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"Children, remember to follow closely behind the monks leading you. Don't run off anywhere else, understand?..."
Inside Avignon Monastery, a kind-faced nun in her forties spoke to the children following behind the leading monks. Her tone was gentle yet stern, and she guided the children with practiced ease, making them instinctively obey without feeling any resentment.
As they walked along the corridors of Avignon Monastery, young monks and nuns who were not involved in any work cast curious, appraising looks at the children.
Clearly, they were all apprentices of the Avignon Forest Monastery Knights, not official members of the Knight Order.
Although the Avignon Forest Monastery Knights within Avignon Monastery bore the name of a "Knight Order," not a single person here exuded the aura of a knight. Instead, they dressed as monks and nuns, and never called themselves knights when dealing with outsiders, referring to themselves only as monks.
After all, no matter how strong the members of the Avignon Forest Monastery Knights were, they had ultimately been established in the name of monastic practice. The Knight Order did not require its members to be qualified knights, but it did require them to possess kind hearts.
That was precisely why the Avignon Forest Monastery Knights had become the group that guarded the holy land, Avignon Forest. For Avignon Forest, which dealt with children all day long, the Avignon Forest Monastery Knights were undoubtedly the most suitable guardians.
Among the children, who noisily yet obediently followed behind the guiding monks, Wu Yan was there as well—and he was there openly.
Because at that moment, Wu Yan had completely transformed into the appearance of a seven-year-old child, arriving in Avignon Forest of nine years ago