Chương 42: War God — Chapter 42 - Wait, We Just Created Our Game Characters, and He Already Cleared It?

Zhou Dahai didn't really want to tell everyone this news. Saying it out loud would be a blow to morale. But if he didn't say it, and the person stopped showing up, it would definitely keep raising suspicions.

"Teacher, is this for real?" Zhou Xukun scratched his head, momentarily dumbfounded. Dozens of students from the Martial Arts Class buzzed with discussion, exchanging bewildered glances. For a moment, they couldn't understand it. Couldn't accept it either. No way. We just got started, and you're telling me he's already finished?

"Teacher Zhou, you're joking with us, right?" Xia Sichen felt his chest grow hot, almost suffocating. Three training tasks. Setting aside the others, the holographic intelligent beast challenge, he was the only one who'd actually tried it so far. No one else understood better than him the terror of facing an exotic beast. Standing before a three-meter-tall giant beast, its fangs covered in barbs, its body hair like bristling spears, its eyes gleaming with bloodthirsty light.

Even knowing it was just a simulation, not real. That crushingly realistic pressure couldn't be denied on a psychological level. According to his own plan, even at top speed, he'd need over 10 days just to adapt. Only after adapting could he fight it. And in the fighting process, there was no way he'd win on the first try, he'd still need to practice footwork and martial techniques. Otherwise, even if he dared to fight, without footwork and martial techniques, one swipe of a claw would finish him.

Just like that Tan Tianze. So, training fast, being able to defeat that saber-toothed wolf in about 25 days, was Xia Sichen's fastest estimate for himself. Which also happened to just get him through winter break. The other classmates probably couldn't even finish all three training tasks in one winter break. Finishing two of them would already be pretty good. And now, you're telling me, on the very first day of training, that Wang Xian already completed them? That feeling...

It was like they'd just entered the game interface and created their characters, and damn it, the guy had already cleared the game? Just thinking about it felt inconceivable. Only Chen Yuting's eyes held more complexity than shock. She even understood, a little.

'No wonder you said that...' At this moment, she understood what Wang Xian had said before. Which meant...

'He planned this from the very start?'

'Not training—what do you plan to do instead?'

"Teacher..." Ye Miyue suddenly said softly.

"Can I watch his holographic intelligent beast challenge?"

"Yeah yeah, I want to watch too!"

"Teacher, let us see it!"... Zhou Dahai sighed and shook his head.

"Nothing much to see. Eat your meals, then continue training." Watch? If you watched it, you probably wouldn't sleep for days. Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author's consent. Report any sightings. One slash. No martial technique used. Just the most ordinary, plain single slash, and the fight was over. Thinking back on it now, even Zhou Dahai found it somewhat inconceivable. That slash looked very simple. It even gave people the illusion of, I could do that too.

But ten minutes on stage, ten years off stage. That one slash. What did Zhou Dahai see in it? Understanding and behavioral prediction of the saber-toothed wolf beast. Precise timing and deeply honed fundamental skills. Highly concentrated focus and absolute psychological calm. Each of these required long-term training. Especially the last one. If someone is born with that, then without a doubt, they must possess terrifying combat talent! Once you understood these things.

Zhou Dahai looked at the discussing students and thought to himself, they would only feel the enormous gap. So, you'd better not watch it... Zheng Changhong was feeling great right now. Having served as deputy head of Rong City's Heavenly Blade Club for many years. This was the first time he'd ever felt this good. Zheng Changhong could almost see the look of utter frustration on that bastard from the Divine Sword Club who'd been competing with him for years.

And of course, there was also the secret delight of truly having found a treasure. Teacher, your eye for talent is truly too good! He brought Wang Xian to the tenth-floor office. He waved a hand.

"Xiao Bai, go get a meal for Student Wang. He'll eat right here."

"Alright." After saying that, Zheng Changhong turned to look at Wang Xian, sizing him up and down several times. Not bad, not bad. Well-proportioned features, tall build, and especially the fact that he remained completely calm right now. Not a trace of excitement on his face. Which showed that for the earlier training test, he had absolute confidence!

"Next, while you eat in a bit, I'll explain our club's contract to you." Zheng Changhong pulled out a contract he'd prepared long ago.

"Originally, this was meant to be given to you after winter break, depending on how things went. The specific terms, your Teacher Zhou just told you about them." Wang Xian nodded.

"The D-tier contract—all the conditions we're providing you are listed in there."

"I'll now go over them with you in detail." He was very patient. Wang Xian listened. The D-tier contract was essentially meant for mid- to low-tier warriors with potential. It wasn't really intended for high school students. Because for high school students, many things in the contract weren't very applicable. For example, martial secret techniques, Butchering Beasts. Martial secret techniques were basically impossible for students to train in.

The reason was simple: high schoolers couldn't go outside the city to hunt exotic beasts. Unless their family was enormously wealthy, hiring a large group of warriors as protection directly, then having them serve as enforcers who beat the beasts to near-death for you to finish off. But in reality, training that way yielded very poor proficiency gains for martial secret techniques. Because the process of fighting an exotic beast is exactly the process of understanding how the beast's body changes during combat.

Only by personally fighting can you maximize your proficiency growth in this secret technique. If all you do is deliver the final blow, how much can you really learn? Of course, it's not completely useless. It just requires killing far more exotic beasts. Someone else hunts a hundred beasts and trains this secret technique to peak mastery. If you only do the final blow, you might need to kill several hundred, even over a thousand. That's far too heavy a burden for a warrior.

Even if you could afford to hire people, who knows how much time and money it would take. As for the other things, origin energy mental methods required reaching at least first-realm warrior status, with more than 10 life force points, before you could train them. Then there were gene-enhancing serums—those were only useful after awakening your talent. The same went for combat protective gear. Even the most basic first-tier gear required first-realm warrior strength to use.

Footwork martial techniques, footwork was just hard to train. Some first-realm warriors didn't even have first-stage footwork, let alone footwork martial techniques. So really, the most useful thing in this contract for a high school student was probably that 5 million yuan grant. But all of that only applied to ordinary students. For some geniuses, all of it was definitely useful. Naturally, if these contracts were signed with students, they had to be students who were outstanding in every respect.

That was why special conditions were put in place. As a genius favored by a seventh-realm Great Grandmaster, and with Principal Xia of No. 7 High as guarantor. Only then did the Heavenly Blade Club agree to grant a contract slot, and at minimum, it required Wang Xian to pass two training tasks by the end of winter break. Now, the guy had completed all three training tasks on the first day. He had already exceeded the requirements! As for what the contract required of Party B, it was relatively not difficult.

Even very simple. Just complete some of the club's requirements. Most of the requirements weren't hard. They just required spending a certain amount of time. For example, cooperating with the club's requests: Like testing newly developed martial techniques and providing feedback. Forming a squad to go outside the city and clear out clusters of exotic beasts, collecting data. Stopping by the club from time to time to check in, guiding and looking after newcomers.

Trying out newly developed instruments of various kinds.... None of it was very difficult. Plus, the contract started at three years, with various grants provided each year. If you advanced, you could even directly renegotiate terms.

"Student Wang, what do you think?" Zheng Changhong smiled slightly.

"Very good." Wang Xian nodded. In his previous life, back in university, he hadn't even had the qualifications to join a club... So naturally, forget about receiving any grants.

"But..." Wang Xian hesitated. Zheng Changhong asked:"What is it?" Conditions? But the D-tier contract's contents were already quite generous for a student. On top of that, it didn't really conform to the club's standard regulations. If not for the connection with Bai Hongtian and the No. 7 High principal, even if someone completed the three training tasks on the first day, the club headquarters might not necessarily agree to sign a contract with a high school senior who hadn't yet awakened his martial talent.

"It's not conditions." Wang Xian said.

"I have a request."

"Let's hear it." ➤ Next: Overlord Blade Intent, Ten Wolves Slain in an Instant!