The strength of the Knights Templar is a matter of course. Driven by religious paranoia, this group of fanatical paladins can often unleash terrifying combat power.
The selection of the Knights is very strict. Even if you only become a retinue or a sergeant after entering the Knights, the difficulty of the assessment is enough to make ordinary warriors retreat.
Even if you pass the terrifying exams such as killing wild boars with bare hands, forced marching with heavy loads, and resisting arrow rain with a small buckler, you will only seek a low-level position in a knighthood and want to become a formal member of the knighthood, unless you Become a regular knight when you first join, otherwise you will have to wait until you have enough merit and qualifications to rise step by step.
This is just to join the ordinary knights. The requirements for joining the Knights Templar are more stringent.
Carefully selected from the entire empire, the official members of the Knights Templar are only more than 10,000, many of whom are trainee knights. Strictly speaking, they cannot be regarded as a real official establishment at all.
Therefore, in recent years, the Templars have been more inclined to train them from an early age, gathering the sons of nobles with completely reliable backgrounds and family backgrounds, and instilling religious fanaticism and fighting skills from a young age.
They have been drinking strong goat's milk since they were young, and they have been eating half-cooked beef since they had just lost their teeth. Each of them has three or four slaves to train with them. The empire built a huge training ground for them in the suburbs, which is completely used by the knights. .
Each detachment is equipped with a specialized blacksmith, and all training uses pure steel equipment. The rigorous training is personally guided by high-level Templars. The new generation of Paladins born under this training is terrifyingly powerful.
From the age of sixteen, the Templars will import a large number of beasts from the north, and those young future Templars will have to fight these terrifying monsters one by one.
There is no difference from the arena, except that here they are allowed to choose their own weapons and protective equipment, and they are also allowed to choose their own opponents. The stronger the opponent they defeat, the higher their reputation and status will be after passing the test.
Generally speaking, these young people can fight adult tigers with bare hands at this time, and after being fully armed, even large monsters that dominate one side may be killed.
At this time, they will go to the Templar Knights as followers to experience actual combat tests. Orcs, barbarians, surrounding countries, Warcraft, and thieves groups are all perfect test subjects.
Of course, the Assassins are not as good as these perverts on the frontal battlefield. Among the Paladins who were killed before, only one was a formal member, and the rest were not even trainees. In order to maintain the peace of the Holy City, they only The Knights Templar, who relied on elite soldiers, obviously couldn't take care of it.
The consequence of the enrollment expansion is that like the college students of the Huaxia Federation, although their organization has a good reputation, their own strength and quality are
"If you had trained desperately after joining, you wouldn't have died so miserably now."
Jester wiped away the dark storm and said coldly.
Roz quietly retracted his short staff from his sleeve. He was not good at close combat. In order to create the illusion that there was no spellcaster, the previous battle was solved by using telekinesis to command three or four weapons.
"These guys were just caught to make up the numbers. Didn't you notice that the armor on the people we killed was from the canned cannon fodder that died a few days ago?"
Full-body armor is very expensive. It completely covers the body and even has special reinforcements at the joints. The price is ridiculously high. Jester and his party had to retreat quickly after the battle because of home court problems. , just seizing one piece of armor is enough to buy a cart of holy water.
There is no other way. It is extremely troublesome to put on and take off the full-body armor, and it is also very heavy. Once you put it on, you will not be able to escape the pursuit of the knights.
If your strength were higher, you might be able to take one away by force, but once your strength touches the bottom line of the old monsters of the Vatican, it will not be as simple as a trainee knight to surround and suppress your team.
"Speaking of which, why do we have to cause sabotage at the Holy See's headquarters?"
Jester found it very incredible. Jerusalem is obviously a very important seat of the Holy See, and its population of nearly one million speaks for itself.
A population of one million is already the limit of a region in this era. The local agricultural output alone is extremely unstable. It is difficult for me to guarantee full attendance this month