Odens City Royal Training Ground.
This is the largest and most well-equipped training ground in the Nalan Empire. It can accommodate 200,000 people including spectators.
Rogge led the team of students from Holk College to sit down at the positions planned for them and looked around.
The students sat down according to the approximate ranking of the colleges in the country. On the right side of Rogge and others, there was only a team from Charles College, and on the left were a large number of people.
Rogge found three familiar faces in the team at Charles College. One of them was Darren, who had gone to the Holy Spirit Summoning Kingdom with them and was defeated by the Holy Son Emil in the competition.
The second one is Charista, the third princess of the empire, who leads them to Charles Academy.
And the last one is everyone's little friend Dashil.
Dasil got the 21st place in the assessment of Galin Orphanage at that time, and unfortunately missed out on the two major colleges. But he did not choose to graduate from the orphanage, but continued to stay for a year, and finally entered Charles College with the first score in the college.
Being able to enter the Imperial Academy competition team at the top academy in the country, it seems that the strength of the strongest swordsman in the orphanage has improved a lot.
Dashil was also looking at everyone in Rogge, and shyly greeted his former goddess Ofina, who smiled and shook her little hand in response.
Today is the opening ceremony of the competition. Not only students are present, but also people who come to watch the competition, including students from various colleges, people from the military, adventurers, etc.
The entire royal training ground was packed with seats.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the sun was shining brightly, and King Charles appeared on time.
Everyone stood up and saluted, paying the highest respect to this great emperor.
Rogge observed the emperor carefully. Emperor Charles wore an exquisite battle armor, which was not gorgeous but very solemn. On his head was the Nalan Crown, which symbolized the highest power of the empire.
Emperor Charles had a middle-aged face and a majestic appearance. What impressed Rogge the most was his resolute eyes.
He is a strong man at the pinnacle level of the Martial Saint, a pillar of the empire, and the strongest man in the entire empire, and no one can replace him.
Emperor Charles came to the high-end loudspeaker device imported from the Holy Spirit-Calling Kingdom and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, please take a seat."
"The orcs' attacks are getting more intense, and unknown dangers are just around the corner. As the best students in the empire, you must seize the time to grow up and contribute to the empire!"
"Tomorrow is the day of the Imperial College Competition. I hope that both students and spectators can learn from the competition and improve!"
Charles's speech was short and direct, but the students were inspired by it.
Charles cleared his throat and continued: "In the past, the military's actual combat performance would be held the day before the competition, but this year the frontline war is tight and the performance has been cancelled."
"Our empire is martial, but this does not mean that theory is not important. In order to strengthen the students' theoretical knowledge, I decided to continue today's activities in a different way."
"Two tutors from each of the top thirty colleges will give speeches on the stage, with no limit on content, to share knowledge with everyone. These colleges are the holy places for nurturing talents in our Nalan Empire, and the level of teachers is naturally top-notch. Everyone can Pay attention and listen.”
"Time is limited, so let's start from the back according to the ranking."
After Charles finished speaking, he walked straight to the front of the stand and took a seat, leaving the podium empty.
Emperor Charles's sudden appearance caught all the teachers off guard. Everyone was here to watch the excitement today. After listening to the speech, watching the military's performance, and then bragging with acquaintances from other colleges, the day passed.
Now let them go on stage to give a speech without any preparation. What should they say?
Just when the 30th-ranked college teacher hesitated, Charles spoke again, "Please start!"
The emperor's order had to be obeyed, and a teacher among the 30th-ranked student pushed another younger teacher out.
The young teacher walked onto the stage with trembling legs, slowly adjusted his clothes, and said: "I...I...I am Quint from Nanling College. Today...I will share with you today." Let’s learn about the use of third-order flame magic—Fire Ring Technique…”
Quint was the first to take the stage and very smartly chose the magic explanation he was best at.
Under the spotlight, he did not perform well. He stuttered, his logic was a bit confusing, and he stumbled through the speech.
Emperor Charles clapped his hands three times symbolically and said loudly: "Next."
Quint, as if he had been granted amnesty, immediately left the stage and returned to his seat.
It was the teacher's turn to push Quint out. His performance was not even as good as Quint's, and the knowledge he shared was almost useless.
Emperor Charles stopped even applauding and wrote on a piece of paper. He said without raising his head: "Next, everyone is a teacher from a top academy. Please don't talk nonsense!"
The teacher was so frightened that he was about to faint. Quint quickly came to the stage and helped him down. He collapsed as soon as his butt hit the seat.
The performance of the first two teachers and the words of Emperor Charles caused a sudden increase in pressure on all the teachers. The teachers at the bottom quickly thought about what they should say, while the teachers at the top encouraged themselves, aiming to perform to a certain extent. Better than Quint, at least he can't faint.
In the team at Holk College, Ofina grabbed Rogge's arm and asked, "Brother, what should we do? We don't have any teachers at all!"
"Nana, don't panic, have you forgotten? You are the teacher."
Ofina shook her head repeatedly and said, "I won't go, there are so many people! And Emperor Charles is so cruel!"
Charles, who was listening to the speech, glanced at Roger calmly and raised the corners of his mouth.
"Nana, go ahead and I'll make you all the food you ate while shopping yesterday."
"You're evil! Really, just go!" Ophina pinched Rogge's waist, and then began to think about what she would say on stage later.
"Roger, two people have to go to one academy, and you can't jump." Filia reminded.
"Filia, don't you go and tell me? You are better than me."
"What, are you afraid?"
"How could I be afraid? Isn't this a good opportunity to show up and earn fame? Why don't you go?"
Filia said with a smile: "I look so good today, are you willing to let me go up? So, the opportunity to earn fame is left to you, come on!"
Philiya put on a little makeup today, and her already stunning face became even more delicate and beautiful, with two more mature beauty than usual.
Rogge looked at her a few more times, but was defeated by her beauty. He reached out to hold her hand and said, "Oh, that's right, then I'll go."
"Well, my father and brother are both here today. They seem to be looking at you now."
"Cough cough cough!"
The dignified senior martial artist Rogge almost choked to death on his own saliva, saying that he felt like he was being watched since he entered the training ground.
Before, he thought it was because others were jealous of the beautiful girls around him, but now it seemed that it was Filia's father and brother who were looking at him.
"Filia, where are my father and brother?" Rogge asked.
Filia heard Rogge address her father and brother directly, her smile became even stronger, and she held Rogge's hand in one direction and waved.
Rogge looked over there and saw an old handsome guy and a big handsome guy at a glance, as well as Emily next to the big handsome guy. The two handsome guys were staring at him angrily while whispering something, the big handsome guy's The sword was already half unsheathed.
I saw the handsome guy noticed Rogge's gaze, raised his hands and patted the back of his left hand with his right hand, and then wiped it on his neck, which was full of intimidation.
Rogge, who had always been smart, was a little confused now and asked Filia: "Brother, what does this mean?"
"Oh, he said he asked you to let go of your pig's trotters, or else he would kill you." Filia translated.
"Then should I let it go or not?"
"If you don't let me go, he bullied me when I was a kid. I'm so angry with him."
As soon as he heard that his goddess had been bullied, Rogge immediately stopped giving up. He took Filia's hand as if to demonstrate and brought it to his lips for a gentle kiss.
"Hey!" The clear sound of drawing a sword resounded throughout the audience, and the handsome guy stood up and was about to rush towards Rogge. The old handsome guy was equally angry, but they were all held tightly by Emily.
The old handsome guy still had some sense and said a few words to the handsome guy, and the handsome guy finally gave up his plan to rush over.
At this time, the second teacher of the 29th-ranked college was giving a speech, and the handsome boy drew his sword and violently caused quite a commotion.
Emperor Charles asked majestically: "Reinhardt, what do you mean?"
"Oh, there's a bug harassing my sister. I want to kill it."
"Nonsense! Sit tight! Marquis Brandon's discipline is not good. Come to me for punishment after the speech is over!"
"Yes!" Charles' words were still very effective. Brandon saluted Charles, pressed Reinhardt on the seat, and sat down himself, and then the two of them... glared at Rogge in unison.
"The speech continues!" Charles announced.
The teacher on the stage stood in front of the loudspeaker again, thinking hard about where he had just spoken. He was frightened. Someone suddenly drew his sword. He thought he had offended others by saying something he shouldn't have said.
The teacher was silent for 30 seconds. He really couldn't remember anything, so he simply said the closing words and ran off the stage.
Rogge couldn't ignore the fierce eyes of the two men over there, and said, "Filia, my father and brother seem to hate me."
"It's not like they just hate you."
"What did my father say to my brother just now?"
"He said, 'Don't worry, after the speech is over, we will kill him together.'"
Rogge trembled and asked, "You will protect me, right?"
Filia smiled brightly at him and said, "Of course."
Rogge looked at her beautiful smile and suddenly felt that even if he was hacked to death by the handsome man and his son, it was worth it.
"Hmph!" Ophina hummed loudly on purpose, "You haven't even married sister Filia yet, so you follow her sister and call her father and brother. How shameless!"
The girl's words made Rogge and Filia cover their mouths and laugh, and the eyes they looked at each other became even sweeter.
On the side of the handsome father and son, Reinhard gasped for air and said to Emily: "Li'er, look at Xiaoya's side, how come they look more in love than us?!"
Emily stroked her boyfriend's back to help him catch his breath, and said, "I'm already very loving, why do you care so much."
"How can you ignore it? How can that Rogge be worthy of Xiaoya? He is still holding Xiaoya's hand. He is really not afraid of death! Father, when will the speech end? I can't bear it anymore!"
"You have to endure it even if you can't bear it! Look at you, you are so frizzy, even Emperor Charles criticized you. You are not stable enough, you have to learn more from me!"
"Father, they are close together! That Rogge actually had his arms around Xiaoya's waist!"
"What?!!"
Marquis Brandon, who claimed to be calm, crushed the armrest of his seat.
