The Almighty Ring

Since a large portion of the members of Magithieves and Arkosios Sanctuary had joined the Empyreal Dragon, Han Tianyu had passed over all the acquired equipment from the war to Jiang Fei.

It was an extremely easy feat for Isabella to kill over 200,000 players with a single Draconian Partial Forbidden Spell. On the other hand, it was extremely difficult for all of the Aristocrats to just pick up all the equipment on the field. Alone, the Empyreal Dragon could never finish picking all the equipment by themselves. The sheer amount of dropped equipment was overwhelming that they would never be able to pick them all before the game server shut down for the day.

Those who had joined the Empyreal Dragon would be able to retrieve their own equipment to request for stronger equipment amongst the pile. It was a kind gesture to compensate the levels lost from the war. On the other hand, those from Magithieves and Arkosios Sanctuary who had chosen not to join Empyreal Dragon would not be compensated.

Responding to over 10,000 members request was a feat that could not be done in a single day. In the end, Rosette Rose had asked the girls from the Rosette Knighthood to help out with the request. It was tough but all requests were processed in a few days.

Even though the girls were seen often not playing seriously, they were all ladies from the upper society. Even though they had not learnt the art of management, they had picked up the skills on the fly. Although they might not be as good and efficient as Rosette Rose, they had still gotten the job done.

When the final boss was killed, all the lower tier monsters had stopped re-spawning. In half a day’s time, players of Dawnlight City had cleared every single one of them from the quest map.

“Ding! Quest: Mana Node has been completed! The map will now reload!”

After the system announcement was made, the quest map was restored to its original construct and settings. Monsters that originated from that map started to re-spawn. However, unlike the quest monsters, they were really easy to defeat. Their experience points and loot were very low. Contribution points were also removed from the drop.

The Soul Trap Magic Circle was already destroyed. The two guilds of Twilight City were defeated and Magithieves and Arkosios Sanctuary were absorbed by Empyreal Dragon. Most of them had lost on average two to three levels from dying. Their loss was significantly severe but if they chose to join Jiang Fei’s guild, their loss would be reimbursed by a little.

During this time, Jiang Fei was confirming with Smart Tomato about the Level 40 Secret Dungeon. Even though the guild had accepted many strong players, Jiang Fei could not raid the dungeon that Smart Tomato was selling.

After handing over the management to Rosette Rose, Jiang Fei felt more relaxed. It was the best move for all since Jiang Fei was bad at management.

In Rosette Rose’s point of view, the happy news was really too sudden. One day ago, Empyreal Dragon was just a small guild with a hundred members. The territory was a plain field of emptiness. In just a span of a few hours, Jiang Fei had had Magithieves and Arkosious Sanctuary to submit to him. Hence, technically, the guild had become the strongest guild in Dawnlight City. That made Rosette Rose delighted.

Since there was no other guild that could compete with Empyreal Dragon at the moment, Jiang Fei was satisfied with Rosette Rose taking on the management, the future seemed brighter and more hectic. Jiang Fei was extremely confident with Rosette Rose and she was proud of it.

“Don’t worry about me! The stage that you have given me, I’ll be sure to treasure every moment of it!” said Rosette Rose to Jiang Fei.

On the dawn of the next day, Jiang Fei went to school after breakfast with his parents.

In school, there was a looming darkness that spread among the students. Jiang Fei could feel the intense atmosphere in the air. When he walked into the classroom, the sound of page flipping could be heard loud and clear.

It was already January and two months since Dawn Break was launched. The reason why the atmosphere was dark and tense was due to a single reason. The semester’s final examination was coming.

Since humanity had begun to hold examinations, all who called themselves student would strive to be the best. Hence, in that school, those who were taking their tests would chant, “TEST! TEST! FOR THE BEST! SCORE! SCORE! SO WE WON’T BE POOR!”

With technology advancement, the test result system was digitized and parents would be requested to sign the Student’s Report Card digitally. It was every student’s nightmare to let their parents see their results. Besides the few who did not care about their future, most of the student would fight until their last breath for the best result.

Jiang Fei was one of the students who strived to have better results. However, he did not have such determination to study. Instead, he relied on his otherworldly abilities to cheat. Even though he was not knowledgeable, he was still calm about the test. Especially since that was not his greatest fear.

After so long, no one had ever question his ability as a smart student.

When noon came, Jiang Fei received a call from Han Tianyu.

“Ah Fei, after school, don’t go home just yet. Come to the 108th floor and meet me there.”

“Is there something going on?”

Jiang Fei asked casually. He was on the 100th floor and going up a few floors was not troubling at all.

“You’ll see when you are here!”

“Okay. I’ll see you then!”

Even though Han Tianyu did not specify the reason why he wanted to meet Jiang Fei, he could tell that it was probably a small matter from his tone.

The whole time in class, Jiang Fei did not pay any attention to the teacher. He had a deeper understanding as to why Han Tianyu had almost never attended school. What they did, what Jiang Fei had gotten involved in, what the world of Metahumans and martial artist had been doing, all of them had nothing to with school. There was nothing in school that could teach him on how to become better in life. However, Jiang Fei’s parents were normal people. He would not want them to get involved in all of the mess that he was in. To hide that fact, Jiang Fei tried to pretend his life was only normal. If he had to, he would even attend school or university.

After school, Jiang Fei went to Manda Square and pressed the 108th floor button in the elevator. Most of the lots there were part of Han Tianyu’s office. Since Jiang Fei was no longer a stranger to the secretary who sat by the entrance of his office, she let him in after a simple greeting.

“Yo! What’s up?”

“What the F*CK! Don’t just come in like that! Don’t you ever knock?!”

“Why?”

“Come on, what if I’m in here with a girl, doing some adult stuff?” said Han Tianyu as he rolled his eyes.

“I’d rather scare you then let you cheat an innocent woman!” said Jiang Fei casually as he sat down on the sofa. Ever since he was open to the world of Metahumans and learned that he was almost at the same level as them, the feeling of superiority was gone. Now, he felt like he was standing on the same platform as Han Tianyu.

“Fine, you win. Here! Catch!”

Han Tianyu pulled something out from his desk and tossed it over to Jiang Fei. It was made of jade and was crafted to look like a small plate, roughly 6 cm long and 2 cm wide, with Chinese characters carved on it.

“What’s this?”

“It’s from Old Hai. An Honorary Elder Command Plate of the China Martial Art Alliance.”

“Hmm.”

Jiang Fei examined the piece of jade and remembered that the old man had mentioned about it. Jiang Fei did not think that it would be done so fast. With that piece of jade command plate, Jiang Fei’s name would be among the list of members in the China Martial Arts Alliance. He was now open to the vaults of China Martial Arts Alliance. Materials! Resources!