Chapter 177: Chapter 177: Two Young People
Translator: 549690339
After watching nearly a hundred ‘interviews’, Han Dong had roughly understood some rules of the preliminary round.
“The ‘Third Year’ students have at least 3 Fate Points invested in their main talent.
Moreover, they have already gone through nearly three years of academy training and handled a large number of bounty tasks.
And the ‘preliminary round’ rules set by Captain Kaimon are quite simple, using one’s ‘fear endurance’ to determine their qualification.
For us freshmen, the requirements should be somewhat lowered.”
However,
Captain Kaimon didn’t seem to have the intention of taking special care of the lower grade apprentice knights.
By the time it came to the ‘Second Year’ students, the pass rate dropped drastically.
Koslin and Sophia, who Han Dong knew, just barely passed.
Slowly it came to their turn, this batch of first-year students who had been in school for just over three months.
Captain Kaimon impatiently said:
“I’m not a fan of coddling freshmen you could fully wait until next year to participate in a slightly easier ‘knight training camp’.
This time we go out of the city, I have almost similar requirements for every apprentice knight.
If it weren’t for the council’s mandatory requirements on personnel selection, I wouldn’t be willing to bring this group of youngsters who are still wet behind the ears.
If any of you fail to meet a single requirement during training, don’t even think about passing the final review even if you manage to come back alive, this ‘knight training camp’ will still be marked as ‘unqualified’.
If you still insist on staying, line up and stand in front of me.”
Because Captain Kaimon had no intention of accommodating the lower-grade apprentice knights, and the previous air pressure aura had eliminated a large number of novice apprentice knights.
Now, only thirteen people remained, standing in a line in front of Kaimon.
“At least it shows you got some guts Let me see what kind of ability you fresh recruits, who just enrolled in the school, have.”
Kaimon’s white eyes slowly swept over the line of freshmen.
The pressure doubled, and the mental burden increased by about three times.
Many people, at the moment they were stared at, were sweating profusely, soaking their clothes and dripping continuously.
The primitive instinct deep in their bones was drawn out, unable to stop their legs from shaking.
However, there were very few apprentice knights who stood unmoved in the face of close scrutiny.
As Captain Kaimon’s gaze swept over Han Dong, his white eyes suddenly stopped because he was surprised to see a unique crow’s mark on the back of Han Dong’s right hand.
Under Captain Kaimon’s gaze,
Han Dong, whose body was noticeably weak, and even had yellowing skin due to malnutrition, had no sign of wavering and maintained a normal standing posture.
“Huh? How strange ”
Kaimon leaned forward, deliberately getting closer to Han Dong for a moment, the pressure increased several times.
“So the crow started accepting students? Are you his student?”
This special treatment made Han Dong somewhat unbearable. He nodded slightly and squeezed out two words through his teeth, “Yes.”
“Interesting.”
Kaimon pulled back, and the weight pressing down on Han Dong loosened. He then moved on to the next person.
After his gaze swept past Mia, he gave the first-year students’ review conclusion, pointing at six of them.
“This batch of new recruits is quite good, exceeding my expectations! You six can participate in the training, go back and prepare well The danger level in this training will be much higher than before.
You six may have bright futures ahead, so dying wouldn’t be worth it.
During training, I will still look out a bit for you newcomers with potential, and group you six into a special team in charge of your safety in secret.
The related requirements will be explained in detail during the training. Go back and prepare everything, meet at the city gate at nine o’clock tomorrow morning.
The same goes for the other apprentice knights, go back and enjoy your last peaceful day.”
“Thank You, Captain Kaimon.”
Among the six newcomers chosen, Han Dong and Mia were naturally included.
Just as these six people were ready to join the other selected upperclassmen, and all together leave the arena, Captain Kaimon suddenly spoke.
“The two of you, wait a moment before you leave.”
These ‘two’.
One was Han Dong.
The other referred to a particular male student among the six selected freshmen.
An apprentice knight with spiky white hair, dressed in simple beast-hide clothes.
On seeing this, Mia quickly tugged at the corner of Han Dong’s clothes, whispering, “Congratulations on being noticed by Captain Kaimon! I’ll wait for you outside.”
Han Dong just stayed in place, without any response.
After all, the people stayed, Captain Kaimon for some reason, began to laugh out loud:
“Hahaha! I heard a while ago that the Crow had taken on a student I thought it was a joke. I didn’t expect to meet you today.
Since you are the Crow’s student, you should be outstanding in ‘perception’, right? What’s your name?”
“Valen. Nicholas.”
“Hmm Both of you have ‘tolerance to fear’ far surpassing your peers, quite impressive.
I can reveal in advance some of the arrangements for ‘intensive training’, the focus of this training is wilderness survival you will need to live alone outside the city for a while without any help.
Of course, I spoke earlier.
All you newcomers have great potential, as long as you don’t die, you will definitely have a good development in the future.
I will also arrange for someone to look after you in secret, as far as possible to ensure your safety.
But, the risk still exists.
That’s why I asked both of you to stay. I give you a special task. If you can do it well, I will give you an ‘excellent’ evaluation on your training records.”
By the way… this is my eldest grandson.
Abe, you and Nicholas get to know each other.”
The eldest grandson!
Right from the start, Han Dong had noticed this uniquely powerful white-haired student among the first-year students.
With the vision of the “Little Demon Eye”, this person emitted a wild white aura.
This white aura would occasionally form phantom images of various beasts around Abe’s body in Han Dong’s eyes, this young man Abe was by far the strongest among the first-year apprentice knights.
Unexpectedly, he was Captain Kaimon’s grandson.
“Hello, my name is Abe. Rhein, majoring in control! I am honored to be able to participate in this elite training with the student of the Crow Prophet.”
Surprisingly.
This white-haired beastskin man was essentially different from Captain Kaimon.
His speech did not have the savage wildness of Kaimon, but actually seemed quite courteous.
“Hello!”
As Han Dong shook hands with this individual, he sensed even more directly how ‘strong’ this classmate Abe was.
Different in essence from the general apprentice knights.
If it were said that Han Dong’s friend, Cass, was considered ‘excellent’ among his apprentice knight peers.
Then, this Abe Rhein was the one at the peak among his same-level peers.
Watching the two shake hands, Captain Kaimon couldn’t help but open the long-sealed memory images in his mind.
At the top of a hill littered with corpses.
He, covered in monster fluid, stood at the very top.
His beast-like nature flared up, rage uncontrollable.
Just when a heavily polluted Kaimon was about to lose control as a result of his Beast Transformation, a crow flew in and perched on his shoulder.