The appearance of Guardian Knights could be traced back to the first War of Magic. Since Magicians were generally weak and lacked close combat abilities, they were easy targets for assassins, thieves, and other professions to ambush them on the chaotic battlefield. Thus, the military sent out specialized close combat squads to protect Magicians. On the battlefield, many Magicians fought alongside their squads and forged deep friendships with each other.
After the war ended, the assassination of the mages did not stop. Instead, it became more and more intense. After witnessing the powerful performance of the mages on the battlefield, the fear of the other races towards these weak humans who could summon the wind and summon the rain had reached its peak.
In order to protect themselves, some Magicians joined the military or served the royal family, becoming court Magicians. However, most Magicians preferred to live a free life. For these people, it was fine if they stayed in school or in the Mage Tower, but once they went out, they would easily become the targets of assassins.
With no other choice, Magicians could only ask for help from their old comrades. Apart from the deep friendship forged during the war, Magicians also offered these old friends extremely generous rewards. As everyone knew, Magicians were a group of people who were relatively rich. Naturally, they would not be stingy with their former comrades. In the end, many experts chose to leave the military and were hired by Magicians to become their personal bodyguards.
With so many people lost, the military was naturally very nervous. However, despite being nervous, they were actually somewhat helpless in this situation. After all, the duty of a soldier was to protect the country. The military could not shirk the responsibility of the assassination of Magicians on their territory.
However, they could not really deploy the army to protect every Magician. That would be too much of a military expenditure. The war had just ended, and the country was still recuperating. There was no money in the treasury, and too many men had died in the war. Now, there were large tracts of fertile land in the villages that were not being farmed. It was obviously unrealistic to increase the tax burden.
Now, it was equivalent to the Magicians taking the initiative to bear this part of the cost, which helped the military save a lot of money. Although those experts had left the military, once the war started again in the future, Magicians would definitely have to participate in the war. At that time, the experts responsible for protecting them would naturally not be able to escape.
In any case, the military could only comfort themselves in this way.
And these experts who retired from the military were the first batch of Guardian Knights.
Unlike Punishment Paladins, Guardian Paladins weren't a subordinate branch of the Knight profession. Strictly speaking, some of them couldn't even be considered as Knights.
A Guardian Knight was actually a title that was closer to that of an Earl or Viscount. It had evolved to become a special honor in the present day.
A sorcerer could only have one Guardian Knight in his lifetime, and once the Guardian Knight was chosen, it could not be changed. In times of peace, although the Guardian Knights still shouldered the responsibility of protecting the sorcerer, there were too few opportunities for them to carry out their duties. More often than not, it became a kind of political marriage. The nobles would let their heirs or the next generation become the Guardian Knight of a well-known sorcerer, thereby strengthening the relationship between the two, and the sorcerer could also establish a good relationship with the nobles through this method, and receive the support of the other party.
Generally speaking, it could be said that they each took what they needed.
Lolo didn't expect that the Scholar's so-called proposal was to become her Guardian Knight. No wonder he kept urging her to answer him. Speaking of which, the ceremony to become a Guardian Knight did indeed require one to kneel on one knee, which coincided with an ancient tradition.
Thinking of her previous misunderstanding, the girl's face flushed. What? This guy was actually talking about it. The rookie Brave let out a long sigh of relief, but she didn't know why she felt a little disappointed.
Along the way, in order to avoid trouble, she had always disguised herself as a boy. Speaking of which, the guy in front of her probably didn't even know her true gender, so how could he suddenly make such a strange request? What was even more ridiculous was that she didn't know why she was so hot-headed that she actually agreed to his request. God, just thinking about it now makes me feel so ashamed.
Hmm, I must have been frightened by his overbearing manner at that time, and that's why I succumbed to him. Yes, that must be the case.
Lolo felt a little guilty, but then she thought of something and asked the Scholar beside her, "Why do you want to be my Guardian Knight?"
The girl actually asked this question a little too late. Logically speaking, she should have figured it out before she agreed, but unfortunately, she was in a daze at that time. She didn't even hear the young man's request clearly, let alone understand the reason behind it.
"Well, I thought about it later, and having a Magician as a backer is not bad."
"Ah, but I'm not a Magician yet."
"What a coincidence, I'm not a Knight yet either. Let's work hard together from now on." The young man gestured to the girl to encourage her.
Rob's suggestion was not made on a whim. Archmage had thought about the matter of the Court of Heresy and Punishment Knights carefully, and in the end, he decided not to tell the girl for the time being.
The reason was simple. With the rookie The Brave's current strength, it would be useless even if she knew about it. Other than being on tenterhooks every day, there was nothing she could do. As she said before, the strength of the enemy far exceeded her. In that case, it was better to let her practice peacefully in the Holy Roland Brethren Academy of Magic.
Magic was not something that could be achieved by simply relying on hard work and expectations. Sometimes, being too impatient would affect the effect of practice. It was not uncommon to see more haste, less speed, and meditating every day was not necessarily better.
The rookie The Brave's top priority was to improve her strength until she was strong enough to face everything. Archmage would help her solve the threat of the Court of Heresy. In this way, Rob would need an identity to stay by the rookie The Brave's side, and becoming a Guardian Knight was the logical choice.
In fact, from a purely safety point of view, the girl's best choice now was to find a place to hide, give up the obsession of revenge, and live a peaceful life. But Rob knew that Lolo would not choose this path no matter what.
In that case, Archmage could only accompany her to the Free city-state and do his best to protect her.
Fortunately, compared to the Sacred Alliance, the power of the church in the Free city-state was much weaker, and Gudilesi University was the world of magicians.
But in that case, it was Your Honor's turn to be troubled. Although it seemed peaceful recently, the young man was sure that the Magic Association, under the leadership of Steins and Demain, had definitely launched a comprehensive investigation on him.
Moreover, he was one of the most famous people in the world of magic, so it was crazy for him to go to the gathering place of magicians.
But as the saying went, the most dangerous place was often the safest place.
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