Things about the female knight in black stockings

Chapter 137

After a good night's rest in Mora City, the rest of the journey went smoothly.

The whole process was an official one, and from time to time there would be patrols by cavalry squads from the Kingdom of France. The part where Valencia was slightly looking forward to beating up the bandits never happened.

Even if a monster with a weak brain occasionally ran into the official road and blocked the way, it would soon be smashed like a fish under Giroud's sharp sword.

At noon on the 14th day after setting off from Suri City, Tia's team successfully arrived in the royal capital and finally completed the Food Association's food escort mission.

[Congratulations, Miss Valencia Bader, you have passed the second level of assessment. The time you spent in the second level is 391 hours, exceeding 37.4% of the candidates this year]

[Now, please go to the trial maze outside the royal capital as soon as possible and start your third level assessment. I wish you satisfactory results]

Valencia's scroll quickly showed up with this prompt, as did everyone else's.

"Our second level took a bit long...but there's nothing we can do about it. Who made us unlucky enough to run into a blocked area and even did additional questions..."

Tia sighed and looked at the team members:

"Anyway, everyone should work hard for the third level. I hope we can have another drink at the welcome banquet for freshmen."

"Don't worry, it will definitely happen!"

As Meludi spoke, she took the initiative to hug Tia:

"You are an excellent captain, and we will have the opportunity to work together again."

"Well, there is a chance to work together again."

Tia also smiled and nodded:

"You Three Musketeers are so powerful, we will definitely become classmates."

Although the third level assessment does not limit team formation, generally the number of people in the team will not be large. Too many people will slow down the speed of passing the level.

So a few people had already discussed it on the road. This temporary team would be disbanded after the escort mission was over, and we would see each other at the welcome banquet for new students.

The third level assessment of the logistics department did not require the trial maze, so Asaki and Luca were the first to leave, followed by Meludi and the others.

The trial labyrinth was originally a large dungeon controlled by monsters. There were many traps in the dungeon to deal with adventurers.

Later, the underground city was jointly attacked by the Kingdom of France and the Church of the Sun, and was handed over to the War College for practical training.

The War College has made all traps in the dungeon non-lethal, and has also released some monsters that can be controlled with alchemical potions as training subjects for the students.

Not only is it the third level of the admissions examination, but even after admission, most of the practical classes of the Advanced Soldier Department and the Command Department will be conducted in the trial maze.

What the candidates have to enter in the third level is one of the areas of the trial maze. There are hundreds of rooms unevenly distributed in this area.

There are different mechanisms or monsters in each room, which correspond to different points according to the difficulty.

As long as the candidates complete the puzzles or defeat the monsters, they can get the points corresponding to the room. If they accumulate 10 points, they will pass the third level of assessment.

When entering the room, there will be no restrictions on whether the candidates are single or in a team, but the points are fixed. The more people there are, the fewer points will be divided equally among each person.

If you act alone, you will be held back once you encounter a room that you are not good at.

It's a trivial matter to waste time. If you are completely defeated by monsters and traps in the room, you will directly lose your qualifications for the assessment.

However, too many people will result in too few points for individuals, so teaming up with two or three people who can complement each other's shortcomings is always the best choice to pass the third level assessment.

The three Musketeers Meludi, Giroud, and Harry will definitely be together, and Valencia will naturally team up with her best friend Tia.

"We really came a little late."

After entering the designated area of ​​the trial maze, Tia observed for a moment, then shrugged and sighed:

"Most of the rooms with lower difficulty levels have been breached, and the ones that are left are those with higher difficulty levels or more disgusting mechanisms."

"It's okay~~"

Seeing that there was no one around, Valensa hugged Tia's arm directly:

"Anyway, Tia, you are smart and powerful. Isn't it easy for me to get 20 points? These rooms are difficult but also give you a lot of points. Isn't that just right?"

"Don't try to be lazy!"

Tia immediately gave Valencia an angry look:

"It's okay to leave that kind of puzzle to me, but when you encounter a monster, it's up to you! I'm an auxiliary spellcaster who's not good at frontal combat!"

"It's okay. I think we should focus on decrypting the information."

Valencia chuckled:

"Tia, have you forgotten Meludi and the others who came in before us? They will definitely choose rooms with powerful monsters to challenge."

"...You are the only one who knows how to be lazy!"

Tia pinched Valencia's waist again before continuing to move deeper into the maze:

"Why are you still standing there? Come on, we don't have much time."

"I'm coming……"

Valencia hurriedly walked to Tia again and hugged her arm, and the two of them began to choose the room to enter like good sisters going shopping together.

The specific trial capacity inside the room cannot be seen outside the room. You can only know the points and main trial types of the room through the symbols and numbers on the door.

The two women hadn't gone far when Valencia's eyes lit up and she pointed to a certain room:

"Tia, look...that one actually has 6 points. He's still in the trial...could it be Meludi and the others?"

"It's very possible."

Tia smiled and nodded:

"The room with a score of 6 points is still a trial subject focused on combat, which means that there is probably a lighthouse-level monster in the room. This difficulty can indeed dissuade most candidates, but for the three of Meludi and the others, It shouldn’t be a problem.”

"So let's hurry up! We all came together, but we can't all pass the same room and our points are still zero. That would be too embarrassing."

Valencia pulled Tia and ran to another room that was not yet used:

"Tia, what do you think of this room? There is a reward of 3 points, and it is a trial that focuses on solving puzzles. Isn't it just right for you, Tia?"

"It's very suitable for you to be lazy, right?"

Tia immediately exposed Valencia's intentions and kicked her lightly.

But as the daughter of the chief strategist, Tia also has her pride.

Is it a puzzle trial with a difficulty of 3 points?

It’s not a bad idea to stretch your brain a little first.

So Tia did not refuse, but took the initiative to speed up and pushed the door of the trial room open before Valencia.

A burst of black and white light immediately poured out from the door, sucking the two women in, making them feel like they were falling headfirst into a deep pit, spinning around.

A few seconds later, Valencia, who had better physical strength, stood up from the ground first, only to find that she and Tia were actually on a huge chessboard.

Chapter 138 The big dog is coming

"Is this... a chessboard for war chess?"

Valensa supported Tia, who was still a little dizzy, and observed carefully.

This trial maze, formerly known as the monster dungeon, obviously uses space expansion technology. Now the trial room should be an independent small space, similar to the inside of a space storage prop.

The most eye-catching thing is naturally the chessboard under her feet. The chessboard is very big, and each grid is big enough for Valencia to lie in the middle in a large shape, and her hands and feet can't touch the edge of the grid.

There is a double cylinder mechanism with a thin top and a thick bottom in the middle of the chessboard. It looks like it should be used for manually opening the trial.

"It is indeed a chessboard for war chess."

Tia also recovered from the dizziness of space transfer while Valencia was looking around, and concluded much faster than Valensa:

"I am very familiar with this thing. After all, I have been playing it since I was a child... Do you remember? When you were a kid, you always lost when you played chess with me, and every time you lost, you had to find a lot of lame excuses...

The wind is too noisy today, the moon is too dazzling today, etc. I want to laugh every time I see your serious nonsense. "

"Oh my... don't mention those past things again, Tia. I'm just a stupid Vase Knight. How can I beat a genius girl like you in chess?"

Valensa didn't mind that Tia talked about her dark history, but instead took advantage of the situation and hugged Tia's arm, looking like I was a loser waiting for the boss to take care of her:

"Since your chess skills are so good, Tia, isn't the trial in this room giving us points? It all depends on your performance later~~"

"Hmph, lazy guy~~"

Tia rolled her eyes at Valencia, but did not refuse, because she was indeed very confident in her skills in war chess.

The rules of war chess are a bit like the chess of Valencia's previous life, but different.

Each side has eleven chess pieces, a king and ten pawns.

Soldiers can only move forward or left or right at the beginning, and each move can only be one square.

Only when a pawn completes its capture can it be promoted.

Upgraded to a chariot for the first time, it can move in four directions: forward, backward, left, and right, with no limit on the distance.

After being upgraded to a queen for the second time, she can move freely in eight directions including diagonal lines, with no limit to the distance, but she is the only one in the field. After being eaten, other tanks cannot be upgraded again.

If you want to win in War Chess, the most critical thing is who can upgrade the first Chariot Chess first, and then quickly complete two captures to upgrade to the Queen, and then you can conquer the whole game alone.

Of course, the side that produces the queen first will only have a huge advantage, and may not necessarily win... Valencia had this happen many times when she was a child. She obviously produced the queen first but still lost to Tia.

You must know that Valencia is a person with two lifetimes of memory, but she can't beat a little girl at chess. This only shows that Tia is really talented in this area.

So Valensa wasn't joking. After learning that the trial in this room was just a war game, she was really ready to lie down and be led by Tiya.

The two quickly arrived at the mechanism in the middle of the chessboard, but found no operable place and no text prompts.

"……how so?"

Valencia frowned and thought for a moment, then took out the assessment scroll issued by the Zhan Zhan Academy:

"Will you need this?"

"Will not."

Tia shook her head firmly:

"The control center of this trial maze and the central array of the academy are not in the same system, and the two may even interfere with each other. So from the moment we enter the trial maze, the communication and synchronized text recording functions of this scroll are It has become ineffective and only has the function of defense and calling for help in times of crisis.”

"Huh? Has the scroll lost its most important ability?"

Valencia blinked:

"That is to say...the teachers can't see our text live broadcast now? What if someone cheats in the exam?"

"There's no point in cheating."

Tia snorted:

"Although the scroll has temporarily lost its effect, the trial maze itself has an image recording function, and our results will be re-examined by the teachers based on the records afterwards.

Ah, by the way... these are all military secrets, so you are not allowed to tell others nonsense, right?Otherwise we might both end up in a dungeon. "

"Don't worry, I'm always tight-lipped."

Valencia smiled and nodded, feeling a little helpless:

"But if the scroll is useless, how on earth are we going to start this trial? There are no hidden buttons on this mechanism, and it is still solid~~"

"So you are just a stupid female vase knight~~"

Tia seemed to have discovered something. She rolled her eyes at Valencia quite proudly and stretched out her hand towards the double cylinder mechanism:

"Who said you have to press the button to activate the mechanism? You never thought about turning it... eh."

The double-cylinder mechanism did spin, but it didn't spin up and down like Tia thought. Instead, the whole thing spun twice with her slight exertion.

The surroundings soon began to vibrate, and a gradually condensing gray-white mist rose.

"Is this... the mysterious mist from the Four Islands Alliance?"

Tia, who is well-read, quickly recognized this mist and her face changed slightly:

"It seems that the way I activated the mechanism was wrong. This should be the punishment for incorrect activation... Get ready to fight, idiot, the Fog Demon is coming."

As soon as he finished speaking, the gray-white mist completed its condensation and turned into six large smoke-gray dogs, floating in the air with their feet not touching the ground, their eyes fierce.

"Be careful."