Chapter 38 - The Alchemist Practical Exam. (1/2)
Ao was the first one to come back to himself, he put his hands on Krune's shoulders.
”Come on, it's not like it didn't happen before, I'm going to take my Mercenary test now, check it out and forget about the news for the moment.”
Krune could only do that, Ao went to take the test, as always, there was three puppets with a cultivation level one stage higher than his one, after the the battle started, it didn't take long for Ao to cut down the first one, with his Wind Movement he was much faster than the puppets, the puppets attacked at the same time but couldn't do anything to him, in the end, Ao was able to defeat all the puppets, and just like that he became a Three Stars Mercenary.
Yusa was the next one, she took longer to defeat the three puppets, after all she isn't exactly an attacker type, but nonetheless she completed the test with the highest grade too.
When the Head Quarters got the news that two mercenaries defeated all three puppets during the test at the same place, they thought something was wrong with the report, but after checking the test video they couldn't deny that they did not cheat on the test. But how could two mercenaries at the same time beat the test with the highest grade, the chances of something like that happen is extremely slim.
When the Mercenary Head Quarters checked, they found out that those two were part of Krune's team, even though Krune's team member names are hidden for the public, as the Head Quarters, they obviously had access to the information.
Kassius Ruli was looking at the report given by one of his employees, two mercenaries called Yusa Shen and Ao Sulian passed the test with the highest grade one after another, and they are part of Krune's team, after investigating Yusa and Ao's past, he didn't find anything wrong, they were pretty common cultivators, nothing to pay much attention at, but after they got together with Krune, their combat power soared to the point that they could easily pass the test to get a Three Stars badge.
'This is weird, I have no doubt that Krune is the reason for their explosive improvement, but how did he do that? From what I found these two didn't use any forbidden pill or cheated in the test in anyway, which means that that is really their combat power at moment, if more people from our side could have accomplishments like the two of them, the position of our Head Quarters of the Yule Continent would definitely get higher.'
He pondered a bit more, the issue behind this is that it is probably some secret that Krune has, but he is a member of their guild, Kassius can't simply go there and ask Krune to tell everything, there is no cultivator in this world without their own secrets after all, but he can't simply let it go either, Krune might be the key to the martial arts gathering two years from now.
There are five continents in the world, every single one has a mercenary head quarters responsible for that continent, the mercenary guild as a whole has five slots for the gathering, if their continent has the chance to send at least one or more for the gathering, it will prove that their continent's mercenary guilds can also breed talents just like the others, it would boost the Yule continent guilds morale as well, in the last ten or so gathering, their Yule Continent wasn't able to send even a single cultivator.
The mercenary guild will start a competition of their own between the mercenaries of each continent to decide which five will be sent to the martial gathering, and he wanted to send Krune in that qualifiers, the problem is because Krune's cultivation is too low, the martial arts gathering accepts anyone at the foundation establishment level, which means that the majority of the powers will send their 8th and 9th stage Foundation Establishment members, doesn't matter how much of a genius Krune is, he can't jump so many realms to compete.
That's where he thought about using Krune's methods to raise the level of their own late stages Foundation Establishment cultivators, Kassius pondered if he should talk to the Head of the Mercenary guilds in the Yule Continent, Bary Kasfiu, but he decided to not do so for now the time being, it's still to early and they can't scary Krune away, if they force the issue and Krune leaves the mercenary guild, they will only be able to cry.
Kassius called one of his assistants.
”Keep one eye on that Krune, I want to know if anything happens with him from now on.”
The person on the other side agreed with the request.
Kassius then looked a bit more to the files in front of him and put them back in the drawer.
”Let's see what will happen first, maybe he will be able to catch with the others cultivation, if that happens I won't need to ask him about how his group members combat power increased so fast.”
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Back at the Mercenary Guild, Krune was preparing to leave, he already finished memorizing all the content of the Alchemist Exam, only the practical test is left now, the practical test was 10 o'clock in the morning, just like the mercenary test back then, Krune, as always, arrived just a few minutes before the starting time.
He went to the testing room, there he could see another twenty some candidates.
'It's just like Casfer said, people with good control over the elements are few but become quite a lot when put together, the problem is to find talents regarding alchemy itself.'
Krune went to his table, when it became 10 o'clock, three alchemists entered in the room, one of them just so happened to be Julies Rof, the contestants were taken aback when they saw her.
”Isn't that Four Stars Alchemist, Julies Rof? Why is she helping with the practical exam?”
Another alchemist by his side then said.
”A few weeks ago that guy over there got 2796 points during the comprehension test, she is probably here because of him.”
”2796 points? That's too crazy! No wonder that she came to preside over the alchemist test by herself.”
Krune noticed that people were looking at him while commenting about his element control, he couldn't help but sigh.
'Why it's so hard to keep a low profile? I just want to be forgotten by everyone.'
Julies Rof, who was above the stage, started to speak.
”The practical exam to enter the alchemist guild is starting now, we will show you how concoct some simple pills, do not look down on those pills, whether you pass or not will depend on your performance with those pills.”
”I believe that the majority already know this, but I will explain just in case.”
”Pills are separated by their quality, the alchemist guild has formulated nine levels in total, this is the so called Star Pills, what you will need to concoct here is the most basic level, a One Star Pill.”
She then took out three different pills out of her spatial ring.
”You can chose one of these three pills to go through the exam, the Fasting pill, the Qi Gathering pill or the Stabilizing pill, those are the most common pills sold in our Guild and also the easiest ones to make.”
”You will pass as long as you can make a low or middle quality One Star pill, from that moment on you will be a One Star Alchemist and can join the guild for further studies.”