episode_0034

Selection day.

The front gate of the academy was crowded with people from all over the empire, riding horses or carriages.

At the reception desk, where tents were spread out and desks were set up, assistants worked to compare application documents with actual people.

Applicants who passed it passed through the main gate and moved to the main auditorium, put down their luggage and waited.

The evaluation begins immediately after confirming the final attendance status and providing information on the overall plan and precautions.

Those who failed on the first day of evaluation today will immediately pack their bags and go home, and those who passed will go to their accommodations and take the second and last day of evaluation tomorrow.

“You really applied a lot.”

Kirin opened her mouth as she looked at the crowded front gate.

“I never thought there would be this many people.”

“It is a huge advantage to be able to transfer directly to the graduating class of the Imperial Academy, which is not a private institution.”

“Even taking that into account, it’s a lot.”

As Kirin said, all kinds of people came.

There is no difference between men and women, and the variety of skin colors, hair, and eyes, as well as difficult-to-understand dialects, make one feel dizzy.

How many different outfits are there?

“Personal armament is not permitted. Please return it here and receive a storage certificate.”

The instructors blocked the people who came armed with swords, spears, and shields.

Those guys are part of the famous Revlan mercenary unit. Why did these people who make so much money apply here?

“There! Don’t burn the beginning of the year carelessly!”

One of the teaching assistants shouted at the men in fur cloaks who were gathered in small groups, burning tobacco and emitting toxic smoke.

Those guys are from the north. I’m so ignorant that I don’t understand most of the social norms. I’m not suited to be an academy student.

“Please dress neatly! This is the Imperial Special Mission Academy!”

The head of the administrative office went up to the podium and shouted loudly through a loudspeaker.

His eyes were drawn to a large, shirtless man with indiscernible tattoos all over his body.

Judging by the tattoos and the jewelry he is wearing, he is clearly from the faraway Pretonos Islands Federation.

Really amazing people applied.

Is that all? Dwarves, Orcs, Lizardmen, Gnomes, Beastmen, and other races are so diverse that it seems like all the intelligent people of Imperial nationality who came here after reading the selection notice have flocked here.

But somehow, the more you look at it, the more severe the face value is.

Due to the nature of the academy environment, there is an age limit, but no matter how you look at it, there are more than a few suspicious things.

I need to tell the receptionist to carefully compare the application form with the actual ID card.

I went to the reception tent, and sure enough, it was different.

“What are you talking about? You’re over age!”

A cat prisoner was barking, the fur on his entire body standing on end.

“According to the cat age calculation method, you are over forty years old in imperial standard age.”

When the teaching assistant showed the standard age calculation chart for each species, the cat beast showed its fangs.

“There was no such content in the notice!”

“It clearly says here, ‘A person who has not exceeded twenty years of age according to the imperial standard age.’”

“Kyaaagh! Who reads the notice in such detail?”

“Anyway, no. Please go back.”

“Why on earth are you letting that bearded old man in?”

The cat beast got angry and pointed at the bushy-bearded dwarf who was just passing through the reception area and entering the academy.

“She is eighteen years old this year. You’re a dwarf.”

“This is racial discrimination!!”

The cat, Suin, was crying loudly and suddenly started gurgling and spitting out a hairball.

As the sticky hairball, which looked like vomit, fell to the floor, the people around them retreated in horror.

There is no such thing as a nuisance.

“Hey. I just grab one and turn it around.”

At my command, the assistant sighed and took something out from under the desk. When the cat beast saw this, its eyes began to shine with greed.

What was in the assistant’s hand was a small bag containing a few catnip leaves. He saw several cat figures among the application documents, so he ordered them to be prepared just in case.

Most of the cat beastmen are self-righteous and arrogant, so they often use ridiculous and unreasonable tactics like now, and it is quite a pain to chase them away.

If he didn’t like it, he would go wild, scratch, and make a fuss, so I had to prepare a countermeasure.

“Sleep. Take this back with me. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.”

“Quickly… Give it to me quickly!!!”

Suin, the cat who grabbed the bag of catnip while drooling, hurriedly opened the bag, stuck his nose in it, and took a deep breath.

“Hyaaaang… .”

The cat, whose whites were exposed and almost in a trance, turned and walked away, staggering as if he was drunk.

“Chief Professor!”

While I was laughing at the cat Suin leaving, an employee from the administrative office urgently looked for me.

“Please come quickly! There was a fight!”

“Are there no teaching assistants?”

“Right now, teaching assistants are in a situation where they can’t do anything. The head professor must step forward!”

I went to see what was going on, and what on earth was that?

Two young orcs were glaring at each other. In each hand was a sharp double-edged ax and a vicious iron club.

The academy guards who came out to provide manpower hesitated, not daring to intervene in the orcs’ fight.

Looking at the tattoos on each other’s forearms, does this look like a meeting between hostile tribes?

“The guy who will cut you into pieces and kill you!”

“The one who will cut the bones, boil the meat soup, and feed it to the wyvern!”

When one orc flashed its fangs and raised an axe, the other orc responded by slamming an iron club on the ground.

“Hey. This isn’t an arena. Choose whether to pretend not to see each other and hand over your weapons, or to give up and fight.”

“Don’t intervene!”

“It’s a fight between orcs!”

Then the orcs gave each other blood-curdling battle cries.

“Heek?!”

Kirrin, who followed me, pulled down her ears and trembled, and everyone around her also flinched and stepped back.

There is no such thing as a mess. I guess I can’t put those things into words.

“Kyaaa! My bracelet!!”

Just as I was about to get between the orcs, a woman’s shrieking scream came from the other side.

A slim, gray-colored woman was screaming, hugging herself in fear.

“My bracelet was pickpocketed! Everyone run away! Everyone, if you don’t want to die, run away!!!”

What is that again?

“I am a werewolf! Things change without the bracelet! Run as far as you can!!”

werewolf?

I immediately looked at the woman’s wrist, but I couldn’t see the silver bracelet that was supposed to be worn by werewolves to suppress transformation… ?

“Don’t be stupid, let’s go!”

Suddenly, the woman’s body bulged and her mouth began to protrude. It is transforming!

The woman who grew bigger by tearing off her clothes instantly turned into a bipedal wolf over 3 meters tall.

A transformed werewolf in the middle of a crowd of people. A dangerous situation that cannot be compared to two orcs holding an ax and an iron club and shouting battle cries.

This is why it was clearly stated that being a werewolf is disqualification… . However, if you claim that the silver bracelet is an ordinary accessory, there is absolutely no way to find out when in human form.

This is really annoying.

“Let’s borrow that.”

“Crrr!!”

As soon as the iron club was snatched from the orc’s hand, the werewolf rushed towards us.

As I took off my cloak and wrapped it around my left arm, Kirin shouted from behind me.

“Dian, it’s dangerous!! Avoid to the side!”

Kirin’s dagger grazed my shoulder and flew forward. However, the werewolf threw them all away with a single wave of his arm.

Then this time he threw a noose around the werewolf’s neck and hung it. Amazing workmanship.

But that can’t stop the transformed werewolf.

The werewolf grabbed the noose around his neck and swung it like a whip, causing Kirrin to float in the air and be thrown to the other side of Hoeng.

“Ugh! Ouch!”

The instructors swarmed in and caught the falling Kirrin.

“Everyone, don’t interfere! I’ll take care of it!”

He waited for the werewolf to get close enough, stretched out his cloaked arm, and the creature bit down on it.

I reached out through my dried cloak, grabbed the guy’s tongue, and hit him on the head with the iron club.

“Awesome!”

The werewolf who had been hit squarely on the head fell to the floor, screaming.

While holding the werewolf’s tongue as it struggled to get up, he mercilessly struck down the iron club and gave instructions.

“Someone go and bring a spare silver bracelet.”

“Kkegaegaggang! Wow!”

“Here you are, Head Professor!”

Catching the silver bracelet thrown by the instructor, I hit him with the iron club a couple more times to prevent him from resisting and then put the silver bracelet on his wrist.

Then, similar to when she was transformed, the werewolf instantly returned to a naked human woman.

I didn’t know what to do, so I told him to prepare some silver bracelets like catnip, but he used these again.

Who knew that a werewolf actually applied while hiding his identity?

“Thank you… .”

The woman who greeted me with faint eyes fainted, and the teaching assistants rushed to help her.

“Take me to the hospital. You must tell the Maya priest that you are a werewolf.”

As the assistants took the woman to the infirmary, she turned and looked at the orcs.

“If you’re going to keep fighting, go out and fight, otherwise… .”

“We are friends!”

The orcs who were staring at me in bewilderment suddenly started acting friendly, putting their arms around each other’s shoulders.

Ugh, those idiots.

“I defeated the werewolf without being properly armed… .”

“Could it be a polymorph dragon? ?”

Kirrin came running, pushing away the people who were whispering.

“Are you okay?!”

“It’s okay. By the way, there is no such thing as a complete mess.”

Since this is the first time, there are many mistakes. Next year, I will take lessons from this year’s events and strengthen my application qualifications.

Kirrin held my arm anxiously, a shadow casting a shadow over her already black face.

“It’s already been like this… Can we properly evaluate this many people?”

“Don’t worry. I’ll probably run out of another half before lunch today.”

The first evaluation of applicants is a physical fitness test.

Regardless of whether you go to the field or work internally after graduation, as it is a ‘special mission’ academy, physical strength must be maintained.

If you don’t have good physical strength, no matter how smart you are, you won’t be suitable for our academy, so we plan to first check your physical strength and quickly weed out the unsuitable people.

If you are weak and smart, it would be better to go to another great traditional academy rather than here.

“Principal. This place seems to be roughly organized, so let’s move to the main auditorium… Joe… .”

As I was just looking back at Kirrin, I trailed off and focused on what I could see over Kirrin’s shoulder.

It was bright pink hair mixed in among the bustling crowd.

A girl with rare pink hair hanging down to her waist in pigtails was staring at me.

Judging from the type of armed force, it looks like he belongs to the Leblanc mercenary unit standing in front of the reception desk over there. Was there a girl like that there?

During the war, I worked with the Les Blanc mercenaries, and I heard at the time that Les Blancs did not hire female mercenaries.

But that kid looks too young and delicate to be a mercenary… . Is it a wizard or another class?

Well, I’ll find out more later when I’m finally selected.

“Let’s go, Principal.”

There was no answer, so I turned around and saw Kirrin being pushed by the crowd and floating away.

I quickly ran over, grabbed his hand, and brought him behind the reception tent.

“Wow, I almost got into big trouble. Thank you, Diane.”

“Why do you even leap as a dark elf? Why are you being pushed around?”

“If the space is too tight, even that is not easy.”

Kirrin smiled embarrassedly.

This is a person who takes a lot of effort in many ways.