Phosphorus, Airship and Silver Dragon Chronicles

Chapter 40 [The Beginning of the Membership Examination] The Child King of Tianxing Island and the People from the Princess's Mansion

Sky Island is a circular artificial island with a diameter of about five kilometers, equipped with a giant steam engine, and capable of slow movement.

Built with investment from the Mevin County government, it has a deep partnership with the Hunter Association for fifty years and has served as the starting point for membership assessment in the Mevin District since its completion.

Tianxing Island is divided into three rings.

One kilometer from the outer ring road is the airship berth.

One kilometer from Central is the commercial district.

The three-kilometer inner ring road is the assessment area.

As it was the annual assessment season, when the Wide-Range Silent Ship arrived at Tianxing Island, all three thousand berths on the outer ring were already filled with various airships.

Hunting boats, security boats, sightseeing boats, media boats, steam trains, large cruise ships —

There are so many different things.

Luo Ya had no choice but to hover the Wide-Area Silent Ship around the outer edge of the Sky Island, leaving the Blue Dragonfly to remain on board.

Wendell and Emil disembarked and headed to Central.

Central is a bustling commercial street with a distinctly hunter-like atmosphere.

The streets were crowded with pedestrians, armored vehicles were everywhere, and the air was thick with the smell of phlogiston and blood.

The streets are lined with shops of exaggerated and bizarre designs, including restaurants, accommodations, training halls, tourism projects related to hunter culture, and the shops with the highest revenue—

casino.

The highest-paying games in the casino are the top-ranked bets for membership assessment and the first-place bets in each tier.

This year, an additional task has been added: capturing the Dragon Ball Rainbow of the Stealth Dragon Ball Hunters.

Roya wanted to see his odds of winning, so he went to a casino.

Look at the betting slip from the membership assessment!

Only ten specific Sky Hunter teams were revealed, along with eleven other teams, offering odds of winning the championship.

The four-person Sky Hunter team, ranked tenth on the bounty list, was ruthlessly relegated to the other teams.

Emil was indignant: "This is outrageous! What are the other groups thinking? Doesn't the tenth spot on the bounty list deserve to be mentioned?"

Luo Ya didn't seem to care much about such a small matter.

"It's a pity that the other teams only have odds of 1 to 10 to win, so they can't turn a bicycle into a motorcycle, otherwise I would definitely place a bet."

"Gambling can affect a hunter's sensitivity to his prey."

Wendell picked up the ram's horn teapot, tilted his head back, and took a sip of tea.

She has seen too many cases of people abandoning their families, careers, and consciences because of gambling, and there have even been cases of extraordinary people falling into evil because of gambling.

"The Holy Maiden is right!"

Luo Ya smiled and echoed.

He glanced at the betting slip; the top ten odds for winning were basically ranked according to the top ten on the bounty list, but the order was slightly different.

First place, the Kid King Sky Hunter Team, payout of 2 to 3.

Second place goes to the Infinite Cube Sky Hunter Team, with odds of 1 to 2.

Third place, Valkyrie Sky Hunters, odds of 5 to 1.

Fourth place, Dragon Chasing Sky Hunting Team, odds of 8 to 1.

Fifth place: The Black-Robed Wizard Skyhunter Group, odds of 1 to 10.

Sixth place, Twin-Tailed Sky Hunter Team, odds of 1 to 12.

Seventh place, Razer Skyhunter, odds of 1 to 14.

Eighth place, Clockwork Bugs Skyhunter Team, odds of 1 to 16.

Ninth place, White Falcon Hunting Team, odds of 1 to 18.

Tenth place, Swordhead Shark Sky Hunter Team, odds of 1 to 20.

The odds for other Sky Hunter teams to win are 1 to 10.

Compared to the top ten on the bounty list, the biggest change in order is actually Prince Tali's Dragon Hunting Team!

"The Dragon Chasing Sky Hunters, who were ninth on the bounty list, are now fourth on the odds list. It seems that Prince Tali has returned home and brought back reinforcements."

Emil craned his neck for over a meter, staring at the betting slip for a long time, when suddenly he remembered something.

"Captain, who knocked us out of the top ten?"

Only then did Luo Ya realize that he, ranked tenth on the bounty list, had not been squeezed out of the odds list by the eleventh-ranked Sky Hunter Group.

Instead, another Sky Hunter team has broken into the top ten in the odds!

The fifth-ranked group in terms of odds among the ten groups was surprisingly the newly established Sky Hunter Group, the Black Robe Wizard Sky Hunter Group, which had not appeared on the bounty list for only a few days.

The casino posters didn't even include a photo of the group's airship; they only showed a group of people dressed in black robes whose faces were obscured.

"Strange, did they form a team specifically for the Dragon Ball stealth missions?"

Roya muttered to himself.

Emil's attention quickly shifted to the bottom of the betting area: "Captain, look, there's a note here: The Hunter Association will announce the airship levels and member superhuman levels of the ten groups 24 hours before the start of the competition. Air Hunter groups that have not yet registered, please go to the Mayon airship to register."

"It turns out we haven't registered yet. Once we register, the odds rankings are very likely to change!"

The three left the casino.

Soon, the hovering airship Meiwen was located above Tianxing Island.

This is the only Tier 9 airship on Skywalker Island!

Moreover, it is a fully sealed, long, whale-shaped, one-piece airship, similar to the Spinosaurus.

The 300-meter-long, silver-gray airship has only one buoyancy chamber and no gondola; the cabin is located inside the buoyancy chamber.

Integrated airships have extremely high standards for the strength, fire resistance, and explosion resistance of the internal buoyancy chamber materials, resulting in very high costs.

There are no more than ten integrated airships on the entire Tianxing Island!

Roya remotely activated the six-winged Seraph armor, sending the three to the entrance of the Mevin's airship cabin.

Upon entering the buoyancy capsule, you'll see a registration window.

"The Four-Person Sky-Hunting Team is now accepting applications for membership assessment."

Inside the window, the middle-aged man, who had been dozing off in a chair with a newspaper covering his face, suddenly perked up.

He tore open the newspaper, revealing two tufts of mustache.

"You're the four-person Skyhunting Team ranked tenth on the bounty list? Where's one person?"

"Who says a four-person aerial hunting team has to have four people?"

Luo Ya thought to himself, "We can't even get two humans together!"

"You are the last aerial hunter team to arrive on the island among the top ten on the bounty list. You have twelve hours left. If you don't register, you will lose your free registration!"

"We were delayed on the way."

Subsequently, the middle-aged man sent people to verify the airship, its equipment, and to check the extraordinary level of each member of the group.

When registering the group name, Luo Ya did not change it again, continuing to use the name "Four-Person Sky-Walking Hunting Group," treating Blue Dragonfly as the fourth member.

Since the Hunter Association allows non-human members, Roya truthfully filled in the races of Wendell, Emil, and Blue Dragonfly, thus gathering the Three Disasters in one group.

He deliberately concealed Wendell's saintly attributes, after all, Ishtar only had fifth-order magic energy, but Wendell not only possessed holy light, but her saintly body was also unfathomable!

After registration, the middle-aged man asked curiously, "Speaking of which, did you really join the Silent Hunters and Dragon Chasers in attacking the Extraordinary Factory?"

Roya shrugged: "No comment."

The middle-aged man didn't hold a grudge and said with a smile, "A single-furnace sixth-tier airship, a fifth-tier combatant, a fourth-tier scout, a third-tier regimental commander, and armor—if you had participated in the membership assessment last year, you would have been in the top three."

Unfortunately, it will be difficult to make it into the top ten this year. You should be prepared to pay 10,000 gold coins or participate in a given task. There are big tasks waiting for you this year.

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Emil asked curiously, "What kind of mission?"

"No comment."

The middle-aged man shrugged, lay back in his chair, and covered his face with a newspaper.

Roya felt something was off as he left the Mevin.

"The association didn't even discover the Blue Dragonfly's secondary engine. Based on the calculations of Tier 3 armor, it might have an advantage in combat."

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The next day.

After spending a night on the Silent Wide Area, Roya disembarked and went into the casino to check the odds.

Apart from minor adjustments to the specific odds for winning and the rankings, there are no other changes.

The four-person Sky Hunter group is still classified as: Other groups.

However, the information about the Sky Hunters on the casino posters has been updated!

The Black-Robed Wizard Sky Hunters, ranked fifth on the odds list for their arrival—

It turned out to be the Silent Hunters Sky Hunter Team, ravaged by the phlogiston sun in the Extraordinary Factory!

For some reason, the Silent Hunter chose to leave the association and retake the exam after the airship was bombed.

Emil was a little worried: "Captain, it looks like they're coming for us."

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Luo Ya, however, remained calm and composed.

"What's there to be afraid of? If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. Prince Tali, who is fourth on the odds list, is in front of us. It's not our turn yet."

Moreover, a sixth-tier transcendent being only twice as powerful as a fifth-tier one; this difference can be easily overcome through equipment, etc.

Special abilities, combat experience, allies, etc. are easily eliminated.

In addition, the membership assessment is also mainly competitive, with everyone wearing a vest and airbags.

We have only two goals in this assessment: to get first place and to unlock the Dragon Balls.

Emile asked, "What if you could only choose one?"

"Stealth Dragon Ball".

For Roya, winning first place is only worth 10,000 gold coins and a negligible amount of fame, while the Stealth Dragon Ball is an escape artifact that can save his life in critical moments!

Just then, a dark figure appeared behind Roya.

The pervasive, scalding heat of blood quickly enveloped Roya.

"Anyone who tries to get the Stealth Dragon Balls is a coward. I heard someone stole a lot of loot during the battle at the Super Factory. Are you talking about Captain Roya?"

Without turning his head, Roya knew that the person who came was none other than Don Bright, the temporary underling of the leader of the Blade-Stabbing Sky Hunters.

The pervasive aura of blood gave him an extremely strong sense of oppression.

If he hadn't known that the bloody smell was coming from the chest wound he had stitched up himself, and that it was tainted with the scent of a grenade, he might have been afraid too.

Her acting is quite good.

Perhaps they were just putting on a show of their true feelings.

Luo Ya remained unmoved and calm, only saying, "It's better than becoming a spoils of war."

Don Bright patted Roya heavily on the shoulder: "No rush, by the third level, I'll make you all the spoils of war!"

At that moment, Wendell suddenly turned his head to look to the side.

A tall, thin, fair-skinned boy with a square head and a short, chubby, dark-skinned boy with a round head walked over together, each holding an ice cream cone.

The square-headed boy ate a square-shaped cream ice cream, while the round-headed boy ate a spherical chocolate ice cream.

The tall, thin, square-headed boy was a third-tier transcendent being, a typical prodigy.

The short, chubby, round-headed boy with a slightly dull look in his eyes was actually a sixth-level transcendent!

The two people had absolutely nothing in common, yet they unexpectedly ended up together.

The square-haired youth stopped in front of Roya, looked up, and asked, "Are you Captain Roya, with a bounty of ten thousand gold taels?"

He looked up, but his gaze towards Roya seemed to be looking down at him.

Luo Ya shook his head indifferently.

"It's the bounty for the entire group, not just for one person."

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The square-headed boy grinned, revealing a gap in his teeth.

"Our group has a bounty of 90,000 gold, and my brother's group has a bounty of 120,000 gold. We each bought the option to have another group win the bounty of 10,000 gold."

I sincerely hope that those of you ranked eleventh on the bounty list have real skills. If you can win, the prize money will offset the bounty we have to pay.

Wendell stared at the round-headed boy, frowning slightly, but said nothing more.

Roya nodded.

120,000, 90,000

This is the bounty for the first and second place on the bounty list!

For the King of Children Sky Hunters and the Infinite Cube Sky Hunters.

Roya had heard before at the Distillery Tavern that Merlin Passage had been conquered by a group of children this year, and sure enough, it was true.

Spending 10,000 gold coins to buy other teams' championship means they have decided to prioritize hunting the Stealth Dragon Balls rather than winning the championship.

Faced with two children, Luo Ya decided to crush them with his intelligence.

"Our team certainly has the strength to win the championship, but we'd rather try to get the Stealth Dragon Ball, unless—someone invests some cash or high-level equipment in our team."

The round-headed, dark-skinned boy believed him and handed Roya the half-eaten, half-melted chocolate cake: "Want some ice cream?"

The square-headed boy grabbed his arm, turned around, and walked away.

"Idiots, do you really think we're children!"

Day three.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly.

The Hunter Association Merlin District membership entrance examination has officially begun!

The 312 participating air hunting teams sailed their airships to the edge of the inner ring road.

A sixth-order balloon airship hovered above the inner ring, directly below the Meiwen.

This is the host ship for this year's membership assessment!

The host, dressed in a red suit and sporting an afro, stood on a balloon gondola and addressed the audience through a megaphone: "The annual membership assessment for the Merlin District is about to begin. It has attracted a total of 312 Sky Hunter teams, second only to the first assessment held on the island. However, the Sky Hunter teams at that time were of varying quality and not very valuable for reference."

This year's membership assessment in the Meilin District attracted over a thousand extraordinary individuals, the highest number ever.

After a brief opening, the host began to introduce the competition format for this year's membership assessment.

"This year's membership assessment consists of three stages:"

The first challenge is a fighting competition located on the inner ring of the main island.

Each Sky Hunter squad sends one combatant to participate in a one-hour mixed combat battle, and the final rankings for advancing to the second stage are determined by the final score.

The second stage is a hunting stage that involves traveling against the flow of Merlin's route.

We hunted the thousand black dragons that we had arranged in advance.

The ranking for entering the third stage is determined based on the number of black dragons hunted and the level points.

Among them, the hidden dragon that has devoured the hidden dragon pearl cannot be exchanged for points, but it can be kept as one's own.

The third challenge is the most thrilling and exciting unrestricted obstacle course flight race, which will determine the ultimate winner of the Sky Hunter Team.

Is everyone ready?

On the Wide-Area Silence, Roya and his two companions put on their close-fitting vests and airbags and received the competition rules manual.

The first combat test is located in the center of Tianxing Island, in a misty forest with a diameter of about three kilometers.

Each aerial hunting party can only send one person into the forest, while the rest of the teammates can provide remote intelligence and guidance.

The rules for the combat assessment are as follows:

Each combatant starts with a minimum of 10 points.

One point is awarded for each lower-level opponent defeated.

Earn 3 points for each victory against an opponent of the same skill level.

Earn nine points for each high-level opponent you defeat.

If an opponent is accidentally killed, the Sky Hunter guild to which the victim belongs will lose its eligibility to participate in the current year's membership assessment and will have to compensate the Sky Hunter guild to which the victim belonged with between 10,000 and 100,000 gold coins.

The order of spacecraft departure for the second flight assessment of each regiment is determined by the ranking of combatants' scores.

On deck, Emily, eager to prove herself, volunteered, "Captain, Wendell is our trump card, and you're in charge of command. How about I go for the first mission?"

Luo Ya shook his head and said seriously, "Remember, you are also our trump card!"

The first stage is relatively less important; the Hunter Association wants to see our extraordinary abilities clearly.

Therefore, I will still drive the armored vehicle in the competition. As long as I control it properly, outsiders can only see the combat capabilities of the armored vehicle, and it will be difficult for them to see my own abilities.

Wendell warned Roya, "Then you'd better be careful. The leader of the Silent Hunters might show up. Don't get caught by him."

Luo Ya was prepared for this: "Don't underestimate Blue Dragonfly. His overall abilities are no less than Arden's, and he might not be a match for an average sixth-tier superhuman."

Subsequently, Roya submitted specific information about the team members, their ranks, and equipment for the fighting competition.

After receiving the list of participants for the combat competition, the host immediately announced: "For the next half hour, I will preside over the entrance ceremony for the combat competition and introduce each air hunter squadron and combatant."

The fighting match will officially begin in half an hour, which means that all betting on this year's Merlin District membership assessment will be completely closed in half an hour!

As the opening ceremony began, one by one, the combatants entered the inner ring of the Misty Forest amidst introductions.

At the same time, the combatant's shadow appeared in the fog on the surface of the balloon-airship buoyancy bag!

In a daze, Luo Ya saw a live broadcast, and the scene was just as lively as the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

at the same time.

Directly above the balloon airship.

The Mevin airship.

Inside the monitoring room.

Mayor Corini Mayvan of Mayvan County wiped his sweat and bent down to hand a cup of locally brewed black tea to the red-haired middle-aged man sitting in the head seat of the monitoring room.

"Please have some tea."

Meanwhile, Sonia, the chief examiner for the Merlin District membership assessment and an operator of the Hunter Association, was dressed in a classic blue and white cloud-themed uniform, with one hand behind her back and her head bowed to the chief examiner.

"What brings you here? This is a major event, not just in Mayman County, but throughout the entire Blue Nest Kingdom!"

Neither the ninth-rank county magistrate, Corini Mevin, nor the twelfth-rank hunter association examiner, Sonia, could detect any fluctuations in the red-haired man's aura; they only confirmed it through internal sources.

The man was from the Imperial Headquarters and belonged to the Princess's residence.

At the head of the table, the red-haired man took a sip of tea, his narrowed gaze fixed on a blurry snapshot.

"Don't be nervous. The princess is very bored in the palace. I just came out to help her find some fresh and interesting story material."

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