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Chapter 13: Duel
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It was already pretty good for it to have reached this step. Xing Wei never counted on Duke Garcia and the queen to turn against each other. In fact, with Duke Garcia's steady and mature temper, there was no chance of that happening because of a small matter like this.

His goal was to get rid of the three manipulators and prevent the conclusions they set up from happening. The events he instigated and the angry, out-of-control knights were enough to do that.

Xing Ye kneeled down behind Duke Garcia, his voice deep: "Grand Duke, it's my stubbornness that caused you trouble. Truly, I thank you for your care, but things between knights must be settled with the sword."

After saying that, he spoke to the imperial guard captain: "I want to duel with you. If I lose, our knight group will accept the body search. It won't have anything to do with Her Majesty, the Queen or the grand duke. However, if I win, you have to apologize to our group and allow people from the grand duke to search us instead. As a knight, we will only accept our Lord's suspicions."

His words were very fitting. The watching nobles started nodding their heads one after another- indeed, this was the spirit knights should have.

The imperial guard captain was infuriated. Why a duel, why another duel? Could it be that the moment you knights have a conflict, you pull out your swords?

"What happened?" A graceful and languid woman's voice sounded.

The uproar finally attracted the queen's attention. She wore a luxurious gown and wore a veil over her face. Her hand rested on a handsome man's shoulder while several average looking maids followed behind her.

Xing Ye immediately kneeled down to the queen and fought to apologize before the imperial guard captain: "Your Majesty, the Queen, I am very sorry for alarming you due to my superficial feelings and ignorance. However, as a knight, there will always be some things that I cannot stand for. I humbly request Your Majesty to allow me a duel with the imperial guard captain to protect my honor."

First, throw the blame of offending knights to the imperial guard captain, then request for an open duel. According to this era's custom, there should be no objections.

Sure enough, the Queen wasn't angry and even smiled: "Knights are always impulsive, that's just the benefits of being young. Alright, I grant permission. A knight's contradictions ought to be solved by duels."

In fact, the so-called knights were nothing more than higher level servants in the eyes of high ranking nobles. Every New Year's Festival, watching a life and death duel between the knights would be a very popular event amongst nobles. Even if Xing Ye didn't do anything, the queen would probably still find two skilled knights to liven things up. This arrangement was just perfect for her.

The original imperial guard captain ought to be very skilled, but the current one... hehe.

Xing Ye and the imperial knight captain were led to the official dueling grounds and the nobles moved to sit in the stands whilst a maid gave both of them a sword. Duke Garcia took a seat with a frown, murmuring lowly: "Why does she have to be so stubborn, I could've just helped her. She doesn't want to bother me but how could she decide on a duel when after all, she's just a..." 

Under everyone's view, the imperial guard captain and Xing Ye shook hands and hugged to show regardless of the results of the duel, it would not affect their friendly relationship.

The imperial guard captain took the chance to whisper lowly in Xing Ye's ear: "Are you crazy? What are you trying to do?"

Xing Ye smiled slightly: "Just trying to draw out the third person."