Yaxiu Fashubite was twenty-eight years old, a "Walker" of the second ring of the Wandering Star Ring, a B-rank adventurer with the Alliance Adventurers' Association. He specialized in planetary development and preservation, as well as ruin exploration. He was also a registered reserve member of the Guild of Jaegers. He was only a reserve because he had never served in the military or carried out any extraordinary law-enforcement missions. To put it bluntly, he had never been one of the "lackeys of the imperial court."
Furthermore, according to the results of his physical examination at the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs last year, he had already reached the peak of his strength and could more or less start preparing for his ascension ritual to the third ring.
For a "rogue cultivator" with no top-tier school or master to inherit from, who had received nothing but a general education in mysticism, reaching this level before the age of thirty made him an exceptionally rare talent. According to rumors, the rulers of the Alliance would likely bring someone like him into their fold, given their usual practices. Yaxiu, who came from an ordinary family, thought it over seriously and decided that if the rumors were true, he would probably go along with it. After all, he had long since stopped wanting to work hard.
So, two years ago, by a stroke of luck during a protection job, he met the daughter of the Moen family, Miss Taina Moen, an investigative reporter at the famous Star Vanguard.
During that assignment, Yaxiu and the reporter had several brushes with death together. Their relationship went from mutual disdain to grudging cooperation, then fighting side by side, and finally sharing each other's fortunes and misfortunes. It was a textbook movie-style progression.
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