Chapter 219: Increasing Strength
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At Aurora Academy, the core members of the Fang hunters were in an emergency meeting as they have finally gotten a reply from the Iron Fist Guild.
After everybody settled into their seats, Kate stood up to address everyone.
"I'm sure you all are wondering what's with this meeting, I'm sorry for pulling you all out of your busy schedule but this matter is important." Kate said.
"What's the matter?" Sunny asked.
"Alex had earlier informed us to set up a meeting with the leader of the Iron Fist Guild but we were told that he wasn't in Raven city so we still sent a message to them anyway." Kate said.
"And what's their reply?" Jack asked getting impatient.
"Their response is here and it's quite surprising." Kate said.
"Well, what is it?" Simyon asked impatiently.
"They have agreed to the meeting but they have a condition." Kate said.
"What condition?" Paul asked.
"That we should send over our leader for the meeting and in this case, our leader is Jake." Kate said.
"That's absurd!" Emily shouted. "Their leader ain't even there and they want our leader for the meeting?"
"Exactly, it feels disrespectful since their leader isn't there just the second in command. Which makes it feel like this meeting isn't even important to them." Sophia said.
And everybody in the room were nodding their heads to this statement as they agreed with Emily and Sophia while Humfree kept stroking his beard.
"What do you think Head General Humfree?" Kate asked.
Humfree just sighed and looked at everybody in the room.
"Why are we making the decision ourselves?" Humfree asked.
"Meaning?" Wilfred raised an eyebrow.
"They said they want Jake, then let Jake decide for himself after all, he wanted to go for this meeting himself. And now, they have accepted the meeting and a representative is even there so let Jake decide if he wants to attend regardless of whether their leader is there or not." Humfree said.
"I think you are right. You definitely have a point there." Kate said.
"Alright then, it's settled. Let's inform Jake and let him decide." Kate said as she turned towards her system.
And then she sent Alex a message informing him of everything.
After she was done, Kate turned back to the meeting.
"So how's the academy faring?"
"Good. And the students are more than eager to train than ever before after witnessing everything that happened." Paul said.
"Great. Sophia, what about my offer?" Kate asked.
"Look, I have told you that my allegiance is with my family and what do you think they will do if they found out? They will wage war against this academy and you know we aren't strong enough to defend ourselves from an attack with one of the big three." Sophia said.
Some days back, Kate had offered Sophia a contract to join the Fang hunters but she refused on the spot and said she was going to think about it more.
Listening to Sophia's answer, Kate just sighed and turned towards the remaining members seated.
"So any further plans?" Kate asked.
"Actually there is." Humfree said standing up.
"And which is?" Kate asked.
"I propose we grow our strength, let's become strong enough so no one would mess with us. And I don't mean individual strengths, I mean let's grow the Fang hunters strength and ranking so we can be more respected and not looked down on." Humfree said.
Everybody on the table were nodding their head at this proposal and even had beaming smiles on their faces.
"And how do we do that exactly?" Sunny asked.
"We have now become a guild right?" Humfree asked.
"Yes." Sunny said.
"And what do guilds do to grow their strength?"
"They hunt." Paul answered.
"Exactly!" Humfree smiled. "So I will propose that we choose some members out of the core members here, and when I say members, I don't mean the generals. I mean the students here and the sergeants."
"Once they have been chosen, they would go out to the other planets to hunt beasts and use it to push the Fang hunters up the ladder a bit while at the same time increasing their own individual strengths and adventurer rank."
"I like the sound of that." Geo smirked.
"I need to know one thing, after hunting the beasts, how will our ranks increase?" Kate asked with a face of confusion.
"Alright let me explain for you students here." Humfree sighed. "So you see, the big three have a technology that registers guilds and their ranks and some of the mini versions can be found in all the registered guilds. We have the technology here so once we have hunted the beasts, we can input their crystal cores into the tech and our ranks will be updated."
"Right now, we are considered a F rank guild which is the lowest. Once we hunt more beasts, the higher the tier of the beasts, the higher our Guild will go."
"Like right now, we have a portal that would lead us into a planet where we can hunt King tier beasts but I will advice not to. For now, we will hunt advanced tier beasts to push us up. If we managed to hunt up to a hundred advanced tier beasts, we would be classified as a low B rank guild." Humfree explained and everybody listened attentively.
"What is the Iron Fist Guild's rank?" Kate asked feeling worried.
"They are classified as an A rank guild." Paul answered the question.
"A freaking rank?!?!" Simyon shouted as he shot out of his seat.
"Yes." Wilfred nodded.
"How the hell are we meant to handle them? And how will Jake be able to handle things if they go south?" Sophia asked.
"I just hope he keeps a calm head on." Humfree said.
"Ha!" Jack laughed. "We all know Jake right? If one of us were in danger, which I'm pretty sure will happen if the Iron Fist are involved, Jake will snap and we all know what he will do."
"He will try his best to rescue us even if it means getting into a full on fight with the guild." Kate said feeling the gravity of the situation.
"Then all we have to do is inform Jake of everything we know and see what he does." Sophia said.
"Right, and I will get to work on that. In the meantime, let's choose the teams that will go out into the portals we have in an attempt to increase our strength so by the time Jake comes back, he will be in for a surprise." Kate smiled.