Alchemic Weapon: Seven Deadly Sins

Hunter's League.

"Ever since Lu Ze joined us, I feel like I've become nothing but dead weight."

After the mission ended, Li Wenjie couldn't help complaining.

"Tell me about it. Every time we fight demons, we never even need to make a move. Lu Ze's Summoned Beast wipes them out in an instant. He practically doesn't seem like an Initial-Level Mage."

Fei Shi nodded. He had heard that summoners were awesome, but he had never expected them to be this awesome.

Normally, dealing with a single Cyclops Demon Wolf would take them considerable effort, and someone might even get hurt.

But ever since Lu Ze joined, even an adult Cyclops Demon Wolf was nothing more than a single swipe of his Summoned Beast's claw.

This should have been a good thing, but for the sake of fairness, the captain directly gave more than half the reward money to Lu Ze.

That was why they looked so miserable. Though the work had been more dangerous before, their pay had at least been two or three times what it was now.

"You two should stop complaining. Lu Ze's already being generous by sharing the money with you," Vice-Captain Cai Tang said.

Li Wenjie and Fei Shi both froze. This was the first time they had ever seen the vice-captain speak up for someone else.

Could it be...

The two exchanged glances. Could the vice-captain have taken a liking to Lu Ze?

But Lu Ze was so young, and his talent was so outstanding. Would he really be interested in her?

At that moment, the soft-spoken Xiao Ke stepped forward. "It's safer with Lu Ze around. I think it's pretty good."

They were nothing more than ordinary little Hunters. Their greatest hope was simply to break through to the intermediate level.

"That's true. A lower salary is fine, then."

Li Wenjie and Fei Shi had only been venting. Though they dealt with demons all the time, they were never truly at ease.

After all, they were merely Initial-Level Mages at the very bottom of the Hunter hierarchy.

But now that Lu Ze had joined them, they even slept soundly at night.

"Alright. Lu Ze became a Hunter at such a young age most likely because he needs money. Maybe he's that Summoning Element student from Tianlan High School."

Xu Dahuang was no fool. The Summoning Element was so rare, and with the rumors of that "genius summoner" spreading like wildfire before, it was hard not to connect the two.

Rather than studying peacefully at school, he had become a Hunter. The only possible reason was the Stardust Magic Artifact.

Since that was the case, Xu Dahuang might as well lend this Summoning Element genius a hand, considering it a small contribution to Bo City.

For every mission, Xu Dahuang gave sixty to seventy percent of the reward money to Lu Ze, kept ten percent for himself, and divided the rest among the other team members.

He used to take forty percent of the rewards, yet now he was willing to settle for ten percent.

Time flew by, and soon it was time for the outdoor training.

Over the past year, Li Xingze had completed many missions with the City Monster Hunter Team, but unfortunately, the rewards had all been rather low.

There was no way he could afford a Stardust Magic Artifact, so Li Xingze could only choose the more practical option of renting one. Captain Xu Dahuang had been the one to tell him about this channel.

His cultivation had broken through to Basic Level 2 two months ago, but Basic Level 3 still seemed far beyond reach.

If he had a spirit-grade or higher Stardust Magic Artifact, he might have already reached Basic Level 3 by now.

Forbidden Curse Scrolls: 10

During that time, Li Xingze had drawn five times from the paid lottery, but his awful luck remained as reliable as ever.

Other than a Tang Blade and a Devil Fruit, the rest only had a bit of collectible value.

Alchemic Weapon: Seven Deadly Sins - Jealousy.

An alchemic weapon from the world of Dragon Raja, capable of cutting through anything.

With Uchiha Swordsmanship at his disposal, Li Xingze had been in need of a suitable weapon!

Cat-Cat Fruit — Feral Cat Form.

Once he ate this Devil Fruit, he would gain the powerful physique of a wild beast. His strength, resistance to blows, endurance, agility, and all other aspects of his physical abilities would be greatly enhanced.

Compared to demons, mages were practically made of paper. But if he consumed this Devil Fruit, his ability to stay alive would rise by several levels.

Unfortunately, it was only the most ordinary Zoan type. If it were an Ancient Zoan or Mythical Zoan, Li Xingze would have been more than willing to use it to increase his strength. An ordinary Zoan was too underwhelming for him.

Led by Teacher Zhang Jianguo, the students boarded a bus and headed toward their destination.

After passing through a vast stretch of wilderness outside the city and riding for most of the day, they finally arrived at Xuefeng Mountain Outpost.

Li Xingze, Mo Fan, and Zhang Xiaohou wandered around the outpost for a while, until the instructors' call to assemble sounded in the distance.

"Gather at the square."

"Assembly! Assembly!"

One hundred students lined up neatly, immediately drawing the attention of the Hunter Mages at the outpost.

"Look, look! The Tianlan High School trainees are here again. Hahaha, we can watch the rookies embarrass themselves in all sorts of ways again."

"Exactly. Whenever the trainees come, the outpost is at its liveliest. How many do you think will piss their pants from fright this year?"

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Listening to the surrounding hunters' mockery, quite a few female students flushed red with anger, while the male students glared indignantly at those hunters.

They had only become mages a few years earlier—what was there to be so smug about!

Li Xingze silently watched the scene. Those hunters were clearly only Initial-Level Mages themselves, yet they still had the nerve to mock fledgling rookies like them.

How ridiculous.

"Chief Instructor!"

"The Chief Instructor is here!!"

"I am the chief instructor for your training this time—Zhan Kong. You should consider yourselves fortunate, because you are the first batch of trainees I've led since taking up this post."

Zhan Kong's imposing presence immediately silenced all the students.

"Don't worry. Since you're the first batch of trainees I'm leading, I'll give you preferential treatment to ensure that you pass this training assessment, which concerns your university entrance exams!"

"I know that all of you are Bo City's finest young mages, and I believe you have enough strength to handle this training assessment."

"So, this major training exercise will be very, very simple."

Chief Instructor Zhan Kong smiled harmlessly.

"I just received a bounty request. As long as any team or any individual among you one hundred students completes it, all of you will pass the training evaluation and receive an A."

A bounty!

That was something only an experienced mage squad could complete!

"What if none of us can complete the bounty?" Zhou Min, the class monitor, asked.

"Then all of you fail," Zhan Kong answered calmly.

"Hey, hey, we've only learned magic for a short time, and you want us to complete a bounty? Is this some kind of joke?!"

"What kind of lousy instructor is he? I bet he only got this position through connections!"

All the students wore angry expressions, and quite a few had begun cursing.

Normally, this training was just a formality. Who would have thought that merely changing instructors would raise the difficulty by so much!!