Steel steam and flame

Everything quickly returned to calm after that, and only the steam explosion cloud silently and slowly expanded toward the surroundings. Not long after, a heavy snow fell here, and the steam that had not condensed into snowflakes was frozen into frost powder, falling together with it, covering a large area of ​​the surrounding area.

The silence stayed here for less than a few hours. A team followed the sound of the explosion, looked at it, turned around and left immediately. Afterwards, several teams came over, and some of them turned around and left. The ice surface covered with a thin layer of snow bears traces of freezing after melting due to high temperatures. This is something they cannot resist or resist. The common thought is to keep distance and hide far away. Some spent some time walking around. Relying on better information, these people thought of the person or team who caused the traces in front of them.

Probably before they left, they were still guessing who would win in the end and leave safely. But it has nothing to do with them. After all, many people don't even know their names. They only know that they are two alien beings that are comparable to ferocious creatures.

"That's good. It's good for everyone to reduce the threat by one." There are many people who hold this idea. If you think about it carefully, it has nothing to do with you. Considering the situation of the knight's squire assessment, this is indeed a fact.

As the only assessment inspectors who kept records, they simply recorded the scene and left after receiving the information from the communication airship. The signal generator that had been tracked here soon changed its identity code, which only meant that its original owner had been completely buried under the ice. At first, they had the idea of ​​recording the location and sending people to exhume the body after the assessment, but the blazing white light pillar made them disappear even this idea.

There is no need anymore. Their next job is to follow the signal generator bound to their own inspection task and record anything that happens before it completes the determination of a knight's squire.

In the afternoon, only six people including Ernes and Novia arrived. A deep pool of water melted by a pillar of white fire in front of him has frozen into ice, and its surface is mottled white, making it impossible to see anything below. They tried to dig downward, but the target was too huge. The diameter of the frozen calm ice surface was more than a hundred meters in diameter. The workload was huge, and they didn't know the specific location yet. On the way, I encountered a team that left after exploring here. The freezing of the deep pool did not form suddenly, but was entirely caused by the ambient temperature. This dispelled their notion that it was man-made.

There may be an incomplete body among the ice blocks, but they prefer to believe that there is nothing left inside under the flames. In other words, it is everywhere, turning into gas and dissolving in this huge area.

"You won't die so easily." Novia sighed as she looked at the ice, quite consoling herself. Ernes did not speak on the side, and the others were also silent. Silence at this time seemed to be good for himself and others.

In the evening, there are no longer any shadows of examiners here, leaving only the calm ice surface and the messy footprints trampled on it, quietly maintaining their original appearance, waiting for the next snowstorm to change their appearance.

In the next few days, a team of assessors passed by here from time to time and walked a little further to check it out. Apart from sighing or thinking about the dragon that has always been exchanging information with each other, there is no other meaningful topic. What happened here only came into the sight of some people in the end. The other teams were not affected in any way and were still traveling in the center of the assessment area, chasing the footprints of the remaining ferocious creatures.

The hunting process was just as they imagined, becoming more and more difficult. Among the thirty-six ferocious creatures, some were weak, or some were not very lucky, and those who encountered the alien examiners had all turned into frozen ice in the snow. Although the remaining risks have increased a lot, time is enough to smooth them out. Information was passed quickly between these teams, and there were more or less lies in it. Battle after battle was carried out simultaneously in various regions, and the trend eventually turned towards the assessors. When all the second-type creatures around a ferocious creature are killed, the individual ferocious creatures will reveal their weaknesses under the traps and plans designed by the examiner based on their habits and attack methods.

It's just that the interaction is the same, and the examiner also suffers huge losses. Many of those who were given expectations before the assessment entered the death list. Some names that had never been heard of quickly appeared in various battles to hunt ferocious creatures and became known to some people. This situation seems to have achieved the result that the Imperial Council wanted. As long as it passes the assessment and certification, regardless of whether there is help from the family, it can always be explained from one aspect that the person who has obtained the quota does have such strength.

No matter where this strength comes from, whether it is a lucky judgment, the help of the assembled team, or following behind to rob, you can get the signal generator from it and keep it in your hands for four days, which is enough to explain the result. Because after the assessment, when they have the qualifications of knight attendants, some tasks, some things that need to be dealt with, many times they will only look at the results. Sometimes the process is no longer important. To them, it is like dissecting a corpse with countless starting positions. In the end, it is best to ensure that the dissection is complete and does not damage the target tissue.

Two weeks later, the central area is still in chaos. There are only single digits of ferocious creatures left at this moment, and on the communication airship, it has been determined that the number of people who have qualified for the quota is the same single digit. The number of ferocious creatures has been supplemented by those who have obtained the signal generator, and more and more hunting targets have become assessors.

The habits and methods are more suitable for these people. As expected, when facing the second type of creatures, the examiner, who is also a human, should make them feel much more friendly.

It was the end of the next two weeks when things changed. At that time, all thirty-five ferocious creatures had been hunted by the examiners. Only the remaining dragon had never entered their sight. Except for No. 0 who would bring the remaining experimental subjects over from time to time, the remaining The examiners below have all targeted the owners of current signal generators.

According to the long-established process, the personnel sent by Avalon to support the assessment turned on the device installed on the dragon, making it more aggressive. Frequently, they would take the initiative to find large groups of assessors. After a week, this situation forced most of the people in the central area to unite.

But it can't be called a coalition. Its main force is Zero and the experimental subjects around him. After entangled for nearly a week, the dragon finally failed to escape and died in the hands of Zero. The biggest shock before the assessment occurred during that week, and it did not last for a few days. Zero, who had voluntarily given up the signal generator, and the remaining experimental subjects suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight. By the time they noticed it, he was nowhere to be seen.

At the same time, another comparable alien also entered the ears of the people in the central area. It's just that the situation and the result never changed, and there were almost no people who knew both. After becoming the central topic in information exchanges for a few days, these things became memories that occasionally came to mind.

From then on, the central area quickly fell into calm. Finally, after a few days, the corresponding black clouds above the thirty-five peaks were ablated and pierced by huge red signal bombs. The signal made everyone consciously look to the sky.

That is the sign that represents the complete end of the knight squire assessment.