Uncle, I am not an ordinary office worker.

Maria always believed that her sister was her protector, her white moonlight, and the person she needed to pursue for her whole life. So when Roy used the famous "Three No's" principle of the Glory Knight and really defeated his opponent as a competitive knight, she immediately became her loyal fan.

She thought that she and Roy were the same, both followers of the Knight of Glory.

But now, Roy suddenly said that his goal was to surpass the Knight of Glory.

Maria's face showed a bit of confusion, but Roy didn't seem to notice this little expression and continued:

"As a supporter of the Three No's of the Brilliant Knights, I have of course thoroughly understood the deeds and life of this senior, including you, Maria Linguang. So of course I know you. And you will definitely become an extraordinary person in the future."

"I, am I amazing?" Maria murmured. Then, as if she had thought of something, she pursed her lips and changed the subject, "By the way, Mr. Roy, before you became a competitive knight, did you fight with others?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" Roy pretended to be confused.

"You have fought with your uncle, right?" Maria asked seriously, "My uncle, Maenna Linguang, you have fought with him, right?"

"Where did you hear about this?" Roy asked.

"It's written in the wine newspaper," Maria replied.

Roy couldn't help laughing, stretched out his hand and ruffled Maria's blonde hair, saying, "Let me tell you a secret, 99% of the news in the Red Wine News is fake news!"

"So..."

Seeing Maria's ears drooping in disappointment, Roy shook his head: "But this is true."

Maria immediately perked up and asked curiously, "Really? What was the result? Who won?"

"Well, I guess I was slightly better in the end. But Manna didn't even bring a sword at the time, she just used a pen, so it doesn't really count."

"Won!" Maria seemed to not care about the second half of Roy's sentence at all, and just kept repeating the word "won".

To her, it didn't matter whether her uncle used a fountain pen or a sword. No one knew her uncle's strength better than her. Even her sister, who won the championship, couldn't take two moves from her uncle even when she was giving it her all. And her uncle was only one-handed at the time, holding a wooden sword. Although a fountain pen sounds a little strange, the fact that the street was destroyed by a gas explosion means that her uncle was definitely serious!

In this way, Roy's strength was completely beyond her imagination.

Maria gritted her teeth and seemed to have made up her mind. She suddenly stood up from her chair, walked to Roy, bowed to him very formally, and pleaded:

"Mr. Roy, although it may be a little sudden, could you please teach me how to be a knight?"

Hearing this, Roy was stunned. Before he could reply, Xinteleya, who was sitting on the other side, finally couldn't stand it anymore. She slapped the table, stood up, and loudly refused:

"No, Roy is my master, no one is allowed to snatch it away!"

Volume 1: Chapter 16 So, what is the price?

"The Tulip Music Restaurant in Sustru is pleased to serve you, dear Miss Viviana, the private room you reserved is here."

Walking into the elegant and high-end music restaurant, Viviana immediately relaxed due to the moving melody.

As a Letanian, she also loves music and art, and this restaurant is undoubtedly the one with the best music style and taste in the entire Cavalleria. For this reason, she specially applied for a membership card here, booked a private room, and dine and rest here every week.

But this time, not long after she entered the restaurant, the melodious music was interrupted by an angry female voice.

"No, Roy is my master, no one is allowed to snatch it away!"

A trace of dissatisfaction flashed across the face of the waiter who led the way. He raised his hand to connect the headset and was about to call other colleagues to remind the lady who was shouting in the restaurant to speak more quietly, but was interrupted by Viviana who suddenly raised her hand.

Although the Tulip Music Restaurant has always been known for its high-end consumption, it is a public place after all. It is not the first time that Viviana has seen someone accidentally making loud noises. In the past, Viviana would just frown and ignore such things, but this time, she unexpectedly stopped, turned her head, and looked in the direction where the sound came from.

She heard a familiar name: "Roy?"

"Master Roy, you can't agree to her!" An angry look appeared on Xinteleya's face. After Roy awkwardly pointed at the quiet environment and the music that stopped, she nodded awkwardly, sat down again, and lowered her voice and said, "How can she ask to be my disciple the first time she meets me? This little guy might have some bad intentions!"

Hearing this, Maria glared at Xinteleya. She didn't know why this kind-hearted white-haired elder sister who agreed to bring her to see Roy suddenly slandered her like this. She could only explain aggrievedly:

"No, that's not the case, Mr. Roy, listen to me."

She sorted out her words and said, "Mr. Roy, you also know that the Brilliant Knight was exiled from Casimir because he concealed his identity as an infected person and participated in the competition. But what you don't know is that after my sister left, the situation of the Lin Guang family did not improve. In fact, it got worse."

"According to the joint regulations of the Supervisory Council, the National Council and the Knights' Association, every knight family must have a chief knight. The chief knight must obtain the title of knight to ensure that the status and inheritance of the knight family will not be revoked by the National Council. The chief knight of the Linguang family used to be my sister, but after she left, the Linguang family no longer has a chief knight."

This is a very realistic problem, so realistic that even an ancient family like the Linguang family is powerless to do anything about it.

Although the Supervisory Council and the National Council have been helping the Linguang family to delay time for the sake of the old Linguang war hero, dragging it on like this is not a solution. The Knights Association is aggressive, and if the problem of the long cavalry is not solved, it is only a matter of time before the Linguang family's status as a knight noble is revoked.

Maria didn't have the ambitions of Margaret, hoping to become the dawn of light in the dark night of Casimir with her meager strength, but her determination and courage to protect her family and clan were no less than any other Lin Guang! So, when Margaret left and her uncle Marner worked day and night for a living, she kept thinking about what she could do for the name of Lin Guang.

Eventually, she came to the conclusion that she would follow her sister's example and participate in knightly competitions as an independent knight under the name of Linguang, win the title, become the long knight of the Linguang family, and carry the banner of this decline.

But this created an obvious problem - she was not strong enough.

Before this idea came up, Maria had been devoting her energy to the craftsmanship, learning the skills of hammer forging from Koval, an Ursus craftsman who had retired for many years. She was not good at fighting, and she did not have the indomitable spirit of Margaret.

So, she has been looking for someone, someone who can teach her.

But Bai Jin obviously didn't believe Maria's words. She asked, "Even if Margaret is gone, doesn't the Linguang family still have your uncle Maenna? Can't he be the long knight?"

Maria shook her head: "Uncle doesn't want to."

"You don't want to? Your family is about to be expelled, and you don't want to?" Bai Jin was a little bit surprised, but looking at Maria's expression, she didn't seem to be lying. He could only say, "Okay, then just assume that he doesn't want to. Why don't you ask him to be your master? He's not weak, right?"

As she spoke, Xinteleya glanced at Roy. She had witnessed the battle between Mayna and Roy. In her mind, even if Mayna was slightly inferior to Roy, he was more than enough to teach Maria. Besides, he was Maria's relative. Wasn't he more trustworthy than Roy, a stranger she had just met? It was obviously unreasonable for Maria to go to Roy instead of him.

But Roy shook his head gently: "Maenna will not agree. What he would be most angry about and what he would not want to see is probably Maria and Margaret going to the knight competition like they did."

The man had two contradictory mentalities: arrogance and despair. No matter which one he was, he was firmly against Maria entering the Knight Arena. This was evident from the fact that he did not intend to intervene during the "Maria: Coming to Light" event, even when Maria was about to be killed by Corruption and Decay on the field. He was obviously extremely angry about his niece's disobedience.

He will not train Maria to be a knight, and he will never get close to Casimir's class of knight. Casimir has no right to award him a medal. It would be better to expect her aunt Zofia, who is participating in this competition, to become her mentor after retiring as per the original plot, than to expect him to teach Maria.

Hearing what Roy said, Xinteleya could only open her mouth, pout helplessly, and turn her head away - she guessed that Roy was planning to accept Maria as his apprentice. She had to think of a way in advance to restrict this girl who had a higher status than her, better bloodline than her, had her own family background and was very familiar with others, so that she would know who was the boss!

But Roy was not so casual. He straightened his expression, looked at Maria seriously, and asked:

"I can promise you, but the question is, what can you give me?"

Roy has always been a very realistic person. He knows that Maria is very talented. In the battle with the Nightmare Knight, her potential was stimulated and she shed golden blood, which is the symbol of the purest and most powerful Pegasus bloodline. As long as she is carefully taught and trained, Maria's future will be limitless.

But that was the future. Maria's talent was always Maria's talent. There were too many talented people in the world, and Roy couldn't teach them all. Moreover, if he accepted Maria as his apprentice, he would have to face more trouble than now. First, if he accepted Maria, he would have to fight with the worker uncle who was competing with him for the title of the strongest social animal in Casimir. Second, it would be difficult to explain to Xuantie.

The BOSS can accept Roy registering and debuting as an independent knight, can accept Roy using the three no's principles of Yao Knight to attract fire, can accept Roy slapping the Chamber of Commerce in the face right away, it probably even welcomes it and has to applaud Roy.

But whether it can accept that Roy is really related to the Yao Knight family, becomes Maria's master, and becomes a big shot in the Supervisory Council, that is hard to say. It asked Roy to be an undercover agent, but he went undercover to the top of the family. If he works harder, he will almost become the son-in-law of the Linguang family. Can the Black Iron throne really be so confident and not worry about Roy devouring the master?

And, the key point is, the system does not give any tasks based on this!

Obviously, Maria's apprenticeship does not mean she has become his boss, so the master-master relationship is obviously not an employment relationship. Even if Roy wants to take advantage of the situation and get some rewards, Maria cannot issue any tasks.

Therefore, if he wants to take the risk to accept Maria, Maria herself must show enough sincerity.

Roy's question obviously made the girl silent. She hadn't even thought about the question.

Mainna's evaluation of Maria was not wrong. She was a flower born in a greenhouse. From childhood to adulthood, she was protected by her grandfather, sister, uncle and other elders and relatives, who kept her from being disturbed by the outside world. But this also made her too naive.

Becoming a disciple, becoming a knight, and regaining glory, these things are easy to say, but it is definitely not as easy to do as she imagined, and they cannot be achieved just by "hard work".

She couldn't even come up with a qualified apprenticeship gift to convince Roy to accept her.

"Why make things so difficult for a little girl, Roy."

Just as Maria lowered her head and was at a loss for words, a soft female voice suddenly sounded and saved her.

Viviana, who had been hiding and secretly listening to a lot of things, walked forward with a smile, exchanged glances with Roy, and said with understanding:

"How about this, Knight Roy, I hire you to be Miss Maria's mentor, how about this?"

After saying this, she nodded slightly to Roy in gratitude.

With Roy's observation ability, it is impossible that he did not notice her secretly eavesdropping not far away. The reason why he did not expose her and even took the initiative to force Maria into trouble was to give her the opportunity to appear at this time.

He sold himself a favor, giving himself the opportunity to sell the Linguang family a favor.

This was undoubtedly a warm and thoughtful gift for Viviana, who had only mentioned in passing during a conversation with Roy that she wanted to break free from the constraints of big business.

He actually kept this matter in mind. How can he repay Lin Guang for his debt of gratitude and for the opportunity to connect with the Jianzheng Association?

Roy nodded to Viviana and asked with a smile: "So, what is the price?"

Viviana smiled softly, just like the candlelight on a cold night, warm and charming: "Mein ein und alles (Whatever you want, how about it)?"

PS: It's the uncle and aunt's turn to come on stage.

Volume 1: Chapter 17: Mrs. Casimir, please calm down.

Maena felt that something was wrong with her niece recently.

For example, she who never read newspapers suddenly started to pick up the newspapers she had finished reading, always hid from me when I turned on the TV, and often sneaked out, and I didn't know what she was doing.

Naturally, these things could not be hidden from Mainna. Maria was the girl she brought up. How could he not see that this child was hiding something?

Originally, Manna was not willing to take care of these things. Unlike his conservative and old-fashioned behavior, his ideas on parenting were very advanced. Children had their own way of living. As long as they did not go astray, there was no need for elders to criticize and restrict them too much. Otherwise, when he went out to be a ranger, wouldn't his father Cyril be mad at the mess he caused?

But today, he pushed open the door with a dark face, and as soon as he entered the house, he shouted to the empty house:

"Maria, Maria, where are you?"

"Don't try to hide. Your aunt Zofia told me everything. You want to be a jousting knight? Have you forgotten what happened to your sister? Have you forgotten what I taught you since you were a child?"

Mainna was rarely so angry. What happened today really made him too angry. On his way home from get off work, he ran into Zofia from the side branch. She was younger than Margaret, but in terms of seniority, she was the aunt of the two sisters. Perhaps out of concern for the two sisters, Zofia took the initiative to ask Mainna as soon as she saw her:

"Maenna, are you usually busy?"

Mainna, who was originally planning to just nod and say hello and leave, frowned slightly, but still nodded: "Normally. Just nine to nine, six days a week."

Zofia immediately showed an expression of "as expected", sighed, and said helplessly: "No wonder that child found me here."

"That child?" A bad feeling welled up in Manna's heart. Margaret was exiled, and the only person Zofia could call the child was Maria. Upon learning that Maria had actually taken the initiative to look for Zofia without telling him, Manna immediately asked, "What did Maria look for you for?"

"She wanted me to teach her knightly sports. She looked so serious. If I wasn't preparing for the tournament, I would have agreed."

Sophia replied, and advised Mauna:

"I say, Myna, are you really going to let Maria inherit the position of the family's chief knight? Although the child is very sensible, we all know that it is very dangerous to let her go to the competition."

"Why on earth are you unwilling to inherit this position? You are obviously the most qualified person besides Margaret. Even if we only consider the money and status, playing a few games is much better than staying in that company and working 996, right?"

"What do you know? 996 is a blessing. Casimir should be thankful that 996 still exists."

Maenna retorted in dissatisfaction. Then she turned around and walked away quickly towards home, so fast that even Zofia, who had already qualified for the special championship and was only one step away from the "two-character" title, could not catch up with her despite her best efforts.

After unexpectedly hearing such explosive news, alarm bells rang in Mainna's mind, and she wanted to fly back home immediately to confront Maria.

But as he called out Maria's name and searched room after room, his expression gradually became serious.

Looking at Zofia who was chasing after him breathlessly, Mayenna did not hide the coldness in his tone and asked:

"Where's my niece? Where's Maria? I ask you, where's Maria?"

The future Whip Blade Knight was frightened by this momentum, and subconsciously took a step back, waving his hand and shaking his head, saying: "I don't know!"

Maria had come to her and asked her to help her train to become an excellent knight. But Zofia was really busy recently. The special tournament was about to start, and the points competition for the last few places was in full swing. She had to fight at least three knights every day who tried to challenge her and take away her points and places, and more capital and companies who tried to bribe her to join the Knights or to play fake games. She was already busy and had no time to teach Maria.

After receiving this rejection, Maria left her. As for where she went later, how could Zofia know?

"Did she say anything to you before she left? Or asked anything?" After hearing this explanation and confirming that Sofia had no reason and was not lying, Mainna asked with a frown.

Speaking of this, Zofia clapped her hands and recalled, "Oh yes, she seemed to have asked me for inside information about the recent popular match in the newspapers, and also asked me if I knew the independent knight. Unfortunately, I didn't know him either."

Zofia couldn't even spare the time to teach Maria, let alone sit down and drink tea and read the newspaper leisurely. He had heard about Roy's affairs, but had never really come into contact with him.

After all, Roy was just a beginner knight, while Zofia was a quasi-senior knight who had just entered the Special Championship. In any aspect, the difference was like heaven and earth. The reason why she had heard of Roy was, firstly, because the publicity was so intense that the whole city knew about it, and secondly, because the Rusty Bronze Knight who was supposed to fight with her lost so badly that his reputation was wiped out, resulting in her losing an opponent in the Special Championship. So she only had a slight impression of this name.

Zofia pursed her lips and confirmed: "Well, it seems to be an independent knight named Roy. He suddenly appeared under the name of Margaret and defeated Rusty Bronze right away. He is a very powerful character."

It was visibly that Mainna's already gloomy expression suddenly froze.

"Who?" he asked in disbelief, his mouth wide open.

It was the first time that Zofia saw him show such an expression. She also realized that things might not be as simple as he thought, and immediately replied: "Roy."

Mainna's eyelids twitched. He was silent for a while, then he sighed deeply, turned and walked into his bedroom, took out his sword that had not been used for a long time, and walked out the door.

Zofia was stunned by this, and consciously stepped aside to make way for Marner. She watched his back as he pushed open the door and gradually disappeared in the moonlight. She couldn't believe her eyes. Ever since Snitzer disappeared and Marner was forced to return home, how long had it been since she saw Marner carrying a sword and going out with a murderous look on his face?

Who is that Roy? Is he an old enemy of Marna? Or is he one of the members of the Business Federation who framed Margaret as an infected person?

Zofia didn't know, but the person who could make Mainna draw his sword must be extraordinary!

Zofia hesitated for a moment, walked to the table, and picked up the landline phone at Lin Guang's house. She was not as cautious as Maenna, and she knew that something big might happen, so she immediately planned to call the Grand Knight Commander.

Why not use the ready-made connections? This concerns Maria's life. Zofia doesn't care what others think of Lin Guang!

“Beep—” “Click.”

Before the call was connected, the sound of a door opening was heard again at the entrance. Mayenna's face was dark, and he was holding a sword. Without looking back, he kept rushing into the room, looking extremely angry.

Before Zofia could ask what happened and why he came back so soon, a loud slam of the door separated her and Mainna into two spaces.