Cloud Formation? Everyone looked at each other, and they couldn't help but think.
'Since when does our guild have such a heaven-defying cloud formation?'
Karen's mood was terrible. Her nose was purple, and one could see blood coming out of it. Of course, she noticed that and took a low- level healing pill. Although the pill was a little expensive for her, as a woman, she couldn't possibly walk around like that.
Not long after, a middle-aged woman appeared in the hall. When she looked at the flood, her face contorted quite a bit. She looked at Karen, who was responsible for the training rooms, and only saw her pointing at a certain guy.
The middle-aged woman then sent a Divine Sense message to Karen and left. Karen took a deep breath and approached Krune, who was still spacing out.
"Would you mind to follow me, sir?"
Krune came back to himself and just nodded. He couldn't possibly simply leave after what he had done.
After arriving at a private room, the middle-aged woman was already there. She was no other than the supervisor of the Formations Guild, Lola Javes. Unlike the Alchemist Guild and Mercenary Guild of Kaley City, who had supervisors at the Four-Star Level, Lola herself was a Five-Star Formations Masters. She could have applied to another bigger guild branch if she wanted, but she liked Kaley City, so she remained.
She looked at Krune. Because of the flood, Krune's hat, which he liked to use to hide his rainbow hair, was long gone to who knows where, and so Lola was able to recognize him straight away.
"Does your Mercenary Guild have something against my Formations Guild?"
She couldn't care less if Krune was a genius or not. She loves the guild by which she is in charge of. Anyone who tries to purposely cause havoc here will be dealt with no mercy!
Krune immediately shook his head vigorously, even he didn't expect something like that to happen.
"Speak, how did it turn out like that? Also, don't think you can scape without paying for the damage. Otherwise, I will bring a war to your Mercenary Guild doorsteps."
Those were the words that Krune was most afraid of! Paying for the damage!
"Well, it went like this…"
Krune explained the situation, and Lola was amazed after he finished talking.
"Are you telling me that with a simple cloud formation, you created that flood? Do you take me for a fool? You would need to reach a Three-Star level, maybe even Four, to get that power of this formation. Not to mention that you would need at least some Rank Four-Spirit Stones on top of that."
Krune looked at her, surprised.
"I don't know if my formation was at the Three-Star level, but I did use Rank Four High-Quality Spirit Stones."
Lola's mouth twitched. Who the hell would waste Rank Four Spirit Stones on a cloud formation? And it was High Quality at that. But she reminded herself that Krune was a genius of element control, so she decided to test his words first.
"I will bring you to another training room where you will set up the same formation again. If your formation doesn't reach the Three- Stars level, your guild will have to answer for your acts."
Krune nodded and followed her. After taking out a few more materials, he started to build the cloud formation again. He used his soul technique and meridians to pinpoint the locations for the water element. After thirty-some minutes, he was done. Lola looked at the formation and had to admit it really reached the Three-Star level! She was impressed that Krune could create this formation with such low-level materials.
"Hmph! At least you were not lying! I will keep my word and won't bother your Mercenary Guild, but you will still have to pay for the damage. You have no problem with that, right?"
Krune felt like crying but didn't refuse. Even if he didn't want to damage the guild, it doesn't change the fact he was the one who did it. He isn't shameless enough like Yusa to renege his doing.
Lola called Karen and some other employees of the guild and asked them to do a check out of how much it would cost to repair everything. Not long after, they came back with the numbers.
"After calculating all the electronic and spiritual equipment destroyed by the flood, the total price was 337 Rank Three Middle- Quality spirit stones. Considering the time to replace everything and the work of the formations masters to rebuild the hall formations, it went up to 125 Rank Four Low-Quality spirit stones."
Krune let out a sigh of relief. Only now did he remember that Rank Four Spirit Stones were precious. With the amount he had at the moment, it became a small issue to pay it over.
Lola checked every spirit stone and then nodded. After that, she entered the next topic.
"Alright! Although I still don't like you, the damage issue is over with. I checked the system and found out you haven't been a formation master yet. Are you here to become one?"
Krune immediately nodded. He needs access to the information on Teleport Formations after all.
"Very well, go to the Register Office and give them the necessary information. Your badge will be delivered soon after."
Krune was taken aback, that simple?
"Errrr, what about the test?"
Lola looked at Krune as if she were looking at an idiot.
"You can already use low-level materials to set up a Three-Star Formation. And it is even a simple Cloud Formation on top of that. The test is there for those who don't know whether they have reached the One-Star Formations Master yet. Do you really think you can't build a One-Star Formation?"
Krune had to admit that he asked an extremely idiotic question. Not to mention that this guild branch supervisor wants him to leave her guild as soon as possible. She obviously couldn't stand his face.
Krune wasn't sad, though. He can get the information for the Short- Distance teleportation formation and leave straight away before anything else happens. Although he lost some spirit stones, the end result was exactly what he wanted.
Krune was once again waiting for his badge, and, once again, it started to take forever for them to give it to him. He felt like he was seeing a déjà vu.
'I don't like this pattern!'
Back at Lola's office, she was discussing with the Formations Guild Headquarters about Krune's situation.
"He broke my guild hall. There is no way I'm giving him a Four-Star Badge. If you want, come here and give it yourselves. I was about to give him a One Star, and you can consider it as me being very considerate already. No, wait! First of all, how did you even find about it?"
The person on the other side of the line was the supervisor of the reviews office of the Formations Headquarters, Gimble Luos.
"The Mercenary Guild just informed the other guilds they had changed their decision of having Krune teaching elements control to their contestants. He is now directly participating in the Mercenary Selection and then the Martial Gathering. From what we could find, the Mercenary Guild is putting a lot of effort to raise him, so the other powers are keeping a close look."
"When his name appeared in the Formations Guild system, we immediately recovered the training-room video and saw him building up that almost Four-Star Cloud Formation with simple and ordinary materials. He is definitely at the level of a Four-Star Formations Master. It doesn't matter how much you dislike him, you can't deny his talent!"
Lola's face was dark. It's not that she doesn't like Krune. She simply doesn't like geniuses in general. She was considered a genius in formations already, but only she knows the truth. Her talent could only be regarded as average. It was through a huge amount of effort that she got where she is today, which, coupled with the fact that he destroyed her guildhall, made her first impression of him be a very bad one.
Gimble knows her. They studied under the same master in the past. That's why he was the one who was calling about this issue. Otherwise, the higher-ups would have intervened already.
"Okay, I will help you apply for the extra funding you have been hoping for since the start of the year. With this, we are even. How about that?"
Lola's face immediately improved.
"Are you serious?"
"I am! But I can only help put some good words for you. The rest still will depend on yourself. Consider this as your senior brother's favor."
Lola pondered a bit. That funding would help her increase the Formation Guild size. As one of the cities separating the country from one of the danger zones, Kaley City received a lot of cultivators year-round. Her guild was already having some problems coping with the flow of cultivators requesting for services at her guild.
"Very well, I will take your offer. But don't expect me treating him like some gem or anything like that, you know me!"
"Great! Then I will pass the orders to accept Krune's ability review. This might help us build some good relationship with the mercenary guild too."
Gimble finished the call, and shortly after, the approval for passing over a Four-Star Formations Master badge arrived. Lola stood up and went to the room where Krune was waiting. After arriving there, she simply tossed the badge over to him.
"The guild decided to make you a Four-Star Formations Master, I was against it, but they have already made their mind. So you can use it from now on."
Krune smiled bitter, it was just as he thought.
"Errr, you aren't planning to make any propaganda over this or anything like that, right?"
Lola's mouth twitched.
"Propaganda your head! If it depended on me, you would receive a single start badge and nothing more. The Formations Guild Headquarters only want to build some relationship with your Mercenary Guild. It seems like it has something to do with the fact you are taking part in the Mercenary Selection and Martial Gathering. But I couldn't care less. As long as you don't destroy my guild again, we are good with each other."
Lola looked at Krune's face, and surprisingly, he didn't look sad at all. In fact, it looked like he was about to cry out of happiness.
And she was right. She instantly became the guild branch supervisor that Krune loved the most! It was the second time in his life Krune felt that a human female looked beautiful.
"Thank you, supervisor Lola. I will make sure to not break anything here anymore. From now on, I will conduct all my own practicing at my own place."
Lola didn't understand why he looked so happy, but she didn't care either. She simply nodded and left.
Krune immediately accessed the information available for Four-Star Formations Masters. He found out the two Formations he wanted the most, the Spirit Gathering Formation and the Short Distance Teleport Formation.
'The Spirit Gathering Formation is quite simple, but the Short Distance Teleport Formation is totally different. It needs a lot of materials as well, not to mention that I need to practice it. It will cost me quite a few Spirit Stones.'
But Krune didn't mind. He can now request some help in resources from the Mercenary Guild. Since they have announced that they will support him fully, it would be idiotic from his part if he didn't use this opportunity correctly.
Krune isn't afraid that they will try to find out where he is building those formations. They are partners now, and the Mercenary Guild put a lot of importance on his Rainbow Core. The last thing they want is to scare Krune away. Any secret he might have can't be compared with the resources they will receive if Krune joins the Divine Path Sect.
Krune was just about to leave the Formations Guild when he remembered one thing. He went to the guildhall again and soon found Karen repairing a Formation.
"Hi there."
Karen noticed who came, and her mood turned solemn again.
"Errr, sorry for what happened with the door."
Krune then took two healing pills he made and passed over to her.
"These are Three-Star Healing Pills I made. It can heal the injury in your nose completely. In fact, it could even save your life as long as the injury isn't too serious, and I hope you can accept it."
Krune might have low EQ, but at least he has learned that human females put a lot of importance on their appearance, especially their faces, thus, the healing pills.
Karen was taken aback with that. Before she could even answer, Krune put the pills on her hand and left straight away. He has a lot to do after all and couldn't wait forever.
Karen looked at those pills and was at a loss of what to do. Three-star pills are worth a fortune for someone like her. She daren't use one of them to heal an injury as simple as the one in her nose. She decided to keep one with herself for an emergency and sell the other one later. She looked at the direction Krune left and couldn't help but think Krune's face wasn't so bad to look at anymore.
Krune immediately went to the Mercenary Guild in Kaley City, and requested the materials he needed. Lu Ganan didn't say or ask anything and just provided the materials. Those materials might be a lot for Krune to bank alone, but it wasn't much at all for the Mercenary Guild.
Krune then returned to his house and started to practice setting up the short-distance teleportation formation. He will need some time to understand it completely because teleportation formations are dangerous if they go wrong. The space power might turn you into pieces. There could be no mistaking in its set up.
Meanwhile, on another side of the city, Yusa was leaving the Runestone Formations guild. In her hands, she had a Two-Star Runestone Formations Master. As mentioned before, Runestone Formations are very popular for being able to be brought around. They could more or less be said to be a branch of the Formations Guild. The difference is that Runestone Formations have limited time of use, while regular formations can stay in place for years.
Yusa could have got a Three-Star Badge. But their group had decided she should hide the fact she can use more than one element at the same time for the time being. So she could only make one-element Two-Star Runestone Formations. Yusa looked at the badge on her hand, but her face showed her mind was somewhere else.
'Leave or not leave. The old saying says that it's better to be a head of a chicken than the tail of a dragon, but will I really become just the tail if I leave? At the same time, will I really become the head if I stay?'
She then remembered her conversation with Ao.
'I will try my luck at the Mercenary Selection first. Depending on the results, I will decide what to do.'