Chapter 297 Jumping off the Cliff
"Look at how blue the sky is! Walk over and you can melt into the blue sky. Let's go, keep going forward, don't look both ways." Purficott Standing aside, with a evil smile on his face, he said to the hesitant White Bear Knight: "Jump from here. John has jumped, and Weber has also jumped, so please jump too.
Okay, are you determined now? Why are you scared? "
Looking at the cliff of Yingzui Cliff. The white bear knight with trembling legs, Purficott was laughing so hard that he could hardly stand still.
Yes, the condition she offered to these White Bear Knights was to jump off the Eagle Beak Cliff.
After all, they want to put on the flying knight armor and become a flying knight soaring in the sky. If they can't overcome this, then even if they go to the sky, they will only be embarrassed and not become a true flying knight.
Whether it is the courage to jump off the cliff or the adaptability to stand on the cliff, they are necessary conditions for becoming a flying knight.
In the final analysis, a person who is afraid of heights and whose legs are unsteady when standing at high places cannot learn to fly.
It is precisely because of this that Perficott made such an incredible-sounding condition, asking her loyal knights to jump off the cliff, while she herself was overjoyed.
It’s not that she is really so evil-minded, taking advantage of these loyal knights who are willing to sacrifice their lives for her.
Just watching these knights who looked at death just now, their legs went weak when they stood in front of the cliff. If she didn't use some jokes to ease the atmosphere, these knights who valued honor more than their lives would really die out of shame and anger. Suicidal.
This is not a joke, because the first knight who did not dare to jump excitedly pulled out his dagger and wanted to wipe his neck because of the looks the others looked at him.
If Perficott hadn't gone up to him and made a few jokes at him to ease the matter, I'm afraid not one or two people would have died on Eagle Beak Cliff today.
Because so far, there are about eighty white bear knights summoned by Purficott, but not even ten of them dare to jump.
It’s not that these knights don’t even have this courage, but for these knights who have put their legs on the ground all their lives, when they stand on the edge of the cliff, they will unconsciously move towards Backward and leg shaking.
This is a completely different experience from riding an airship. Although the airship flies high, due to factors such as guardrails and protective glass, it makes people feel that although it is high, it is very safe.
But standing in front of the cliff is different. There is nothing to grab around, and the cliff is hanging in the air at your feet, especially since Perficott used alchemy to make the cliff that already protrudes forward from the Eagle Beak Cliff. It extended out to a lonely section, and it was even more scary to stand on it.
Those who can muster up the courage to walk up the last cliff are enough to prove their courage, and those who stand on it without weak legs and can jump directly down are simply extraordinary courage. Comparable to ordinary people.
But for a knight to show shrinkage and cowardice in front of the lord to whom he is loyal and other companions, this is simply a shame in the knight's career.
Especially this is an honorary selection. Those who pass this test can become flying knights, a being that can win the envy of countless people. This makes these knights who pay attention to honor even more unable to tolerate their own cowardice. .
However, Purficott saw that the White Bear Knight failed to overcome his own psychology and successfully jumped. She still said solemnly to the others: "Don't think that it is humiliating to dare not jump. It's the first time that I feel guilty." Fear is normal, because it is human nature. It has nothing to do with courage, because when you dare to stand up, you have proven your courage. You don't dare to jump just because your body is resisting.
Your body's survival instinct is telling you that if you jump, you will die! Even if I have taken protection below, you will be fine if you jump. This is the instinct of fear of this creature. It's not that easy to overcome.
So you don't have to be ashamed because I know that if it's a life-or-death situation, or if I order you to jump, you will jump without hesitation! Doing this is enough."
After Purficott finished speaking, the expressions on most of the White Bear Knights' faces became filled with shame, anger, and shame.
He was ashamed and angry that he did not dare to jump, unable to overcome the physiological instinct that Perfectcott said.
After all, they all saw that Purficott had used the anti-gravity field of flying stones to set up a safe zone under the cliff. As long as he didn't seek death when he jumped and confirmed the landing point, everything would be fine.
And even if they really jump wrong, considering the strength and physical fitness of each of their great knights, the possibility of falling to death is basically zero, and at most they will only break a bone.
After all, the Eagle's Mouth Cliff is not a particularly high cliff. It is only a few tens of meters high if it is stretched to death. For the great knight, even if he jumps down without protection, he will be injured at most, but not A height that would kill you.
Perfect's test on them, as she said, was just to test their courage and physical adaptability, and to screen out whether there was any fear of heights in this group of people.
Just like when selecting pilots in the original world, those with poor physical fitness could not become pilots. Flying knights are different from ordinary steam knights. This profession has considerable requirements on physical flexibility, judgment ability, reaction ability and other aspects. High requirements.
Being able to overcome physical discomfort and dare to jump off the cliff is only the most basic test. There will be various other tests after Perficott, which does not mean that being able to jump will definitely lead to becoming a flying knight.
Jumping off the cliff is just a chance to become a flying knight.
But if you don’t even dare to jump, then there’s nothing to say. It’s like a pilot who doesn’t even dare to fly. How can you become a flying knight and fight in the air?
Of course, it is impossible for Purficott to say such words that are not good for morale and unity. After all, these people are all his solid supporters and the most reliable ones he has. An armed force.
To put it bluntly, with the White Bear Knight's current loyalty, if Purficott told them to die, they would really wipe his neck directly.
Even if Purficott wants to betray the empire and declare war on the empire itself, these knights will basically be loyal to her, not to the Victoria Empire. After all, this is the loyalty of knights.
So Purficott still needs to appease people's hearts to prevent the morale of the knights he has carefully built from being affected by this kind of thing.
(End of this chapter)