Chapter 104: Good News for the Demon Hunters (II)
Li Hao shook his head with a smile. “I’m fine, just some scrapes and scratches.”
He was indeed injured, but his injuries had healed so quickly that there was almost no sign of them anymore. Meanwhile, Liu Yan almost forgot proper business after the small tiff with Yun Yao.
“Little Hao Hao,” she exclaimed. “Do you know that your big sis broke through last night?!”
She agitated her internal force with unbounded enthusiasm. A faint strand of white manifested above her fingertips. “I absorbed some mysterious power and progressed to Sunderer!”
The team paused with surprise, then broke out in general delight.
A breakthrough!
Liu Yan had stopped at Slayer of Tens for many years. Despite absorbing plenty of mysterious power, she continuously failed to break through or make the crossover. Today, she progressed without fanfare!The source of this content can be connected to n0v3lb!n★
The team was overjoyed at first. After a while, Wu Chao suddenly turned despondent and whispered, “You’re a Sunderer now?”
“Yes!”
“This...” Wu Chao was glum. Still having his wounds bandaged, Chen Jian fell silent as well.
“Being a Sunderer is a good thing!” Yun Yao sighed as she tended to Chen Jian.
Li Hao could tell that the team was truly happy at first, but then not so happy. He understood.
It was indeed cause for celebration that Liu Yan had grown stronger and set foot into Sunderer, but the stronger a martial master was, the harder it was for them to become supernatural. Of this, the group was well aware.
The stronger one was, the harder it was to convert to the supernatural domain. Take Liu Long for example—his strength as a martial master grew by the day, but improvement was limited so long as he could not make the crossover.
Progress was much simpler in the supernatural system. Sunderers were barely on par with Darkmoons, yet look at Wang Ming, Li Meng, and Hu Hao. They’d easily set foot into Darkmoon at such a young age. While they were far from reaching Sunflare, there were high hopes for them to do so.
How many among martial masters could break through to Dominator of Thousands? The gap between the two systems was too great!
If Liu Yan had advanced twenty years ago, she would have set a public banquet and invited everyone to feast! But in this day and age, rising another level in martial dao without entering the supernatural system meant that her chances of crossing over were greatly diminished!
The joyous atmosphere immediately turned downcast. Liu Yan could sense it too, but she didn’t mind as much as she would’ve before.
“And those are only the known ones. There’s bound to be more in the shadows, hidden among supernatural organizations or even Night Watchers!” she concluded with resignation. “Everyone knows that there are drawbacks with the supernatural, but it swiftly improves and develops every year. It’s overcome some of its initial issues by now, yet curtains fall on martial masters by the day. Professor Yuan is now foremost among Silver Moon martial masters!”
Could this number one rival Solars? He’d killed one of them, yes—could he kill a second?
Many guessed that Yuan Shuo killed Brokensky because the supernatural hadn’t anticipated his opponent had broken through. It led to severe injuries with the first blow and his subsequent death. The professor might not prevail against a Solar opponent in direct combat.
“Sis Yun.” Li Hao grinned. “Although martial masters might have a more modest upper limit, we may be able to swiftly cross over to Sunflare as a Sunderer. Isn’t that also a good thing? Our team is stronger after gaining a Sunderer, it’s definitely worth celebrating!”
He offered some encouragement after seeing that everyone remained down in the dumps. Liu Yan herself might not feel as open-minded and happy about her breakthrough, but Li Hao really didn’t think it made a difference.
“That’s true!” Chen Jian laughed straightforwardly. “Sunderers are also a force to be reckoned with! Chief is a Sunderer—look at how much stronger he is than those Night Watchers! This makes for two Sunderers in our six person team. Silver City’s not that big, so as long as we don’t suffer another supernatural attack of the same scale, we’ll be able to handle it if a few Darkmoons come under normal circumstances.”
“That’s right, that’s right!” Wu Chao shoved his moroseness downward and smiled in ghastly fashion. “Congratulations, Vice Captain Liu! You’re really something to be the second Sunderer of our team!”
Liu Long entered at this time. He looked at the group, then at Liu Yan.
“Everyone knows about Liu Yan breaking through?” he asked calmly.
“Yep!” The team nodded. Patently, the chief knew before they did.
“This is good! Increases in strength are good at a critical time like this. As for this making progress hard... Don’t we have the greatest martial master of Silver Moon? We might learn something new if we ask him for guidance! Sunderers soar to the heaven with one move if they set foot into the supernatural. They directly enter the ranks of Sunflare! Not even our province has many Sunflares, you’ll be envious then!”
That was all he said on the topic. He might say more if Liu Yan could make the crossover, but modern knowledge was that the stronger the martial master was, the further it shoved them away from the supernatural. This development wasn’t necessarily the best.
“Enough about that, let’s talk about more good news!” Liu Long flashed a smile. “Director Hao sought me out this morning! He’s agreed in principle to establish a Night Watcher branch. Once it’s formalized, we’ll be a branch in much more than just name.”
He looked at Li Hao, surmising that the young man might be the only person who didn’t understand. “Establishing a branch means that we’ll be sent some supernaturals and resources that they need, including mysterious power! If the branch failed to come through, all we’d get are massive raises from the Inspectorate. But what good are wages to us apart from food, sleep, and clothes?”
They didn’t need money! There wasn’t much use for it as money couldn’t buy mysterious power. Those who traded mysterious power on the black markets needed money for other purposes, such as resources for the organization, food, lodgings, etc.
Public coin paid for all of this when it came to the Demon Hunters, so they didn’t understand the purpose of money. Once a branch was established, their wages would change to mysterious power instead of fiat. Other than a steady source of resources, those upstairs would also send a few supernaturals to enhance the city’s defense.
Establishing a Night Watcher branch also indicated that the government had temporarily set aside the idea of migrating Silver City.
There were so many benefits!
“Director Hao came to me and mentioned his thoughts to indicate that he approves of this plan,” Liu Long chuckled. “This is good! He has a high status among the Night Watchers—he’s second to only Director Xie! This means that the likelihood of this proposal going through is greatly increased!”