Chapter 42 - Goodbye! (1/2)
After coming back from the gates of hell where he met the demon god called Yusa, Ao explained to him what being a virgin means to a woman, Krune then sighed and decided to forget about what happened, he thought that humans put way too much importance over such trivialities.
Krune kept his cultivation and pill concoction daily routine, sometimes he would leave for a mission with Ao and Yusa, thanks to that, their position in the mercenary team rank has finally got into the top 1000, but neither of them cared for it, as long as they had the points to exchange for the necessary items in the mercenary guild, that was enough.
After spending a few months, together with his new Spiritual Energy Meridian, Krune was finally able to breakthrough into the 4th stage of the Foundation Establishment Realm, at the same time, both Ao and Yusa reached the 5th stage, Krune helped them by concocting the pills they needed, not to mention his teaching about their own element controls which was the main reason behind their improvement.
They were in the mission hall of the mercenary guild scrolling through the list of mission when suddenly, Lu Ganan called them.
”You three, please come to my office, the mercenary guild has a special request for you.”
They looked puzzled, but since it was a request direct from the supervisor, they went there to take a look anyway.
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One week earlier, Yule Continent Mercenary Head Quarters, there was a meeting happening in the main hall, only those with status of elders or those that had important positions in the Head Quarters management could participate, the Head of the guild in the Yule Continent, Bary Kasfiu, was also there waiting for everyone to arrive.
When they gathered together, the meeting finally started, Bary Kasfiu came forward to give the news.
”The Furiu Realm is opening again, we just received the message from our scouts, we believe that it will be completely open in ten days if fast, and fourteen days if slow.”
The people in the room were surprised, the Furiu realm was a place built by a supreme expert long before technology was developed, cultivators have a long story, but technology only appeared around three thousand years ago, with that, one can already imagine how old the place is, the only thing that the big powers of the Yule Continent know is that no one in their Makui Planet could possibly have built such place, they are way too weak for that.
The Furiu realm opens randomly, no one knows what is the reason, they only know where the entrance is, that place was also used to give the realm its name, it stays at the Furiu Danger Zone, a gigantic swamp like place at west of the Yule Continent.
The ninth elder couldn't help but comment.
”Last time it opened was over five hundred years ago, as expected of the random opening realm, its opening times really follows no pattern, before that it had opened a hundred years prior, and even before that it was two hundred and seventy years, to think that it would take over five hundred years to open again since the last time.”
Bary nodded.
”Exactly, we need to grab this change to temper our members, as all of you know, only those at the Foundation Establishment Realm and bellow can enter, if we are luck we might give birth to a few members capable enough to participate in the martial gathering, but don't forget, we aren't the only ones who know about that, we might have closed all entrances to prevent other continent powers from entering, but that was because we joined hands with every clan and sect with strength in our own continent, so they will also been sending their own members.”
One of the supervisors then asked.
”How many slots are available for each of the powers?”
Bary answered straight away.
”Each power has access to 20 slots, we are expecting to have over 500 participants this time, which means that we can send at most four teams of five people each, the reason of this meeting is to decide who we are sending this time.”
Everyone started discussing and soon the room fired up, there was quite a good amount of promising teams in the guild at moment, although neither was at the martial gathering level, they might have a breakthrough if they use this chance well. Someone then said
”The carnage team is a must then, they have been in the top of the rank last time and are still in the top since the last reset.
No one showed discordance with him, they kept on going.
”I also think that the thunder lion team is a good choice, they are not in the top 10 teams, but they definitely have one of the greatest potential between all teams available.”
Some were against, others not so much, in the end the thunder lion team was also selected. After some more discussion another two teams were selected, the Enlightenment team and the Flood Dragon team.
By now there was only four slots available, although Bary said that they could send four teams of five members, it's not like every team had five members, there were some with more and others with less after all.
When they were about to discuss which other team to send, the supervisor of the reviews application, Kassius Ruli, raised his hand.
”I didn't say anything during the selection of the previous teams, but I want three of the last four slots to be given to the rainbow team.”
The room immediately got silent. Rainbow Team? What is that? No one had ever heard about this team before, Kassius looked at Bary who nodded, Kassius had already informed Bary about Krune and the others before the meeting, Bary could barely believe that their Yule Continent had given birth to such a talent, he wished that Kassius told him about Krune sooner, but he could understand Kassius thoughts, so he let it pass, he and Kassius had been friends for a long time after all, as the Head of the Head Quarters, Bary had too many things to deal every day, Kassius, as his friend, had never given him any extra work that he considered unnecessary, so Bary couldn't get angry at him no matter how much he wanted to.
Bary looked at everyone and then said
”The rainbow team is not very well known, but I'm sure you guys heard about that the mercenary guild had given an exception to promote a new mercenary directly to the four stars, right?”
People nodded, the news had been spread everywhere after all, one of the elders then commented.
”But if I'm not wrong, it hasn't been even half a year since he became a member of the guild, and when he joined he was just at the 1st stage of Foundation Establishment.”
Bary nodded.
”Exactly, his name is Krune, he is one of the five cultivators of the young generation of our Yule Continent to make an Universe Foundation, but that's not everything, he is the leader of the Rainbow Team.”
This time it was one of the supervisors that couldn't hold himself.