The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 410 Preliminary Test
"People on our side, are the special communication devices in the secret realm ready?"

"There is still one missing. Since we have just confirmed that Lord Ryan will also participate in the operation, his is still in production and will be completed the day after tomorrow." Tatia said softly.

The communication device in this secret realm is rather special and complicated to make, but it has two functions.

First of all, it is to enable the commanders of the Astrologer's Platform to communicate with the operators in the secret realm in a timely manner.

Of course, there is a prerequisite here, that is, communication can only be carried out after the secret realm is opened.

Secondly, it is the positioning function.

The operators in the Dragon Valley secret realm can use this communication device to check whether the three "rift closers" have arrived at the designated location and opened, which is the main task of this mission.

In the event that the personnel carrying the 'rift closer' fail in their operation, other personnel can quickly check their location and continue the mission.

"Well, speed up. After the initial test is over, the communication device will be distributed." General Augustus nodded and said.

"Okay, my lord."

"By the way, my lord, since Lord Ryan is a new member, does he need to be included in the 'Rift Squad'?" Tatia asked.

A total of three 'rift teams' were deployed for this operation, including one team composed of Sword Bearers, Imperial Army, and Internal Guard, responsible for the placement of the 'rift closers'.

Three teams, corresponding to the placement of three 'rift closers'.

The three teams are not subordinate to each other, but all accept the command of the Astrologer's Platform.

The reason for this situation is that the cult and the Federation have deeply infiltrated all departments of the empire, including this time, the three teams from different departments are not subordinate to each other, and this is also to avoid putting all eggs in one basket.

Otherwise, the best solution is naturally for all members of the three teams to meet and familiarize themselves with each other in advance, and then deploy them reasonably according to their specialties.

The members of the 'rift team' on the sword-bearer's side had already been fixed, so Tatia asked this question.

"No need, let Ryan be the reserve candidate. If there is any problem, let him take over." After a little thought, General Augustus shook his head and said.

"Okay, my lord."

Ryan House.

In the study room.

Facing Claire's half-smiley gaze, Ryan felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over him from head to toe.

The joy of winning the competition easily had long since vanished. What he was thinking at the moment was whether he should tell the truth or a lie.

If I tell a lie, what if Claire already knows about Anna's situation, then it would be a deliberate lie.

There is a high probability that it will cause irreparable loss of points in Claire's heart.

To be honest, even among the imperial nobles who have relatively open private lives, which woman would not be jealous?

After thinking about it, Ryan decided to tell the truth.

Be jealous if you want!

"Anna is actually a half-elf?" Ryan opened his mouth and dropped a bombshell.

"What?" Now it was Claire's turn to be surprised!

You know, half-elves are even rarer than elves.

I didn’t expect that Anna was actually a half-elf girl.

I heard that half-elves are very beautiful.
Claire's gaze towards Ryan softened slightly.

"When we were in Glittering Gold, Anna lived next door to me. Her mother was missing." Ryan slowly told Claire the story of Anna.

Apart from some intimate interactions between him and Anna, basically nothing else was concealed.

"I understand." Claire nodded and said.

In fact, in the past few days, Claire had already learned a lot of information about Miss Anna from Ryan's sister Mint.

Although Claire was not sure whether Ryan and Anna had ever had an intimate relationship, it was inevitable that they had feelings for each other.

Of course, even if Ryan knew about this, he couldn't blame Mint for the information leak. No matter how smart a little girl was, she could never be a match for Claire, who was well versed in conversation skills.

Moreover, as an older brother, he had also expressed his opinion and asked Bohe to accept Claire's gift generously, which showed that Claire was trustworthy.

In Mint's eyes, this beautiful long-legged sister speaks sweetly and generously, and she naturally tells him everything she knows.

Therefore, as long as Mint knew about Sister Anna's situation, he naturally told Claire.

By the way, Mint also told Claire some information about the barbarian sister Lagre.

This made Claire feel a little depressed.

Well, it’s only been a year and I’ve already offended two girls.

One is a half-elf of rare beauty.

One is a barbarian girl with a delicate face who doesn't look like a barbarian at all.

This was also one of the reasons why Claire challenged Ryan to a duel, she was feeling depressed.

At the same time, before coming here, Claire also asked herself a question, does she really like Ryan?

Or to put it another way, what did she like about Ryan?
First of all, you should be strong enough.

At that time, Ryan was in Meister, helping the Habsburg family resist the attacks of the Black Flame Cult and the Secret Snake Cult, demonstrating his extraordinary strength.

Secondly, the potential is huge.

He has reached the current level of strength at this age. It can be said that if nothing unexpected happens, Ryan will most likely become the Guardian of the Empire.

Finally, during the time in Goldshire, Ryan's first impression on her was that he was relatively simple, kind, and honest.

Of course, now the item of loyalty and honesty has to be crossed out and changed to fickleness, but the others remain unchanged for now.

Now the question is, after becoming a playboy, will she still choose Ryan?
If you think about it carefully, it seems that I would still choose "yes"!
In fact, don’t worry about the last item. With just the first two items, Ryan can attract girls from all over the empire.

However, regarding the issue of being unfaithful, she felt that she needed to have a serious talk with Ryan and that he couldn't continue like this.

"Ryan, if you go to the orchard, will you pick a big, red apple and put it in your pocket?" Claire said meaningfully.

"Well, I think we should just pick as many as we can eat, right?" Ryan said.

"Huh?" Claire was immediately furious, and looked at Ryan with eyes as sharp as knives.

She didn't believe that Ryan didn't understand the meaning of her words.

However, the topic could not be continued because the door of the training room was suddenly opened.

Outside the door was the barbarian girl Lagre who looked surprised. She had not expected that when she was about to come to the training room to practice her fighting skills, she would see Ryan and the noble girl named Claire inside.

"Ryan, I'm leaving first. You need to pay attention to the Dragon Scale Brotherhood." Claire said as she prepared to leave. Ryan was currently facing many enemies.

At that moment, Claire suddenly understood something.

From her point of view, it is not appropriate and she should not dwell on this issue at the moment, so as not to distract Ryan.

"Okay, Claire, thanks for your help."

When leaving the training room, Claire nodded and smiled at Lagre as a greeting.

And Lagre smiled back.

The next day.

Inside the headquarters of the Bixiu Construction School.

Ryan is helping his mentor Mogaro to complete the production of the second improved version of the Hellfire Golem.

"With you here, the entire process has been more than twice as fast. Next time you are free, you must come to help."

Mogaro stared at the huge monster in front of him, clapped his hands, dusted off, then picked up the flat iron wine jug, gulped down two gulps, and sighed with satisfaction.

"No problem, mentor. If you want to make a golem, you can let me know in advance." Ryan said with a smile.

With this improved Hellfire, he now has two Golems.

At the same time, at his request, two six-meter-tall golems were equipped with a four-meter-long two-handed sword and a four-meter-long two-handed warhammer respectively.

"Ryan, aren't these two weapons a little too big? They feel a bit uncoordinated." Mentor Mogaro touched the wine on the corner of his beard, as if he discovered something, frowned slightly, and said.

With Mogaro's experience, he could easily find the inconsistency.

"It's a little longer, but it's almost the same." Ryan smiled and said.

Although he did not explain it deliberately, he actually knew in his heart that these two giant weapons were mainly prepared for him after he transformed into a dragon man.

Although the upper limit of individual strength in the Dragon Valley Secret Realm is epic level, once he transforms into the form of the Dragon King, he may be squeezed out of the secret realm, but fortunately Ryan has three stages of transformation.

In the first form of Dragon Warrior and the second form of Dragon Captain, his strength after transformation will be closer to epic, but will not reach the epic level.

With a hammer and a sword, two heavy weapons in hand, Ryan is basically confident that he can sweep away legendary-level opponents with the first form or the second form.

Don't forget that the epic profession of King of Thousand Blades of Rain has never been fully exerted in the dragonman form.

After hearing the words of his favorite disciple, Mogaro naturally said nothing more.

"Ryan, shall we transport these two golems away now?" asked Mogaro.

"Well, please ask the instructor to arrange an airship to transport it to the Sword Bearer headquarters. I will arrange for someone to receive it."

"Okay, Audrey, go contact the airship lobby and have someone transport it over now."

"Okay, mentor." Audrey nodded immediately and left the laboratory.

Two more days passed and finally the day of the preliminary examination arrived.

That is the first Sunday of the Harvest Moon.

Nearly a hundred powerful men of the imperial legend level gathered in the Dragon Knight reserve camp located in the sixth ring of the imperial capital Tamriel, and Ryan, Luther and Harlowen had also arrived.

Since each of them had a strong aura and were riding on flying mounts that were several times the size of war horses, even though there were only less than a hundred people, they were able to fill up the camp that was the size of several football fields.

The empire has a vast territory and a population of billions, but this small group of people in front of them is second only to the top of the pyramid of the empire's guardians.

The strength of these legendary masters is not at the level of beginner legends, they are at least senior legends.

"That's the Second Prince, His Highness Everton." Luther whispered to Ryan beside him.

Ryan followed Luther's gaze and saw a slightly feminine young man sitting in the center of the podium, talking and laughing with an old man next to him.

At this moment, Ryan clearly felt that many hidden gazes were focused on him, but most of them quickly looked away after a glance.

After all, with their strength, they are still very sensitive to gazes.

However, what made Ryan a little unhappy was that behind him on the right, several gazes lingered for a long time, and this kind of long-term staring and gazing seemed a bit unscrupulous.

Ryan looked around casually and immediately saw the faces of those people behind him on the right.

The leader was a middle-aged man with dreadlocks, riding a ferocious beast - a bone-eating vulture. Overall, he looked like someone who was not easy to mess with.

The bone-eating vulture is several times the size of an ordinary vulture. It has blood-red eyes and a bald neck without a single feather, only thick folds of skin. On its tiny head, it has an iron beak that looks exceptionally huge.

It is not difficult to understand from the word "bone-eating" that the iron beak of the bone-eating vulture has amazing attack power. It can easily crush the hardest bones of wild beasts and suck out the bone marrow.

And judging from the flying mount, the other party was not alone.

Although the two people beside the other party were wearing different clothes, they had the same bone-eating vultures under their crotch. Obviously, the three of them should be in the same group.

This surprised Ryan a little, because when he recalled, he didn't seem to know these three people.

However, he still remembered the other person's breath.

Although the auras of various ferocious beasts at the scene were mixed and chaotic, Ryan still keenly captured a hint of strangeness in it.

"Huh? This seems to be the breath of dragon blood."

"Could it be a member of the Dragon Scale Brotherhood?" Ryan couldn't help but wonder.

And these three people were indeed as Ryan guessed. Although each of them had an official identity as a cover, they had already joined the Dragon Scale Brotherhood in private.

The leading man with dreadlocks was named Barnes, and the other two were Reagan and Bronson.

The three received a secret mission notice from Buchanan a few days ago, and knew that they had to find an opportunity to get the blood essence from Ryan during the re-examination in the secret realm.

As the Second Prince was one of the chief examiners for the Dragon Knight's preliminary examination, they were naturally not worried about failing the preliminary examination.

But after the three of them learned about Ryan's information, they all felt that this guy was a bit tricky and not so easy to deal with.

You have to know that Harold the Sculptor is known as the strongest legend, and it is not just bragging.

Even Barnes, who was the strongest among the three, thought to himself that even if he used his bloodline transformation, he might have a chance to tie with Harold, but it would be difficult for him to win.

Harold's earth magic defense is too strong.

But the young man in front of him was able to kill Harold, which shows how strong his attack power is.

However, there are three of them, so they still have confidence. At the same time, Buchanan has prepared a set of sensor beads for them to use in the secret realm.

Once they enter the secret realm, the three can quickly gather together based on the internal connection of the orb and then find Ryan.

This time, they mainly wanted to evaluate Ryan's strength again through his performance in the initial test.

(End of this chapter)