Throne of the North.

Chapter 808 The Initial Establishment of the Knight Academy (Part 11)

Among the nobles within the Imperial Knight Academy, a small number began to frown upon witnessing the starkly different performances on the fantastical battlefield, sensing that something was amiss.

Having learned from their previous experience, they dared not comment casually, and that was indeed the case at this point.

Half an hour later, the rain continued to pour down, and the rising forests became increasingly wet, bringing disastrous consequences to those fully equipped with protective gear.

Wow! ! !
The 'mountain' formed by the sandy soil suddenly collapsed, and a muddy torrent rolled down from the top, pounding heavily on the students of the Imperial Knight Academy. The soil beneath their feet also became soft, and with each heavy step, their bodies sank deep into the ground.

They did indeed recover to their peak condition under the effect of the life potion, but they also consumed more energy at this moment, and their formation was thrown into chaos.

"Damn it! Flood!"

The knights roared as the sudden landslide and torrent turned the ground beneath their feet into silt. More importantly, the water seeping into the gaps in their armor with the landslide became filthy and full of gritty texture.

"damn it!"

"The armor is too heavy!"

A trainee knight roared, struggling but unable to stand. His heavy armor had become a burden. Looking at the yellowish-brown sewage still pouring down from above, he made the right choice.

Quickly untying the sinewy ropes binding the armor was no easy task. Putting on and taking off armor alone was a troublesome affair for a person, and the apprentice knight did not yet possess the extraordinary strength of a full-fledged knight.

Especially given the current tense situation, the invisible psychological pressure is very real.

Finally, the armor was removed and splashed into the accumulated muddy water. The knight didn't have time to observe his surroundings and quickly helped his companion remove his armor. After the other's armor was also removed, a hand suddenly slapped his arm.

Looking up, I saw my companions pointing around with wide eyes. Pairs of violent and cold eyes had been hidden in the downpour and in the crevices of tree roots. Shouts of terror and tension could be heard in the distance.

"Warcraft! There's a warcraft!"

"Damn it, how can there be magical beasts? Isn't this a 'battlefield' created by mages? Where did these magical beasts come from? The Imperial Knight Academy couldn't possibly have these things."

The apprentice knights were terrified. They believed they wouldn't die if they encountered enemies, but magical beasts were different. Even with sky knights and even holy beings watching from the sky, and mages maintaining this fantastical battlefield, it would take time for the knights to arrive and for the mages to chant. But the magical beasts were powerful enough that they didn't need time; they could slit their throats with a single bite.

If a person dies, even the most powerful life mage cannot bring them back to life; perhaps the only recourse is to pray to the great God of Light to guide their soul into heaven.

This was impossible, so the threat of death truly overwhelmed these apprentice knights because of the appearance of these magical beasts.

"How can there be so many magical beasts?"

Some people didn't understand, while others gradually came to realize it.

“We’ve made too much noise. These magical beasts must have been let in. They’re unfamiliar with this environment, but our commotion has attracted them.”

“Especially now...we look particularly disheveled, just like the prey.”

"Defense, defense!"

Knights of considerable status and strength drew their longswords and roared in the torrential rain. These apprentice knights, having experienced the previous war, instinctively gathered together, most of them having removed their armor, which made them feel very insecure.

With a large number of people, even the surrounding magical beasts would assess the situation and dare not approach easily, as they would not consider these humans weak when they gathered together.

Boom! ! !
Thunder roared in the sky. It was unclear who had thought of it, but elemental mages, who were as rare as space mages, had become the backdrop for this war. The thunderclaps brought a light that instilled fear in beasts. As the light dissipated, the surroundings became even darker, and there were signs of movement in the shadows.

It was a spotted leopard, roaring as it spat out a cyan wind blade that sliced ​​through the air. Fortunately, the knight was still wearing armor, and after being heavily knocked away, he was lifted out of the mud by the people around him.

"We have to drive them back!"

Some people were unwilling to give up and suggested that this was of course the best solution, but no one knew how to implement it at this moment. In the end, a knight from an earl's family stepped forward.

His status and position made him the leader at this moment, and he formed the vanguard with all the apprentice knights who had not yet removed their armor.

"Charge over there!"

"Slay all the magical beasts in front of us! A group of Tier 1 magical beasts can't kill the Empire's knights!"

He roared, forcefully boosting morale.

"For the Flor Empire!"

"For the Flor Empire!"

In the damp mountain forest, a group of fully armed trainee knights roared and charged toward the high ground of the monster. They charged at lightning speed, followed by more than a hundred trainee knights whose clothes were wet and clinging to their bodies, holding weapons. The scene was magnificent.

The monsters were also aroused by their bloodlust, or rather, they had already been fed some kind of wild potion. On this battlefield for the nobles to observe, they had no choice but to assess the situation and retreat. When they saw the knights charging towards them, the monsters went berserk.

"Roar!"

A great battle was about to break out. Ferocious monsters appeared around the knights from all directions, and the two hundred men had no other choice but to charge with all their might toward the higher ground.

"Kill them!"

The sharp sword pierced through the giant snake's head, and its final twisting motion knocked seven or eight people into a daze.

It wasn't just the monsters that went berserk after being bathed in blood; these knights also became enraged as the battle intensified, launching a frenzied attack.

"Casshor is dead!"

Someone cried out in alarm, their voice filled with fear. Many people turned around and saw a headless corpse. A three-meter-tall giant wolf emerged from the shadows and killed the unarmored apprentice knight.

What terrified the others was that no one appeared to protect them. This was the Imperial Knight Academy, with powerful knights, mages in the sky, and noble gentlemen, but Casshor was dead, and no one came to save him.

The novice knight's status was not high, and Casshor's identity was not noble either; he was just an unpopular child of a baronial family.

Those noble gentlemen would absolutely not stop the exchange from continuing because of a child of his status.

And death appeared for the first time.

"We're not going to die here, are we?"

In their panic, some people forgot to fight the monster. A heavy foot, hard as armor, came stomping down from the side.

The education of high-ranking nobles is always superior to that of lower-ranking nobles. Regardless of a person's personality, good or bad personality traits are meaningless on the battlefield. He understood this well, which is why his knightly conduct was quite good.

"No one is allowed to utter a word of fear of death. Don't forget your place, don't forget our loyalty to His Majesty Emperor Flor!" "Long live the Empire!"

"Long live Emperor Flor!"

"Kill these monsters! By the code of knighthood, we must kill them!"

In the noisy jungle battlefield, only this knight roared loudly, then grabbed a student by the shoulder and pushed him towards the monster.

"Knight of the Empire, I have seen your courage! The glory of your bloodline, your loyalty to the Emperor!"

Urged on, the knight's eyes reddened, blood seeping from the corners of his eyes. He then roared with all his might and charged towards the monster.

"Kill these monsters!"

The novice knights finally became fanatical again, their unwavering faith, regardless of who it was directed towards, was fully ignited, making the battlefield utterly bloody.

The magical beasts thrown in by the mages were, after all, considered the lives of these apprentice knight students. They were not as powerful as imagined; their magical cores had been removed. The leopard that could unleash wind blades was considered exceptionally gifted and had active magical factors around it.

"kill!"

The knights roared, but the magical beasts were just flesh and blood. These were low-level, first-tier magical beasts, not much different from the category of ferocious beasts. As the magical beasts gradually died, the scales of victory began to tip.

The knights, their bloodlust fully unleashed, performed admirably. Their victory over the monsters should have been acknowledged by the nobles observing at this moment, but in reality, there was no sound from outside.

"These idiots!!!"

"idiot!"

Earl Edwards rebuked him in this way, and his last words were even directed at Adebayo.

He couldn't discern much emotion in his heart; he hadn't expected that the 'failure' Grand Duke Freming desired would ultimately manifest itself in this way.

"The war is over. Let the mages do their thing. If this continues, the entire Imperial Magic Academy will be flooded with their magic."

"This is the capital city."

Beside him, Count Pascal spoke up quietly to stop him.

"Let's wait and see. It'll be good for them to see why they failed, won't it?"

To everyone else, the battlefield was already surrounded by Northern Knights who did not belong to the Imperial Knight Academy.

……

In the wild, overgrown forest, as a rhinoceros with skin indistinguishable from a city wall fell, several knights rose from its corpse, raising their longswords high.

With the most powerful magical beast dead, the remaining dozen or so magical beasts finally overcame their bloodlust with fear and began to flee into the distance.

"we won!"

Some cheered and shouted, some cried; all their deep-seated cunning vanished, leaving only the joy of surviving a catastrophe.

However, at that very moment, a towering tree crashed down on the surviving army. It was so large that it had blocked the sunlight in the torrential rain. Now, as it fell, it made the surrounding void less dark. At the same time, everyone realized that these towering trees, which had been catalyzed by the mages, were actually hollow.

Why were they able to spot them so quickly? Because the fallen tree wasn't as heavy as they had imagined. Inside the hollow tree, a dozen fully armed apprentice knights were slowly approaching, tearing into steaming hot roasted monster meat and grinning maliciously as they watched them.

More and more figures emerged from the high points of the mountains they had intended to reach. They hid behind the trees, behind the gnarled roots that resembled the slithering of long snakes, looking down at these 'enemies' who had just experienced a bloody battle.

There weren't actually two hundred people, but the long shadows cast by their backs to the sun made them appear majestic even in the downpour.

The remaining people also revealed their tracks, blocking their retreat on the other side of the previous landslide behind them.

The students of the Northern Knights Academy, clad in armor, showed no signs of prolonged water immersion, indicating that all means of sheltering from the rain had been employed on them.

The war that should have happened never even took place; the Northern Knights Academy declared victory without a single second of fighting.

As the mages began to dispel their magic in the sky, the largest area within the Imperial Knight Academy became a complete mess. The mages could only fix things, but they couldn't restore everything to its original state.

The ground remained damp and muddy. The abundant moisture could not possibly reach the capital city and affect the appearance of the heart of the empire, so the Imperial Knight Academy had to absorb it all. It was likely that this place would remain damp for many days to come.

"Don't forget that in extreme environments, the biggest threat, the thing you should consider first, is always the surrounding environment."

"If the students of the Imperial Knight Academy are like this, it will probably be very difficult for them to serve in the Imperial First Legion in the North."

These words provoked the nobles from the North, who all spoke up, saying that these knights were unsuitable, that the First Legion of the Empire had heavy tasks, and that the knights sent by the nobles from the North should serve as officers first.

"The cold in the North is so intense that even elephants can freeze to death. These apprentice knights probably won't survive a month there."

"A month? Five days would be too long."

"Actually, there's no difference between an hour and a lifetime. You either die in the first hour or you can withstand the cold of the North."

"With such a physique, our knights from the northern lands are better able to fight against it."

The nobles spoke, pointing to the students of the Northern Knights Academy.

"I've seen many of these students before; they can fight wild beasts bare-handed in the icy wilderness of the North."

He had seen it somewhere, but certainly more than the southern nobles.

"So, shouldn't we move on to the final step?"

"However, I don't think it's necessary."

"Nobles shouldn't be directly involved in this exchange meeting. After all, His Majesty the Emperor needs mid- to low-ranking officers, doesn't he?"

The original plan was to conclude the exchange with military command, but some nobles no longer wanted to continue.

Because the Northern Knights Academy produced the son of an earl, who is the next earl's successor.

Regardless of the outcome, the impact is significant, and after witnessing this battle in which not a single soldier was lost, the nobles are greatly disappointed with the Imperial Knight Academy.

(End of this chapter)