136 7.2.2
The annual vampire hunter assessment is about to begin. As Jaco changed his winter robe and put on a spring robe, he stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself with a frown for a few moments.
After nearly a year of blood nourishment, he finally stabilized his physical changes temporarily, but he didn't look like a normal person anymore. His hair was white, his skin was almost transparent enough to see the cyan veins inside, his lips were bright red, and his eyes and the tip of his nose were slightly red. His dark green eyes had become lighter, and he looked like a colorless paper figure with lipstick on it.
666 was amused by his description of himself, and couldn't help but say:
"At least I could get a tan then." Jaco said with a roll of his eyes. He covered the top half of his face with a hood, picked up his ID and backpack and headed downstairs. Cilari shouted the contents of the breakfast below.
The whole church was surrounded by crowds, even at Christmas. All sorts of people stood outside the church with a variety of weapons and large bags of notes and books. The crowd of onlookers pointed fingers at the candidates, as if they were laughing at these self-defeating guys.
There are a lot of ordinary people in it, and ninety percent of the vampire hunters selected in the past □□ are sentinels, and Fred is the only exception in recent years.
There are many people who participate in the audition every year, but there is often a situation where the vampire hunter cannot be selected. This is why vampire hunters are both hated and respected. They are powerful and aim to kill vampires, but they also have the advantage of not being subject to the law and the police system.
As Giacco crept into the line, Sylari stood on the periphery and cheered at him. Jaco nodded shyly.
The whole assessment content is divided into two parts, one is a written test, and the other is a practical ability test. Kental was a sentinel, frail, but still a sentinel. The biggest advantage of being a vampire is that his body stats, which were once barely up to standard, have gone up. If he goes to join the army now, he will be one of the excellent ones.
- It's no joke to play hide-and-seek and hunt with that vampire hunter every night.
Giacco didn't understand why vampires had spirit bodies at first, but he later looked through the materials to answer for him. Vampires who were formerly humans will retain their spirit bodies after they are first embraced. But in the same way, due to the major changes in their lives, there is □□ chance that their spirit bodies will turn into dark creatures such as bats and lizards. Unlike this, pure-blooded vampires do not have a spirit body.
Giacco walked into the church with his head bowed.
If he had any advantage, it would have been that he had taken away Kenthal's body, and that he had not been affected in the slightest by the so-called church's deterrent effect on vampires. The relics of the church had to wait until they actually acted on him before he could be harmed, and in short, he stepped into the cathedral, which was said to be something that vampires did not dare to approach.
Several test papers had already been placed on the prayer table in the church, and Giaco took the number plate that had been handed out when he entered the door, found his number and sat down. There are many people who dress up like him, and many humans who are not qualified for vampire hunters, but who are hunting vampires, like to hide themselves. Jaco looked around secretly, his gaze resting on a nonchalant black-robed man standing in the corner - wasn't this the vampire hunter who interrupted his "good deed" that day?
Fred didn't expect that the little guy that day would actually come to the audition. When he saw that familiar chin, he only felt that the other person's lips were redder and his skin seemed to be whiter. He touched his lips, and remembered the touch of the other's gums—like caressing the fangs of a young beast.
Fred couldn't help but stare at the other party. Kelvin read the rules and precautions as he read them out, gritting his teeth in jealousy at Fred as he stood aside. Fred is the idol of almost all vampire hunters, and since they entered, quite a few people have tried to talk to Fred and asked him for autographs. More sentinels looked at the special guide with a □□ face and perfect physique.
Kelvin's words were almost taken on deaf ears.
The vampire hunter guarding the other corner also looked at Fred with a look of envy and admiration, which made Kelvin, who was standing in the first place, feel a familiar sense of inferiority.
Kelvin turned to Fred and said, "Can you get out?" ”
Fred gave him an inexplicable look: "Didn't the priest arrange me here?" ”
The vampire hunters on the scene are the proctors for the entire selection, every year, and this time it is Fred's turn to be the vampire hunters according to the list.
Kelvin almost gritted his teeth. He had wanted to show the arrogant vampire hunter the reverence in the face of him, but he didn't expect it to be the other way around.
When the written exam officially began, all eyes finally stopped on Fred. Jaco also lowered his head. He flipped through the exam paper in front of him and glanced at the questions quickly.
666 looked at Jia Ke's pen like flying, and couldn't help but say:
Even if Jaco's memory is not good, there is a powerful cheat of 666, and it is up to him to decide what kind of ranking Giako wants.
He didn't look up, but just looked around with his divine sense, and said to 666 in his head, "Yes." ”
666 seems to be a little confused.
Vampire hunters produce up to two people a year, and Giaco is pressed on the line to make sure that he is outstanding and does not want to attract too much attention.
"In the later actual combat ability test, I can't perform too well." As a vampire, Giacco certainly knew more about the scent, abilities, and weaknesses of vampires than the candidates present, but he was still a deserter with a record before, and his physical stats were very low, how could he surpass everyone else in terms of physical fitness in just one year?
In order to pull the score behind, Jaco must ensure that his written test score is the first.
Halfway through the hour, the sharp eyes of the vampire hunters present at the proctor swept around, except for Fred who stared at Jaco for a few moments from time to time. Kelvin, who had been paying attention to Fred, couldn't help but set his eyes on Jaco, who was struggling to write. He didn't see anything wrong with the other party, and he didn't know why this skinny-looking guy was worth staring at Fred all the time.
As long as Fred noticed, Kelvin always paid attention, and he always wanted to take it away, or destroy it.
As Fred walked past Jaco, he saw the other party's little leopard lying on his head, squinting boredly, and when Fred passed by, he looked at him vigilantly with a fluttering fur, as if looking for something on him. Fred stared at the little leopard for a moment.
Vampires' spirits are mostly dark creatures, and this little leopard has dispelled his suspicions that the other party is a vampire to the greatest extent possible - he has never seen a shadowy vampire with a spirited little cheetah.
At this moment, the young man suddenly raised his hand, and his hand stood out very conspicuously among the candidates. Kelvin's gaze shifted from Fred to the boy again.
"I'm done." The young man's straight gaze met Kelvin. This sentence almost made all the candidates present raise their heads and look at him.
Kelvin stepped forward and took the paper from the boy's hand, and Fred glanced at the other man's name: Kental Inovich.
Kelvin glanced at it with suspicion, but didn't find any spaces. He hesitantly said to Giaco, "Take this and come over in the afternoon to get your results." Kelvin had a silver badge with a serial number 1 written on it.
Fred raised an eyebrow at the boy's actions. Without hesitation, the boy took the badge and slipped it into his pocket.
- Fred dispelled the last shred of suspicion.
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When Jaco left the church to look for "lunch", he scolded Fred a thousand times in his heart. Fred, this vigilant bastard who explodes-
When he came out, there were not so many onlookers, and no one expected that someone would come out at this time. He had persuaded the Cialaris to go back, and now they were probably sitting in their little shop, anxiously awaiting the results of the Giaco exams.
Jaco glanced back. Fred was still proctoring the exam in the church, which made him smile at the corner of his mouth.
When he came out of hiding after his "lunch", a large number of candidates began to pour out of the church. Jaco took a look at his silver burns, which were gradually healing to the point that there was not even a scar left, and scolded Fred several times in his heart. If it weren't for him, Giaco's "lunch" would have been enough for just two people.
Most left the church with their heads downcast, and some with confident smiles. Most of them sat on the grass in front of the church and ate on the spot, and Giacco took the opportunity to blend in with them and sat down. A shadow appeared in front of him, accompanied by the smell of human food.
Jaco froze at the sandwich in front of him, then furrowed his eyebrows. Fred stood in front of him and said, "Do you want it?" ”
- Why is this man endless?
"I've eaten it." Giacco said.
Fred didn't care about shoving the sandwich into his mouth. His presence is like a spotlight, drawing everyone's attention.
As a vampire, Jaco felt pressured to be watched by a crowd like this.
"You learned your theory well," Fred said, "self-taught?" ”
Jaco replied in a low voice, acting as a stone at his feet. Fred is dressed very formally today. He was dressed in a snow-white robe with belts for hanging some weapons. The box he never left was also at his feet, and there was an aura in it that made Jaco a little hairy.
Fred's buttons were buttoned to the top, his blonde hair was combed back obediently, and his gray eyes looked a little indifferent and a little ascetic.
The crowd stared at the weak sentinels beside the powerful and charming guide.
Fortunately, Fred didn't stay long, and he was soon called back to the church, just like the other vampire hunters. After he left, Giacco felt his gaze fade for a while. 666 said silently:
Jaco: "......"
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Before the start of the afternoon practical aptitude test, the church announced the list of those who passed the written test. Sequence 1 and the names of Kental are prominently at the top, followed by a dozen names. Jaco pinched the corner of the badge through his pocket and stepped forward to show it to Kelvin. Kelvin had been staring at him for a long time, and at this moment he looked at him with even more strange eyes, and it took a long time before he said, "Let's go in......"
Giaco didn't understand why this priest kept staring at him, and he couldn't help but ask 666: "Am I exposed?" Is it because of the smell? ”
666 looked Jaco up and down, and finally said hesitantly:
Jaco regretted that he had collected the blood of two unlucky people at noon, and he was a little afraid that the blood on his body would be smelled by the vampire hunters with a keen sense of smell.
Those who passed the written test began to walk into the back garden of the church one after another, and Giacco walked in with the flow of people, and was deliberately bumped by many people along the way. Presumably a warning to him about getting too close to Fred earlier. Jaco couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth and pull his hood down a bit. He should have been thankful for the weather, it was a gloomy day, so that he would not be scorched by the sun. But walking outside during the day is still too draining for him...... He had to go for a hearty meal in the evening......
Jaco was thinking about something that he didn't have, and the other priest had already begun to announce the contents of the actual combat ability test. The content of the test is different every year, and this time it is even more out of the ordinary.
"Bring back a vampire's fang—in three days." The priest said, "The tools we can offer you are: holy water, mahogany, ......."
Jaco lifted his eyelids, finally knowing why there were only two vampire hunters at most per year. This rigorous selection method is equivalent to the direct selection of scholars with equal theoretical and practical knowledge. The speed of such a selection is far less than the speed at which vampires "breed", but fortunately, the empire still has a large number of sentinel armies.
- Retrieving a vampire's fangs, which is the equivalent of asking them to kill a vampire. Any vampire who loses his teeth is probably worse than dead - how can he survive without what he used to hunt and eat?
Jaco felt a dull ache in his teeth.
"Now, come and pick up your tools."
Everyone lined up and went up in turn to pick up each of their belongings. The stuff came in a small silver-plated suitcase. The reason why there is an entry fee is because the equipment provided by the church to the candidates costs a lot of money.
Jaco had already put on a pair of black gloves, and the silver box did not pose any danger to him in his hands.
"Swear to God, you will not use any immoral means to win a shameless victory—" The priest pressed his hand to a large Bible, and Giacco swore an oath.
He deeply doubted that the church still had a hand, otherwise with such loose rules, there would be many people who would be opportunistic.
Sure enough, the priest then said: "In order to ensure the fairness of the selection, the seven vampire hunters of the Church in the Seven Districts will observe the progress of your tasks during the selection period, please rest assured that they will not interfere with your evaluation." ”
Are seven vampire hunters enough to spy on all the candidates present? Giacco had doubts about this, but over the next few days, he swallowed back his suspicions.
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