NOVEL NEXT Chapter 10
010. Selection of City Guards, Seven Arts of Knights! (Ask for a collection of flower evaluation tickets)
Chapter 10
In the small square in the center of Bambi City, a large group of people were standing noisily at this time, all of whom came to be selected by the city guards.
Half of the young and strong men in Bambi City signed up for the selection, plus some old and weak women and children who came to watch the fun, almost the entire Bambi City came.
As the proposer of recruiting, Joshua naturally came.
Tina and Fowles followed him, and Tina was ready to serve Joshua with towels, tea and snacks in hand.
Joshua saw the crowd of people in front of him, and he saw everyone’s various expressions, and his brows slowly wrinkled.
“Falls..”
Joshua called out softly, and Fowles immediately approached respectfully, “What is your Highness?”
Joshua pointed to the crowd moving below and said, “Find someone to build toilets in various places in the city as soon as possible, spitting everywhere, and convenience everywhere. These bad habits will not only affect the environment in the city, but may also cause the spread of diseases, especially In a warm climate like Bambi City.
Also, you go back and look at etiquette, pick out some basic etiquette from it and issue it as a decree, and tell the five road cleaning officers by the way, these matters are also added to their work items…”
Joshua had considered these issues before, but never thought of telling Fowles that now that the townspeople gathered together, these issues immediately became prominent, and Joshua, who was standing beside him, could see it at a glance, and naturally Fowles had to solve them.
Fowles kept nodding and jotting down Joshua’s words one by one.
“…How is it that I asked you to help the city lord’s mansion recruit people? The selection of the city guards has already begun. Can’t let Tina do all the food and drink for these hundreds of people?”
Tina next to her stuck out her tongue and made a pitiful expression, as if she was afraid that Joshua would arrange for her to cook for hundreds of people, and she wouldn’t be able to finish it even if she was exhausted.
Fowles hurriedly replied: “Don’t worry, Your Highness, the helpers and cooks have already served before the selection, and now they are already preparing food. As for the servants of the City Lord’s Mansion, after all, they have to serve His Highness. Picking slowly…”
Foles is still very thoughtful in his work, which makes Joshua quite satisfied.
“Oh, by the way, have these people bought all the food they eat? I don’t want my townspeople to go to training hungry.”
“We have prepared the amount that 300 people eat a day.”
Joshua frowned immediately: “One day’s amount is not enough.”
Foles smiled mysteriously and replied, “Don’t worry, Your Highness, Lord Hogan and I have already discussed a solution.”
Joshua was slightly startled, wondering what kind of medicine the Falls Gourd was selling.
But he soon found out.
There were more than 300 people participating in the selection. Hogan and more than 20 guards brought from the capital stood in front of the more than 300 people.
There was a lot of noise off the field, and Hogan suddenly raised his hand, and the brilliant silver vindictiveness bloomed like fireworks, making a crisp sound like cracking silk in the air.
“Quiet.”
Hogan said lightly.
The noisy crowd immediately quieted down, and everyone looked at Hogan with awe.
After all, in this world, the strong can be respected wherever they go.
“Selection starts now.”
Hogan’s voice was not loud, but it clearly spread throughout the small square, apparently using the power of vindictiveness.
“The first selection! I limit you to go out of the city to hunt as many prey as possible within two hours. The quantity and quality of the prey will affect your selection results.”
“boom..”
As soon as Hogan finished speaking, there were bursts of discussion from below.
Everyone did not expect that the first item of selection turned out to be hunting!
Hogan’s face was expressionless, just a faint reminder: “Remember, you only have two hours…”
This time, before he finished speaking, someone with a bright mind immediately reacted and rushed out of the city first, and then the others hurried to follow. After a while, all the selectors in the small square ran away.
“That’s a good idea!”
Joshua’s eyes lit up and couldn’t help but praise.
It not only achieves the purpose of selection, but also solves the problem of food for the selectors, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Fowles said with a little smugness: “It’s not just used for selection, but daily training after the selection is also one of their homework. I have already calculated that as long as those who participate in training do not return empty-handed every day, We only need to buy part of the food from the townspeople to fully support the consumption during the training..”
“It’s not all about the food actually…”
At this time, Hogan also walked over and said, “Hunting is originally one of the ‘Seven Arts of the Court Knights’. His Highness has been trained by the Seven Arts, so it should be clearer.”
Joshua nodded.
The seven arts of court knights refer to riding, archery, swordsmanship, lifting stones, hunting, swimming and chess.
Hogan is an excellent court knight who was personally awarded by Charles III. Naturally, he is very familiar with the seven arts of knighthood. If Joshua guesses correctly, this selection designed by Hogan should also be based on the seven knights. Art direction to set.
After two hours, the selectors returned one after another with their prey.
Because the citizens of Bambi City often have to resist the attacks of gnolls and kobolds, as well as the intrusion of goblins, many of them are excellent hunters, and they are basically rewarded.
But Hogan mercilessly eliminated a large number of people.
“why?”
Someone couldn’t help but scream, “I caught more prey than him, why did he pass me but was eliminated?!”
“Why did you say?!”
Hogan snorted coldly and said coldly: “Because of time, he returned to the selection venue within the stipulated time, and you didn’t. This is the first selection criteria, and those who do not meet the criteria will naturally be eliminated.”
“But I was only ten minutes late…”
The man still felt aggrieved.
“On the battlefield, let alone ten minutes late, even if it is ten seconds late, or a blink of an eye late, your compatriots, or yourself, may lose their heads!
time is life! ”
The crowd was speechless.
Immediately afterwards, Hogan announced that those who passed the selection had a temporary rest for half an hour. The next selection was to lift a stone, which is simply a test of force, which was the most basic criterion for evaluating a low-level knight.
During the break, Fowles came out with a large group of helpers and cooks at the right time, took the freshly boiled fruit tea and distributed it to all the selectors, and by the way, bought the prey from the eliminated ones.
As for those who passed the first round of selection, the prey they captured was of course handed in as an assessment score.
Joshua has been watching from the side, the rules of the first round of selection are somewhat unexpected, so the most people are eliminated, almost a full one-third.
The second round was better, only a dozen or so were eliminated.
After the second round, Hogan seemed to be in a good mood, and ran over to report to Joshua: “These people have a very good foundation, basically all have the strength of first- and second-level knights, and some have even reached the third-level. The threshold of the fourth level, with just a little touch, they can successfully stimulate the fighting spirit and be promoted to the category of intermediate knights.
Generally speaking, knights of one to three levels are collectively referred to as low-level knights, four to six are intermediate knights, and seven to nine are high-level knights.
Joshua is not surprised by the average strength of Bambi City residents.
Without sufficient strength, they could not have survived until now.
After two rounds of selection, it was already noon, and many of the selections were shouting that they were hungry, and asked Hogan if they could let them go back for lunch before participating in the next selection.
Hogan replied indifferently: “Don’t worry, Lord City Lord has prepared lunch for you.”
Before he finished speaking, Fowles led the people to come quickly with several steaming large wooden barrels in a carriage.
From far away, the selectors could smell the seductive fragrance and couldn’t help but start gulping wildly.
“It smells so good! What does it smell like, why is it so fragrant…”*