Chapter 62 (1/2)

Chapter 62: Empire’s Divine Weapon

Translator: Yukidaruma Translations  Editor: Yukidaruma Translations

More than ten minutes before Fang Xingjian and Kaunitz would start their battle, Huang Lin was rushing excitedly towards the Headmaster’s office.

He wanted to tell the Headmaster that Fang Xingjian had successfully completed the transition and had become a Windstorm Sword Hero.

However, the very moment he dashed into the office, the scene before him made him slightly furrow his brows.

A grandly dressed white-haired woman was sitting with poise face to face with the Headmaster. The woman’s brows were very thick and dense, but her eyes were elongated and thin like a fox’s. Her face, filled with wrinkles, was a clue that she was far from young.

Sitting next to the woman was the white-bearded old man who had doubted Fang Xingjian from the start during the third stage of the Prefectural Selection, but who had later been envious of Huang Lin for getting himself a disciple, eventually inciting his daughter to try to get closer to Fang Xingjian.

When Huang Lin saw the longsword embedded with colorful gemstones at that woman’s waist, his brows furrowed.

“Tresia Clan’s Rebecca… Why are you here?” She was Rebecca Tresia, one of Tresia Clan’s strongest existing warriors, with the powers of a first transition level 19, and also Kaunitz’s aunt.

Although she had not succeeded in completing the second transition, she had been at the pinnacle of the first transition for tens of years. As a well-known first transition expert, she had been building up on her attributes, and had been putting in hard work in order to acquire specialities. Their accumulation, tens of years of training was not something to be trifled with.

Even some of the youngsters who had just completed the second transition would most likely not be her match.

“Oh? Isn’t this Master Huang Lin?” Seeing that Huang Lin had entered, Rebecca smiled and said, “It’s been some time since we’ve last met.”

Watching the scene, the Headmaster smiled and said, “Lin, you’ve come at a perfect time. Adelaide will be retiring. We’ve invited Rebecca to take on the role of the sword arts instructor from now on. You know each other as well. She’s from the renowned Tresia Clan and has exceptional sword skills, she’s very suitable for the job.”

Rebecca smiled and said, “Headmaster is exaggerating with his compliments, haha. We’re just discussing the problem of cutting down on the academy’s expenditure. Since Master Huang Lin is here, we can discuss it together.”

“Reducing expenditure?” Huang Lin said coldly.

“That’s right. Take for example the Prefectural Champion Fang Xingjian. Since he has failed his job transition, he should no longer continue to enjoy the treatment Prefectural Champions enjoy.” Rebecca’s tone was sharp, with the same aggressiveness as if she were performing sword techniques.

Her words were a form of direct confrontation with Huang Lin. “Those resources could be better spent on other more talented students.”

Huang Lin smiled coldly, looking at Rebecca, “Haha, for example, Kaunitz?”

“That’s right. I do not differentiate people in terms of how close they are to me. Although Kaunitz is my nephew, since he has great talent, enough to complete the first transition within ten days and bring his Waves cultivation to level 3 within three months, I think that the academy should allocate more resources to him and aid his progress rather than wasting them on a certain useless bum.”

“Hmmmmm, useless bum.” Just when Huang Lin was planning to share the news that Fang Xingjian had completed his job transition successfully, an instructor walked in and said, “Headmaster, Fang Xingjian is battling on the arena with Kaunitz.”

“What? What are they trying to pull?” Headmaster’s brows furrowed.

Rebecca spoke up, “Kaunitz is a sensible fellow, it’s impossible for him to be the one to take the initiative to bully someone else. It must be that Fang Xingjian provoked him. But the academy’s rules are such that one cannot intentionally cripple or seriously injure another in the battle arena. Master Huang Lin, there’s no need for you to worry. At most, Kaunitz will just give him a small warning, and won’t do much to him.”

“Haha!” Huang Lin could not help but break out in laughter. “Are you sure it’ll be Kaunitz who’ll be teaching Fang Xingjian a lesson?”