Three days passed quickly.
The time for the actual combat assessment was finally over, and the navy's assembly signal resounded over the island, so the recruits stopped their actions one after another and walked out of the forest.
In fact, by the second day, the number of ferocious beasts in the forest had been greatly reduced. On the last day, there were hardly many ferocious beasts. Even the first-level ferocious beasts were killed by a large number of new recruits.
When leaving the forest, many recruits passed by an area that was burnt black and looked like a hell. Looking at this area, these recruits couldn't help but feel terrified.
"Fortunately, I hid far away in advance and didn't get involved."
"Everything here was burned down. It was really a terrifying forest fire, but... how did it start?"
"Who knows?"
The recruits passed by in twos and threes, looking at this area with strange expressions and talking about it.
In fact, although no one was involved in the sea of fire on the first day, the sea of fire affected the ferocious beasts in the entire forest, causing these ferocious beasts to fall into a panic and violent state, almost forming a beast tide. As a result, the difficulty of this actual combat assessment has greatly increased.
At this moment, outside the forest.
Roja was the first to come out of the forest. If he occasionally hunted a few ferocious beasts on the second day, then on the third day, when there were almost no ferocious beasts at all, Roja We arrived at the edge of the forest early and waited.
Tina was not with Roja. After Roja put out the forest fire, she left alone. After all, she has a strong personality and doesn't like to rely on others.
Outside the forest, Garp was waiting here early.
Seeing Roja coming out, Garp stepped forward and patted Roja hard on the shoulder. At the same time, he grinned and said: "You brat, you can take a lot of trouble, but... you did a good job!"
Although Roja's commotion was a bit loud and even affected the entire actual combat assessment, Garp himself is a maverick and does not like to be bound by various rules. On the contrary, Roja's huge commotion was very much in line with him. The appetite even reminded him of his youth.
Some of the admirals and commanders around him also looked at Roja with strange expressions on their faces.
He was born with sword intent, and it was also a flame-based sword intent. As long as Roja didn't die in the middle, it would be a matter of time before he surpassed them, and he could at least become a vice admiral of the navy.
Therefore, their attitude towards Roja was naturally completely different, and the way they looked at Roja was no longer the way they looked at new recruits.
but.
Garp's slap actually made Roja grin inwardly.
This smelly old man is really not polite at all. If his physique hadn't improved a lot these days, I might have been slapped to pieces by him.
Roja curled his lips and looked at Garp angrily.
"Does your hand hurt?"
"Uh... hahaha."
Garp looked embarrassed at first, but he had long been accustomed to Roja's way of speaking, so he raised his big hand on Roja's shoulder, scratched the back of his head, and continued to laugh twice.
Roja sighed helplessly, rubbed his shoulders with a melancholy look and walked aside.
Gradually, the recruits began to walk out of the forest one after another. Most of them looked embarrassed, with more or less signs of struggle on their bodies.
In addition to the recruits participating in the actual combat assessment, the rescue team specially set up for this actual combat assessment was also constantly shuttling back and forth in the forest.
After all, this is a forest, and getting lost is normal. Not everyone can return to the starting point. Fortunately, there are surveillance cameras everywhere in the forest, so it only took half a day to clean up the forest.
There were casualties after all, but most were just injuries, with only two deaths.
This is much better than fighting pirates. If fighting pirates were directly used as a practical test, the casualties would probably be at least ten times higher.
Except for the seriously injured recruits, the recruits with minor injuries or no injuries will have half a day to rest. This half day is also the time for the assessment team to sort out the assessment results, and it is also the time for the warship to return to the navy headquarters.
Soon, half a day passed, and the warship finally returned to the navy headquarters.
In a square at the Navy Headquarters, except for Roja who did not come because he was with Garp, and some recruits who were too injured and could not come to gather, the other recruits had all sorted themselves out and gathered here.
Seeing that the admiral who announced the results had not yet appeared, the assembled recruits began to whisper among themselves, and many of them were very excited.
"How many have you hunted?"
"Hehe, I have hunted at least three level three creatures. As for the number of level four and level five creatures, there are so many that I can't tell them apart." A recruit said with a slight satisfaction.
"Tch, I hunted a second-level creature!"
Another recruit said disdainfully. The difficulty of each level of ferocious beasts differed several times, and the scores obtained also differed at least several times.
This sentence immediately made the surrounding recruits look over in surprise, and many of them even showed a hint of envy. It was not that they had not encountered the second-level creatures, but they could not hunt them after encountering them, so they could only run away in embarrassment. .
"By the way, who do you think will be first this time?"
"It must be Drake. I heard that he hunted a first-level creature alone."
Hearing these words, the surrounding recruits couldn't help but gasp. They had already heard about the power of first-level creatures before the assessment.
Even the recruits of the elite battalion may not be able to defeat a first-level creature in a one-on-one situation. Drake can actually hunt a first-level creature by himself. This kind of strength is obviously completely superior to others. superior.
Based on this alone, you are fully qualified to enter the elite camp!
Many people couldn't help but look at Drake in the crowd, showing awe.
At this time, there was finally a sound of footsteps in front of the square. All the recruits stopped talking in an instant and raised their heads and looked forward.
"Take a break and stand at attention!"
"The scores have been tallied. These are the results of your actual combat assessment. They will be announced now."
As the rear admiral spoke with a stern expression, several naval officers next to him each pulled up a curtain, held a projector phone, and projected a ranking onto the curtain.
All the navy recruits couldn't help but stare closely at the curtain. They first looked for their names. After seeing their results, some people breathed a sigh of relief, some showed unwillingness, and some Then he was very happy.
After reading their results, many recruits started to look up, but they did not find the name they were looking for.
Just when these new recruits looked surprised, a voice came.
"The top ten results are not here, they will be announced directly by me."
The rear admiral standing at the front had a serious look on his face and spoke in a serious tone. Then he asked the generals to put away the curtains and projector phones, and at the same time picked up a list.
Seeing this, these recruits suddenly realized, and then heard the rear admiral start to read out familiar names one by one.
"Tenth place, Thor!"
"Ninth place, Huon!"
“…”
Several names were read out in succession, but none of the recruits below showed anything unusual. Apparently they were pretty much what they expected. At most, the rankings would be swapped.
"Fourth place, Hughes!"
As the rankings got higher and higher, the rear admiral's tone gradually began to slow down. When he read the fifth or higher number, he would pause for a moment.
Hearing Hughes's name, many of the recruits below lost their composure and began to talk with strange expressions.
"Xius is very strong and should be in the top three, but unexpectedly he was pushed to fourth."
"This is a little strange."
The rear admiral ignored the comments of these recruits, but after glancing at the recruits in front, he continued to read.
"Third place, Drake!"
As soon as the name was uttered, the whole place fell into silence.
Not only Drake himself, but also the recruits present had a look of astonishment, showing a bit of disbelief.
Drake... is only third? !