Chapter 16

Lucas smiled and looked at the crowd. They had tattered clothes and most of them wore straw sandals. Many of them ate one meal a day. Now there was a roasted boar in front of them. There was an anticipation in their eyes.

Couldn't they see the five Ben's sons also secretly swallowing their saliva? Even though their family didn't lack meat to eat, a roasted boar with seasoning was what's really tempting.

The people of this era had a hard time even eating full let alone adding processed seasonings. Meat was just roasted for a bit and added some salt. There were also people who just boiled meat and then added a bit of salt.

Even nobles wouldn't be able to eat exquisite delicacies. The biggest difference was just a somewhat better cooking method than the commoners. Otherwise May wouldn't get addicted to the kitchen, even Nicole fell in love with making cakes and stuff.

In two days, Mina was completely immersed in the sea of delicacies. She could be seen eating food every day. It made her satisfied. Lord Lucas's place was the real life of nobles. It was even better than the life of a prince.

The fragrance of the meat became more and more intense. Under the blowing of the wind, the people swallowed continuously. It reached the peak when Nicole led a team of maids carrying bowls of noodles.

They were large bowls of noodles. The noodles were made of wheat that were crushed into powder. May cut large pieces of pork and put it on top of the bowls and add a few wild vegetables. The other world version of roasted pork noodles was complete.

In this era, there was no such thing as grinding wheat with millstones. The people here are all rely on rocks to slowly ground wheat powder. Not only was it extremely crude, it was also extremely hard to digest.

When Mina took a bowl of roasted pork noodles and started to eat, the people went crazy. It was the food of nobles, food that they had never seen and eaten in their entire lives.

"City Lord, please start the trial right away!"

"Yes yes, quickly start, we can definitely pass the trial."

Lucas nodded to Ben. The temptation was now strong enough, and it was time to start.

"Cough cough…" Ben stepped forward, raised his hand to stop the shouting and shouted, "As long as you can pass the trial and become Lord Lucas's soldiers, you will get to eat meat like the ones over there everyday."

No matter where, people work to eat. Without the revolution of the information age, the commoners are simple. Just like Mina, if you give them too many benefits, they wouldn't agree as they were afraid of taking advantage of others.

When Ben's words fell, the people started howling and immediately yelled for the trial to start. Ben didn't waste any time to talk and ordered Aiden and the others to do as they were required.

"10 people form a line and go into the castle plaza. The trial start there." Aiden held a long sword which was given to him by Lucas.

Under the threat of the long sword, everyone lined up obediently and followed James into the castle plaza.

The inside has been transformed into a simplified version of the 300-meter special forces obstacle race course. It was what Lucas had seen on TV and he just made it here.

This was just the obstacle course for selection. When the people were selected and trained for some time, they would have to go through an enhanced version of a 500-meter obstacle race course which includes rolling, climbing, crawling, ditch crossing, rope climbing, hole digging, walking balance beam, wall climbing, etc…

When the ten people started to run, Lucas and Ben stood by at the side and watched.

10 minutes later, not a single person had finished the course. They couldn't even pass a two meter tall wall, which made Lucas shake his head and he raised his hand to indicate failure.

James immediately took the people out and then another group of people came in. This group of people didn't even complete half of the obstacle course.

"Young master, it's very difficult for anyone to complete the obstacle course in 10… minutes. Even Aiden and the others need a few minutes. How can those untrained commoners complete it?" Ben was slightly proud. After all, the sons that he trained had given him a face.

"Nah! A few minutes to complete the full course is already a failure in my opinion. For a 300-meter obstacle course 1 minute is the qualification time." Lucas said, pouring cold water over Ben.

"Impossible!" Ben's eyes widened. He didn't believe anyone could do it in one minute.

"There is nothing impossible. This is the military training method in my hometown. Soldiers who can complete the full course in one minute are strong soldiers. They are one in a hundred." Lucas said lightly.

This was a simplified version. The rolling wasn't even in quagmire. There wasn't even stone pieces or mud added to the crawling. Weight wasn't added to the hole drilling. The hole drilling also didn't have iron spikes on the surroundings.

If Lucas took these things out, then probably no one would be able to complete the whole course. Even if it were Ben's sons it would be really hard for them.

"This…" Ben swallowed his words. He yearned for the hometown that Lucas talked about. After all, many rare things came from Lucas's hometown such as those delicacies, white papers and weapons.

He had previously stayed in the capital of a kingdom and had never seen these things. But Ben wouldn't doubt what Lucas said. He decided to give his five sons extra training. If they couldn't finish the course in one minute then they wouldn't be given food to eat.

The five brothers didn't realize that they were going to be under more strict training from now on. They were currently looking at the people who were going through the obstacle courses with their faces full of smiles.