Chapter 37 - The World Trembles Hearing His Name! (2/2)

Both parties nodded.

”Start!”

Poor Shiar, Ao's fighting prowess has already surpassed himself by quite a lot, the moment that Ao took his sword he disappeared, Shiar could barely keep up with his movement, Krune looked at that and nodded, all the time spent teaching Ao about the Wind Element was not wasted after all.

Shiar noticed that the situation was dire, he is a Fire Element user, to prevent Ao from getting close he immediately created a fire tornado around himself, the temperature in the arena soared, but Ao was as nonchalant as ever, he simply used his sword to throw a wind blade, the blade cut through the fire tornado as if it was paper, in an instant, Shiar's protection was gone, just like that. Ao sighed seeing that, if he knew that Shiar was a fire element user he wouldn't have stopped Yusa, with the element advantage she would definitely have won this fight.

Shiar, on the other hand, was frightened, how could Ao be this strong? He did his best trying to defend himself and attacking Ao with fireballs, Fire Dragons, Fire Rings, so on and so forth, but Ao's speed was just too high, nothing hit him.

A flaw soon appeared in Shiar's defense and Ao didn't let it go, the sword moved like a ghost, just as Shiar's head was about to fly out of his body, both Shiar and Ao were locked in place, the referee took action when he saw that Shiar was going to die.

He then came forward and announced.

”Ao Sulian Wins!”

Shiar's face was as white as paper, if the referee hadn't stopped that attack in the last second, he would be dead now.

The crowd roared, they love this kind of fight where those with lower cultivation realm beat those who are stronger.

Ao left the arena and then his group went back to Kaley City, they didn't even pay attention to Shiar back then.

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After appearing in the teleportation formation inside the Solie Clan, the group left and went back to the mercenary guild, but before that, Yusa left a message.

”We put the fees of the teleportation on your Solie Clans account, thanks for the patronage.”

When Zu Solie read that message, he felt gloomy, long distance teleportation costs a lot of spiritual stones, and their treasure is quite empty at moment, this kind of situation makes his heart hurt quite a bit.

Back at the Kaley City Mercenary Guild, they just checked in and found out that the ranking points have been added to their ID's, the mission rewarded 900 points, and because the highest cultivation level at the time they applied for the mission was 3rd stage Foundation Establishment, they got a 30% bonus over that, they all had 1170 ranking points now.

They then decided to gather again another time, for now they would part ways to do their own things.

Ao told Krune to inform him when he is out, he wants to apply for a Mercenary Test again and would like to have Krune looking at it to see how his Wind Element control is doing.

Yusa took the chance and decided to do the same, she is also quite confident in being able to acquire a Three Stars badge.

Krune nodded and after exchanging a few more words, they left.

Krune went back to his room after passing by the sales room, by using his Four Stars Badge he got a 25% of discount when he selected the 'Five Elements Paste', he now has 270 points remaining.

'With this Five Elements Paste, the reinforcement speed of my foundation should increase by 20% to 30% for the next few days, the information said that it will work for more or less 8 days, but my universe foundation isn't something common, so I believe the effect will be over faster than it should.'

Krune then started to absorb the paste, just as the description said, the speed that his planet reinforcement increased quite a lot, Krune didn't waste time, he took out several hundred Rank Three spirit stones and started to cultivate.

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Time went by and just like that six days have passed, inside Krune's room there was a lot spirit stone dust, every time a spirit stone has it's spiritual energy absorbed, it will turn into that, Krune had used over 500 in this period of time, after this six days, Krune finally opened his eyes.

'I'm just a bit off from finishing reinforcing my planet, the paste effect is over but if I keep cultivating at this pace, I should be able to breakthrough in a weeks time.”

Krune then got up and stretched a bit, he hasn't left his room in the last few days, he was starting to feel bored in here.

He video called Ao and Yusa to tell that he finished his cultivation and decided to meet at the mercenary testing room, Ao and Yusa accepted and ended the call. But Krune found something strange with the twos behavior.

'Is it me or it looked like they were hiding something?'

Krune left his room and went to the testing room, on the way he noticed that everyone was looking at him, that made him feel very uncomfortable.

When he arrived at the testing room, Yusa and Ao were there already, they looked at Krune with pity, Krune felt even more puzzled.

Just when he was about to ask what is happening, supervisor Gao came into the room to congratulate Krune.

Krune felt like something isn't right, it's just a mission being completed, their position in the ranking system didn't even get close to the first thousand on the list, why would he come to congratulate them just because that?

The supervisor got the wrong idea and thought that Krune was being modest instead, he then laughed out loud and said.

”There is no need to hide, everyone knows already, it's all over the news, your friend Ao, who is part of your group, has easily defeated the Two Stars Mercenary Shiar, who has a cultivation higher than him by one stage, there is even a video online, someone got your face recorded together with Ao and Yusa when you came into the arena, everyone is saying that you want to build the strongest group of the Sky Rank and trash all the other groups.”

Supervisor Gao kept laughing, on the other side, tears were running down on Krune's face.

”Boy, you are really good, as part of the Kaley City main branch, you brought a lot of face for our guild, keep up the good work.”

Supervisor Gao looked at Krune who was crying at moment, he thought that Krune was happy to the point of tears, he then said a few more encouraging words and left.

Yusa and Ao were doing their best to hold back their laugh, but after seeing Krune white face they couldn't hold anymore, Yusa couldn't help but give him the last killing blow.

”The rising star of the mercenary guild acts again! Behold Krune! The world trembles when hearing his name!”

Ten thousand needles hit his heart, Its very effective! Krune couldn't help but think.

'Is it still too late to change teams?'