"Can't you be more serious?" The king glared at his younger brother, "Is it ridiculous to let a group of people who have been beaten get another beating?"
Lord Renly smiled gracefully at his elder brother and stopped talking.
Loras Tyrell, the Knight of Flowers, followed Renly and was amused by their words.
After glancing at the two of them coldly, Robert turned to Arthur and others in front of the Iron Throne.
"You all have your own opinions, and I can't tell who is right and who is wrong. Well, this Sir Arthur, as long as you show that you can defeat these twenty people, I will believe your words."
Robert felt this was the greatest favor he could give.
"First of all, I am not a knight, I am a minor noble." Arthur pointed out an error in Robert's words.
Knight is a title for a knight who has been granted a title, and does not apply to nobles with fiefdoms.
"Secondly, I am very happy to use my own strength to expose the lies of Cleo and his party members."
Arthur now dislikes Cleo and the others. Just now he was as cowardly as a grandson in the tavern, and now he is full of lies, his face does not turn red, and his heart does not beat.
Maybe this is the basic cultivation of aristocrats!
If possible, Arthur really wanted to deal with Cleo and his cousin again.
"You are alone and haven't worn armor yet. How do you arrange it?" Robert asked.
"Whatever, my strength is here, just follow what Duke Renly said, I can fight them again."
"Alas!" Robert glanced at Arthur helplessly, "Then just like this, let one of my Kingsguard take off his armor and fight with you. Even if it's a draw, I'll consider what you said to be true."
The Kingsguard are knights who swear to protect the king for life. The oath is almost exactly the same as the oath of the Night's Watch on the Great Wall, which is to never marry, fief or have children.
The biggest difference between the Night's Watch and the Kingsguard is that only powerful knights who are famous in Westeros can join the Kingsguard, and the number is generally fixed at seven.
The king announced his idea, but he did not expect that these words aroused discussions among the people and nobles onlookers.
"Sure enough, people only help their own people."
"Isn't this too bullying? What Mr. Arthur did should be right, but he was just exaggerating."
"Look at the way the king looks, he just prefers that relative of the Lannister family. Who makes his queen belong to the Lion family?"
"How is it possible for this young man to defeat a Kingsguard?"
At this time, the troublemaker Duke Renly had a new proposal: "Brother, I think this is very unfair to this Arthur. Everyone knows the strength of the Kingsguard. This method of yours is to sentence Arthur and Des.
Meng and others told lies."
"I also think it's unfair. It's really bullying for a Kingsguard to fight Mr. Arthur." The new Prime Minister, Duke Ed, also expressed his views.
Robert also felt that his previous proposal was too exaggerated. An unknown young man would never be able to defeat a Kingsguard in his prime.
Even an old man like Barristan might not be able to fight evenly.
"Young man, I'd better switch to fight you. Sterling, you pick a strong squad leader to fight Mr. Arthur."
Janos Sterling was the commander of the Golden Robes. After hearing the king's order, he turned around and picked the weakest squad leader from behind him.
He could still understand King Robert's intentions.
"Hey, this doesn't matter." Arthur refused, "My strength is here, even if I fight a Kingsguard, it's nothing."
The Lord of Moulin Rouge was just trying his hand at it. He estimated that he might be second only to the top masters on the continent like Barristan or the naturally powerful people like the Magic Mountain.
Among the Kingsguard, except for Barristan, the others are only at the level of the first-class knights in Westeros.
Even if Arthur's skills are inferior, his strength is enough to make up for this shortcoming.
You know, his current strength is 17 points, which is only three points away from the upper limit of 20 for normal humans.
The onlookers and nobles couldn't understand what Arthur said.
"Stop being brave, young man. You can't defeat the Kingsguard."
"It's better to follow the king's suggestion!"
"Let him fight with a certain white robe and then lose face in front of so many big shots."
Robert was also dissatisfied with Arthur's rejection of his second proposal, and the young man's evaluation in his heart dropped a lot.
"Since you insist, let one of the Kingsguard fight you. Marlin Tran, take off your armor and have a few blows with this gentleman. Just don't bleed."
A Kingsguard standing on the steps of the Iron Throne responded in response, turned around and bowed slightly to the king, then left through the back door to remove his armor.
"Can any kindhearted person lend me a big sword? The heavier, the better." Arthur asked aloud.
His hammer and great sword Shuoyue were still in the inn halfway up the mountain in Visenya, and he happened to have no weapons at hand at this time.
Hearing this, the crowd laughed out loud.
"It's been a long time and you don't even have a sword!"
"What are you pretending to be like? If you don't even have a sword, it's like challenging the Kingsguard?"
Because the second proposal was rejected, King Robert did not want to help Arthur.
The scene suddenly became awkward.
"Let's do this. I'll lend my ice to this gentleman." Duke Ed said.
Ice is a Valyrian two-handed sword inherited from the Stark family, and may be the most famous Valyrian sword.
According to the original work, after Eddard was beheaded by Emperor Joffrey's order, this sword fell into Tywin's hands and was re-dissolved and forged into two half-swords: the Widow's Wail and the Oathkeeper.
Arthur's action to stand up for an unrelated little girl was in line with the new Prime Minister's wishes. He asked his captain Jory to send his sword up.
"Thank you very much, Prime Minister. Righteous people will always attract each other."
Arthur nodded to Ed to express his gratitude, then took the corrugated steel sword and waved it, feeling that the weight and length were just right for him.
If you have the chance, after Ed Stark is beheaded by Joffrey's order, help the Wolf family keep this corroded steel sword. After all, it is a family heirloom and cannot be recast by the old lion Tywin in vain.
Not long after, Marin Tran also took off his armor and came out wearing gray trousers and a linen blouse.
"You two just need to go through a few moves to prove that Desmond and Arthur didn't lie about defeating these twenty people. Don't cause any bloodshed."
Barristan, the captain of the Kingsguard, once again emphasized the rules of fighting.
A large group of golden robes gathered in front of the onlookers and formed a fighting area.
The two nodded, walked to the circle, and began to observe their opponents.
"Ed, who do you like?" Robert turned sideways and tilted his head and asked.
"Although I really hope that Arthur wins, obviously Sir Tran is more likely to win." Duke Ed gave his opinion.
As soon as he finished speaking, in the eyes of nearly a thousand people in the audience, the two men began to attack each other.
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