Chapter 94: Top Student Training 10
“Shuangyan, what brings you here?”
In the first floor lobby, Luo Qi, her brows tightly furrowed, looked in surprise at the two human race high school girls walking in.
“Sister Qi, you’ve opened your own shop now, so I asked Shuangyan to bring me over to take a look and congratulate you on becoming the shop owner,” Xiao Ling, whose eyes were bright and lively, explained.
Luo Shuangyan, beside her, also nodded helplessly.
Xiao Ling had been her good friend in middle school, but after the high school entrance exam they went to different high schools. Because of her family situation, she did not have much money to practice martial arts and could only choose an ordinary high school. That ordinary high school offered a decent monthly subsidy for the martial arts class, which barely allowed her to study in it.
Xiao Ling, whose parents were both key staff of a major enterprise in the suburbs and had some money, entered a key high school in the city proper thanks to her high entrance exam score, the only key high school that was fully martial arts focused.
Zhuguang High School.
After they both entered high school, they often arranged to meet for some sparring to improve each other’s grades. Today was the same. She just mentioned that her older sister Luo Qi had opened her own shop, and Xiao Ling could not resist dragging her over.
“All right, feel free to look around,” Luo Qi said after hearing this, also welcoming them. “Our shop not only offers apprentice-level martial skills, but also some good blood essence rice for sale. The price is 10 Bit per kilogram cheaper than the market. After a while, we will also bring in some equipment and sell some weapon and equipment, and we support private customization. We can guarantee the quality ranks in the top ten in the suburbs.”
“In the future I can order equipment from you, Sister Qi?” Xiao Ling’s eyes lit up as she nodded. “Then I will definitely come. I know the quality of the equipment you make is absolutely first class in the suburbs. I was worrying because our school teacher told us to prepare for next month’s actual combat sparring and to get a set of A6-grade armor. I don’t really like standard armor, but now that I have you, Sister Qi, I am relieved.”
Xiao Ling’s words made Luo Shuangyan beside her feel a wave of envy.
A6-grade armor was something students at an ordinary high school would not even dare to think about. Having a personal set of A4-grade standard armor was already good; most of the time they were using the school’s.
Zhuguang High School, however, required students to prepare their own A6-grade armor. The two high schools were simply not in the same world.
“No problem, your Sister Qi guarantees to make you the most comfortable set of A6-grade armor,” Luo Qi said with great confidence.
Previously, by forging quite a few B2-grade standard weapons for Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, her crafting skills had improved a lot. Now she was confident she could take the senior mechanic qualification exam.
After Luo Qi’s assurance, Xiao Ling and Luo Shuangyan began to look around.
“This price! Sis, are you crazy?” Luo Shuangyan stared wide-mouthed at Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s learning prices.
There were many people in the suburbs who taught apprentice-level martial skills, and the prices were very transparent. One thousand Bit per hour was already a rate that very few could offer in the suburbs, yet Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, with no teaching reputation at all, started at a minimum of two thousand Bit per hour.
Rather than calling this opening a martial arts hall, it was more like blatant daylight robbery under the name of a martial arts hall.
“This… I can’t help it. It is the boss’s rule,” Luo Qi said helplessly.
“The price is indeed a bit high,” Xiao Ling said, biting her lip when she saw Luo Qi’s helpless expression. “Sister Qi, can I sign up for one class?”
“Xiao Ling, you don’t need to. I understand your intentions, but this price really is too high,” Luo Qi said, trying to persuade her.
Luo Qi knew very well that Xiao Ling only wanted to come support her for opening the shop and becoming the shop owner, but she had no intention of letting Xiao Ling be taken advantage of. With that money, it would be better to find an experienced quasi-martial artist to teach her.
“Sister Qi, I also just want to learn a fist technique. This Crushing Stone Fist is one of the basic fist techniques in high school martial arts classes. Even if I do not learn it today, I will still have to spend money at school to ask a teacher for guidance later, and the price is about the same. As for our school’s martial skills instructors, not to brag, but if I line up, I might have to wait who knows how long. In that time, if I found someone else to teach me, I might already have learned it,” Xiao Ling explained.
Xiao Ling did indeed plan to learn Crushing Stone Fist. After all, students in high school martial arts classes had to master at least one fist and foot martial skill. Now that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall offered instruction in Crushing Stone Fist, it saved her some trouble. The instructors teaching martial skills at Zhuguang High School were truly extremely busy.
Not only did students of Zhuguang High School want their instruction, but many children of great families in the city proper also came to these instructors for guidance, so they were completely overloaded.
For someone like her, a student without power or influence at Zhuguang High School, she might not get her turn even by the end of her first year.
So rather than letting those school instructors earn the money, she might as well let Sister Qi earn it today.
“All right, I will go with you,” Luo Qi said, feeling uneasy seeing how kind-hearted Xiao Ling was, and decided to go together to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. “If the teaching is not good, Sister Qi will cover the fee for you.”
“Sister Qi, there is really no need,” Xiao Ling said, seeing how little confidence Luo Qi had in Obsidian Shop’s boss, and for a moment she did not know whether she should sympathize with him.
Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
After less than an hour on the road, Luo Qi personally brought Xiao Ling to the training ground of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
At this moment, they saw a large number of players on the training ground cultivating a breathing technique. A more than two-meter-tall robot was professionally guiding each player. At the same time, on another training ground, quite a few players were practicing Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps. Their movements looked proper and skilled, as if this truly was a serious martial arts hall.
“Sister Qi, this martial arts hall is not bad at all. It is not as bad as you said,” Xiao Ling said in some amazement, looking at the imposing and magnificent Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. “The interior decor of this hall is simply better than that of many halls in the suburbs.”
Luo Qi did not say anything. In terms of exterior environment, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was indeed not impressive, but in terms of interior environment, it was far better than many martial arts halls in the suburbs.
“Customers?” Lin Qi, seeing Luo Qi bringing someone over, walked forward to ask.
“Yes, this is my younger sister’s classmate and also a student from Zhuguang High School. She wants to try learning Crushing Stone Fist at Obsidian Martial Arts Hall today,” Luo Qi said, pointing to Xiao Ling beside her to introduce. “Xiao Ling, this is Hall Master Lin of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.”
“Hello, Hall Master Lin,” Xiao Ling said respectfully.
“Hello,” Lin Qi replied, looking at Xiao Ling in her Zhuguang High School uniform, his eyes lighting up as he judged her to be a big client who must be well received. He then looked toward the players on the training ground and said, “Those with qualification to teach Crushing Stone Fist, step forward.”
As Lin Qi spoke, eight players stepped out from those practicing on the training ground, each with beginner apprentice strength.
“Xiao Ling, choose an instructor yourself,” Lin Qi said to her. “They are all instructors selected by our Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Their teaching level will definitely not be worse than those outside.”
These eight players had managed to advance to beginner apprentice in just four days, even reaching proficient level in Crushing Stone Fist, which proved their talent was very good. Their ability to teach should not be bad either.
“I get to choose?” Xiao Ling said in surprise.
Not to mention the city proper, even in the suburbs, students never chose instructors. It always depended on whether the instructor had time. But today Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had opened her eyes by offering eight instructors for her to choose from, leaving her at a loss.
“Yes, pick whichever one you like,” Lin Qi said, nodding.
Lin Qi’s words also made the eight players present feel that it was time to show off. If they were chosen by this high school NPC in front of them, that would mean at least two thousand points and one hundred contribution.
For a moment, the eight all released their qi and blood, making Xiao Ling, who was also a beginner apprentice, feel a bit short of breath, and helping her realize that these eight were indeed extraordinary.
“Then I will choose this instructor sister,” Xiao Ling said after looking around, pointing at Chen Ya, the most eye-catching among the eight.
