After quite a bit of wrangling, Guyin finally agreed to take Ashan and Feng Cheng for awakening.
Partly for the money, of course, but also because she had checked the mission records from back then and found that everything matched, along with Su Hao's solemn guarantee.
Otherwise, Guyin would never casually awaken two people of unknown origin.
According to the Association's rules, it could only accept residents from its jurisdiction as Source Mages.
There were many reasons for this. Ease of management was merely one insignificant factor; the most fundamental reason was preserving the special structural position of the entire Source Mage Association.
The rules were rigid, but there was still plenty of room to maneuver within them. So long as you said nothing and I said nothing, many things could be done.
And Huai Shui Town, a tiny place with barely over a thousand people in total, was even more flexible—so flexible that practically no one was in charge.
Less than an hour later, Guyin returned with Ashan and Feng Cheng, her face full of shock.
"Ziyang, where did you find these two geniuses?! They're almost as good as you!"
She truly was stunned. In her eyes, these two boys who had appeared out of nowhere possessed extraordinary talent, rare beyond measure. Even in a populous city, a genius like this might not appear once in ten years.
What she found most incomprehensible was how their tiny Huai Shui Town could possibly produce three Source Mage geniuses of peerless talent at once! Moreover, all three teenage geniuses had trained their bodies from a young age, possessed immense strength, and could chop steel bars with kitchen cleavers...
There had to be some hidden truth behind this that she did not know, but she simply could not figure it out! She