Chapter 531: Preliminary Exam Assessment

Chapter 531: Chapter 531: Preliminary Exam Assessment

The headquarters of the “Secret Language Knight Order” unlike other knight orders, is not set up in the grand courtyard on the third floor of the Holy City.

Due to the uniqueness of its position, the Knight Order built its own headquarters on the basis of an old museum.

No members wore any armor, resembling administrative workers among the Thirteen Knight Orders, immersed in paperwork and artifact work all day long.

Moreover, their headquarters are located on the second floor of the Holy City, adjacent to the common residents’ houses.

The wheels of the carriage rolled on the rough, broken stone ground.

Han Dong sat in the carriage opposite the mysterious chief of this Secret Language Knight Order.

Hugo flipped through the list of names of the students to be assessed, finally finding Han Dong’s profile picture in the last registry.

“Nicholas… a student born in a commoner region, majoring in Mysticism, and received an S-level assessment in sensory exams, quite impressive!”

All Han Dong could do was offer an awkward smile.

To be honest, being alone with this inscrutable chief was making him a bit uneasy.

“What do you know about archaeology?”

“To be honest … I don’t particularly understand.”

“Our archaeology is not quite the same as the conventional one, mainly focusing on finding the ‘Origin of the Demon’ from ancient relics. If you are interested, you can learn.”

With the Big Expedition coming up and workload doubling, our Knight Order is a bit short-handed.

As long as you’re not particularly incompetent, you can apply directly to me… then you just need to show up at the Knight Convention and perform casually, even if your overall score is near last, it doesn’t matter.”

“Ok, Captain Hugo.”

Zzzz…

When Han Dong looked up again, he found that Captain Hugo had fallen asleep.

……

Short after.

The carriage stopped at the end of a rarely-frequented street.

It was right opposite a five-story dark gray residential building, the signage faded and without clear street information.

“This also…”

This was different from the grand Knight Order headquarters building Han Dong had expected.

Of course… such a common-looking building, to some extent, was better for hiding secrets.

Captain Hugo stood in front of the door, rummaging in his pocket for a long time, and then turned around with an embarrassed face.

“Oh! I forgot to bring the key…everyone, please wait a moment.”

No one came to open the door for the captain, whether he rang the bell or knocked hard.

In the end, Captain Hugo had to navigate around the building to the side, awkwardly climb up to the second floor using the irregular bricks as support, and enter the building through an unlocked window.

Five minutes later, Captain Hugo, covered in dust, opened the front door.

“Ha-ha… Everyone of our knight order has been working overtime and hasn’t slept for several days, so it’s normal not to hear the knocking.

Just follow me to the artifact room, and try not to disturb the work of our knight order.”

“Ok.”

The interior of the building was entirely an admin work area.

Through some corridor windows that hadn’t been curtained, you could directly see the members of the Knight Order busily writing with their eyes closed, stacks of scrolls piled up on the ground…

As for the text they were writing, Han Dong couldn’t understand any of it.

Shortly after.

Under the lead of Captain Hugo, they arrived in a room built with yellow stone that stored a large number of ancient artifacts and old scrolls.

“Graduates, the rule of my preliminary contest here is simple, and it will be based on the order of your scores when registering.

From high to low, you can choose one artifact or scroll here and complete the ‘artifact assessment’ in the shortest possible time.

The final scores you get in the preliminary contest will account for 30% of the Knight Order selection. I hope you perform well.

Let’s start now, let the students with S-level scores choose one of the relics first.

You need to be orderly, can’t talk loudly, and can’t whisper…you must complete the artifact assessment independently.

After completion, just throw your assessment paper in front of me.

I really can’t hold out any longer, I need to sleep for a while.”

Chief Hugo doesn’t seem to much care about ‘details’.

After going over the rules of the preliminary contest in detail, he totally ignored the dust on the floor and found a large pebble to serve as a pillow, lying down to sleep.

Even with a smile of satisfaction on his face, it seemed that sleeping was a luxury for him.

Despite the chief’s display, everyone took the preliminary contest very seriously.

No one violated the rules and began the assessment in order.

When Han Dong was the first to choose, he gave a sweep of the artifacts here and made his decision: “I can’t make up my mind for the time being. To avoid wasting time… everyone else goes first.”

Han Dong voluntarily gave up his right to priority choosing.

This behavior seemed to have drawn the attention of Captain Hugo. The chief, who seemed to be sleeping soundly, was barely opening one eye… faintly revealing a mysterious, colorful glow in his eyes.

Towards the end of the assessment, when all the graduates had finished their respective appraisal reports, Han Dong had still not made a choice.

The graduates were all in competition, so Han Dong not following the rules to participate in the preliminary contest was a good thing for them.

As everyone had submitted their appraisal reports and left.

Han Dong stayed alone, writing down a special appraisal report.

Chief Hugo, who was lying on the ground, opened his eyes slightly. His mouth had not yet opened, but his voice came from all around the artifact room:

“Have you had a similar experience before?”

Han Dong nodded, “Yes… the Fate incident before the Breaking of the Breed happened to be this kind of incredibly real dream, where I slowly deduced that I was ‘inside a dream’ based on various details and strange settings.”

“Your appraisal report is very interesting.

Through the door sign and the unreadable font written by the administrators, you guessed that this is a dream… what if you just didn’t know what they wrote?”

“Not knowing and being unable to recognize are two different concepts, and I can distinguish this.

Moreover, I myself possess the ‘Pupil Surgery’ power.

However, when using Pupil Surgery, I couldn’t detect your presence… which indirectly indicated that Captain Hugo had cast a higher-level Pupil Surgery on all of us when we first arrived.

Combined with some of my previous special experiences, I determined that this is a ‘Dream Assessment Place’ you created, Captain Hugo.”

“Not bad, you are indeed the key figure in the ‘Big Traitor Incident’…it’s been over thirty years since a graduate scored full marks in the preliminary contest of my ‘Secret Language Knight Order’.

Congratulations.

I hope you perform better in the ‘selection stage’.”

The dream ended.

In the blink of an eye, all eighteen students who had taken Captain Hugo’s assessment woke up in the lawn gathering area of the Knight Academy.

They looked at each other.

Only Han Dong smiled, murmuring softly:

“What’s the deal with this Captain Hugo?”