Chapter 76 - Defensive Artifact? (2/2)
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The next morning, Yusa, Ao and Shinja were already waiting for Krune at the Secret Realm entrance, but they noticed that he was quite late already.
”Did something happen?”
They looked at each other, it was obvious that none of them heard about anything.
”Let's go to his room to take a look.”
Just as they were about to leave, Krune appeared in the distance, not long after he arrived as well.
”Sorry for making you waiting, I was just talking with Lakin about something else.”
Krune had left behind a copy of the Race Cover Technique for Lakin and Cassy, and probably even Dier, after all, Dier is also at the peak of the 9th stage of the Qi Condensation, he just needs to decide on his foundation and he can start his breakthrough.
Krune then looked at everyone.
”Should we go?”
Since there was no problem, they nodded and departed, after traversing the gate, Krune used his privilege as Legacy Disciple to close it temporarily.
”Well, it will be at least three months for us to be back, are you sure you don't want to stay, Shinja? I believe that Cassy will be very happy if you keep her company.”
Shinja shook her head.
”I do like Cassy very much, but I feel like I will just get in Lakin's way if I stay behind.”
Yusa and Ao heard that and laughed.
”Indeed, that would be a big problem.”
Krune just sighed.
”So you also think that Lakin is interested in Cassy?”
Ao, Yusa, and Shinja looked at Krune as if they had seen a ghost, with Krune's EQ, there should be no way he noticed it.
”Who are you? Where is Krune? What did you do to him?”
Krune looked at their reactions and had the urge to kick them away, are they still his friends?
”Hmph! How could I not notice that? He looks at her the same way I looked at Feifei back then, I can at least see this much.”
It was impressive how Krune could say those words without the least bit of embarrassment, but the best part is the fact that he could at least understand what it is to be interested in someone else.
Ao put one of his hands on Krune's shoulder.
”Brother, I'm happy to see you growing up.”
Shinja and Yusa nodded their heads vigorously.
Krune felt that something was wrong.
'Why is that even when they are praising me, I feel like I'm being mocked instead?'
Krune just sighed and put those thoughts back on his mind, after that, all four of them swiftly left, of course, they made sure to not leave any traces behind where the Rainbow Sect Secret Realm Entrance is located, anyone who passes through there won't notice anything different.
Five days later, they arrived at the Harta City, instead of going back to the Kaley City Mercenary Guild Branch, they went to the Harta City's Branch instead, the contacted the Lu Ganan in the Kaley City to ask where they should teleport from here, after getting the teleport coordinates from Supervisor Lu, they went to the closest Long Distance Teleport Formation, paid the fee, and in a flash of silver light, they disappeared.
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Somewhere inside the Mercenary Guild Headquarters of the Yule Continent, a teleport formation started to shine, instants later, four figures appeared on it, they were obvious Krune and his friend, as soon as they arrived, someone was there to receive them.
”Hello, my friends, my name is Linder, an employee of the Mercenary Guild, I'm here to guide you into your rooms.”
Shinja was the most familiar with the Mercenary Guild Headquarters, so she came forward to compliment Linder.
”Very well, do you know if everyone is here already?”
Linder understood that she was talking about those who are going to participate in the Mercenary Selection.
”Yes, there is a total of twenty-seven Foundation Establishment cultivators under the age of Forty years old that are also Three Stars Mercenaries in the Headquarters at moment, that is already counting with you, everyone will be departing in one week for the Mercenary Selection.”
Shinja and the other understood, after that, Linder showed the way to the rooms prepared for them beforehand.
Linder took a few cards from his pocket and passed one to each member, he then explained.
”Those are the access cards that you can use here in the Headquarters if you want to enter some room, just use this card, if the room opens, it means that you are allowed to enter, if not, then you aren't, it makes everything easier around here, our Headquarters have everything you need, Formations, Blacksmiths, Runestones Formation, Alchemists, Puppets, so on and so forth, make sure to check the terminal in your room, there you can find all the information that you need while staying here.”
Expect for Shinja who had been here before, Krune and the others were quite amazed at the efficiency that the headquarters was managed.
After Linder left, their group decided that since they still have to wait for a week, they might as well go and do whatever they like in the meantime, Yusa was the first one to leave.
”The information says that the Headquarters have employed Six Stars cultivators for all the other occupations, so I'm going to the Runestone Formations room, see you later.”
She immediately left after that, she had also caught up with Ao when he stopped to open his Spiritual Energy Meridians, now she is at the 8th Stage of the Foundation Establishment, thanks to the Spiritual Energy Meridians, she can control three elements at the same time, in the end, she decided to basically use Water, Ice, and Lightning, she choose ice because it was a branch of the water element, and lightning because Shinja also used that, it complemented water type attacks very well too.
Ao decided to do something else.
”Their training facilities are great for sword users like me, so I'm going to take a look as well.”
With a swift breeze, Ao disappeared from where he was, he already reached the 8th Stage of the Foundation Establishment, and with the rewards of completing the last level of the Soul Endurance Test, he was able to open more Spiritual Energy Meridians, so his control over the wind element improved even more, not to mention that now he can also use three different elements just like Yusa, in the end, he decided to specialize in Wind, Fire and Metal, Wind and Fire complemented each other, while Metal, a branch of the earth element, can help him with his sword path.
Shinja didn't need to look at the information to know where to go.
”The Headquarters had paid for an Eight Stars Formations Master to set up an Eight Star Spirit Gathering Formation in the past, so I'm going there now, you should try it later if you have time.”
In the end, Krune was the only one left, after finding out that the guild had a Six Stars Blacksmiths, his next stop was pretty obvious.
”Time to check if my idea is feasible or not.”
Using his lightning movement, Krune also disappeared in a flash of light.