"Tell me, why did you call me out all of a sudden? If there's nothing important, then you're dead meat!"
Gu Han looked helplessly at Song Hama, who was so excited that he looked like Fat-Two who had smelled the original scent. His eyes were bloodshot.
"Guhan!
My dear Guhan!
I did it! "
Song Hama threw herself into Gu Han's arms like a little bird, burying her face in Gu Han's woolen sweater. She kept swaying left and right … rubbing herself against him.
"So, what's the matter?"
Guhan grabbed Song Hama's collar and pulled him away from his arm. He asked in confusion, "What did you do?"
"A sword wielder!
I've become a sword wielder! "Song Hama's excited voice began to tremble.
"I know you've become a sword wielder. You became a sword wielder a month ago. Now, I'm also a sword wielder … Everyone who enters the game is a sword wielder. What's there to be excited about …" Guhan could not understand why Song Hama was so excited.
"It's not a game, Guhan. It's not a game …" Song Hama shouted, trying to break free from Guhan's control.
"It's not a game …?!"
Gu Han was stunned for a moment, and the hand that was grabbing onto Song Hama's collar unconsciously loosened, causing Song Hama, who was caught off guard, to fall to the ground and eat his face.
"It's in the real world!
In the real world!
Guhan, I just went to the automatic coin-operated sword essence testing machine to check my sword essence value. Brother, I have 205 quarks of sword essence now. I'm qualified to go through the Sword Inscription Ceremony. If I'm lucky, I'll become a sword wielder … "Song Hama rushed to Guhan's building the moment he heard the news. He wanted to share his joy with Guhan.
"Is that so … That's a big deal!"
Guhan snapped back to reality and forced a smile. He patted Song Hama's shoulder and said, "Congratulations, brother. I'll treat you tonight. Let's go to Starbucks and have a natural pork feast. You can order whatever you want."
"You're the one who said it. Let me see. I want to eat stir-fried pork, pig head meat, and …" Song Hama suddenly stopped thinking about delicacies. He had already discovered that something was wrong with his brother.
"Guhan, why do I feel like you're not very happy?
Are you jealous of me … "Song Hama slapped his head hard. He finally realized where he had gone wrong.
"Brother, I'm sorry. I didn't mean anything else. I just wanted to share something with you. I forgot about your situation.
I'm a bastard, I deserve to die, I don't know what's good for me. "
"It's none of your business, toad!"
Guhan sighed. "As your brother, I'm happy that you've become a real sword wielder. It's my fault. I shouldn't have let my emotions get to me."
To be honest, Gu Han was indeed happy that Song Hama could become a sword-wielder. However, when he thought of his pitiful 9 quarks of Innate Sword Elements and the fact that it would take him at least five years to accumulate 9000 quarks of Innate Sword Elements in the game before he could barely reach 100 quarks of Innate Sword Elements in reality, how could Gu Han be happy?
This was especially so when Song Hama, who was just a normal person like Guhan, suddenly ran over and told him excitedly that he had become a sword wielder. How many people would be able to understand such a sorrowful feeling?
"Ding! You have a new message. Please check!"
This new message was not from Guhan, but from Song Hama.
Song Hama's expression changed when he heard the message that was sent directly to his ear. He said to Guhan, "Guhan, I have some urgent matters to attend to. You should go back first. I'll look for you at night and we'll go for Starbucks."
"Alright, don't lie to me. What urgent matters could you have?
You came looking for me and left in such a hurry. What are you hiding from me?
Stinky toad, don't forget what we said when we became sworn brothers. "Guhan pressed down on Song Hama's shoulder. He was so strong that Song Hama found it difficult to even move a single step.
"This …"
"Say it!"
"That's what you wanted me to say!"
Song Hama pushed the blame to Guhan. "I just received a message from the sword-bearers service center. After I found out that I broke through 200 quarks of Innate Sword Elements, I made an appointment for a constitution test at the service center.
The message told me to rush to the service center within an hour to undergo the system's body test. If I pass, I can proceed with the Sword Inscription Ceremony directly. "
"That's good news!" Guhan tried his best to smile. "Why did you hide it from me?"
"I was afraid that you couldn't take the shock of this news and …" Song Hama muttered softly.
"How could I?
How could I not take the shock of this news!! "
Guhan's grip on Song Hama's shoulder tightened. Song Hama's face instantly had a smile that was uglier than crying.
Song Hama suddenly felt that his head must have been bitten by a dog. That was why he came looking for Guhan, that damn pervert.
"Hey, you came looking for me because you wanted me to accompany you to participate in this test and ceremony, right?" Guhan's smile was still bright.
"No!
Absolutely not!
How could I dare to trouble Master Guhan? I'll go myself, I'll go myself … "Song Hama's expression was even more fake than a lie.
"Don't stand on ceremony. It's every best friend's job to experience the most important moment of their lives with their best friend. Let's go to the subway station. I remember the service center is quite far from here."
"Okay … Haha … As long as you're happy." What else could Song Hama say?
Just accept your fate.
…
The sword-bearers service center was located in the center of the super base city, Yuzhang City. Apart from the outermost super large dimensional wall that covered the entire base city, there was a second, more powerful dimensional wall in the core area where the sword-bearers service center was located. In other words, this was the safest place in the entire base city.
The core area was directly under the management of the Yuzhang City Council. The entire city's management system and sword-bearers, as well as the most precious sword pavilions and sword gardens, were located there.
Apart from that, all the sword-bearers' family members lived in the core area, enjoying a safer living environment and special allowances and care from the council. This was a benefit that only sword-bearers could enjoy.
Due to the additional layer of dimensional wall, the outer walls of the base city had been breached countless times in previous major attacks. However, there were very few records of breaching the wall in the core area.
Guhan had imagined many times that if Guhan's parents had been able to live in the core area back then, they would have been able to survive the major attack safely.
Unfortunately, this was all just a fantasy. Guhan's family had not produced a sword-bearer for hundreds of years. It was impossible for them to get a place to live in the core area.
The sword-bearers service center was the second largest building in the entire core area. The only building bigger than it was the Yuzhang City Council, the highest authority of human power.
In terms of the building's appearance, the sword-bearers service center was based on the architectural style of a certain Great Hall of the People from a thousand years ago. However, it was enlarged by about ten times. It had a sword-bearers test center, a sword-bearers assessment center, a sword-bearers trading center, a sword-bearers adjustment center, a sword-bearers training center, a sword-bearers management center, a sword-bearers medical center, and more than ten key departments such as the sword pavilions and sword gardens. Tens of thousands of sword-bearers went to the sword-bearers service center every day.
Song Hama first had to go to the sword-bearers test center to confirm that his sword element exceeded 200 quarts.
Only then could he enter the sword-bearers assessment center to take the test. After confirming that he had a complete foundation and comprehensive knowledge of sword-bearers, he would get a chance to enter the sword pavilions and find an unawakened swordmistress to carry out a sword-inscription ritual. After that, he would have to synchronize.
Song Hama was already quite familiar with the entire process. This was not his first time coming to the sword-bearers service center. He had already been here twice before this.
Previously, it was mentioned that the minimum sword element requirement for a sword-bearer to carry out synchronization was 100 quarts.
When Song Hama was 13 years old, his innate sword element value had already grown to 100 quarts. Unfortunately, at that time, Song Hama had tried to synchronize with a powerful ancient sword rank swordmistress without knowing the immensity of heaven and earth. In the end, he had failed miserably and lost his first chance to become a sword-bearer.
Some people found this strange. Didn't they say that there were many ancient sword rank swordmistresses?
If this one did not succeed, they could just change to another one and try synchronization a few more times.
Why was it that after failing once, they had completely lost their chance?
This was not logical, and it was not conducive to finding more sword-bearers.
To explain, before synchronization, the sword-bearer's body had to go through a sword-inscription ritual. This was because the sword-inscription ritual could increase the success rate of synchronization between the sword-bearer and the swordmistress by a few hundred times.
This was a process that had to be experienced before synchronization. Otherwise, relying on synchronization alone would not have a success rate of more than 0.1%. It would take a long time before a sword-bearer with their own swordmistress could be born.
However, the famed sword-inscription ritual was expensive and time-consuming. In addition, almost every day, there were hundreds of mortals who had reached the standard who tried to synchronize with the swordmistress.
Therefore, if everyone tried to synchronize with every unawakened swordmistress, the resources consumed would be too much for the council to bear.
Therefore, after a scientific discussion, the council decided that every mortal who reached 100 quarts of sword element would have a chance to hold a sword-inscription ritual for free.
After that, for every increase of 50 quarts, they would get another free chance. If the swordmistress exceeded 500 quarts and still could not succeed, then the council would no longer provide a chance to hold a sword-inscription ritual for free.
Of course, if you have enough wealth, you can buy it for 100,000 RMB once. It's a fair deal.
You could experiment with all the swordmistresses in the sword library until you found one that could synchronize with your bloodline.
By the way, according to estimates, 95% of mortals who had more than 100 quarts of sword element would not be able to synchronize with the existing swordmistresses successfully.
Otherwise, there would be more than a few hundred thousand sword-bearers among the billions of humans.