Chapter 652: Petition for Nomination
When Colin Capello brought up the convention of martial arts, the faces of the Gilves family servants immediately fell.
This is indeed a long-standing tradition of the canonization ceremony, and although it is an after-show, it is a great time for the recruits to show their faces, and if they perform well, they will have the opportunity to impress the lords of the various orders and the top of the consortium.
But never in previous years has the ceremony been so one-sided.
Almost all of the recruits with the top comprehensive assessment went to the Scarlet Knights, and the Gilves family didn't even pick up the "leftovers", only one crane tail applied to join them, and even if she didn't take the initiative to apply, they would have fallen into a situation where no one participated in the martial arts exercise.
Colin Capello went with the flow and became the dominant player in martial arts.
Now everything is developing according to his expectations.
What he really valued was not the canonization ceremony or the exercise itself, but the gathering after the ceremony, an opportunity to show the Capello family to others, and those who had the opportunity to influence the consortium's decision-making would be there.
Their ultimate goal is not just to make the Gilves family lose face, but to take back the scepter that dominates the future of the consortium back into their own hands.
They have waited too long for this day to come.
Colin stealthily passed a look to the maid behind him, and the other party responded to him with a reassuring look.
His fists, clenched with nervousness, finally unfurled.
The order of the martial arts appearances had been arranged in advance, and it was Kane who represented the Scarlet Knights, who confidently put on his helmet and quickly stepped onto the arena - this was a must-win duel, and his combat skills were second to none in his class in the overall evaluation.
The Munch family discussed for a long time, and finally elected an unlucky ghost to accept this duel that had no suspense for a long time.
Kane felt that this matchup didn't even need to be played in person, and at least several people in the audience could easily put each other down.
The reason why the Munch family is placed in second place is because the Capello family did not take the Munch family seriously, and the protagonists of this canonization ceremony are the Gilves family and the Winter Knights.
Not surprisingly, the first exercise ended quickly, and it was probably the most disparity in recent years.
Before the servants could come to their senses, the recruits who represented the Munch family were easily thrown out of the ring by Kane, and it seemed that even the loser himself did not come to his senses.
"It stands to reason that the difference in strength between students of the same level should not be so disparity."
An older servant said with a frown.
Although he has never been a knight or participated in martial arts, as an audience, he is an old qualification, "Did he cheat, or did he fake the match?" ”
"How can it be a match-fixing?"
The young servant retorted to him, "Yanwu represents the face of the family, not to mention that even if he doesn't want to take care of the face of the Munch family, he has to consider his future situation in the Knights, and this kind of failure will be looked down upon by others." ”
Hearing this, Song Lan glanced at Young Master Franting.
Fortunately, the respected Young Master Franting was emotionally stable, and the failure of the martial arts performance did not make him unhappy, and his mind never even put on the canonization ceremony and the martial arts.
His face was still pale, and judging from his restless appearance, Song Lan guessed that Young Master Franting must not have been able to do well.
He can only wish the young master a speedy recovery, eat a trench and grow wise, and eat less spicy skin in the future.
The Winter Knights' choice is not very knowledgeable, and they can only send the only recruit who is willing to join them on the stage.
"I hope I won't be beaten too badly, after all, it's a girl."
Seeing this, the older servant muttered.
Song Lan doesn't like to hear this, he has absolute confidence in Director Lu, since a long time ago, he has determined that the director's heads-up level is invincible in the same level, and he has never won against the other party without using spiritual energy.
He believed that the Director must have more than a dozen ways to kill Kane.
First of all, Kane's name doesn't sound like a very capable fight.
The other side.
"Don't you say something?"
Seeing that Lu Xiang still didn't say a word, after the two sides performed the standard knightly salute, Kane said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Actually, I really sweated when the mentor assigned you to the Scarlet Knights, if you agreed, we wouldn't be able to meet in the way we are now." ”
He couldn't help but think back to last night's conversation.
"I said that one day, we might face each other."
It's just that this time came earlier than he expected, and it was on such an occasion.
Who would have thought that he, as the chief of this session, would eventually face the crane tail that ranked last in the comprehensive evaluation? And he came prepared.
After arriving home last night, Young Master Colin sent an experienced member of the personal guard to formulate detailed tactics for him according to the technical and tactical characteristics of each class.
The Capello family made only one request to him.
No matter who represents the Winter Knights at the canonization ceremony, don't let the other party have a good time.
"Mo Lian, this is not aimed at you......"
Rather, it was a pledge of allegiance to the Capello family.
He was greeted by the roar of a projectile launcher, the explosion so close that it caused Kane to have a brief tinnitus at one point, and Merian, who was only a few steps away from him, had lost his trace.
Pounce.
The Knights of the Guards specifically mentioned Merlene's tactical traits, believing that her fighting style was more akin to that of the Assassins than the Knights, which would make up for the gap in her strength and handling of exoskeleton armor.
However, once the Assassins were discovered, they would be completely defeated.
They've rehearsed this scenario many times.
Even if his vision is obstructed and his hearing is frustrated, he can foresee what the other person will do next.
"Your target, it should be my chin, right, this is the weakest ...... of exoskeleton armor defense"
Before he could finish speaking, Kane suddenly felt a light on his feet, and fell backwards on his back facing the sky.
His confident defensive posture did not work at all, but instead formed a rather comical picture in the eyes of the knights.
As his opponent pulled behind him, Kane, the chief, confidently struck a defensive stance in front of no one, scrambling to fall before slashing into the air.
Lu Xiang glanced at Kane who fell to the ground in a daze, and she couldn't tell for a while whether the other party was a knight or a battlefield announcer.
But Kane's broadcast gave her some clues.
The reason why the opponent was able to win the victory so devastatingly just now was not only because of the suppression of strength, but also because someone instructed him in advance and formulated tactics according to the technical characteristics of each of his peers, so that he could obtain the ability of an unpredictable prophet in battle.
At best, this can only be regarded as a backplane, and it is 108,000 miles away from the real foresight of the future.
And she's seen the ability to see the future in the true sense of the word.
According to the point-to-point principle, Kane was already defeated the moment he fell.
Because if this was a real battlefield, she could have used a projectile launcher to blow the opponent's head out by now, but the Iris Foundation's martial arts will be based on competition, and the use of lethal weapons is prohibited, so the ammunition she installed in the projectile launch today is only a stun bomb that can make the opponent dizzy and tinnitus.
What happened next made the crowd watch the noise gradually fade away, and was replaced by silence, except for the occasional sound of the blade rubbing against the exoskeleton armor on the stage.
They all held their breath in unison, because Lu Xiang's attack was so light that it didn't look like a knight at all.
Whenever Kane struggled to get up from the ground, the blade would slam at his joint, causing him to fall to the ground again in humiliating fashion.
The heavy exoskeleton armor instead became a burden, and only the lords and members of the personal guards saw the doorway.
In addition to the incomparable precision, what is even more terrifying is that in front of Lu Xiang, Kane is like a blind man.
The knight's standard helmet has a built-in thermal imaging system that makes it impossible for even invisible opponents to escape their scanning, and Kane's reason for this embarrassment is that at this moment, his sight, hearing, and the part hit by the blade each convey a completely different message to him.
His senses, on the contrary, deceived him and made him make a wrong judgment.
The lords all looked at their mentor in unison, this was not a skill that the recruits could access, and they even saw the shadow of the chief knight in it for a while.
As the minutes ticked by, impatience and anxiety filled Kane's heart.
Gradually, he seemed to understand the other party's true purpose.
Under the continuous impact, the exoskeleton armor at his ankle could no longer protect him, his feet had begun to tremble uncontrollably, the weight of the exoskeleton armor became the straw that was about to crush him, and now he seemed to only need to be gently pushed before he would fall to the ground.
What's more, since the moment he lost his center of gravity for the first time, the other party has never let him really stand up.
This reminded Kane of his childhood when he aspired to be a knight, and his parents spent a lot of money to hire a knight who was said to be quite experienced to teach him combat skills, and he was also thrown to the ground again and again in this way of being played.
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Does this also mean that Mo Lian did not intend to treat him as an opponent to be taken seriously from the beginning?
His ankle was completely numb, and he fell to the ground again.
And Mo Lian also spoke for the first time after boarding the stage, "Admit defeat?" ”
Simple and direct inquiries without the slightest mood swing.
"I don't recognize it, ——! it"
The shout was choked in his chest with a muffled thud.
Merlian didn't seem to intend to give him a chance to breathe and struggle, and while receiving a negative reply, she raised her right foot and stomped on Kane's chest, completely suppressing the latter's unwilling roar.
"Throw in the towel?"
"No—"
This time, it was a sword that fell towards the helmet, only to deflect the angle just as the blade was about to sink into the gap in the helmet, sinking into the ground next to Kane's neck.
"Throw in the towel?"
In response to Lu Xiang, there was a long silence.
Without saying a word, all the viewers watched as the showdown came to an end.
"I ......"
"It's useless."
Kane was interrupted by a voice that suddenly came to mind.
It passed directly over his opponent and conveyed it to him, both overwhelmed and instinctively uneasy and panicked, and Kane clearly felt that the voice seemed to be taking over his consciousness and body.
"Don't think about anything, don't do anything."
The voice warned him, "Then, give me your body." ”