183 Peculiar Mentality (2/2)

”Shouldn’t there be a proper ceremony?” Lin Huang read from novels that apprenticeships must go through some kind of official ceremony.

”There’s no need for that, it’s just for a show.” Mr. Fu seemed to despise the so-called ceremony.

”I’ve seen the Army Attack Tactics that you were training, I could tell you that you’re at least on level-7 or even level-8.” Mr. Fu said to Lin Huang, ”Which level are you really on?”

”Level-8…” Lin Huang did not expect Mr. Fu to see through him.

”What’s your combat level now? Which rank of silver-level?” Mr. Fu asked again.

”White silver-level rank-3.” Lin Huang replied honestly.

”Your speed is rather terrifying. Please stabilize your Life Power properly, don't be lazy. It’s a good thing that you level-up fast but it’s important to have a stable foundation.” Mr. Fu was impressed as he recalled Lin Huang was only a bronze-level rank-3 few days ago when they met on the spaceship.

”Alright.” Lin Huang nodded.

”I’ve seen your documents that were sent by the Hunter Association, I know you have a summoning monster that went through a double mutation. Although you’re an Imperial Censor, you should not be relying on your summoning monsters while ignoring your ability. A truly powerful Imperial Censor should have abilities that are no less than his summoning monsters or even stronger. Don’t ever forget that your own ability is the root of success. You can treat your summoning monster as your partner. However, their strength is not yours at the end of the day.” Mr. Fu advised.

”I understand, master.” Lin Huang had noticed this problem recently. Ever since he possessed powerful summoning monsters, he became weak himself. Just like the battle with Xia Yu earlier, he did not have the strength to fight back at all, all he did was relying on Tyrant to cover him. He wanted to be stronger himself as well instead of relying on his summoning monsters.

Through the video call, Mr. Fu managed to know a little bit more about Lin Huang as well as giving him a simple guidance. Before seeing Lin Huang’s performance in a real battle, he did not plan to guide Lin Huang in his direction at all.

Now that Mr. Fu had already found out some details about Lin Huang, he said to him after some consideration, ”The year is ending, I shall give you a mission.”

”Please. Do tell, master.” Lin Huang nodded.

”You are a Regular Hunter now, so you’re eligible to battle in the Hunter Arena. My mission to you will be for you to enter the Division7 Hunter Arena within two months and rank up to top 10 in the Silver Hunter Leaderboard without using any of your summoning monsters! Remember to record the battle in a video.

Lin Huang was surprised at the request, his expression showed it all. The mission was not exactly easy. Lin Huang had never been to the Hunter Arena, however, he knew there were many powerful hunters in there. Most of the Regular Hunters would have their own accounts at the arena. Like the Gold Hunter Leaderboard, a portion of the statistic on their personal ability came from the results at the Hunter Arena.

Although he knew that it would be a challenge, Lin Huang accepted anyway, ”I'll give my best no matter what.”

”I mean the two months when the Hunter Arena is open. It doesn't include the New Year holidays as it'll be closed during that period. You should spend time with your family during the holidays.” Mr. Fu added.

Oh right, there’s something that I’ll need to tell you. The Hunter Association wanted to list you into intensive training but because of me, you will not pass the review as I am not one of the members of the Hunter Association. Those who are listed in intensive training must be apprentices to those who are members of the association.” Mr. Fu did not forget to tell Lin Huang about that matter.

”It’s alright, I heard of the review process from head examiner Mu, I knew I might not pass the final review.” Lin Huang did not mind at all.

After some advice, Mr. Fu hung up the call.

…

Lin Huang boarded the Demonic Crystal Spaceship the next morning. As Mu Lan bought him a ticket in the VIP cabin, many people looked at him as he pressed 11th floor in the elevator, they thought he was a member of royalty. When he arrived on the 11th floor, he was the only one left in the elevator. It was the first time he came to this floor in the spaceship. He found his room number which was Room 1108, he scanned the key card and went it.

Lin Huang raised his eyebrows when he saw how big the room was, it was not thousands of meters but it was at least 800 square meters. There was almost everything in the room. After taking a thorough look in the room, Lin Huang found out there was a mini swimming pool in a single room. The bedroom was not only spacious because the bathroom was 50 or 60 square meters, sufficient to accommodate a group of people.

After looking at the room, Lin Huang came to the living room. As he was planning to take a look at the Hunter Arena, a news video popped up. It was a video of the Hunter Association opening up about the invasion of heretics at the assessment. After the Hunter Association condemned the heretics, they declared war upon the heretics in Division7. The heretics were asked to publicly apologize and release all the captured hunters or else their members in this division would be badly affected.

A couple of minutes into the video, the heretics responded. The presiding judge was wearing a black robe with a white, scary mask on his face.

”I would like to apologize on behalf of the organization for the troubles caused to the Hunter Association. We will release all of the 12,800 people within a month after the evaluation. We would also pay for the damages caused to the Hunter Association so that we are at peace. We never meant to start a war with the Hunter Association and the Union Government. We hope the public would understand that we are not some terrorist, we have just a normal organization that practices freedom. If you are interested, you may call the number at the bottom right of the screen to join our assessment…”

”What the hell is that? How does an open apology become a TV commercial?” Lin Huang thought the mentality of these heretics was quite puzzling.

”They'll be released within a month? Would the Hunter Association still want them?”