9 THRONES

CHAPTER 40: MONTHLY MATCHES

"It seems you can accept what I say easily, don't you ask me why I forbid you?", asked Hasel.

Vann shook his head "I don't know what Teacher Hasel's reasoning is, but I'm sure you must be trying to teach the students the best for them. After all without Master Hasel's help, I can't become a cultivator this fast".

Before they could talk any more, the sound of the class alarm started, so Vann told Hasel and went to his class.

Looking at the back of Vann who was leaving further and further away, Hasel sighed "One day, you must know the reason I forbid you from being close to the people from the monster arena. If you become a sufficiently great cultivator in the future, you must realize how strange and suspicious the monster arena is. Had it not been for insufficient evidence of them cooperating with the monsters, the throne holders would have destroyed them long ago".

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When Vann returned to his class, everyone in the class immediately became silent, there was no more commotion in the class.

More precisely everyone was staring at the newly arrived Vann, their eyes all showing a strange sense or awe at the sight of Vann.

Sensing everyone's gazes heading towards him, Vann grew even more confused as to what was happening.

He quickly sat back in his chair, but everyone still looked at him silently while speaking in a small voice with friends around them.

Vann observed his clothes and face through the window, but he did not find any oddity that made his classmates strange.

While Vann was still confused, Torti who was sitting next to him immediately grabbed Vann's shoulder then laughed "You are really great, you are already a star among the Qi Gathering disciples of the Wood Sword Academy! The figure of a disciple who had a talent of 1, but could become a Qi Gathering of level 4 and defeat the Stone Golem monster! I misjudged you! From the beginning I just thought you were good at medicine and alchemy, but it turns out you were good at fighting too!".

"Wait on! How do you know about my fight yesterday?", asked Vann in confusion with Torti.

When it was Hasel, Vann thought Hasel might have a secret way to find news of Vann's fight yesterday which was not strange at all because Hasel was a teacher in the Wood Sword Academy and his strength was terrifying.

But Torti is different, he is just the same student as Vann so he should not know about it unless Vann tells him.

Looking at Vann's questioning gaze, Torti said guiltily "Sorry my friend, I forgot to tell you yesterday that in the monster arena of the city under the mountain, there was a teacher of ours who was always there. More precisely he was a teacher who had never taught in class, the academy hired him as a teacher to oversee the monster arena".

"Why didn't you tell me from the beginning about this matter?" Myro said rolling his eyes at Torti.

Torti could only say "I'm quite surprised, generally the school will not tell anyone if the student participated in the monster arena. They put the supervising teacher to know if there are dead students, but the information of the fighting students will be kept secret by the academy".

"Then why did they spread my battle information yesterday?", asked Myro again, he had just joined the Wood Sword Academy making his information regarding the academy very little.

"Isn't that clear? The Wood Sword Academy is very proud of your victory, they even made a big poster in the city regarding you. Their goal was to be able to recruit many talented disciples through the great victories you obtained, however the Wood Sword Academy managed to make the untalented disciples shine, as well, there must be a lot of students interested in joining the academy this year" Torti said "In addition, your name has already spread throughout the academy. I don't know if those elite disciples care about your matters, but all the other students and teachers more or less already knew you through the match yesterday. It's only a matter of time until the entire city knows a child with a talent worth 1 can also stand a chance of becoming a great cultivator, you're famous".

Vann was not at all happy that he became famous, he sighed and felt that his life ahead was becoming more and more troublesome.

Seeing Vann's face become heavy, Torti immediately comforted "Don't be so moody, we've got the bad news. Then it's time for me to give you some good news, soon it's the academy's monthly showdown, it will be the right time for you to train your strength even further against talented people who have the same strength as you".

"A monthly fight of the academy?", asked Vann curiously.

"I forgot you just joined as a student not too long ago, it's not strange that you're lacking in monthly fight matters" Torti said explaining "Every once a year there's a bout of students from all over the academy, it's not strange that you're not familiar with the matter of the monthly fight" explaining "Every once a year there's a fight of students from all over the academy, any sect or strength of a cultivator was called an annual fight, whereas the monthly fight was only a fight between the 4 powers around the territory of the Wood Sword Academy. Qi Gathering against Qi Gathering, Qi Fondation fighting with Qi Fondation, this fight was warned based on cultivators of the same stage".

"Those who were at the Qi Gathering stage would definitely not be brought together against the enemies of Qi Fondation, either, in general, those who are in level 9 at each stage always win because they are the strongest at that stage. Each top 10 rank on each stage would earn a reward that was a combined reward of 4 academies, so the reward was definitely not disappointing. The problem is that there are thousands of Qi Gathering disciples in the 4 powers, it is almost impossible for those of us who are below the 5th level of Qi Gathering to be able to win, those who win are definitely at the 8th or 9th level".

"At least we can train our abilities through the match this time because we have to fight against various disciples from different groups, not just those from the Wood Sword Academy".

"What's the prize?", asked Vann again.

"Last year the Qi Gathering's monthly battle rewards, rank 1 getting a Foundation Medicine that could turn a level 9 Qi Gathering into a level 1 Qi Foundation!", cried Torti excitedly, after all every person with Qi Gathering strength must have dreamed of reaching Qi Foundation.

Vann is also very interested, but different from Torti who only plans to train his strength in this match. Vann's plan of reaching the top 10, it seemed that he would have to increase the strength he had at least until it passed the Qi Gathering level before following the monthly match.