Chapter 236 Sword Bearer Assessment (Two chapters in one)

There was an ancient square building in front of them, similar to the shape of a temple, but without those Doric columns. Eight guards holding swords and shields stood at the spacious gate.

Ryan squinted his eyes and glanced at it, and saw the gilded characters "Münster Branch of the Imperial Sword Bearers" written on the gate.

When the two walked towards the gate, a guard stepped forward and said, "Excuse me, are you here to take the assessment? Please show me your invitation letter."

After completing a series of procedures, Ryan and Veronica came to the room assigned to them.

These are two adjacent rooms on the second floor, and the faint voices coming from the side seem to indicate that the rooms here are almost full of assessees.

As the assessment day was approaching, Ryan and Veronica did not choose to visit the provincial capital of Münster, but agreed to talk after the assessment was over.

Time passed in a flash, and it was the morning of the assessment day.

At about 8:30, Ryan and Veronica came to a spacious and bright hall.

The floor was very clean, and the seats in the hall were all in rows, with long backrests.

At this moment, there were already 20 to 30 young people sitting in the hall.

The person in charge here was a female officer. She looked at Ryan and Veronica who had just come in, and said in a crisp voice: "Everyone can sit as they please, don't be nervous. The order of the exam has nothing to do with the seating order."

Ryan nodded after listening, and when he met Veronica's eyes, he went to a corner with fewer people and sat down.

A few minutes after the two sat down, four or five young people came, including a red-haired woman. As soon as she walked into the hall, she saw Ryan in the corner and couldn't help shouting: "Ryan~"

and waved happily at Ryan!

"Huh?" Ryan looked up and saw that it was Evelyn, the red-haired beauty from Rosby County, the daughter of Viscount Norman, Evelyn Norman.

Hearing such a beautiful woman happily greet Ryan, everyone in the hall couldn't help but look at Ryan, as if they wanted to see which young talent was favored by the beauty.

Veronica, who was beside Ryan, looked at Ryan with her beautiful eyes, then looked at the red-haired beauty, and couldn't help thinking in her heart, it seems that my competitor is very strong, Agatha just left, and now there is another red-haired beauty.

And judging from the appearance and strength of this red-haired beauty, it seems that she is much stronger than Agatha.

When Evelyn approached, she smiled and asked, "Ryan, when did you come?"

"Hey, who is this?" Seeing the girl with twin ponytails beside Ryan, Evelyn couldn't help but look serious and asked in confusion.

"Evelyn, this is my good friend, Veronica, a third-level wizard apprentice from the Ubrek School." Ryan introduced.

"Veronica, this is Evelyn from Rossby City, a friend I made during the noble canonization assessment."

The two women looked at each other, and Evelyn smiled and said, "Ms. Veronica, hello, you are so beautiful!"

"Ms. Evelyn, you are also very beautiful."

Although Ryan and Evelyn were not that kind of relationship, they felt a sense of "Shura Field". So, he coughed and changed the subject, "Evelyn, who are these people?"

Evelyn looked suddenly enlightened and said quickly, "Sorry, I forgot to introduce them. These people are all young people who received excellent evaluations in the last noble canonization assessment. This is Bridger Sanchez from Valent County, and this is Stamp from Wales County." Ryan nodded

to them one by one. With his great knight's strength and super high mental perception, he only observed them for a while and found that these people all had the strength of peak knights.

The only senior knight with slightly weaker strength had a mental fluctuation different from that of ordinary people. He was obviously a second-level wizard apprentice.

It is hard to say who is stronger between a senior knight and a second-level wizard apprentice and a peak knight. Only after a competition can we know.

It seems that as Evelyn said, they are all the top few people in her batch of noble enthronement assessment.

As time gets closer and closer to the assessment time, young people continue to come to the hall.

About half an hour later, the time is close to the nine o'clock in the morning stipulated by the assessment. At this time, the number of people in the hall has soared from more than 30 to 80 or 90.

Moreover, there are several groups of people whose attire and dress are very different from theirs. One group of people is fully armed with knight plate armor. When they walk, they are fierce and powerful. Judging from their style, they are probably imperial soldiers.

In addition, there are twos and threes of young people wearing various robes. These are most likely from those wizard schools like Veronica.

Of course, there are also young men and women wearing slim noble hunting clothes, with obviously different temperaments. They seem to be the descendants of the great nobles of the provincial capital Munster.

The great nobles are the upper nobles, specifically the dukes, marquises, and earls. This was told to him by the beautiful woman Jennifer.

At the same time, Ryan also saw the young people who met at the Still Water Lake that day.

But the amazing thing is that Evelyn actually knew someone in this group.

"Hi, Fiona, long time no see!" Evelyn smiled and stepped forward.

"Evelyn, long time no see!"

"Hey, is it you?" The young woman in leather armor saw Ryan and recognized him at a glance. He was the young man with three beauties at the Still Water Lake.

The other young people obviously recognized Ryan and seemed quite surprised, as if they didn't expect that the other party would be Evelyn's friend.

However, they didn't want to come and talk, because Ryan didn't leave a good impression on them.

There is nothing wrong with the sons of nobles being a little romantic, but at such an important moment of the sword bearer assessment, taking three beauties along the way, in their eyes, is a person who is addicted to beauty.

Even if you have good talent and can get the invitation letter for the sword bearer assessment by chance, you will definitely not go far in the future.

"Fiona, have you met Lord Ryan?"

"Well, I happened to meet her by the Zhishui Lake. Hey, weren't there three beauties at that time? How come there is only one left now?" The woman named Fiona is obviously not easy to deal with.

She is talking about something else.

Hearing Fiona's words, Evelyn's beautiful eyes immediately looked at Ryan, as if she was examining him, as if to say, 'Well, one is not enough, there are actually three! '

Ryan was a little speechless.

However, he would not argue with a girl about this. After all, the other party's starting point is probably to keep Evelyn away from the scumbag.

"The two of them are going to handle some business matters."

After a brief greeting, Ryan learned that they were the young people who participated in the noble enthronement assessment last time, and their overall strength was a level higher than Ryan's class.

"The number of people who take the sword holder assessment every year is about a hundred."

"The admission rate is about 30% to 40%, but even if they don't pass, the rest will generally be invited by other departments of the empire."

Ryan listened quietly on the side with a calm face.

Seeing Ryan's calmness, a young man next to Fiona was slightly displeased and said, "It seems that Mr. Ryan is very confident!"

"Confidence? I think normally, there should be no problem passing the initial test." Ryan said seriously.

Hearing Ryan's words, the scene was a little cold for a while!

Evelyn immediately said, "Ryan, do you know what the content of the sword holder's assessment is this year?"

Ryan shook his head. He did know that the beautiful woman Jennifer could collect very little information about the sword holder's assessment in Meister, and the content of the assessment was vague.

"Evelyn, do you know?"

Evelyn also shook her head and said, "I asked someone to find out, and found that the content of the sword holder's assessment will change every year."

"Last year, it was said that the official members of the sword holder came to assess us. As long as we hold on to their hands for three minutes, we passed the assessment." "

And the year before last, it was said that under the leadership of the examiner, we went to destroy an ogre camp and scored everyone based on their combat performance."

Everyone frowned slightly when they heard it.

This is troublesome, there is no fixed routine.

The nine o'clock bell rang in the distance.

A middle-aged man wearing bright silver full-body knight armor strode in. The other party walked briskly and had a steady breath, as if he was at least a master at the level of a great knight.

"First of all, welcome all the elites of the Empire to Munster to participate in the Sword Bearer Assessment."

"Since time is precious, I will make it short. The assessment is divided into two steps. The first step is drawing lots, and the second step is the assessment."

"We will do the first thing right away - drawing lots! Then, I will explain the rules of this assessment."

"In addition, I need to remind you that you are all rising stars in the Empire. Even if you fail the Sword Bearer Assessment, you don't need to be discouraged."

The middle-aged knight pointed to the representatives of the functional departments wearing various uniforms beside him and continued:

"Staff from other functional departments and special departments of the Empire are also here. They will also observe your performance in the assessment. I believe that most of you will find a suitable stage to show yourself."

"Now, proceed to the first item. Please come up and draw lots in an orderly manner."

As the middle-aged knight finished speaking, a young knight beside him walked to the front with a black iron box in both hands and asked everyone to draw one by one.

Soon, it was Ryan's turn.

Ryan reached in, took a card at random, opened it and took a look.

The next second, he was stunned!

Ryan's strangeness obviously surprised the people around him. The young woman named Fiona couldn't help but take a look, and immediately, she exclaimed in a low voice.

"It's number two!"

Although Fiona's words were not heavy, Evelyn and others naturally heard it.

They all looked up at the number in Ryan's hand, and it was really number two.

Everyone couldn't help but look at him with a look of regret and pity.

Soon, everyone whispered:

"This person is so unlucky, it's number two, haha, I thought number three was unlucky enough."

"Yes, number two, that's the unlucky guy after number one!"

"I just don't know who will draw number one!"

Only Veronica was surprised, but she didn't think there would be any problem with Ryan!

Ryan didn't mind the whispering on the side.

Because everyone had no idea what the sword holder assessment would be today, so the first one or two assessors could be said to be completely equivalent to the people who waded through the river for everyone.

If you are not careful, you may be drowned by the river water whose depth you don't know.

Basically, number ten is the best. The assessment situation is basically understood, and then the examiners will not be too tired. If you can show some special abilities, it will still make the examiners' eyes light up.

Of course, there are special cases, such as the top one or two, who are particularly strong. Sorry, the examiners' subsequent scores will naturally be lower

. After all, the tone is too high.

At this time, a slightly miserable voice suddenly sounded!

"Oh my God! I'm actually number one!"

"Silence!"

"Whether you admit it or not, luck is also part of strength!" The middle-aged knight said in a deep voice.

For a moment, everyone couldn't help but look at this poor unlucky guy with unusual sympathy!

After everyone finished drawing lots, the middle-aged knight continued: "The drawing is now over."

"There is only one rule for the assessment. Disposable witchcraft scrolls, extraordinary potions and special weapons are not allowed."

"Of course, if you are a scroll maker or pharmacist, you are allowed to use it, but after the assessment, you need to conduct a separate review."

"Now, everyone follow me."

After passing through a long passage, everyone came to an empty vaulted hall. In the center of the hall was a tall black statue, surrounded by iron fences, which looked like an indoor arena.

There were more than ten people on the side, who seemed to be staff. The five people in the front were wearing black uniforms similar to noble hunting clothes, holding paper and pens in their hands, and looked like examiners.

The middle-aged knight walked up and bowed slightly to an old man wearing a khaki wizard robe and his hands inserted into his wide sleeves among the more than ten people, saying:

"The examiners are all here."

"Then I'll trouble Master Mathias now."

The old man opened his eyes at this time, a gleam of light flashed, and said: "No trouble, this year it's the turn of the Rolling Stone School, and it's a good time to see if there are any good seedlings."

He suddenly took his hands out of his sleeves. There was a short black staff in his right hand. He pointed at the statue in the center of the venue and began to chant in a low voice.

Ryan looked at the old man in surprise. Although he was dozens of meters away, he could still feel a condensed and majestic spiritual fluctuation.

"Crack!"

But what surprised everyone even more was that the black statue shell in the center of the venue actually broke apart.

At this time, everyone realized that the two-story giant statue in the center of the venue was not a dead object, but a living thing.

"Oh my God! It's an obsidian giant!"

"Does the sword holder test require us to defeat the obsidian giant this time?"

"This is crazy! It's impossible."

Suddenly, the people in the test whispered.

"Silence!" The middle-aged knight took a deep breath and shouted suddenly.

"This year's sword bearer assessment requires you to survive under the obsidian giant for one minute to pass."

"Even if you can't survive, we hope that every examiner will use all their strength during the process, because your performance will be recorded by the examiners."

The five middle-aged men in black hunting suits, holding feather pens, began to quickly record something.

This immediately made everyone present quiet down.

"Number one!" The middle-aged knight shouted loudly.

"Number one! Who is number one? Go on stage immediately!"

After shouting again, a knight holding a sword and shield came up with a sad face.

He was going to give up, but seeing the heads of other functional departments of the empire were also there, he decided to give it a try. Even if he couldn't join the sword bearers, other special departments would be acceptable.

He was seen moving around the obsidian giant with a cautious look on his face.

The obsidian giant looked at him and raised his hands high. Just when he was still wondering what the other party was going to do, suddenly, a wave of earth energy came, and a round stone appeared out of thin air in the obsidian giant's raised hands.

"Swoosh!"

A residual image flashed by, and the stone shot towards the sword and shield young man like a cannonball.

Immediately, the sword and shield young man's face turned pale, and he rolled sideways, barely dodging the obsidian giant's attack, but the rubble splashed by the stone still hit him in the face, crackling!

The key is that this is just the beginning. The round stones in the obsidian giant's hands were condensed one by one, as if they were free, and thrown towards the sword and shield young man!

"Bang!"

Finally, the sword and shield young man was in a hurry to dodge, and had to hold the shield to resist it, and was immediately blown away on the spot!

"The duration is 18 seconds, unqualified!" The staff on the side shouted.

The five examiners were recording something.

The injured sword and shield youth was immediately sent to the side to be treated by professional doctors.

"Next! Number two!" The middle-aged knight looked at everyone and shouted solemnly.

Seeing that the obsidian giant was so tall, but his reaction was not slow at all, everyone looked at Ryan who was walking forward, and felt like they were looking at a "death warrior".

Facing the obsidian giant with a height of six meters and a body weight of at least tens of tons, Ryan was not afraid at all, but was faintly excited.

This kind of large extraordinary creature was not the first time Ryan had encountered and fought. Before he became a knight, he had killed large and violent beasts such as the offshore plesiosaur and the scale-whiskered ironback turtle.

"Go all out, even if you don't pass, your performance will be recorded." The middle-aged knight said to Ryan as usual.

Ryan nodded.

Originally, Ryan was planning to hold back a little, but he was the second one to take the test, which

was a bit annoying.

Because there was almost no reference object, if he held back and didn't pass the test in the end, it would be funny.

"Also. Full strength?"

Ryan couldn't help but echo the words of the middle-aged knight in his mind, and he was a little eager to try.

Then use your full strength!

After all, since he upgraded the shock wave to the intermediate secret, he has never used it with his full strength.

Full strength means that after opening the "limit breaking" and the talent "intermediate huge force", the intermediate secret "shock wave" is used. So far, Ryan has not found a suitable object or place to use this move.

And the extremely hard and huge obsidian giant in front of him should be a good object.

While walking to the center of the venue, Ryan took off the pig head hammer on his back. At the same time, he took a deep breath, his eyes calm, and stared at the obsidian giant in front of him.

"Hey, Evelyn, how do you think Ryan will deal with it?" A young man who came with Evelyn had a half-smile on his face.

"I think he seems to be a knight using heavy weapons. He will be at a disadvantage facing the obsidian giant."

"Yes, facing the obsidian giant, the most advantageous ones should be the wizard apprentices who can use slowing spells such as slowing spells, followed by sharpshooters wearing leather armor and agile movements, and then sword and shield or hammer and shield knights." "

As for the greatsword knight or the heavy hammer knight, they are at a great disadvantage."

"Yes, the two-handed heavy hammer is at a disadvantage compared to the two-handed

greatsword. The heavy weight affects the speed of movement and dodging." "After all, facing the obsidian giant's defense comparable to steel, the armor-piercing weapon two-handed heavy hammer becomes a burden." Another person analyzed seriously.

"Begin!" The middle-aged knight shouted.

And the old earth wizard instantly disbanded the witchcraft clay cage and released the restraints on the obsidian giant.

When the obsidian giant regained its freedom, it immediately found the "little one" Ryan not far in front of it.

However, the next second, it found that the little guy had disappeared.

"Pop!"

Ryan's momentum suddenly exploded, his body suddenly expanded, and with a tap of his toes, a small pit instantly exploded in the hard stone ground.

In an instant, he rushed forward like a ghost, as if the heavy knight's plate armor and the heavy hammer in his hand were nothing.

When the obsidian giant reacted, it saw the little guy in front of it turned into a residual image and rushed straight to its feet.

Is this a delivery to the door?

The obsidian giant stretched out a pair of rock arms, trying to catch this fast-running "little guy".

"Is he going to attack?"

"Is he crazy!" A young man said with wide eyes in disbelief.

Could it be that No. 2 didn't understand what No. 1 had just experienced?

Amid the exclamations of the crowd, Ryan came to the feet of the obsidian giant in a blink of an eye, and jumped high.

The whole person's body was extremely stretched, like a tight bowstring. Ryan felt his power passing from the tip of his toes all the way through his hips, waist, back, and finally, concentrated on a pair of knotted arms.

"Hah!!!"

Ryan suddenly displayed the intermediate secret - shock wave!

At the same time, the dark pig-headed hammer slammed into the chest of the equally shiny black obsidian giant!

With this hammer, Ryan felt that he had used it very heartily!

Because he activated the "limit breaking" and "intermediate huge force" at the same time, almost releasing all the strength of his body with this hammer!

"Boom"!

A sound like a bomb explosion sounded!

The surrounding wind whistled, accompanied by the shattered black stones splashing!

A huge wound like a meteorite crater appeared on the chest of the obsidian giant, almost hitting the hard and thick obsidian giant through.

Even the thick-skinned obsidian giant couldn't handle such an injury. It took several steps back, its eyes revealed confusion, and fell to the ground!

Even the people who were watching from dozens of meters away instinctively took several steps back and looked at the scene in shock.

The five examiners who had originally had calm faces now had their eyes wide open, and their faces could no longer maintain a calm expression.

Everyone was shouting in their hearts: "This... This kind of attack power!"

"This is too exaggerated! These senior knights can't do it!"

"Even the peak knights may not be able to deal such damage!"

The young people waiting for the assessment were even more shocked!

Fiona and several companions were also like this at this moment, each of them looked like their eyes were about to pop out!

Before, they heard Ryan say that he was confident of passing the assessment, and they thought he was bragging. Although they didn't say anything to his face, they complained for a long time.

But they didn't expect that they were completely wrong. This guy's strength is so strong!

This horse is simply a monster!

The key is how old is this kid?

"I don't think this is the attack power that a normal person can have. Shouldn't the assessment team check him?" A young man blushed and pointed at Ryan.

"Boss, where did this guy come from?" A young man with a military style and a burly man next to him said.

"This attack power is amazing, it's stronger than you, boss!

"This move should be a secret, right? Could it be the offspring of a duke in the empire? How can he reach this level without being trained since childhood?"

The crowd immediately talked about it!

The examiners in charge of the assessment and evaluation who came back to their senses were completely numb at this time.

Because they have assigned tasks, for example, examiner No. 1 is responsible for observing and recording the strength performance of the assessee. There is no doubt that Ryan's strength performance in the battle just now is excellent! Examiner

No. 2 is responsible for recording speed performance, and it is also easy to score, and he is also excellent.

Examiner No. 3 is responsible for skill performance. Ryan has played a secret, so naturally he is also excellent. Examiner No.

4 was a little stunned. How should this battle reaction be scored?

For a moment, examiner No. 4 didn't know how to fight, but he looked at the other examiners beside him and found that they all gave full marks, so he thought about it and gave full marks.

After all, seeing the obsidian giant, he dared to go straight for it. This pre-battle reaction should not be a problem, right?

Swish, excellent!

Examiner No. 5 frowned. He was responsible for combat decisions, but did the examiner have combat decisions just now?

That should be called direct recklessness, right?

Reckless recklessness!

This assessment deliberately chose the obsidian giant, a creature with extremely strong defense and attack power, in order to hope that the examiner can observe the characteristics of the opponent's body being not flexible enough.

Try to attack the opponent's lower body, such as ankles, knees and other parts, so as to reduce the movement speed of the obsidian giant step by step. Of course, this process can be witchcraft or physical attack.

This is a normal decision-making process.

How can it be like Ryan, who directly smashed it with a hammer, and actually defeated the obsidian giant!

Normal combat gives people the feeling of playing house!

There is no battle decision at all.

However,

examiner No. 5 couldn't help but ask himself a question, what is the purpose of the battle decision? Is it to win the battle?

So, if you can beat them, you can just go ahead.

Is there a problem?

It seems that there is no problem!

Examiner No. 5 thought for a while and finally came to the conclusion that this examinee's combat decision-making should also be excellent!

(End of this chapter)