Chapter 42: Duel Appointment

  Flanlin's blacksmith shop was busy until dinner time, the sun had almost completely set behind the mountains, and Gan Jing still hadn't forged all the high-quality iron needed by everyone. After all, an adventurer team required a considerable amount of high-quality iron. Today had already reached closing time, so they could only wait until tomorrow to continue.

  Qian Jin left the blacksmith's shop and patted the pouch containing the Dou Shi, feeling very good as he jogged back to the academy.

  The Oakland Magic and Warrior Academy at dusk, as quiet as usual, with only one more person at the entrance than usual.

  "Hey, teacher! What a coincidence! Taking a stroll here?"

  "What luck?" Rodriguez's nose was about to get crooked, he had been standing here for half a day on purpose, and this kid actually said it was luck: "What luck? I've been waiting for you on purpose. Do you still remember what you said this morning?"

  "What was that?" Qian Jin was taken aback, and suddenly slapped his forehead: "Ah! Look at my memory, I think I still have a duel..."

  Rodriguez sighed and shook his head, why other students would take ranking so seriously, but his own most valued student didn't care about this ranking at all?

  "Kid, it's not one duel, it's two!" Rodriguez made a scissor hand with his middle and index fingers to correct Kanji's numerical mistake: "Two! How come you're back so late? Did you think the duel this morning was kept secret?"

  He shrugged and said, "This matter was never intended to be completely sealed off, otherwise I wouldn't have told the young merchant Luo Lin about it this morning."

  "I can tell you, Dryn. " Rodriguez patted Dryn's shoulder heavily: "Kid, don't always take these things lightly. You don't know yet? Little fatty Roland sold this news to Dean Kayler for three gold coins. He immediately seized the opportunity and told me that whether your trial can proceed depends on this duel. If you win, it means you have strength and can make up for the trial. If you lose, the trial is gone, and in the future, the position of the Great Spirit Array..."

  "Dou Ling Great Array?" Qian Jin's expression, which had been nonchalant until now, suddenly tensed up. These past few days, his strength had been increasing continuously, and he valued the Dou Ling Great Array more than ever before: "Teacher, you don't need to say anything else. I'll go challenge that duel right now."

  "It's two... " Rodriguez corrected himself again, following closely behind Gan Jing: "Two duels! Right, what did you do today? Why are you back so late?"

  "I've gone to work, teacher. You know my situation." With a dry smile, he scratched his head: "By the way, I met a strange person while working today, named Fabreidis or something. He looks like a formidable warrior and even asked me to go find him tomorrow to play. This guy is really something, doesn't he know that students are always busy and have no free time?"

  "What?!" Rodriguez let out a strange cry, like a tiger whose tail had been stepped on, his eyes wide with surprise, even wider than the tiger's. He took two steps forward, grabbed Jian Jing's shoulders and shook him violently: "What did you just say? Who?"

  "Fabregas?" Dryden's eyes narrowed suspiciously at Rodriguez: "Teacher, you know him..."

  "Did you just say you're busy?" Rodriguez interrupted Gan Jing's words: "No time to go? No way! Go! You have to go tomorrow! I'll go find the principal to ask for leave, even if it's the Dean of Academic Affairs, they can't say anything!"

  "Teacher, do you really know him?" Qian Jin was somewhat surprised. Although he knew that Fabregas was very strong, he didn't expect Rodriguez to be so excited, as if he would take a knife and force himself to go tomorrow if he didn't.

  "I know him! He doesn't know me!" Rodriguez said with a bad attitude: "Fabregas! The first strong man among the Oakland City Warriors, and also the first strong man in Oakland City! First! First! Are you clear?"

  "First? Keenly raising an eyebrow: "The Guardian of Oakland City?"

  "What did you say?" Rodriguez glared at him with a stern expression: "Of course!"

  Qian Jin nodded, no wonder Fran Lin and Rucas were so respectful to Fabredis at that time, it turned out that this person was the guardian of Oakland City.

  Guardian! This is one of the most glorious terms in today's world!

  When the term "Guardian" was first coined, it referred to the strongest warrior who led humanity's armies against the demon tribes. Over time, the term gradually came to be applied more broadly, with almost every city having its own Guardian, representing the strongest individual fighting force within that city. Even wealthy and influential families began to give their strongest members the title of "Family Guardian".

  Guardian, is not just an empty honorific title, but also carries responsibility and has many privileges.

  Fabreidis is currently the guardian of Oakland City, unless a stronger strongman defeats him and replaces him as the guardian of this city, otherwise his glory will be respected by the city lord.

  Rodriguez looked at Gan Jing's indifferent expression, his teeth itching with anger, and clenched his fists in front of him: "You kid, being able to get the guidance of the city guardian is something that many people can't get even if they spend money! If you don't obediently go tomorrow, be careful I..."

  He raised his hands in surrender, not out of fear of violence, but because he was moved by Rodriguez's kindness towards him. It wasn't that he couldn't beat Rodriguez, even if he could, he would still surrender, after all, he was his teacher, a teacher who had always been good to him and taken care of him.

  "Teacher, can I go beat up those two challengers now?"

  "Hey!" Rodriguez snapped his fingers in a loud crack: "Listen up, kid. They're your opponents, if you underestimate them..."

  "I understand, teacher." Gan Jing raised his hands high and walked forward with a resolute expression: "As a warrior, one cannot underestimate any opponent."

  Rodriguez's arms were folded satisfactorily across his chest, this was a student he valued.

  The sun has finally set below the horizon.

  Behind the Oakland Magic and Warrior Academy, a small forest is now only left with the moonlight shining on it. The silver moonlight spills onto the ground, and several torches are burning crackling in the clearing of the forest.

  Two warriors in tight-fitting armor stood under the torch, with a thick resentment already accumulated between their eyebrows, and their toes occasionally twitching, showing their impatient mood.

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