9 THRONES

CHAPTER 39: THE GREAT PRIZE

Vann is now in the waiting room of the monster arena, rather he is waiting until his prize is received.

A few minutes later, the figure of the old man who registered Vann in the fight just now appeared.

The old man was carrying a wooden box with gold stripes that looked very luxurious, he put the box in front of Vann while saying "Son, I have to admit that you are very lucky. Although you were indeed great at defeating the Stone Golem in the earliest match you did, but the reward our young master gave you was overwhelming. But let me give you another suggestion, even though as a member in the monster arena I shouldn't have said this. My advice is not to get too close to our young master if you are still interested in living longer".

"Don't see a good young master giving you this many gifts, but he is actually very cruel. The goal of giving you a reward is for you to become more and more excited about fighting in the arena, even choosing to fight even stronger monsters. Once you've been blinded by rewards and victories, eventually you'll be killed by powerful monsters in the arena".

After that the old man opened the wooden box he was carrying, there was a steel sword with terrifying strength and 40 low-level cultivation crystals. Observing the aura around the sword, Vann was sure the sword he was given was indeed a low-tier grade-2 artifact.

Vann did not directly take the gift but instead looked at the old man in front of him "Are you sure to mock your young master in front of me? What if your young master hears everything you say? Aren't you afraid he'll kill you? You said your young master was cruel anyway".

"Son, you don't understand at all" said the old man shaking his head then standing up from the chair, he planned to leave here as his task of sending gifts was done "I have enough strength that even young master does not dare to fight me recklessly. Therefore, I dare to speak like this. Whether you listen to the advice I give or not, it's all your own business. But I hope you can listen to my advice so you can live longer".

As the old man was about to leave, Vann stood up and said respectfully "Can I know the senior's name? Senior has given me advice 2 times, I owe senior a favor. Although I now do not have the strength to repay senior's kindness, if one day senior is in trouble, I definitely try to help senior as well as pay for the good that has been given".

"My name is Tirdan, the 5th elder of the monster arena. You don't have to repay the kindness I've given you, the reason I'm helping you is because I appreciate the talent you have and the polite nature", without waiting for Vann's words again, Tirdan had already rushed away from the place.

Vann still stood still in his place full of shock, he was a little distrustful of Tirdan's true identity.

Although from the beginning Vann already felt Tirdan was not at all a person without a background, but he never thought it would be this strong.

The monster arena was a considerable force in the world of cultivators, there were at least hundreds of monster arenas scattered in many cultivator cities.

The problem was that to be able to become an elder in such a large group of monster arenas, at the very least one had to be an upper intermediate level cultivator. Thus, it could be known that Tirdan just now was an intermediate-level cultivation figure equivalent to the head of the Wood Sword Academy. Why would such a strong figure exist in a small town like this?

Vann shook his head and stopped thinking about all that, however, with his current strength he could not figure out what these strong people were doing.

Taking the wooden box that was on the table, Vann left the monster arena, he planned to return to the academy.

Vann also received advice from Tirdan not to get too close to the young master of the monster arena who gave him a huge reward of victory against the Golems, it seems that the young lord of the monster arena did not have any good plans to Vann.

Vann took a walk around the city first until he made sure no one else followed him.

After making sure there were no problems, Vann returned to the Wood Sword Academy.

Now that he already had 40 low-level cultivation crystals, Vann was getting closer from his goal to purchasing a shop in the center of the city.

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The next morning, Vann feeds Kyuro using the failed medicinal ingredients he collected last night.

After that, he left for class while letting Lifure who again fell asleep on the chair due to too much learning.

Looking at the studying Lifure, Vann immediately recalled himself before becoming a cultivator. At that time, Vann every day went to study or practice swords to be accepted to any Academy.

This time Vann did not meet Torti halfway, therefore he immediately rushed towards the classroom.

In the middle of the road, Vann happens to meet Hasel "Morning, Master Hasel".

Hasel still had a cold face to Vann "Are you that interested in dying?".

Vann was surprised at Hasel's sudden words, asking doubtfully "Teacher Hasel, did I make a mistake?".

"You don't realize what you've done wrong?" said Hasel angrily "Yesterday you went to the monster arena, am I right?".

Although Vann was at a loss as to where Hasel knew that, he did not plan to lie to "Teacher Hasel at all, I thought about starting to train my fighting skills and strengthen the foundation, instead, for this reason I went to the monster arena which was the best place to train actual fighting skills".

"Other times don't ever go to the monster arena again" Hasel said firmly.

"Why?", asked Vann curiously.

"The monster arena is not a good place, if you plan to increase your fighting skills then it is better to find more students so that you can practice fighting against it" Hasel said "After you pass the Qi Gathering and become the Qi Fondation, then you can go with your other senior towards the pillar. You may not be able to fight the enemies on the pillar directly because your senior will do it, but at least they will help you against the little monsters. Do you understand? Don't get too close to the people from the monster arena".

Vann did not understand the reason why Hasel seemed to hate the monster arena so much, but Hasel had also helped him so much that Vann could not refuse "I understand, Master Hasel! I will look for other ways to increase my strength without having to fight in the monster arena".