248 Eli Gonzi
“Wise decision. I’m also tired.” Ceterus returned to his human form and drank a blue potion. Then he smiled at Fein and said. “That’s a good spar. I think you can easily kill average S-ranks that don’t have power regeneration powers like me with your Flame Advent and lethal attacks. If not for my regeneration powers, you would be the winner in this fight.”
After Ceterus lifted his second transformation, he became rational and a bit humble, unlike the arrogance he displayed while he was in his second form.
“Yeah, I also learned a lot about this fight. And by the way... This is my first loss.” Fein smiled bitterly.
Ceterus patted Fein on the back like he was his close friend and said with a light chuckle, “You are an A-rank and I’ve spent a long time in the S-rank realm already. It’s not counted as a loss.” Then he paused for a little and look at Fein with a serious expression. “You could already kill an S-rank with your current strength. If you ascended into S-rank, you would probably become the strongest by then.”
“That’s a high opinion. I don’t even know how strong the current top three on the official list are.” Fein chuckled. Now, he felt a little better at his first loss. What’s important is he did his best. But now, he also realized that he had to find something that could counter insane regeneration powers.
Fein couldn’t help but sigh. ‘I hope I get some useful Mythical Ability in my next lottery.’
“They’re not much stronger than me. In fact, you could probably beat some of them if you could land your Flame Advent. They don’t possess the same regeneration speed as me.” A grin appeared on Ceterus’ face. Then he looked at the three figures walking towards them and turned his head to Fein. “You are the only one who managed to witness my second form. The list only recorded the strength I’ve shown so far, but not what I’m fully capable of. So, don’t trust the list so much.”
Fein nodded at this. He knew what Ceterus said was true. Some of the degu users won’t stupidly show off their abilities or trump cards just for the glory brought by a ranking list.
“Guys, nice fight. I didn’t expect boss Fein could go toe to toe with an S-rank.” Kiba said.
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Kate glanced at Fein with a slight blush on her face. She could still remember his heroic face in the battle.
“Now you have to train with us per our agreement,” Azazel smirked.
Fein turned his eyes at the three, who were looking at him with undisguised admiration on their face. “Don’t worry, I’m not the type of person to back out. I’m a man of words.”
Then he accessed his storage space and took out four advanced healing potions and four advanced degu energy recovery potions. He gave them each while he drank the two himself.
Ceterus recognized the quality of the potions, then he suddenly remembered that Fein was also a part of another organization besides their Ranger’s Eye. “Is that the one from the QWERTY Organization? It seems Zero started to become active recently.”
“Huh? You know our leader?” This time, Fein was shocked. He knew just how much secretive their leader is.
“Who’s that?” The three on the side became curious.
“Yes, he is my friend. But even then, I don’t know much about his life.” A bitter smile made its way to Ceterus’ face. Then he looked at the three and said. “This is confidential information. That man values information.”
“Yeah, even though I’m the chief scientist, I’m not familiar with him.” Fein smiled. “Well, let’s not talk about this. I’m curious about the distance between the five countries with each other.”
“Well, our boy Azazel is the right person to talk to if you want to know about the information of the five countries in our Xeno Great Alliance.” Kiba patted Azazel beside him.
“You don’t even know the distance between the countries? So you didn’t even visit any of them?” Ceterus was stunned.
“Only San Luebisto kingdom.” Fein felt a bit embarrassed about this. He scratched his neck subconsciously and said, “That’s why I need information about the alliance.”
Seeing Fein looking at him, Azazel smiled a little, then he took out two books from his storage space. “My grandfather is a veteran traveler and a writer. He wrote about everything he knows about the five countries and the other book is about the four great wars on our continent.”
“Thanks.” Fein took out the two books. “Actually, I already read something about four great wars in Vladimir’s Family’s library, but only the general details.”
One has the title of ‘Traveler’s Guide on the South’, and the other is ‘The Four Great Wars’. Then he also saw the name of the author of the Traveler’s Guide. ‘Eli Gonzi? So this is Azazel’s grandfather?’
Fein had read a lot of books in different libraries, but it was the first time he heard this author’s name.
“Well, I’m gonna leave first. Just send me a letter if you need something.” Ceterus said to the Big Three. Then he smiled at Fein. “Nice meeting you. Congratulate on steeping in the S-rank realm in advance.”
Azazel, Kate, and Kiba nodded and bowed at Ceterus.
“Nice meeting you, too. Take care, Mr. President.” Fein smiled in return.
Just like that, Ceterus bid his goodbye and left. Seeing Ceterus leaving back, Fein shifted his gaze to the three and stored the two books in his system’s storage. “Let’s discuss your stay here and our training schedule after I read the two in the office.”
“Okay,” Kate unconsciously agreed.
Kiba, on the other hand, pointed at the messy environment of the Desert. “How about this?”
Fein and Azazel glanced at the Desert full of pits, sword slashes, black smoke rising from the sky, and rubbles.
“Don’t worry about that. Can’t you see that it was slowly repairing itself?” Fein replied.
If one looks closely, one would see the damage to the environment getting repaired slowly but surely. For example, a vine would suddenly pop out from the ground, and the pits would be magically filled with brown soil.
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