Cloud Thinking

The content of this selection assessment is divided into three parts, namely cultural assessment, horse riding and archery assessment and 1V1 confrontation.

In addition, there is an additional project, special ability demonstration, that is, applicants with special talents can choose to apply for an additional project to ensure that some special and scarce talents are not missed.

The cultural assessment comes first and is timed at 90 minutes. Participants must complete the test within the specified time. It mainly involves the historical traditions of the empire, legal provisions, the purpose and rules of the Royal Knights, etc. The full score is 100.

It's funny to say that this exam was held on the sand in the middle of the stadium, in front of a crowd of spectators, with the test paper facing forward and the back facing the sky.

Hundreds of people were densely packed in the examination room below. There was a magic sound-blocking shield between the examination room and the audience seats, but it could only block the sound, not the sight.

For the candidates, answering questions under so many eyes is not an easy task.

But this arrangement is also to screen out those who can keep calm, keep steady and have high concentration.

The next test, horseback archery, is for groups of five to ride horses and try to shoot as many magic bells dropped into the air as possible in a designated area of ​​the arena within a limited time. The higher the number of hits, the higher the score.

As for the last 1V1 confrontation, it is as simple as it can be. The players draw lots, and whoever the lot is drawn plays against. The winner gets extra points and advances to the next round.

But these are just basic points.

The twelve judges will give scores based on the candidates' performance in the three games, which is the so-called performance score. The sum of the two is the final score.

However, even if you achieve good results, you may not be selected.

Because the four referees have a veto power.

Even if you get the highest score in the end, as long as they don't approve of you, it's a veto.

Now it is time for the contestants to enter and prepare for the cultural examination.

Helia also got a test paper and looked at it with the other contestants. She was inexplicably a little excited.

Perhaps it was the test-taking experience ingrained in his bones that was starting to stir.

She took a quick look and couldn't help smacking her lips. Then she looked around and found that other people were either watching the contestants carefully, analyzing the test papers like her, or chatting about gossip or daydreaming.

When meeting Ansel's inquiring gaze, Helia immediately found someone to talk to. She handed him the test paper in her hand and whispered:

“I can’t do any of these questions…”

Even though she had tried very hard to catch up on her knowledge of this world, she was still an outsider after all. When she saw this highly professional test paper, her eyes went dark.

There is a feeling of powerlessness when you enter the examination room, get the test paper, and find that all the questions are outside the scope of the exam.

Ansel couldn't help but laugh. He glanced over the test questions before leaning over to whisper in her ear: "I found that I don't know many of them."

Upon hearing this, Helia, who had been a little frustrated, suddenly brightened up her eyes and blinked at Ansel, unable to hide her joy.

It feels like the last one in the class discovered the second last one in the class.

Everyone is a novice, so she can be a novice with peace of mind.

"But if the questions are difficult, everyone's scores will be bad, and the gap won't be that big." Helia has a deep understanding of this.

Although simple questions cannot make a big difference, this is only for good students.

As a person of average level, she is usually just average and screams when faced with difficult questions. But when she sees that everyone else's scores are as bad as hers, she feels much better.

Valosinger, who was eavesdropping, said: (Looking at the test paper in his hand) (Looking puzzled) Is this difficult? Isn't this okay? It's just a standard test paper...

While Helia was observing the players on the field with a magic item that had the function of farsightedness and magnification, she was also making random comments to Ansel.

Unexpectedly, she saw a woman among them.

Hey! A girl! There is actually a girl signing up?! And she is the only one!

Helia patted Ansel's shoulder and asked, "Isn't there a gender restriction in the selection of the Knights?"

She had always thought that the Knights Templar did not recruit women. After all, she had never seen it before, and it had never happened before. Even she was forced in by Claude.

But now it seems that this is not the case.

“The Knights’ Order’s recruitment criteria do not mention that women cannot sign up,” Ansel replied.

"It's just that, since the establishment of the Knights, you are the only one who joined as a woman."

"People don't seem to think that women can shoulder such a heavy responsibility, nor do they think that women should show their faces in public."

“Even the women themselves feel that way.”

Helia knew what Ansel meant, but it was precisely because she knew it that she was surprised and extremely delighted.

Even though everyone thought that a woman could not and should not join the Knights Templar, that woman still chose to come, and now sits firmly in the examination room, competing with other men.

Helia didn't know how much effort she had put in to get here, but she had to admit that she was very courageous and had an extremely strong heart.

"Tsk! How could a woman appear here!" Dorado also saw the woman and said in an unhappy tone.

"Why? Lord Dorado, do you have something against me?"

Helia was most annoyed by his attitude. Even though she knew that Dorodo was not talking about her, she still had to say a few words.

"Tsk! I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the person sitting in the examination room. Who allowed a woman to register?"

Dorado was very upset, but he didn't dare to say anything offensive. He just directed his target at the female player who seemed to have no power.

"The Knights' selection criteria never stated that women were not allowed to apply," Ansel retorted. "Why, do you want me to have someone copy a copy of the registration criteria for Lord Dorado?"

"Even if they didn't say it, there has never been a case of women participating in elections for hundreds and thousands of years!"

Dorodo knew that Ansel was on Helia's side, so he had to be polite and restrained towards Helia, but there was no need to be that way towards Ansel.

"Why, I'm not a human?" Helia asked again.

Dorodo had forgotten that Helia was now also a member of the Knights Templar. He was speechless and his face turned as red as a pig's head.

"But...it's still a little inappropriate..." Giselwell didn't quite agree.

"What's wrong with that? Since there are no regulations prohibiting women from signing up for the Knights' Selection Assessment, then it is in accordance with the rules for her to sit there." Helia said.

"Oh! Then I'd like to see how capable she is!" Dorodo didn't want to argue with Helia too much.

Anyway, he is one of the referees and has a veto power. No matter how powerful that woman is, he just won't acknowledge her.

Helia glanced at the other people in the referee's seat and found that most of them seemed to have some complaints about this and were not in favor of women participating in the selection and assessment.

She could already anticipate what would happen next, and her brows were suddenly furrowed tightly.

Suddenly her hand was grabbed by someone, and she looked over and found it was Ansel.

"Don't worry, since she can get here, she must have some ability," he comforted her.

Helia let out a long breath, nodded, and turned her gaze back to the woman.

"If even I don't believe her, how many people can believe her?"

Afterwards, she discovered someone who was even braver than heaven, daring enough to cheat by passing notes in front of so many people watching!

Perhaps he felt that the audience and the referees were too far away and he couldn't see the specific situation on their side. He thought that with so many players here, he wouldn't be noticed if he moved more covertly, so he had the idea of ​​cheating.

"There's a cheater. How do we judge him?" Helia asked.

"Just catch him and give him zero points. What else can you say?" Dorado said in a stern tone.

But Gisevilla, who was standing by, looked at the time and reminded him, "But it's almost over now. If we go down to catch people now, it might affect other contestants who are answering seriously."

"Why don't we wait until the exam is over?"

Helia glanced at Varosinger and asked for his opinion.

"Then let's talk about it after the exam is over." He replied, "Anyway, the exam room is recorded by the video stone, so there's no way to escape."

"Okay." Helia turned back and looked at the cheating student a few more times, memorizing his face.

Helia chatted with Ansel for a while out of boredom, and then the one and a half hour exam time passed and the contestants handed in their papers.

There is no need for a judge to mark the papers, as there will be a dedicated person to do that.

After the contestants rested for half an hour, they began to draw lots to form groups and prepare for the next horseback archery test.

The contestant who was caught cheating was called Yide. The jury sent someone to inform him of the result of zero score in the cultural assessment. He looked indifferent, as if he had guessed it long ago.

Anyone who has touched the note will have their score reset to zero.

Although those who join the Knights Templar are not necessarily knights, they must abide by the chivalric code and be people of high moral character.

Cheating is definitely a violation of the principle of fairness and cannot be tolerated.

But to everyone's surprise, this Yide was almost the best in the horse riding and archery test.

Within ten minutes, and with competition among the same group, anyone who can hit more than eight bells can be considered excellent.

But Ide alone set the highest record on the scene, fifteen bells.

This was when the other four were targeting him, otherwise he could have hit more.

After Ide's group finished their assessment, everyone in the judging booth began to discuss quietly how to give points, and even Helia was a little worried.

"It is true that he has a bad character, but he is so good at riding and shooting. He is definitely a talent." Varosinger looked at Helia and asked for her opinion. "What do you think, Your Highness?"

"If it were me, I wouldn't want it." Helia said.

"Why?" asked Valosinger.

"The Knights are the royal family's external spear and internal shield. The first principle is to be loyal and reliable." Helia analyzed.

"He dared to cheat in the exam. To put it more seriously, he was defying authority and the royal family, and committing treason."

"No matter how powerful a person like this is, I would not dare to keep him under my command, lest I be stabbed in the back."

After listening to this, Valosinger nodded thoughtfully and said nothing more.

However, the most outstanding person in the horse riding and archery test was not Ide, but Ariana who appeared as a woman.

During the cultural exam just now, she hid among the crowd. Except for the judges' seats and the noble seats where magic props were seen, no other audience members noticed her.

It was not until the horse riding and archery assessment groups appeared that her face suddenly appeared on the magic prop water mirror during the broadcast, and there were exclamations from the audience that became louder and louder.

It is unheard of for a woman to participate in the open selection of the Knights Templar!

But after the exclamation, there were dense and overwhelming voices of doubt and scolding. Even though Helia was sitting in the referee's seat, she could still hear those unpleasant words.

But in the face of everyone's doubts, confusion and even abuse, Ariana's expression did not change while riding on the horse. She carefully checked her equipment to make sure there was no problem.

Her movements were very skillful, and she even carefully examined every detail in every nook and cranny, which was enough to show how many lessons she had learned.

After checking, the five contestants raised their hands to indicate that they were ready. She was the slowest one, so she had to make the others wait for her. Voices of condemnation or ridicule came towards her.

But she still went her own way, completely ignoring others and calmly doing her job.

After confirming that there was no problem with the equipment, she raised her hand and rode her horse to the designated location.

At this moment, she suddenly raised her head and looked towards the referee's seat.

Because she was too far away, she had no idea who she was looking at, but inexplicably, Helia felt that she was looking at her.

She smiled, nodded at the other party, and silently said "come on".

After three preliminary sounds, five contestants rode their horses into the arena, bent their bows and raised their heads to search and aim at the bells floating in the air.

In the beginning, everyone was fighting on their own, but later on, as bells became fewer, fighting was inevitable.

And Ariana was undoubtedly the target of robbery.

The running horses squeezed up to her and someone deliberately bumped into her with his body, trying to push her off the horse.

Or he was deliberately shooting arrows to disturb her, or even... aiming the arrows at the horse under her, and at her.

But even though she was almost thrown off the horse and her body was unstable, she still sat on the horse well, and her hand that was pulling the bow never dropped, her eyes were always following the target bell, and suddenly she let go and released the arrow -

"jingle!"

The bell fell to the ground, and it was her score.

She slowly pulled the reins and ran out of the encirclement, but she did not look for the remaining bells in the air, but instead glanced coldly at the other people present.

Suddenly, she curled the corners of her mouth slightly, quickly drew her bow and arrow, aimed at the left front of the man who had just tried to knock her off the horse, and let go.

The arrow directly hit the left front leg of the horse under the man. The horse was injured while running, and after screaming loudly, it fell forward with the person on its back, raising a cloud of dust on the sand, blurring the figures of the victim and the perpetrator.

Helia saw the whole process clearly and her eyes widened. She didn't expect the other party to retaliate on the spot.

If anything bad happened to that person, she would definitely be held fully responsible, and she would probably be retaliated against!

As expected, the shouting and cursing in the audience rose again, and even from the referee's seat there were several calls of "evil woman".