Chapter 823: The Crazy Wanderlust Team
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The spring water from the Fountain of Life entered Gui Hao’s body as a stream of pure energy, making him feel refreshed. He closed his eyes comfortably and felt vitality being injected into his body again. He clenched his fists, and loud booms sounded continuously.
Wang Zhong had… a talent for alchemy? That was ridiculous. Did Wang Zhong think that he could rejoice just because he was promoted to Holy Disciple? He should feel miserable because only Holy Disciples could enter the challenge round of the rank-advancent competition, and Gui Hao would let him know how it felt to be thrashed!
He would trample on Wang Zhong personally until he was reduced to ash! Gui Hao wouldn’t let anyone else steal this job away from him!
Thinking of that mont, Gui Hao couldn’t help but feel excited to the extent that his whole body was trembling, infatuated with that idea.
He would deal with Wang Zhong first, then Carolyn, then… No one could escape from him!
Pa!
The sturdy glass bottle that contained the spring water from the Fountain of Life suddenly exploded. The glass shards disappeared without leaving a trace upon contact with Gui Hao’s violent Soul Power in the air.
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While the Holy Disciple rank-advancent competition was ongoing, the senior mbers of the Wanderlust Team weren’t slacking either. On the contrary, they were very excited as they hadn’t concerned themselves with such stuff in a long while.
“Boss, what did you do? You scamd us!”
“Vice-captain, you… why did you go for the subsidiary profession test instead? How did you suddenly have a talent for alchemy? Oh my God!”
Wang Zhong received a ssage to go to a Wanderlust Team gathering, but just as he arrived, he could hear wailing and screeching coming from the Queen’s Bar. A big group of people from the Wanderlust Team had tears in their eyes and were staring at Wang Zhong wistfully. Even Oscar, who was the calm one among them, couldn’t keep his composure now. His hand that was holding a wine glass was trembling, and he showed a bitter smile upon seeing Wang Zhong.
“Huh… What’s going on?” Wang Zhong was extrely confused. He didn’t recall doing anything to warrant this reaction from them.
“You didn’t join the rank-advancent competition?” Oscar didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Wang Zhong scratched his head, not understanding what was going on. He had already been awarded the Holy Disciple title without having to do anything. Why would he join the rank-advancent competition? Even if he wanted to, he couldn’t, as that was only for Holy Apprentices… However, what did him joining the rank-advancent competition have to do with these guys? Why did they care so much? “If you guys have sothing on your mind, just say it directly. I’ve been using up a lot of brain cells lately.”
“It’s the bets we made at the Dinsional Hostel.” Oscar laughed bitterly. “Before the Holy Disciple rank-advancent competition comnced, there were a few bets on so popular newcors, and there was one bet on whether you could pass the rank-advancent competition.”
“For you passing, the odds of the bet are 3:1 against us. For you not passing, the odds are 1.1:1.” Beside him, Asher chid in with a pained expression. He had started this whole thing. If he hadn’t talked about this in front of the whole team, no one would have thought of this way to ‘get rich’. Who knew that this would turn into such a loss?! “All of us thought that this rank-advancent competition would be a piece of cake for you, and there was no way in hell that you couldn’t pass it. Who knew that you didn’t even join the competition? This definitely isn’t considered a pass.”
“But I was promoted successfully?”
“Of course it’s different. Other people were betting whether you’d be able to pass the Holy Disciple rank-advancent competition, which is the Thousand Gorge Fish Forest test. The bet wasn’t on whether you could be promoted to Holy Disciple.” Oscar could only maintain his bitter smile, feeling dead inside. There were certainly traps in the bets started by the Dinsional Hostel; the people there wanted to earn money too. The bet was that Wang Zhong had to go to the Thousand Gorge Fish Forest and pass the test; otherwise, they would be considered to have lost the bet. Who knew that Wang Zhong would be talented in alchemy?!
Sister Feng was the only person who remained calm. “All of them joined the bet, but luckily I had gone into closed-door cultivation those few days and managed to avoid any losses.”
“Hmm, how much did you guys bet?” Wang Zhong was stunned for a mont.
Suddenly, the entire bar quieted down. It was Oscar who broke the silence. “I bet two thousand…”
“I bet a thousand.”
“I bet eight hundred…” Everyone started to speak. “I bet a whopping six thousand!” Lance made a crying face.
Wang Zhong just drank a sip of beer and almost spat it out. “What the hell! You guys always complained about being poor. Where did all this money co from?”
“Oh please, brother, I’ve been saving up for five years. Those were my lifeti savings!” Lance almost fainted. “I don’t think I can continue living anymore. My money!!”
The others shut up instantly. Although everyone bet a large sum of money, they mostly used the money they had lying around from their recent, consecutive completed missions. Since the Wanderlust Team’s rank went up the exploration-team ranking chart, they were able to accept missions that were more rewarding. That was why the whole team wasn’t as poor as before even if they weren’t considered rich. They were depressed and thought it was a pity that they lost the bet, but it wasn’t like they would die or anything. Their reactions were more of just joking around with Wang Zhong, but Lance betting 6,000 was a little… Everyone else stopped moaning and wailing, turning to look at Lance sympathetically. Although this guy looked boorish, he was actually a family-oriented man who was an expert at saving money. He wasn’t willing to spend money on buying a decent soul tool for himself despite all the dangerous situations and hardships he had endured the past five years. He had been using a subpar soul tool that his alchemy teacher in the Tyrants gave him previously. He painstakingly saved 6,000 Holy Coins, yet in the end…
Too bad. Who asked everyone to be so confident in Wang Zhong? Frankly speaking, when they had made the bet, it seed like a sure win for them. Everyone thought that this was the Wanderlust Team’s shot at getting rich without doubt! That was why everyone was so confident; if not, it would have been almost impossible to get Lance, that miser, to take his lifeti savings out.
Beside them, the newcors gaped in shock. Only Grai and Napier managed to pass the Holy Disciple rank-advancent competition. Mo Ling, Sharmie, and Mario failed the test and were originally quite depressed about it. However, seeing how everyone suffered losses, Sharmie couldn’t help but pat her busty chest, sticking out her tongue. “Seems like being poor has its rits too…”
“If I had the money, I would be in the sa state as you guys now…” Even Napier was left with a lingering fear. His words weren’t any comfort at all as Lance wailed louder.
“Shut up! What a disgrace! Six thousand Holy Coins? Lifeti savings? That’s nothing! I bet ten thousand! Have I started complaining?” Suddenly, Small Eyes said in a scornful tone beside them.
“Where did you get that money from?”
“I used Murphy’s Torntor Hand Mortar as collateral and borrowed five thousand from loan sharks.” This piece of news was extrely shocking, like throwing a stone into still water and causing thousands of ripples. Loan sharks from the Holy City? Even Wang Zhong couldn’t help but swallow. He didn’t dare to approach the loan sharks even when he was in desperate need of money. Small Eyes was too bold!
“What do you guys want to do?” Wang Zhong waved his hand helplessly. “You can’t recoup your losses even if you sell .”
There was suddenly no despair in everyone’s eyes as they turned together to stare enthusiastically at Wang Zhong. Small Eyes turned around and grabbed Wang Zhong’s hands, staring at him intensely. “My lovely, great vice-captain, it is ti for you to redeem yourself!”
Wang Zhong’s hand that was holding the wine glass was still hanging in mid-air. Everyone in the team suffered great losses all of a sudden, and although it wasn’t really his fault, he had sowhat caused this to happen. He felt rather bad and was a little embarrassed, but thought what Small Eyes said was quite funny. “How can I?”
“Actually, we didn’t focus all of our money on this bet since we calculated the risks. We focused a larger portion of our money on the challenge round of the competition. Dear Captain, you can win that, right?” Small Eyes didn’t even bother addressing him as the vice-captain.
Everyone else nodded their heads furiously, and even Oscar couldn’t help nodding his bald head. If they won that bet, not only could they recoup their losses, they could even buy another set of better battle equipnt for themselves. It was a difficult life to be poor these days.
“Well, I guess. I think there aren’t many newcors who are a threat to ,” Wang Zhong said.
“You have to be sure about that. For the sake of the Wanderlust Team’s future, you must win! If you lose, everyone will die together with you!” Small Eyes was already hyped up.
Long live the vice-captain~~~
It was the tenth day after the Holy Death Day. At this ti every year, all the tests were more or less completed, and the evaluation centers were no longer open for tests. Logically, everyone should have cald down by then, but in fact, everyone was looking forward to this day.
The three major subsidiary professions — the Alchemy Union, the Wards Master Union, and the Gourt’s Association — would release the na lists of those who had passed the tests on that day. It was like a results day. Although they had gone through the tests, most people only had a rough gauge of how they did in them. Few could say that they were absolutely confident of passing the test before they saw their nas on the na list. In past years, this was the only major event worth everyone’s attention on that day. However, there was one more this year, the challenge round of the competition that was only recently added.
The competition venue was the Achilles Arena, which was one of the main entertainnt venues in the Holy Land. Battles between different groups of creatures took place here. Sotis, the battles were between humans, or humans and Dinsional lifeforms, and occasionally, there were battles between Dinsional lifeforms too.
This newcor competition was just a small event. In the Holy City, news about newcors had never attracted much attention. Although there seed to be many rumors and gossip about the newcors, those were only circulated amongst the newcor circle, and other people wouldn’t pay much attention to those. However, due to the special circumstances this ti, more people paid attention to this competition.
This was because of the addition of the Empire newcors, and also the rumors of how there was soone in this batch that had the potential to beco a Great Teacher, as well as the rumors that the 10 Great Families spread to hype the Federation newcors up. The actions of the higher-ups in the Holy Land seed to suggest that there was an upcoming conquest soti in the future.
Every ti before they waged a Holy Battle, they would start accepting more people into the Holy Land for a few consecutive years.
The Holy Apprentices who failed to beco Holy Disciples and the Heroic Soul Stage commoners who craved to be in a lively atmosphere and get closer to the higher social classes made up the majority of the audience. There were quite a few Holy Disciples in the audience too. The number of newcors and experts was the highest in this batch in the past 10 years. There were a few newcors participating in the competition that were highly valued by their exploration teams, so the senior Holy Disciples from there ca to support them.
Other than those people, so Teachers from the three supre forces were in the audience too, but there were no Great Teachers present. To put it bluntly, this competition was considered to be low-level entertainnt. However, sotis, it was the low-level entertainnt that provided the most entertainnt.
“Look, it’s Teacher Arudiba from the Tyrants! Bald Teachers look kinder.”
“It’s Teacher Marie from the Mystic Sect! Oh my God, she’s beautiful!” Soone shouted, pointing to an ethereal lady near the stage.
“You think she’s only beautiful? How superficial. She’s my idol! The number one wards master! Oh my God, she actually ca to watch the competition?!”
“Teacher Marie! Look at ! Look at !”
As soon as this piece of news was spread, a lot of screaming could be heard from the spectator stands. Marie Ji smiled at the people who were shouting, not seeming to bla them.
She was one of the top 10 beauties in the Holy City, as well as an outstanding wards master with a talent that was said to only appear once a century. She was long used to all the screaming in public places wherever she appeared, and she knew how to handle it.
She had been thinking of recruiting an assistant recently, and she heard that there was a newcor who was favored by several Great Masters and who happened to be female too. That was very rare, as there weren’t many female wards masters who were truly talented. That was why Marie Ji was interested. Although her main job was as a teacher, her expertise in her subsidiary profession was already nearing the standard of a Great Master. She didn’t think that she was inferior to those Great Teachers who had wanted to accept Carolyn as their Successor Disciple. Marie Ji had absolute confidence in herself, especially in her subsidiary profession.
Of course, seeing for oneself was better than hearing from others. Just listening to rumors of the newcor’s talent in wards wasn’t reliable, and she wanted to observe the newcor from a closer distance. She wanted to see the newcor’s performance and talent for herself. Although this sort of competition probably wouldn’t involve wards and it was unlikely that anyone would dare to challenge Carolyn, given her reputation among the newcors, Marie Ji had more accurate ways to find out whether one had a talent in wards. However, this had to happen without Carolyn’s knowledge so that Marie Ji could get a more precise grasp of her talent. That was why she chose to co over to watch the competition today.
At this point in ti, the newcors hadn’t even entered the venue, but the lively atmosphere of the full-house crowd there made Marie Ji feel more involved. It brought her back to mories of her youth: it was back when she and Lan Daier were still a part of the Federation on Earth, not giving a care in the world and energetic. The Holy City was very quiet on most days, and perhaps she was used to it already, but she was still nostalgic at tis.
She zoned out for a while when soone tapped her shoulder suddenly. “Hey, you’re here early.”
She knew it was Lan Daier from the person’s voice. Only this girl dared to pat her shoulder so casually in the Holy City.
Marie Ji smiled. “It’s lucky that I arrived early. I didn’t expect so many people to co and spectate today. I thought not many people would co to watch a newcors’ competition.”
“It’s just because it’s sothing new. Fast forward to two years later, and no one will be curious about this rule anymore.” Lan Daier had seen through everyone’s ntality. Life in the Holy City was too boring. Any new activity that everyone could participate in would definitely draw everyone’s interest regardless of whether it was actually entertaining.
“Why? You got your eye on soone here?” Marie Ji saw that Lan Daier seed to be waving to soone.
“Nah, I’m just looking around.” Lan Daier felt a little guilty. This wasn’t just anyone but her good friend who knew everything about her.
The iron gates of the ring-shaped battlefield were opened, and the noisy crowd quieted down instantly. Right after, the sound of drums rang as a few hundred newly promoted Holy Disciples filed in from the iron gates.
Perhaps it wasn’t the audience that was the most excited about the competition today but the participants.
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