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After three hours of long queuing, two applicants exhaled in relief when they finally managed to successfully applied.
They could not help but to shook their heads when they saw these 3 rows of long queues. If not for Shen Murong acting as the security guard, some would have already skipped the line at the front out of impatience. If that happens, riots would definitely ensue.
"Hey, did you hear that? They only have 5 more slots!" one of them spoke out.
"What? That"s too little! How will their selection process will be then?" replied the other, surprised.
"I heard its some kind of a duel between shortlisted applicants." said the man as he cupped his chin.
"d.a.m.n! This is even harder than my job interviews! If it is going to be a duel, there is now way I would be able to win!" the other cursed out between his teeth, feeling depressed.
"Calm down! The final verdict would be decided by the Lord himself, Duan Li! Regardless if someone won or lost, each have their equal chances before him!"
The two of them continued to discuss their strategies IF they got shortlisted. After all, the total number of applicants has reach well over a thousand already!
It would be a miracle if they got the chances and be shortlisted.
...
Soon, the recruitment ended for the day as Shen Lu, w.a.n.g Xiolun and Xiahou Yu closed down their booths and prepared to leave towards their respective cla.s.ses for the day.
"You guys have cla.s.ses today?" asked Duan Li as he approached them.
"I have cla.s.ses both in the morning and the afternoon." w.a.n.g Xiolun replied as he nodded. His tone and body language was now more polite towards Duan Li.
"Me too! Today is gonna be full time for me! I hate the cla.s.ses for today, the teachers are way too strict!" Shen Lu remarked with a sigh.
Xiahou Yu thought for awhile with her index finger on her chin and then answered, "I only have cla.s.ses in the morning and free by the afternoon! Although, I have plans after that. I might be coming home early though."
Hearing these, Duan Li nodded.
"I see, what about you?" Duan Li said to Shen Murong.
"I don"t have any cla.s.ses today, but I have to return to my clan and report. But don"t worry, I won"t say anything that I"m not supposed to divulge out. Wouldn"t want to cause trouble for myself anyway." Shen Murong replied.
After some small talks between them, each went their separate ways with different emotions each.
"Looks like Shen Lu"s cla.s.s must be quite stressful. As expected of a Strategist." Duan Li commented as he looked at their disappearing figure from the distance.
Now, only he was left alone in the residence court.
At this moment, Duan Li"s party could be considered to be all-rounded for a group battle. They have three Warriors with him included, one Spellcaster and one Strategist. The only cla.s.s they were lacking right now was an Alchemist.
Before a group battle, the role of Strategists would be to deploy tactics and manuever nodes for their course of actions during a battle. They must ensure that all things are considered as best as they could.
Meanwhile, during the battle, the roles of Warriors are far more straightforward. Each could be designated as either the vanguard or the rear-guard.
As for Spellcasters, they are more flexible between attacking, defensive and supportive roles. However, these are predetermined before the battle by the Strategist. The reason being was that, although they were flexible, they tended to exhaust their spiritual Qi sooner than the others!
Thus, their enemy targets are far more specific than the Warriors. For defensive roles, they were more needed to protect the backs of both vanguards and rear-guards, with inclination towards the former. As for supportive roles, they were to cast healing and recovery magic, as well as buffs for allies and debuffs for the enemies.
In other words, the key elements for a successful battle would be to make good use of these Spellcasters!
However, the roles of an Alchemist were also equally important.
This was because, although they would usually have the weakest battle prowess out of all the cla.s.ses, their pills and elixirs could add more advantages and reverse the tides in an unlucky situations during a battle!
With their means, they could help allies significantly both before and during the battle in many different ways, either buffs or recovery. Furthermore, after the battle, they would be the person most needed on the battlefield to distribute recuperative pills and elixirs for the next incoming battle.
Thus, an Alchemist was actually the lifeline of a party!
"Hmm.. even though I am quite capable in producing pills and elixirs myself, mine is quite unorthodox. Having an orthodox Alchemist whom produces pills and elixirs based on the situations would be far more beneficial in a group battle." thought Duan Li as he flipped the applicants paper one by one.
In his opinion, what he needed the most right now would be Spellcasters, Alchemist and Warriors according to their priority level. For Strategist, he decided that Shen Lu was enough for now.
Thus, he separated all the applicants into categories based on their cla.s.ses and star ranks. The rest, he would have to depend on Shen Lu for the shortlisting process.
"That"s done! Now I need to finish reading the whole loads of books that my disciple borrowed for me. I guess I could finish reading them all today." he said as he went to the reading room.
...
After five hours, Duan Li had managed to read all hundred books and he could feel his brains to be overheating from absorbing too much of information at once.
"My reading speed had become even faster! However, the feeling of my brain overheating like now is not something I would like to feel every single time after reading.." Duan Li sighed.
Guess there were still limits he couldn"t overcome naturally despite the seemingly omnipotent abilities he was bestowed with.
He could extend it if he were to eat pills or elixirs, but unless he was desperate enough, he wouldn"t do it. After all, even though he loves reading books, he was not a maniac.
"Let"s see.. what should I do next?" Duan Li sat in the room as he cupped at his chin.
He had concocted some improved Battle Pills of his own version and read a whole pile of books. The only thing he needed to do right now was to rest for a bit!
"I miss my room and mother.." Duan Li laid down on the floor as both of his hands supported the back of his head, like a pillow. He stared at the ceiling as numerous thoughts sprouted.
In just a matter of few days after his fateful encounter with the mysterious pearl, his life had definitely changed in a dramatic fashion. This was the kind of life that he had never imagined himself to be in, not even in his wildest dream!
After resting for two hours while daydreaming, it was already past noon and none had came back yet to the residence court.
Because he felt bored, he closed his eyes and drove his consciousness into his lower dantian.
Eh?
It had been a while since he last saw these two. Dilong, the Earth dragon that looked like a little worm, and Zhulong, the Fire dragon that looked nothing more like a chicken.
Both of them were the Earth Origin spirit and the Fire Origin spirit respectively. Right now, these two origin spirits had made their own room inside Duan Li"s dantian. Which had caused him to be surprised.
Entering that room, he saw Dilong and Zhulong chatting with each other while drinking something.
"Oh? Its the master! Welcome!" Dilong greeted him, elated as she wiggled towards Duan Li.
"What have you been up to master? We were so bored with nothing to do here!" Zhulong complained as he too approached at Duan Li, like a child seeing its parents.
Seems like these two had been living it up comfortably inside him eh?
"What is this room? How is this here?" Duan Li asked them suspiciously.
"Ahh.. I made this room! Since I am an Earth origin spirit, this is something that is within my means!" Dilong replied proudly.
"Furthermore, I made a tea too! Come and have a drink!" she said as she whipped her pink tail and a cup of tea materialized out of thin air.
"As long as your feet touched the ground, I could at least do this much! Hehe!" she continued with a slight giggle.
"That"s... convenient.." Duan Li said slowly as he observed the room, still feeling rattled that all these was created inside his lower dantian right now.
He sipped at the cup of tea.
"Mmm! This tea is delicious!" Duan Li remarked, feeling astonished.
"Well, if the tea were not boiled to the most perfect temperature, it wouldn"t be able to taste heavenly like that. Naturally, this was only possible because of my help!" Zhulong interjected with a proud look as it used its right wing to hold the tea cup and sipped slowly with its beak.
It was a strange scene for Duan Li.
"En! Furthermore, we also have a hot bath and this room is heated quite nicely. We could use another companion sometimes. It gets boring with just the two of us here." Dilong added.
Pu!
Duan Li choked on his tea.
You guys are being way too complacent!
"Well, I have a Fenrir cub and a molten Komodosaurus sleeping inside my spatial ring right now. I might not be able to join you two as frequently, but they also needed companions as well." Duan Li said, and this was especially true for the molten Komodosaurus.
The latter had been in a slumbering state ever since Duan Li exited the Eternal maze. Since it had helped him immensely during that final boss encounter, Duan Li felt pitiful for it not having its freedom of roaming around like the cub.
Hearing this, Zhulong became excited.
"Molten Komodosaurus? That"s a fire attribute monster! We could get along really fine!" he chuckled.
"A Fenrir"s cub? It has been a long time since I"ve seen one! Hey Zhulong, let"s open up a portal and connect the spatial ring here so they could enter!" Dilong said, equally excited.
"Sure!" replied Zhulong.
Bzzztttt!!
They both then channeled their powers together, as a small black dot appeared on the corner of the room, appearing to become bigger and bigger.
"By the way master, we felt two peculiar strong forces that we could not make out at all! They hid beneath several layers of dimension inside you. Thus, even we could not locate them. What are they exactly?" Dilong asked at Duan Li as she continued to channel at her powers.
"Yeah! I tried to peer through some inner dimensions myself to search for them, but if I get too close, they would repel me away! I only wanted to make friends with them!" Zhulong added as their powers started to make the hole more bigger.
Hearing this, Duan Li contemplated for a while.
"They must be talking about the two mysterious pearls, Gold and Crimson.." thought Duan Li.
"Don"t worry about it, they are not dangerous, just that they do not like to be disturbed." he replied.
After all, in all honesty, even he too did not know the origin of those two mysterious pearls inside his body. What he did know so far was that, they helped him to change his fate and obtain unique abilities that made him what he is right now.
Since they did not cause any problems to him, they should be safe.
Woonggg!!
The hole finally tore open.
The size was quite big and soon the Molten Komodosaurus stepped out from the hole.
"Huh? What is this place?" the Komodosaurus said as he stepped out from the portal.
But then, it freezed upon coming into eye contact with Zhulong, as if the latter was its forefather. The Komodosaurus finds himself to be reverring the other party almost immediately.
"Aarrff!! Arrff!!" Daelius, the Fenrir"s cub walked out from that portal excitedly.
Wooongg!!
Another portal tore open.
It was Duan Li"s sword, Duergar.
"Hmph! No wonder I felt different powers coagulating together, it seems like we have a party here eh? Let me join in as well!" the sword harrumphed as it used its spectral hands and dunk in at a cup of tea with his mouth that suddenly formed on its hilt.
They began to chat together merrily, and soon, the s.p.a.cious room had become packed with these creatures socializing with each other.
Being the host, Duan Li felt really weird about all these, but he still enjoyed it nevertheless.
Pinggg!!
Suddenly, an alarming feeling crept up inside him.
"Eh? This is a connection from Cucko!" said Duan Li as he creased his brows together.
He decided to name the transformed chicken as Cucko and let it roam free at the garden.
"This.. an intruder in my residence court?"
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