"Get in!"

There was a commotion in the dark corridors, and Lorain was almost carried by a knight from the back of his neck into a dry room, only to fall to the ground on his shoulder, just hit the wound, and he snorted in pain, and then the small door in the room was shut.

Looking out of the window of the small door, Loren saw a row of small rooms like this, like secret rooms, and in each room there was a child about the same age as Loraine, all between 14 and 16 years old, some with wounds on their faces, some with despair on their faces, and some crying.

The whole road is full of desolation and pain.

......

"Rustling ......"

Loran leaned silently against the cold wall, trying to regain his strength, and at the same time began to take a closer look at the room, which was not large, about enough for a person to lie down on all fours, the floor was covered with hay, there was a window on the side, embedded with iron bars, and a layer of glass outside, almost completely separated from the outside world.

And in such a small window, Loren was able to observe this strange world carefully.

Outside, a dilapidated and barren scene, on a lonely mountain, in front of a large maple forest, as if stained with blood, and in the middle of the maple forest there is a mountain road, some cavalry and carriages are passing, the carriages are loaded with heavy things, it seems to be food, or water, and those scenery is very far away, because the castle where Lorain is located, located on a high mountain, is enough to overlook everything on the earth.

It's like a secluded place.

Luo Lan did not continue to look further, but lay down quietly, lifted the strip of cloth to bandage the injured palm and took a look, the wound was a little scary, after a night of wind and rain, coupled with bumps all the way, it seemed that the wound had begun to deteriorate, and there was also a burning pain on the shoulder, and the injury was getting worse and worse.

About night, finally, footsteps were heard in the distance, and then, a knight's loud voice came from the depths of the corridor: "Test the star source power of each of them, those who have star source power enter the second round of selection stage, and those who do not have star source power are thrown directly into the trial room, their only value is about the courage to inspire others." ”

"Yes, sir!"

In the distance, there was the sound of a small door opening, and at the same time, there were voices echoing in the night—

"First-order star source power, sent to the selection. ”

"Haven't woken up yet, take it away!"

"Another one who has not yet awakened, take it away again!"

"Hmph, it's another piece of waste, this time the knights don't seem to have found any good prey, it's really a bunch of waste. ”

"Huh, there's actually a girl with a third-order star source power here, take it away and send it to the selection!"

"Again, next. ”

......

Finally, the voice got closer and closer, and with a "clang" sound, Luo Lan's small door was opened, and then a big hand reached in like an eagle's claw, directly dragging him out by the leg, and then a hand pressed on Luo Lan's palm, and suddenly a burning warmth poured in, and the next moment, the man in the black robe sneered: "Another waste that has not yet awakened in the star vein, pull it away, and send it to the trial room." ”

"Yes, sir!"

A knight stepped forward, stretched out his hand to lift Luo Lan up, all the way out of the corridor, to a very spacious square, Luo Lan glanced at it, couldn't help but be secretly frightened, the square on the top of the tower buildings are lined with ladders, inlaid with a cross pattern of the Knights of Light, and just next to the huge stone pillar, a knight with a sword hilt standing, like a statue, and on the high wall on the side, there are archers with bows and arrows in their hands, looking at Luo Lan who was lifted up in the hands of the knight, and some even showed a ruthless sneer。

Then, Luo Lan was taken to a huge basement, when he entered the basement, a foul smell came to his face, it was a smell mixed with feces, urine, rancid odor and other smells, and in the huge wooden cage, a pair of numb and empty eyes looked at Luo Lan, those were all teenagers of Luo Lan's age, I don't know how long I came in early, and they all seemed to be completely numb.

"Peng!"

Lorain was thrust into the wooden cage, and the door slammed shut.

Immediately after that, more and more teenagers were thrown into the cages, and there were more and more people, and each cage held hundreds of people, and it didn't take long for five or six cages to start being overcrowded.

......

"The time was just in time. ”

A man in knight's armor held a booklet in his hand and said to another man wearing an imperial uniform with a silver insignia on his shoulder: "My lord, with the group of people who have just been sent, there are almost 2,000 people, and they will be in time for tomorrow's opening ceremony." ”

"Good. ”

The man in military uniform bowed his head: "Take good care of them, give them food and water, let them rest and recuperate, and whether they can survive tomorrow is up to them." ”

"Yes, sir!"

The two left, and soon after, the guard came over with buckets of broth and bread, so that the teenagers in the cage could eat their fill, and there was no limit, until they were full, so that Loren devoured five pieces of bread and three bowls of broth, and then sat in the corner and waited quietly for his strength to recover, while the rest of the teenagers fell asleep after eating most of them.

I don't know how long later, the door opened again with a "clang", and two knights walked in front, holding torches, and behind them was a middle-aged man with cold eyes, wearing armor, holding a broadsword, and a wisp of sharpness flowing in his eyes, it was the man named Luke who he saw outside.

"Kids!"

Luke climbed the high platform in the center of the basement step by step, and finally reached the top, put his long sword on the ground, looked at the children in the cage around him, his eyes were full of excitement, and said: "I think many of you have doubts and anger in your hearts, and now, I will solve your doubts, but the anger is up to you to resolve yourself." ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand, pointed to the outside world, and said: "Here, it is a secret base of the Star Source Empire, and it is also the sacred training camp of the Knights of Light, we will have the Blood Castle here, for hundreds of years, almost more than half of the Apocalypse and Imperial powerhouses have walked out of the Blood Castle, and you will also become a part of the Blood Castle." ”

Suddenly, a teenager stood up and said, "My lord, let's ...... Is there a chance to become a knight too?"

"Yes. ”

Luke nodded, a malicious sneer on his lips, and said, "But only if you can survive tomorrow." ”

As if seeing the astonishment and confusion on the young man's face, Luke continued: "The Scarlet Castle, also known as the Scarlet Cage Training Camp, those knights of the empire, the cumbersome and redundant rules of the magic academy will not be here, and there is only life and death in the scarlet cage, so we search for talents from all over the empire by means unacceptable to the world, and train them to become real powerhouses, and become the elite of the Knights of Light, these people, we call them cadets, but you are different......"

All the children were stunned.

Luke laughed: "Your strength is too weak to be a student at all, so you are just the consumables for the first lesson of all the students in the Scarlet Castle, our first lesson is called courage, each student will be paired with an opponent, only the student who kills the opponent is qualified to start the second stage of the tutorial, and you are the object that the students want to kill in the first lesson." ”

"What!?"

A group of teenagers were so angry that some even shouted, "Empire...... The laws of the Empire will never tolerate you doing such a cruel thing, you are the Knights of Light under the Holy See of Light, how can you do such a shameful thing!?"

"Shame?"

Luke sneered, stared at the young man who spoke, stretched out his hand and pointed to the north, and said, "Every year, do you know how many knights of the Knights of the Bright Knights are killed by demon beasts on the border? For hundreds of years, if it weren't for the selection of talents by such means, I'm afraid that the Knights of Light would have become history long ago!"

As he spoke, his eyes were cold, and he said: "However, you still have another chance, that is, to kill the students you are about to challenge, replace them, become official students in the blood cage, and even replace their identities, this may be your last night, enjoy it, tomorrow morning, it will be time for you to meet the battle of life and death, whether to become a strong man or become a corpse, grasp it yourself!"

......

After Luke left, the teenagers in the cage were even more silent, and some were silently weeping.

Luo Lan clenched his fists, still quietly leaning on the wooden pillar, without saying a word, in the cage, some teenagers have begun to have a nervous breakdown, fighting with each other, causing the guards to roar angrily, and then rushed into the cage from waving a leather whip, beating indiscriminately, and even one of the whips fell directly on Luo Lan's face, leaving a hot mark, but Luo Lan has always been motionless, once he resists, it will incur more brutal beatings, for him, every new injury means a weakening of strength.

This night was so long that some people even cried intermittently all night.

And Lorain sat quietly all night, missing her mother, unable to believe that her mother had left her like this, so that he cried silently, so he cried silently, and woke up in the early morning, only to feel that his shoulder was no longer so painful, and the wound on his palm had stopped bleeding and had begun to heal.

......

"It's time to eat!"

Early in the morning, a team of guards carried rice buckets of vegetable soup and piles of steamed buns into the basement, and suddenly the children swarmed away, Luo Lan also quickly grabbed two pieces of steamed buns and a bowl of soup, hid in the corner and devoured them, and then stood in a corner vigilantly, calmly watching other children compete for food.

After breakfast, driven by the guards, the teenagers were divided into more than twenty groups, each group looked like nearly a hundred people, and Loran was assigned to the sixth group, a very young knight guard stepped forward, he wore a gray cross badge on his shoulder, which was the symbol of the apprentice knight, he held a spear in his hand, and his eyes were cold: "The people of the sixth group, follow me, don't try to resist, otherwise you will be killed on the spot!"

......

Out of the basement, the strong sunlight from the outside world poured down.

When a group of teenagers, including Luo Lan, looked up, they found corpses hanging on the outer wall, some of which were still bloodstained, and the knight who led the team raised the corners of his mouth and sneered: "This is the end of trying to escape." ”