Chapter 206 Speech
As Hathaway spoke, all the Knights who were participating in the upcoming Regional Selection beca agitated.
Other than the arena battle in the final round and the Pantheon Monunt Observation in the second to last round, the first two stages in every Regional Selection were planned out by the Governor. It could be said that each region’s Regional Selection was different from the others.
This was also to ensure that Knights would not specially train themselves in order to et the examination requirents, anwhile ending up losing sight of what that was important.
Hathaway spoke gently, “The first stage in this Regional Selection is ‘Slashing the Heavenly Pillar’.”
Slashing the Heavenly Pillar, true to its na, was to attack a gigantic pillar made of tal alloy.
This tal alloy was a newly developed forging material. Not only was it extrely sturdy, with resistance against both fire and acid, but it even had self-recovery ability. No matter what kind of attack it received, as long as it was put under sunlight, it would recover in but a few seconds. It was a material at the Divine Equipnt level.
This was actually made from a piece of Divine level bone remains that Governor Devitt had obtained when he was young. He initially wanted to use this piece of bone remains to forge an invincible item of Divine Remains Equipnt, an armor with self-recovery abilities.
Governor Devitt lived up to his na as a master blacksmith. Even Huang Lin had co to ask for his help to forge a Divine Weapon.
The armor with self-recovery abilities was successfully forged, but at the sa ti it had ended up in a failure.
He had succeeded in developing such a material. However, its self-recovery ability was too powerful, and it was permanently fixed in the shape of a tal pillar. No matter how much he had tried to reform it, attempting to turn it into an armor, trying to make it into a sword... it always reverted to its original state within a few seconds. It was impossible for him to forge any kind of equipnt with it.
And he did not have a second bit of bone remains from that Divine level expert which he could use to forge into the equipnt he was aiming for.
This ti around, Governor Devitt simply decided to use it for the first stage in the Regional Selection.
This stage, Slashing the Heavenly Pillar, would be supervised by Governor Devitt himself. With his cultivation level of second transition level 29, and an ether synchronization rate of 100%, he clearly had a complete understanding of the degree of damage dealt to the alloy pillar. Thus, he would be able to give an accurate score to each of the students.
Those in the top one hundred would move on to the next stage.
The second stage was nad ‘Contention for the Top Tier’. All one hundred examinees would be put into a maze, and each of them could only stay on guard in the spot they were allocated, unallowed to move more than ten ters away from the respective spot. As for the specific location, based on the results of the previous stage, the examinees would be able to take turns in choosing their preferred spot.
The whole maze was filled with ferocious beasts of various levels. They would continuously attack the examinees, so the goal was to survive the attacks. Of course, examinees were forbidden from attacking each other. However, using tricks and sches to indirectly force the other participants to be eliminated was acceptable. Only direct attacks were forbidden.
Examinees who voluntarily gave up, lost the ability to fight, or were unable to kill any ferocious beasts after five minutes had passed, would all be eliminated and then brought out by the invigilating Conferred Knights.
The last thirty examinees who managed to stay on would be able to enter the third stage and have the right to participate in the Pantheon Monunt Observation.
In the third stage, Pantheon Monunt Observation, examinees’ results would depend on how much of the amount of Killing techniques in the Pantheon Monunt could the individual comprehend within twelve hours.
They would demonstrate their comprehensions before the examiners, including the Governor, who would each give a score. Those in the top sixteen would enter the last round, the arena battle.
The arena battle was split into four elimination rounds, where the top ten to pass the Regional Selection would be chosen.
This was the whole process of the Regional Selection. Hearing everything through, many peoples’ eyes were filled with fighting spirit, each of them carefully thinking about the content of the first two rounds.
At the sa ti, Hathaway smiled and said, “The reason why the Hundred Blossom Banquet takes place is because we hope to see an endless flow of geniuses in the Empire, like how endless flowers blossom every year. This year, due to his Majesty’s brilliance, we have many talents far surpassing those of previous years.”
“Shadow Death God Anderson.
“Astral Ancestor’s descendent, Hoult.
“The late bloor with extraordinary resolution, Wei Leng.
“And of course, there’s also the Windstorm Sword Hero, Fang Xingjian, whom I’ve just t today.
“All of you have ended up participating in the Regional Selection in the sa year. If any of you were to appear in the Regional Selections of previous years, you would probably have gained powerful leadership abilities by now.
“I am looking forward to your performances.”
With each line Hathaway spoke, everyone turned to look at the four whose nas had been ntioned. The four of them instantly had instantly attracted countless gazes.
Hathaway continued, “Then, now we’ll proceed to the final component of our Hundred Blossom Banquet. We would like to invite all four of the aboventioned examinees to co on stage to give a speech.”
Steward Setque walked up behind Fang Xingjian and said in a soft voice, “Young Master Xingjian, later on, please go up to say a few words. It can be a casual talk about things like your goals, dreams and aspirations.” He smiled and said, “This is also to boost the examinees’ morales.”
Shadow Death God Anderson was the first to dash on stage. The young man in his teens put on an expression as if he had experienced a lot in life as he looked at the crowd. He calmly said, “Since I must share, I’ll go straight in.
“My dream is to be able to kill a Divine level expert. Therefore, I’m bent on taking the title of Regional Champion this ti around.
“Rember this day. In the future, you’ll feel proud for the rest of your life to have heard my speech today.”
With that, he left the crowd in shock. Anderson’s face suddenly blushed before he turned into a lump of black shadows and completely disappeared.
Lilia shrugged and said, “Why do I feel awkward after hearing his speech?”
‘This is what they call chuunibyou,’ Fang Xingjian thought to himself.
Hathaway spoke rigidly, “Hoult, you go next.”
With a tap of his foot, the graceful Hoult leapt up to the stage. His actions were light as a fairy, as if he was a god from the heavens. His actions caused a series of screams to rise from the crowd of young aristocrat ladies.
Hearing the screams, Hoult put up his hand and said, “Thank you, everyone, for your warm welco. I love you too.”
With his words, the screams grew louder. Hathaway had no choice but to cough softly to allow silence to fall over the hall.
Hoult continued, “This ti around, the reason I’ve co to Great Western City is primarily because I’ve been instructed by my master to co with a keen mind to learn. My hope is to have exchanges in teachings, as well as to spar...”
Hoult was clearly very experienced in such situations, and the rest of the things he shared were mostly by the book. Hathaway nodded with satisfaction.
After Hoult ca down, it was the gloomy-looking Wei Leng’s turn. However, it was only after Hathaway had called out to him for three tis that he went up with great reluctance.
On stage, he said with a cold expression, “I don’t have anything to say.” With that, he left.
Hathaway’s countenance turned grim as she shook her head, ‘The few seeds this year are really problems after problems.’
It was finally Fang Xingjian’s turn. As Fang Xingjian headed up to the stage, Lilia cheered loudly. Rota, Hamil and the others were also staring at the stage, feeling a sense of pride.
Looking down at the crowd below the stage, Fang Xingjian gave it so thought before saying, “Never surrender, never yield, never compromise, never fall back. This is what makes a true Knight.
“I hope that we can give mutual encouragent based on these terms.”
Hathaway smiled. Although it was too short, at least it was normal. She took the lead to applaud and finally said, “Everyone, there’s fifteen days until the start of the Regional Selection. Please be prepared and don’t be late.” With the last part, she threw Fang Xingjian a teasing glance.
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