Chapter 204: actual confrontation
Rankin looked at the approaching enemy outside the fortification, threw his cigarette butt to the ground, and stamped on it with his combat boots.
“Damn it, stop them!” Haven’t you all eaten?
Through the wireless communication device on his Night God tactical suit, Rankin cursed.
What was going on now was an actual battle in the new barracks. This was an assessment. The new battalion shall select its opponent by drawing lots for the match in groups of units. The assessment was a promotion system, and after elimination, only one team won.
Rankin’s team had been very smooth. In the turbulent times, among the many ability domains, the ability to fight was the most common. The rarest of them were the talents from the Elemental Region. In the new army camp, besides Rankin who had Earth Elemental Power, there was only one other person in the vanguard team who had Wind Elemental Power.
In some units of the new barracks, soldiers are free to form teams, so the number of troops in each group is not consistent with the capabilities of the soldiers. The group with the least number of people belonged to the four-man team with zero people. However, the group with the largest number of people was undoubtedly Rankin’s team. With the support of an uncle who was a member of Parliament, Rankin had attracted nearly thirty soldiers to join him. This unrestricted formation didn’t seem fair, but it wasn’t fair at all in times of turmoil, so Carío didn’t stop Rankin’s team from being formed.
But during the new battalion’s several examinations, Rankin’s team had explained from another angle that the battle of the new era did not depend on the number of people, but on the quality of the people. Whether it was the vanguard team or Su’s team, both teams had very few members. But each time, Rankin would never be a match for these two teams.
More recently, Sue had added a new member to her team. Rankin knew that the new soldier with the name Zero had been personally brought to the new barracks by one of the important figures in the Twelve Sovereigns. On the same day that the soldier reported, Rankin had set up a trap for Sue’s unit. He had heard that several of the more skilled soldiers had been taken down by the man called Zero, and so Rankin had been impressed with the idea of Zero, although he had never met him.
Today, this impression had almost turned into fear.