The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

There stood a simple 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 to 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, 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 rows of long backrest chairs.

At this moment, there were already 20 to 30 young people sitting sparsely 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 clear 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 found that it was Evelyn, the red-haired beauty from Rosby County, Evelyn Norman, the daughter of Viscount Norman.

Hearing such a beautiful woman happily greet Ryan, everyone in the hall couldn't help looking 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 competitors are very strong, just now Agatha left, and now there is another red-haired beauty.

And 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 good 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, there was an inexplicable feeling 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 greet 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. Obviously, he was still 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 increased 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 powerful and unhurried. 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 took the test that day at the Zhishui Lake.

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

"Hi, Fiona, long time no see!" Evelyn smiled and walked 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 Zhishui Lake.

Other young people obviously recognized Ryan and seemed quite surprised, as if they didn't expect that he 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's nothing wrong with the sons of nobles being a little romantic, but at such an important moment of the sword holder assessment, he took three beauties along the way, which in their eyes was a person who was addicted to beauty.

Even if he had good talent and was lucky enough to get an invitation to the sword holder assessment, he would definitely not go far in the future.

"Fiona, have you met Mr. Ryan?"

"Well, I happened to meet him by the Still Water 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 a fuel-saving lamp.

What pot is not open.

Hearing Fiona's words, Evelyn looked at Ryan with her beautiful eyes, as if she was quite scrutinizing, as if saying, '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 you go to handle some business matters."

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

"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 calm look, 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 assessment content of the Sword Holder is this year?"

Ryan shook his head. He knew this. The beautiful woman Jennifer could collect very little information about the Sword Holder 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 assessment changes every year."

"Last year, it was said that the official members of the Sword Holder came to assess us. As long as we held on to them 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's combat performance."

Everyone frowned slightly when they heard it.

This is troublesome. There is no fixed routine.

The bell rang at nine o'clock in the distance.

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

"First of all, welcome all the elites of the Empire to Munster to participate in the sword-bearing 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-bearing 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:

"The staff of 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 glance at him, and immediately, she exclaimed in a low voice.

"It's number two!"

Fiona's words were not serious, but 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 I was unlucky enough with number three."

"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-wielding test would be like today, the first one or two examinees could be said to be the first to wade across the river for everyone else.

If you are not careful, you might be drowned by the unknown depth of the river.

Basically, the top ten are the best. The assessment situation is basically clear, and then the examiners will not be too tired. If you can show some special abilities, it will still make the examiners shine.

Of course, there are special cases, such as the top one or two, who are particularly strong. Sorry, the subsequent scores of the examiners 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 a 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 complete."

"There is only one rule for the assessment, which is that 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 them, 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 that surrounded the central area, which looked like an indoor arena.

There were more than ten people on the side, who seemed to be staff members. 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 forward and bowed slightly to an old man wearing a khaki wizard robe and with his hands in 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, just in time to see if there are any good seedlings."

I saw him suddenly take his hands out of his sleeves, with a black short stick in his right hand, and 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 shattered.

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 the Obsidian Giant!"

"Does the Sword Bearer Test require us to defeat the Obsidian Giant this time?"

"This is crazy! It's impossible."

Suddenly, the people in the test were whispering.

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

"This year's Sword Bearer Test 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 record something quickly.

This immediately quieted everyone present.

"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 accept him.

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, and the stone shot at the sword and shield youth like a cannonball.

Immediately, the sword and shield youth's face turned pale, and he rolled sideways, barely avoiding the attack of the obsidian giant, but the rubble splashed by the stone still hit him and made him look dirty, 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 youth!

"Bang!"

Finally, the sword-shield youth was too late to dodge and had to hold the shield to resist. He was immediately blown away on the spot!

"The duration was 18 seconds, failed!" a staff member shouted.

The five examiners were recording something.

The injured sword-shield youth was immediately sent to the side for treatment 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 "dead man".

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

For this kind of large extraordinary creature, it was not the first time for Ryan to encounter and fight. Before he entered the knighthood, he had killed large and violent beasts such as the offshore plesiosaur and the scale-bearded iron-backed turtle.

"Perform your best, even if you fail, your performance will be recorded." The middle-aged knight said to Ren as usual.

Ren nodded.

Originally, Ren was planning to hold back a little, but now he is the second person to take part in the assessment.

It's a bit annoying.

Because there are almost no reference objects, it would be funny if you restrain yourself and fail the test in the end.

"Also. Full strength?"

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

Then do your best!

After all, since he upgraded Shock Wave to the intermediate secret, he has never used it at full strength.

Fully exerting means to activate the 'Limit Breaking' and the talent 'Intermediate Power', and then use the intermediate secret 'Shock Wave'. So far, Renn has not found a suitable target or place to perform this move.

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

As Ren walked towards the center of the field, he took off the pig-headed hammer on his back. At the same time, he took a deep breath and stared at the obsidian giant in front of him with calm eyes.

"Hey, Evelin, how do you think Renn will deal with it?" A young man who came with Evelin had a half-smiling expression on his face.

"I think he seems to be a knight who uses heavy weapons. Facing the Obsidian Giant like that will be very disadvantageous."

"Yes, when facing the Obsidian Giant, the ones who take the most advantage should be the wizard apprentices who know slowing magic such as slowness, followed by the agile marksmen wearing leather armor, and the third is the sword and shield or hammer and shield knights. "

"As for the Great Sword Knight or the Heavy Hammer Knight, they are at a huge disadvantage."

"That's right, a two-handed hammer is more disadvantageous than a two-handed sword. It's heavy and affects the speed of movement and dodge."

"After all, facing the obsidian giant's defensive power that is comparable to steel, the armor-breaking weapon and heavy hammer with both hands have become a burden." Another person analyzed seriously.

"Start!" the middle-aged knight shouted.

The old earth wizard dissolved the witchcraft clay cage in an instant and released the restraints on the obsidian giant.

As soon as the obsidian giant regained its freedom, it immediately discovered the 'little' Renn not far in front of it.

However, the next second, it discovered that the little one had disappeared.

"Snapped!"

I saw Ren's momentum suddenly erupting, his body suddenly expanded, and with a little tip of his toe, a small crater exploded in the hard stone ground in an instant.

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

When the obsidian giant reacted, it saw the small dot in front of it turned into an afterimage, heading straight towards its feet.

Is this door-to-door delivery?

The obsidian giant stretched out a pair of rock arms, intending to catch this 'little one' who was running very fast.

"Is he going to attack?"

"You're crazy!" A young man said with eyes wide open in disbelief.

Could it be that No. 2 didn’t understand what happened to No. 1 just now?

Amid everyone's exclamations, Renn arrived at the feet of the obsidian giant in a blink of an eye, jumped up high with a snap.

The whole body was extremely stretched, like a tight bowstring. Renn felt that his power was transmitted from the jumping toes to the hips, waist, and back, and finally concentrated on a pair of knotted arms.

"drink!!!"

I saw Ren suddenly displaying the intermediate secret - shock wave!

At the same time, the dark pig-headed hammer hit the chest of the obsidian giant, which was also shiny black!

With this blow, Ren felt that it was quite hearty!

Because he activated 'Limit Breaking' and 'Intermediate Power' at once, he released almost all the power in his body with this hammer!

There was a "boom"!

There was a sound like a bomb exploding!

The surrounding wind roared, accompanied by broken black stones splashing away!

A huge wound like a crater appeared on the Obsidian Giant's chest, almost punching through the entire hard and thick Obsidian Giant.

Even the rough-skinned and thick-bodied obsidian giant couldn't bear this kind of injury. It took a few steps back, its eyes revealed confusion, and it fell to the ground!

Even the people watching dozens of meters away instinctively took a few steps back and looked at the scene in front of them in shock.

The five examiners who originally had calm faces now had their eyes widened, and their faces could no longer maintain their calm expressions.

Everyone is shouting in their hearts: "This, this, this kind of attack power!"

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

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

And the young people waiting for the assessment were in an uproar!

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

Before, they heard Ren say that he was confident of passing the exam, and they thought he was bragging. Although they didn't say anything in person, they complained for a while.

But I didn't expect that I was completely mistaken. This guy was actually so strong!

This horse is a monster!

The key is how old is this kid?

"I don't feel like this is an attack power that normal people can have. Why don't the assessment team check him out?" A young man blushed and pointed at Ren.

"Boss, where on earth did this guy come from?" said a young man with a military style and a burly man beside him.

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

"This move should be a secret move, right? Could it be the offspring of a duke in the empire? How can he reach this level without training from 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 previous battle is excellent!

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

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

After all, seeing the obsidian giant, he dared to go straight ahead. This pre-battle reaction should be no problem, right?

Swish, excellent!

Examiner No. 5 frowned. He was responsible for combat decisions, but did the examiner make 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 other party's body being not flexible enough.

Try to attack the opponent's lower body, such as ankles, knees and other parts, so as to gradually reduce the movement speed of the obsidian giant. 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 that it is as simple as 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 battle decision? Is it to win the battle?

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

Is there a problem?

It seems to be no problem!

Examiner No. 5 thought for a while and finally came to the conclusion that the battle decision of this examinee should also be excellent!