دانلود رمان انگلیسی “داستان قدیس مرموز” – جلد اول

I AM FIA RUUD, youngest of the Ruud family.
People always told me that I took after my beautiful mother, with my red hair and golden eyes. Odd, isn’t it? They’d compliment her, but they never called me beautiful.
That wasn’t the only thing I inherited from my mother, however. Her frame was small, she couldn’t gain muscle mass, couldn’t…well, even develop much of a chest. No training could fix that. That’s a problem if you want to be a knight.
Knights can own a domain, you see. Someone knighted by the king immediately becomes the head of their family, and the status of that family rises nearly to the level of nobility. But if that head dies and there is no knight to succeed them, the family in question is stripped of their status.
And so the children of knights all work hard to become knights themselves, including me. I’d longed to be a knight ever since I was young, even if it was an extremely difficult path.
Being the kingdom’s most prestigious profession, the pass rate for the knight’s exam was astonishingly low. The odds ranged from one in fifty to one in a hundred.
Knighthood was the most respected position in the kingdom, as it was given by the kingdom itself. Massive wealth came with the job, although not without good reason. Being a knight meant, after all, that you had a duty to protect the Royal Castle, its royalty, and the kingdom itself. Those duties branched off from there—from maintaining order within the kingdom, to patrolling the border, to dealing with the ever-rising tide of monsters, a knight’s work was never done.