"Get in!"

There was a riot in the dark corridor. Lolan was almost carried from the back of his neck and threw it into an extremely dry room. As a result, his shoulder fell to the ground and just hit the wound. He immediately snorted in pain, and then the small door in the room was closed.

From the window on the small door, Lolan saw a row of densely packed small rooms, like a secret room. In each room there was a child who was about the same as Lolan, who was between 14 and 16 years old. Some had wounds on their faces, some had despair, and some cried loudly.

The entire corridor was filled with desolation and pain.

...

"rustle……"

Luo Lan leaned quietly against the cold wall, trying hard to recover her physical strength, and at the same time began to observe the room carefully. The room was not big, and it only allowed a person to lie down with his limbs spread out. The ground was covered with hay, and there was a window on the side, with iron bars embedded, and a layer of glass outside, which was almost completely separated from the outside.

And in such a small window, Loran was able to carefully observe this strange world.

Outside, there was a dilapidated and desolate scene. On a lonely mountain, there was a large maple leaf forest in front of it, like blood stains. There was a mountain road between the maple forest, with some cavalry teams and carriages passing by. The carriages were loaded with heavy things, which seemed to be food or water, while the scenery was very far away, because the castle where Lolan was located was on the high mountain, enough to overlook everything on the earth.

This place is like a secret place isolated from the world.

Luo Lan did not continue to look again, but lay down quietly, lifted the strip of cloth that bandaged the injured palm and took a look. The wound was a little scary. After a night of wind and rain, coupled with the bumpy road, it seemed that the wound had begun to worsen, and there was also a burning pain on his shoulders, and the injury became worse and worse.

At about the evening, footsteps finally came from afar. Then, a loud voice of a knight came from the depths of the corridor: "Test the star source power of each of them. If you have the star source power, enter the second round of selection stage. If you don't have the star source power, throw it directly into the trial room. Their only value is probably the courage to inspire others."

"Yes, sir!"

In the distance, the sound of the door opening constantly came, and at the same time, there were also sounds echoing in the night—

"First-level star source power is sent to the selection."

"I haven't awakened yet, take it away!"

"One other one who has not yet awakened, take it away!"

"Hmph, it's another waste. This time the hunting knights seem to have found no good prey. They are really a bunch of waste."

"Huh? There is actually a girl with third-level star source power here. Take it away and send it to the selection!"

"Come again, next."

...

Finally, the voice was getting closer and closer. Luo Lan's small door was opened with a "knock". Then a big hand penetrated like an eagle claw, and directly pulled his legs and dragged him out. Then a hand was pressed on Luo Lan's palm, and a burning warmth suddenly surged in. The next moment, the man in the black robe sneered: "Another waste whose star veins have not yet awakened, pulled it away and sent it to the trial room."

"Yes, sir!"

A knight walked forward and reached out to lift Lolan up. He walked out of the corridor and came to a very spacious square. Lolan glanced at it and couldn't help but feel secretly shocked. The layers of tower buildings on the square were inlaid with cross patterns of the Knights of Light above. Just beside the huge stone pillars, knights holding sword hilts stood like statues. On the high walls beside, there were archers holding bows and arrows standing with gloomy eyes as Lolan who was being lifted in the hands of the knights, and some even showed a ruthless sneer.

Then, Luo Lan was taken to a huge basement. When she entered the basement, a foul smell came to her face. It was a smell mixed with feces, urine, rotten smell, etc. In the huge wooden cage, pairs of numb and empty eyes were looking at Luo Lan. Those were teenagers of similar age to Luo Lan. I don’t know how long it took to come in, and each of them seemed to be completely numb.

"Peng!"

Loran was thrown heavily into the wooden cage, and the door was closed.

Immediately afterwards, more and more teenagers were thrown into cages, and more and more people were. Each cage accommodated hundreds of people. Soon after, five or six cages began to be overcrowded.

...

"It's just enough time."

A man in knight armor held the booklet in his hand, and said to the man in imperial uniform with a silver emblem on his shoulder, "Sir, plus the group of people just sent, almost 2,000 people have been gathered, and it will be time for tomorrow's opening ceremony."

"good."

The man in military uniform nodded: "Precaution them, give them food and water, so that they can rest and maintain their spirits. Whether they can survive tomorrow depends on their own."

"Yes, sir!"

The two left, and soon after, the guard came over with a bucket of meat soup and the noodle cakes, allowing the teenagers in the cage to eat enough, without limiting the amount, until they were full, so that Lolan ate five pieces of bread and three bowls of meat soup, and then sat in the corner quietly waiting for their physical strength to recover, while most of the other teenagers went to bed after eating.

I don't know how long it took, but with a "clang" the door opened again. Two knights walked in front, holding a torch in their hands, and followed by a middle-aged man with cold eyes, wearing armor and holding a broad sword in his hand, with a sharp light flowing in his eyes. It was the man named Luke who I saw outside.

"Children!"

Luke stepped up to the high platform in the center of the basement step by step, finally walked to the highest point, leaned his sword on the ground, looked at the children in the cages around him, his eyes filled with excitement, and said, "I think many of you are confused and angry. Now, I will solve your doubts, but you have to resolve the anger yourself."

As he said that, he waved his hand and pointed to the outside world, saying, "This is a secret base of the Xingyuan Empire, and it is also a sacred training camp for the Knights of Light. We will bring this Blood Castle. For hundreds of years, almost half of the Apocalypse and the Imperial Powers have walked out of the Blood Castle, and you will also become part of the Blood Castle."

Suddenly, a young man stood up and said, "Sir, do we... have a chance to become a knight?"

"have."

Luke nodded, with a malicious sneer on the corner of his mouth, and said, "But only if you can live tomorrow."

As if seeing the astonishment and confusion on the boy's face, Luke continued: "Blood Castle, also known as Blood Cage Training Camp, the knights of the Empire, and the Magic Academy have no complicated and redundant rules here. There are only life and death in the Blood Cage. Therefore, we search for talents from all over the Empire with means that the world cannot accept, train them into real strong men, and become elites of the Knights of Light. These people are called students, but you are different..."

All the children were stunned.

Luke laughed: "You are too weak and you are not worthy of being students at all, so you are just consumables for the first lesson of all students in the Blood Castle. Our first lesson is called courage. Each student will pair up with an opponent. Only those who kill the opponent are qualified to start the second stage of the tutorial, and you are the targets the students will be killed in the first lesson."

"What!?"

A group of teenagers were furious, and some even shouted: "The Empire... the Empire's law will never tolerate you doing such cruel things. You are the Knights of Light under the Holy See, how can you do such a shameful thing!?"

"shame?"

Luke sneered, stared at the talking boy with his eyes tightly, reached out to the north, and said, "Every year, do you know how many knights of the Knights of Light have been killed by the monsters on the border? For hundreds of years, if it weren't for the selection of talents by such means, the Knights of Light would have long become history!"

As he said that, his eyes turned cold and he said, "But you have another chance, that is, to kill the students you are about to challenge, replace them, become formal students in the blood cage, or even replace their identities. This may be your last night, enjoy it. Tomorrow morning, it will be time for you to face the battle of life and death. Should you become a strong man or a corpse, seize it yourself!"

...

After Luke left, the teenagers in the cage became even more silent, while some were crying silently.

Luo Lan clenched her fists and still leaned quietly on the wooden pillar without saying a word. In the cage, some teenagers had already begun to collapse and fought each other, which caused the guards to roar. Then they rushed into the cage from waving their whip and sucked in a row. One of the whips fell directly on Luo Lan's face, leaving a scorching mark, but Luo Lan remained motionless. Once she resisted, it would lead to a more cruel beating. For him, every new injury meant a weakening of strength.

This night was too long, and some people even cried intermittently all night.

Luo Lan sat quietly all night, missing her mother, and could not believe that her mother left her, which made him cry silently, and fell asleep in tears. She woke up in the early morning, feeling that her shoulders were no longer so painful, and the wounds on her palms stopped bleeding, and the healing process began.

...

"It's time to eat!"

In the early morning, teams of guards walked into the basement with rice buckets of vegetable soup and piles of steamed buns. The children immediately flocked to them. Luo Lan quickly grabbed two steamed buns and a bowl of soup, hid in the corner and finished eating it voraciously, then stood in a corner with caution, watching other children compete for food.

After breakfast, driven by the guards, the teenagers were divided into more than twenty groups, each with about a hundred people. Lolan was assigned to the sixth group. A very young knight guard walked forward, wearing a gray cross badge on his shoulder, which was a symbol of the apprentice knight. He held a spear in his hand and looked cold: "People from the sixth group, follow me, don't try to resist, otherwise kill them on the spot!"

...

After leaving the basement, strong sunlight from the outside world suddenly fell.
Chapter completed!