While the Zeellandia recruits are experiencing the trials of wilderness survival in the Griffin Mountains, in the tent of the makeshift camp near the mountains, the high-level members of the gang are indulging in their own revelry.

"Hurry up, hurry up, buy and leave!

Dressed in a heavy tin can, carrying dozens of pounds of coins, and able to move between the crowd with the agility of a wanderer, it was the shield warrior Sgard who still maintained the habits of some adventurers.

The officers in the big tent had this habit at this time, and they had already fallen from the post.

There's nothing wrong with that... The idea of slapping up with his boss will also give Sgard some face.

However, gambling is such a thing, after all, it is a loss of nine out of ten bets.

No, the whole trial had not been going on for long, and the whole camp was full of wailing.

It's full of things like, 'Why did I choose such a stupid guy at the time?', 'You run, you run!!', 'You're so blind, there's a lump of bear dung in the hole, and you dare to drill into it?'

Almost everyone's eyes were fixed on the hundreds of crystal balls hanging on one wall of the tent, and almost every picture of the crystal balls was a picture of a squad, transmitted by the slimes who were the 'observers'.

However, most people still think that this is just the magic effect of their own boss, or some new gadget developed by Big Iggy.

After all, Iggy is a veritable descendant of Nether, and he used to be just an unlucky guy who didn't learn much about the orthodox inheritance.

But since receiving the "Brad Arcane Codex Essay" and a pile of relics brought out of the Nether magic ship given to him by Levi eight years ago, this academic arcane is like a thick accumulation, although the cultivation speed is not as fast as Calvin's seemingly open 'protagonist of the book', but the progress made in the arcane over the years is also obvious to everyone.

This is the difference between a scholar and a mortal.

Levi even suspected that the guy who usually did academics in a muffled voice probably probably belonged to a freak like Karthas who had ——— innate intelligence and directly broke through the 20 transcendent gates.

It's purely delayed by the acquired environment.

However, God is balanced in some ways, and freaks like them often pay a heavy price.

Plagued by nightmares about Felin Devil all his life, Karthas was quiet and silent in front of outsiders, and when he locked himself alone in a laboratory, he often fell into exhaustive anxiety, paranoia, and madness.

And this eventually led him to embark on the doomed 'path to godhood'.

As for Iggy, he was an equally reserved and quiet man, usually unsmiling, and by all indications, Levi had some suspicions that he might well belong to the poor kind of people with emotional disorders.

But perhaps it is this kind of 'concentration in solitude' that makes them so powerful.

Fortunately, this group of guys has long been accustomed to the frequency of new things popping up in their own territory every once in a while, and their adaptability to accepting new things can make outsiders dumbfounded.

"Hey, good fellow, this stupid big guy is still a bloodline warlock! ”

Fei She, who was born as a red-robed mage on the side, naturally would not let go of this opportunity to make money.

This guy is a thief, because he is usually close to his own bosses Levi and Iggy, so he has some exclusive information at hand that the group of sand sculptures next to him don't know.

So he firmly believes that he has a high probability of winning.

It's just that after seeing that the big Figas was still rubbing the flames with his hands, he was also dumbfounded.

After all, in the eyes of an orthodox mage, even a warlock, there are few who are too stupid, except for ogres and kobolds.

"Keep your hands and feet clean, do you understand the rules? It seems that today is the time for my Sgard to make a fortune. ”

Scard, who had been paid for at least several years, ducked to the side and smiled gloatingly.

"Who is going to go back on it, can't I raise it?" said Fischer with a straight face.

"Apost?" Sgard was skeptical.

"Hey, guess what? There's another Bloodline Warlock in the line I'm pressing, shouldn't this be raised?"

Fischer's mouth was crooked.

"Wait? You're crushing five people at once?"

Sgard noticed this, and suddenly had a bad feeling.

Fischer slapped a handful of disaster coins in the shield warrior's hand again, patted him on the shoulder again, and asked inexplicably:

"They've only suppressed a few of our more well-known ex-adventurers in Zeellandia?"

"yes..."

Sgard said that if he didn't make his own bank, wouldn't he do the same?

"Then I have to congratulate you in advance, you may make a small profit, but I don't lose either. ”

Fischer smiled.

Just as Sgard was about to ask, the curtain of the tent was lifted, and it was Levi, who had returned to his elven form and returned to the camp.

"Lord Boss!"

Everyone bowed.

Levi sat in the middle of the tent on the throne covered with bearskin and griffin velvet, and the corner of his eye couldn't help but fall on the plate full of coins of the shield warrior Sgard, and couldn't help but joke:

"Oh, it's all open, can I get involved?"

Scard's legs softened when he heard this, and his heart said that this will end you, the rule-maker, wouldn't he have to pay until he dies, and he will have to work hard to earn money in another plane...

Immediately, he laughed and said, "Boss... The small book is really not enough to hold your big dragon. ”

Levi listened to Yile, stretched out his hand to him and said, "Bring it to me and see who you all voted for." ”

Sgard's face froze, but he still didn't dare to refuse, and at the same time prayed frantically in his heart, hoping that his boss would not end up!

If it were another lord, he would not have been able to do such a thing, but his own boss is a giant dragon!

Levi glanced at the betting list casually, returned it to him, and said casually:

"Oh, I have to congratulate you in advance, some of them are earning. ”

The tone was actually the same as Fischer's.

While this surprised Scard, it also made other bettors dumbfounded.

Among them, the Minotaur Wren couldn't help but ask: "Boss, is there any unspoken rule that we don't even know?"

Levi looked around the audience with a solemn face, and said: "It's not an unspoken rule, but what makes me wonder is that at least three-fifths of your group of future officers are betting on some lone travelers with strong individual forces?"

After speaking, Levi couldn't help but sigh: "If you look like this... If we want to cultivate a strong army, the task will still be long and heavy. ”

Hearing this, some people's faces changed drastically, some people were stunned, and some people showed shame.

In the end, it was the orc Droru who broke the silence and asked, "But didn't you say it all, only the top 1,000 will be taken, and the top 10 will be additionally rewarded and awarded the position of acting company commander?"

"Not bad. ”

Levi nodded, but turned his head to look at Fischer, and said, "But when these recruits were conscripted into the army, did they emphasize that point to them as I instructed?"

"Yes!"

Fischer stood up straight, and said loudly: "When everyone received the military equipment, they were told that the new military system of Zelandia was that in the next recruit training, they will use five people with the same number in their camp dormitory as a temporary team, and act collectively to share honor and disgrace. ”

After hearing Fischer emphasize this point of the new military system again, those who realized it later could not help but change their faces drastically, knowing that they had made a mistake that was so low-level that it could not be lower-level.

I heard Li Wei say expressionlessly: "Since I joined the army, I still regarded it as a deaf ear after being told like this, and after being tempted, I categorically abandoned my comrades-in-arms and only cared about fighting for my own interests."

"Let me ask, does this kind of person who has no military system and only cares about selfish interests have the qualifications to lead an army, and has the responsibility to take on the lives and future of these hundred people to complete the mission I gave him in the city-state?

There was a deathly silence in the tent.

Especially Sgard, Wren, Pantos, and DeRorou, who also switched from adventurers to Levi's high-ranking warriors.

Levi seemed to be criticizing these powerful adventurers who were competing with them to bet on, but he was not beating them in a different way.

Because if nothing else, these dependents who had followed Li Wei in their early years would almost certainly become officers in command of an army.

But the lord's words were not wrong, perhaps, they were good enough adventurers, strong enough warriors, and capable of being able to serve as Levi's personal guards, but they were by no means ready to become, or rather, transform into officers.

Levi took a deep breath, looked at everyone and said seriously:

"But you don't have to blame yourself too much, after all, before joining Zeellandia, you all struggled to survive under the rule of Drow, and I can understand that you still maintain some adventurer habits. ”

Speaking of this, Li Wei himself laughed: "If you have such a high level of literacy as soon as you come here, I wonder if you are an undercover agent sent by other forces." ”

Scard, Wren, and Pantos heard that their colors changed again, especially Sgard couldn't help but get down on one knee excitedly and said:

"My lord, Pantos and I both admired your name after the battle of the Gerthon Beast Tide and tried to smuggle into Zeellandia, but we failed at that time, and it was not until the Nether Magic Ship that we were lucky enough to accept your recruitment.

"Your presence is like a light in the dark realm... We lost people can't help but want to get closer...

"My loyalty to you!

"Yes, yes!" Pantos on the side couldn't help but nod his head quickly. For fear that Levi would be suspected of becoming a spy sent by Gerthorne.

Levi listened to these sensual words almost with goosebumps raised on his scales.

After all, this kind of scene of sincere oath of loyalty is a happy picture in the world of Corell, which is still dominated by the feudal society of the city-state.

If you dare to interrupt in front of everyone, he will think that you are doubting his loyalty, and it is likely that the next step will be to judge himself...

And if it is put on those nobles, most of them are 'stopped', on a windy and dark night, open the door of convenience, lead the army of neighboring countries into the city, and then take their families and private soldiers to join other lords...

These were not the fate that Levi wanted to see, so he could only listen patiently, and then said with a benevolent face:

"Rise up, I have never doubted your loyalty.

"But, after all, our Zeellandia is no longer the small territory it once used to be in a quiet corner of the Dark Lands, but a new city-state in the Northlands.

"For a city-state to stand safely on the continent, it must have an army that can protect it.

"If the lord is the soul of the army, then you officers will be the backbone of the army, and without this backbone to support this shelf, then this army will inevitably lie on the ground! It is a soft bone! It is a puddle of mud that cannot support the wall!"

The mud that couldn't hold up to the wall hung their heads lower.

Levi looked up and continued: "You are all the first to follow my dependents, so I have high expectations for you, so I will tell you today what I expect from an officer.

"Perhaps you have all heard of the so-called eight virtues of chivalry, which were touted by that group of nobles, namely, humility, honesty, mercy, valor, justice, sacrifice, honor, and soul.

"But the funny thing is that you all know what kind of virtue most of these nobles have, and there are often only a handful of them who can actually do this, and most of them don't live long.

"My requirements for you are relatively simple, and I can't control your character and personal morality, but as an officer, you must be responsible for the suzerain, the city-state, the people, and your subordinates who are loyal.

"Therefore, as future officers, you must master eight points, namely, political quality, tact quality, intellectual quality, loyalty quality, steadfastness quality, strong quality, decisive quality, and strong quality. ”

"Regarding the last five points, I believe that almost all of you can do it without me explaining, otherwise you will not be able to stand in this big tent, but the key is the first three points.

"The so-called tact quality requires that you, as an officer, have the ability to deal with unexpected situations excellently, and the stronger this quality, the better you will be able to grasp the fighter and the "fire" in war.

The so-called knowledge quality is divided into two categories, one is traditional military knowledge, as an officer, the professional knowledge, practical experience and theoretical literacy necessary to complete military tasks, I believe you all know this, and you have not learned much during this time.

"The key is the latter type of technical knowledge, you must also master a variety of military technology, now our Zeellandia will have more and more new weapons and vehicles, if as an officer, you don't know how to use some new weapons and equipment, isn't it in vain to be blind to these weapons?

"As for the final political quality, the political beliefs and political ideas of the officer are the commander of all qualities, and the officer should consciously put the interests of the city-state above his personal interests, in order to safeguard the interests of the city-state and the collective, and to defend the sovereignty and security of the territory... At the expense of everything!

"In a way, this also corresponds to sacrifice and glory... It is also the dignity and honor of being an officer.

"This last point, I don't ask for it now, and I don't have the qualifications to ask you to do it. ”

Speaking of this, he looked around at the crowd and said earnestly:

In fact, a lot of people don't know what they're going to do until they get to that crossroads.

"Because, only with the existence behind him that he wants to protect at all costs, will he sacrifice everything gloriously and embrace death generously.

"And right now, we're trying to create a... It's something that everyone cherishes and wants to protect... Country. ”

Everyone may still be a little foggy in front of them, but after hearing the last words, for some reason, they suddenly have a feeling of blood surging in their hearts.

Oh, yes...

A country that everyone cherishes and wants to protect.

It turns out that we are engaged in such a great cause?

"I, Sgard, will follow in your footsteps!" the shield warrior bowed his head again, full of reverence.

"I, Pantos, will follow in your footsteps to the death!" the mountain barbarians and others hurried to follow.

...

For a moment, the whole tent was kneeling with loyal licking dogs.

The red-robed bald man couldn't help but smile, is it possible to create a dragon kingdom? This seems to be much more interesting than breaking the red-robed mage.

At this moment, in the crystal ball on the side, some people began to ambush other companions in order to fight for the first 1,000 places.

'This... It must be one of the pitfalls of this trial, right?' someone thought.

As if confirming their thoughts, Levi commanded:

"Fisher, write them all down and disqualify them. ”

"Yes. ”

Fischer thought for a moment and asked, "Is it up to Holtz to stop them from doing this?"

Levi grinned, "Why stop it, this is also one of the trials." ”

A group of people can't help but feel chills in their hearts...

There are so many routines.