Chapter 499: 499
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The recruitment of generals was held the same day . After leaving the tea house, Jiang Chen went to the place where one could enroll .
It was located in the city center in a spacious square .
Countless soldiers were standing at the edges of the square, keeping bystanders outside . Some people from the Infinite Sword School were deploying something in the square in the meantime .
They had been working since the morning and were already close to finishing everything .
When the elders of the Infinite Sword School appeared, the people who had been waiting there since the morning seethed with excitement .
They laid their eyes on armored soldiers surrounded by the elders .
They saw the unique totem of the Flying Dragon Dynasty on their chests, a holy dragon making threatening gestures, flying through clouds and fog .
"The Flying Dragon Dynasty will recruit five generals to fight against the rebel army . Any candidate should have the ambition to aim for outstanding military exploits and extraordinary achievements .
"General candidates will serve the Flying Dragon Dynasty . The great benefits you'll receive are beyond doubt, and you'll achieve Venerable as quickly as possible . "
The speaker of the dynasty spoke in a direct, rather than roundabout, way . He told these things to the crowd bluntly .
Then an elder of the Infinite Sword School came forward . He said, "The five general candidates will be decided in a fair and just manner . Everyone in the city today will have a chance .
"Anyone interested, please enter the square . "
As he spoke, the soldiers stepped back from the left and right sides to make way .
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The crowd hesitated for a short while, then some youngsters entered the square . Soon, more and more people entered . There were almost 1,000 people present .
Jiang Chen was among them, too .
He found the way people were standing in the square interesting . No matter whether they knew each other or not, they stood with people who had the same color fight loops .
Those with the golden ones stood in the front, while those with the white ones stood at the rear .
People like him, who didn't have any fight loops, of course stood at the edges .
Thanks to his height, he only had to raise his head to see the talented guys with golden loops standing in the center of the square .
There were six of them, each with a golden fight loop on their right sleeve .
Jiang Chen knew there were, at most, nine loops for each color . However, as far as he could recall, he had never seen anyone with two golden fight loops .
Maybe those fight loops aren't only used to classify Reaching Heaven States, so one golden loop is already the limit for them?
It was quite possible . Those with golden loops that he had seen had all reached the limit of the Reaching Heaven State, close to Venerable .
He suddenly recognized Peng Ying's sister, Peng Lan, among those six people .
It wasn't that he knew her, but brothers and sisters usually looked alike, not to mention that 80% of Peng Ying's features were similar to Peng Lan's .
Fortunately, Peng Ying wasn't ugly, so this Peng Lan, one of the Double Heroines, was kind of pretty .
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However, she didn't seem to be in a good mood . She was frowning, because she had learned that her brother had been driven out of the Sword Master City . She had turned to the elders of the school to resolve the problem .
Peng Ying was in the square, too, standing in the crowd with the silver fight loops . He was looking around for Jiang Chen so that he could tell his sister where the latter was .
Across the square, an elder of the Infinite Sword School was asking for instructions from a soldier from the Flying Dragon Dynasty .
"General Mu, shall we start?"
This General Mu was in a high position . All of the other armored soldiers seemed to be under his command .
He glanced at the crowd in the square, furrowing his black brows .
"They're still kids . "
The majestic-looking general was more sensible than people originally thought .
These people in the square might have killed before or experienced life-or-death fights, but it was a different thing to fight in a war .
Soldiers were different from martial arts practitioners .
However, he couldn't say no to his superiors' orders, so he had to declare the start of the competition in a cold tone .
"Let's start . "
In an instant, the cubic machines in the square started to function . They were wooden cubes, each about as tall as a person . It was impossible to see what was inside of them, but people could sense energy surging in them . The machines soon started to boom .
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"Take it easy . This is just a way to test your abilities . Sit down . If you can hold on for 15 minutes, you'll be qualified for the first round," said an elder from the Infinite Sword School .
His words soothed the people in the square . They sat down, looking forward to the results .
Before the start, no one knew how they would elect generals, especially those below the level of silver fight loops .
If everything was decided by strength, the five places were even too few for the six people with golden fight loops .
But judging from the current situation, the other people also had a chance .
"Is it a psychedelic formation?"
In contrast with the others' relaxation, Jiang Chen was nervous . He kept staring at the wooden boxes .
Psychedelic formations were the trickiest among all kinds of formations . Once trapped in them, the first problem that arose wouldn't be how to crack them, but how to recover oneself to a status in which it would be possible for one to crack them .
It was like one had to write a book while they were feeling dizzy and their eyes were blurred .
If he had to take the test alone, he wouldn't even do it, since it would mean he would allow others to decide whether he lived or died .
But with so many people there, he didn't have to worry about that .
By then, the energies emitted by the wooden boxes were growing stronger and stronger . In the end, dazzling lights soared .
The bystanders outside the square retreated immediately . When they were farther away, they found the square surrounded by 12 red light pillars .
The youngsters on the square couldn't help but close their eyes . They seemed to have fallen asleep, but they actually hadn't .
Aaah!
Gut-wrenching screams came from the crowd all of a sudden .
It didn't matter what fight loops they had on their sleeves . It wasn't just pain . It was mental torture . Other people didn't even have the nerve to think about what they were going through .
"I can't take it . I can't take it anymore!" a genius with silver fight loops shouted . Then he stood up to run out of the square quickly . He disappeared in the crowd before anyone could seize the chance to ask him anything .
"Alas . "
General Mu shook his head . The psychedelic formation had just started to function, and he already couldn't take it anymore . When he went onto the battlefield, he would wet his pants due to fear .
"General Mu, many people here are nobodies . The disciples of the Infinite Sword School are doing well," the elder of the Infinite Sword School said . He hoped the school wouldn't leave a bad impression on the Flying Dragon Dynasty due to random outsiders .
"Let's see . Elder Li, isn't it? The best disciples of the Infinite Sword School are all here?" asked General Mu .
Elder Li responded deliberately . He said with a smile, "Whether someone is good depends on the standard applied . If the Flying Dragon Dynasty didn't require that the candidates were below Venerable, we would have sent better disciples here . But among those below Venerable, our Peng Lan, she's the best . "
"She?"
General Mu hesitated . He didn't think battlefields were for women .
"Yep . Peng Lan will make herself one of the five candidates . I'm sure about that," Elder Li said confidently .