In a study within the Remlan Empire's imperial palace, Knight Jia Lei sat with a man in his fifties wearing a crown. That crowned man was none other than Elta VII, Emperor of the Remlan Empire...
At some point that day, every member of the Remlan Empire's royal family had quietly evacuated the palace, only to return just as quietly later. Over those few hours, not a single person in all of Bertan City had known. Even now, for the sake of caution, only a handful of people knew the crown prince's whereabouts. If nothing happened tomorrow, His Highness the Crown Prince would then appear before the public.
A knight's sudden assault was a grim, razor-sharp executioner's blade hanging over the heads of every royal family lacking sufficient strength. During the Second Holy War, so many human nations and the royal families of small countries had been wiped out by the Devil Race and Three-Eyed Society knights through such decapitation tactics that even a man with as many hands as an octopus could not count them all.
"You're saying that Zhang Tie is the Eagle of Selnes, and that he became a knight at only twenty?" After hearing Knight Jia Lei's account, Elta VII asked in a voice of utter disbelief, his mouth hanging wide enough to fit an egg.
Elta VII had seen many people born emperors, kings, or millionaires. But someone becoming a knight in his twenties—perhaps such people existed on the Eastern Continent, and Elta VII had heard of them—but in the Blakerson Human Corridor, this should have been the first.
"Yes! Zhang Tie's true age should only be a little over twenty. Yet he looks even younger than he really is—perhaps only sixteen or seventeen!" Knight Jia Lei said to Elta VII.
"Ah, how could someone