Chapter 94

“Congratulations, Lord . ”

When Luke was done with the honoring ceremony, Philip and Mabu, the wagon driver, congratulated him .

“Thank you, let’s get out of the palace quickly . ”

Luke, who had no intention of staying in the Baroque Empire any longer, hurried them to get going .

When they were about to exit the garden and enter their wagon .

They heard someone calling them from the back .

“Hold on, who could this be? If it isn’t Philip who had been kicked out of the Knights of Guard?”, said someone .

When they turned back to see who it was, three knights dressed as guards were approaching their direction .

With a grin on their faces, they were laughing at Philip .

“You, you guys are…!”, stuttered Philip .

Philip’s face hardened after looking at the faces of the knights .

It was because they were the three people who made Philip quit the Knight’s training .

“After leaving the Knight’s of Guard, are you now the escort of this little boy?”

As he glanced at Luke, the guard, who was talking, walked toward Philip .

Wiggle!

Luke moved in front of Philip, who was feeling uncomfortable, and said,

“I am Luke de Rakan . Who are you?”

“Ah! You are the descendant of Rakan who was getting the title ceremony today . I am Juan, the third son of Marquis Makrev, and these are my colleagues Jake and Carwin . ”

Marquis Makrev was one of the key figures of the emperor . A large noble with a manor in the eastern part and the other were all noble figures .

Juan bowed to Luke and asked with a doubtful expression,

“But Lord, do you know? Philip had committed a sin during his stay at the Knight’s quarters . ”

“What sin?”, asked Luke .

“He took out the magic stone from a Gigant which belonged to a knight and then sold it off . Lord, I advise you to please be careful around him . He might touch your Gigant too, hehehe . ”

Juan responded with a mean laugh at the end . His fellow knights too began to laugh .

Luke looked at Philip who had turned stiff because of their words .

Luke looked at the three knights who were standing in front of them .

“I don’t think that Sir Philip had done that . And even if he did do something like that, I know that there is a valid reason for why he did . ”, said Luke .

“Reason, what reason?! That guy is a natural born-thief, not a knight . He had the seeds and teachings of the back alley,” said Juan

‘Kuek! That bastard!’ thought Philip .

At the words that Juan had spoken about him, Philip ground his teeth .

The truth was that Juan was the one who had pulled and sold the magic stone from the Gigant at the Knight’s quarters . Philip knew that and yet he was the one who took the blame .

That led to the board assuming that Philip was betting and gambling in the Gigant Arena .

It was true that Philip had entered and attended the Gigant Arena .

However, it was the responsibility of every mercenary riders to build better controls and improve their skills . He never gambled .

Juan however, said that he witnessed the supposed rule-breaking that Philip did, despite him never meeting Philip .

At that time, the Knights of Guard had a hard time giving out their decision . It was mainly because of the fact that the witness was from a prestigious noble family .

In the end, the board decided to side with the noble and dismissed Philip .

Frustrated and irritated with the malicious acts in the Knight’s Guard, Philip eventually resigned .

After encountering a lot of problems, he had gone to the Rakan Viscount at the invitation of Rogers .

“If you are going to walk around with such a guy, then the Lord’s reputation… Uh, what would others think of you?”

Luke took out the glove which he was wearing and threw it on Juan’s face .

Juan was surprised at what happened .

Taking one’s glove off and throwing it on another person meant that the person was being asked into a duel, at least in the case of nobles .

“Philip is a knight that I trust . I don’t know if what you’re saying is true, but I won’t keep still if someone defiles his reputation right in front of me,” said Luke with a firm voice .

Juan, who had never even thought that Luke would ask for a duel, asked with an absurd expression,

“Did, did you just ask us in a duel, right now?”

“Yeah, I did . Why, scared? Because you are a guard?” asked Luke .

At the provocation of Luke, the three of them were in a huge concern .

Even if he was indeed the descendant of the great Warrior Rakan, the three guards were older, stronger and from high influential noble families .

Right when they were about to accept the duel…

“Lord! This duel, please leave it to me!”

Philip knelt in front of Luke and shouted .

“You want to?”

Luke didn’t want Philip to have a duel with those three .

Even nobles couldn’t just go and have a duel with nobles from much higher families, and Luke was just a knight, a normal knight .

If the rumors went out that a knight, Philip, had a duel with the guards of the Emperor, then Philip would be surely punished in the worst way possible .

However, the eyes of Philip were burning with determination . He wanted to settle things with them once and for all .

“… Okay . In that case, you need to win . ”

“Thank you,” responded Philip after being granted the permission .

Luke looked back at Juan and said,

“I have to keep my dignity as a Lord . Hence, I will have Philip represent me in this duel . ”

“Huh, we have no intention to raise our sword against a thief . ”

“Are you saying that you’re going to run away with your tail between your legs? Nowadays, maybe the tongues of the knights are being sharpened instead of their swords . You can’t even deal with a thief?”

As Luke mocked them, the three took the bait in an instant .

“Kuek, fine . We accept . ”