"Young Master, Young Master, it's time to get up."
"Young Master, it's time to get up and train. If you still can't break through to Apprentice Knight by tomorrow, you'll be kicked out of the Bauhinia Castle."
Su Li grumbled and covered his head with the blanket, complaining, "Avril, how can such cold words come out of your 37-degree warm mouth!"
Avril, Su Li's personal maid within the Bauhinia Clan, patiently knelt by the bedside, gently shaking Su Li's pillow with her hand, softly encouraging, "Young Master, there's still one day left. You still have hope."
"I'm already a noble, so why do I still have to be assessed? Is there no place where I can just relax and enjoy without assessments?"
"There's no possibility within Bauhinia Castle. As long as you're in the Castle, you must train diligently every day. Relaxing is only possible if you go to the south of the Edge Mountain Range in the Border Prince's Territory to become a Pioneer Lord. But that also requires you to be at least an Apprentice Knight."
Before time traveling, I was a miserable corporate slave being evaluated on KPIs, and it resulted in my sudden death. After traveling through time to become a noble young master, I still have to be assessed on KPIs? Isn't that travel pointless?
[Your strong will to lie flat has gained timeline enhancement, allowing you to gain the [Prophet of Destiny] ability while lying flat.]
[As you are in a state of lying flat, today's prophet messages have been updated.]
[1: Reeve Noren, a member of the Bauhinia Clan's Knight's Squire Training Camp, will awaken the [Frost Bear Bloodline] at 5:08 PM tomorrow and successfully advance to Apprentice Knight.]
[2: Bauhinia Castle's maid Ali will give birth to a baby in seven days, and the father is her father-in-law, Kielen.]
[3: One of Bauhinia Castle's Half Griffins is having some emotions because spring is coming, a time of revival, and it needs a female griffin for companionship.]
[4: Henry, the son of Bauhinia Castle's elite knight Bloodbeard Frederick, will escape the camp at 3:38 PM tomorrow to meet his lover Alisa by the riverside mill, get caught by Alisa's husband, and be extorted for 250 gold coins. Perhaps this situation is not that simple.]
[5: ...]
[6: ...]
[9: Gambler Xia Luo will buy three apples at noon from the Edge Mountain Range Fruit Store in Bauhinia Town and luckily pick a [Bloodthorn Fruit] that looks like an apple, significantly purifying his bloodline and advancing to Apprentice Knight.]
[10: The Beastman Blood Hand Tribe, located 1000 kilometers away in the Edge Mountain Range, is about to raid a human territory.]
After reading the last line of golden-shining characters, Su Li couldn't contain his excitement any longer. He threw off the blanket and sprang up: "Hahaha! From now on, no one can disturb my lying flat! Avril, pack up, we're preparing to go to the Border Prince's Territory."
Seeing Su Li in his bare, spirited state, a blush appeared on Avril's fair neck. However, fortunately, after six months of time traveling, the two had many intimate interactions, except for the last step due to family rules preventing impure bloodlines, they hadn't yet crossed it, but they had many other direct-contact ways before.
In fact, Avril was already bound to Su Li. Hearing Su Li truly want to go to the Border Prince's Territory, she quickly got up to help him dress and asked with bright eyes, "Young Master, are you confident in advancing to Apprentice Knight?"
Su Li smiled brightly, "I feel my bloodline is about to boil. As long as I eat and drink enough, if I make another push today, I will definitely advance to Apprentice Knight. Now we're going to the Edge Mountain Range Fruit Store to buy some apples!"
Once dressed, Su Li embraced Avril, dressed in her figure-hugging maid outfit, and passionately kissed her on her red lips: "Avril, tidy up things at home. When I return, I'll take you to the Border Prince's Territory, and we'll have no more restraints!"
After saying that, without minding Avril's astonishment, Su Li decisively pushed open the door and walked out of the room.
Outside, the Guard Knight who also doubled as his instructor, Knight Schwartz, immediately punched his chest in a salute to him, asking respectfully, "Young Master Su Li, shall we start training now?"
Schwartz was an elite knight in the Bauhinia Clan's Red Night Knight Order. When the Bauhinia Clan moved east to develop the Thorny River Valley, the Red Night Knight Order, bearing the Bauhinia flag, was a presence feared by all raider warbands and Beastman tribes.
He could still accompany Su Li for one last day. If Su Li could not advance to an Apprentice Knight by tomorrow, Schwartz would return to the Red Knight Order. If Su Li successfully advanced, Schwartz would continue to stay by Su Li's side, further instructing him to become a full Knight.
Su Li still had the authority to order him, so he directly said, "For now, let's not train. First, accompany me to Bauhinia Town. We need a full stomach to have the strength to break through."
Schwartz didn't believe a word Su Li said, thinking he was just finding another excuse to slack off, but he'd given up by then. With only one day left, he didn't think Su Li could break through, so he no longer enforced strict discipline, instructing two Knight's Squires to prepare the warhorses and accompany Su Li straight to Bauhinia Town.
Bauhinia Town lay at the foot of the Bauhinia Castle's mount. It had three fruit stores, but only one was called the Edge Mountain Range Fruit Store, mainly supplying commoners and artisans, and apprentices with food. Its fruit was claimed to be picked from the Edge Mountain Range of the world, but everyone knew most were dubious wild fruits. Only gamblers like Xia Luo, with a strong gambling drive, would occasionally come to try their luck at finding genuine Exotic Fruit. What if those damn merchants suddenly grew a heart one day?
Seeing Su Li stride directly into the dimly lit fruit and vegetable store, the owner, Joseph, was stunned, quickly rising and cautiously attending to Su Li, asking, "Master Su Li, is there anything I can help you with?"
Su Li surveyed the store, carefully sensing through his half-baked training, but the subtle Spiritual Energy reaction of the Bloodthorn Fruit distinctively stood out from ordinary fruits that he could still clearly detect.
He immediately pointed to a basket of apples in the corner and said, "I'll take the whole basket of apples."
Take them all?
Joseph winced in pain. It was the best-looking basket of red apples, and just like that, it was being claimed by the word of a nobleman!
But as long as a noble doesn't whip you, it's a blessing. He quickly plastered a smile and said, "Alright, alright, I'll send them to the castle immediately."
Su Li waved his hand and tossed him a Silver Coin, saying, "No need, I'll take them myself."
Joseph's eyes widened in surprise. A noble is paying for food?
Before he could fully grasp the surprise, Su Li already stepped forward, picked out two rosy apples and quietly stashed a [Bloodthorn Fruit] that looked very similar to an apple, then said to Knight Schwartz, "Have a squire take the whole basket of apples back and share them with the recruits at the squire training camp to encourage them to train hard!"