The review test of the Bull Mercenary Group is generally divided into three steps: identity review, melee test and shooting test.
The identity verification is just a formality, and the focus is still on melee combat and shooting. If you want to be a mercenary, force value is naturally essential.
And here, the close combat test is far more dangerous than the shooting test. The latter involves hitting a moving target at most, while the former involves fighting people with real swords and guns, so death and injury are often unavoidable.
When they arrived at the training ground (actually a local football field with stands on both sides), everyone saw a strong Norman man stabbing the training post with a knife. There were also a few spectators in the stands nearby, who seemed to be Bulls servants.
The mercenaries of the Corps were drinking and playing cards boredly.
"Newcomer?" The strong man turned around, looked at the people coming in from the entrance of the football field, and showed a slightly ferocious smile. The huge scar cut off the bridge of his nose diagonally from his left eye, and on his lip.
The horns opened an ugly gap, making him look like an evil ghost crawling out of hell.
Every time he showed such a terrifying smile, the panicked fear shown by newcomers who had never seen the world was the expression and pastime that Madman Barrow was most happy to see.
However, the newcomer in front of him was just looking at the scar on his face curiously, as if it was just some non-mainstream tattoo.
Barrow:………………
This was the first time he saw such a tough-minded newcomer, and he was speechless for a moment in shock. Soon, feeling a little embarrassed, he forced out his venomous expression again, and said sullenly:
"Newcomer, are you just here to sign up and die?"
"Are you the examiner of the close combat assessment?" Asik looked at him.
Judging from the intuitive feedback and spiritual perception, this "Mad Barrow" seems to be a transcendent person with a great bloodline, but I don't know if he has completed the Law Condensation Ceremony.
"I'm the examiner." Barrow sneered, turned to the bull mercenary next to him, and said gloomily, "So, this stupid little calf is my opponent? I'm afraid I can't control myself against such a newcomer.
So powerful..."
"Crazy Barro, he was introduced by old Padro!" Someone next to Aske shouted loudly, but his tone seemed to be a bit harsh.
"Oh, it was actually introduced by our recruiting officer, Old Padro. It seems that crazy Barrow can't miss this time." Barrow said sarcastically, put the knife on his shoulder, and sneered contemptuously.
He stood up and said, "Haha, do you really think that just using Padro's name can scare me?"
His fierce and murderous eyes locked onto Aske, as if thinking about how to kill him next.
However, the newcomer didn't show any fear. He just turned around and asked the person next to him:
"Are your Bull Mercenary Group's tests so reckless? Can you kill someone by mistake during the assessment?"
"Ahem." Someone beside him couldn't help but remind him, "Crazy Barro is a transcendent, an elite member of the Aragon Raid Corps."
Ask said "oh" and understood the other party's hint.
Since this person is an extraordinary person, that is to say, the other party is most likely performing some ritual mission, such as how many humans he wants to kill, so he will kill the newcomer in the name of assessment. After all, the newcomer is participating.
You need to sign a liability exemption agreement before the assessment, so you don't have to worry about getting into trouble if you accidentally die in battle.
If you think about it further, since the superiors of the Bull Mercenary Group placed Crazy Barrow in this position, they must also intend to use the lives of innocent newcomers to boost the progress of his ritual tasks. In other words, there is a high probability that this guy is in the mercenary group.
There is someone covering the top.
Of course, the mercenary group's open recruitment is a necessary way to replenish fresh blood. If a large number of newcomers are killed by Barrow during the assessment process, it will definitely have a negative impact on the credibility of the Bull Mercenary Group itself.
So the higher-ups made a compromise with old Padro, the recruiting officer (this old man was probably not from the same faction as Madman Barrow). If he thought the newcomer was valuable, he would tell Barrow to let him go and not to kill him. In this way every day
Just "accidentally" killing a few underperforming newcomers will not arouse suspicion from the outside world.
Thinking of this, Asker burst out laughing. He had played too many games, and he was still guessing the current situation by analyzing NPC tasks... But he didn't come here to really join the Bull Mercenary Group, so he didn't
Not afraid of offending the other party and further muddying the waters, he smiled and said:
"So, my opponent will be him next?"
Everyone was speechless. So they all said that Crazy Barrow is a transcendent, why do you still want to challenge him alone?
"In that case, let's get started quickly." Asik didn't use conceptual weapons. He just pulled out the dragon bone sword from his waist and stepped forward.
"Wait a minute, you haven't signed the liability release agreement yet..." someone shouted from behind.
However, Madman Barrow, who had been dissatisfied with him from the beginning, couldn't wait to draw his sword and rushed towards him. With the explosion of physical power, he approached Asker almost instantly, and the light of the sword fell down like a waterfall!
Asker hurriedly raised his sword to block. The moment the weapons clashed, the sword in the opponent's hand broke into two pieces, and then there was a burst of blood.
A huge wound of flesh and blood spread from Madman Barrow's lower right abdomen to his left shoulder as his long sword was raised, and blood was still spilling out along with the sword's movement.
Before the expression on Madman Barrow's face could change, his severely injured body slumped backwards and fell heavily on the grass soaked in a pool of blood.
Everyone:………………
Is this... a winner? And it’s an instant kill?
The stadium was quiet for a moment, and someone suddenly stood up in the stands.
"Crazy Barrow is dead! Go and inform His Highness Ferdinand!"
The patrol team that brought Asker over was in a state of collective astonishment. However, the two mercenaries at the side of the field reacted and quickly drew their swords and rushed forward to separate Asker from the madman Barrow who fell to the ground.
One of them hurriedly squatted down to check Crazy Barrow's injuries, while the other held Asike's sword as if facing a formidable enemy, fearing that the "newcomer" would continue to attack Barrow.
However, Asik just hung the dragon bone sword back on his waist and said with a smile:
"Can we proceed to the next round of assessment now?"
"You're finished!" the Bull mercenary in front of him said coldly, "You actually killed Madman Barrow! No one can save your life, you can't leave here alive!"
"Oh?" Ask said nonchalantly, "He's not dead. I have something to protect him."
"Hold your hands? Everyone saw the wounds on his body!" The mercenary roared fiercely.
He was about to continue to say a few harsh words, when the companion checking Barrow's injury behind him stood up, patted his shoulder, and then whispered quickly:
"The wound looks long, but it is not deep and does not damage the internal organs. If the rescue is timely and there is no subsequent secondary infection, life may still be saved."
Bull Mercenary:………………
"Look." Asik spread his hands, "As a professional mercenary, how could he not be able to control his strength and accidentally kill someone by mistake?"
These words seemed to be explaining, and also seemed to be mocking the so-called "failure" threat of Madman Barrow before, which was too fake. Even though this Bull mercenary was too thick-skinned, he couldn't think of how to refute it at this time, so he could only use as if