Chapter One Hundred and Fifty-Nine

"Look carefully, there are really a lot of people attending the year-end dinner."

Su Cheng used a public fork to fork a few pieces of meat into his plate, while chatting to Alisa who was beside him.

"It's okay, compared to before, the number of people this year is relatively small." After swallowing the meat in her mouth, Alisa continued, "Every year's year-end dinner, there are an average of about 600 to 700 people. guests, but this year there are only more than 500, so this year is considered a relatively small number of people.”

"Huh? Why are there so many fewer this year? Could it be that this year's civil servants and knights are generally not good enough, so the number of heroes who have received invitations this year is much less than before?"

"That's not true. The number of heroes who receive invitation letters every year is actually very stable. The reason why there are so many fewer guests this year seems to be because many nobles did not come to participate. After all, not all nobles are interested in this year-end dinner , especially for some nobles who live in remote places, it will take more than a month for them to come to Pendragon, that is to say, it will take them more than two months to go back and forth time, so for these nobles, coming to the year-end dinner is a time-consuming and labor-intensive thing."

"Oh, that's it."

Su Cheng used his own fork to fork a piece of meat that had just been placed on his plate, and when he was about to put it into his mouth——

"By the way." Su Cheng stopped, and then said, "Alyssa, where is your father—Mr. Issel? Why haven't I seen him all this time?"

"My father, after he came to the venue with me, I separated from him. I don't know where he is now. He must be very busy now. He is a unified knight after all. He is also the head of the Knights of Gabriel, and many people will come to him for drinks and chats..."

Speaking of this, Alisa paused, then showed an expression as if she remembered something, and then continued:

"Yeah, I almost forgot. Tonight, a big man whom I haven't seen for a long time is also coming to the year-end dinner."

"Big man? What big man?" Su Cheng asked suspiciously.

"Well, yes, big shot." Alisa nodded, "Su Cheng, you need to get to know him, after all, you are also a knight, as a knight of the Britannia Empire, it is necessary to bring the empire Get to know all the high-ranking knights with heads and faces, I will take you to find him later, and I can also say hello to him, after all, I haven't seen him for a long time."

"A senior knight...is that one of the Four Royal Knights?"

While talking, Su Cheng went through the list of the four royal knights of the Britannia Empire in his mind.

There are only a few of the Four Royal Knights of the Britannia Empire, so it is not too difficult to remember, so Su Cheng has long remembered the names of the Four Royal Knights of the Britannia Empire in his mind.

"Hmph, this big man is not as simple as the four knights." Alisa showed a mysterious smile, and then continued, "This big man is the leader of the Raziel Knights——Albert Trey Evans."

"...This big man is indeed 'big' enough."

Albert Evans. Su Cheng's name is naturally like a thunderbolt.

Albert Evans, the head of the Raziel Knights among the three major knights of the Britannia Empire, holds 200,000 heavy soldiers of the Raziel Knights.

If Iser, who is a united knight and the Gabriel Knights, is now the first knight of the Britannia Empire, then Albert is the second knight of the Britannia Empire.

Among the knights, Albert's status was second only to Issel.

The three major knights of the Britannia Empire-Michael Knights, Gabriel Knights, and Raziel Knights are actually responsible for different lines of defense.

The Knights of Michael are stationed in the north of the empire, responsible for the northern line of defense, defending the Holy Hiram Empire in the north.

The Gabriel Knights are stationed in the east of the empire,

Responsible for the eastern defense line, defending the Frankish Empire in the east. The eastern part of the Britannia Empire borders many small countries, so the Gabriel Knights are not only responsible for defending the Frankish Empire, but also defending these other small countries.

The Raziel Knights are stationed in the south of the empire, responsible for the southern defense line, defending the Luo Lin Empire in the south.

The west side of the empire is close to the sea, so the west side is very safe. With this convenient location, the Britannia Empire only needs to be responsible for the enemies in the three directions of north, east and south.

In fact, the empire will not put all the troops of the Knights on the frontier.

At present, the Gabriel Knights have nearly 300,000 troops, but only about 150,000 troops are stationed on the eastern defense line, and the other half of the troops are stationed in the imperial capital Pendragon.

The same is true of the Raziel Knights. Although the Raziel Knights have 200,000 troops, at present, there are only 100,000 troops stationed on the southern defense line, and the other 100,000 troops are also stationed in the imperial capital Pendragon.

These knight soldiers stationed around the imperial capital are responsible for defending the imperial capital and are used as "mobile troops". In simple terms, they are used as "fire brigades".

When the pressure on a line of defense suddenly increased, or a small country suddenly started to make trouble, some knight soldiers stationed in the imperial capital, that is, "mobile troops" were sent to relieve the pressure on the line of defense, or to teach those troublesome small countries a lesson. .

Not long ago, the 100,000 soldiers of the Gabriel Knights who participated in the rescue battle of the Lund Kingdom were the "mobile troops" stationed in Pendragon.

And this rescue battle of the Lund Kingdom is also a very typical case of the empire sending "mobile troops" to teach troublesome small countries.

The current situation of the Michael Knights is somewhat special.

Michael Knights currently does not have any troops stationed in the imperial capital.

Because if the Michael Knights still sent troops to station in the imperial capital, then there would be no one on the northern line of defense.

One year ago, the Holy Hiram Empire sent 200,000 troops southward to attack the Britannia Empire, and the Knights of Michael, who were in charge of defending the Holy Hiram Empire, met it bravely.

And the imperial capital, which received the news of the Holy Hiran Empire's southward invasion, hastened to send all the troops of the Michael Knights originally stationed in the imperial capital to support the northern defense line.

This battle, the Britannia Empire called it "288 years of defense against the North".

This "Northern Defense War in 288" lasted for a full four months, and the fight can be said to be extremely tragic.

Although the Knights of Michael finally successfully resisted the aggression of the Holy Hieran Empire and forced the Holy Hieran Empire and the Britannia Empire to sign a truce treaty, but the original Michael Knights with nearly 200,000 troops also failed at that time. There were only tens of thousands of people left, and the head and deputy head of the Knights of Michael also died in this battle.

It can be said that the Knights of Michael have been disabled.

It was also after this battle that the Knights of Michael lost the title of "The Strongest Knights in the Empire", and this title was taken away by the Knights of Gabriel until now.

There are only tens of thousands of Michael Knights left. If a part is divided to station in the imperial capital, then there will be no troops stationed on the northern line of defense.

Therefore, after the "Northern Defense War in 288", the empire allowed the remaining troops of the Michael Knights to be stationed on the northern line of defense, and there was no need to send troops to station in the imperial capital.

Therefore, since the "Northern Defense War in 288", there are only two knights stationed in Pendragon, the Knights of Gabriel and the Knights of Raziel.

It turned out that the head of the Michael Knights who died in the "North Defense Operation in 288" was also a very powerful knight.

People have been discussing, discussing who is the second knight of the Britannia Empire, Albert, the leader of the Knights of Raziel, and the leader of the Knights of Michael.

It's a pity that this discussion ended after the "Northern Defense Operation in 288".

Because after this battle, the leader of the Michael Knights died in battle.

After his death, the title of the second knight of the empire was naturally taken over by Albert Evans, the leader of the Knights of Raziel.

Albert's name is not only extremely famous in the Britannia Empire, but even more famous in the southern Rollin Empire.

The Raziel Knights are stationed in the south and are responsible for defending the Rollin Empire. The Rollin Empire has always been the imaginary enemy of the Raziel Knights.

Therefore, since Albert became the head of the Knights of Raziel, he has basically been fighting against the Rollin Empire.

Over the years, the center of gravity of the Britannia Empire has been placed on the south and east.

Therefore, in these years, the Britannia Empire launched five large-scale attacks against the Rollin Empire.

Of course, these five large-scale attacks were all carried out by the Raziel Knights who were in charge of dealing with the Rollin Empire.

In these five large-scale attacks on the Rollin Empire, Albert was very active. Albert served as the commander-in-chief of these five attacks on the Rollin Empire.

In these 5 attacks against the Rollin Empire, Albert has achieved excellent results with 2 big victories, 1 small victory, 1 tie, and 1 small loss.

Therefore, Albert's name gradually became feared by the soldiers of the Rollin Empire.

Many soldiers of the Luo Lin Empire trembled uncontrollably after hearing the name Albert.

Such a big man, Su Cheng wanted to get to know him very early on.

However, in July of this year, Albert's old injury recurred, so he has been recuperating at home. He cannot come to important meetings like the "big meeting".

Therefore, since Su Cheng became a knight in September, he has not been able to meet this big man.

"Alyssa." Su Cheng asked Alisa, "Has Mr. Albert's old injury healed?"

"Well, I finally recuperated a few days ago, and I just recovered before the year-end dinner, so Mr. Albert also participated in the year-end dinner tonight."

"That's it." Su Cheng nodded, and then smiled, "I really need to get to know such a big man well, then Alisa, you can take me to find Mr. Albert later, after all, I only want to I know his name, but I don't know what he looks like."

Su Cheng had long wanted to get to know the Second Knight of the Empire who terrified the soldiers of the Luo Lin Empire.

"It's okay, but..."

Speaking of this, Alisa's expression suddenly became weird.

"Su Cheng, I advise you to make some mental preparations first."

"Huh? Mental preparation?" Su Cheng looked puzzled, "What psychological preparation?"

"...You don't know Mr. Albert, so you don't know what Albert is like." Alisa's expression became more and more strange, "Mr. Albert is a...well...a person with a lot of personality. So before meeting him, you'd better make some mental preparations, after all, Mr. Albert is somewhat different from the rumored heroic image of him..."

After listening to Alisa's words, Su Cheng was stunned for a moment, then swallowed involuntarily, thinking to himself:

How much personality does it take to make others tell others to be mentally prepared when they meet him...

In Su Cheng's heart, he couldn't help looking forward to the leader of the Knights of Raziel even more, and wanted to see what kind of person the second knight of the empire was...

"Well! I'm mentally prepared! Alisa." Su Cheng nodded solemnly, "Now take me to find Mr. Albert!"

"Just be mentally prepared..."

Alisa sighed lightly, and then continued:

"It's not urgent to find Mr. Albert. Anyway, the venue is so big and there are only so many people. It's still long before the end of the party. We can find it slowly."

"Before I go to him, I want to make it easier..."

After that, Alisa blushed slightly, and pinched her legs.

"I seem to have drunk too much wine and juice..." Alisa said softly.

"Ah, that's it, then Alisa, go quickly."

While talking, Su Cheng took her knife, fork and plate from Alisa's hand.

"I'll wait for you right here."

"Well, good. I'll be right back."

After handing over all her tableware to Su Cheng, Alisa lifted her skirt and walked quickly to the outside of the venue.

However, after Alisa walked a few steps quickly, she stopped suddenly.

"Hey! Su Cheng!" Alisa turned her head and shouted at Su Cheng, "Don't do strange things to my tableware, especially my fork, when it's convenient for me to go!"

"I won't do it!" Su Cheng replied loudly angrily, "I won't do such a perverted thing!"

"Um..."

Alyssa looked at Su Cheng suspiciously for a few times, then withdrew her gaze, then lifted her skirt again, and walked quickly to the outside of the venue.

After watching Alisa leave, Su Cheng withdrew his gaze, and then looked down.

——Looking at the tableware used by Arisa in her hand.

This is... the fork that Alisa used...

—— Su Cheng thought while looking at Alisa's fork.