According to the rules of the past years, the Imperial Phantom Beast Knight candidates are from five different systems, the largest one is a knight school that recruits 100% children of the Imperial nobility, and each session, they will produce 10~12 official candidates; The second major system is the army, all in the army with the rank of squadron leader or above can be recommended, of course, hope to obtain the rank of squadron leader or above before the age of 25 is undoubtedly extremely difficult, perhaps only nobles can have such good luck, each session from this system of candidates will reach 6 ~ 8; The third major system is the magic academy, which is mainly composed of the children of nobles and merchants, and the minimum number of candidates recommended by this system is 4 per session; The fourth system is the mercenary organization in the empire, they can give priority to recommending outstanding mercenaries from poor backgrounds in the current position or reserves, and recommend at least 4 people per session; The fifth system is the Magic Guild in the Empire, which is responsible for recommending young magicians who are unable to enter the magic school for various reasons, and recommends 4 places per session.

In order to ensure that there are enough candidates left for the people, the latter two systems have been explicitly informed that the participating teenagers must not have any noble blood and must not be the children of courtiers of noble families.

In addition to these five systems, there is also a special system that will participate in the Phantom Beast Trial - the envoy of the Holy See, and the number of people in this system is fixed, 3 people per session. The participants this year have been confirmed, and among them is Saruo.

According to the rules of the past years, the number of phantom beasts that appear in each session is 31, but the people who participate in the trial are 31+3~5, because not everyone is suitable for being a phantom beast knight, you must know that the phantom beast babies are even more picky about the knights than many noble earls and marquis present The selection of the East Bed Lady - the phantom beast can no matter how noble the other party's family is, and no matter how handsome the other party's appearance is, strength is the only requirement for the phantom beast babies, after all, The strength of the Phantom Beast Knights determines whether the Phantom Beast Babies can successfully pass the Phantom Beast Trial, and if they fail, the Phantom Beast Babies have only a dead end.

In the course of the Phantom Beast Trial, most people, including the king, were just spectators, except for the knights who participated and the magicians who presided.

However, this year, it seems that the situation is a little wrong, the Redstone Emperor has a very bad face, and after sitting on the throne, he did not signal the Imperial **** Master Norin to start the ceremony at all. His Majesty's hand slapped heavily on the armrest of the throne: "Principal of the Knight School Liufeng, General Ning Lun, and Dada **** Master of the Magic Academy, I would like to ask you a question." ”

The hearts of the important ministers trembled slightly, the Redstone Emperor can be called one of the most outstanding virtuous monarchs since the founding of the country, and it is rare to have such an angry expression.

Principal Liufeng is also a phantom beast knight, after serving in the army for more than 20 years, he was transferred to the knight school and steadily accumulated meritorious service to become the principal, and he is a middle-aged man in his 50s; General Ning Lun is one of the few officers in the army who is not in the Duke Chi system, and he is responsible for the recommendation of personnel for the military system trial this time; Dada **** Master is a mage of the divine system, although he is from the Holy See, he has lived in the imperial capital for many years.

The three of them immediately walked in front of the Redstone Emperor very respectfully.

"Previously, there were outlaws who attacked the Empire and went to the Kingdom of the Hami to welcome the Phantom Beast envoys, resulting in the death of the head of the envoys, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the matter has not yet been finalized; Later, last night, the king got a sudden report, several of the system recommenders were inexplicably injured, unable to participate in this candidacy, resulting in the candidate knights from the original 35 to 31 people, I very much hope to get a reasonable explanation for the three. After hearing this, everyone on the scene understood where the Red Stone Emperor's anger was.

Of course, only the Phantom Beast Knight knew the real key to the Emperor's anger.

According to the process of the Phantom Beast Knight's preliminary trial, first of all, the magician put the Shenmu Sticks marked with 31 Phantom Beasts and several Divine Wood Sticks without Phantom Beast Marks into the magic box, and then each knight stepped forward to call the Phantom Beast Wood Sticks with their hearts, and the knights who got the Divine Wood Sticks found the corresponding Phantom Beasts outside the Phantom Beasts and communicated with the Phantom Beasts in the Phantom Territory with their hearts.

Each phantom beast has its own unique nature, "phantom beast psychic" refers to this meaning, when the human knights choose them, they are also silently choosing the human knights, only the knights that the real phantom beasts like, and have considerable strength, can obtain the trust of the phantom beasts 100%, so that they can pass the more difficult trial of the holy snow mountain phantom beasts in the later stage.

According to past records, all the knights who could not complete the Phantom Beast Trial of the Holy Snow Mountain were all Phantom Beasts who had extremely poor communication with the Knight in the Phantom Beast Selection - according to the rules, if the Knight succeeded in the first round of Phantom Beast Communication, he could enter the Holy Snow Mountain to participate in the later trial, and if he failed, he would put the Phantom Beast Lottery he had just gotten into the bag again to participate in a new round of selection. If a phantom beast fails to identify with its owner twice in a row, the third knight will forcibly become the new owner of the phantom beast, regardless of whether it can be recognized or not.

Therefore, in the early trial of the phantom beast knight every year, in addition to ensuring the quality of the phantom beast, the choice of the knight is particularly important, and it is often to prepare a few more knights, so as to ensure that each phantom beast can find a suitable owner.

Now, at the last moment, the Phantom Beast Knight candidate suddenly had an accident, which undoubtedly cast a shadow on this Phantom Beast Knight trial.

The three questioned ministers looked at each other and explained to His Majesty in embarrassment: It was really impossible to control the course of the matter, and several knights fell from their horses and broke their bones due to excessive drinking; or a fight with someone in the hotel, resulting in injury; Or simply become seriously ill.

The Redstone Emperor snorted heavily: "Since you can't even protect the knights who participated in this trial, then it fully proves that your official positions are not very suitable, Minister of Military Affairs, Minister of Officials," Duke Chi didn't expect that he would have his own affairs just after returning to the imperial capital, and hurriedly stepped forward with the Minister of Officials to see the Emperor of Redstone, "The three officials will each be demoted by two levels, and you will be appointed separately for the relevant positions." ”

Suddenly, Fleisse pricked up his ears with an alarming look in his eyes. In a moment, I also heard a faint sound of hooves. I stood up and looked at the source of the sound, and a black dot came out of the ridge of the hills, a giant wolf or bigg.

"What's going on? Why did he run so quickly? Brother Dingle also stood up, frowning strangely.

The rider quickly rushed down the hill and into the village.

"Attack! Raid! The rider shouted hoarsely, "The village of Zyugano has been attacked, and there are thousands of orcs!" He shouted as he ran through the village without stopping, towards the next one......

Now it's troublesome, my heart suddenly tightened, there are only three or four hundred old people and children in Jiugano Village, can you withstand it?

"Marino, ring the bell, gather the Self-Defense Forces, I'll go first, you guys hurry up!"