Chapter 226: 5D-Seer, Citadel, Virtual Arena (1/2)

The next morning, Yman went to the Training Pavilion. He directly went to the second floor of it.

Yesterday, he talked with Rea, and she agreed to his pleas.

He asked Rea to be the one to buy the ingredients they needed. Rea agreed to help him and told him that he needed to pay with Department points. Yman then nodded. He could not ask Cinde to do it using her other department as she wasn't a high-status member of that department.

On the second floor of the Training Pavilion, could be found the facility known as Citadel.

Inside the Citadel, people or Demihumans were usually visiting this place to contest their strength from other experts, especially the rankers.

When he entered the room, he noticed that there were many people inside. Some of them glanced at him in wonder and curiosity.

Seeing such a new face just pique their interests.

”Wait, isn't that the newbieranker?”

”New ranker? Oh, so, he is the new ranker.”

”Mhm!”

When one of them was able to recognize him, the others started to whisper at each other. After knowing his identity, they started to look at him differently.

They were probably sizing him.

Although many people inside were looking at him, most were not minding him.

On the first floor no doubt that many people would recognize him on the spot, but on the second floor, it was different. He was more than a normal person on this floor.

Most rankers are frequent in this room. After all, this room is the room for all rankers. Only rankers are qualified to enter this room. So seeing a newbie ranker wasn't unexpected at all. They even show a mocking smile at him.

Yman proceeded to the counter and disregarded their mockery. He came for an important reason, and he only has little time for it. So, he could not be bothered by them.

In the first place, he didn't even care about being a ranker nor being popular.

The room inside was quite spacious, which he believed could accommodate about 250 people or more.

He saw some big screens around, and some people were busy gazing at them, unbothered by their surroundings. The others were noisy yelling-- probably cheering to the two people fighting inside the monitor, which Yman believed as rankers who were dueling.

Yman gasped in admiration at the place, much modernized compared to the HCZ7. Fufu, a mocking chuckle escaped from his mouth. It was a chuckle of mockery towards that place-- the HCZ7.

Well, he wasn't mocking it because he disliked it. It was just funny to think that the city of the people from a modern society was more backwater compared to this Academy.

When Yman arrived at the counter, he was required to present his student ID together with contracts with the Training Pavilion.

”Oh, newbie?” Asked the counter girl. Yman nodded his head as a reply.

Then the counter girl gave him some documents that he needed to sign.

Yman noticed the counter girl wrinkled his forehead upon her eyes landed on the department he belonged.

After signing all the documents, the counter girl presented him with a level 1 membership card together with a triangular device that looks like MTMD.

This device was known as 5D-Seer. Just like the MTMD's, a holographic screen would appear once you activate it. You could toggle it to search for an available ranker to be the opponent.

There was also the ranking list of the rankers. The winning rate was the basis for the ranking.

Even his status as a ranker was also there. Yman proceeded to check the ranker in the ranking list.

But their status and winning rate that displayed in it were so overwhelming.

Yman went to read the FAQ. He learned that, through this device, anyone who received a challenge would get a pop-up notification, asking you if to accept the challenge or not.

Through this device, their soul would enter the 5th dimension while their body went into a state of hibernation.

It was highly recommended that whenever one accepts the challenge-- one must be in a safe place.

Since he was already an official member of the ranker people, Yman decided to leave for now. But he stopped when he noticed the approaching person.

”Yo' Crimson!”

Yman squinted his eyes. It was Prince Damian. Yman nodded with a smile.

”Fancy meeting you here. Did you come to finalize your membership?” Prince Damian asked.

”Yeah!”

”Fufu, that's good. Why don't you try it?”

Prince Damian said as he pointed to the monitor where two rankers were dueling.

”.....”