Chapter 113: A New Identity — Xiao Lin

Lin Xiao's victory gave many students renewed hope for victory. Among these students, many had extraordinary backgrounds, most of them either wealthy or noble. When they had free time, they indulged in the hobby of visiting the shooting range for some fun. Many were also highly confident in their own shooting skills. Seeing Lin Xiao successfully exempted from training like this, many could not sit still. After Lin Xiao left, five individuals immediately stepped forward to challenge Murong Jing. A cruel smile appeared on Murong Jing's face. He truly did not believe that the top class of the capital's Spirit Martial Academy was so extraordinary. The facts proved these people had overestimated themselves. Although some of them had shooting levels that were not bad, there was still a gap compared to Murong Jing, let alone compared to Lin Xiao. Thus, these five all happily received double training as a gift. This quieted everyone down. Lin Xiao could do it, but that did not mean they could. Indeed, the joys and sorrows of people are not the same. This had nothing to do with Lin Xiao anymore.

At this moment, Lin Xiao had already returned to his dormitory. Military training lasted one month. Now that he was exempted, he had one month's free time. If he could make good use of it, it would be very promising. The urgent matter was to solve the participation qualification for the World Great Competition. Cultivation improvement could not be achieved simply by wanting to, so he was the first one Lin Xiao passed on the military recommendation, with no clue at all. So the only path left for him was to upgrade his mercenary level. Lin Xiao had no understanding of the mercenary system, and it was already afternoon, making outings a bit late. It was perfect to use this time to first understand the situation of the mercenary system. Thinking of this, Lin Xiao directly took out his laptop from his space ring. This laptop was no ordinary one; it was the top hacker king Liang Qixing from the nursing home who had given it to him, with configurations absolutely at the highest level. After opening the laptop, Lin Xiao immediately began searching for the mercenary system. Soon, Lin Xiao obtained the knowledge he wanted. Mercenaries are a special existence, with levels the same as ability levels, the lowest F-grade and the highest SSS-grade. From this, it seemed becoming a B-grade mercenary group was not that difficult. But when truly understood, it was not as simple as imagined.

The entire world's SSS-grade mercenaries numbered only a handful, SS-grade only a hundred, and S-grade only a thousand. B-grade mercenaries could be considered big shots in the mercenary world. The method for mercenaries to upgrade their level was to obtain points. Registering as a mercenary made one the lowest F-grade mercenary with initial points of zero. Upgrading to E-grade required 1,000 points. Thereafter, each level up multiplied the points by ten. That meant becoming a B-grade mercenary required one million points. One million points were not easy to obtain. Lin Xiao searched some tasks in the mercenary hall, where low-grade tasks like hunting low-grade spiritual beasts yielded only meager points, with more being monetary rewards. He saw a task to hunt one hundred level-one spiritual beasts, with only five points as the reward but fifty thousand as the monetary reward. Hunting ordinary level-four spiritual beasts also only yielded one hundred points. Seeing this, Lin Xiao almost gave up directly. He somewhat understood why Chu Wentian had said it was not easy to become a B-grade mercenary in three months. This was not just difficult; it was very hard!

Lin Xiao then checked many more pieces of information, learning more about the mercenary system. Mercenaries were a mix of fish and dragons, with many loners, and even more choosing to join a mercenary group. It was also because of the existence of mercenary groups that Lin Xiao had not given up on becoming a mercenary. The level of a mercenary group matched the mercenary level, and the total points of members in the group equaled the group's points. An F-grade mercenary group could register with just that. From E-grade to SS-grade, the points required to upgrade a mercenary group were ten times those for upgrading mercenaries, meaning an E-grade mercenary required 1,000 points while an E-grade mercenary group required 10,000 points, and so on. An SSS-grade mercenary group was the hardest, requiring a full trillion points. The entire Blue Star currently had no SSS-grade mercenary group existence. Points were not stacked simply by numbers because the mercenary group had a bizarre regulation that the number of people could not exceed one hundred. Even the top-level mercenary group could not exceed one hundred people. If the number exceeded the limit, one had to adopt the model of establishing sub-groups. The SSS mercenary threshold was one hundred billion; to form an SSS-grade mercenary group, the average person needed to be an SSS mercenary, which was simply a fool's dream. The entire Blue Star also had fewer than ten SSS-grade mercenaries. Even gathering them all together would not suffice for the points. The points required for an SS-grade mercenary group was only ten billion, thus creating the bizarre scene on Blue Star of many SS-grade mercenary groups but no SSS-grade mercenary group. It was said that the currently top-ranked few SS-grade mercenary groups were all working hard to become the Blue Star's first SSS-grade mercenary group. Finally, it was not just the level that determined the strength of a mercenary group; the combat power of ten SS-grade versus one hundred SS-grade was different. These were not matters Lin Xiao needed to concern himself with now, as they were too far away from him.

Lin Xiao wanted to become a mercenary, naturally starting from the lowest F-grade. If he only completed tasks in order, it would basically be impossible to become a B-grade mercenary in three months. The method he could think of was to join a mercenary group with a higher level, preferably one at B-grade or above, so that completing the group's tasks would yield very considerable points. This was the only method he could think of to become a B-grade mercenary within three months. The method was in place now, and the only problem left was whether those mercenary groups would accept him. For this, Lin Xiao was not very worried. Although his cultivation level was somewhat lower and his mercenary level, since he had not yet registered, was naturally the lowest F-grade, this did not mean no one would take him. The skills he had learned in the nursing home were enough. As long as he showed a little, it would surpass the limits of many people. What made Lin Xiao most excited was a special regulation in the mercenary system: when registering as a mercenary, except for needing real information at registration, other aspects could use pseudonyms. With this regulation, Lin Xiao could use some skills without reservation and not expose his identity. Lin Xiao even more thoroughly thought that the identity he registered with could also be a fake one. As long as he knew it, that was enough. At most, when he became a B-grade mercenary, he would tell Chu Wentian. He decided like this quite happily.

Lin Xiao did not know that his temporary action would create a future mercenary king. Of course, these were all later stories. Creating a fake identity for someone like Lin Xiao, a top hacker, was not difficult at all. He quickly hacked into the system and forged a fake identity for himself. He also used special methods to create the documents he needed. It could not be called fake documents, after all, they were identical to the real ones and even entered the system, so no one would suspect. To be on the safe side, he also added the highest level of viewing permission to this identity. The reason for being so cautious was also to prevent the identity that appeared out of nowhere from causing suspicion from others. Keeping a bit of a vigilant eye had no harm. Looking at the information on the documents, Lin Xiao felt somewhat emotional. The name was his name reversed, from Lin Xiao to Xiao Lin. The photo was Lin Xiao's appearance before crossing over. It could also be considered a kind of rebirth for himself.