213 Blood Oath - Part 1

The next morning, Bai Xian Ming went to the Hero League HQ as usual.

He arrived at 8 a.m. standing in front of the elevator, waiting for the elevator to come down. While at it, he opened his smartwatch, checking his schedule for today.

[Hero selection for intense training!]

It was his first work for today, selecting heroes to train under the newly appointed Chief of Hero Instructor, Xing Heero.

Ding!

The door elevator opened, but Bai Xian Ming did not enter the elevator. A face of a young man flashed in his mind.

Bai Xian Ming immediately turned around, heading to yesterday's banquet hall. He remembered something that he forgot to check.

Before leaving the hall, Musashi Noboru said sorry, telling him the underground arena was badly damaged.

He forgot to check how badly damaged the arena was. Now he remembered it and immediately headed to the underground arena.

The banquet hall was not that far from the main building. It took him five minutes walking to reach the banquet hall.

With steady steps, he walked toward the private elevator. Brushing his identity card, the elevator door opened, and he rushed in.

There were three underground arenas and he remembered they chose arena no.01.

Pressing the UA01 button, the elevator door closed and went down. Impatient mixture with curiosity, Bai Xian Ming impatiently tapped his feet against the floor.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

Ding!

The sound was an indication that the elevator had reached his destination. Bai Xian Ming took a big stride out, but he stopped his steps after two steps out of the elevator.

Bai Xian Ming had his eyes wide open as he looked at the surrounding. He looked back at the elevator, making sure he did not enter the wrong arena.

On top of the elevator showed "UA01", indicating he was in the right place.

He scanned the surroundings once again.

"Fuuhhhh… Haaaa!"

"What the f*ck actually happened!" It was rare for Bai Xian Ming to curse. But he did it now.

The arena could not be said badly damaged. It was far from badly damaged, but destroyed. The reinforced steel used to build the underground arena was completely destroyed.

In the center of the arena was split wide open. From the look of it, the split was cut by a sword.

Not only that, but there were also still many cuts here and there. The reinforced steel which was also the hardest steel was easily cut.

He walked to the biggest split, standing near the cut. The cut in the center was deep, about 10 meters deep.

"No wonder that old man told me to ask his clan for compensation…"

"This will take a lot of money to repair… No, the arena can't be repaired, we have to rebuild the arena…"

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Meanwhile, the culprit who destroyed the arena, Xing Heero, was busy with his work.

Heero Academy would officially accept their first-generation disciples.

Today, they would be doing a selection as Heero Academy only accepted 50 first-generation disciples.

Standing at Martial House hall, Heero blankly looked at the sea of kids in front of him. He had done a rough selection by lowering the age limit to reduce the number, but it seemed the number was only growing.

He planned to accept 50 kids, but…

"Mnn…" Heero rubbed his chin as he thought of something.

Last night, he, Bai Xin Yue, and Kang Seo-Yeon had a discussion that the Heero Academy only accepted disciples at 13 and below.

The reason why he only accepted the kids was because of his other job, Hero Instructor. He had to mentor a few or even dozens of heroes, so he planned to nurture the kids in his academy.

His purpose in doing this was the city's safety. He wanted to strengthen the city so the same thing as the specter attack's incident would not be repeated.

"There are more kids outside?" Heero asked in a low voice.

"Mnn… The hall could only accommodate 350 kids and there are thousands of kids outside…" Kang Seo-Yeon nodded as she checked the data in her smartwatch.

"I thought there were less than a thousand kids who registered!?" Heero was flabbergasted when he heard the number.

If he was not wrong, the number should be less than a thousand. He was confused as the number of registrants increased so much.

"Kuhuhu… It's the effect of the Chief of Hero Instructor! Moreover, the public knows you are the two new Emperor Class Heroes' master…" Bai Shuang'er chimed in with a small laugh from behind.

Heero looked back and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"What? Why can't I be here?" Bai Shuang'er rolled her eyes and continued playfully, "My sister is the academy's Director and my boyfriend is one of the Instructors in the academy…"

After that, she got closer to Heero and added with a mysterious smile etched on her face, "Moreover, the owner of this academy is my brother-in—"

Having not finished her words, a hand slapped her head.

Ouch!

Bai Shuang'er rubbed her head and turned to the left. She met with her sister's gaze, but he immediately avoided her sister's gaze while playfully sticking out her tongue.

After that, Sun Zhou Yi also came closer to his girlfriend and whispered, "Shuang'er, you have to be more respectful to my Master,"

Heero ignored the mischievous little lady and focused back his eyes on the kids. The kids also looked at him with their sparkling eyes.

"First, close the registration. Second, we will add more quota, we will accept up to 150 disciples. We will accept more disciples. Third, we will start the first selection with this!"

Heero handed a paper to Bai Xin Yue. There were ten questions written on the paper.

The questions were basically asking the kids their purpose of getting power and more similar questions.

"Today, let them answer this paper and I will review the answer by today and they can check the result on our academy official site!"

"We will continue 2nd round selection tomorrow morning!"

Heero did not select his disciples by talent but their characters. He did not care about their talents, but he prioritized their character.

He was not looking for benevolence, upright, or even righteous disciples, but he did not want his disciples to be evil like most of the rankers.

Even though not all rankers were evil, most of them left a poor impression on him. He was intending to train Heroes not troublemakers to protect the city so he could live in the city peacefully. Thus, he prioritized the kids' character rather than their talents.

With the paper in her hand, Kang Seo-Yeon stepped forward.

"Good morning, everyone! I am Kang Seo-Yeon, the Heero Academy's Director and also the person in charge of accepting the first-generation disciples…!"

Kang Seo-Yeon opened the selection with a speech.

Just like that, the 1st selection was a written test, quite easy but also tricky.

The selection lasted for five days. On the fifth day, Heero managed to reduce the number to 162 kids, 12 kids more than the quota.

But Heero did not plan to reduce the number more. He was going to grind them without mercy which meant the selection progress had not ended yet.

If they could withstand the hellish grinding, then it was good. But if the kids could not withstand the hellish grinding, then they could drop out of the academy.

This was called Natural Selection.

In the Martial House Hall, Heero and 162 accepted disciples gathered.

"Congratulations! You all are accepted into our academy, Heero Academy! I, Xing Heero, promises to train you all wholeheartedly with the help of Sun Zhou Yi, Musashi Hirata, and Wang Ping Cai as Vice Instructor!"

"But, you are not officially accepted into the academy yet. In order to be an official, there's the last step you need to go through, Blood Oath!"