The headquarters of the Knights of the Secret Words was different from the grand courtyards on the third floor of the Holy City.
Due to the uniqueness of their position, the knights had built their own headquarters on the foundation of the old museum.
The members of the knights did not wear any knight armor. They were like clerical workers in the thirteen knights, immersed in the processing of literature and cultural relics all day long.
Moreover, the headquarters was located on the second floor of the Holy City, adjacent to the ordinary residential houses.
The wheels of the carriage rolled on the uneven gravel ground.
Han Dong and the mysterious captain of the Knights of the Secret Words sat opposite each other in the carriage.
Hugo flipped through the list of candidates in his hands and finally found Han Dong's profile picture on the last list.
"Nicholas … A student from the commoner district, majoring in mysticism, obtained an S-level evaluation in the perception test. Not bad!"
Han Dong could only smile awkwardly.
To be honest, being alone with this mysterious and unfathomable commander was a little uncomfortable.
"Do you know anything about archeology?"
"To be honest … I don't know much about it."
"Our archeology here is different from the conventional sense. It's mainly about finding the origin of the Hybrid Demons from ancient objects. If you're interested, you can try to learn.
Due to the great expedition, the workload has doubled, and our knights are a little understaffed.
As long as your personal ability is not particularly bad, you can directly apply to me … When the time comes, you just need to perform casually at the knight conference. It doesn't matter even if your overall results are in the bottom few. "
"Okay, Captain Hugo."
Zzzz …
Just as Han Dong nodded and looked over, he found that Captain Hugo had fallen asleep.
…
Not long after.
The carriage stopped at the end of a street that few people used.
It was facing a dark gray residential building with a total of five floors. The sect was blurry, and there was no way to identify any street information.
"This is …"
It was completely different from Han Dong's impression of the rather grand headquarters of the knights.
Of course … to a certain extent, such a relatively commoner building was more convenient for hiding secrets.
Captain Hugo stood at the front door and reached into his pocket for a long time before turning his head with an awkward expression.
"Oh! I forgot to bring the key … Everyone, please wait a moment. "
Regardless of whether he rang the doorbell or knocked on the door, no one came to open the door for the regiment commander.
With no other choice, Captain Hugo could only go around to the side of the building. Using the uneven bricks as a support point, he climbed up to the second floor with difficulty, and then entered the building through the unlocked window.
Five minutes later, Captain Hugo, who was covered in dust, opened the front door.
"Haha … Everyone in the knighthood has been working overtime. They haven't slept for a few days, so it's normal that they didn't hear the knock on the door.
Everyone, just follow me to the relic room. Do not disturb the work of my Knights. "
"Yes."
The interior of the building was completely a civilian work area.
Through some of the windows in the corridor where the curtains were not drawn, one could directly see the members of the Knight Regiment who were writing furiously. A large number of scrolls were piled up on the ground … However, these knights were in a very strange state. They were all writing with their eyes closed.
As for the written words, Han Dong couldn't understand them.
A short while later.
Under the lead of Captain Hugo, they arrived at a yellowish stone room that stored a large number of relics and old scrolls.
"Graduates, the rules of the preliminaries are very simple. It will be based on your results during the registration.
From the highest to the lowest, you will have to choose a relic or a scroll from here. You will have to complete the appraisal of the relic in the shortest time possible.
Your final results in the preliminaries will account for 30% of the Knight Selection. I hope that you will perform well.
Let's begin now. First, the students who scored'S 'will choose a relic.
You must pay attention to order. You are not allowed to speak loudly, and you are not allowed to whisper to each other … You must complete the appraisal of the relic by yourself.
After you are done, you can just throw your appraisal document in front of me.
If I can't take it anymore, I will sleep for a while. "
This Captain Hugo didn't care about the 'details' at all.
After explaining the rules of the preliminaries in detail, he ignored the layer of dust on the floor of the relic room, found a large pebble to use as a pillow, and laid down to sleep.
He even revealed a happy smile, as if sleeping was a luxury for this regiment commander.
No matter how low this regiment commander's performance was, the knights present still attached great importance to the preliminaries.
No one disobeyed the rules, and they all started the preliminaries in order.
Han Dong was the first to step forward to choose. After sweeping his eyes over the relics, he made a decision: "I can't make up my mind at the moment. In order not to waste time … everyone can choose first."
Han Dong took the initiative to give up the right to choose first.
This action seemed to have attracted the attention of Captain Hugo. The seemingly sleeping regiment commander was faintly looking at one of his eyes … One could faintly see that Captain Hugo's eyeball was flickering with a misty rainbow-colored luster.
Until the end of the examination, when all the graduates had completed their appraisal reports, Han Dong still hadn't made his choice.
The graduates were in a competitive relationship. Han Dong not accepting the preliminaries according to the rules was a good thing for them.
After everyone had submitted their appraisal reports, they left.
Han Dong stayed behind alone and wrote a special appraisal report.
Captain Hugo, who was sleeping on the floor, opened his eyes slightly. Before he opened his mouth, a voice came from all around the room:
"Have you had a similar experience before?"
Han Dong nodded. "Yes … the destiny before the seed was broken happened to belong to this incomparably realistic dream. At that time, I also slowly inferred that I was' in a dream 'based on various detailed observations and strange settings."
"Your appraisal report is very interesting.
You can't recognize the words written by the door signs and the clerical workers, so you guessed that this is a dream domain … What if you don't recognize the words written by them? "
"Not recognizing and not being able to recognize are two different concepts. I can clearly distinguish this.
In addition, I also have the ability of the 'eye technique.'
However, when I used the eye technique, I couldn't detect your presence … This means that when Captain Hugo first arrived, he used an even higher level of eye technique on all of us.
In addition to some of my previous special experiences, I concluded that this is a 'dream assessment place' built by you, Captain. "
"As expected of the core figure of the [Great Betrayer Incident] … There hasn't been a graduate who has obtained full marks in the preliminaries of my 'Secret Word Knights' for more than thirty years.
Congratulations.
I hope you can perform better in the 'selection phase.' "
The dream ended.
In the blink of an eye, the eighteen students who had accepted Captain Hugo's assessment all woke up at the gathering area on the lawn of the Knight Academy.
They looked at each other.
Only Han Dong revealed a smile and muttered softly:
"This Captain Hugo … Where did he come from?"
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