Chapter 663: Chapter 50: The Sensation at the Eternal Flame Cathedral and Support Provided by the Flame Sun Knight Order Headquarters (Part 3)

Give the Gray Market Trading Company a hundred guts, they wouldn’t dare to embezzle the Flame Sun Knight Order’s 20,000 Golden Crowns, as it’s one of the strongest and most affluent knight orders in the South.

So, Hector waved his hand hard and said, "No problem, I’ll arrange all this as soon as possible. What exactly are you requesting? Is it support in terms of force and manpower?" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Su Li nodded: "No need to force the knights of the Flame Sun Knight Order to serve me. Instead, my territory will host a grand competition festival before this harvest season, and I hope the Flame Sun Knight Order and the Eternal Flame Cathedral can help promote it, attracting more Sun Goddess Knights to visit my territory."

The Flame Sun Knight Order is the wealthiest knight order in this world, without exception!

Its wealth is indisputable, including the knights within, who are extremely affluent. They are simply the best targets for the Hesse Territory Radiant Competition Festival, as they can lavishly spend vast amounts of gold coins in the games.

This will undoubtedly flourish the territory’s commercial activities, making various equipment, items, and potions highly sought after.

But these are merely secondary benefits; the most crucial aspect is that the participation of a large number of Flame Sun Knight Order members will significantly enhance the prestige of this festival.

The tradition of the knight order encourages knights to travel widely, spreading the word about this festival and the customs and culture of the territory.

This fundamentally enhances the territory, making next year’s festival even grander, while the territory’s specialties will gain fame far and wide.

In comparison, even the proceeds from betting are just an icing on the cake.

The worth of the Holy Purple Vine Tree pods, Purple Crystal Gold Brandy, Rose Fragrance, Bauhinia Holy Flame Foundry, various Blood Pine Wood furniture, and forest gemstones are the true vast wealth sources of the territory.

Hector decisively said, "I thought it was a big trouble, but it’s just a verbal affair that I can effortlessly solve. As the dean of the Eternal Flame Cathedral and mentor of the Flame Sun Knight Order, I will issue trial assessments to the knights, sending them to the Blood Pine Forest for a period of trial."

"That would be greatly appreciated, Dean, and may I also visit the church’s library to select a batch of books?"

"Of course! This is also the gift and response I intend for you and the young girl who inquired earlier." Saying this, Hector turned to look at Selanweir: "To become a knight radiated by the glorious sun, utmost devotion to the Goddess is paramount, and secondly, mastery of the art of warfare."

With a clap of his hands, four priests entered the church, each carrying a stack of the church’s scriptures.

"These are all specialties of our Eternal Flame Cathedral. Through the church priests’ devoted prayers, the Goddess’ divine grace is infused into these books. Among them, 10 are high-level scriptures produced only when sensing the Goddess’ divine grace during special days, akin to the Blood of the Earth and Tears of Mercy. Additionally, 30 are meticulously crafted by champion-level priests and divine chosen-level priests, each with a certain effect."

"Upon careful reading, the extent of mastery over the essence determines the enhancement in a knight’s understanding of Goddess teachings, warfare strategies, and wisdom strength. These are precious church scriptures, with effects existing only once; once read by someone, subsequent readings by others don’t offer such direct divine grace enhancement, but learning knowledge is forever beneficial to knights, isn’t it?"

"Certainly, reading is beneficial, a truth taught by the Goddess." Su Li concurred, responding and then took the books from the priests, glancing at their titles.

Among them was "Eternal Flames of War," requested by Deputy Leader Freya, and others included myth and doctrine foundational categories such as "Violet Holy War Chronicles," "Bright Battle Manual," "War of Glory," military strategy and tactics scriptures like "Tactical Canon," "Goddess Strategy," "War Treasure Book," and doctrine and prayer categories like "Violet War Prayer Scripture," "Dawn Oath," "Fiery Sun Triumph Prayer," etc.

Over forty books, almost none repeated, would greatly enrich the Goddess Convent library in Hesse Territory.

Then Su Li took the knights to the cathedral’s library and found the "Fiery Sun Canon," with a gold sun emblem as its metal cover, a sacred scripture far more precious than the other forty books, capable of continually bathing a knight in divine grace, yielding measured strength enhancement.

The effect was remarkably notable; within the brief time Su Li and the knights searched for books in the library, Selanweir read under the sunlight for a while and smoothly broke through to Amateur Knight!

This left Su Li speechless; how these exceptional beings made breaking through to Amateur Knight seem as simple as drinking water.

Finally, he and the knights selected 100 books of interest and bid farewell to Dean Hetok.

Of course, he didn’t forget his primary purpose in coming to the Eternal Flame Cathedral, and with Bishop Hetok’s assistance, he obtained the "Endless Sea Navigation Star Map," wrapped under the Goddess Holy Image Base by Aurora Veil.

The Divine King Redema’s beacon "Heaven’s Lance" was still of great interest to him.