The Knight's Journey to the Empire

September 4877, 4 in the Knight Continent calendar.

This morning, White Bear Territory held a mobilization meeting for the large-scale wasteland reclamation project that they were about to carry out.

Due to the extremely special importance of this project to the development of White Bear Territory, Lord Baron Soran, as the lord, personally attended the event and delivered an important speech.

This greatly encouraged the subjects' enthusiasm for land reclamation, thus playing a strong role in promoting the development of this large-scale wasteland reclamation project.

After attending the mobilization meeting, Baron Soran went straight to the new military camp where the territory guards were located.

Today he will have an equally special tryout here.

He will select the ten best members from the territory guard to form his own knight guard.

On the large parade ground of the new camp of the Territory Guard, all eighty-seven members were still gathered and standing in formation in two squadrons.

In front of each squadron stood the chief and deputy chief officers of each squadron.

After Soran arrived at the scene, he walked directly onto the podium that had been prepared long ago and scanned the entire audience calmly.

When he saw his private army, which was well-organized and solemn, he nodded with a hint of satisfaction.

Compared with the gatherings in the past few days, the territory guard team as a whole has made some progress.

It seems that since the last encirclement and suppression in the mountains, Ramos and his men have tightened their control over the territory guards.

Soran cleared his throat first, then shouted loudly: "My soldiers, do you know what we are going to do today?"

The voice was full of energy and loud, and it spread throughout the entire audience.

"I know!" the crowd in the audience answered loudly.

Their voices were uniform, roaring, shocking and majestic.

Soran nodded again with satisfaction.

In fact, as early as the day when the territory guards were recruited, the new military camp was officially built and training began...

Soran had already told them this at the camp opening ceremony.

In the future, the ten strongest warriors will be selected from among them to form the Baron's Knight Guard, responsible for protecting the Baron's daily safety.

And before the team gathered today, Ramos also specifically told them about this matter.

So they knew that the Baron was coming here today to conduct a selection, and they were all looking forward to it.

"Okay! Since everyone knows it, I won't waste any more words! The result will depend on your own efforts!" Soran stopped talking nonsense and started giving orders directly: "Ramos, start!"

"Yes, young master!" Ramos accepted the order respectfully, then turned around and directed the team to run away and began to quickly set up the venue.

Although the White Bear Territory Guard has only been established for more than 20 days, the food standards have been sufficient to ensure that there is enough food and drink, and there is meat at every meal.

Therefore, their daily nutritional intake is definitely sufficient.

So for some people who want to climb up and gain more power and higher status...

If they exercise overtime with self-discipline during these twenty days, the improvement in their physical fitness will definitely be significant.

After all, their physical fitness was not that good before!

Poor physical fitness means that their starting point is low!

The starting point is low, so the improvement that can be brought about by some sudden satisfaction-type training will definitely be great!

And those people with certain ambitions are what Soran wants to recruit for his own knight guards.

Because this team of personal knights is more than just protecting Sauron's daily safety.

They are also the trusted candidates that Sauron is preparing to train vigorously, the future middle and lower-level officers of Sauron's private army, and even the grassroots officials of the territory.

If they have no ambition and motivation to move forward, they will just settle for mediocrity, be content with the status quo, and ultimately be mediocre.

Then wouldn’t all of Sauron’s training be in vain?

On the high platform, on the table and chairs that had been prepared long ago, Soran had already sat down calmly.

The entire process of this selection and assessment is arranged by Ramos and others. He only needs to watch the progress of the assessment.

The person standing by at this time was Martin.

After the young master's outburst a few days ago, Ramos no longer dared to jump around in front of Sauron!

To be honest, he was actually a little scared when facing Sauron!

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In the large playground under the platform, Ramos and his staff have already set up the examination venue and are ready to conduct the selection examination.

On the platform, Soran and Martin had already started talking about him.

"Martin, you have been working with Ramos for some time. Do you think he is qualified to be the military officer?" Soran asked first while looking at the busy Ramos below.

"I think it's okay! At present, the territory guards are trained well under his leadership!" Martin said vaguely.

"You think it's okay? That means that in your heart, it doesn't meet the standards you want!" Soran seemed to have heard the hidden meaning of Martin's words.

"Master, I didn't say that!" Martin denied directly: "But it was almost done!"

"What do you mean?" Soran continued to ask.

Martin thought carefully for a while and said, "Under Ramos's leadership, the Territory Guard has done a good job in training, but in other aspects, it is lacking!"

"First of all, it's about the atmosphere. Ramos's carefree personality makes him a close friend to the soldiers. They can sob and joke with each other at will, or even call each other brothers!"

"This will certainly make the atmosphere of the Territory Guard more harmonious, but if it continues like this, the soldiers will not look like soldiers, the officers will not be like officers, and there will be no hierarchy between them. This will inevitably breed some bad habits, and then gradually undermine the discipline of the entire Territory Guard!"

"For example, in the future, the Territory Guard may only focus on brotherhood and loyalty, rather than military rules and discipline!"

In the army, officers and soldiers are friendly to each other, get along harmoniously, and call each other brothers. Such officer-soldier relations can indeed exist.

But you must be careful to strike the right balance, otherwise it will be easy to degenerate into a guerrilla or a hooligan!

Even Baron Sauron's private army was turned into Knight Ramos' army!

Of course, Soran firmly believed that Ramos would never betray him.

But when he thought about Ramos's character, he felt that the possibility of the territory guards eventually degenerating into undisciplined guerrillas was still very high!

"Also, in terms of rewards and punishments, it may be because Ramos gets along too well with the soldiers, so he usually turns a blind eye to the minor mistakes that the soldiers make. Even for some bigger mistakes, he simply gives them a reprimand and does not impose any substantial punishment!"

Soran already knew what the consequences would be without Martin telling him!

If there are mistakes but they are not punished accordingly, then what is finally trained is a group of arrogant and brave soldiers!

"In the end, it's Ramos' own problem. Young Master, you know that Ramos is a bit dull in character. So when he makes certain decisions, he lacks the necessary thinking. He often likes to make decisions directly without thinking, and it's hard for him to listen to other people's opinions!"

After Martin finished telling what he knew and saw, he shut up and didn't say anything else!

But Soran fell into deep thought!