FATE: Target of Grand Master

In his sleep, Xia Yan's consciousness seemed to drift to some extremely distant place.

"wrong!"

Snapped!

"Still not right!"

Snapped!

"Self" was tapped several times by the ancient wooden staff of the master who was teaching him.

Seemingly unable to bear it any longer, the green-eyed, blonde beauty spoke up: "XX, swordsmanship isn't just about brute force; you also need to master technique. Although you're exceptionally talented among humans, your strength advantage isn't significant compared to other races. At this point, you need to learn to outsmart them."

The blonde beauty signaled to "herself" to launch an attack.

"Myself" seemed somewhat unconvinced, and charged forward with the long sword in his hand.

The blonde beauty simply dodged to the side and then used her staff to block in front of "herself's" legs, causing "herself" to trip and fall to the ground.

"Look, forget magic tricks, I didn't even use much strength."

The blonde beauty kicked "herself" in the butt and said, "Practice all the sword techniques I taught you 200 times each. You can eat when you finish practicing them."

"One" has no right to refuse and can only obediently do as instructed.

Since the day "he" was found by this blonde beauty, this noble lady did not make fun of him like the important people he had heard about before, but instead made a "deal" with him.

The blonde beauty would give him food and teach him swordsmanship, but in exchange, he had to travel with her and unconditionally obey her orders whenever she needed his help in the future.

"Self" agreed without hesitation. After all, for "self," who didn't even know where tomorrow's food would come from, the blonde beauty was both "self's" benefactor and "self's" mentor. If the mentor needed anything in the future, "self" would naturally do their part.

In fact, in "my" opinion, my master is a very good person. Except when he is teaching me, he is very gentle.

After completing the task assigned by his master, "he" collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.

"Here you go, this is tonight's dinner."

The chef came over carrying a pot of wild vegetable porridge.

"Myself" immediately perked up, took out a bowl from the bag next to her, and scooped out a bowlful to eat.

"Slow down, be careful it's hot."

Seeing "himself" wolfing down the food, the master seemed a little happy.

"Is my wild vegetable porridge really that delicious?" the chef asked.

"No, not really. I'm just so hungry. Ouch!"

"I" was tapped on the head with my staff by my somewhat disgruntled master.

"From now on, you'll have to cook for yourself after you finish your workout."

The master walked away angrily.

"I" didn't understand why my master was angry, and said, "Master, if you don't eat it, I'll eat it all."

"Eat, eat, all you do is eat! After you finish eating, do 200 sets of the full set of techniques. You're not allowed to sleep until you've finished!"

Suddenly, the wild vegetable porridge in her hand didn't taste so good anymore.

After that, "I" traveled with my master for several years, met some of the partners who followed my master, and witnessed my master and the others solving various problems in different places.

Until one day, her master told her that she needed to organize an army for her.

To repay his master's kindness, "himself" resolutely left his master and went alone to the largest human settlement at that time.

Sunlight streamed through the window and shone on Xia Yan's face, making him realize that it was already morning.

I don't know how BB did it, but outside the safe house there is nothing at all, yet the rooms inside the safe house can feel the sunlight.

Xia Yan rarely dreams, and the probability of having a series of dreams is even lower. So after realizing that he had a dream, Xia Yan tried to recall the content of the dream.

I still vaguely remember the general story, but the characters in the dream are blurry and I can't remember their appearance.

Buzz!

Xia Yan picked up his phone and found that the number of unread messages in the chat software was increasing rapidly.

Even Feng Yan, Lan Muyan, and the "Lighthouse" group chat had quite a few unread messages.

Xia Yan first clicked into the group chat and saw that two people in the group kept tagging him and asking him to check the world channel. When Xia Yan clicked into the world channel, he found that the screen was full of topics about him.

Li Zhuang: Everyone, my name is Li Zhuang, and I am a Master of the Knights of the Round Table. I'm using my real name to convey the credibility of what I'm about to say. I'm now informing you all by name that a Master named Xia Yan, through some kind of illegal operation, has managed to summon the Lostbelt King—Morgan. Does anyone here have the ability to summon a Servant of that caliber? I suspect this person has some unknown cheating methods, or that he's actually BB's pre-selected Grand Master candidate. I'm going to expose this unfair behavior by name.

Li Zhuang: If this Master named Xia Yan thinks I'm wrong, he can come out and confront me face to face, or have BB give a public explanation. However, I don't think he'll dare to show up. Think about it, if we let Masters who cheat like this continue, will the Grand Master positions still be available to us ordinary Masters who work so hard? Now, we should unite and work together to eliminate such cheaters. If you stand idly by today, you will be the ones being watched tomorrow.

As soon as Li Zhuang posted his two statements on the world channel, it caused a huge stir, with countless Masters expressing their opinions on the world channel.

Xia Yan glanced at it quickly and saw that there were quite a few who believed it and quite a few who doubted it.

In comparison, more people believed it, and most of the comments were people accusing themselves of cheating. These flowery words were just emotional outpourings with little substance.

There are quite a few questions raised. As for the points of contention, for example: How did Li Zhuang know all this? How did he escape from Xia Yan's clutches? And BB, as the highest authority in the Master Trial, if there really was something fishy going on, would have been eliminated long ago? Would he still be given the opportunity to send messages here? And so on.

Xia Yan lost interest after browsing for a while and returned to the "Lighthouse" chat group.

Collect all the fairy knights (Xia Yan): I've seen it. Let him say whatever he wants. I'm not going to respond.

30,000 words a day (Feng Yan): A wise choice. Responding was falling into his trap.

No reply means he's brewing medicine (Lan Muyan): But if you don't respond, isn't that the same as admitting it? Aren't you afraid that he might actually organize a group of Masters to jointly besiege you?

Gather the Fairy Knights (Xia Yan): What's the benefit of besieging me? If they want to besiege me, it means they believe I have Morgan. To defeat Morgan, how many followers would the other side need? Who would be willing to bear that loss? No one would do something like this where there's no benefit to winning and many disadvantages to losing, unless they're a fool.

No reply means he's brewing medicine (Lan Muyan): Then what is Li Zhuang's purpose in doing this? He knows you have Morgan, yet he still dares to act so recklessly?

(Feng Yan, 30,000 words daily): I get the feeling he's completely reckless in his pursuit of revenge. He even brought up the name of the Knights of the Round Table. If I were their leader, I'd be furious. He's using the entire Knights to oppose Xia Yan. Putting everything else aside, if Xia Yan is determined to retaliate, he could take down every Knight of the Round Table he encounters. How could they possibly handle that? If it were me, I'd kick this guy out immediately and make a clean break.

Gathering Fairy Knights (Xia Yan): I don't think Li Zhuang is stupid or crazy. He's doing this to gain attention and buy time to recover his strength. With only one Servant, it's extremely difficult for him to establish himself in the Knights of the Round Table. If the Knights of the Round Table kick him out now, no Master group would even be willing to take him in. As for being a lone wolf, his strength is even more insufficient. So he's using this method to try and bind himself to the Knights of the Round Table.

If the Knights of the Round Table were to further distance themselves, it would not only damage their reputation but also smack of conspiracy. BB not only pre-selected the Grand Master but also manipulated the Master group behind the scenes. Rather than saying Li Zhuang was targeting me, it's more accurate to say the Knights of the Round Table were the ones he was putting on the spot. I suspect Li Zhuang wanted the Knights of the Round Table to target me, but without the Grand Master's approval. As for BB, she definitely won't come forward to explain; she'll probably just sit in front of the screen with some popcorn, grinning mischievously.