Accident

Staring at the sky for a moment, Bai Xian Ming continued his steps. But then he stopped after five steps.

"Ah, if I remember correctly, Mathias came to me and said that their leader was captured by Heero..."

Yes, the reason he came to see Heero was Mathias Oliver's visit. He claimed that Heero had captured their leader.

Mathias Oliver threatened him to release their leader. If not, war was inevitable.

At the time, he found this very absurd. He could not believe it, so he assumed it was related to the current trial against the Iron Fist Martial House.

He thought Mathias Oliver was just threatening him and asking him to stop Heero. Mathias Oliver came strongly to him and he decided to talk to Heero.

Yes, he never thought that the leader of the Ranker Alliance was really missing. No, the leader was not missing, he was dead.

"So what should I do? Should I ignore..." Bai Xian Ming suddenly stopped. He gave a puzzled look while furrowing his brow.

The frown deepened and a frustrated sigh escaped his mouth.

"Hah... it seems I have become senile. What did Heero just say to me?" The old man muttered heavily.

"Ahh... I can't remember a thing..." Then the old man stopped again.

The frown was still there, but this time he looked around.

"Why am I here? Where is this place? Ah, this is the Heero Academy... What am I doing here? Hah... I really have gone senile."

The same thing repeated itself a few times until he was outside the Xing District.

"Huh... I need to teach these rankers a lesson. How can he say such nonsense? Ryong Chong-Shik has been captured, what a stupid excuse to start a war! Do you want a war? Fine, let's have a war!

The old man grumbled as he walked to his car. He opened the back seat.

He sat up straight and glared at the driver, who was a young man in his early twenties.

"Xiao Yun! Why did you bring me here?" Bai Xian Ming suddenly raised his voice.

Before the young man called Xiao Yun could answer, the old man continued, "How many times have I told you that I am busy?"

"Many times!" An immediate reply came from the young man.

"Then why do you keep bringing me here?"

"I am concerned that you are stressed from your work. So I brought you here to relax. I hear the food here is good!"

"What nonsense! I don't need to relax! Take me back to the office right now!"

"Yes, Executive Bai!" After that, Xiao Yun started the car.

Xiao Yun looked in the rear view mirror and saw the old man grinning from ear to ear. He looked very happy, completely different from when he was being scolded.

'It seems that Executive Bai is very happy' he thought to himself.

This was not the first time. Xiao Yun was used to this kind of show.

Just like that, the one-man show of the chief executive of the Hero League had come to an end. The ending was that the old man never visited the Xing District.

Kuhuhu... I don't remember anything. I don't know that Ryong Chong-Shik and Hanzo Keiji are dead! I know nothing!"

*** ***

North of Star City

A group of children aged between ten and twelve were moving through the dense forest. They moved as stealthily as possible.

The leader of the group was a boy of thirteen years old with golden pupils.

He stood at the front. Hiding behind a large tree, the boy raised his hand and clenched his palm into a fist.

It was a signal for his teammate to stop. Slowly, the boy cocked his head.

About twenty metres in front of him he saw a silver bull with three horns. The bull was three metres tall and its red-coloured eyes looked menacing.

The boy was not only afraid of the beast, but he also cheered inwardly, "Yes! It's Silver Dragoon! Worth a thousand points,'

The boy was Benjamin Rowland Kingsman, one of the first generation of Heero Academy students.

He was leading a group to hunt the beast, as ordered by his master. But Butcher Wang's plan turned the task into a competition.

The loser would be punished and the winner rewarded.

In all that time, the team he led never once won. Of course, he never lost either. His team always came second out of three teams.

In fact, the position never changed in the last week. Team One, led by Kim Hyun-Su, was the team that always lost.

Team Three, who always won in the hunting game, was led by Ye Zhun. He was just the son of a hunter from the outer region. No great background, growing up with limited resources. But they still managed to win the competition time and time again.

On the contrary, he was a prince. He had grown up with unlimited resources, and he had consumed all kinds of high-quality elixirs. He was far superior to Ye Zhun.

Yet, he had never once won. Benjamin could not accept this result. He had tried hard, and now he found hope of victory. The Silver Dragoon, an animal worth a thousand points.

Victory is mine!

Benjamin turned his head. He scanned his team members. Just as he was about to instruct his team member, he heard a rustling sound.

His hearing was quite sharp, so he signalled to his team member to be quiet. The boy immediately turned and looked in the direction of the sound.

It seemed that the Silver Dragoon had also heard the sound. He stopped eating the grass and cocked his dragon-like head in the direction of the noise.

Shoosh! Shoosh! Shoosh!

Three shadows shot out of the thick undergrowth. The Silver Dragoon was startled and took off like a bat out of hell.

Benjamin wanted to curse the three shadows. But he only opened his mouth, and no words came out.

He, too, was startled by his discovery. The three shadows were mutants.

Two adult mutants were chasing a mutant child.

Benjamin stood still as he saw something that should not be here.

The same was true of the other team members. They all froze as fear slowly crept into their faces.

The mutant child, who looked like a seven or eight year old child, was agile.

But no matter how agile the mutant child was, the adult mutant was still faster.

Swoosh!

The adult mutant swung its hand-like claw and grazed the mutant child's right foot.

"Gryaaa!" The mutant child screamed in pain. From the sound of the mutant child's voice, it was more likely a girl.

As the mutant child lost her footing, she fell towards Benjamin.

The boy unconsciously pulled out his hunting spear. He tried to aim it at the mutant child, but a hand stopped him.

Xu Lingxun, who was supervising Team Two, pushed the spear away and caught the mutant child.

After catching the mutant child, he stepped back and shouted, "What are you doing? Move your ass if you want to live longer!"

*** ***

Meanwhile, in the third dungeon, the party had finished exploring the ruins. They found nothing in the ruins except a broken stone buildings.

Each of the buildings was also empty. It took them six days to explore the ruins, then they returned to the dungeon gate.

"Where are you going? We are not going back! We will continue our exploration!" Musashi Ueno pointed in the opposite direction of the ruins.

Elazaro Tania grumbled unhappily as she dragged half of her right foot through the gate and followed the three old men.

She thought they were taking a break after a week of exploring the ruins, but this was not the case.

The group walked for two hours, stopping when they saw a mountainous area ahead.

Like the sun, which had a different colour, the mountain was different. From a distance, the mountain was purple in colour.

The Trio Sword Lunatic led the group to the purple mountain. When they arrived at the base of the mountain, they discovered why the mountain looked purple from afar.

It was because the mountain was full of trees, a large one with dense leaves.

The trees were huge and tall. It had a thick branch with dense purple leaves.

These leaves were the reason why the mountain was purple. From the foothills to the top, the mountain was filled with these trees.

Looking up at the mountain, Musashi Noboru said in an excited tone, "I can feel it! There's something in this mountain!"

With that, Musashi Noboru stepped up to the mountain.

Swoosh!

An arrow whistled through the air and hit the ground. To be more precise, the arrow was shot right in front of Musashi Noboru.

The sudden attack startled the group. They looked up in the direction the arrow had come from.

A hundred metres in front of them, they saw a woman in purple leather armour holding a bow with a nocked arrow.

"u0026@%#u0026$-@$@*$$!!!" Then the woman spoke in an unintelligible language.