Challenging the Promotion quest

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Realm of spirituality: Jade Spear city.

After Xuan Yuan logged in, he didn't waste any time and went directions to the nearest adventurer's association to challenge the Tier 1 promotion quest.

On reaching the Adventurer's association, Xuan Yuan met a huge crowd in the hall. Some groups of players to take quests while majority of those present wanted to challenge their Tier 1 promotion quest.

Currently mainstream players were already past level 20 so everyone were rushing to reach Tier 1 and become stronger. The number of Tier 1 Players is only about hundred thousand and even Jade Spear city only have about 50 Tier 1 players and they are either Guild leaders or upper echelons of these Guilds.

There are not many guilds recognized by the God system. This is because, other than having a Tier 1 Guild leader, the Guild leader also needs to be of a noble status in the city at minimum.

Statuses in the city are: Commoners, Nobles, Counts, Viscounts, Chiefs, Marquises.

Only few Guild leaders managed to increase their status to that of a Noble. This is because raising status in the city requires city contribution points and one needs to have at least 500 contribution points to become a Noble. Completing ordinary quests only award about 10 contribution points. Higher ranking quests give more points.

Due to this requirement, even a Guild with multiple Tier 1 experts are still helpless and couldn't officially register their Guild in the Realm of spirituality...

"Xuan Yuan!" Bai Qingyuan called as he saw Xuan Yuan arrive at the Adventurers association.

As soon as the girls confirmed it's Xuan Yuan, they felt a headache brewing in their head.

'Why did we have to encounter him today of all days?' They thought.

'But we have nothing to fear, he's outnumbered! If he wants to fight, we can beat him, we're not any weaker than him in game, he'll surely lose if we join hands!' Yue Ying said as she encouraged herself.

'That's right! I almost peed in my pants when I saw him. There's no danger after all' Xingyao exclaimed.

'You guys shouldn't try anything. He's much stronger stronger than you in game!' Bai Qingyuan whispered before scurrying over to Xuan Yuan's side.

If only those girls knew that even the mighty Flame protector died in his hands, they won't even dare think of fighting him...

"Hy" Qingyuan greeted as she reached Xuan Yuan.

"Brother Xuan Yuan" The other girls greeted as they bowed.

Xuan Yuan was surprised, surprised that these girls would take the initiative to greet him.

"Are you also here to challenge your promotion quest?" Qingyuan asked.

"Yeah" Xuan Yuan replied.

"That's good, we also came to challenge the promotion quest. Let's have a competition to see who reaches Tier 1 first. The last one pays for the drinks!" She said excitedly.

"Sure" Xuan Yuan said and joined the line...

'Thanks Qingyuan' The girls whispered.

They knew the reason he arranged such a competition was for them to make up for their wrongdoings and get closer to Xuan Yuan.

With Xuan Yuan's power, he won't have any problem completing the quest before them. So the ones to pay for the drinks would be them. If they could write off their feud with Xuan Yuan with just a few copper coins worth of drinks, they'd be more than happy to do so...

After waiting for a while, it was Xuan Yuan's turn to accept the quest.

"Do you want to challenge your Tier 1 promotion quest?" The female NPC at the counter asked.

"Yes..." Xuan Yuan replied.

"You will have to pay a service fee of 10 silver coins to use the service" The NPC said as she stretched her hands to Xuan Yuan.

"Here" Xuan Yuan said as he handed her 10 silver coins.

"OK, Please take this token and enter the Trial room over there to begin the Promotion quest. You are only allowed to challenge the promotion quest once every 24hours" The NPC said as she pointed to a large room by the right where Players were heading to.

Xuan Yuan took the token and left the line and headed to the room. As he arrived in front of the Purplish doors where golden runes were) inscribed, he placed the token on the door which pulsated with faint golden light.

<System: Trial token identified. Player Sage Yuan do you wish to challenge your Tier 1 Promotion quest?>

<Accept>

Golden lights surrounded his body as he clicked accept and his body vanished from the Adventurers' association...

<You have started your promotion quest. You have 3 hours to complete the trials and ascend the Sword tower. While undergoing the trials, Players are forbidden from using external items such as potions, magic scrolls and Berserk skills. Breaking of this rule, automatically stops the Trial>

At the same time, a timer of 3 hours began its countdown in the sky.

Xuan Yuan sighed. He'd known previously that he'd be forbidden from using his Berserk skill. This was understandable though. If players were not forbidden from using external items, the Trial will become meaningless as players could simply wear out their opponents with their unlimited HP derived from potions.

He scanned his surroundings he was standing in front of a three storeyed building about 20 metres high. Apart from this building, the rest of the space was just a wildernesses that stretched infinitely in the distance.

Xuan Yuan gathered himself and pushed the door entering the Sword tower...