NOVEL WEB Chapter 151 - Substitute 2
Although Mai Dongzi didn’t know if Durant was one of the top ten families’ descendants, judging by his demeanor and eloquence, along with his equal treatment towards the Moonlight faction member, he could at least afford the fees of a sound therapist, which would be several hundred thousand credit coins.
Thinking about the business opportunity, Mai Dongzi kindly told Durant, “Zhuang Huaiya is anxious because our Phantom Team doesn’t have a Level 5 cultivator. He wants to take a martial artist’s potential enhancement potion during the break to boost his cultivation. Fortunately, he informed me in advance, and I assisted him through the critical period with sound therapy. Otherwise…”
What would happen otherwise, Mai Dongzi did not say, but both the Moonlight faction member and Durant understood.
The two looked at Mai Dongzi with a touch of eagerness in their eyes; they hadn’t heard that a sound therapist could assist others through the potion’s activation period.
They weren’t sure how effective Mai Dongzi’s sound therapy was, but they had experienced her sound attack techniques firsthand.
At that time on the competition stage, they unknowingly fell into an illusion, thinking that their teammates were from the Phantom Team, so they worked hard to push them to the edge of the stage. Then, in the illusion, they thought the match was over, and they could leave the competition platform.
Her mastery of such powerful sound attack techniques meant that she would be even better at the easier-to-learn sound therapy.
Moreover, Mai Dongzi had helped a competitor overcome their inner demons to advance using sound therapy during the competition.
Durant had already been paying attention to Mai Dongzi’s various battle videos, and he had also seen the video of her helping Lin Qingzhou advance in the competition.
As for Mai Dongzi assisting Zhuang Huaiya, Durant had no doubts at all. Since Mai Dongzi was bold enough to say so, it must be true; he couldn’t think of any reason for her to deceive them.
In the aristocracy, if a person is not in a difficult situation, not many people would take enhancement potions for their cultivation potential.
Although success could increase cultivation potential by about ten percent, failure could very well cost them their lives.
They could cultivate their skills and accumulate resources, but once their lives were lost, everything was gone.
However, the major military groups of the Blue-Black Empire had started intense training a month ago, with the goal of increasing their cultivation by any means possible.
Anyone with a bit of insider information could find out these details, which indicated that there was a significant problem.
The aristocratic families with access to reliable information had concrete news that in two years, the Blue-Black Empire might face a tremendous crisis, and those with higher cultivation levels would have a greater chance of survival in that crisis.
Durant had been anxious about his cultivation stagnating for a whole year, and now seeing Zhuang Huaiya’s situation, he couldn’t help but have some thoughts; he planned to discuss it with his family.
“Junior Sister Xi, if I take the enhancement potion for cultivation potential, can you assist me through the danger period?” the Moonlight faction asked directly.
Mai Dongzi glanced at the Moonlight faction member; this boy was proud but straightforward, clearly favored in his family.
“During this process, anything that happens is not the responsibility of the sound therapist, and I will not be held accountable,” Mai Dongzi said.
In the Blue-Black Empire, there are clear responsibility regulations for sound therapists providing treatment, which seem to restrict the sound therapists but actually ensure that they do not bear undue responsibilities.
When sound therapists use sound therapy to treat or assist others, the fees do not need to be explicitly stated; the state has explicit regulations that the fees charged are based on the therapist’s level, while tips are left to personal discretion.
However, Mai Dongzi had only obtained a Level 5 sound therapist qualification certificate, while her actual level was already Level 7, which felt a bit unfair. Mai Dongzi planned to go for the Level 6 sound therapist qualification certificate after the training session.
“Okay, let’s talk about it when we return from the training,” the Moonlight faction member said happily.
He didn’t expect that coming to the Phantom team would allow him to learn about this matter, and his original frustration was swept away.
Mai Dongzi glanced at this young master, who was so expressive with his emotions, the only son of the head of the Yue family, one of the ten great families. How precious! Whether this business deal would succeed was still up for debate.
If it were to happen, the responsibility would be significant. If it weren’t for her mental-type ability being two levels higher than this warrior’s, she wouldn’t dare take on this business.
However, regardless of whether the deal could be made, at least the two young masters no longer had much resistance to the identity of the substitutes due to this matter.
Mai Dongzi personally not only welcomed the instructor’s decision to have these two join the Phantom team but was also very supportive of it.
Durant was still somewhat unclear, but the combat power of the Moonlight faction member’s third-year top student was well established.
Originally, during the team training competition, Mai Dongzi was confident that she could lead everyone into the top sixteen.
Now, with the addition of the Moonlight faction member, she was confident of entering the top eight.
According to the competition rules from their previous individual and team competitions, Mai Dongzi believed that the higher the points earned by the team during the training competition, the more advantageous it would be in the elimination rounds.
The members of the Phantom team felt somewhat complicated about the addition of these two substitute players, especially Chen Xinhe and Yu Lan, who were at the bottom of the team’s strength.
But regardless of their thoughts, these two were their seniors, and their cultivation levels were higher than theirs, so they could only comply.
For Zhuang Huaiya, however, this was a good thing. He had already left his little companions behind, but when it came to Mai Dongzi, the gap was still too large.
Mai Dongzi’s opposition to Zhuang Huaiya was naturally beneficial for him, but it was of no help to Mai Dongzi. It was equivalent to sacrificing her training time to give him time for practice.
After the Moonlight faction member and Durant joined the Phantom team, both Durant and the Moonlight faction member became the best sparring partners for Zhuang Huaiya, allowing Mai Dongzi to withdraw from the practice.
Moreover, since the Moonlight faction member was also the captain of the team and very capable, Mai Dongzi, who was not afraid of the Moonlight faction usurping her position, planned to delegate some training tasks to him, enabling her to spend more time on personal cultivation.
Mai Dongzi first held a team meeting, and the focus was not to introduce the Moonlight faction member and Durant, but rather:
“I hope you can tell us in detail what we need to pay attention to during the wilderness survival training,” Mai Dongzi asked.
These teams would be deployed to one place, but among so many teams, only the Phantom team consisted of first-year students.
The other teams had all gone through wilderness training, while the members of the Phantom team had no such experience. Therefore, they would definitely be at a disadvantage at the beginning of the team training competition.
The upperclassmen were very cunning, and none of them were willing to share the rules and details of wilderness survival training with the first-year students.
Even when Mai Dongzi called Renguang, she didn’t get any information.
It should be noted that there were two teams in the combat faction: one was Ye Zhengyan’s team, and the other was Renguang’s team.
Renguang said directly, “Cousin, it’s fine if I lose to you in the individual competition, but if I lose to you in the team competition as well, we will lose face.”