Female Novel
Chapter 607
Hearing these words, Aina frowned. She had expected Hero Peak to be relatively exclusive, but she hadn't worried about it. WithLeonel's talent, was there really anything exclusive enough to keep him out?
If there was a test, there would be no issue. But, from what Aphestus said, there would no longer be a recruitment test.
In truth, Aphestus' actions weren't exactly wrong. Over the past few years, having even one person pass Hero Peak's exam wasalready a blessing. He was already content with having found Aina, so he didn't feel that there was even a need to wasteresources testing any more.
Every exam took up a sum of wealth from Hero Peak and there were no shortage of people who would come despite knowingthey had no chance of passing. This would result in Hero Peak's expenses being far greater than they would otherwise be.
Usually, this could be solved with a simple screening process, but this took resources to build up as well. This was especially sosince Hero Peak emphasized not base power, but rather potential. This was exactly why a comprehensive exam was moreappropriate than having a screening process.
But now that Aphestus had found a recruit, and especially with the precarious situation Valiant Heart was in currently, why wastethese resources? It would be much easier to reach their goals if they saved as much as they could and reinvested it into thetalents that actually mattered.
Even if Aina could guess much of these things, though, she didn't want to leave Leonel behind. At least for now, she didn't feellike making such a decision was necessary. She had yet to reach such a crossroads.novelbin
And, even if this wasn't about her feelings and she could shed them all away to think about this as logically as possible... Theresources Leonel had access to were likely impossible to find in Valiant Heart. Just his Cleansing Waters alone, which couldkeep her curse under control, was a rarity impossible to explain.
Every time she tried to tell Leonel just how valuable Cleansing Waters were, he would point to the toilet bowl in his AbodeSetting. It was mildly infuriating.
Of course, Aina didn't think of Leonel in terms of the resources he could provide. She had gotten used to being by his side overthe past near year... She didn't want to leave him so soon even if they would technically be in the same place.
"Can't you hold one more test?" Aina suddenly asked.Aphestus frowned when he heard these words.
Instead of his gaze shifting to lock onto Aina, it instead swept over her briefly before locking onto Leonel in the distance. He hadignored Leonel previously for obvious reasons.
If he looked down on a young man and woman like Ingkath and Irolana who had made it more than 80% of the way up, whywould he even deem to speak to someone who didn't even start?
This young lady might have been talented, but she didn't understand the weight of an expert's words. Since he had already saidthat they wouldn't be accepting anyone else, wouldn't he be a joke if he suddenly took those words back not even a few secondsafter he had stated them?
“Listen, little chick. You might be a bit talented, but it seems you haven't understood something.
“Now that you've joined Hero Peak, you are at the bottom of the totem pole. Even the servants that sweep the floors are aboveyou.
“What makes you think you can ask something like this of me?"
From start to finish, Aphestus didn't look at Aina. Rather, he had his eyes locked onto Leonel as though he was giving a silentwarning.
Aina's brows furrowed. She most definitely didn't like being spoken to like that. She couldn't be considered to have a temper, norwas she as prideful as Leonel, but that didn't mean everyone didn't have their own bottom line.
"He could have walked up the mountain pass just like | did. It's just that our world was in the middle of a war and he got heavilyinjured during it. His body isn't in any condition to withstand such pressure."
Aphestus' aura sharpened. This little girl actually still dared to talk back to him?
“Aman who backs away from a challenge just because he's a little hurt? You think that this is enough of an excuse? Hero Peakhas no need for such weak willed trash."
Aphestus' gaze swept back toward Aina.
"Since you don't seem to know your place, that's fine too. From now on, even if your little boyfriend recovers and has somestrength, he won't be allowed to join my Hero Peak."
It seemed that this little girl didn't understand the meaning of hierarchy. Just because he was here to personally recruit her, didn'tmean that her standing was suddenly the equivalent of his.
In addition, according to the rules of Valiant Heart, the transfer from one Peak to another was considered an ‘internal’ dispute.The unsaid truth was that now that Hero Peak had laid claim to Aina, there was no other Peak that would dare take her now lestthey want to become more acquainted with what ‘internal dispute’ might mean in this context.
Aina's gaze flashed with fury when she heard these words.
Seeing the situation going south, Leonel began to walk up the mountain pass. Unfortunately, since the pillars had recently givena large blessing to Aina, it would take some weeks before they could recover to their original strength.
At the moment, walking up the mountain pass was only slightly more difficult than walking anywhere else within this FifthDimensional world. It was akin to a 5% boost to gravity.
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Aphestus almost laughed at these words. How many brats were going to challenge him today? Did they want to die?!
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But, at that moment, he felt Elder Tobis' aura lock onto him, causing him to slowly calm himself.Aphestus sneered. "Everything on Hero Peak is earned through merit.”
"Good." Leonel said plainly.
Somehow, this answer only infuriated Aphestus more.
"Le-"
Leonel shook his head, cutting Aina off and taking out ten golden tags.
"Take them."