Blanket! Blanket!

(Happy Winter Solstice, I'm back.)

Kazimierz's knight competitions proceeded as usual. After fierce clashes between knights and all manner of open and covert struggles both on and off the stage, the qualifiers finally came to an end.

The even more intense Major had finally begun.

Only now did the triennial knight competition truly begin.

After all, the earlier qualifiers had merely been appetizers before the main course. For the audience, the upcoming Major was the real visual feast.

Naturally, for the knights and the corporations behind them, a new game had begun.

Of course, that was not what made the Major most unique.

Corporations could interfere with every rule and outcome of knight competitions, but the Major was an exception.

Corporate interference in the Major was heavily restricted. All knights could rely on was their own strength and their equipment. Even the format was the most traditional kind—knightly duels.

However, when the list of knights who had qualified for this year's Major was published on the intercity network and in the newspapers, it sparked countless disputes and discussions.

Without exaggeration, all of Kazimierz—especially Four Cities United within the Great Knight Territory—had erupted into an uproar.

"Where is the Blanket Knight?!"

"We want to see the Blanket Knight!"

No one had expected the Blanket Knight, who had appeared only once in the qualifiers, to draw the attention of so many viewers and tourists.

But upon reflection, it made perfect sense. When that knight had stood in the arena holding high that holy, sublime light, everyone had been shaken.

What moved people was not the Blanket Knight's strength, but the beam of light in her hand. Different viewers saw different things in it, but everyone knew how dazzling and beautiful that light was.

Bai Ye had no idea that after his alter