there, so I’d rather come here, at least I can kill a few more murlocs!”

“You can kill murlocs with such humble strength?” Ray sniffed at his words.

Rank suddenly blushed, “Teacher… I’m also very powerful! Not long ago I contested several adventurers, and I was successful in some sessions!”

To be honest, his strength was indeed good and he could be considered a qualified adventurer. He could at least be a small captain in the Sea Defence Forces of Garth City. He would lead six or seven individuals and be independent when the situation was not very crucial. In contrast to the rookie he was a few months ago, he had been reborn.

However, in Ray’s view, his strength was far from enough!

“Where do you think you are? Is this a field of friendly games?” he said sulkily. “This is a battlefield against the invasion of the maritime races! You are not faced with kind adventurers, but countless maritime armies that you can’t kill them all! You have really made progress and now you can be considered a good adventurer, but what is the point of that!!”

He reached out his hand and Rank saw the murlocs rushing from afar against the bombardment of magical cannons.

“See? See the number of them!” he said angrily. “Do you know that at least ten people with an ability similar to yours died in the battle just now? And that was only a tentative attack!”

“Leave! Leave! If the fight starts, you can’t leave even if you want to!”

Rank bowed his head, and kept silent for a moment. He then raised his head again with a tenacious look in his eyes.

“Teacher, I haven’t planned to leave yet since I came back!”

Ray was dumbfounded and looked at him, not daring to believe him.

“You and Teacher Pahn both taught me the virtues of the knight: humility, honor, sacrifice, bravery, mercy, faith, honesty, and fairness. I’m not strong enough; I’m not smart enough; I can’t practice the eight virtues one by one. But even I know that this time it is time for the knight to sacrifice!”

“You are by no means a knight!” Ray roared. “You haven’t graduated yet!”

“Then, let me be on your side for this last lesson.” Rank raised his sword, “I swear by this oath. I will show mercy to the weak, bravely fight against all evil and injustice, fearlessly sacrifice, and firmly defend my honor… Teacher, as I have managed to practice half of the eight virtues, am I qualified as a knight apprentice?”

Speaking of this, he finally laughed, and he showed a look of joy and anticipation on his still childish face.

It was the look of a child who did what he believed to be the right thing, and who longed for recognition from his parents and teachers, and for praise.

Ray wanted to sternly refute him, to use his debating skills he learned from his his teacher who was a world-renowned scholar, and to scold this kid so that he couldn’t lift his head and could only leave awkwardly. However, when he saw Rank’s look and saw the childish look of anticipation, he felt that there was an inexplicable excitement that made him unable to speak.

Once upon a time, he was like Rank: full of enthusiasm and anticipation, wanted to become an outstanding knight, wanted to get the approval of teachers and his father through his own actions, wanted to uphold justice as a knight, and wanted to be a world-renowned hero…

He turned to prevent Rank from seeing the tears in his eyes, and he said in the toughest tone, “Since you have decided, then come with me! Grab your sword firmly and never fall off! You are my student and cannot die in this small place!”

Rank was dumbfounded, then understood his teacher’s meaning, and could not help but laugh.

He knew that his teacher really recognized him.

So he nodded heavily and replied, “I’ll work harder!”

“Don’t talk big. A knight must use action to prove himself!”

“Yes!”

As they talked, the murlocs army had rushed in front of them against the bombardment of the magical cannons.

With Ray and the old officer taking the lead, the defenders shouted together, waved their weapons, and rushed towards the army.

With the flash of knives and swords, blood splattered.

“You b*stard! Who sent you!” Sui Xiong shouted, and his tentacles fluttered wildly. Each blow left a deep crack in the ground like a scar. He said, “Confess honestly!”