Chapter 703: Death's Choice
Although the underworld and heaven have not officially engaged in a large-scale war, there are constant small frictions at the border, and a shocking war is brewing. Today, the Beast Tooth Star Domain ushered in a guest - 'Death' Tanatos with a pair of ten-person Death Legion rampage into the Beast Tooth Star Field, the entire Beast Tooth Star Domain began to boil, and the coming of Thanatos heralded the beginning of the Death Trials, and all the divine envoys began to cheer up. Every thousand years, the 'Grim Reaper' Tanatos will recruit the Grim Reaper once a hundred people, and any divine envoy who has reached a certain level of military merit may be selected by the Grim Reaper to participate in the Grim Reaper Tryout.
Carrying a huge Scythe of Death, and the Grim Reaper detachment behind him, wearing the Grim Reaper's robes, stepping on the boots of death, carrying the Death's scythe on their shoulders, and their faces are tightly covered by hoods, this is a mysterious and legendary army.
Ignoring the onlookers along the way, Tanatos flew straight into the 'Pioneer Camp'. The 'Pioneer Battalion' is a unique legion of the underworld, to be precise, it is the 'death squad', the pioneer battalion, as the name suggests, is the unit that rushes to the forefront in the battle, and it is the unit with the highest casualty rate in the underworld, and the casualty rate reaches ninety percent in a battle. The threshold for joining the Pioneer Camp is very low, as long as you are not afraid of death, even if you are not a god, you can enter. However, high risk comes with high income, mixing in the pioneer battalion is generally very fast in the underworld military department, and after each battle, the battlefield is cleaned by the pioneer battalion first, and the most important thing is that only after serving in the 'pioneer battalion' for 'ten years' can you be eligible to become a grim reaper.
Tanatos stepped into the vanguard city of the headquarters of the pioneer camp, this headquarters is very peculiar, it is a circular stone city built in the wind, the stone city is surrounded by ten stone walls into ten concentric circles, layer by layer of concentric circles are raised layer by layer, the center is a nine-story blood-colored pavilion, the pavilion is hung with red iron cables, adding a bit of blood to this headquarters.
Tanatos walked all the way into the command building unimpeded, and greeted four underworld officials in black armor from inside, all of whom were cultivators. One of them greeted him and said with a smile: "Lord Tanatos and the villain will prepare a little thin wine for you." ”
Tanatos stepped directly into the headquarters, waved his hand coldly at the four divine envoys, and said, "Dossier!" The four of them knew about Tanatos' thunderous style, after all, every thousand years, the first warrior of the underworld would come.
The four of them did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered the attendants to present the files that had been prepared, and as soon as they entered the headquarters hall, they were very elegantly arranged, typical of the black style of the underworld, and the ornaments carved with chains everywhere, and the rows of bookcases displayed in the center of the hall were arranged in a wing shape, and layers of bookshelves were placed on both sides, which were full of files.
Thanatos sat on the shore of the book, and the four priests stood respectfully behind him after presenting the dossier, and the dossier on the shore of the book was a summary of the battles of the pioneer battalion in the past hundred years, as well as a list of personnel and introductions.
Thanatos looked at the large pile of files, frowned, supported his chin with his left hand, and glanced at the four people behind him lightly on the table with his right hand: "In recent years, have there been any outstanding oracles?"
An envoy hurriedly pulled out a golden scroll from the many files and handed it to Thanatos, Thanatos opened the scroll with a dense list of lists, and the introduction of each person was appended at the back, Thanatos frowned and said, "That's about it!"
The envoy who handed over the file smiled and said, "My lord, the 1,000 envoys recorded on it are carefully selected by my four brothers from the 10,000 vanguard squads in the past thousand years, and these 1,000 envoys with the qualifications to become the god of death!"
Tanatos squinted his eyes and looked at the dossier carefully, and suddenly there was a light 'huh', his eyes were covered with surprise, and he turned the scroll back and looked at it carefully, and his mouth seemed to be counting slowly.
The four divine envoys were also a little baffled by Thanatos's actions, and soon Thanatos read the dossier and turned his head to stare at the four suspiciously, and said coldly: "In the past, there was one Death Candidate in every ten vanguard squads, why did there be ten candidates in this number 1,342 Pioneer Battalion this time!
The four gods were frightened, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and recently a priest recommended some cronies because of bribes, which angered Thanatos, and the four priests of that session were killed alive, and no one dared to do this again. The four of us were all selected day and night according to the criteria you gave, and each of us will never dare to deceive you!"
Thanatos frowned and glanced suspiciously at the faces of the four people who had been scattered, seeing that the expressions of the four people did not seem to be lying, Thanatos slowly twitched his face and tapped the file with his fingers and said, "Then who can sue me, what is the abnormality of this scroll?"
An envoy suddenly thought of something and said sharply: "My lord, I remember, I don't know why, within a hundred years, this pioneer battalion numbered 1342 has obtained the most combat exploits every time it charges with extraordinary ferocity, and there have been dozens of divine envoys who have taken the initiative to ask for more service after the expiration of their service period, and the casualties of the legion in this team are much higher than those of other pioneer battalions, but the death rate of the divine envoy is only one percent of that of other pioneer battalions! This time, the ten Grim Reaper candidates have all served in the pioneer battalion for more than fifty years!" It's a popular candidate for the Grim Reaper this time!"
Hearing this, Thanatos' face eased slightly, and the envoy quickly got up from the ground, wiped off the sweaty file on the table, rummaged through it, and finally took out a file and handed it to Thanatos with both hands. Then kneel at the feet of Tanatos.
Thanatos opened the scroll and it was densely filled with a list of all the members of the vanguard battalion and the circumstances of each battle, and the complicated text gave Thanatos a headache, but this vanguard battalion attracted Thanatos's curiosity, and he slowly flipped through the file patiently.
Tanatos flipped through one-fifth of the file, yawned and couldn't stand it anymore, frowned and hummed: "This stormtrooper battalion is indeed braver than other stormtrooper battalions, but it's not a big deal......" Thanatos finally couldn't stand the torture of the words, and was about to close the file, the corner of his eye inadvertently left on the last name of the record settlement, his eyes shrank, and he regained interest and continued to open the file, but this time the speed of flipping through it was very fast, only looking at the record list.
Soon, Tanatos finished flipping through the file, picked up the oracle who was kneeling at his feet, pointed to the dossier, and said, "Do you know why this change happened in the assault camp?" The envoy shook his head blankly.
Thanatos threw the oracle into a rolling gourd, got up and kowtowed, but at this time all the envoys breathed a sigh of relief, which proved that they survived this time, Thanatos threw the file on the face of the oracle and said: "You group of waste, this king has taken a closer look, and he has already gone to the assault camp to transfer a man named Blade to me to participate in this death candidate!" Thanatos stumbled upon this man with a zero record, and looked through all the scrolls, and found that this man named Blade had served in the Stormtrooper Battalion for almost a hundred years! In the storm trooper battalion for a hundred years, such a person Thanatos is also the first time to see such a person, and since Blade joined this stormtroopering battalion, the performance of the stormtrooper battalion has begun to soar, and in one fell swoop to pull away the other stormtroop battalions, Tanatos has become interested in this man.