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Trial of courage!

A trial that is quite popular among the nobles, knights and even free people among the five northern countries. To be more precise, it is a custom for those close-killing professions or places where martial arts are prevalent!

The specific source is said to be back to the dawn era when the human race defeated the Elf Empire and the Orc Empire. Legend has it that a group of human teenagers who were only twelve years old. The girls picked up weapons and stepped forward to join the battle when they encountered danger in their village, and then saved the village amid heavy casualties to allow their families to survive.

After a long period of evolution, this legend has become those who want to pursue combat professions and noble children who use a battle to show their courage and combat qualities when they are twelve years old.

Yes! It’s mainly about showing your courage, not that the twelve-year-old guys can defeat those opponents!

Of course, if you can defeat those selected opponents while showing your courage, it will undoubtedly be impressive, but it doesn’t mean what will happen if you fail - as long as you show enough courage and qualifications, it’s fine.

Rhodes learned about the popular customs in the five northern countries of this magical world at the age of three or four, and he has even seen others hold this kind of trial of courage several times.

Although Rhodes, who was born as a modern person on earth, was somewhat resistant to the customs in the magic world that seemed to be the Spartan coming-of-age ceremony or the adult lion hunting in African natives, unfortunately, under the general environment of the five northern countries, it was impossible for Rhodes, who was the eldest son of the baron's family and entered the road of knights, and wanted to refuse this kind of courage trial!

Don't plan to take a trial of courage? Yes! As long as Rhodes himself does not plan to inherit Baron Ernst and territory, and gives up the knight's path and family inheritance rights, he chooses to run away from home with a small share of property after he becomes an adult at the age of sixteen (Note 1) and makes a living.

If the protagonists of those YY novels could of course say a pretentious statement like "My life is up to me, not to God", but after Rhodes was reborn, he had seen a lot of the cruelty of this world!

In more than a decade, many foreign mercenaries in Baron Ernst's territory have been replenished through the territory, and then they seek life in the extreme northern mountains next to the Baron's territory that almost separates the Orc Empire from the human occupation, but they never return. Even in the small town in the center of the Baron's territory, you can occasionally hear XX civilians and XXX free people who died due to various situations, which is completely different from the news that the accidental death of the Celestial Empire in the Earth World is still news.

In this world, the death of the weak is not worth mentioning at all!

After seeing a few coffins and those mercenaries who were unable to take back even the corpses, Rhode himself did not want to try this kind of life. And Rhode did not want to use his life to test whether he had the fate of the protagonist in magic novels that could not be killed. Therefore, when he was sure that he had no self-protection power, growing up and becoming stronger under the protection of the Ernst family is Rhode's best choice in his life!

In this way, it is natural for Rhodes, who is a knight apprentice, to conduct a trial of courage.

Fortunately, Rhode himself is the son of Baron Ernst after all, so he still has some preferential treatment...

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The next night, on a driving range in the town barracks

On this practice field lit by more than a dozen torches, Baron Ernst, wearing light clothes, stood on the side of the practice field and looked at his son standing on the field and was a little lost, as if he was recalling something.

Behind Baron Ernst, the old housekeeper Monster followed like a shadow, and the Tamon, who was big and thick and strong like a black bear, was also a knight loyal to the Ernst family and was named Tamon, and several servants stood behind him, surrounding and guarding Baron Ernst.

Of course, there are not many servants for those servants. Knight Tamon looks like a middle-aged maroon man with an average appearance, which is quite inconspicuous than Teres, who has a tiger back and a bear waist. However, only occasionally from his eyes that flashes a glimmer from time to time can anyone tell that this person looks very ordinary but is actually a formal knight at the red copper level.

Rhodes was standing in the only flat practice field at this time, holding a one-handed sword behind the opening and a single-handed round shield, looking at the opponent opposite him who was the appetizer before the trial of courage.

Opposite Rhodes, in a large wooden cage about thirty meters away, a beast about the size of a large wolfdog and covered with gray and dust. The wild beast with grass leaves was staring at him with a cruel and cold look.

Gnoll!

Before traveling through time, Rhode often saw names in magic novels and magic games. However, in this real magic world, this kind of monster with certain wisdom is also one of the opponents that humans often encounter in the wild.

If we follow the comparison, adult gnolls should be in the stage of comparing gray iron. As for which level it is, it depends on the actual situation and personal luck. In the wild battles, there are even many people who have seen gnoll elites or leaders who have reached the peak of gray iron that can almost compete with the red copper rank.

Of course, the gnolls facing Rhodes now are definitely not terrifying enemies of that level. Otherwise, it would not be a test before the test of courage, but could be called murder directly!

In fact, the werewolf in front of Rhodes who was locked in a cage was just an old werewolf. His strength and speed were probably worse than Rhodes who had just reached the gray iron level.

However, it may not be possible to say that the test Rhode faces is very easy. After all, the old zombie who can survive to this age and not yet enter the mouths of his companions or die in the magic world must have two tricks. The zombie doesn't mind using his companions as food to fill his stomach when he has not captured enough food to fill his stomach.

"Rod, be careful... open the cage!" Baron Ernst looked at his son for a while, then reminded him and shouted to the two soldiers wearing light and hard leather armor in front of the cage.

"Yes! Baron!" *2

After hearing his boss's words, the two soldiers should have opened the chain at the door of the wooden cage to open the wooden door.

However, the old werewolf did not come out immediately, but instead hugged in the wooden cage and looked outside with a cunning look. It was obvious that the old werewolf, who had some judgment ability, was still unsure of the current situation.

"Damn beast! Get out quickly!" Seeing this, a soldier roared after receiving Baron Ernst's gaze, and then stabbed the old werewolf directly with the sword in his hand.

"Ao!!!" With a howl of pain, the old werewolf rushed out of the wooden cage quickly.

At this time, the people around him could see clearly the situation related to the old werewolf standing upright with his feet.

The erect old zodiac was about 1.5 meters taller than 1.6 meters tall. Except for the obvious gray on the back, the rest are all gray-white hair, which is obviously dry and thin, and the malnourished body is also a little hunched.

This old werewolf is obviously not young. He has no weapons and only relies on the teeth that have lost several big teeth and the limbs and claws that are not easy to use, which makes people doubt the combat effectiveness of the old werewolf. However, looking at the cunning and cruel eyes of the old werewolf, you will understand that this person is definitely not a soft persimmon.

After the old werewolf ran out, he did not recklessly attack the people around him. Instead, he chose to take a few steps and stopped temporarily, and then looked at the surrounding environment and opponents.

There were more than twenty people in the practice field, almost the size of half a football field. Except for about ten people around Baron Ernst, more than a dozen fully armed soldiers had already surrounded the entire practice field and alerted him. Only the old gnoll faced Rhodes in the direction of Rhodes.

As an old zombie who can survive to this age in the wild, of course, it is not an ordinary person on earth who can live up to his old age without any battle scenes. It is a bit exaggerated to describe it as a battle experience, but there is no exaggeration in many cruel and tragic battle scenes.

"Danger!"

This is the first feeling of this experienced old zombie when he saw the soldiers wearing leather armor and holding long swords around the driving range.

Of course, it feels right! The soldiers who can accompany Baron Ernst in this practice field are all elites with outstanding strength among the private troops under the Baron Territory, at least they are all gray iron. There are even four warriors at the peak of gray iron. Compared with the old and weak old were not opponents at all.

"Escape quickly!" When the old werewolf saw Baron Ernst and others on the side, the extremely dangerous feeling made the old werewolf instinctively feel this.

So after less than three seconds of observation, the old werewolf looked at Rhodes opposite him, and his brutally gaze began to shine in his green eyes.

Compared to the humans around who give the old werewolf a sense of terrifying danger, the enemy on the opposite side who was shorter than himself and had no trace of blood on his body was obviously the softest persimmon.

At most, the cunning but not truly wise old werewolf looked at Rhodes tightly, and a low hissing sound began to make and slowly move forward.
Chapter completed!