Facing the dry and cold winter wind, under the gray sky, Kane and the others put on the most suitable equipment for themselves. Ten people stood in a row, there were six rows in total, they were students handed over by different sword instructors, and today they were going to set off from the kendo field and be sent to the trial site of the assessment.

Franz chose the location of the trial in Rand, a small village a hundred miles south of Carrot City, where a terrorist attack by dark creatures had recently taken place. The dynasty had no time to care for the lives of the villagers there, allowing terrifying creatures to take their lives.

The dynasty's decision now on the lost realm was that whoever could rid it of the dark creatures above would take it under his name. Although the conditions are tempting, the village is too poor, and the villagers above are estimated to have been killed.

Even if they took that territory, they would have to pay for slaves and repair the village, and they would have to collect taxes for many years before they could earn back the gold coins they spent. Moreover, the dark creatures of that territory were not earthy dogs, and they were no less ferocious than the enemies they encountered on the battlefield.

Weighing the pros and cons, no one wants to do this high-risk business, but Franz thought that the kendo dojo under Hammer's management was about to be assessed, and he might be able to use this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Hunting the dark creatures of Rand Village is an assessment item, and as in previous years, cadets are free to form teams of four or five.

The number of points earned for a team item is measured based on how many dark creatures are hunted.

Kane eventually agrees to form a team with Vinnie and Riley, and at the same time, they bring an additional helper with them - a female swordswoman who knows how to heal, and Kane and they form a team of four. They were in the same carriage, and the three of them were the only ones talking along the way, while Kane lifted the curtain on the carriage and looked out the window at the hills.

Before arriving at the village of Rand, in order to reduce casualties during the operation, the chief examiner Rich. Rolley placed his party on a hill ten miles from the village of Rand, where tall evergreen trees served as a natural barrier to hide their position.

Rixiu sent a well-trained five-man reconnaissance light cavalry to find out the situation near the village first. Light grey lightly armored light horsemen armed with iron spears stealthily cut through the forest barriers, scouting carefully around the village. According to the information they brought back, the piles of Rand Village were half in ruins, and most of the houses had collapsed.

There was no longer half a figure in the village, only three or five wolf-type dark creatures were wandering, and the black and cold aura condensed around the village, because those dark creatures were too alert, the light cavalry scouts did not dare to easily step forward to startle the snakes, and after learning a little information from afar, they returned the same way.

Rexiu took out the map, and after discussing it with several other examiners and knights, they all agreed that the level of dark creatures in Rand Village would not be too high, probably around level three, and the highest level would not exceed level four. The level of their academy is generally at the third-level swordsman stage, and the strongest group also has a fourth-level rank.

It's enough to deal with these creatures with their strength.

In the morning, the fog filled the trees, the cold hit inexplicably, and the dark sky was full of dark clouds. The weather didn't look friendly, the mist wetting the iron armor they were wearing, and the edges of their swords were dripping with condensed dew.

More than a dozen teams mounted their horses and set off, groping their way through the fog with visibility of only about ten meters. Kane walked ahead, Winnie and Ryleigh were half a horse's length behind him on either side, and Shanna, a physician and swordsman, followed behind Kane, forming a diamond-shaped formation.

The further they walked towards the village, the fog thickened and visibility decreased. Kane felt uneasy in his heart, and the fog came so suddenly. It stands to reason that the weather in winter should not change so much, and fog in winter is almost never encountered.

Especially in a place like Rand, which is not far from the hills and there are no rivers around, there is very little moisture in the air. The appearance of the fog is like an obvious trap waiting for them to be delivered to the door. Kane was suspicious and vigilantly reminded the three people who followed him to be careful.

The three of them were not as worried as Kane, they already had scouts to reconnoiter the danger for them before they set off, not to mention that there were already many elite knights around Rand Village to guard the navigation, even if they encountered danger in the village, someone would come to rescue them as soon as possible.

The cold mist condensed into droplets of water that wet the places that their armor could not cover, and the cold air swooped into them like a pervasive poisonous snake. The horse walked forward slowly, snorting from time to time.

When the outline of the village could be faintly seen, Winnie couldn't help but complain that it was torture to come out for an assessment in this weather.

Kane also thinks so, in such foggy weather, they can't even guarantee their vision, maybe they will run into a wall and fall into a pit while walking, let alone swing a sword to slash and kill the murderous dark creatures, in the fog it is impossible to figure out who is the hunter and who is the prey.

The iron hooves of the war horses trampled on the potholed village road, deep and shallow, bumpily carrying Kane and the others forward.

Suddenly, the four horses stopped and began to spin uneasily, and no matter how Kane drove them, the four horses refused to move on.

Kane guessed that the wolflible was near them and was approaching them, and he drew his sword to warn the other three to be vigilant.

As soon as he finished speaking, a black shadow burst out of the mist and pounced on the few people on the horse. Kane nimbly dodged and swung a sword at the same time. But before it struck the shadow that struck it, it slyly disappeared into the darkness again.

The intelligence of these guys is not low, unlike the low-level goods of the first and second order, and the dark creatures of the third order are somewhat intelligent.

The horses began to lose their temper in fright, their iron hooves stomping the gravel road, splashing concrete flowers and neighing in all directions through the Rand mist. Don't think about it, you don't know that the others must have been dragged off their horses by the monster.

The neighing of the horses was accompanied by the screams of the people, the howl of the wolf rang out in the village, and the cry of help was heard over and over again.

The people trapped in the fog clearly felt more danger, but none of the knights who were protecting them on the periphery came to the rescue, and the great web of conspiracy covered the village of Rand and the hearts of every academy.

In the panic, some people drove their horses wildly, trying to escape from the death fog at the speed of their horses' hooves, but to no avail, their horses kept spinning in place, running around the village, going around and around and back again, and some of them were attacked by wolves on the back of their horses and fell to the ground.

A galloping horse carried a half-blooded swordsman, chasing a half-horse-sized wolfie, which sprang up from behind the horse to take the man from the horse. Seeing this, Kane seized the opportunity, and the wolf-monster jumped halfway into the air and slashed it in half with a sword.

He reined in the frenzied horse and tried the wounded man with his hand, finding that he was out of breath. Just then, another wolfblin attacked Kane from behind, but before he could get close, he was slashed by the teaming up of Ruili and Vinnie.

Kane realized they couldn't stay here and had to leave. The smell of blood from the corpses attracts the attention of the other goblins, and he tells Ruili and Winnie to remove the two goblins' cores and quickly leave.

Bor and his little brother Elovin, Kaba and Rudalf and a few others also encountered the attack of the wolf monster in the fog in the east, the third-order wolf monster was powerless under the fourth-level Bor sword, he swung his knife to slash the wolf monster, and each time he killed one, the desire to kill in his heart increased by one point.

Elowen and Kaba couldn't keep up with Bor's advance, and Bol ignored their disparity in power and led them into the wolf's gathering. Elowen and their strength were gradually exhausted, the blood of the wolf-monsters stained their armor red, and the pitted ground was littered with the corpses of the wolf-monsters they had slashed.

Pools of blood continued to flow into the blood of the wolf monsters, and several of them also suffered a lot of injuries, and most of Kaba's hand had been bitten off. Just casually bandage a strip of coarse cloth and hang it around the neck, hang one arm like that, and continue to fight the wolf monster with the other arm.

Elowen begged Bol to pause his progress, give everyone some time to take some medicine and rest, and then find a way to get out of the shrouded Rand village first. However, his offer was quickly rejected by Bol, who viciously demanded that they continue to follow him into the wolf's hinterland.

For the first place this time, Bol is bound to win. He grabbed Elovan's armor, his eyes widened like a paranoid psychopath, and almost roared at him, "You must move forward now!" Victory lies ahead! I'm going to win the first place this time! ”

Seeing that Bol was just using them as cannon fodder, Elowen broke away from Bol's hand, pushed Bol away hard, tightened the reins and hurried back. He turned back to Bol and yelled, "You bastard, you're a brute!" What a selfish lunatic! You exchange our lives for that damn false name, Lao Tzu will no longer work for you, to hell with you bastard! ”

He rode forward and took some of the cores that Bol had left on him.

Like a furious beast, Bor was about to ride his horse after Eloven, who had betrayed him, but was blocked by a wolf-monster that pounced on him, and in a fit of rage, he slashed the wolf-monster that hit the muzzle of the gun to pieces, and even the magic crystals in his body were chopped into pieces.

His appearance frightened Kaba and them, and Bol's fierce gaze stared at his remaining remnants of the wounded generals, and asked in a cold tone, "Do you also want to betray me and escape?!" ”

Kaba and the others knew that they couldn't beat Bol, and if they dared to run away at this time, they would definitely die under his knife, and several people hurriedly shook their heads.

"In that case, let's get up and move on! Come with me to win the first honor, and don't try to run away halfway. Tell you, that damn idiot will pay a terrible price after the exam, and his whole family will have to pay for his stupidity! If you dare to be like him, I will make your life worse than death! ”

Bol's neighing threat succeeded in scaring Kaba and Rudalf, and they initially planned to take advantage of Bol's unreaction and run away on horseback like Eloven, unwilling to be cannon fodder to fulfill his desires, but at this moment Bol's threat made them fearful, and they could not ignore Bol's crazy revenge behind.

Even if they don't think about themselves, they have to think about their families, and the only thing they can do now is try to survive on their own.

Bol withdrew all the cores from their bodies into his own hands, and then led the poor wounded soldiers further into the depths of the fog.