Chapter 2 - Watanabe Castle

The frontier continent, there are 3 empires and 4 kingdoms, the mountains divide them separately, hesitate The geology of the frontier continent is relatively special, almost 80% of the area is land, plains, mountains, jungles and the 20% of the area is the ocean, so the area of each country is extremely broad, not to mention the 3 empires and even a small kingdom, there are more than 5 million square kilometers.

Watanabe Castle is one of the main cities in the Kingdom of Bryce.

After the end of the test, the difference between people has been distinguished, the fat man, the sacrifice, Aru and other people who passed the test have changed into a brand new clothes, although not luxurious, but compared with the clothes they wore before, there is a world of difference, and the carriage has also been replaced by a thin horse-drawn carriage with four horses. This could be a change of fate. Aru excitedly said all kinds of excitement in his heart to the sacrifice, and the fat man, at this time, he didn't care about listening to Aru's bragging, because he was also a creator now, and those soldiers who didn't treat him well were now like his grandsons, serving all kinds of delicious food and drink. Aru skimmed the same, the fat man, "You know how to eat, be careful to eat you...... You can eat such a greasy thing?"

At this time, the fat man was picking up the 14th chicken leg and still eating it resolutely, when listening to Aru's words, he bit the chicken leg hard, chewed it in his mouth, and said dissatisfiedly, "I have been poor since I was a child, and I don't eat it now, when will I eat it?" After speaking, he turned his head directly and turned his back to Aru and the sacrifice. At this time, if you look at this fat man from the front, it is estimated that it will disgust anyone, because as soon as he finished eating the 14th chicken leg, he began to shout like soldiers saying that he wanted to eat it again, and the fat of the chicken leg at the corner of his mouth mixed with his saliva slowly flowed down......

The soldier commander heard the sound of the carriage in front of him and quickened his pace, and when he came to the carriage, as soon as the door opened, he looked at the disgusting appearance of the fat man, and almost slapped it. "Do you want to eat again?" The soldier commander asked suspiciously, although he was angry in his heart, but his identity was different, so he didn't dare to reprimand, so he could only say in a low voice like his grandson: "There are 14 of them, and a chicken only has two legs, and you still support chicken legs and don't eat anything else." There really aren't that many chickens left...... You're enduring it, and you'll be at Watanabe Castle in a while." The soldier looked at the fat man helplessly. The fat man muttered dissatisfiedly, "Okay, okay." But you have to promise me that if I get to Watanabe Castle, you will get me 10 chicken legs!!" the soldier commander nodded hurriedly with a smile on his face...... At this time, both the priest and Aru expressed their helplessness and sympathy for the soldier commander who had been intimidating them before.

It didn't take long for the carriage to slow to a halt, and the priest knew that Watanabe Castle had finally arrived. Along the way, the priest has been asking Aru for advice on various things on this continent. But Aru is also a child of a poor family, and all he can tell about the sacrifice is what he has heard from others, and the most he says along the way is his own yearning and longing. The two young children have their own aspirations and ideas, and Aru hopes that he can become a dignitary and become a rich man without suffering for the rest of his life. And the only people who think about the sacrifice are grandpa, dad and mom...... The soldier captain ran to the carriage of the little ones and signaled that they could come down! Aru and the priest had been relatively quiet all the way, except for eating and drinking normally, and had not caused any trouble to others, so the soldier's attitude towards the two of them was still quite sincere, and the trouble that the fat man had given him along the way made him miserable.

As soon as he got off the car, the fat man, Aru, including the sacrifice and even the children in the carriage behind were dumbfounded, the city wall as high as 40 meters was endless, and there was not even a single grass around the city wall, and the city in front of him was more like a giant fortress than a city, what a magnificent building this is. The two stone lions at the gate of the light city are more than ten meters high, and the carvings can be described as lifelike, with teeth and claws very fierce, as if they are each other's food in front of them, and as for the width, it takes at least 20 adults to enclose it~~~.

The soldier touched the head of the sacrifice and said, "This is the divine beast of Watanabe City, legend has it that when the sky fell auspiciously one day in Watanabe Castle when it was attacked by the local army, the old city lord's partner was this pair of divine beasts stone lions, in the face of the empire's 200,000 troops, the two divine beasts can be described as invincible, if I also have such a divine object to follow, how good it would be." ”

As he spoke, his eyes became full of yearning. "Hmm~Hmph~" There was a dry cough behind him, and several children who listened to the story, including the soldier commander, immediately turned around, and the examiner of the refining department who made a sound and the examiner of the control department stood behind him as before, he looked at the city gate and said to the children who had passed the test and had not tested before. In front of you is Watanabe City, which is also the most important city in the Bryce Kingdom, because this is the largest elite training base in our Bryce Kingdom, and if you want to get ahead and make others look up to it for the rest of your life, this is the only way for you. ”

He paused slightly, pointed to the children who had passed the test before and the children who had not been tested, and said, "The three of you don't think that you have passed the official test yet, there will be a new round of tests in the academy, which is also the final test, and if you pass, you can naturally have a good development, even if you are the worst, you can be a thousand generals and serve the country." And you guys who have not been tested, who have not been tested today, do not panic, if you really have the talent, you can naturally become a high-ranking existence like us, if you do not pass, it can only show that the value of your existence should be so. With that, he pointed to a group of slaves who were entering the city, and they were being whipped by their master while dragging a wagon full of goods.

Such a real picture made all the children tremble, and even the faces of the three little ones who had passed the exam before appeared with uneasy expressions. The next moment his actions were beyond everyone's expectations, and he ran to the slave who was whipped to the ground, and whispered, "He beat you, and you are not chained, why don't you run? Aren't you afraid of pain? Don't you know that you are tired?" The slave ignored him, just glanced at him, straightened up his thin body again, and continued to pull the carriage. All the other party left for himself was a look.

Seeing such a gesture of the sacrifice, the examiner of the refining department laughed inadvertently, "Hahaha~~hahaha~~~ Little guy, you actually thought of sympathizing with these slaves? You really made me almost break my belly? You let him rebel against his master? If he dared, then he was still a slave?" The priest glared at him angrily, "Slaves are not human beings, why do you want people to be divided into hierarchies? Shouldn't people be equal?"

For the tired and provocative actions of the sacrifice, he is not a good-tempered person, and he directly waved his hand and a stream of air directly blew the sacrifice to the ground, and said coldly: "Little guy, don't think that a little talent is great, as for whether you are really talented or fake, this will have to go to the academy for a new round of appraisal to be determined! Even if you really pass the test, you are just my junior, as a senior, you can teach you a lesson at any time, what is your identity?" I'll tell you plainly, and you guys, you don't even have the right to know my name! Because I don't know how many of you will become slaves, and as the noblest Creator, I don't want a bunch of slaves to know my name. How many of you will be able to stand in front of me after the test is over tomorrow?" After saying that, he strode into Watanabe Castle, and the captain of the soldiers hurriedly helped up the memorial and motioned for his subordinates to enter the city.

The refiners all wore their own rank and their own unique caste badges, and the two examiners walked ahead and advanced into the city. And the children and soldiers are not as simple as them can enter the city, after a strict search, they can not take the avenue, but a small road in the corner of the city, there are no luxurious buildings, there is no smooth road, it can be said that this trail is no different from the road they used to be outside the city, the soldier captain looked at the children around him and sighed, "This is the difference between identity and status, I don't know how many of you little guys can fly on the branches and become dragons and phoenixes among people, and how many people will become slaves who are trafficked, alas... ...”

He glanced at the swordsmanship examiner who was being guarded by several subordinates on the prisoner car behind him, hesitated slightly, and whispered to the sacrificer, "Little guy, you'd better be careful in the future, don't be so impulsive and reckless, this guy is from the Swordsman Academy, and on this continent, in addition to the creator, the swordsman is also an extremely noble existence." This guy is not something that we people can move, and in the end he has to be sent to the Swordsman Academy, as for how to deal with it, it's not up to us to decide, I hope you are a creator, whether it's a master or an alchemist, otherwise I'm afraid you'll be in big trouble in the future. ”

After speaking, he shook his head helplessly, how smart the priest was, he immediately heard what he meant, which was to tell himself that this guy was still okay in the end. No wonder he wasn't nervous at all, even after being imprisoned for so many days, he ate and drank the same, but his freedom was restricted.

But swordsmen are also noble beings, which made the priest a little confused, he looked at the soldier commander and asked, "My lord, you just said that swordsmen are just as noble, but swordsmen are not ordinary people, why do they also become noble beings? What is the matter with this swordsman's academy? Isn't there only one academy in Watanabe Castle?"

The soldier captain smiled, "Little one, it seems that you really don't know anything, but it's no wonder, how can the children of the country know? Do you think about how many nobles there are in the country? They also need to learn, and the swordsman academy is specially set up for them, it can be said that most of the people in that academy are the descendants of princes and nobles, of course, the academy will also select some commoner children to join, just to train them to become the bodyguards of these nobles in the future. ”

The sacrificial priest originally had a slight yearning for the existence of the swordsman academy, because for the existence of the refiner, which he hated, he still hoped to become a swordsman like his grandfather, a hero.

After walking for more than an hour, I finally came, the entrance of the college, of course, this is also the side door, a gate about 15 meters high and about 8 meters wide was presented in front of them, the surrounding wall was An'an's red, the wall every 5 meters or so there will be a wall pier, the wall pier is engraved with a pattern of two lions, there is a square of about 300 square meters at the entrance of the college, each floor tile on the square is made of a silver white material, the appearance of a flag and the general road line has become a sharp contrast, extremely luxurious。 No matter how stupid the children are, they can think that this is their destination, the Creator Academy, but they don't know that this discriminatory grand square, this magnificence, and this wide courtyard gate are just a side door.

There are two major colleges in Watanabe City, the Creator Academy, also known as the Double Lion Academy, is the most famous academy in the Bryce Kingdom, because those who can successfully graduate here will be personally received by the king and awarded the title of nobility of the viscount, which is unthinkable to others, but don't think that there must be countless viscounts in this country, the creator is such a rare existence, and whether you can graduate successfully is another matter, although the country needs a creator, but among the nobles, only the best creator is needed, not waste, you are the creator, but you are poor, others will not recognize you at all, want to graduateIt's simply impossible!

Therefore, there is an inscription in the college that stipulates that the college has a total of 5 ages, and each age can be repeated 2 times, if you can't successfully go on to higher education, then what awaits you is to be withdrawn, if you succeed in going to school, not only can you get closer to your future happy life, as the country and the college will give you a lot of living expenses, under this kind of encouragement, you say that who can not take classes seriously? Who can not work hard to cultivate? But in the world, if you are not diligent, you can really make up for it! If you want to improve as a creator, it is inevitable that you will accumulate yourself and your perception of things, and your own accumulation can rely on time, but the perception that can break through is not a quasi-thing that can be said. In the huge kingdom, there are nearly 3,000 students every year, but less than 30 can really graduate, and 80% of them are dropped out of school at the age of 2~3. For those who have been dropped out of school, the only thing they can rely on is the skills they learned in the academy and the living expenses they have accumulated before.

Of course, they can also serve the army, but it is impossible to get the creator identity certificate without graduating from the academy, that is to say, even if you have a certain skill, but you have not been proven, then you are just an ordinary person who knows a little technology, an ordinary person who is not recognized, for this kind of person, the Bryce Kingdom, and even the people on the entire continent will treat them as ordinary civilians, of course, these things, for these children who are nothing in front of them, are still too cruel, after all, they are nothing now, as for what they are in the futureIs there anyone who can give an accurate answer......

The carriage carried the children and entered the college, there was a dilapidated factory building inside the side door of the college, which was originally full of all kinds of waste and residues, and then with the increasing number of people in the annual assessment, it was converted into a place for them to live temporarily. Place is big enough with plenty of sunshine, just no beds and necessities......

They all knew that they would have to sleep on the floor tonight, but it was not bad, at least they could shelter from the wind and rain. There were a total of 144 children who came with Aru, of which more than 160 were supposed to be, and they were thrown into the slave market after being identified as having no talent. All the children here are either their parents who are in debt and cannot pay off their children, or they are orphans or abandoned, and they are doomed to have no freedom. If it weren't for the state stipulating that children over the age of 8 must be identified, these children would have appeared in the slave market a long time ago, so how could they still have a place here? The captain of the soldiers handed them over to the guards of the academy and left without looking back!! I don't know how many times he has been here, maybe there would have been some parting feelings at first, but now he has long been numb.

Most of the children are still naïve, as if all kinds of things before have nothing to do with them, they came to a novel place, and no one took care of them when they looked at them, and they started all kinds of chasing after me, which can be said to be very happy. Yes, after all, they are still children who don't know the cruelty of the world at all, and even some children are sold by their parents, but they still think that their parents will come to pick them up, and there is no fear at all.

However, the sacrifice and a few children whose hearts have already been formed have become extremely quiet, because they know that tomorrow will determine their future lives. And the priest did not realize that his body was subtly changing, like a bad direction to change ......;