THE BUSY CITY

Everyone were stunned. Because whatever Jimmy said about Master Thorfinn had too much in depth meaning to it. What is the difference between an instructor and a Master?

An instructor is someone who could explain concepts and teach them things that will help them to understand it. But an instructor couldn't make everyone understand every concepts. For example, people with less aptitude and IQ. They couldn't understand everything in their first try. This is their major weakness. And an Instructor was helpless about those disciples.

But a Master is different. A person is called a Master if he could guide even a weak aptitude disciple and make sure that, that disciple understood every concepts with minimal efforts. This is the quality of a Master.

Master Thorfinn was given the title of "Master" by Province Lord himself. It's all because of his ability to produce geniuses which earn him such a title.

But the question is, among all the disciples that the Master Thorfinn accepted, how many of them had weak aptitude? Master Thorfinn is very famous. Everyone knows the names of every disciple Master Thorfinn accepted so far. And Young Master Luke is the recent disciple that Master Thorfinn has accepted.

But if one takes Jimmy's comments seriously, then how many disciples Master Thorfinn has accepted in which among them had weak aptitude?

Zero.

The answer is obvious. Because it is a known fact that Master Thorfinn would always accept only disciples who were like the geniuses in the century. He would never accept any disciples with weak aptitude at all. And among the best, he would nurture them and make them even best among the best in the city. This is the known fact about Master Thorfinn

If one take Jimmy's words seriously, then Master Thorfinn is not worthy to be given the title of a Master to begin with. He only accepts best in a generation. He never accepts the weak aptitude people. Then was he worthy to be called a Master at all?

As the crowd were lost in thoughts, the clouds turned a little black. Then very soon a golden beam of light appeared which travelled to the endless sky. This scenario captured everyone's attention. They knew that the City Lord's officials are here for making the announcement. Since they knew what the announcement is all about, they waited patiently for the show to end.

The beam of light which expanded to the sky started to expand wider as well. After expanding around twenty meters wide, a face projected from the middle of the golden light. Jimmy could tell from a single glance that this huge human face was just a projector.

After everyone calmed down, the giant human face started to speak, "Good Morning, everyone! Today you all have been assembled here to make an important announcement. For some unknown reasons, the emperor desired to conduct the National Cultivators Tournament. And the rules for this competition has also been changed a little. All the cultivators needs to be part of the competition in any way possible. No cultivator needs to sit out there on a spectators speed. But as always, this competition is conducted for the cultivators who hadn't reached the 100 years age. As for the rules of the competition, it will be announced later. The preliminaries will start after six months. And as usual, all the cultivators who stood on top 100 will be going to participate in the Eagle Province Tournament. Please be careful. The emperor is really particular about this year competition. So please make preparations for the next six months. As I said earlier, the preliminaries will start after six months from now. Thank You!"

The giant human face projection concluded his ling speech and disappeared. The black clouds disappeared. And very soon the environment returned back to normal.

But the crowd were silent. First of all, they already learned the reason for their summon. Secondly, some people were depressed with the rule for the participation which became mandatory. But some people were thrilled as they knew that the higher level they reached, the greater the prize the competition will give them. But very soon, everyone left.

But the atmosphere in the city changed. The National Cultivators Tournament is celebrated as a major festival in the entire empire. The streets were busy with people as they were hastily busy with their work.

The entire Solar City was busy with the National Cultivators Tournament. All the cultivators were standing in the line in order to register their names. The registration form includes the name of the cultivator, their profession, their cultivation level, the name of their partners and the name of their team.

A combat master will have a Lifestyle Master as their partner. But in any place, a Combat Master couldn't team up with a Lifestyle Masters. It is impossible to have an equal ratio for both Combat Masters snd Lifestyle Masters in a City or in any place. So to make the things fair, team system was introduced in the competition this time.

In this team system, a group of cultivators could form their own team. In a team, you could find five combat masters and seven Lifestyle Masters. And when a cultivator enters for the battle, that cultivator doesn't represent himself alone. He represents his whole team.

If that cultivator wins a battle, then the points would go for his whole team. This system didn't exist till the last National Cultivators Competition. It was introduced this time, because it became mandatory for every cultivator to participate. And the cultivators who had no desire to participate but were participating because it became mandatory that they all had relaxed a bit.

The registration was taking place in a huge garden. This garden was located outside the City Lord Manor. On the ground, a total of hundred stalls were placed where the cultivators would come and register their names, the name of the team, and all the asked questions in the registration forms.

But there was another counter which was protected by the guards. There was a board placed on the ground on which "VIP SECTION" was written. It was obvious that this section was specifically opened for all the rich kids and noble families in the city.

The rich kids section has very few numbers. And because of this their level of treatment was very royal and rick looking level. These people look around to see huge amount of people standing in the line for a very long time and waiting, fighting for their time to come.

In the eyes of nobles, these kind of people are always barbaric and peasants. They look at the poor people with nothing but disgust filled in their eyes. But it didn't change anything. The registration must have as it used to happen all the time.