episode_0389

I stayed by Edeline’s side for a few days.

We went to see performances together and helped with research.

Still, I quietly stopped by the temple to find Jool.

However, there were no people between the ages of 13 and 15 who received the blessings of Venus in the temple around the Great Wall.

‘Either he’s not in Drekkar or he hasn’t become a priest.’

Whether it was the former or the latter, it was all the same.

“I have to go now.”

“···Please take care of yourself.”

I hugged Edeline, who had a sad look on her face.

“I’ll be back.”

After a week of dating, I started to feel guilty about the fact that I had to leave my lover’s side for a year, and then become a knight and leave again.

‘no.’

When everything is over, you can live quietly with Edeline.

I kept running towards the wall.

How many days did you run like that?

It wasn’t long before we reached the large wall.

The market on this street, which had an overwhelming number of consumers, was greatly developed.

Among them, my behavior was unusual.

Thanks to this, many people’s eyes were on me, but I couldn’t care less.

‘I don’t want to go to the military.’

I sat down to do something I had only seen in nightmares.

But I had to go.

If what Mercurius says is correct, I meet Jull here.

But the moment I saw the training camp.

“At the beginning…!”

Naturally, my mouth hung open.

The strong sound drew the attention of the people around me, but soon everyone looked away. Everyone seems to understand.

Some trembled with fear. Some people were just nervous.

Some people looked as if nothing had happened.

I approached the conscript officer who was checking my ID.

“Name.”

“This is Dwin Lee.”

“Identification card.”

As I handed over my identification badge, the conscript officer glanced up at me.

Eventually, he took out a pile of yellow papyrus, flipped through a few pages, checked my name there, and looked up at me again.

“Why did a Horusite who did not have national defense duties come here?”

“Because there was nothing I could do. Just like other people.”

The conscript officer took a quick look at my badge and handed it back to me.

“Well, it’s not that I don’t understand. I came late, but do your best.”

‘I guess it’s not too late?’

I checked the clock just in case, but it wasn’t too late.

First, I put my identity badge on my waist.

There were a lot of people around me who seemed particularly lacking in confidence.

‘Young old people’ began to appear one after another in society.

Where did the new generation of people without technology or money go?

The correct answer is fixed.

It is a compromise with reality.

Children under the age of twenty became soldiers and joined the Daejangbyeok.

The military always experiences chronic personnel shortages.

Plus there is food and a place to sleep.

The money was fairly good, and the huge village behind the Great Wall gave the soldiers the illusion that they belonged to society.

“Soldier. Take the apprentice engineer to the engineer training center.”

“Okay.”

A soldier wearing a torso-sized pavis and carrying a heavy crossbow approached me.

When I saw that expression on his face that said he was sick of everything, I was already starting to feel dizzy.

As I walk in behind the soldier, he glances at me.

“How old are you?”

“I’m twenty-nine.”

“Wow. He doesn’t look that old…”

“The difficulty in earning a living remains the same no matter how old you get.”

After listening to the soldier’s trivial chatter and answering his questions, we soon arrived at a place called a knight training center. It was at the middle gate, and many Ajin people were already seated in what appeared to be an auditorium.

Judging by the fact that someone is already on the podium speaking, the conscript officer said, I guess I came late.

The salute was simple.

Lightly cover your left breast with your right hand.

When the person receiving the salute waves his hand half-heartedly, the soldier also lowers his hand.

“What brought you here?”

“This is Shawon, under the conscript officer on duty that day. I’m here to hand over the apprentice engineer.”

“What is the name of the trainee engineer?”

“Dwin Lee. We are human.”

A man writes something down on papyrus with a quill pen.

“You go back.”

“Yes.”

The soldier left somewhere, and the man who had received the salute laughed.

“You are the last one cursed.”

“What is the last one standing?”

I opened the watch again because the ominous sound kept coming.

Arrived 30 minutes before the stated time.

“You’ll find out when you go in.”

“···Yes.”

I feel like something is really wrong.

At first glance, all kinds of Ajin were sitting on chairs and wondering where they were, and they looked very familiar.

Thanks to this, it felt like a nightmare was beginning.

I entered the auditorium as quietly as possible.

“Oh! Here he comes!”

A man from a noble family who was speaking at the podium gave me a fierce smile.

“A lazy guy.”

“Sorry.”

“I’m not sorry. As I told you, everything is relative. That lazy bastard definitely got here ahead of time, but he was also the last to arrive!”

The ominous tone made me nervous.

Rather than being annoying, the end result was ominous.

“Most people like that either fall behind or become insects that eat away the rust from the nation. Look. That guy looks like a thief in the armor he’s already wearing, right?”

Nearly a hundred pairs of eyes were all focused on me.

They start using me as entertainment and eye candy.

“But even if he is that kind of guy, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve to be a knight. I will repair your rotten spirit. You!”

The nobleman is yelling at me fiercely.

Damn it. It was clearly taken.

“Yes!”

“You are the representative of the 452nd trainee engineer training center.”

“Yes?!”

“Don’t make me say it twice, come up to the podium!”

“Yes!”

Holy shit!

As I jumped up, the gentleman laughed and grabbed my shoulder and made me stand in front of him.

“Representative of the 452nd trainee engineer.”

“Yes!”

“Why do you want to become a knight?”

“To take revenge on my enemies!”

“Whose revenge have you come to avenge?”

“You are my family’s enemy!”

That was the setting of ‘Dwin Lee’ that Seth had heard at first glance.

The power on my shoulders is getting stronger.

His eyes were on my necklace.

“···I think I understand why a weak human wants to become a knight. In the future, please convey all difficulties that arise among the 452nd trainee technicians to the trainee technician representative. Did you understand?”

—yes!!!

A hundred mouths and a hundred pairs of eyes sent me all kinds of emotions.

‘Isn’t this an autonomous system for trainees?!’

I didn’t know this culture existed!

I wasn’t late, I came an hour early, so why do I have to go through this?! I was planning to be buried in the wee hours of the morning!

* * * * * *

“Hey. CEO. There isn’t enough pillow here.”

A dissatisfied voice.

“Yes.”

“There is not a single bed here. There isn’t even a single training uniform for Hosott.”

“Yes.”

The mixed race terup and elf are looking around.

Accommodation 1 is for men, and Accommodation 2 is for women.

They don’t normally share such things, but I told them to do so.

I had no intention of doing it, but I definitely had to do it if I had to.

Don’t you have to somehow become the chief to join the Royal Knights?

If you do well, you may be recognized by the training director and receive additional points.

“You poor guy.”

I don’t think I quite like the Terup side.

This is because all of the women’s accommodations were placed in other dormitories.

‘Did you come to the military to have fun?’

I somehow managed to stop the sigh that threatened to burst out.

I hadn’t even unpacked my luggage yet, and I was writing down the difficulties pouring in from all over the training camp.

‘Damn training center.’

Since the explanation started in my absence, I didn’t hear most of the speech that I needed to hear.

“Is there anything else?”

“Yes.”

“Nothing.”

good.

Uniquely, unlike on Earth, apprentice engineers are guaranteed free time for personal maintenance. First, you will take a theory test to check your aptitude, and then the physical fitness test begins.

‘I also need time for personal improvement.’

The moment you fail the test, you are immediately sent to a military training camp.

There’s no way I’ll fail, but my goal is to be a senior.

I had to crush them to the point of near perfection.

“Dwin Lee, representative of the 452nd trainee engineer. I visited the administrative office because I had some business to do.”

“Come in.”

Sigh…

The administrative office of the training center was nothing special.

But the eyes of the superintendent looking at me were full of joy.

Let’s salute, the head of the formation roughly gestures.

In front of him, two knights were looking this way.

“What are you talking about? Just knock and come in.”

A mixed race terup who appears to be a knight chuckles.

You haven’t even told us to salute yet!

“So, what’s there to see?”

“It is said that the dormitory does not have enough one pillow, one bed, and one combat uniform for combat use.”

“You two can take care of it yourself.”

“Yes.”

The two drivers jump up from their chairs and push me to get out of the administrative order.

They were dragged out obediently and immediately headed to a damp-smelling warehouse.

The male knights are Terup, and the female knights are Horsot, and they all carry pavis and heavy crossbows.

“Are you using a bow?”

“Yes.”

“It doesn’t matter what weapon you use, but it will be difficult to hide and shoot a bow behind Pavis. If you are hit by a javelin or a heavy crossbow, no matter where you hit, you are guaranteed to be an asshole. Learn the single-shot heavy crossbow with a latch now.”

I knew that it was more powerful than a rifle, and I had personally been hit by several bullets, so it struck me deeply.

According to Seth’s words, there is no way it can pierce the armor, but since it has eyes to see, Pavis must be carried with it no matter what.

Pavis, who covered the knight’s back, was protecting his back like armor. Additionally, it appeared to be foldable, and at first glance, it seemed to weigh 20kg.

That’s the weight of plate armor.

“Thank you for your advice.”

“You will never be able to block it with the flimsy leather armor you wear, so just know that.”

“Yes.”

There was a musty, dusty smell inside the training center warehouse.

“Ugh… Take it out on your own.”

Terup shakes his head in disgust.

From training moxies and training bows to crossbows and blunt bladeless daggers, various items needed for training were piled up, and the same went for daily necessities.

Without hesitation, I rushed over and carried the heaviest bed, and walked out of the storage room with my training clothes and pillow still on my body.

“Ugh. Look at how powerful it is. There’s no need to help, right?”

“Crazy guy. Don’t you help me?”

“Really? I have to help with this.”

A Terup man takes a pillow and training clothes from me.

“Ugh! That idiot!”

Anyway, whatever it is, it’s just something light to me.

At first, I didn’t understand that look, and it didn’t touch me, so I just thought it looked cute.

“Thank you for your help.”

“This is what we should do in the first place.”

Hosott shrugs off his temper.

That’s kind.

After moving the bedding with the driver and distributing items to each dormitory, I made eye contact with Terup, who was frowning.

“Why are there no women here?”

“I divided the accommodation by gender.”

“What a fool.”

“Don’t listen to this idiot. Because you did well.”

I think I have a rough idea of what the personalities of the drivers in charge are like.

Naturally, a female Hosot driver entered dormitory 2, and a male Terup driver entered dormitory 1. Only then was I able to unpack.

By the way, even though it is clearly the military, it is noisy without too much tension, and no one touches them. To begin with, it was strange that there were a lot of kids under the age of 20 gathered together and they were speechless.

‘Didn’t you always get group spirit at times like this?’

There’s no such thing as too much tension.

“You idiots. Do you know why the Knight Training Center gives you free time?”

Soon, a curse came out of the Terup knight’s mouth.

The excited interior of the dorm cooled down in an instant, as if water had been poured on a fire.

“Half of the students fail the theory test, and the remaining half fail the physical fitness test. And the remaining half either fail the training or become idiots and leave here. rest of it? Even if it sticks, it falls by half in relative evaluation.”

It was a natural thing.

When you become a knight, your status rises.

If you make a contribution, you may be given a semi-noble title called Hunjaksa, and if you make a great contribution, you may be given a noble title. The nobility does not tolerate marriages between noble families because they do not want to increase their tax base, but there is no way that a place that can provide such a foundation is easy.

“Didn’t Director Yangseong say that? It’s relative. No matter how good you are, 90 of you will fail and less than 10 of you will be able to become a knight. Unless you want to get sick, study and exercise.”

Unusual.

An army that doesn’t force its trainees.

In some ways, this was a truly scary method.

“It all depends on your choice. Use good judgment about what to do when giving respect. Don’t regret crawling like an earthworm in a military training camp. Tomorrow is the theory test.”

Leave it to your choice.

The driver can be said to be a kind of special forces member.

Of course, most special forces never train like this.

In fact, they oppress trainees in a coercive manner.

This is because trainees spread out and fall behind.

If you give them a task without guidance, most of them will give up.

In other words, they meant that they would select talented people.

The driver scanned us with sharp eyes.

The selection of drivers has already begun.