Line up for two hours. I went into order with the woody old man who was in front of me, me, the young man who rearranged behind me, and even the warrior-like man from the war who was lining up behind me.
Incidentally, the young man in the back is [Apprenticeship Swordsman: LV27], the warrior-like man in the war is [Apprenticeship Swordsman: LV25] and the armament is up to the young man. Perfectly one of them was a shame.
There were many receptionists in the Mercenary Guild, but we were not led to the reception, but to a training center in the back.
There is a stage in that place like the courtyard, with a large number of puppets about two metres high. When it comes to puppets, not all of them are made of wood, some puppets are made of straw, others are obviously metallic. Can I say wooden (...) doll even though it's made of metal? That's the story, but it's troublesome, so let's unify everything with a puppet.
And a man examiner, about forty years old - perhaps even a soldier in this country, and he has a knight, a profession is a knight - was waiting.
"I'm going to go up to the stage in turn and have this doll attack me. Let me use it as a reference for accepting or rejecting how many puppets I will break within three minutes of that. Note that you decide the order. [M] However, we will not replace the puppets on stage until the battle between all four of them is over"
That's what the examiner said, and we faced each other at the same time.
In other words, this exam will be advantageous the first one to go onstage. Naturally. Many puppets can attack if there are many puppets, and if the first person to join breaks the puppet, the scaffolding will be scattered, making it difficult to move up the stage.
In addition, there are also three types of puppets: straw, wood, and metal, which means that if the first guy crushes only fragile straw puppets, the only ones left will be wooden and metal puppets that are hard to break.
Naturally, everyone should think they want to be the first to participate.
"Let me go from here"
It was the young man, the interrupter, who claimed that.
"Wait, don't make that decision on your own"
"Yeah, I'm the best, too"
Woody old man, a mercenary-style old man from the war waited with him. Or mercenary-style old man of war, is my name alone? This is so unexpected.
But this is an unsavory stream.
This exam, at first glance, seems to emphasize only attacks, but the quality is poor from the point where it lets us decide the order.
I'm sure he's also looking at student coordination and the power to break problems.
"Oh, you got a minute? Let me decide the order. Instead, I'll be the last one."
When I said that, everyone shut up.
Naturally. I guess they all know as much as they can't finish discussing it if it stays this way.
"Say it."
The interrupt you said sounded great.
"Best of all, he's an ax old man. This won't be a problem first."
"Oh, you know what I mean."
"Wait, why?"
Interrupt you've complained, but I don't think this is a problem.
"Think about it, Axeman's old man's weapon is a one-strike special axe. There's no hassle, so going up to the top doesn't make the stage that rough, and more importantly, the examiner says it's a battle in numbers, but the fact that he defeated a hard puppet should lead to results. If you're going to knock it down with the same trick, you'd better break a stiff wooden puppet than a soft straw puppet. Doesn't that help both of you who want to destroy a straw puppet?
"Mm, sure."
"Fine. I don't mind."
Interrupted in my persuasion, you seem to have convinced me, as well as Mr. Historical Warfare.
Well, it's really a theory full of holes.
Axe attacks are less tricky, but you can break a puppet with that lesser trick, so the roughness of the stage won't really change that much, and the story goes that a wooden old man will break a wooden puppet and there will be a straw puppet left to be knocked down by the two swordsmen, on the contrary, the wooden puppet will remain because the two apprentice swordsmen knock down the straw puppet. The old man with the wooden dust is the third best, and there are ways to take the story.
But I can't do that because for both of us, the enemy is not a woody old man, but the rest of the swordsman. The same sword as the weapon you have - then naturally, it will be compared.
"Second of all, you're not the one who broke in."
I looked at you and said.
"All right."
"Why"
The interrupt made you happy and the war-style man looked dissatisfied.
But there's a reason for this.
'Cause if I put you in the third place, it's gonna be a hassle. If there's even a fight here, it involves evaluation.
"'Cause you're pretty good as a swordsman, aren't you? Plus, the sword is working out pretty well. Then it's possible to defeat a straw puppet with a single blow. He can't do anything if they do that and just break all the straw dolls. I was expecting you as a gladiator of war, and I left you behind."
"... if that's the case, I can't help it"
All right, you've managed to inspire pride.
Well, he's the kind of guy who goes in from the looks of it, and he's hard to come forward when he sets the order. I thought he was a man of high pride, but it seemed as expected.
All right, now you've managed the order.
Of course, if this happens, I will be the most disadvantaged, but if we show results in that situation, a major reversal will be possible.
Just in order, the exam just started.
The old man with the wooden dust, manipulates the axe and breaks the puppet.
One blow definitely rips off the neck part of the puppet - that's wood dusting. Do you think cutting a tree that hasn't moved is a trick? As a result, he destroyed two-thirds of the wooden puppets.
"Okay, how's it going?"
"Next."
I won't say anything about evaluation. The examiner urged you to step on stage.
Interrupt Your sword is making a quick move, but due to the fragmentation of the place to attack, I couldn't quite break a single straw puppet. I ended up running out of time when I broke about a third of the straw doll.
"Shit, you're planting that straw, even weird stuff?
Interrupt you complaining about your lack of strength on the shelf.
And the last time I went up was in the War Wind.
Suddenly, Mr. Historical Style used the skills of an apprentice swordsman, a slash, to defeat a nearly broken puppet that was in the distance.
"Hey, that's the puppet I hurt."
Interrupt you complain, but I couldn't break this. Interrupt you bad.
Then, Mr. Battle-Style goes to the place where the puppets are gathered and uses his rotary slaughter skills to simultaneously break one wooden puppet, two straw puppets, that were around him. One-handed attacks are no big deal, but they use their skills well.
As a result, Mr. Historical Style ended up breaking two thirds of the remaining straw puppets, plus a few wooden puppets.
I don't know what to say, but it seems like it really helped Mr. Historical Wind to third Mr. Historical Wind. There are more differences in how you fight than there are differences in levels. If it had been after seeing this fight, Interrupt, you would have had a better fight too.
"Last, it's you"
The examiner prompted me to go on stage.
"Sorry, that sounds a little too much"
A war-style man stepping off the stage apologized unequivocally.
Well, I can't help being apologized for.
There are only a few straw puppets left on the stage already. Not many wooden puppets either.
"Well..."
I pull out my sword and take down the rest of the wooden puppets, the straw puppets one by one.
I have defeated them all with one blow, but the rating will be below Mr. Historical Wind and above you, Interrupt. Still looks like I can pass, but I want to make sure I pass here. At least we need to show them strength enough to be front-line feeds.
So I deliver my sword to the sheath.
Milli told me that I should use this skill except when hiding my powers.
This skill that only Kensei can use - now is the time to use it!
"The sword of creation!
A magical sword appeared in my hand.
A white, glowing sword - when I grabbed it, I tore the torso of an iron puppet that was nearby into two pieces.
"Mr. Examiner, we still have time, but can we break all the remaining iron dolls? This iron puppet is going to be tough to make."
"Yes, no, that's enough. That's enough."
That's what the examiner said, forcing me to finish my exam.
Interrupt, you say, "What the hell, now the sword! That's against the rules! I've said," but I didn't tackle it at all because the weapon is a free test, so there won't be any problem.