The Knight's Journey to the Empire

Every year during the graduation season of the Donbass Knight Academy, a grand combat competition is held.

At that time, the academy will be open to the public, and outsiders can enter the academy and watch the students' combat assessments for free.

There are only fifty places for each graduation fighting assessment at the Donbass Knight Academy, and fifty people will compete for the final championship.

The final result of this combat assessment will also be the final ranking of this year’s graduates.

The competition system of the graduation fighting assessment is a promotion system, and the fifty students are divided into five groups.

The top ten in the first stage of the assessment will be divided into the first group, which will be directly given a bye and enter the next round.

The remaining forty people were divided into four groups by drawing lots, and each group was paired up by drawing lots to compete, and the winners were decided to enter the next round.

After that, there will be multiple rounds of drawing lots to determine the top four.

In the first stage of the graduation assessment of the Donbass Knight Academy, Soren ranked fifth in the overall score.

So it was no surprise that he was given a bye in the first round of the competition and advanced directly to the second round.

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The Donbass Knight Academy is one of the only two knight academies in the four southern counties of the entire Midburg Kingdom.

The students who graduate here have always been the object of competition among various forces (referring to most of the small forces, such as some small nobles, caravans, mercenary groups, etc.).

There are also some who have made great names for themselves in the kingdom and even on the continent.

Therefore, the graduation season of the Donbass Knight Academy is bound to attract a lot of attention, whether overt or covert. Among them, those with great potential for training are also the objects of competition among various forces.

There are three fighting arenas in the center of the large playground of the Donbass Knight Academy.

This is where students usually compete in sword skills and practice combat techniques, and now it is also the place for graduation competitions and assessments.

There is also a circle of tall stone stands built around the large playground, which are now filled with spectators from all over the four southern counties of the Kingdom of Midburg.

At the best viewing points of these stands, the Donbass Knight Academy even set up luxurious boxes specifically for the use of nobles and big businessmen who came to watch.

It should be noted that the distinguished guests who can watch in these luxurious boxes must have a title of Viscount or above, or be big businessmen or wealthy people with a net worth of more than 500,000 gold coins.

The whole playground was bustling with people at this time. People were all standing under the scorching sun (except in the private rooms), looking forward to the start of the duel.

In recent days, the duel arena of the Donbass Knight Academy is definitely the busiest and noisiest place in the entire Niger city, without a doubt.

After all, in this world where entertainment is relatively scarce, watching the graduation examination of the Donbass Knight Academy for free is one of the rare ways for people in Niger City to pass the time.

These examinations and competitions would even attract some powerful nobles and big businessmen to come and watch. If the students performed well, they might be directly recruited and have a bright future ahead of them.

Sauron's first match, which was the second round of the graduation competition, was held in the afternoon.

The first promotion match was held in the morning.

Before the competition begins, a draw is made on the spot to allow for a competition.

On the fighting arena in the center, there is a table covered with a red cloth. On the table is a solid wooden box. Inside the box are thirty small wooden balls, each with numbers from one to thirty marked on them.

Then, under the gaze of the audience, the thirty contestants will go up and randomly select a small wooden ball. The number on the selected wooden ball is the contestant's number.

Finally, the thirty contestants were divided into fifteen groups, with No. 1 versus No. 30, No. 2 versus No. 29...

And so on, the competition will be carried out in this order, the winner will advance and the loser will be eliminated.

This round, Soran drew number seven, and he will compete against contestant number twenty-four.

Soran's luck was pretty good. The opponent he drew this time was not very strong. In just three minutes, he relied on his superb swordsmanship and fighting skills to suppress his opponent and make him retreat step by step without any chance to fight back.

Contestant number 24 was quite open-minded. After seeing this situation, he knew he was no match for his opponent and was powerless to turn the situation around.

So he didn't bother to argue any further and admitted defeat immediately and cleanly.

After he stopped fighting with Soran, he gave Soran a standard knight's salute, then stepped down gracefully with a heroic and unwilling expression on his face.

This immediately caused screams from many crazy girls in the audience.

This also won him more encouragement and applause.

Soran watched his every move, his face completely bewildered.

No, what kind of show-off is this? Can you still be so showy even after being defeated?

But in the end, he could only shake his head and smile helplessly, then walked off the stage.

Soren then successfully advanced to the next round.