Chapter 79: Recommendation Letter
During the very first period when monsters had just appeared and the first humans awakened after receiving the direct blessing of angels, there weren’t any hunter academies in this world.
After the most brutal and chaotic stage of the war had passed. The red gates would no longer suddenly turn red right after appearing and let monsters pour out, but instead needed a fairly long time before turning red.
Through repeated research and exploration of dungeons, humanity discovered that the number of monsters in each dungeon had suddenly decreased by a huge amount. This created favorable conditions for mining rare resources that could only be found inside dungeons.
There are three types of extremely valuable resources in dungeons that cannot be obtained anywhere on earth.
First is rainbow sand. A special type of sand whose colors constantly change, looking like the colors of a rainbow. Melting this sand produces a special kind of crystal that only people awakened with the blacksmith ability can use to create the crystal sphere used in the awakening ritual.
Second is spirit stone. It is a type of transparent stone formed from condensed energy. By itself, under normal conditions, it doesn’t have any special use, but in the hands of people awakened with the blacksmith ability, it can have two major uses.
The first is as a major energy source for technological equipment. The second is mixing it with other metals to create weapons. Weapons whose main component is made from spirit stones can directly ’eat’ spirit stones to restore themselves to their original state when damaged.
Third is spiritual herb. Compared to the two mentioned above, spiritual herbs aren’t rated very highly. They are extremely rare, but when used, they can’t increase one’s strength by much because most of the body’s energy can’t be absorbed in time and simply dissipates.
Even though their effects aren’t great, their rarity and uniqueness make wealthy people very fond of collecting them. The starting price of each spiritual herb is at least millions of dollars.
These three types of resources are the new gold mines of this era, making everyone want a share. But entering monster territory isn’t a casual stroll, but a life-threatening risk.
Dungeons are also divided into two types: exploitable and must-be-cleared. Dungeons from B-rank and below can be exploited, but from A-rank and above, dungeon raids are mandatory to clear them because the monsters inside are too dangerous.
No force opposes this mandatory clearance because the number of high-rank dungeons is very low. The resources inside dungeons are completely random and have nothing to do with whether the rank is high or low.
A dungeon raid means tracking down and destroying the dungeon core, thereby permanently closing the dungeon gate. The dungeon core appears after the dungeon boss is killed. Normally, the boss is one of the strongest monsters, but sometimes it is a weak monster with a special ability.
In exploitable dungeons, capitalists and powerful hunters have joined forces and created guilds. Only guild members or people hired by guilds are allowed to enter dungeons.
Even in these low-rank dungeons, casualties during exploitation are unavoidable. There are too many low-rank dungeons, so it is impossible to send elites into every single one. After all, accepting risks in exchange for money is nothing strange to humanity.
Precisely because the casualties were so high, both private organizations and governments established hunter academies. The main purpose was to increase the survival rate of hunters when entering dungeons.
In the Americas, the largest hunter academy is located in the US. It is the American Hunter Academy that White introduced to Nexus.
The principal of this academy is Zero, an S-rank hunter who is ten years older than White. The other S-rank hunters and above in the academy have not publicly revealed their identities, but according to what White knows, the academy has at least three people who have reached S-rank or higher.
[Stupid master, go to that countryside academy of those mortals. I’ll show them the greatness of this system, and they’ll kneel down and beg me to let them join the Cultivation Academy.]
Seeing that White had finished explaining, the system immediately urged Nexus to make a decision. In its mind, it had already imagined thousands of human elites kneeling before it.
"Of course we have to go. Even if we can’t recruit any more disciples, Mark will have a chance to learn from humanity’s elites."
Although Nexus sometimes neglected his disciple way too much, he was still a master after all. Occasionally thinking about his disciple’s growth was only natural.
"Hey, can you create paper and a pen? I’ll write you a letter of introduction."
[A letter of introduction? Does this great system need that? Those lowly mortals dare to make demands of me?]
The system felt that this was completely unnecessary. The most proper way to enter American Hunter Academy was to swagger through the main entrance, then become the big boss of the whole school. Even if things didn’t go smoothly, the system only needed to interfere with everyone’s memories, and that would be it.
"Since we’re staying there for a while anyway, show the host some respect."
Nexus ignored the system’s nonsense and created a blank letter and a pen, then handed them to White.
White casually took them, of course without the slightest surprise. After looking through Nexus’s past, she understood that although Nexus possessed great power, he wouldn’t bother using it unless necessary.
"American Hunter Academy is one of the top academies in the world. Its student selection process is no easier than that of the world’s top universities. Luckily, you know me; otherwise, don’t even think about getting into that place easily."
As she spoke, White wrote the letter. Completely different from her neat appearance, her handwriting was unbelievably ’free’. Unless you strained your eyes to look, you really couldn’t understand what she had written.
The contents of the letter were a little... Well, it wasn’t hard to tell that White wasn’t very educated because the way she presented it was far too freewheeling.