"That's nice."

Gale was still muttering as she finished her lunch as she took the ribs of lamb chops in her mouth, "I want a serious and smooth title like Hayata." ”

"Then 'Lady Nima,' you can think as much as you want." Anhill sneered.

"*** old lady will die with you!"

It took some effort for Gordon Hayatta and the others to pull the two apart and push them back into their seats.

Fortunately, it is not uncommon for people to get drunk and fight in public taverns, and their location is relatively remote, so it does not attract too much attention.

At the table, the master craftsman with a cup of hot tea watched this scene with a smile and did not stop it.

Young people, it's good to be energetic.

"Master, what is the matter with the Grand Elder summoning us in the afternoon?" Gordon put an arm around Anhill's shoulder, pinning him down, and asked the master, "Isn't it another urgent task?" ”

The master craftsman put down the teacup, "No, ahem, with the urgency of the Great Elder, if it is an urgent task, I will only summon you immediately, not at a fixed time." ”

"Yes."

"Take it easy, it should be a good thing, ahem." The master craftsman took a sip of hot tea to relieve his cough and looked at Gail, "Gale should have also been notified of the summons, right?" ”

"yes."

"That's right, the reward for the defense of the giant halberd dragon should be a commendation meeting."

Gordon nodded, much as he thought.

"By the way, Gordon, did the Great Elder tell you anything before?" The master squinted his eyes and asked, "The Great Elder called me yesterday and praised you and Julius.

Ahem, I said that I had two good disciples and brought two good teams or something, and then laughed and let me go. ”

Gordon probably guessed what the Great Elder was referring to, folded his arms, and said, "After the previous Metabetat Defense War, didn't the Great Elder intend to promote a few of us, but we politely declined on the grounds that the interval between the last promotion and the last promotion was too short.

The Great Elder said at the time that he would give us a promotion after the next time we hunted the ancient dragon species.

I thought it would be a long time later, and then it happened that the giant halberd dragon attacked"

"That's right, ahem." The master craftsman's expression was a little helpless, "It's the same situation with Julius and the pen, after repelling the rusty steel dragon, the Great Elder also wants to give them a promotion."

In this way, it is likely that this summoning of you will be a large-scale collective promotion. ”

Anhill was a little puzzled, "Master Cambay, why is the Great Elder so eager to promote us high-ranking hunters?"

Is there an essential difference between our seven stars and eight stars?

It's just a name, and it doesn't mean that if we are promoted to eight stars, we will become stronger.

If there is really a crisis, will the seven-star hunter or the eight-star hunter be recruited the same? ”

"Anhil, you're right, ahem, ahem."

Master Craftsman took a breath and continued, "In fact, many of the tasks you have performed in recent years have exceeded the difficulty standard of seven-star missions, and the Great Elder's promotion of you to eight-star is not out of consideration for 'ease of use'"

"What's that for?" Anhill asked.

The master was silent for a moment, and did not answer immediately, but got up and led everyone to a quiet room on the second floor of the tavern, and after closing the door, he said:

"With your hunter level, you will soon be exposed to this news, please be careful to keep it secret."

The hunters nodded their heads, and even Feng Ying and Gail became serious.

"In recent years, there have been frequent incidents of ancient dragons, and the cause of each incident seems to be unrelated, but in the overall data.

Let's just put it this way, do you know how much the incidence of Gulong-related incidents in the past two years has increased compared to ten years ago? ”

"How much?"

The master craftsman held up three fingers.

"Sancheng?" Anhill asked.

"It's three times."

“.”

The master craftsman rubbed the handle of the umbrella in his palm and continued: "So, all these years, where you can't see, ahem. The guild has done a lot of planning and preparation.

Including but not limited to urging local guilds to build new fortresses, expanding training camps, recruiting more hunter trainees, encouraging hunters to bring disciples, and so on.

It's been a long time since you've been on a one-star or two-star mission, right?

Ahem, cough, cough. In the past two years, due to the graduation and influx of a large number of novice hunters, today's low-star missions are not to mention backlogged, and even in short supply. ”

Gordon scratched his chin, he hadn't paid attention to it in a long time.

But he still remembered that when he first became a one-star hunter, there were all kinds of gathering tasks, and the tasks of crusading against small monsters were too many to handle.

Shi Jiang continued: "After the strength at the bottom is sufficient, or even excessive, the guild begins to relax the promotion restrictions layer by layer.

For example, it was originally necessary to complete thirty one-star missions before being eligible to take the initiative to receive the assessment task of promoting to two stars, but now, it has been reduced to twenty-five, and some local guilds have reduced it to twenty. ”

Hayata's eyes widened, "In this case, wouldn't the casualty rate of the promotion mission increase a lot?" ”

"Yes, ahem," the master craftsman's expression was slightly dark, "Although while relaxing the promotion restrictions, the local guilds have repeatedly emphasized that novice hunters should do what they can.

However, the casualty rate of the assessment task still increased significantly. ”

Anhill's expression was serious, but he agreed with the guild's approach, "The guild will not force low-star hunters to be promoted, if you don't feel enough, no one will care about you if you do a hundred one-star tasks and then go to promotion."

The guild wants to improve the quantity and quality of the entire hunter community from the bottom up.

A young hunter with momentum and talent will come out on a faster pace.

If this momentum continues, in another five years, at most ten years, a large number of high-ranking hunters of the younger generation will emerge, and the number of four-star and five-star elite hunters will also be greatly increased.

Only in this way will we be able to maintain our advantage in the next 'species competition'.

Otherwise, it is not impossible for ancient dragons to appear frequently and attack cities, but the number of hunters has not increased, a large number of hunters have been sacrificed, cities have fallen one by one, the population base has decreased, and a vicious circle has been formed, and it is not impossible for human civilization to be destroyed. ”

"Is this so exaggerated?" Feng Ying stammered a little, "And the Great Elder, isn't the Great Elder super strong?" A monster like the Giant Halberd Dragon can be slashed with a single sword, so it's okay to have him, right? ”

The master craftsman shook his head, "Unless it involves a taboo, the Great Elder won't make a move, cough. His sword this time has already violated the agreement with heroes and craftsmen to 'not interfere'.

The stubborn old man blamed himself very much. ”

"But, why?" Feng Ying still has to ask.

Gordon interrupted her, "Parents have to do everything, children can't grow up, although parents live a long life, they are already old, and there will always be a day when they die."

If children are too well protected and do not have the ability to protect themselves, they will not survive in a future full of dangers. ”

Feng Ying, who understood what she meant, closed her mouth.

"So, what does this have to do with the promotion of the upper hunter?" Gail asked, confused.

"As the leaders of the younger generation, we are role models and targets for young hunters, and only when we stand tall enough and perform well enough can we be called role models.

Besides, don't we go up and stay where we are as goalkeepers? Anhill, who had understood everything, said casually.

"It feels weird." Hayatta sighed softly.

As a "role model" who was almost taken out and hung on the wall, she was more reluctant to promote with other purposes.

Knowing what Hayatta was struggling with, the master patted her on the shoulder, "Don't think too much, now you have grown up and can afford this honor and responsibility, ahem."

Speaking of this, the master craftsman glanced at Feng Ying and said with a smile: "Perhaps, your juniors will soon catch up?" ”

Hayatta was stunned, she thought of Feng Ying, who had just ascended to the throne as an adult, thought of the flames of Flame Village, thought of Aiden with a pen, and thought of Jean from Bokai Village.

There are also "newcomers" from all over the world who are constantly trying to climb up.

She was also relieved, "Yes, if you don't speed up, you may be caught up in a few years." ”

Ps.

Don't think about the "darkness of the guild", the hunter guild in this book is still very decent, and this part of the description is just to rationalize the "rapid promotion".

In fact, the later it is written, the more obvious this problem becomes, are the protagonists promoted quickly? Of course, it's a little unreasonable to be fast, but it's fast

For example, you can understand this distress, Luffy defeated Doflamingo a month after he defeated Kaido

It seems that more than half a year has passed since the Heavenly Comet Dragon, but the chapters are almost three hundred chapters, and if you don't fast-forward the timeline, the curve of time and experience growth will be very upturned.

If you can pull the timeline, the protagonists are not immortals after all, and they will be middle-aged all of a sudden if they frequently pull the timeline.

The strength is actually up to standard, and the ban has been cut down a few, and Gordon is still hard pressed on the seven stars, and everyone probably doesn't feel very comfortable.

It feels reasonable to deal with it this way.

(End of chapter)