And just like that, a week went by fast.
But to Frank, Jack, and Jake, it was extremely slow and very painful.
They spent all their time training for the assessment with cadet Wang Ben.
"Sigh, you three really surprised me this time," Wang Ben said to Frank and the rest.
Their faces immediately lit up. It wasn't easy to get a compliment for Wang Ben. In fact, most of the cadets from the Black River City boys were not the types to praise improvements. They usually act like improving is what should happen and nothing else.
But this time, Wang Ben was really surprised that these guys had learned how to use soft hand penetration in 3 days. That was unprecedented; they had stepped into the peak of stage 2 of raging fists that is 2nd rapid peak .
The person that surprised him the most was Jake. He seemingly didn't have a background, but he was able to keep up with both Frank and Jack. Of course, he wasn't the first person to break through to rage fist rapid 2 peak.
That would be
Frank
Frank's father was a very strong cultivator, so his genes were quite strong, and naturally, his son would inherit some of those gifts.
Whenever Wang Ben remembered how strong Frank's father was and how fast Frank was improving, he could only sigh in admiration.
Like father, like son.
The same applied to the fatty jack. In fact, all three of them were monsters
"Jake, you said you are also from a small village." Wong Ben asked
"Yes, Joey and I are from Spade village," Jake answered honestly.
He explained that
Their parents were dead, and it wasn't strange that there were a lot of kids around the kingdom that didn't have parents anymore due to the war.
They were mostly taken care of by a few old ladies in the village
Although Wang Ben had his suspicions, he didn't pursue it as the topic was sensitive.
Was he supposed to ask him about his dead parents? That was just wrong.
"Okay, since you're already this good, I will show you something special," Wang Ben said.
He then proceeded to the front of another training dummy.
In the background of the room, there was a pile of training dummies that were broken all over. This was the result of their training in the past week.
Wang Ben took a fighting position.
He pulled his hand back and punched out.
"boom"
All three of them stared at the training dummy in shock once more.
This time there was no dummy to stare at.
It was completely blown apart.
When Wang Ben turned to look at them, he could only shake his head.
"Why did he even bother showing them it was close to impossible to get to this level without cultivating?" Wang Ben thought.
In fact, he didn't even get to that level before he started cultivating. He was just too shocked by their speed of improvement, so he acted recklessly.
"Well, what's done is done," he thought.
"To achieve this you must merge solid penetration power with the breaking power that's all I have to say now leave " wang ben dismissed them so they could go participate in the assessment
Upon leaving the boiler room, they all headed to the candidate's dorms.
Wang Ben didn't really give them much information on where and when the assessment would be held.
But
They knew where to get that information.
Brother mo
"The assessment is on the notice board over there. Why did you really come here?" brother Mo asked.
He was actually afraid that Jack would try to extort him for some drinks like last time, so he was a bit wary.
Frank and the rest were currently standing outside the door.
"You're right, that's not the reason," Frank said.
He was actually lying; he didn't even notice the notice board on the side, but that really wasn't the only reason he came here. He wanted to get some more in-depth information about the assessment.
"oh" mo opened the door reluctantly he was still staring at jack cautiously
"Okay, give me the general gist," frank asked.
Mo would definitely have this information because he had quite a few friends in the base, so he had a very vast information network.
"The assessment will be held tomorrow. I don't know the specifics, but there should be the physique test."
There was a physique test during the registration, and this one would be to check how much the body had improved during their stay at the base.
"A group battle can't be avoided either, but this one should be between candidates and a cadet or instructor, that is for sure." mo continues
That made sense; they wanted to test how they worked together with teammates.
"And then the ranking battle, I think that should be it."
"A ranking battle?" Frank inquired, perplexed.
"Yes, that happens all the time during the infantry unit assessment." Mo nodded in affirmation.
A ranking battle was needed to separate the weak from the strong.
"That's all?" Jake asked.
Mo nodded.
"Thank you," Frank said.
He then turned around to look at the fatty jack and Jake.
"Let's go, we need to rest up for tomorrow," he said.
Frank's training speed and talent were shocking, and he had already managed to surpass The Fatty and Jake in terms of the skills they learned together from Wang Ben.
He had become a kind of de facto leader of the group, although the fatty would often behave haughtily.
He knew that he couldn't beat Frank easily.
They then said goodbye and left.
"Phew!" Mo sighed in relief. He saw that the fatty wanted to ask him for booze but Frank was stopping him, so he couldn't help but sigh in relief when they left.
...…
That night, Frank had a dream once more.
He was Frank the mercenary once more.
"The chopper will land in about 5 minutes," a man in white said to Frank.
"You read the briefing, but let me say it again," he continued.
There was contamination in the area below, and the company that caused it had hired his organization to find the source and destroy it.
The Drop zone was to be on top of one of the company's suspected factories. He would have to start his search from there.
"Good luck, agent Frankenstein," said the man. As he fired up the chopper and left
He had earned the name Frankenstein after years of battle and assassinations. He was bloody and that made people fear him.
But he was also very nonchalant about it.
Frank didn't really care about how they saw him.
The process was quite fast as he had the blueprints of the factories already.
The company let him have them as they were abandoned.
And soon enough, he was done searching that factory.
The leak didn't originate from there.
Frank spoke into this wristband. "Alex, show me the route to the next factory."
"beep"
"There are two routes available at the moment." A voice emanated from his wrist. It was an AI manufactured by the organization he worked for.
Frank said, "Pick the fastest and plot a route."
"The quickest route is through the forest... contamination level of 69%."
"Hmm, how long will the other route take?" Frank asked
He didn't like the idea of being contaminated by some unknown substance, although he had high-tech gear that would prevent it from happening.
It could never be 100%.
The main reason he took this job in the first place was the pay.
It was huge.
"About a week," the voice replied.
"arg"
The mission was supposed to be done in under 5 days. He had no choice at all.
He got up and walked in the direction of the forest.
...….
At this point, he had already made it halfway through the forest. It was dark, foggy, and for a forest, it was awfully quiet.
Until
"boom boom boom".
Bullets had suddenly come raining down on him. He tried to dodge, but the damage was already done.
"Thank God I've got this armor on" as soon as that thought flashed through his mind.
He stood up and hurried to take cover.
He didn't know where exactly the shots were coming from, so he just had to continue dodging until he was in the clear.
"Hahahahahahahaha," a few voices echoed in the forest
Frank didn't know where they were, but he pulled out his gun and started shooting.
The once quiet forest was now filled with gunfire and crazy laughter.
"I have to get out of here." He saw that he wasn't hitting anything, so he picked a direction and started sprinting madly.
He would occasionally dodge
Slowly, he made his way out of the encirclement.
And soon he saw a light in the distance.
"The light was coming from a little town?" he thought.
"Why was there a town in this kind of forest?"
He didn't think too much about it, though.
He continued sprinting for the village madly.