"One hundred crystal cores with LV50 or above have to do it themselves. Well, you can also let your honorary knights take action. It's really troublesome. If there is no such conditional limit, this number will not be a big deal for me." Head muttered and walked towards the stone round house where the purple-haired girl Sima lived, preparing to tell her that she was about to go far in the period and would not go to her to teach herself with her for the time being.

The so-called proof of bravery of the nobles is a traditional ritual of the Olympian Empire. Every time when you are promoted to a title, under the supervision of another noble, the nobles who perform proof of bravery must hunt 100 ranks or more of the fifth-level monsters with their honorary knights within a certain time limit, retrieve their crystal cores and hand them over to the Emblem Academy as proof of bravery, and the limit time is one month.

To put it bluntly, this is equivalent to a disguised payment of a certain "process fee" for the promotion of the title to the Imperial Heraldry Academy. Of course, this ceremony was written into the imperial constitution from the insistence of the founding emperor Olympus I. The overlord attached great importance to the concept of courage.

This ceremony is actually not too difficult. Even some nobles with extremely weak strength can pass it smoothly. Because they can carry out hunting activities with selected honorary knights, they can just throw their hands on their hands as an outing, and they can do it happily while they are free and happy.

When Head told Sima the reason, the purple-haired girl congratulated Haid for obtaining the official noble title, but after that she hesitated for a long time before she tentatively spoke to Head: "... Actually, the tutor recently hopes that I will do some practical exercises, but I am very unfamiliar with these aspects. Can you take me with me at the same time?"

"It should be no problem," said Head. "The place we are going to is the gray mountain outside the city. Because this area is close to the black stone forest, the group of monsters living in is relatively weak. It is also an area that many hunters often go to. There will not be too powerful monsters. It is quite suitable as a place for practical training."

"Yes." Sima nodded in joy.

"Then make some preparations. Because most of the monsters in this area are very weak, it may take more time for my bravery trial to collect hundreds of fifth-level monster crystal cores." Haid thought for a while, "Well, it's the cold season again, and it's not easy to search for lurking monsters. Although the weather has warmed up slightly, I guess I'll have to stay there for at least ten days."

Sima had no experience in these aspects at all, so Head simply took her back to her residence.

"Haha, Head, you finally got the baron. Well, you should change your words to Lord Head..." Majik said happily.

Head waved his hand and interrupted him: "What are you not yours, just call him the same name. Besides, you are also a knight of honor now. It is not an exaggeration to say that you are a majority of nobles."

Majik smiled, and he knew that Heid didn't care much about the etiquette of these names, but when there were serious things, it was completely different. "Heid, you are almost sixteen years old, and it is rare to be promoted from a civilian to a nobleman at such a young age."

"It will be much more convenient to do a lot of things with a title." Haid subconsciously touched the faint beard or hair on his chin. In this cold season, he began to grow. His height grew more than ten centimeters and his body became much stronger, but he was still inferior to the tall Des.

The purple-haired girl looked at the small and exquisite honorary Knight badge on the silver-haired female apprentice's chest with half curiosity and half enviousness, and seemed very interested, and turned to Head and said, "Heide, can you give me one of this badge?"

After a moment of silence, Head reminded: "Simma, do you know what the Knight of Honor means?"

"I know, I have read many story books, and I like the story of the brave and his honorary knights adventure together." The purple-haired girl's natural answer made Haid speechless.

"Especially the love story of the hero and the female knight who silently supports him..."

Before Sima finished speaking, she was interrupted by Des' cough, "Teacher, let's discuss the luggage we need to carry."

"Um."

"That badge...", Sima seemed a little obsessed with the silver badge designed by the sword and shield.

"I can't give this to you for the time being, and it requires the consent of your mentor Shultias." Haid deliberately did not look at Sima's somewhat disappointed eyes, and turned around and began to discuss various things that needed to be prepared with others.

There are many things to prepare for outdoor hunting, and Head also estimated that this semi-out-like hunting will take a long time, so we must prepare simple tents, sleeping bags, cooking tools, portable dry food, seasonings and many other miscellaneous items in advance.

"It's a pity that I can't get space storage jewelry and other things now, otherwise I won't need to worry about the items I carry." Head was a little helpless. The space storage jewelry of the Olympus Empire was extremely rare. In addition to the small amount of special space storage jewelry left from the last dynasty, this high-end industry of super luxury goods is currently monopolized by the imperial royal family.

Space storage jewelry is extremely complex and professional. Even the little fairy craftsman Ke Bi is completely unfamiliar with its principles, let alone manufacturing it. Haid only knows that this thing not only requires extremely rare materials, but also has extremely complex and slow manufacturing processes. Only a very small amount of finished products are circulated in the noble families of high-ranking titles. These are all rewarded by Olympus' royal families to those who have made meritorious people.

Therefore, space storage jewelry is a rare treasure. Many families will cherish this thing as a family heirloom treasure. Only the elite children who pay the most attention to can obtain the right to use it. Even wealthy families like the West family only own a few. For example, the red-haired Countess Wina has a bracelet-shaped shape, and it is not a top-notch product, which means that the internal storage space is relatively small.

"There are still many things that need to be purchased. Uncle, you take them to the market to buy the items on this list. I have some things to deal with." After setting up the purchase list, Head and several people acted separately, and he also needed to deal with some other matters.

First, he went to Kebi's workshop to retrieve some "crystal core Rubik's Cube bombs". After these little technical madmen's crazy research day and night, he had roughly determined various detailed information and produced a small number of relatively stable finished products.

As the royal fairy said, the crystal cores that can be used in this source-power detonation weapon can only use crystal cores below LV50. Although the third-level Rubik's Cube structure is equipped with twenty-six elemental crystal cores above LV40 and below LV50, the destructive power generated by the powerful person with a level seven strength is almost close to the attack of a strong man with a level seven strength, the excitation time is very unstable. Sometimes it will explode for more than two or three minutes, and sometimes it will explode within a few seconds. This is really difficult to act as a controllable attack weapon.

The simplest Rubik's Cube bomb made of four crystal nuclei filled with the simplest two-level Rubik's Cube structure is the most stable and will definitely trigger an explosion within five seconds, but its power is very low, roughly equivalent to the explosive attack power of the filled crystal nuclei level. Therefore, even if an elemental crystal nuclei of about LV40 is added, it can only produce the attack power of a small magician of about the fourth-level strength of the black magician.

The most complex fourth-level Rubik's Cube structure design that is currently handed over to the fairies is still in the research stage, because the structure of this Rubik's Cube is much more complex than that of the third-level Rubik's Cube. After filling various elemental crystal cores, you will encounter many problems. Either it is completely silent or it is incompletely stimulated. I guess this thing doesn't have to think about achieving results in a short period of time.

So this time, Head took several third-level Rubik's Cube bombs filled with LV30 crystal cores. This type of Rubik's Cube bomb is the most detailed study by the little fairies. It is the most safe and has a relatively stable power. Considering that there may be some emergencies, he also took two third-level Rubik's Cube bombs with the greatest power. Anyway, this thing is relatively small, and thrown in the backpack will not take up too much space.

Later, Head came to a Golden Ape Alliance stronghold in the city, met Ninijia, and explained her where she was going during this period.

"I will lead four fifth-level subordinates to secretly follow you and protect you." Niniga said this after understanding Head's schedule.

"Well, I don't think it's necessary. The situation in Roland City has been a bit strange recently. Judging from your information collection, several unidentified underground organizations have entered," Head frowned. "Although I speculate that it is likely that they are subordinates of the families of the generals of the Imperial Capital, I still need to be vigilant."

Seeing that Niniga seemed to have different opinions, Head smiled, "The gray mountain area is a very ordinary hunting area, and it is relatively close to the Roland Fortress, so there will be no problem. To be honest, this bravery proof ceremony is equivalent to an outing in my opinion. There are eighth-level masters like Lord Vina, and it is really difficult to have problems."

Ninijia was silent for a moment. Thinking that the recent investigation showed that most high-level monsters recently joined the dark tide in the south. Indeed, it was difficult to see monsters above LV60 in other areas, so she changed her words: "Then I will follow you secretly and be responsible for the contact work."

Head looked at her, and from Niniga's expression, it was her biggest concession. He no longer insisted and took out a badge of honorary knights and handed it over.

"Okay, you can use this badge temporarily. If you are aware of it, you can use the Knight of Honor to explain your identity."

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(The second update, the recent chapters are roughly transitional and prelude to plots, well, there won't be too many.)
Chapter completed!