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Chapter 169: Feeding
To a knight, the repeated practice of inspecting and maintaining their protective gear was essential. Every chivalric group had no lack of paranoid folks who believed that a soul existed in their blade and would be angered if anyone else touched them.
While Ji Bai had a somewhat serious and obstinate personality, he didn’t believe that he had reached this level of paranoia about his equipment. However, if one looked at it from a different perspective, such paranoia was understandable; To perform a flawless maintenance of their protective gear and weapons was a fundamental task for every veteran knight.
It was indispensable for maintenance and cleaning to be performed every day, so that one would be able to put them to use after a brief scrub and inspection during an emergency.
Ji Bai didn’t dare underestimate the New Student’s Martial Tournament; He had scrubbed and inspected his protective gears and weapon ahead of time.
His crossed molybdenum helmet and brigandine armor were no longer the one from before. If he began counting from the day he entered the sewers, this was already his third set of protective equipment. As for his weapon, it was still the profound metal fang-shaped longsword of vampire craftsmanship. Despite going through battles of various multitudes at his side, its sharpness continued to vastly exceed that of a normal molybdenum or catalpa metal longsword. That said, its appearance had been degraded beyond recognition. Being ‘baptized’ with all sorts of high-leveled [magic spells] had caused its abilities to deteriorate considerably.
Ji Bai didn’t rid himself of it— Instead, he carefully polished, wiped and spruced it up, trying his best to make it look a bit more presentable.
With a molybdenum helmet that was more than enough to deal with human–made weapons, a brigandine armor reinforced by chainmail whose toughness was not to be underestimated and a pair of hard-leather boots which would guarantee unimpeded travel even in rough, mountainous terrain, Ji Bai was now ready.
After exchanging greetings with Ke’er who was still showing a red hue on her small face, Ji Bai grabbed his sword and left the apartment.
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“Student, your identity card, please. Thank you.” The person in charge at the tournament counter maintained a professional smile as he received Ji Bai’s identity card and placed it on a small-scale formation.
“Student Ji Bai, am I right?”
“Mhm.” The metal helmet slightly nodded.
“Alright. Remember, Friendship First, Competition Second