The Knight's Journey to the Empire

The sun rises and the moon sets, summer goes and winter comes, and time always flies when you are working towards a goal. Often, a school year is over before you have learned anything.

The Knight Continent quickly moved from spring to autumn, the temperature began to drop, and the vegetation began to become sparse.

The whole world seemed to be shrouded in a sense of bleakness.

Soren's student life at the Donbass Knight Academy was very fulfilling, with a relatively fixed schedule every day, such as morning exercises, classes, martial arts training, reading, etc.

The other thing is to go to the bookstore to teach three young knight attendants how to practice knighthood, and have relatively normal entertainment time.

A self-disciplined life is stable and fulfilling.

The academic year of the Donbass Knight Academy begins in April in the spring and ends in November in the fall.

In the middle of August, there will be a half-month holiday because of the traditional Harvest Festival in mainland China.

As for December to March of the following year, it is a long holiday to avoid the winter and celebrate the New Year.

Of course, the biggest benefit of being in school is that hard work pays off.

During these few months, Soran's physical fitness value finally reached perfection, that is, 26 points, which is equal to his physical limit value.

According to the information he had obtained in his mind about the mutation function of the Arcane Eye, as well as the knowledge he had learned, he knew:

As long as you work harder to strengthen your body and improve it a little more, your physical fitness value will break through to 27 points. Then you can condense the fighting spirit seed, cultivate fighting spirit, and successfully break through to the entry-level knight career level stage.

But the knowledge he had learned over the years also made him understand that when a person breaks through from an apprentice knight to an entry-level knight, he can master extraordinary powers.

This is a breakthrough at the level of life, which is crucial and extremely difficult.

Throughout the ages, I don’t know how many people have been hindered in their progress by this difficulty and obstacle, and how many people have banged their heads and still remain unsatisfied.

It is now November, the autumn season. Soren has been studying at the Donbass Knight Academy for four years and is about to graduate.

Of course, this is not a certain university where you need to submit a graduation "defense" thesis to graduate, otherwise your graduation will be delayed.

However, with Sauron's excellent academic performance, he will definitely graduate smoothly and even receive a considerable scholarship sponsored by the college.

Despite this, Soran was still very sad. He frowned all day long with a gloomy face, and no one knew what he was thinking about.

In fact, he was thinking about his future life path and where he would go.

First of all, he was just a bastard from a small noble family and was not valued by the family.

This means that he will definitely not get much help from his family in the future.

He might even suffer some unexpected and unfriendly suppression because of his eldest brother, the first heir who has always excluded him.

Secondly, ever since he traveled to this strange world, his heart has always been in a state of wandering and without a place to take root.

Even in that so-called "home", he never had much sense of belonging, but just regarded it as a passer-by in his life.

As the saying goes, if your heart has no place to rest, it will be wandering everywhere.

This feeling of emptiness and loneliness was not alleviated until he came to study at the Donbass Knight Academy.

Because during his studies in this college, he lived a very disciplined and fulfilling life.

The reason why he works so hard is, on the one hand, to lay a foundation for upward development, and on the other hand, to get rid of this feeling of emptiness and loneliness!

Soran is now seventeen years old. His birthday is in December. In another month, just after graduation, he will need to return home to participate in an important part of his life - the coming-of-age ceremony.

In the Knight Continent, only after passing the coming-of-age ceremony can a person be considered to have truly crossed the age of eighteen and entered the ranks of adults in terms of etiquette and ethics.

After going through the baptism of the coming-of-age ceremony, it means that the person has the ability to survive independently and can support himself.

Then, from this point on, his family would no longer have to support him, and he would no longer have a free source of living expenses.

Therefore, the so-called coming-of-age ceremony, compared to an unappreciated bastard like Sauron, is also jokingly called the "poor man's ceremony."

This means that once this ceremony is over, they will join the ranks of the poor.

Although the nobles of this world value the inheritance of blood, they have not yet reached the level of universal love.

The wanderers or beggars in each city can more or less have some blood relationship with the nobles in the city.

Of course, Soran had saved some money over the years. Even though it wasn’t much, it definitely wasn’t enough to leave him homeless.

But where will his future go? At this crossroads of life, he is deeply confused, just like when he just graduated from college in his previous life and faced the social environment of "unemployment after graduation".

…………

The graduation examination of the Donbass Knight Academy is divided into three parts: written examination of cultural subjects, data test of various physical values, and fighting competition assessment between students.

These three assessment contents are divided into two stages.

The previous cultural subject written examinations and physical data tests are combined into one stage. The test scores are calculated uniformly, accounting for 40% and 60% respectively.

The final fighting competition assessment is a competition test between students on the ring, which examines the students' actual combat capabilities and on-the-spot reaction abilities.

It is worth noting that only students who rank in the top 50 in the total score in the first stage of the assessment will have the opportunity to enter the second stage of the fighting competition assessment.

Otherwise, no matter how strong you are, everything will be in vain.

Needless to say, the written examination results of cultural subjects showed that with Sauron's strength as a top student, he was definitely number one in the school, and he was the envy of others.

If we only look at the paper scores, Soran's score is more than 30 points higher than the second place.

Yes, he is the "other people's child" that his classmates' parents often mention.

The second thing to be assessed is the test of various physical data, such as strength, speed, reaction ability, etc.

This does not need to be elaborated. With Soran's strength as a trainee knight at the peak of his professional level, among all the graduating students of the Donbass Knight Academy, although not all indicators are at the peak, he is definitely among the best, at least in the top ten.

Finally, when the overall ranking of the first stage results comes out, if there are no surprises, then there will be no surprises.

Soren's overall score ranked fifth in the school, making him an outstanding student.

Even before he took the combat competition assessment and officially graduated, he had already received friendly olive branches from many forces.

Of course, these are all small forces, and there is basically no future in joining them.

The truly powerful forces all have their own talent training system and talent recruitment procedures, and they look down on people like Sauron who have a certain background but are shallow.

The people you train have certain roots, which means there are variables, and it is difficult to cultivate their loyalty and train them to become "one of your own";

Having a shallow foundation also means that even if you recruit them, it will not help much for the development of your own power, and you may even have to provide them with capital transfusions, thus hindering your own development.

So even though Sauron is very outstanding, there is still no big force to recruit him, or no big force that he thinks is suitable for him extends an olive branch to him.