Evaluation: S

Flowing Meteor, have you ever come into contact with and deeply studied the fitness and combat techniques of universities?

Suddenly asked by Stiletto.

Alden's eyes narrowed slightly, while Stiletto surprisingly smiled:

"Don't misunderstand, I'm not seeking your personal information. It's just from your footwork when you escaped, your posture, and the wounds on the awakened you killed, I can infer..."

"Yes."

Without denying it, Alden asked after a moment of thought:

"What advice do you have, Stiletto senior?"

"It seems that your mastery of university fitness and combat techniques is quite profound."

Stiletto praised.

Just from the previous signs, he saw that Alden had practiced these two skills to a very high level.

He didn't know...

How much effort Alden had put in to break through the awakened power threshold and endure countless hardships!

In order to enhance his awakened power and strengthen his body's absorption of awakened power, he invested countless time and sweat, training hard day and night. If not for this, with only the abilities he obtained, he would not have been able to easily defeat three classmates, let alone two awakened ones!

"What I want to say is... no matter how high your mastery is, these two techniques are fundamentally just the basics, quite rudimentary. Unless you have reached an extremely high level and possess superhuman abilities. Otherwise, like just now, rashly fighting awakened ones will definitely leave loopholes and put your life in danger at any time!"

Stiletto earnestly reminded.

This is indeed a fact!

Because these two techniques are only used by universities to train students. For full-time hunters, assassins, and others who constantly walk on the edge of life and death, these techniques naturally have many flaws!

"Are you implying..."

Stiletto smiled without speaking, and Feihua explained on the side:

"You performed excellently and crucially in this task. The employer should be quite satisfied with you and will give you a high rating..."

"Which means, you will receive additional guild point rewards!"

Point rewards!

Completing tasks distributed by the guild not only earns rewards from the employer but also guild point rewards! The base value of point rewards is directly linked to the bounty, and the final settlement is multiplied by a coefficient. The coefficient is determined by the task completion and employer evaluation!

"After you receive the points, you can check the guild's redemption menu."

"I believe that some things... will be of great help to you!"

After Stiletto finished speaking, Alden's eyes seemed somewhat profound, then he smiled and said:

"Thank you very much, both of you... farewell!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he walked towards the Hunter Guild without looking back.

Tasks are not only distributed by the guild, hunters can also choose to take them on their own. At this moment, both of them saw Alden's potential and began to invest in him.

After getting on the carriage, a butler-dressed man asked in a low voice, "Sir, do you need..."

"Not necessary," Sea waved his hand and smiled, saying, "A talent like this would not be overlooked if he's just a student."

"Before long, it will be the awakening day... by then, I should be able to find out this person's true identity!"

"Even if I can't reveal it, this gentleman has become an excellent private investment for me!" Sea had high hopes for Alden.

Talents like him, if I can make friends with them early, it will greatly help his future development!

"The most important thing now is..." Sea's face changed slightly, "Check the recent activities of my second and third sons, as well as those unfilial nephews of mine..."

It's unfair to leave things unclear like this!

Just as the three contacts showed interest in investing in Alden, Alden had already arrived at the Hunter Association.

"Settle the task." After arriving at the Hunter Association, Alden said directly without extra words.

"Meteor..." Ken looked up at him, somewhat surprised, and said, "You're back so soon."

"Is it Meteor?"

"You're not injured?"

"Or scared by the beasts to wet your pants?" There were more people at the Hunter Association today than before. Many of them were seeing the newest hunter in the city for the first time, also the youngest hunter in the guild. Therefore, people were very interested in him and couldn't help but tease him.

Alden didn't answer their questions, just raised his eyelids and said, "Ken, you said you were a senior officer from which branch before. Why are you working at the counter now?"

"I remember only beautiful ladies used to work at the counter here, right?" Ken's face suddenly turned ugly, "The others are on leave today, so I'm covering for them. Is that not okay?" Does this young man really not know that the A City branch has few tasks and low efficiency, leading to a shortage of manpower? Doesn't he know how expensive life's necessities are?

"Of course, it's fine." Alden was just teasing Ken and didn't really dwell on it, "If you want to know about my task, settle it and you'll know."

Ken sneered and entered Alden's identity information into the nearby device. Then, the large screen on the counter displayed Alden's task settlement information.

"I want to see... oh my god!" When Ken saw the information on the screen, he couldn't help but shout:

Meteor: One-star task settlement: 100% completion.

Obtain bounty: 50,000 Ren Alliance Coins

Deducting the rental fee for hunting tools, settling the bounty: 48,000 Ren Alliance Coins

Employer evaluation: S

Evaluation comment: Single-handedly killed half of the enemy, protected the employer's safety at close range. From both personal strength and professional attitude, it can be considered perfect.

Task basic points: 100

Evaluation and completion coefficient: 2.8

Settlement points: 280

Is this a perfect evaluation? "To get 280 points on the first task..." Other one-star hunters were also astonished: Is this young man a rookie going on his first task?

One hundred percent completion is quite common. But an S evaluation is really rare! It's not easy to get this evaluation. Firstly, special circumstances must occur in the task to obtain a high-level evaluation. If no unexpected events happen, the employer can only give a default evaluation with a coefficient of 1.0 at most. Secondly, the association must confirm relevant details and evaluation reasons with the employer. Additionally, they must communicate and confirm with other hunters who carried out the task to determine if the high-coefficient evaluation is valid. It should be noted that an S evaluation means double points coefficient.

If the hunters and employers colluded to easily obtain S evaluations, the wealth accumulated by the Hunter Association would have been emptied long ago! Therefore, although these people were very surprised, no one questioned the evaluation result.

However...

It's really too exaggerated to achieve an S evaluation on the first task. Because obtaining an S evaluation requires too many confirmation steps. It can only be achieved when all three parties — the fellow hunters, the employer, and the guild — agree. Among the senior hunters present, those who have received an S evaluation are few and far between. So, it's no wonder they were all so shocked. The others couldn't help but feel envy and jealousy.

They also want to get 280 points in one go! Their points for a single task are not even as much as what this young man got in one go!

"How interesting..."

Alden reaped a rich harvest on his first official hunt, and his excitement was self-evident. However, compared to the harvest, he was more concerned about Sea's evaluation of him.

To be honest, Alden originally thought that receiving an S evaluation was beyond reach. When he fled at first, his top priority was to save his own life. It was only after realizing Sea's true strength and effectively using the terrain and opportunities that he chose to fight back. This explanation may seem reasonable in hindsight, but from Alden's perspective, a master like Sea must have seen through his intentions.

As for the description in the evaluation mentioning the elimination of half of the opponents, Alden believed it was pure nonsense. In reality, he only instantaneously killed two people, and he was already outmatched when facing the third person. The imposing aura emanating from the evaluation played a restraining role, preventing the third person from concentrating and activating their awakening shield, allowing Sea to deliver a fatal blow.

However, Sea's description seemed to attribute all the credit for this battle to himself. Although the outside world might believe this interpretation, from Alden's point of view, Sea did not need to act in such a way.

Recalling the conversation with Sea earlier, a smile appeared on Alden's lips: "It seems... that guy still wants to win me over." Considering everything, Alden felt that the other party's intentions were not difficult to guess. They simply valued his strength and talent, wanting to please him in order to win him over. In this regard, Alden had no choice. While the Hunter Association has its regulations, it is common for bigwigs to occasionally use indirect means. There is naturally no reason to refuse benefits that come knocking on the door.

Alden returned the hunting tools and then took out a card. This was a hunter-specific identity card, as well as a points card and a stored-value card.

With a light swipe, he saw his personal account balance instantly increase, and a brilliant smile appeared on Alden's face: this was his first official income!

In the past, he had always lived under his parents' protection, and even after years of hard work, he had never been able to give them anything in return due to health reasons. But now, he earned nearly a year's income for his family in one fell swoop! This was an extraordinary event for him.

"Ah, it's a pity. I can't reveal my identity as a hunter right now," Alden sighed helplessly. He understood that he would need to find a suitable reason and method to justify the source of this money before handing it over to his family.

For now, he could only temporarily store it in his own account. After transferring the money to a bank account he had opened separately, his gaze turned to his remaining points. He then clicked to open the points mall.

"Young man, are you in such a rush to spend your points after getting them for the first time?" Watching his actions, Ken frowned and reminded him, "I advise you to accumulate more points first, and then consider how to spend them!" The higher the points in the points mall, the more valuable the items are, and the harder they are to measure and exchange with money.

It's not that low-point items are not good, but they often have substitutability. To "old hands" like Ken, they might not be worth it.

"Hehe, let's focus on the present for now. If I want to accumulate points, saving alone is far from enough. How can we succeed without some early-stage investment?" Alden did not limit his thoughts and vision due to his background.

To make money, one cannot rely solely on saving, but also on investment! Of course, this requires us to have insight to choose wisely. With this in mind, he opened the mall page.