High Above

Chapter 496 Lord Knight Ian (13)

Become a lord?

Even for Ian, this result was too shocking. Ian looked at Isengard with questioning eyes.

——Do you know about this? A surprise for me?

The other person shook his head blankly.

——How could I know!

This was indeed the case, and Isengard knew nothing of it.

Theoretically speaking, Mrs. Ellen does not have the right to grant lords. Even Marquis Ellen himself can only grant knights in his own territory, and he will certainly not be able to control the South Ridge.

And Ryan Territory...his territory is in Ryan Territory? Right. Baron Ryan is dead and has no heirs. I am afraid that his relatives do not meet the conditions for the imperial title. In this case, it should be split into several knights and given to some mountain knights and others like himself. The Imperial Knight.

Ian had made contributions in the Ryan Territory Incident. It is reasonable for him to be allocated a territory, but it is not realistic... Mainly because he is so young and has no credit, how could he...

unless……

"Wait a minute. I said before, why did all my achievements go to the role of Inspector Knight, and my feelings are waiting for me here?

Ian suddenly realized that he had indeed accomplished a lot along the way, especially in assisting Tres in quelling the train hijacking incident. Although he got off the train midway and avoided a possible trap, all the credits added up showed that his qualifications were indeed sufficient. .

The question is, who did it for him?

"Is it Marquis Barton? Or Lady Ellen? Or the Second Prince? Forget it, they are all in the same group, let alone a knight leader. For these people, it is probably just a small thing to tie me up. …”

With thoughts racing in his mind, Ian had already entered the mansion with Isengard, and was guided by the maid into a separate room nearby.

Even the corridors of the main imperial residence of the Ellen family are splendid. There are lights like the sun hanging on the straight corridors, giving people a sense of warmth.

Isengard left midway. Mrs. Ellen had something to say to him, and Ian was led into a door. There was a set of the same silver-gray Inspector Knights standard armor that Tres wore before. .

"The question is, why are they so anxious to make me a lord? I am a citizen, first level, knight. Apart from not having the second level, I have basically touched the edge of the nobility, and I can do anything big. I’m qualified—if I go back to Nanling now and get a development document, I can lay a new foundation in the redwood forest, there’s no way they don’t know about it.”

While thinking, the young man finished putting on the armor with the help of his attendants: "So, this territory is not just for wooing me...it's up to me to choose. To put it bluntly, this sentence means that the land in the future, The entire Ryan Territory belongs to me, so there is no difference, just choose whichever one you like."

"Leave aside the mountain people's protests, they are meaningless, and I can definitely negotiate with the Manya elders... After all, why did Ryan give me such a large place of origin of alchemy materials like this? Viscount Grant is angry! So I will never Maybe just for me..."

"Is it possible that the internal struggle within the Ellen family is getting more intense... and that they want to prepare an escape route for Isengard?"

Thinking of this, Ian felt that he had grasped the core of the problem. He looked around the entire Ellen family mansion, and a water-colored halo lit up.

Immediately, two dark silver and deep purple rays of light lit up, plus a large amount of blue or purple mist... It closed immediately after a glance.

There are two fourth-level people in the residence of the Ellen family! And Mrs. Ellen herself is also a second-level high-level sublimator!

Once you reach the heart light level, which is the peak of the second energy level, it can't be solved by just drinking magic potion. If the sublimated person does not clarify his will and belief, merge his soul and body into one, and achieve the state of melting one body, the light of the heart will not be born.

It's hard to say whether Mrs. Ellen has this talent, but at the very least, she is not a fragile lady without faith, but she has not yet reached the point where she has no hesitation, so she has not advanced to the third level.

As for the other two fourth energy levels...

"They are all acquaintances."

One of them was the one whom I met at the headquarters of the Patrol Knights before, the deputy leader of the Patrol Knights, the "Frost Trail Knight".

And the other one...is the second prince Mikael's light body.

No Marquis Ellen, or even Marquis Ellen's subordinates, were present.

"really."

Ian thought thoughtfully, and he probably understood: "Marquis Ellen himself has a very ambiguous attitude towards Isengard. The internal struggle within the Ellen family must be quite fierce. If he continues to stay in the imperial capital, his safety may not be guaranteed."

"But if it's in the far south, Isengard will at least have a place of refuge in times of crisis to avoid assassinations that are too dangerous."

The Inspector Knight's standard armor is actually surprisingly advanced. Although it is not a sublimated armor, it has many functions.

After the attendant placed the T-shaped mental armor on the back of Ian's neck at the 'Information Bone', he noticed that the front of the black crystal helmet in front of him was lit up with layers of dense subtitles and logos.

"Oh? Is it actually an information-based armor?"

Now Ian was a little surprised. The subtitles that appeared on the inside of the helmet covered many aspects, including time, temperature, wind speed and key target selection... Although the accuracy is much lower than that of the silver chip, looking at the UI, it seems that When the patrol knights perform tasks collectively, can they conduct voice conversations and even subtitle communications through the built-in communication device?

This is... quite useful.

This kind of collaborative combat equipment should be common within the elite military forces of the Central Empire.

"and……"

Ian squinted his eyes, and he conducted reverse exploration through the signal at the signal bone, and found that there was actually a directly connected port on the back of the armor... and it was a specialized, physically encrypted port for the armor.

"If you don't wear similar armor or equipment, can't you drive a military armor? Sure enough, the pirate armor was just a special case. It seems that it will be difficult to grab an armor and start driving directly in the future."

"No. With my current status, I don't need to rob, but forcefully recruit."

Wearing armor, Ian came to the hall. Sure enough, Mrs. Ellen, Isengard, Deputy Captain Frost Trace, and a shining bird-shaped heart light body all looked at him.

They seemed to be communicating about the Lonely Mountain Conference before, but after Ian arrived, they turned their attention to him.

"Yes, you are very adaptable to the Xunbone - Isengard told me that you are a genius armor pilot. You defeated the second-level monster in Nanling in the first time you drove the pirate armor. In this regard, Adaptability is also true genius.”

Mrs. Ellen said with appreciation: "I was a little skeptical at first, but when I saw how smoothly you could control this armor, I immediately believed it."

The deputy leader of Shuangji on the side also looked very interested: "The adaptability is quite strong. As expected of a psychic, he is quick to get started in this area."

Ian was stunned. He really didn't realize that there was any difficulty in controlling this standard armor at first - but after Mrs. Ellen said it, he noticed it.

"So that's it. This armor is very heavy. Even the sublimated ones need to exert force to drive it. They need to cooperate with the Xingu to allow the armor to drive itself so that it can move freely as usual."

Ian couldn't help but blame himself for being careless. He was so used to the feeling of connecting to external devices that it felt like he was back at home, and he couldn't feel anything suspicious.

For humans in the world of Terra, although they all have the Xingbone, an organ used to connect various electronic devices and psychic devices, they actually do not have this habit.

He accidentally showed too much genius again, and he remembered it this time.

Just as Ian thought, the reason why the heartlight bodies of the deputy leader of the Frost Trail and the second prince Mikael are here is to replace the Marquis of Barton as the knight leader of the Ryan Territory before Ian was awarded the title. witness.

In the ranks of knights, there are many levels below the third-level great knight.

After all, not all second-level knights can become nobles, and not all knights need a territory to become a knight lord.

Within the Order of Inspectors, there is the title of 'Inspector Knight', which is generally awarded to veteran knights with a large number of meritorious deeds and the qualifications to independently lead a team and establish a branch of the Order in a local area.

There are also royal knights directly affiliated with the royal family within the palace. Even the four major orthodox religions have the qualifications to be canonized as paladins. Even the Institute of Truth and the Institute of Gnosis also have related honorary knight titles.

But the most common titled knights in Terra are actually lord knights.

And now, Ian is about to be canonized as a lord.