Deception (3)
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The date of the Aegis entrance exam is approaching.
In the Aegis entrance exam, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd exams are taken in succession and the total scores are added up to determine the successful candidates.
It was known that the types of entrance exams fluctuate slightly each time.
There is no limit to the number of successful applicants at Aegis, but in general, more than half of the students who took the entrance exam failed.
Considering that only qualified candidates can participate in the entrance exam, the pass rate should be considered very low.
Before departing for the entrance exam room.
In the fortress owned by the Frislan family, Rey tamed Aftel’s bracelet.
The bracelet I had lent to Luna was returned to me when I headed to the Imperial Palace, but I was forbidden to wear any artifacts in the Aegis entrance exam.
Ray asked Aftel.
“Aptel, is it impossible to store this bracelet in a space?”
[Impossible.]
“No, can’t it be?”
[…no.]
“Ew, performance is better than it looks…”
[…]
“I don’t know what the Archmage didn’t do with the subspace storage function on the bracelet.”
[…]
After scratching Aftel, Ray decided to leave the bracelet to Spera for a while.
Rey’s bracelet could only be used by others with Rey’s permission, and even if it was stolen, there were many ways to track it down.
So, without much thought, Ray left the bracelet to Spera and changed clothes.
Rey changed into her shabby clothes and went out to the fortress courtyard, where Johana and Darren were seen moving in their country-like outfits.
Ray grinned.
Johanna and Darren had just eaten some city water, so they felt awkward that the cheap cloth touched their skin.
“Well…”
Yohana checked to see if her clothes were not torn even when she moved her body vigorously.
On paper, Johanna and Darren were from commoners who did not receive much support from outside, so they could not participate in the entrance exam in good clothes.
Ray walked up to the two of them and said,
“You must eat first, Yohana, and Daren, you must eat second.”
In the Aegis entrance exam, the senior and deputy seats were elected separately.
Darren scratched the back of his head, looking a little unsure.
Darren was a hard worker with great talent, but it was quite difficult to have confidence because the people around him were so strong.
Rey pats Darren on the back, who was nervous, when Yohana asked.
“If I’m the chief and Darren is second, what about you?”
“I just need to get a moderate passing grade.”
Rey shrugged and twisted the corners of her mouth.
“Of course! I’ll be the chief if I want to, but that’s not fair. We shouldn’t rob the green kids of their chance to be protagonists. I’m not a street bastard.”
Rei, who said that, was too young for her age.
Yohana looked at Rey and grunted.
“Isn’t it because you’re pretending like that, and then you make a mistake and fall off?”
“haha!”
Ray exploded.
Yohana, who was listening to Rey’s laughter, tapped Rey’s side with a look of dissatisfaction.
“Are you going to leave after only one semester?”
“Maybe? Actually, I don’t know if I’ll even finish the whole semester…”
Johana’s fist, which was pounding Rei’s side, subtly tightened.
“One semester is too short. You don’t learn anything properly after one year.”
Rei grinned at Yohana’s request.
“Am I your father? Follow me to Aegis and serve as your guardian for a year.”
“I’m not saying you have to be a father! You’re saying it’s a waste to drop out without learning properly!”
“Well…”
Rey patted her chin and shook her head.
“I don’t have much to learn there to go there for a year.”
“Sir, stop being ostentatious!”
Rey giggled again as Johana’s emotional fist was hit.
Ray giggled so much and hid her complicated feelings.
If the remaining time was more than 10 years, it was possible to invest at least a year and stay with Yohana.
However, at this point in time, Rey couldn’t afford to spend the whole year with an easy mind.
Ray laughed and turned away.
“Take the exam. If you fail, you’ll be hung upside down in front of the wagon and taken to the Count of Phillips.”
“Stop being ostentatious and take the test straight! If you fail, I’ll just put on your underwear and hang you upside down and take you to the Count of Phillips!”
“Oh, sure.”
Ray was still confident.
*
Even when he got close to Aegis’ entrance exam, Rey was still confident.
When we arrived near the entrance exam hall, other candidates were waiting in their uniforms.
All of them were aristocrats or gentry from highly influential families.
Standing between them, Ray, who was ragged, was quite noticeable.
From here and there, eyes close to contempt poured out.
As most of them were halfway incorporated into the privileged class, they were more sensitive to class division.
Of course, Ray didn’t really care about the eyes around him.
‘Isn’t this the place where the candidates who applied for the article department wait?’
The Aegis entrance exam was divided into several fields, and most of the candidates applied to the Knights Faculty.
Ray, Johanna, and Darren also applied to the Knights Faculty.
Rey was genuinely curious as to what kind of process he would select the gemstones that would be responsible for the future of the empire.
After a while, the procedure to enter the entrance examination hall began.
A rigorous verification process followed to make sure that the candidates’ identities were certain, that they did not wear artifacts, and that they did not possess any other impure objects.
After that, a sophisticated tracking magic had to be temporarily engraved on his body to prevent him from swapping people.
after all the procedures are over.
Rei, who was given an examination number, was guided to the entrance examination center located near the Yellow Capital.
The entrance exam hall, which is usually used as a training ground for Aegis cadets, was equipped with several training facilities and a large vacant lot.
“Hmm…”
Ray looked around.
Aegis officials, some high-ranking nobles, and an examiner were waiting at the testing site.
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Not everyone was nice.Even the examiners guiding the test takers, their momentum was beyond ordinary knights.
The test takers, who were guided, lined up in the vacant lot even though no one ordered them.
Then one of the examiners came forward and opened his mouth.
“I will explain the first test. The test is simple. All you have to do is shoot the sword and hit the target. The more effective damage you deal to the target at a greater distance, the higher the score. Wait at Saro.”
“…”
Ray blinked his eyes without thinking much and realized the situation later.
Shooting swords and hitting the target… It was something everyone could do if their level was above the expert level.
However, Rey had one major problem.
Rey couldn’t turn the space sword on and off.
In other words, Ray did not know how to shoot anything other than ‘Leap Swordsmanship’.
It meant that even if the sword was fired at a target 10 m away, it evaporated in place and then tore through the air and fell.
“This shit…”
Ray muttered a swear word.
*
Most of the students who took the Aegis entrance exam had never encountered such a rare and advanced swordsmanship.
They were not driven by the tremendous support they had when they were young, nor did they learn the rare mana techniques or refining methods or swordsmanship.
Therefore, the first test of Aegis was meaningful.
‘It’s a talent check…’
For example, Jimmy, who was a mercenary, learned cheap mana techniques and swordsmanship at a late age.
Jimmy’s mana was impure, but by the time he retired as a mercenary, he was able to shoot a sword at a rock close to a hundred meters away and break it.
How was that possible?
There must have been some bone-chilling effort, but it was because Jimmy was born with a really good talent.
Even if the mana in the body was impure, if the talent was sufficient, it was possible to control the mana and condense it.
What if the sword was fired, but the sword did not go tens of meters and dispersed without maintaining cohesion?
This meant that, apart from the impurity of mana, many talents and senses, including mana sensitivity, were not good.
Therefore, Aegis prepared for a test like this one.
Of course, it was a goal hit for Ray.
Soon after, the first test began.
When the number was called, the test takers who went out stood at the road and after being guided, they fired swords.
The minimum distance of the target was 30 m, but no one was aiming for a target at a distance of 30 m from the start.
The challenge usually started with a target at a distance of 50 m.
Kagak!! Kaga!!
All of the test takers were well-known names in their hometowns.
All of them easily hit the target 50 m away.
However, the target made of special alloy did not break as well as expected by the test takers.
The test takers, who confidently shot their swords, often showed a bewildered expression.
Still, everyone succeeded in destroying the target at a distance of 50 m, so the game was divided between 60 m and 100 m.
Right now, the candidates were grunting at breaking targets within 100 m, but they were still young.
It was clear that if the candidates fully developed their talents with the support of the imperial family, they would be able to easily intercept targets hundreds of meters away in the future.
“…”
Rei’s complexion turned white as he watched the exam in progress.
Rey, who sensed that he had been f*cked, was restless, and the candidate next to him tapped Ray’s shoulder lightly.
“Hello, my name is Giuseppin from the Rocovian family. How about you?”
“Oh, my name is Ray.”
When Giuseppin stared at him, Ray added, just then.
“I don’t have a family I’m from. I’m a commoner.”
“Oh… that’s amazing.”
Giuseppin smiled.
“You must be very talented. Don’t be too scared. You’ll be good enough.”
Even though Giusepin knew that Rei was a commoner, he did not look down on him and encouraged him.
Inwardly, Ray felt awkward for Giusephine to talk to her, but she nodded her head without making a fuss.
Then Johanna and Darren were called up by the examiner and went up to Saro.
When I saw Johana’s outfit, I talked for a while, but it soon became quiet.
This is because Yohana fired a sword and completely cut the target 100 m away.
Darren was also lacking compared to Yohana, but he succeeded in hitting a target 100 m away.
First of all, both were perfect scores in the first test.
As Johanna went down from Saro, she looked around and found Rei and raised the corners of her mouth.
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Normally, Rei would have responded to Yohana, but Rei didn’t have the energy to do that now.“…Candidates #59 and #60, stand in the trap.”
Finally, it was Ray’s turn, the last turn.
Rey, the 60th test taker, muttered to herself in a row and walked slowly.
The target that the test takers in the previous turn had broken was replaced, and soon the final first test began.
All of the test takers standing in the saro, including Giuseppin, who stood in the road next to Rey, fired swords at the target.
Kagak!! Kaga!!
While the test takers try to hit a farther target by shooting a series of swords.
Rey never wielded a sword and stood still.
The first exam for all candidates has been completed. Except for Ray.
Ray was still standing still, unable to do this or that.
“…”
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Now everyone’s eyes were on Ray Hana.Shouts were heard from all over the place.
By the way, Ray’s outfit was also sloppy… Everyone said one word at a time that it looked like a country boy had come up to the Yellow River and froze.
In the midst of gossip.
Ray stared at a target 30 m away and asked the examiner who was standing by.
“…is there any target closer than 30 m?”
The examiner took a deep breath and looked at Rey with a pathetic face.
“If you can’t hit a target 30 m away, you fail.”
“…”
Ray was in trouble again.
I couldn’t show the space sword here.
But how do you hit a target without a space sword?
Lay, who was worried, stood at the border of Saro, just in case, and pushed her body forward as far as she could.
The desperate movement to reduce the distance from the target even by tens of centimeters was not so ugly from the standpoint of the observer.
The examiner stopped Rey’s movements, which were so ugly.
“If you keep pushing yourself out of bounds, I will fail you.”
“Pooh!”
In the end, laughter erupted from everywhere.
The sound of laughter continued to spread, but the other examiners couldn’t stop the students from holding back their laughter.
Ray reflected on self-reflection amidst the rush of shame.
I was just a space sword one-tool asshole!
Ray sighed inwardly and closed her eyes tightly.
The examiner standing next to Ray couldn’t stand it anymore and opened his mouth again.
“I’ll consider it as giving up on the exam and fail it…”
“Wait!”
Ray cleared his throat and then adjusted his breathing.
If you were eliminated in this way, there was no dog like this.
How do you see the faces of Johana and Darren and how do you see the faces of Spera and Ernst?
Surely all four of them were like, ‘What is this, asshole?’ It was obvious that he would look at Rey with an expression full of emotion.
Rey bit his teeth and breathed mana into the sword.
“…”
Silence fell sharply in the quite noisy examination hall.
The momentum felt from Rey’s sword, which began to shine, was far stronger than expected.
Ray, who raised his concentration to the maximum, pointed the tip of his sword at a target 30 m away without being aware of the surrounding reactions.
Can’t shoot a sword.
Then… I had to make a sword with a length of 30 m.
Can you pull out a 30 m long sword? Conceptually, of course, it was impossible.
Still, I had to make it a no-go.
Rey biting his teeth tightly, injecting directivity into mana, began to build up the sword one layer at a time.
Tsu!
The sword energy developed from Rey’s sword grows longer and longer.
The root of the sword Rei was holding shone so brightly that it was dazzling even under the sun.
The edge of the longer and longer sword sank dimly with only a few grains of light shimmering.
It was only when the blackness had faded that far, that it couldn’t have the ability to kill properly.
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Nevertheless, Rey precisely controlled his mana to the limit and continued to increase his sword skills.And finally.
The tip of the sword, which had become so thin that it was hard to see, reached the target 30 m away.
gigg!
As soon as you hear the metal scraping.
Rey pushed forward the high-density mana that had wrapped around the roots of the sword.
Almost at the same time as the sword broke out, a mass of mana that flowed through the weak string of sword energy came into contact with the target.
Kwaang!!
A cluster of mana exploded and part of the target was broken.
The dust that had risen for a moment subsided, revealing the shattered target in front of everyone.
At first glance, the hole drilled in the target seemed to exceed the passing standard of 5 cm.
Rey, who had concentrated all his attention on this one blow, cheered as he threw his sword to the side.
“Aww!”
Rey, who gave out cheers that were close to screaming, shouted one after another.
“Okay!! It’s done!!”
Rey raised her arms under the rushing joy.
“I did it!!!!!!”
“…”
In the cold silence, Ray cheered alone like that.
The examiners, the test takers, and the observers of the entrance exams who were watching Ray realized at the same time.
That a really crazy bastard applied for this entrance exam .