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The Knight from the Fairytales-Chapter 1: Introduction

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What does the concept of a knight truly mean?
What does it represent?
In many works of fiction, it seems there are rarely any negative portrayals, and if we're talking about fairy tales, these virtues are amplified infinitely,
including but not limited to virtues like humility, honor, sacrifice, bravery, compassion, honesty, justice, and spirituality.
At first glance, does this make you want to start saying, "Ah! A Mary Sue, a Mary Sue, meddling in everything, interfering in every trivial matter"?
But the actual situation is that a "Mary Sue" represents someone who lacks the ability to help yet forces others to help, standing on their self-perceived moral high ground to condemn others as cold-hearted,
which is equivalent to forcing others to sacrifice their interests and lives to exchange for their own kindness and morality.
Whereas a genuinely virtuous person is a positive term - someone who, when encountering difficulties, extends a helping hand without hesitation, using their own strength, resources, and actions to assist others.
Only such individuals deserve to be celebrated, respected, understood, and even praised by everyone.
Their character is so noble that they don't even seek repayment. They don't infringe upon others' interests and lives, but rather use their own actions to help people.
In fact, if you speak ill of such a person, you'd be seen as someone who can't do it themselves yet condemns others.
You might think they're foolish, but precisely everyone else believes you're not qualified to call them a "Mary Sue."
Beihai walked along a forest path, with passing birds greeting him as he went.
Even the voices of passing ants would reach Beihai's ears.
Beihai crouched down, took out a piece of bread, broke off some crumbs, and offered them to the hardworking transporting ants. While receiving praise from other animals like small birds and squirrels,
many attribute points were also increasing. And he was contemplating, pondering an ultimate question,
roughly divided into five stages: rainy night, crossing the road, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, then people would arrive, and he'd obtain cheats.
After discussing these, let's return to the issue of cheats. These cheats gave Beihai quite a headache, though their usage method was simple - just like a knight, a knight straight out of fairy tales.
The problem is that even an ordinary person would have selfish motives and desires. Half of the knightly virtues simply couldn't be adhered to, let alone the knights from fairy tales.
If not driven by benefits and rewards for doing these things, Beihai couldn't be bothered to engage in such activities - it was completely thankless labor.
But when helping ordinary people, the rewards were just some attribute points, or small items like copper coins, gold coins, etc.
Whereas when helping protagonists within stories, the compensation became extraordinary powers, such as the ability to hear all things' voices and the Knight's Vow.
However, as Beihai recalled, both times seemed to involve wolves.
The first time was the Three Little Pigs, where the wolf simply and brutally destroyed the houses, then ate the three little pigs. The solution was just to punch it.
The second time involved rabbits, the classic "little rabbits, let me come in," where the wolf was smarter and would disguise itself before knocking. The solution remained the same - Beihai went up and punched the wolf into a deep slumber.
After helping these small animals, the rewards were abundant, along with these simple, easy-to-understand storylines.
No need to say more - anyone could guess which world this was.
However, Beihai still needed to be cautious. He had to play the role of a fairy tale knight from children's stories, but there were many versions of fairy tales - some were children's books, others were original versions, plus numerous adaptations.
Helping ordinary people would only yield some attribute points and gold coins, but helping story protagonists offered truly rich rewards.
So whether to uphold the knight's code or to pursue power, both compelled Beihai to embark on a journey to travel the world. After all, who could resist power?

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