Chapter 8: Hounds of Hell (1)

Chapter 8: Hounds of Hell (1)

Children in the Baskervilles are tested twice a year, midterm and final assessments, until they are 15 years old.

In order to get rid of the stigma of being a family of berserkers, I tend to make the usual liberal arts classes hard... ... In the first place, the reason why they are called the berserker family is because of the practical test that is so difficult that it is murderous.

It was not something young children who had just turned 8 or 9 should go through.

The children of the Baskervilles receive a rigorous education.

From the point of being able to walk on two feet, in order to cultivate basic physical strength, it is made to run continuously on a wide gym and steep hills.

You cannot even lie down outside the designated time.

The Guardian Knights become instructors and polish them like crazy.

During breaks, they plays with a rubber knife, and when they sleep, it is often beside the corpses of large monsters or small monters.

To get them accustomed to the hideous appearance of their prey and their savage ferocity.

And from the age of 8, real training begins.

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In the broth made from boiling chicken bones, various types of fish, which are full of meat, are beaten and boiled until they turn into mush.

Then put it in a tough intestine and boiled again to remove the last bit of fat.

Haggis, which is a regular meal, is eaten right at this stage.

Here, it is salted for storage, and after a long time, it is dried hard and hardened jerky is completed, which is the preserved food that the children of the Baskerville family always carry with them.

Today, children aged 8 or 9 from the Baskervilles were sent to the mountains outside the manor with sacks of these beef jerky.

'Le Rouge' mountain.

This is an alpine area with a harsh environment where only a few vicious monsters can live.

The young hounds of the Baskervilles are thrown here and have to survive for about a month.

Of course, they live only within the restricted area, and at the boundary of the restricted area, guardian knights within the family, called 'hounds', are there to keep the dangers controlled.

The tasks of children abandoned in an unfamiliar environment are as follows.

'Survival', 'If possible, hunt big and strong monsters'.

The original task was simply to 'survive', but the current owner, Hugo Les Baskervilles, said that this task was too easy and added another task.

Sometimes, among the children of the Baskerville family, there were those who would lock themselves in safe caves or tunnels and survive by eating only beef jerky.

'A child who bravely fought against monsters and survived shouldn't get the same evaluation as a child who stayed in a hole like a coward and only ate food.'

This was Hugo's idea.

-If you managed to save your life, 10 points.

– If you managed to save your life without being crippled, 30 points.

-50 points if you drop other children and survive.

-70 points if you catch the monster and survive.

-90 points if you managed to save your life without being crippled despite dropping other children or surviving by catching monsters.

There is no 100 points.

A swordsman dies the moment he becomes conceited.

That were Hugo's instructions.

The 9-year-olds were pretending to be indifferent, but their expressions are not good, perhaps because of bad memories from last year.

In fact, this test is a battle between 8-year-olds who want to keep the badge and 9-year-olds who want to steal it.

For today's 8-year-olds, who will turn 9 next year, this experience will be very important.

And in this situation, 8-year-old Vikir stoods still, waiting for the bell to signal the start of his exam.

Nearby, 9-year-old children aiming for Vikir's badge were laughing sinisterly.

"Is that him? He took a seven-minute dive in the River Styx."

"Does that make sense? Well, rumor has it that he strangled two poisonous snakes while he was in the cradle."

"You say that the guy with the perfect writing score? Let's see if he can do well."

A buzzing sound all around.

But there is one strange thing.

"... ... ."

"... ... ."

"... ... ."

The three strongest and fiercest 9-year-olds in the class, Hivero, Mivero, and Lovero, are somehow silent.

The other 9-year-olds just tilted their heads as they were always eager to show Vikir a lesson.

Soon, some of the children who were noticing came forward and began to quarrel with Vikir.

"You cheeky bastard. As soon as the practical evaluation begins, I will beat you to death."

"A guy who isn't so great gets smug."

"You're going to feel like hell here for the next month."

Then Vikir finally responded.

"I don't think I'm great."

Unexpected humility makes 9-year-old children look puzzled.

However, Vikir's words soon made the guys' faces frown.

"... ... You guys are just too weak."

Immediately after that, fresh curse words flew in and stuck.

"You, you, I'm the real best here!"

"Come to the place where the old tree is later in the evening, you son of a bitch!"

"Get out of the way! I'll beat that bastard! Even if he dies, I won't stop!"

The children of the Baskervilles are easily drawn into even low-level provocations.

One-day puppies that hadn't even seen death were baring their fangs that weren't ripe yet.

As an old dog who has gone through all of the deadly battles, he didn't even smile.

Right then.

Ding-

Pavlov van Baskerville, a guardian knight and instructor in charge of the "Head Hound" rang the bell.

The practical test has begun.