Monster secret realms are already scarce within Yun Chuan Province, and the Northern Sichuan Spirit Master Academy has no distribution of them.
If Spirit Masters within the province want to farm inscriptions, they almost all need to travel to Chongyang City, a city in the center of the province.
To facilitate students, all major Spirit Master academies have built high-speed trains directly to Chongyang City on their campuses.
Yukino and Axion arrived at the secret realm area of Chongyang City after a thirty-minute train ride.
As soon as they stepped off the platform, a noisy heat wave washed over them!
As the largest secret realm hub in the province, a complete ecosystem has formed here.
The team-up hall was bustling with people!
The inscription exchange was crowded.
The Spirit battle arena was filled with continuous shouts!
The commercial street offering food and lodging was even more lively and prosperous!
Looking around, all they saw were teachers and students wearing academy badges and wandering free Spirit Masters.
After all, all inscription seekers in the province gather here!
Axion looked at the surrounding scene with curiosity and couldn’t help but tease:
“So diligent early in the morning, everyone truly is a liver-bursting warrior.”
Yukino sighed softly, “How can we not be diligent?
If we don’t raise our Spirits well, who will protect humanity?”
After leaving the academy, there were finally not so many eyes on them.
Both of them relaxed a lot and headed straight for the monster secret realm’s teleportation gate.
The monster secret realm’s level is similar to monster instances.
It is divided into one-star to five-star, as well as Abyss.
Each star-level secret realm corresponds to inscriptions of the same star level.
And the Abyss inscription instance will drop the rarest, highest power-boosting colored inscriptions!
“Axion, let’s start with the four-star secret realm.
The number of monsters in the secret realm is much less than in monster instances, usually within ten.”
“One BOSS, plus a few guard monsters.”
“The four-star secret realm has monsters from level 60 to level 80.
With your current strength, it shouldn’t be difficult to solo it.”
Yukino considered everything comprehensively and habitually sought Axion’s opinion.
She truly wasn’t timid now.
She directly chose the four-star instance, which was quite challenging!
Mainly because Axion’s strength was too great, she had complete confidence!
Axion rubbed his chin, pondering, “Since we’re here, we should get Xiao Hei a good set of inscriptions.
How about trying the five-star secret realm…”
He was currently level 38, and his strength had almost recovered by half.
Xiao Hei, who was perched on Yukino’s shoulder, was overjoyed when he heard this.
He rubbed his hands excitedly like a fly and flattered:
“As expected of Lord Axion!”
Yukino thought she was already brave, but Axion was even more outrageous than her, “Five-star?!
The monsters inside are all above level 80, and the BOSS is level 100, it’s too difficult!”
Axion asked:
“Is the level 100 BOSS in the secret realm as strong as the Abyss Dungeon BOSS from that time?”
Yukino: “That’s not the case.
The secret realm is the most stable.
The BOSS is naturally not as strong as the chaotic Abyss Dungeons outside, but it’s still level 100!”
She took a deep breath, deciding to show her authority as a Master, “How about this, let’s try the four-star instance first.
If you find it easy to clear, then we can consider the five-star secret realm, how about that?”
Axion thought this was acceptable and nodded.
After all, he also needed to gauge the strength of the monsters in the secret realm.
If he used up all his Spirit power to brute-force the five-star instance, he wouldn’t be able to gather a complete set of inscriptions for Xiao Hei.
Yukino finally breathed a sigh of relief, “Alright then, I’ll check if we need to queue first.”
She took out her phone and scanned the QR code of the secret realm’s location.
An official Chongyang City monster secret realm WeChat public account popped up.
After Yukino registered an account, she clicked on the four-star secret realm and checked it.
She found that a queue had already started.
Their reservation order was already at 19th place.
Because the four-star secret realm was very difficult, the number of people in the queue was not too many.
For secret realms below four-star, the number of people in the queue for any one of them would easily be over a hundred.
Many Spirit Masters had to book days in advance if they wanted to clear a secret realm.
Yukino was fiddling with her phone, frowning slightly, “The four-star secret realm queue is already at 19 teams, estimated wait time is 1 hour.”
Axion leaned over, “That troublesome?
Can we cut in line?”
Yukino pursed her red lips, “Cutting in line is definitely not allowed, unless you have a T3-level Spirit Master certificate.
But we can team up with others.
The team in second place is currently looking for more members.”
Axion looked reluctant, “Team rewards have to be split, that’s too inefficient.”
Yukino explained:
“For secret realm teaming, besides getting less experience, the inscription rewards each Spirit Master receives will not be reduced.”
“Moreover, you can exchange the types of inscriptions you want with each other, so teaming up is generally the preferred method.”
Axion: “That’s not bad, barely acceptable.”
Seeing his agreement, Yukino began communicating with the team in 2nd place on her phone.
The other party didn’t immediately state their team entry requirements but sent a location, asking her to bring her Spirit to the destination to meet and talk in person.
They were very close.
After walking a few steps, they saw a few people waiting in front of a pavilion.
There were only two Spirit Masters.
One male and one female.
Both seemed to be students, wearing academy student uniforms.
However, they were clearly not from Northern Sichuan Spirit Master Academy.
Beside them stood a level 75 B-rank Spirit, with an extremely peculiar appearance: an upright male lion!
It wore a cowboy hat on its head, covering its golden mane, and was dressed in leather, with a long saber hanging at its waist.
Its eyes were melancholic yet domineering.
Upon seeing Yukino and Axion approach,
The male student’s eyes lit up slightly, and his gaze immediately fell on Yukino.
He probably didn’t expect to team up with such a beautiful woman!
The other clear-faced female student showed no expression when she saw Yukino, but when she saw Axion next to Yukino, her eyes clearly showed something different.
The combination of a handsome man and a beautiful woman was indeed pleasing to the eye.
However, the level 38 tag above Axion’s head was quite an eyesore, instantly making them feel a bit regretful.
The male student covered his forehead with a helpless, bitter smile:
“Beauty, is this your first time in an instance?”
“To clear a four-star instance, your Spirit should at least be level 60…”
The lion Spirit glanced at Axion, pulled down its cowboy hat, shook its head, and in a low voice, spoke human words:
“Ignorance is bliss.”
Axion had been staring at the lion Spirit, and when it spoke, he suddenly couldn’t hold back, bursting out with a “Pfft” of laughter, “Haha, a lion cowboy?
This Spirit’s design is too strange, hahaha…”
The lion Spirit could no longer maintain its profound image and immediately flew into a rage:
“Bastard!”
“This is called retro wild aesthetics, it’s certainly better than your chuunibyou eye patch!”
The more Axion looked at him, the funnier he found it, bending over with laughter.
After all, a lion standing upright like a human, dressed as a cowboy, and talking with its fanged mouth wide open, was truly comical!
Seeing the lion Spirit’s face getting uglier and uglier,
Yukino quickly tugged at Axion’s clothes and whispered, “Axion, rein it in.
We need to join their team to clear the secret realm earlier…”
Axion then stopped laughing, holding it in with a serious expression.
The clear-faced female student glanced at her phone, her tone carrying a hint of arrogance:
“Level 38 is level 38 then, let’s just take them.”
“Anyway, we don’t lack combat power, and the time is just right, too lazy to look for others…”