Chapter 228 The promotion exam begins!

Three days later. Early morning.

The Vatican exam.

The promotion exam that has attracted much attention from all over the country has finally begun.

The sky was just getting light of dawn, and the pale yellow sunlight was pouring down from thousands of white reed-like clouds. The city of Farol was still covered with a thin layer of morning mist.

The streets of the upper city were crowded with alchemical carriages, the Knights of Order patrolled the streets to maintain order, the noise was endless, and the newsboys rode their dark green bicycles and shouted in the streets and alleys.

"Extra, Extra, the promotion exam has begun!"

Qualified saints from all over the country who were taking the exam filled the First Church of the Seven Gods. They crowded outside the door, craning their necks to look inside the church, waiting for the time to come when the Knights of Order would let them into the examination room.

There are two major examinations in Farol every year. One of them is the primary saint examination. Believers who graduate from various minor saint colleges need to pass the saint examination if they want to enter the Holy See, so it is also called the transition from primary school to junior high school.

The second is this promotion test.

To some extent, this promotion test is more important than the sainthood test, because this test is related to the saints' promotion to the management and administrative level of the Holy See. Having a job position will lay the foundation for their future future and resume.

Similar to the Saints Examination, the first stage of the promotion exam is today's written cultural test.

According to common practice, this written test is just a formality.

After all, only saints who have reached the standard in terms of qualifications and rank are eligible to participate in this promotion assessment.

The sainthood examination is held in the spring of each year, while the promotion examination is held in the summer of each year.

An Su was one of the few who had just finished the entrance examination to junior high school and started the entrance examination right after. Although he had completed a journey that ordinary people could not complete in their lifetime within one year, An Su did not feel happy today.

On the contrary, he was a little scary.

An Su could feel the murderous gaze that was staring at him with ill intentions. He could also vaguely hear the slight creaking sound of teeth grinding, as if a ferocious little beast was sharpening its claws, waiting to rip open its prey in the next second.

Having strong senses is not a good thing.

He turned around and followed the line of sight, and saw the little saint Luojia surrounded by the crowd.

"snort."

She turned her head away. The little saint was wearing a snow-white spinning skirt today. A layer of light sunlight filtered through the white gauze, filtering the orange-yellow sunlight into a slightly cold winter sun. Her overall temperament was lonely and cold, with a chilling chill that kept strangers away. The saints around her who wanted to greet or flatter her did not dare to speak, and could only huddle in a fan shape.

Anzu could understand why Lorgar was so angry.

This situation has actually lasted for three days.

On the morning of the second day after delivering the wrong notes, Ansu knocked on the door of the monastery and returned the correct notes to Luojia.

An Su still remembers Luo Jia's expression at that time. Her cheeks flushed slightly at first, then became redder and redder, so red that it seemed as if steam was coming out of her head. The emotions in her bright golden eyes kept changing, from cheerfulness, to surprise, to confusion, and then to embarrassment.

"I have already finished reading it," Luo Jia said angrily at that time.

".I have the next volume. Do you want it?" An Su asked tentatively.

“.”

He really didn't expect that in just one night, the little saint actually finished reading the book [Forbidden Books and Publications Volume 1. No Reading for People Under 16]. It was a full 183 pages! Even worse than the Saint of Chaos! As the Saint of Glory, you don't want the saints to know that you peeked at the little uncle!

Feeling An Su's shocked and astonished gaze, Luo Jia became more and more ashamed and angry. He pushed An Su out of the door. In the next three days, he deliberately avoided An Su and was cold and silent when he met him.

Really.

An Su sighed helplessly, and the Saint of Chaos who was reading a book on his shoulder also glanced at him.

The exam is about to begin, and the cat is reading "The Refraction and Redshift of Light, Chapter 3 of the Glorious Church" with great interest, his face is red, his eyes are wide open, and he is just waiting to enter the exam room and show off his skills.

"I'm sorry, according to the regulations, the examination room is a restricted area and animals are not allowed to enter."

Father Passi of the Church of Order raised his eyes, glanced at Ansu sideways, and said without raising his head.

Who the hell is an animal?

Elf was shocked and her face was full of disbelief.

She immediately stood up and waved her cat paws in protest. As the Saint of Chaos, she had never suffered such a great humiliation.

She is also thinking about taking an exam to join the Glorious Church.

"Xiao Hei, stay here and don't run around." An Su gloated. Who told you to turn into a beast? Beasts certainly can't enter the examination room where humans stay.

An Su sent her to the wilderness, but although it was called the wilderness, this place was also the core area of ​​the Temple of the Seven Gods. There were several demigods watching this place, and she would be exposed if she did anything.

But seeing how Elf was reading with great interest, Ansu knew that she would be able to have some peace and quiet for a while.

After settling the animal Elf, Ansu led Lister and Arthur and prepared to walk into the examination room with his head held high.

"Sorry, according to regulations, animals are not allowed in."

Father Passi of the Church of Order raised his eyes again, glanced at Ansu sideways again, and said without raising his head again.

“.”

Were the animals referring to the three of us? Ansu was horrified, his face full of disbelief.

Father Persi sneered and stared at Ansu with a dark face, gloating over his misfortune. Who told you to become a born? A born certainly cannot enter the examination room where humans stay.

Last time, when he was invigilating the three candidates from the border, he repeatedly gave him tricks, one after another, which broke the mentality of all the candidates in the examination room. When the test results came out, the pass rate of the examination room supervised by Percy was ten percentage points lower than that of other examination rooms! "The animal must be talking about you!"

Ansu pointed at Arthur, Arthur pointed at Liszt, and Liszt pointed at Ansu, and the three of them said in unison.

"All three of you." Father Percy's face was full of black lines.

"Let me in. I promise to behave myself and not cause any trouble. They are the ones who did all the bad things."

Ansu and the other two said in unison again, "Just leave this bad guy Ansu (Lister) (Arthur) outside."

The indestructible brotherhood of the three border heroes was broken in an instant. After seeing the appearance of these three people, Father Persi was even more afraid to let them in.

However, these three people had admission tickets after all, and Father Parsis really couldn't leave them outside the door. He just pretended to kill them to show his power, so as to avoid giving them trouble again in the exam.

"I remind you all to be more honest and respectful in this exam!"

Father Parsi deliberately put on a serious look and said, "This exam is supervised by the honorable Lord of Law himself!"

"Merlin was released from prison?" An Su said in surprise.

He thought Merlin would have to stay in heaven for another year.

"Well, he has made significant contributions, so he was released early after serving his sentence."

Father Paci had just said half of his words when he felt something was wrong. He was a full-time judicial priest, and he used a lot of jargon when dealing with prisoners on a daily basis, so he was naturally led astray by Ansu.

"What do you mean by released from prison? That's heaven!" He said with a gloomy face, "I told you to be more respectful to His Majesty Merlin, but you treat His Majesty Merlin like a prisoner!"

Isn't it.

An Su blinked, "So what is the major meritorious service?"

"Merlin has almost completely killed all the former bishops of the Scarlet Order in reality. This undercover leader who has been harassing the Kingdom of Heaven for nearly a year and lurking in the Imperial Capital for several years has finally been brought to justice one day."

Father Percy praised Merlin's great achievements. "His Majesty Merlin successfully lured the Bishop of Pain to the Farol Diocese through his unknown strategy and ingenious calculations, and killed him. The demigods of the esoteric cult are all very careful and never show up in the real world. How did His Majesty Merlin manage to lure him to the suburbs? It remains an unsolved mystery."

To be honest, it’s her beauty that counts.

Ansu had a blank expression.

"It's a pity that His Majesty Merlin is too modest and low-key, and has always been unwilling to join our superb plan." Father Percy sighed and continued, "Because of this great meritorious performance... well, because of this merit, His Majesty Merlin has been granted a year-long vacation in heaven."

I see.

Anzu nodded.

"Okay, go in." Father Persis looked at Ansu proudly. This time, with His Majesty Merlin as the chief examiner in charge of the whole place, this brat Ansu would definitely not dare to do anything to upset people's mentality on the spot. The pass rate of the examination room he supervised was the lowest in the whole place, just like last time.

"Don't worry." Ansu saw the concerns of Father Percy and smiled sympathetically. "I swear in the name of glory that I will be absolutely honest during this exam. I can guarantee that your passing rate in the exam room will definitely not be the lowest."

Because everyone is the same low!

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The work of messing with people's mentality had been completed long before the exam began.

With a calm smile on his face, Ansu led the two animals, Arthur and Lister, pushed open the door and walked into the waiting hall. The whole hall was already crowded with saints. When Ansu and the other two entered, many people turned around and stared at them.

After all, these three people - especially An Su, are the youngest candidates in the whole venue.

It is rare in the world for a saint to take the promotion examination in the first year of his membership in the church.

In addition, His Majesty Merlin was personally supervising the exam, and combined with the rumors mentioned earlier, everyone couldn't help but imagine a lot, which was enough to make Ansu the second most watched candidate.

As for the first one, it is naturally the princess of the imperial capital, the saint of the imperial capital in everyone's heart.

For them, it is their honor to take part in the Vatican examination, and for Cersei, it is a glorious honor to take part in the examination. The reason why the imperial royal family allowed the third princess to take part in the Vatican examination and become a member under the glory of God is just to express the royal family's close attitude towards the Vatican. It is an examination in a political sense.

With her status as a princess, she didn't need to take any exams from the Holy See.

Cersei was willing to come because the Holy See promised her the conditions for the successor to the God of Law.

It was just that according to gossip, an ignorant border guard suddenly showed up along the way, which was why Ansu received so much attention and even criticism.

However, few people take it seriously.

Cersei is now a fifth-level saint, close to a demigod, while Ansu has just finished the saint exam and is at the top of the third level. It is impossible for him to be compared with Her Majesty the Princess.

The news about the arrest of a group of esoteric cult members not long ago was probably just a hype created by the news media.

Although they don't know Ansu, they are familiar with the news.

Everyone was looking at An Su, and An Su was also looking at everyone.

In just a few seconds among a group of complacent saints, he successfully found several good girls.

They are just too conspicuous.

These good girls were at the very center of the crowd, wearing revealing and bold clothes, showing off their white thighs and dark butterfly tattoos on their ankles or calves, causing many students who passed by inadvertently to glance at them secretly, with their hearts pounding, their faces blushing, and their minds in confusion.

There is no doubt that these slutty bitches are the witches of the esoteric cult who came in disguise! As the saying goes, men understand men best. As soon as these witches made a move, they made several saints unable to concentrate on reading.

Putting such a good girl in the examination room, An Su couldn't imagine what kind of huge damage she could achieve.

"An——" Luo Jia also entered the examination room. She saw the bad guy An Su, and thought that she had ignored this guy for several days and her anger was almost gone. She wanted to pay some attention to this guy, but before she could say anything, she saw this little brat staring at other girls.

“Woo!”

The little saint stopped talking again, and just as her anger had subsided, she suddenly jumped up again.

Leaving aside the chaos in the waiting hall, at this moment on the highest floor of the church, those indifferent and sacred eyes were looking down at everyone from top to bottom.

Merlin, the head of Glory and the god of magic with pure white eyes, looked at these students with admiration. Looking at the future of the Church one after another, he nodded with satisfaction. He was determined to recruit all these young talents into the Church of Glory.

Especially to be recruited into the office of His Majesty Merlin.

The more people are recruited into the system, the easier the leaders' work will be. If there are any documents, just teach them how to handle them. If there are any mistakes, they can also blame them.

Besides, this exam wasn't difficult, and the more points the better. After all, it wasn't Merlin who paid the salaries of these saints.

Merlin finally got a New Year's holiday, so he definitely wouldn't do any clerical work! Thinking of this, the smile on his face became even more kind and amiable.

Merlin looked at these saints, one after another, with bright faces and clear eyes. He knew that these talents were good seedlings for the Glorious Church and they must be eager to make progress.

It was completely different from the lifeless, gray and weak eyes of Ansu - this type of saint would run away quickly when encountering things, and his main skill was a non-stick pan.

Fortunately, his own morality is enough to deal with him, Merlin smiled complacently, otherwise this kid would be bold enough to let his leader take the blame for him.

When the other bishops of the Holy See saw Merlin's brilliant smile, they couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, and they all wondered what Bishop Merlin meant by his sneer.

This year, the examination paper personally prepared by His Majesty Merlin has just been opened.

Several bishops have reviewed it, and their abstractness and absurdity can be said to be unprecedented. They are all birth questions, and they are extremely difficult to kill the saints.

"Your Majesty Merlin, are you sure you don't want to look over these test papers again?" a bishop asked tentatively.

"What's so interesting about such a simple question?" Merlin didn't care.

You kid still have this trick up your sleeve? !

Now seeing Merlin smiling like that again, the bishops finally came to a conclusion.

This kid must have gone crazy from guarding the gate, so he deliberately made up that birth test paper, wanting to die together with everyone.

Given the difficulty of this exam, I'm afraid the pass rate will not exceed 1%! By then, there will be no new recruits in the entire Vatican! All their leaders will have nothing to use. This is the most terrifying thing.

The bishops looked at Merlin's sunny smile and couldn't help but sigh that this man was truly a devil among devils, and only the gate of heaven could seal him.

This middle-aged man just came out of heaven and he can't wait to destroy the world!

They finally understood why Heaven was a seventh-level world and what the purpose of the Gate of Heaven was. Ancient books said that the original devil was sealed inside the Gate of Heaven, and now it seems to be true. Isn't it sealing the old devil Merlin?

As soon as the result of this exam comes out, the cardinals will be furious. Merlin will definitely ask the whole parliament to pass it unanimously and send him to heaven for another half a year! But even though he knew the result, Merlin still showed such a happy smile. Several bishops couldn't help but admire his courage and vision.

He is really patient.

"I declare." The time is almost up. Merlin smiled confidently, and his voice echoed in the hall. The first round of the promotion exam officially began.

"Candidates please enter the examination room in order."

His Majesty Merlin has already seen his bright retirement future.

(End of this chapter)