Chapter 98: The Knights’ Tournament (Part 1)
A few weeks after Melina’s birthday, the winter season slowly came to an end while spring arrived in the kingdom.
The people in the castle and the streets were going around hanging decorations for the city’s festival, and the area for the knight’s tournament had been cleared out.
Melina and I were overseeing the fighting arena out of pure curiosity, and to our surprise, the supreme commander of the knights was present there, too.
He was an older man who seemed to be in his 50s. He had long brown hair, a few white strands showcasing his age, and a severe facial expression.
Noticing the princess there, the man approached us and introduced himself.
His name was Thorne Starcrest, the Supreme Commander of the Knight’s Orders.
He was the man in charge of all of the seven knight groups that existed in the kingdom. Not only was he the one responsible for sending them to their respective locations, but he also directed the new recruits to the order he deemed appropriate and was supposed to take care of all of their training, too.
However, everything I had heard about the supreme commander up to the point I met him were pretty awful things.
For starters, I knew he was one of those stupid nobles who considered himself above everyone else, which was obvious by how he carried himself around.
The 4th Order that was stationed in our town was the only knight’s order that was filled with commoners, except for Commander Thomas, who never discriminated against the knights under his command.
The reason the order was all commoners was because the supreme commander Thorne didn’t want nobles to mingle with them, so he decided to send them all into a single group.