Let's level up (The power upgrade system)

09 Confrontation

Since Rayan and his parents had talked, he thought it over and decided to go look at the military recruiting. He called his teammates, and they agreed to take a day off and go to the military base the next day.

After that, Rayan went on the internet to learn about the military recruitment, he found that the army didn't recruit all the people to join them, but it was more like a gathering for hunters to find teammates, and for C rank hunters, they can join the army after they have applied and take the test. He was also curious about the other strong hunters in the world, he searched and find multiple videos that show people doing magic or strong ones who lift a car or being bulletproof.

Rayan was fascinated by the new powers of people who completed the two first quests, and that there were several rank C in the world. He also searched about the gift he received at the start of the quest, he found that all the people who were born the same day as him received it. He also inquired about the emperor class, he found that there were three emperor hunters that were known at the moment, they were 'Athena' a hunter from the United States, 'Lee Jun-woo' a Korean hunter and 'Kirill' who was Russian. Rayan wanted to know their class and their skills, but he found nothing about that. After he finished his search, he went to sleep.

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The day after, Rayan meet up with his teammates in front of the military base.

"Rayan, what are we going to do now?" Sarah asked.

"Wait, I will make a call." Rayan took his phone and called someone.

They waited several minutes and a man in military uniform approached them "Hi Rayan, is this your teammates?"

"Yes, they are my teammates" he introduced each one of them and said "Everyone this is my father, he is a Major Colonel in the army."

Sarah and her friends greeted Rayan's father, after that he led them inside the military base.

When they were inside, they saw several people recruiting in their teams, there were those looking for tanks and others looking for mages or healers. Rayan find it funny, he remembered when he was playing MMORPG games and recruiting players for his party.

When Rayan was wondering if he had to do like them, his father said "I already selected other hunters to join you in your team, they are all rank C, and we are in our way to meet them."

Rayan's father leads them deeper in the military base in an area accessible only to the member of the military until they reached a training area where there were seven people wearing armors.

"Rayan this is lieutenant Aylan and the six others are soldiers under his command. Aylan was also born in the third day of September and got a gift pack, he trained the soldiers under him and got them to C rank, he also got a royal rank class" Rayan's father introduced Aylan and his team to them.

"Nice to meet you Rayan, I will be in your care." Aylan gave a handshake to Rayan, and he said "but if you want to be the leader of the team, I have to know if you are worth it by evaluating your strength first."

Rayan pondered about it, and he said "How would you assess my strength?"

"By a fight between you and me of course" Aylan grabbed his longsword and got into a fighting stance.

Rayan fallowed him and equipped himself. When Aylan saw the equipment of Rayan he was surprised by the fire like armor that was engraved by a beautiful phoenix at the center, it was definitely a high grad armor.

"Let's fight" Rayan snapped Aylan out of his bewilderment.

Rayan dashed to him and thrust with his spear at the same time Aylan parried with his long sword, but he was pushed back by 3 meters, Rayan stepped forward and slashed at Aylan's side, but he leaned back and dodged the incoming attack and he counter-attacked by slashing to Rayan's chest but Rayan was faster, he stepped back and thrust with his spear again at Aylan's shoulder.

Aylan tried to parry, but Rayan spin around himself and slashed at Aylan's knee, but he made a backflip, when Aylan's feet hit the ground, he dashed right away and used the skill 'Triple Slash' which launches three sword slash in one second.

When Rayan saw the incoming attack, he struck the ground with his spear and summoned an earth wall. When Aylan saw the earth wall, he cancelled his attack and used the skill 'sprint', dashed around the wall and used the skill 'sword charge'.

At the same time, Rayan used 'Cry of war' combined with 'sprint' and thrust with his spear.

The tip of the spear and the sword collided and sparks flew everywhere, their wrestling lasted several seconds but Aylan was losing ground, when he saw that he was being suppressed, he used the skill 'cry of war' and pushed Rayan several meters, but unfortunately for him Rayan is also a mage, he used the skill 'ice field' and froze Aylan's legs, he dashed and disarmed him by a slash of his spear and put the tip of his spear under his throat.

"I surrender Rayan, how can you be a warrior and a mage at the same time?" Aylan was puzzled.

"I have an emperor class that allow me to be a warrior and a mage at the same time." Rayan responded.

"What! You are one of the emperors?!" Aylan was shocked.

"Yeah! I was lucky. Am I qualified now to be the leader?!"

"Of course you are." Aylan took a break to gather his thoughts and said "and for your teammates which class they have"

"They have royal rank classes. Do not underestimate them, they are as strong as you are."

"It's great, now we can challenge a rank C dungeon easily."

After that, Rayan and Aylan introduced their teammates to each other and start planning their next steps…