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"Ha! Look at these commoners! They have no clue just how big the world actually is...! What plebians!"
Then there were the three noble children with cultivation in the Grade 9 All-Encompassing Immortal Realm. Having already developed their Immortal Domains to a completed degree, they had no reason to be here.
However, they wished to bring back stories of the sad, destitute people that didn't have rich, powerful parents like they did. In a way, they simply wanted to make fun of those who weren't born with a silver spoon up their ass like they were...
'These three idiots; they're useful,' Azmodeus thought sinisterly.
He could make use of them in the Knight Trials that were to come, though he would first need to break through into the All-Encompassing Immortal Realm.
As an evil plot was being pieced together inside the head of an inconspicuous-looking young man with an average appearance, the cold-faced Knight Examiner suddenly turned around and said, "Follow me."
It was no surprise that after this command left the mouth of the Knight Examiner, the Knight Examination participants followed the order. They quickly caught up to the receding Knight Examiner as all of them left the bridge underhang.
"???"
Some of the participants were confused as to why they were walking in the complete opposite direction of the bridge that led into the Empire. Was the test not going to be held in the River Serpent Empire?
One of the participants even found the courage to speak up and ask, "Why are we heading for the Serpent God's Forest, Examiner, sir?"
No response.
The Knight Examiner blatantly ignored what the young man had to say. He simply continued his advance toward an ominous-looking forest to the south of the bridge.
"...Well..."
SPURT!
Not once did the Knight Examiner look at the attacking Immortal Beast, and not once did he bother with the cleanup that remained after he was finished with the hill-sized monster.
"In this world, strength is all that matters. And learning how to properly utilize that strength and carry out the tasks set by the Omega Dome is what will allow you all to survive as Knight Apprentices. I am well aware that you all are new to the ways of the Immortal World and just became adults, but you will have to grow accustomed to power and death sooner rather than later."
Without stopping for a single moment, the Knight Examiner ignored the faint, nasty sounds of belching and barfing happening behind him.
The Knight Participants were all very young, and even though they had cultivations equivalent to reality destroyers for the Mortal Planes — in the Immortal Realm, they were not all that different from regular commoner children.
The only ones who appeared relatively unaffected by the gruesome and bloody death of the Immortal Beast were the three bratty noble children and a select few commoner children. Some of them had stomachs made of iron, while others had simply experienced things far worse than the death of a mere mindless monster.
Not everyone had lived lives filled with daisies and tulups... A lot of them had gone through events that the noble children would simply never be able to understand...
"We are here."
"???" "???" "???"
Snapping everyone out of their reveries, they looked around themselves, only to realize that they had somehow already entered the Serpent God's Forest!
"H-How did this happen!?"
"Where are we!?"
"The Serpent God's Forest... There's no way that we're going to make it out of this alive! We're all going to die!!"
"This is fine... Stop freaking out."
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