The old man in the gilded white suit had cloudy eyes, and he looked at the more than 300 "strangers" gathered at the foot of the hundred steps, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Douglas."

"Your Excellency." Douglas Adams bowed slightly, looking at the old man's old face with respect in his eyes.

"The people here... Too much. "We don't need so many people, and many of them are not fit to be Kingdom warriors. You go and pick two hundred people, and give them to me, and leave the rest to you to arrange by yourself, and you can kill or chop them as you want. ”

"Yes." Douglas replied in a deep voice, his gaze over the old man's shoulder, at the blackened crowd at the bottom of the steps, and a smile on his lips.

Bishop Johnny slowly turned and entered the castle. The sun outside was too harsh, and he was already old, so it was better to stay indoors.

Douglas straightened up and walked forward after greeting the old man, and he walked down a hundred steps, and two rows of white-cloaked warriors made way for him, and they followed him to the bottom of the steps.

Douglas looked at the scattered and undisciplined strangers, and a look of displeasure appeared between his eyebrows. He nodded to a white-cloaked warrior beside him, "You, go and let them line up, life and death at will." ”

"Yes." The white-cloaked warrior bowed with his sword, then took three steps forward, and pulled out the sword at his waist with a thud.

The players standing at the front of the row took a step back as a matter of course, and they looked at the white-cloaked warrior with some curiosity.

The samurai shouted, "All strangers! Stand in line! The strangers at the front lined up with me as the center! ”

Most of the players ignored him, and some players wanted to stand in line, but the others didn't cooperate, especially the people in front of the samurai, and some of the young people got together to chat, and they were still pointing at the samurai, as if they were very curious about his dress.

"Hey Xiaofeng! Aren't you a self-proclaimed military fan? Look at this guy's body, I look good and feel good, wow! I don't know if there's a chance to make a set to wear ......"

"Just you?" A slightly chubby young man sneered, he pointed to the samurai's sword, "Oh, that sword, if you can pick it up, I will count you as powerful, what is a thin monkey called here!" ”

"Huh? What did you say! ”

"What? Say you're not happy with the skinny monkey, right? There is a kind of you to mention the sword, don't be the sword you don't lift the sword at that time, it becomes the sword to lift you. ”

"Jiri!"

Just as the two were about to fight, the faces behind the samurai armor in front of them darkened.

Douglas's expression became more and more displeased, he looked at these people with disgust, turned his head and nodded a few more samurai: "You go together, assist him in forming a team, you can do it when you need to, you don't need me to call you, right?" ”

"Yes!"

At this moment, the samurai made a move, and he took two steps forward to the slightly chubby and the young man known as the "Thin Monkey", and waved the sword in his hand high, and before the young people could react, two consecutive cold rays of light slashed across the necks of the two of them.

The samurai's long sword drooped slightly, and beads of blood slid down, condensing along the blade at the tip of the sword, and then dripping to the ground.

On the other side, the two players each clutched their necks, and they opened their mouths slightly, trying to shout.

"Ho... Ho, ho. ”

Finally, he fell to the ground weakly and died.

The samurai's sword was fast, and his shots were so sharp that before most people realized what was happening, both players had already lost a life each.

"Ah——!!!h

A middle-aged female player who came back to her senses screamed, and this scream was like a stone thrown into the quiet lake, setting off a lot of waves.

Many male and female players around screamed one after another, and the two blind-eyed corpses in the pool of blood did not bat until death.

The men in the front row looked in horror at the white-cloaked samurai wielding the bloody sword, and they first gradually retreated, and under the gaze of the samurai's faceless visor, they turned and fled.

The players shoved and shoved backwards, trying to get out of here.

Douglas's brows furrowed even deeper, he didn't expect that these strangers who had been talking and laughing without fear before were so fragile, and they were like frightened birds when they saw a little blood. He didn't dare to imagine going to war like this.

Ning He, Zhu Yaotang and Lin Ling, who were standing in the back half of the crowd, saw this, and people began to run back. Zhu Yaotang was the first to react to what was happening in front of him, he pulled Lin Ling with one hand, and Ning He with the other, dragging them half-with half to the edge of the avenue, and Ning He was even about to be squeezed into the delicate green wall that was used as a wall.

"Stand still, wait!"

Zhu Yaotang roared, his voice was intermittent in the noise, but Ning He and Lin Ling still heard it clearly, and the three of them all stood on the side of the wall, like a rock in the torrent, allowing the impact of the countercurrent to move at all.

The commotion didn't last long, and two rows of white-cloaked warriors appeared in the direction they came, their white cloaks were a little scarlet, and their swords were still dripping with blood.

In the face of the surging players, they did not hesitate and raised their swords in their hands. As rows of players fall to the ground, the player's mania is quelled, and they are hit in the head by the bloody reality.

Douglas frightens to clap his hands to attract attention, and two human walls of white-cloaked samurai envelop the player in front and back.

There was a hint of banter in the King's Knight's indifferent voice, and he said, "Okay, have you made enough trouble?" Outlanders. ”

His gaze swept over the player, and many people reflexively shook their heads in a hurry, with a look of horror in their expressions.

"If you've had enough, everyone will line up and wait for my pick. Since you have chosen to serve the kingdom of Io, the kingdom will grant you rights and obligations, and as long as you have enough merit, you can officially become subjects of the kingdom and leave the status of strangers. You will be divided into two parts, and those I have chosen will follow Bishop Johnny Bullock to the royal city, where you will be trained to become soldiers of the Kingdom Army. And the rest, you will follow me, and I will arrange for you freely. ”

In the next half hour, Douglas led ten caped warriors to start the selection, and most of the strong young players were selected to be taken to the royal city. The old and the weak, the women and the young, were left in place, facing the unknown.

Soon Douglas came to Ning and the three of them, and he looked at the three of them with interest, especially Zhu Yaotang, who was standing in front of them with a face full of vicissitudes.

"You're funny, especially you, stranger. You didn't have a choice just now, and now you don't show any panic, I'm very interested in you, tell me your names. ”

Zhu Yaotang said calmly: "My name is Zhu Yaotang, and their names are Ning He and Lin Ling. ”

Douglas carefully counted the three of them, his eyes flickered when he looked at Lin Ling, he quickly crossed over and then muttered for a while: "You stay where you are." ”

After speaking, Douglas was just about to pass by the three of them, when he caught a glimpse of Zhu Yaotang's rough big hand turned over, he stopped and looked at the middle-aged man who called himself Zhu Yaotang again.

The young King's Knight took a step back, and he slowly drew the sword at his waist and pointed it at Zhu Yaotang.

"Let's try."

"But I don't have a weapon." Zhu Yaotang shrugged his shoulders without being surprised.

"Someone!"

A cloaked warrior standing by stepped forward and bent slightly.

"Give him your sword with your sword."

The Cloaked Warrior's face changed, and he did not draw his sword and hand it to Zhu Yaotang as Douglas ordered.

Douglas glanced at him and said in a deep voice, "Don't let me say it a second time." ”

The cloak warrior gritted his teeth and knelt on one knee, "Honorable knight of the king, as a priest of the Church, my sword represents my life, and he should not be handed over to someone else. He glanced at Zhu Yaotang, "Especially in the hands of a stranger, they are not favored by the God of Light!" They will defile my sword. ”

“......”

Douglas stared at the caped warrior, and the cape warrior's eyes revealed determination and fanaticism.

Finally, in the surprised eyes of everyone, Douglas threw the sword in his hand to Zhu Yaotang, and then said to the kneeling warrior: "He uses my sword, you come to duel with him." ”

With that, he took a few steps back, and several samurai around him came over and cleared a circle of about five meters for the two to duel.

Ning and Lin Ling also retreated, and Ning He looked at the two people in the field nervously.

At this time, the warrior who claimed to be a knight of the church had already gotten up, he pulled out his sword, and looked at Zhu Yaotang two meters away with a solemn expression.

Zhu Yaotang flipped the sword in his hand twice, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he didn't expect to have a chance to hold the sword.

"Let's go."

Before Douglas finished speaking, the middle-aged uncle in Ning He's eyes had already shot out like a sharp arrow, the sword in his hand was as fast as lightning, and his eyes were full of essence.

The cloak warrior wanted to hold a sword to block, but because Zhu Yaotang changed a posture halfway, he failed.

The sword slashed across the samurai's waist, and the sharp blade and armor sharpened a string of sparks. The sword did not cut into the armor, but the staggered samurai had already lowered his head and released the sword in his hand.

He lost.

The sword in Zhu Yaotang's hand is the leading soldier in the Io Kingdom, and it is more than enough to deal with a light armor like him. The reason why he didn't cut in was just because his subordinates showed mercy.

"I lost." Under the face armor of the samurai of the church was a bitter face, both crying and laughing, how ignorant and fearless he was to go back and question the king's knight.

Douglas glanced lightly at the dejected church knight, and he looked at Zhu Yaotang.

"Do you want to be my servant?"

Zhu Yaotang glanced sideways at Ning He and Lin Ling, and he grinned at Douglas.

"I'm going to think about it."

"Yes, people like you deserve my wait." Douglas nodded, and he walked to the next group, as for the church knight, he was taken away by his companions, and the blow was not small.

Ning He looked at him with some surprise: "Uncle Zhu didn't expect you to use a sword." ”

"Make a sword? What sword did you say? ”

Zhu Yaotang looked at Ning He with bad intentions, and Lin Ling, who came over on the side, was stunned at first when he heard this, and then seemed to think of something, and turned his head with a little blushing.

Ning He was stunned for a moment, and looked at this old uncle: "Of course it's this one in your hand." ”

"Oh~" Zhu Yaotang nodded thoughtfully, "It's a little skill, it's not enough to worry about it outside, but I didn't expect it to be used now." ”

As he spoke, he also weighed the sword in his hand, but Douglas didn't take it, and he didn't know if it was given to him.

Just as he was thinking, a cloaked warrior walked over and took the sword from his hand.

"Cut! I thought that guy was so generous! ”

Zhu Yaotang pursed his lips, it turned out that he just couldn't put down his son and came over to get it himself.