After the New Year, the selection and promotion of new knights officially began, but it didn’t start immediately. After all, most of the members of the knight order were not in Seville Town at the moment, so starting the selection now wouldn’t be very fair to many. For the time being, Simon only notified everyone of the intention to select new knights so they could prepare early. The specific timing of the selection would naturally be decided once the other members of the knight order returned.

So Simon temporarily reassigned two knights from other available teams, along with a squad of soldiers, to Calpe to handle local security. If necessary,...