Chapter 492: Lawmen
Next up after incapacitating the ‘enemy’, Ning had target practice with an actual gun.
The person giving the test was an invoker, who would create a single bullet for each gun and hand it over to the examinees.
Ning took the gun and aimed at the wooden post with a bullseye drawn on it.
Ning wasn’t confident in his aim at all. While he was sure he could hit without a certain area, he couldn’t hit a single spot multiple times.
That was to say, his accuracy was good, but he lacked precision.
However, he could easily correct his aim if he could use Aether, after all.
He did the same thing he had learned today and shot the gun. The bullet curved through the air, pulled by the bullseye directly onto itself.
The examiner couldn’t see the bullet curve, so he was surprised to see Ning’s shot hit right at the center.
He noted it down, and let Ning move on to the next one.
For the next one, Ning was supposed to get hit. He was surprised as to why that was but realized what they were doing with each test.
They wanted to see how he would catch someone, kill someone, and now take hits.
Ning nodded and strengthened his body, waiting for the man to hit him. The examiner held a wooden bat and started whacking at Ning.
He started off weak and slowly increased his strength while constantly asking Ning if he was fine.
Ning could feel pain now with his new body, so he waited until he started feeling it.
Once he did, he let the examiner know, who quickly noted it down.
Once that was done, Ning moved on to the next few exams. The exams were meant to test one’s Aether amount and ability to use it under the familiar scenarios that a law keeper may have to face.
The next few exams had to do with speed, endurance, locating a criminal, and such. Ning finished each exam with flying colors.
After he was done, he left with a badge that was his number.
As he walked out, he saw another person walk out from another direction.
Ning looked at the man and then at the direction he had come from and realized that the Invokers were being tested on a different location.
‘No wonder the test was only applicable to the Enchanters,’ he thought.
He made his way out of the tower and back to his home. He didn’t bother waiting around the front like the other people, hoping to learn when the results would be out.
After all, Alexis, his all-knowing God would let him know when he would have to visit the tower.
He didn’t even believe for a single moment that he would fail the tests.
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Ning sat down on a chair. On the desk in front of him were a bunch of papers and files tucked away to the side as well as an electric lamp for when he would have to work during the nighttime.
In front of the desk sat an old lady wearing a woman’s tunic while her half gray hair was in a braid, loosely set along the side of her shoulders.
She wore no jewelry and looked quite poor.
Ning looked at the piece of paper in front of him and read it quietly to himself.
“So, to confirm once more, your neighbor has been stealing your vegetables and grains from your farm without your permission, right?” Ning asked.
“Yes, yes,” the old woman nodded.
Ning looked at the form once again and asked, “Are you sure that your neighbor is stealing your food, or is this just an assumption?”
“No, I saw him steal. That I can swear to god. I have seen him steal every few days, so there is no doubt in my mind,” the woman said, looking very certain so Ning didn’t doubt that she was correct.
He would have to go and check her information and come up with a result on his own.
Ning nodded. “Alright, then miss. You have nothing to worry about. If there is in fact some stealing as you claim, we will surely bring the thief to justice,” Ning said.
“Thank you, young man. You make me feel very safe with your words. I hope to see that stinky man get imprisoned by the end of the sunset,’ the old woman said and walked away.
‘That’s a little extreme,’ Ning thought. ‘Although she has had her food be stolen, so I guess its fair.’
Just because it was the Freelands, didn’t mean everything was up for grabs. Only the land was free. What the new owner of the land did on that land wasn’t.
Ning looked at the form one last time and stood up. He took the purple jacket from the chair he was sitting on and wore it while taking out a purple badge from the drawer that proved that he was in fact a lawman of the place now.
It had been over a month since he took the exam for this position. In Vilmore terms, it had been about 7 weeks.
The results had surprisingly come in just a week, that being simply 5 days.
As expected, he had passed without a shadow of a doubt. In fact, the folks from this tower had been so surprised that they asked him many questions like where he learned what he did, and why he hadn’t joined the tower before.
Ning made a believable lie about being from the outer edge of the Kingdom of Shalor, so he had never gotten the opportunity to even visit a tower until he came to the Freelands.
The people accepted the answer pretty handily. Once the 30 new people were selected, 13 women and 17 men, 8 Invokers and 22 Enchanters, they were then given training regarding the law for the next quarter of a year, meaning 5 weeks.
Only after that was Ning and the others allowed to work as lawmen.
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