The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 847 The first batch of knights graduated!

Roland's brainwashing of Denethor II was very successful, and his conspiracy was so brilliant that even the knowledgeable Adolf Heinrich could not find any fault with it. Of course, River Rapids was also prospering under the control of Queen Nyx.

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"Hello, Lord Adila, what can I do for you?" Nix sat on the first seat and looked at old man Adila who was coming to see her below. This old hero who was at the end of his career would not normally come to them on his own initiative, which made Nix feel a little nervous. She couldn't help but sit up straight and look at the old man below, wondering what important matter could have caused this old man to come and see her.

"Your Majesty, this year's knights are about to graduate. You see..." Adila hesitated.

  Looking at Adila's old face, Nyx's heart moved, and she suddenly realized that the seeds she planted five years ago have now borne fruit!

Five years ago, under Roland's instructions, the Kingdom of Lagrande took the lead in completing the construction of the knight career system! From the most basic knight school to the advanced knight arena, the one-stop construction has arrived, and now it is the harvest season!

  "How many professional knights can the temple provide to the kingdom this year?" Nyx asked curiously. After all, education and the professional system are slow processes. Nyx and Roland did not expect to get results quickly. As a result, five years later, the first batch of knights who truly studied in the system were born in the kingdom! These are not the war barbarians that Adile used to find some seedlings and use quick and wild methods to train them. These knights have focused on cultural training and combat literacy since their training. In other words, these knights will become the cornerstone of the kingdom's future (after they retire). They are the future sheriffs of the kingdom and even the empire!

"We can provide five outstanding graduating knights this year! Each of them has been trained by the kingdom system and has the potential to become a grassroots officer. The only thing they lack is practical training." Adila said calmly, as if having five knights was a very honorable thing.

"Only 5 knights?" Nyx frowned. She didn't expect that after five years of training, the knight system created by selecting young men with knight potential from all over the kingdom could only provide 5 regular knights a year.

"Well... there are only five knights who can actually graduate, the others are either apprentice knights or haven't reached the threshold of knighthood yet..." Adile said with a bitter face. Creating something from scratch is already a test of a person's ability. It's already quite good that he can use Roland's broken ship to get to this point.

"After all, we are training the backbone of the future kingdom, elite knights who are armed to the teeth and will expand the territory for Your Majesty, not reckless men who only know how to kill..." Adilai explained. If we just wanted people, that would be too easy! But those cannon fodder knights have no future. He believed that Roland and Nyx would not have gone to such great lengths just to get a group of cannon fodder that would be quickly consumed.

"You are right! Since Your Majesty is not here, I will exercise the authority of the queen!" Then Nyx lifted her skirt and stood up solemnly.

"I will officially anoint them as knights of the kingdom and witness their oath of loyalty!" Nyx's voice was calm and majestic.

"Yes, sir!" Although Adila was excited, he remained calm.

As Roland's wife and the queen of the Kingdom of Lagran, Nyx has the right to exercise the rights of a queen. After all, in the political system of the Lagran Empire, the emperor and the queen are almost dual rulers. Both of them have their own legal political rights and can restrict each other. However, queens rarely rule in the name of the queen. Although they don't often use it, they do have this right. Now Nyx will exercise her queen's authority to enthronize and accept these new knights. The reason why Nyx did this was that although knights were not nobles, they still needed the recognition and enthronement of the lords to comply with the law. Although there were many lords who could witness the enthronement of knights, Nyx was here after all. According to the title and status, it should be Nyx who did it. In addition, she felt that there was no need to trouble Roland for such a small matter, so she took care of it herself.

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"Oh? The first batch of knights graduated from the Knight School?" Roland looked at the briefing from River Rapids, which clearly recorded the successful establishment and birth of the knight system and the fact that Nyx was canonized and accepted the loyalty of the knights.

"So few? Only five?" Darien Nightblade was eating cheese on the side, when he suddenly heard something exciting happening. He hurried over, and was a little disappointed when he saw it.

"Little? The kingdom should be happy that it can cultivate knights, a strategic talent, in a self-sufficient and systematic way!" Roland said unhappily. It was amazing that Adila alone and some retired knights could run the entire system of the Knights Templar. They were now cultivating the Imperial Hexagonal Knights, not the "pseudo-knights" that were hastily cultivated at the beginning (although they were also knights, their quality was far inferior to that of the Temple Academy Knights who were systematically cultivated! Their only role was to fight! And the Academy Knights could do many more things!)

  "The Knights are not in a hurry to expand. Isn't the Flow Road under construction? Isn't it time to choose the sheriffs of the towns along the way?" Roland knocked on the table and set the tone. It would be a crime to put these knights who are both civil and martial in the Knights to accompany the orcs to watch the sand. The vast number of vacant grassroots positions in the kingdom are their real positions! (Although the knights assigned by the system are also academic knights, Roland will not be so stupid as to do something as stupid as breaking up his own Knights.)

"Well, that's a good idea!" Adolf Heinrich nodded in agreement. There was no other way. Roland, who was short of grassroots officials at the time, almost planned to disband the Mage Corps and become sheriffs. Although a team of forbidden spell mages was very tempting, Roland did not lack that forbidden spell now. As the kingdom developed faster and faster, counter-urbanization was an inevitable trend. A large number of people would move away from the city to open up villages and towns. These villages and towns that sprung up like mushrooms after a rain would inevitably involve the energy of the kingdom's officials. Compared with the expensive law enforcers, the knights were much cheaper.

"Finally, we have solved a hidden danger in the future, so we won't be in a rush when the time comes!" Roland said easily. Although it seems that there are only five people now, it seems that this is a continuous training system, not a one-time deal! As long as Roland doesn't commit suicide, this system will continue to exist. Of course, he needs enough knights to pass on these things.

"Tell us about our plan!" Adolf Heinri hoped and Roland looked at the others.

"It is obvious that Mordor will not start another war. Thanks to your majesty's plan, I think Mordor will probably fight Gondor to the death and will not have the time to care about us. The Easterlings were also beaten to pieces by our battle and are now licking their wounds. So what should we do next? This requires you to make the decision!" Adolf Heinrich handed the difficult problem back to Roland.

"I suggest that we improve the capital first, and then we will focus on recuperation. We will not take the initiative to provoke any war. As for bleeding them, we can leave it to our allies and vassals!" Roland looked at everyone and laughed.