Chapter 132 - Rezuba Battle School Tests

The Red Training District, or Bayanburt City, was located in the west of the Crimson Lightning Empire and was also the second largest city of the Crimson Lightning Empire. Its size was more than five times that of the Black Dragon City. At the very center of this city was located the Combat Training Center, which could be considered the heart of the Crimson Lightning Empire's military might.

Sixty kilometers northwest of the War Training Center, the institution to which all the war schools that train people to provide soldiers and individuals to serve in the Red Lightning Empire affiliated, was located the Rezuba Battle School, the largest and most prestigious war school of the Crimson Lightning Empire.

The history of the Rezuba Battle School stretched back thousands of years. It was founded by the royal family and was a place that the royal family themselves used to empower profound practitioners in the empire. In addition, it was a sacred place that countless youths in the Crimson Lightning Empire dreamed of entering. The interior of the Rezuba Battle School was divided into three: the Outer School, the Inner School, and the Central School.

The way these parts were separated was according to their distance from the center of the school, and of course, the farther away from the center, the less fame and status gained. If someone managed to enter the Outer School, the outermost division of the Rezuba Battle School, that person would gain great power and fame. Moreover, since the Rezuba Battle School was the most prestigious battle school in the empire, the power, and fame that mere entering the outer division would gain far exceeded that of entering the center of most other battle schools. And that was something it could only achieve by entering the Outer School.

If someone managed to enter the Inner School and wish to serve the Imperial Family, that person would definitely be highly valued by the Imperial Family. If that person wanted to join the military, the starting point would be the Thousand Man Commander. In addition, the power and fame that this person would gain would be so great that even people who used to belittle him would hesitate or not dare it again.

However, the benefits of being able to enter the Outer School and the Inner School certainly could not be compared to the gains of entering the Central School. Because a person entering the Central School would gain the greatest attention from the Imperial Family and would have the best conditions as well as extremely wonderful resources during their stay at the Rezuba Battle School.

If they wanted to enter the military, not only would their starting point be the Ten Thousand Men Commander, but they would be higher in authority than those who had risen and attained the same rank before. Even the slightest improvement that these people made at the Rezuba Battle School would be of great importance to the Imperial Family, who were closely watching and paying attention to them.

If they wanted to leave Rezuba Battle School after a while and work wherever they wanted, the Imperial Family would take the initiative and send them an invitation to join the Imperial Family.

If they joined the Imperial Family, holding a high position would only be secondary. Most importantly, their entire family would swim in fame and wealth just for this reason. Let alone family members, even the rats in their homes would be viewed as royal rats and held a higher status than even normal humans in the empire!

As a result, entering the Central School of the Rezuba Battle School was the dream of countless youths. It could even be said that it was their wildest hope.

However, the Rezuba Battle School was ultimately the largest and most prestigious battle training school in the Crimson Lightning Empire. Let alone the Central School, even the conditions to enter the Outer School, which had the lowest standards, were extremely frightening. Accepting only those twenty years old and under, the Outer School's annual exams were such that they eliminated ninety percent of those who had taken the tests hoping to join the Rezuba Battle School. Those who failed entered the combat training schools in other regions, which were often their second choice after the exams.

"So this is the Rezuba Battle School! It really has an image that deserves to be the number one combat training school of the Crimson Lightning Empire." The dark-haired youth, whose dress was full of rips, spoke as he gazed laudatoryly at the huge area set beside the mountains and the sea, quite far from the city center. Although the area around it was perhaps one of the three most dangerous places in the empire, as its location made it a natural fortress, this school was one of the safest places in the empire.

The square kilometer wide area of the school, it is large and small structures that can be seen even from afar, the tense and dominating atmosphere it gives to the environment... At first glance, it was rather difficult to even call this region a battle school. It was more like a city with many different things in it than a battle school. The black-haired youth stared at the Rezuba Battle School for a moment longer, then began to move towards the large crowd that was a little over a kilometer away. There were at least a hundred thousand people in the crowd. And this crowd, gathered in front of the huge gate of the school, on which the patterns of spears, swords, bows, arrows, and similar weapons were embroidered, stood in complete silence.

The young man with black hair and ragged clothes was actually Asil. He had arrived in Bayanburt City after exactly twenty-six days' journey, and since he had no money and no place to stay, he had earned the money to stay in an inn by selling the Profound Beasts he had hunted and put in his dimensional ring during his journey. During his five day stay in the city, he had learned a few things about the Rezuba Battle School's admissions tests.

The tests of this prestigious school changed every year and were determined by the person appointed by the school. Before these tests began, the school gave twenty days to those who wanted to participate. During this time, the participants displayed their profound strength levels using the Profound Measuring Stones placed by the school. In this measure, people with profound strength at the Nascent Profound Realm or higher levels were also eligible to participate in the school entrance tests.

When Asil came to Bayanburt City and learned of the necessity of measuring profound strength, he immediately joined the measurement and was easily qualified to take the tests since he was already in the Nascent Profound Realm. But during this measurement, he had also learned that unexpectedly, his profound strength level had increased again and he had entered the Third Level of the Nascent Profound Realm. He did not know exactly why his profound strength had increased. However, he thought it was because of the purple liquid he drank while in the Chaka Tribe.

"I wonder how this year's tests will be?" While Asil was talking to himself and contemplating what the tests would be like, he walked over to the crowd. No one had any idea how the tests would turn out, as the people who determined the tests were actually the ones who would administer the test. Tests that were very different from each other had one thing in common: The tests were difficult enough to eliminate ninety percent of those who took them.

The silent waiting of the young people in the crowd continued for a while. After about thirty minutes, the huge door of the Rezuba Battle School slowly opened with a loud bang. When the door opened, twenty young people came out and an old man came out from behind them. When they went out, none of the people in the crowd were paying attention to one of the twenty youths. The only person they paid attention to was a tired looking old man with white hair on both sides of his head, hunchbacked, dressed in white, and walking slowly, taking strength from the walking stick he was holding in his left hand. He looked so old and tired that anyone seeing him for the first time would think he had a few years to live. However, since there was no other older person around, the entire crowd knew that it was this old man who was going to do the tests. Therefore, they had to concentrate all their attention so as not to act disrespectfully towards him.

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