Lundol Mountain Range, one of the remnants of the Ox War. One of Will Knight Academy's permanent knight order activity stations, currently home to the Fifth Quasi-Knight Order.
In the open space within the crude stone-built gates of the camp.
Human voices had fallen silent. Only the occasional neigh of a horse and the sound of the bitter winter wind could be heard.
The many onlooking students from Will Knight Academy's Fifth Class, the Quasi-Knights of the temporary Fifth Quasi-Knight Order, all stood with their mouths agape as they watched the scene before them.
A dizzy spell like anemia washed over them as they watched. Lyon Brown, the dignified next Knight Brown, possessor of the Bronze Bloodline, raised on elite education since childhood, commander of the Fifth Quasi-Knight Order, a central figure in Fifth Class and even one of the central figures of all Will Knight Academy, had been publicly defeated by Colin Russell, one of their classmates and captain of the First Squad this time. And the process had been exceptionally easy.
In terms of family background, bloodline, reputation, and power, the two had originally been as far apart as heaven and earth. Yet the underdog had overturned the heavens.
It was not unprecedented, but it was extraordinarily rare. Such a thing might not happen even once in several decades within Marquis Kent's Territory.
Under normal circumstances, the only person who could defeat the next hereditary knight of Marquis Kent's Territory was the next knight of another hereditary family.
The commoner students looked at Colin Russell, who stood before Lyon Brown and calmly said, "You lost," with immense shock and reverence, as though they were gazing upon an unattainable mountain peak.
Even the nobles were the same. The noble students led by Michael Harris also revealed expressions of awe.