The Fourth Disaster: People become gods through high martial arts and gaming

Chapter 235 The New Deputy City Lord

City of Light, downtown area.

Late at night, the bright full moon hung high in the sky, its light quietly spilling into the courtyard of the Blanc family villa.

In the training ground in the courtyard, which was entirely made of energy ore, Estina, dressed in a pure white training uniform and wearing a metal mask, gripped the A6-grade training greatsword tightly in both hands. With just one step, she appeared more than ten meters away behind a metal dummy made of A6-grade alloy.

As Estina sheathed her greatsword, several cracks suddenly appeared on the more than two-meter-tall metal dummy, which then scattered on the ground, leaving the Blanc family members who were also training outside the training ground speechless.

"Miss Tina has actually mastered the advanced martial art, Wind Severing Technique?"

"My God! Our family is going to be rich this time! With this talent and strength, we'll definitely be in the top ten of the genius training camp!"

"Those two geniuses who rank in the top three in the family are really unlucky to be in the same era as her. They will probably live in her shadow for the rest of their lives."

The hundreds of members of the Blanc family in the courtyard, regardless of gender, looked at Estina, who occupied the entire training ground by herself, and felt a sense of sadness in their hearts, in addition to envy and amazement.

As children of the main family of the Blanc family, their lives from childhood were not as idyllic as ordinary people in the city and suburbs imagined. They started training from a young age, training during the day and training at night, with almost no time for themselves. All of their time was devoted to training, just to enter the genius training camp and become a high-ranking member of the family.

Previously, it was one thing for the family to have two outstanding geniuses, as they still had some hope of competing with them. After all, those family geniuses had only mastered the advanced martial artist training method first and entered the martial artist realm.

However, Estina mastered a high-level secret technique that the Brun family had treasured for over a hundred years, surpassing those two geniuses in one fell swoop.

Now he's even more terrifying. He's mastered the advanced martial art "Breaking Wind" to a high level, and with his physical attributes that are almost at the level of a mid-level martial artist, he's a dazzling presence in every year's genius training camp. If he keeps this up, becoming one of the top ten graduates wouldn't be a problem at all.

Just as the young men of the Blanc family were whispering among themselves, an old man who was about 2.3 or 2.4 meters tall and had a prosthetic eye walked over.

The old man's appearance instantly silenced all the disciples present, who dared not even raise their heads.

"Why has the patriarch come here?"

"Does this mean there's another plan for Miss Tina?"

The disciples were all filled with surprise and curiosity at the sudden appearance of the family head in the middle of the night.

The current head of the Blanc family, Lutod, is a legend who brought the Blanc family to its peak. He was not only one of the top ten graduates of the genius training camp in his early years, but also the current commander of the eleventh regiment of the garrison. He has considerable influence in the entire Three-Eyed Clan.

The Blanc family originally had room for further advancement thanks to its patriarch, Lutod, but for decades the Blanc family has not produced any powerful martial artists, and with Lutod already over ninety years old, the Blanc family has become increasingly declining.

The patriarch has always been very busy. Even though the family has produced some geniuses in recent years, he only meets them once when they are promoted to martial artists. It is very difficult to meet them a second time.

The fact that the head of the family has come in person is unprecedented.

"Master." Estina stepped forward when she saw Master Lutod.

"Not bad, to be able to master Duanfeng so quickly, your talent is something I couldn't even match back then." Lutod glanced at the metal dummies scattered on the training ground and praised, "Now it seems you are indeed the most suitable candidate."

"What are your orders, Master?" Estina looked at Lutod, also curious about why he wanted to see her.

She had met him once before when she became a martial artist. At that time, Lutod told her to focus on cultivation and that the family head would give her full support. This greatly increased her status in the Bolan family, making her second only to another mid-level Bone Forging Realm high-ranking member of the family.

"Get ready. Go to the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy's entrance exam tomorrow and join the academy," Lutod said, stroking his gray beard.

"I'm joining the Obsidian Martial Arts School?" Estina was stunned and didn't react for a moment.

At this moment, not only was Estina stunned, but the family members below the training ground were also dumbfounded. They all looked up at the family head, Lutod, in disbelief, wondering if the Lutod in front of them was an imposter.

The name Obsidian Martial Arts School is now known to many people in the City of Light. It was founded by a martial artist at the initial stage of the Bone Forging Realm. Although it has been able to establish itself in the city, it is still a fledgling among the many forces in the city and is not worth mentioning.

For the family's most favored daughter to participate in the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy's assessment and join the academy now, either the family head has gone mad, or someone else is impersonating her; there's absolutely no other possibility.

“Yes.” Lutod nodded, glanced at the rioting crowd, and his waning energy suddenly surged forth.

Those disciples who initially thought the family head was an imposter all knelt on the ground, unable to move an inch. Meanwhile, the disciples who remained silent and Estina were unharmed, their control over their qi and blood clearly reaching a superb level.

At this moment, none of the family members doubted that the patriarch was an imposter.

This level of control over one's Qi and blood is something that even mid- to high-level Bone Forging Realm martial artists cannot achieve. Only a martial artist like Lutod, who has remained at the high-level Bone Forging Realm for decades, could have such a level of control.

"Patriarch, what about the genius training camp?" Estina asked, puzzled but not refusing.

She knew a little about the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy. Although the Academy did not refuse its disciples from entering the Genius Training Camp, the Academy's Guard Regiment would obviously conflict with the training in the Genius Training Camp. The Guard Regiment was one of the core members of the Academy, so it was practically impossible to enter the Genius Training Camp if you wanted to enter the Academy's core circle.

However, joining the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy would not affect her entry into the Genius Training Camp.

She didn't know which of these two scenarios the head of the family, Lutod, was referring to.

“While the training at the Genius Training Camp is important, joining the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy won’t necessarily make you any worse off,” Lutod said. “The Obsidian Martial Arts Academy of today is not the same as the one you know. Master Lin will become the fifth deputy city lord of our City of Light, and the youngest one at that. Our Blanc family doesn’t have much contact with Master Lin, and you are the one with the best chance of entering the core circle of the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, so this task can only be entrusted to you. As for your resources, the family will not reduce them.”

"Deputy City Lord? Lin Qi?" Estina felt her brain couldn't keep up. "There can't be a mistake, can there?"

She had met Lin Qi a while ago, and he wasn't even a Bone Forging Realm expert. It was one thing for him to become one later, but now he was telling her that Lin Qi was already the deputy city lord of the City of Light. If these words hadn't come from the family head, Lutod, she would have suspected they were just made-up nonsense.

"The whole city will know about this by tomorrow morning," Lutod said to Estina with a hint of helplessness. "I know you want to enter the genius training camp. You could even enter the Domain City, let alone reach the Bone Forging Realm. But our family can't wait any longer. Do you understand?"

“Patriarch, I understand. I will join the Obsidian Martial Arts School tomorrow.” Estina looked at Lutod, whose vitality had declined to an extreme degree, and knew that Patriarch Lutod probably didn’t have many years left to live.

Although in theory a martial artist in the Bone Forging Realm can live to 150 years old, in this day and age, which martial artist hasn't experienced battles? The constant depletion of qi and blood and various injuries mean that even with medicine to restore them, their vitality cannot be replenished. Therefore, few martial artists in the Bone Forging Realm live to be a hundred years old.

It can be said that compared to ordinary people who can live to be eighty or ninety years old, experts in the Bone Forging Realm are not much stronger, and in fact, due to fighting in the wild, they do not live as long as ordinary people.

It's quite rare in the City of Light for someone like patriarch Lutod to live to be over ninety years old.

The Blanc family's prosperity today is due to Lutod's existence. If Lutod were gone, even his own clansmen would not be so lenient. A mere forty-something-year-old mid-stage Bone Forging Realm martial artist simply cannot support the current Blanc family.

But if she became a high-ranking member of a major power in the city, it would be a completely different story. Even if she didn't have the strength, the major powers in the city would still give her some face, which is something that a student in a genius training camp simply cannot compare to.

“Good boy, from today onwards you are the first heir of the Blanc family, and all of the Blanc family’s resources will be open to you.” Lutod nodded with satisfaction and then left the courtyard.

With Lutod's departure, the entire Blanc family was in an uproar.

No one expected that Estina, the number one genius of the Blanc family, who even surpassed the other two geniuses by a large margin, would ultimately be unable to enter the genius training camp and instead join the Obsidian Martial Arts School. This left everyone feeling quite disappointed.

As for the two geniuses of the Blanc family, they were initially stunned upon receiving the news, but then they were overjoyed.

"Hahaha, Tina, no matter how talented you are, you still won't be able to get into the genius training camp in the end."

"So what if I'm the first heir? So what if all the family resources are open to me? Once I enter the genius training camp and graduate, I will still be the head of the Blanc family!"

The two geniuses from the Blanc family had already given up hope of the current situation. Even if they could enter the genius training camp with Estina, they would be left far behind by Estina.

But now they have a chance. As long as they can get into the genius training camp, with the training and resources provided by the camp, they can catch up with Estina, or even surpass her. When the position of family head is decided, once the family head leaves, it will be decided by strength.

In the early morning, the sun rises.

Led by the head of the family, Lutod, Estina arrived at the abandoned area of ​​the City of Light, a place that even the official residents of the City of Light would never come to, let alone warriors.

But when the flying car stopped on the dilapidated street outside the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Estina, who got out of the car, was a little dumbfounded.

At this moment, the entire dilapidated street was filled with flying cars, and people were coming and going. Forget about homeless people, almost everyone you could see were scions of various families from the city and suburbs, and some of them were even martial artists.

These people were all waiting in line with the family head, waiting for the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy's disciple assessment.

It was as if the assessment in front of them was not a martial arts school assessment in an abandoned area, but an assessment conducted by a genius training camp in the city. Those homeless people who could have queued up for the assessment before did not even have the chance to queue up now. Anyone who got close was suffocated by the powerful aura.

Such an astonishing scene left not only outsiders like Estina shocked and amazed, but also those organizing the assessment, such as Meng Wei, Qin Mu, and Xia Ling, speechless.

"I'm afraid half the family members in the whole city have come for this assessment." Meng Wei looked at the ever-growing number of people in the team and the flying cars descending one after another from the sky. He was filled with amazement, feeling as if he were dreaming.

He joined the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy because he felt that with Lin Qi leading it, it might become a dominant force in the suburbs in the future.

It's unimaginable that half of the family members in the entire City of Light came to participate in the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy's assessment today. This scale is unprecedented, except for the triennial Genius Training Camp assessment.

"Luckily I joined early, otherwise it would be incredibly difficult to get into the guard regiment of the martial arts school now." Xia Ling looked at the martial arts disciples in the group and was glad that she made the choice back then. If she had joined any later, with her talent, it would have been a big question whether she could have joined the guard regiment now.

As more and more flying cars landed outside the martial arts school, a convoy of flying transport vehicles slowly came to a stop on the street outside the school, quickly attracting the attention of everyone present.

Two or three hundred young human men and women disembarked from ten flying transport vehicles. Some were martial artists, and some were quasi-martial artists. Regardless of whether they were martial artists or quasi-martial artists, each of them possessed extraordinary vitality, indicating that they had all cultivated excellent training methods.

The team leaders were Wu Zhuoqun and Lin Yan, two well-known human captains from the garrison regiment.

"Has that old man Xiang gone mad? In order to expand the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, he actually brought all the prospective geniuses from Yunxia Town. Is he planning to gamble everything on that Master Lin?" Lutod looked at the young human men and women who came down to line up, and was also full of surprise.

Although the human race has weakened in the City of Light, it still produces many talented individuals every year thanks to the important transportation hub of Cloud Town. While very few of these talents can get into the Genius Training Camp, many become vice-captains and captains after joining the city garrison, giving the human race considerable influence among the captains of the city garrison.

Now that all the prospective geniuses of Yunxia Town have been added to the Obsidian Martial Arts Academy, it's equivalent to creating a generational gap in the human race's city garrison, making it impossible for them to compete for many wilderness resources in the future.

Even though the city lord issued the city lord's order this morning, and Lin Qi is now confirmed as the deputy city lord of the City of Light, it is difficult for the human race to compete for it. After all, the people who do the work are the members and captains of the garrison, and Lin Qi cannot do it personally.

While the various factions thought the human race had gone mad upon seeing this scene, Wu Zhuoqun and Lin Yan, who had arranged for the human race's geniuses to be present, entered the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to meet Lin Qi directly.

"Hello, Master Lin, I am Wu Zhuoqun, who contacted you last night." Wu Zhuoqun looked at Lin Qi, who was extracting player memories in the lounge, and said respectfully, "The matter you entrusted us to investigate has yielded results."

"As expected of the city garrison, their investigation was incredibly fast." Lin Qi couldn't help but open his eyes and look at Wu Zhuoqun, asking curiously, "I wonder which powerful force is so willing to hire the Red Moon Merchant Guild to assassinate me?"

Wu Zhuoqun shook his head and said hesitantly, "What we investigated was not some major force, but Isaac, the leader of the White Feather Gang."

(End of this chapter)