Chapter 42 - Goodbye! (2/2)

”But he was at the 1st stage just a few months ago, the martial gathering is happening in a year and a half from now, I agree he is a great talent that is worth to be nurtured by our guild, but there isn't enough time for him to catch up, the martial gathering barely has anyone at the 8th of Foundation Establishment, the majority are all at the 9th stage, and usually at the peak of that stage, there isn't enough time for his cultivation to get there.”

Everyone nodded, maybe in the gathering ten years after the next one it will be his time to shine, but now isn't the time, they should send a team that has a real chance to fight for the five slots of the mercenary guild world wide selection. Bary then looked at everyone and said.

”And what if I tell you that in this few months he went from the 1st stage all the way to the 4th? Not only that, both his team member had their stages improved by two, Ao Sulian and Yusa Shen joined him when they were only at the 3rd Stage of the Foundation Establishment, but they are at the 5th stage now. Not only that, we checked Ao and Yusa's past, they were pretty common cultivators, Ao had barely passed the test to acquire his One Star Mercenary Badge, and Yusa had participated in the same exam as Krune, in that Exam she acquired a Two Stars Badge, but not only had their realms improved by two stages, the both of them reapplied for the mercenary test and are now Three Stars mercenaries, each one of them passed their test with easy, their level during the test was very close to Krune himself.”

This time everyone was shocked, Yusa and Ao improvement had been way too fast, they couldn't help but ask.

”But if they improved their realm this fast, their foundations should be totally unstable, it might look great now but it will only leave horrible side effects in the future.”

Kassius heard that and a smile appeared in his face.

”I ask everyone to take a look at the monitor behind Guild Head Bary, remember that what you will see have been recorded in the past week.”

Kassius then pressed a button on his communicator which made the monitor show three graphs, those graphs had names beside them, Krune, Ao and Yusa.

This time quite a few got up from their chairs.

”Impossible!”

”There is no way you can keep such a stable foundation after jumping so many realms in such a short amount of time.”

Bary then struck the iron while it was hot.

”But this is the truth, I had the Kaley Citys supervisor, Lu Ganan, check it three times, their foundations are exactly as shown in the graphs, we believe that the reason for Yusa and Ao's improvement to be Krune himself, during the time that we were keeping a look on them we noticed that both Yusa and Ao kept receiving pointers from Krune from time to time, of course, the majority of the time Krune was teaching them we had no way to see it, but it's pretty much confirmed that Krune is the reason behind his own and his team members amazing improvement.”

One of the elder then said.

”In that case why don't we call Krune over and have him pass his teachings to the high level members of our guild? It would be several times more effective than pass such knowledge to people like those Yusa and Ao.”

Kassius shook his head.

”Not gonna work, every cultivator in the world, we included, have their own secrets, to do that is to pry into Krunes secret, from what we found Krune puts a lot of importance in relationship, family and friends first, as for being the number one in the world? Screw that! If we force the issue he might as well just leave the mercenary guild and join some other power, if that happened we can only cry.”

Bary then said

”That's why I think we should send his team as well, have you forgotten? He and his team members are all at the Three and Four Star Mercenary level now, they got to the 4th and 5th stage of Foundation Establishment in less than half a year, if Krune and his group keep like that, they might just be able to take part in the Mercenary Guild qualifiers for the Martial Gathering.”

The supervisor of resources intervened.

”But to send then inside the Furiu Realm with their actual strength is too risk, as the rule says, as long as it is inside the Danger Zones, no one will care if someone is killed, if he dies there, then we will really lose am extremely important future member.”

Kassius and Bary then smiled.

”There is two reasons for why we should send them this time. First, with Krune's cultivation speed, he probably will be at the Core Formation Realm by the time the next Martial Gathering eleven and a half years from now starts, because of that he won't be able to participate anymore. Second, as for the danger problem we have a solution, we are going to use the last slot to send Shinja Avril with them with the objective of protecting Krune's life at all costs.”

The forth elder was surprised.

”Did she agree with that? Shinja Avril had never joined a team before, she had always been alone as far as I know, as another special Four Stars Mercenary at the Foundation Establishment Real, we tried to make her join or create a team of her own before, but she always refused. She also has the Universe Foundation, so it's really a pity that she never joined the rank.”

Bary just said

”There is no need to worry about that, I have reached an agreement with her and we signed a blood contract already, unless she is in a deadly situation, she will protect Krune's life.”

After hearing that no one said anything anymore.

Shinja Avril is a human woman with a Pure Yin Body, she came from an ordinary family but got where she is with her own power, as for her universe foundation, just like Krune had commented in the past, even when you chose the same foundation as someone else, they are bound to be different, there is no identical foundation in the universe. Because she has an Yin Body, she is very beautiful, but at the same time extremely cold, due to her constitution her hair is blue like the ocean, as said before, she had never joined or created a rank team before, even though she was considered one of the strongest Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Yule Continent, Guild Head Bary had to pay a wealthy price to convince her to protect Krune. Another reason for why she accepted this job is because she wanted to meet this demon beast in human form that also has a universe foundation like hers.

And with that, the twenty slots were shared and the meeting was over.

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Back at Kaley City Mercenary Guild, Lu Ganan was explaining to them everything that was decided about the Furiu Realm, unfortunately for him, he didn't get the answer he was expecting.

Yusa, Ao and Krune looked at each other, and then back at Lu Ganan before showing a bright slime on their faces.

”We refuse, goodbye!”

And then they left just like that.