"Proof of War!?"
Aubrey Barrington Atwood and Vini Yarsaenu exclaimed together. Aubrey Barrington Atwood was also a high-order knight and naturally knew that the Proof of War was one of the most difficult of the Eight Great Knights' Certificates to gather. Although Vini Yarsaenu was not a knight, she also knew how difficult it was to obtain a knight's certificate, and gathering the Proof of War was even more challenging.
Anne's cousin, Krel Brittany, and Taoles's brother, Ebner Sumei, were both seventeenth-rank knights, but neither had been to a battlefield nor experienced war, and therefore lacked the Proof of War, missing the step to the Sacred Order by a hair's breadth.
