The first thing Lin Huang did after receiving the new Emperor’s Heart Ring was register himself so he could participate in the Regular Hunter assessnt. Ti passed quickly and before he knew it, a week went by with Lin Huang spending most of his ti resting. Besides that, he also practiced Army Attack Tactics for a couple of hours every day to keep his skills sharp. The training was not to upgrade his abilities but rather to avoid his body from getting lazy so he practiced every day to keep up his montum.
It was half a month before the assessnt would start and was almost ti to depart. Lin Huang spoke to Lin Xin and Lin Xuan that night at dinner.
"I will head to foothold No.7B24 in two days to join the Regular Hunter Assessnt. The assessnt itself will take about one month and the journey back and forth would take more than 20 days. So, it looks like I’ll be away for almost two months," he explained.
"Brother, will you be able to co back before the year end?" Lin Xin asked. She seed really upset.
"That shouldn’t be a problem. The Hunter Association would take that into consideration that as well. As soon as the assessnt ends, I should have sufficient ti to get back ho," Lin Huang nodded.
"Lin Xuan, listen to your sister, tell her when you’re hungry. Don’t leave the house on your own. If you need to head out, follow your sister," Lin Huang said to Lin Xuan. Lin Xuan nodded.
"Xin Er, I have many monster carcasses with , I’ll transfer them to your storage space. Don’t just eat at like Lin Xuan does, get so vegetables and fruits as well. I’ll transfer you so credit points..." Lin Huang then transferred the monster carcasses and credit points to Lin Xin as he said.
"Don’t worry about spending the money, buy all the things that you need to buy..." he continued.
Lin Xin did not say a word and all she did was to nod. She knew that the Regular Hunter Assessnt only happened twice a year. If Lin Huang missed this round, he would have to wait until June of next year. On the next day, Lin Huang headed to Baqi City after lunch and bid farewell to Lin Xin and Lin Xuan. He checked into a hotel at the central plaza of Baqi City. He stayed there to wait for the Demonic Crystal Spaceship which would depart the next morning.
After a nights rest in Baqi City, Lin Huang took the spaceship to foothold No.7B24 the next morning. The journey to the foothold would take 11 days and thankfully it was a smooth one. However, there were many passengers on the spaceship. Most of them look like they were hunters too, perhaps also participating in the assessnt. On the 11th day at noon, the spaceship arrived at foothold No.7B24 in the north of Baqi City.
Foothold No.7B24 was also called Beixuan City. There were more than 180 B-grade footholds in Division7, and foothold No.7B24 was one of the earliest ones to be established. It was huge, covering an area of more than 11,000 square kiloters. The permanent residents numbered at 16 million people with a five million strong population of people who ca in and out of the city. It was considered a crowded foothold compared to other B-grade footholds.
After he disembarked the spaceship, Lin Huang arrived at a hotel that was located nearby the Hunter Association. He had booked the hotel room before he departed. He then registered himself at the reception. It was three days before the assessnt, and Lin Huang planned to adapt himself to the environnt for the next couple of days. After a short rest in the hotel room, he started practicing Fatal Tactics.
It was a Rare close combat skill, utilizing most of the muscles and bones in his body. With every hit, Lin Huang could clearly feel like he was familiarizing himself with his own body. Now that his Army Attack Tactics was level-8, combining that with Fatal Tactics would heighten its strength. He had been practicing the skill for almost 20 days now... It was not clear if it was the effects of Army Attack Tactics or sothing else. Although he had only been practicing for a couple of hours every day, the rate he accumulated skill card pieces did not decrease.
On the next day, Lin Huang had accumulated 600 Fatal Tactics skill card pieces by the afternoon. A notification from Xiao Hei popped up.
"600 Fatal Tactics skill card pieces have been detected, would you like to combine them into a Rare Skill Card - Fatal Tactics?"
"Yes," Lin Huang replied. He did not expect he would be able to obtain a complete skill card before the assessnt even started.
"Consuming Fatal Tactics skill card pieces x600"
"Congratulations, you have obtained a Rare Skill Card - Fatal Tactics"
Lin Huang looked at the new skill card imdiately.
"Skill Card"
"Skill Na: Fatal Tactics"
"Rarity: Rare (Epic)"
"Type of Skill: Close combat skill"
"Skill Level: Unknown"
"Status: Available"
"Remarks: With the upgrade in strength from Army Attack Tactics being more than level-6, this skill is comparable with an Epic combat skill."
"Card Remarks: Not bad"
He could not help but to laugh when he saw the remarks. He did not expect his limited training to give him a close combat skill card that was comparable to an Epic card. Initially, he practiced the close combat skills without any expectations since he excelled in sword skills. He did not train to accumulate skill card pieces but to adapt and prepare himself for the assessnt. That was why he only trained for a couple of hours and rested for the remainder of the day.
It was a great surprise that he managed to obtain a new skill card before the assessnt started. As long as Army Attack Tactics was at level-6 or more, one could draw strength that was comparable with an Epic-level combat skill. Now that his Army Attack Tactics was already at level-8, his combat strength would be much more powerful. It was as if he had obtained an Epic combat skill out of the blue.
"That’s great, I can just fight with my bare hands if I encounter any small monsters in the future. There’s no need for to bring out my sword all the ti," Lin Huang laughed to himself.
On the third day in Beixuan City, Lin Huang woke up before seven in the morning. After breakfast, he headed straight to the Hunter Association. The official opening hours was 8 a.m. but it was not even 7:15 a.m. when Lin Huang arrived. Still, there were many people already waiting at the entrance. There were many scamrs among the crowd, and they were selling assessnt booklets. There were quite a number of people getting scamd by these crooks.
One scamr ca to Lin Huang and pointed at the project page in front of him and said, "Young man, we have the latest assessnt booklet, it has the latest content of the assessnt. Would you like to get one?"
"It’s okay," Lin Huang shook his head. He had heard about such booklets before but it was his first ti seeing them. However, he knew that the booklet had information from the past assessnts that the scamrs had put together. It was not related to the current assessnt at all.
The Regular Hunter Assessnt had different content every year, and it was impossible for the contents of the assessnt to be leaked before the assessnt started. The scamrs were there to scam participants who did not know the rules. Seeing Lin Huang being so sure of himself, the scamr knew that Lin Huang had seen the assessnt rules before this so he stopped bugging him. The scamr then left and began looking for other participants.
Many were scamd, and Lin Huang stood speechless as he watched. However, those who purchased the booklet must have had a lack of confidence in their own abilities and were not sure if they would pass the assessnt. So of them were just trying their luck so they bought the booklets anyway knowing that it would not help them in the assessnt.
There were more and more people at the entrance, and more people were scamd. Lin Huang had no idea how much the booklet was sold for but looking at the number of people who purchased them, he could tell that the scamrs had made quite a large sum of credit points. There were at least 10,000 people at the entrance of the Hunter Association at 8 a.m.
Suddenly, the door opened and a tanned middle-aged man walked out. Everyone was silent as he walked out.
"My na is Xu Jinpeng, I am the head examiner for the preliminary assessnt," the tanned man introduced himself. After a brief pause, he continued, "I would like to announce that the preliminary assessnt has ended!"
Everyone was stunned by what he had just said, including Lin Huang. "Did the head examiner slip his tongue, maybe he ant ‘started’ instead of ‘ended’?" So people muttered in panic. Almost everyone present had the sa thought rush through their minds.
"Now I’ll announce the participants that have been disqualified..." The head examiner Xu Jinpeng began to read out nas one by one, "Wang Xiaopeng, Zou He, Ye Haoxuan..."
"This is ridiculous!" A few of them voiced out after the first few nas were called out. Xu Jinpeng looked up and proceeded to read off his list.
"I’m not buying this! If you’re disqualifying , you must give a reason that makes sense!" A guy from the back shouted. One of the scamrs who was selling booklets suddenly appeared next to the tanned man and said in a loud voice, "From today onwards, the nas that were read out loud are blacklisted from the Hunter Association, and you won’t be able to join any association within the next three years!"
The man then waved to the other two scamrs and left. Many were confused at first but soon, they began to understand what was happening.
"They are Hunter Association staff who pretended to be scamrs... That would an that... The preliminary assessnt was ant to disqualify the participants who purchased the booklets," Lin Huang concluded as he finally understood what had happened.
Almost half an hour, the head examiner Xu Jinpeng finally finished reading off the disqualification list. There were more than 1,100 people that were disqualified. Xu Jinpeng looked up and looked around. He then said, "I believe so of you know why these people were disqualified. The scamrs who were selling the assessnt booklets are our staff. Those who were disqualified were the ones who purchased the booklets."
"Firstly, we find that not reading the assessnt rules before coming to the assessnt is a grave negligence to the program. Such people lack responsibility and don’t care about the consequences since they’re not even willing to perform the most basic due diligence. We, at the Hunter Association, are the complete opposite of that. No matter what the consequences may be, we’ll do our best to complete the task at hand."
"Second, they knew that the information in the booklet is fake but yet they purchased it anyway. This is equivalent to knowing that a piece of news is fake but yet they still try their luck and convince themselves to believe that it is real. Such people lack will, and are easily manipulated. We don’t need people like this.
"These two reasons are the foundations of the preliminary assessnt. If anyone disagrees with it, you are welco to file your complaints," the man said casually with a nod. What Xu Jinpeng said made everyone speechless.
"Aside from those who were on the list, those who arrived after 8 a.m... Congratulations, you have been disqualified as well. He added, "I don’t think you need to tell you the reason."
"The rest made it into the first round of the assessnt. You can now pass through the door behind into the Hunter Association and join us for the the next round."
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