Blood Assimilation

Throughout the week, Randy made time and was able to purchase a low-ranking profound footwork technique since he did not have enough spiritual energy to practice profound movement techniques instead. 

Naturally, he also challenged the virtual world fighters to harvest knowledge points every single day of the remaining days in the week.

And thus accumulated an ample amount of knowledge points, but it was still not enough since he has more skills and techniques that cost an exorbitant amount of knowledge points to learn and comprehend.

But there was one thing that Randy found out about the challenger that sent him the challenge request during the week, that they were the number one on the ranking list of Fourth-Rank Combat Power System in the virtual world. 

This meant that they had the same level of strength as Li Weisheng, Chen Feng, and the others.

But despite that, they still rank the first place, so Randy was hesitant about fighting them for now until he gained enough experience fighting various opponents.

And thus, he ultimately rejected their challenge again.

But the strange part was that the other party did not give up and kept sending more challenges to him after each rejection.

And Randy felt something strange about this persistence from the other party but decided to ignore them and focus on harvesting more knowledge points from the small fries in the virtual world. 

...

The following week.

Randy kept challenging more contenders while harvesting more knowledge points the following week as well until it was finally Friday, the last day of the week. 

And also all the students would begin their break starting from this day onward. 

Although he was eager to harvest more knowledge points throughout this week as well by challenging random opponents but for his own reason whenever he received a challenge from that top number one on the ranking, Randy would always decline it. 

To Randy, this person was probably too strong that he would lose right away if he accepted their challenge.

And since he does not want to lose his winning streak just yet, the only option left was to decline their challenge. 

After all, even though he was able to defeat Li Weisheng and Chen Feng using unscrupulous methods, but the same methods cannot possibly win against this number one on the ranking. 

And thus, he did not bother to accept it just yet until he had increased his repertoire of techniques and experience. 

But even though he could not communicate with the other party about this matter or more like he did not bother to do so since it was his personal reason for not accepting their challenge. 

Furthermore, it was not like he had to always accept a challenge from others just because they sent it to him.

With that in mind, Randy walked the streets as he made his way home after they were dismissed from school. 

The following week, they have an excursion, or more precisely, they were going outside the city and into the territory of the Beast Forest, where the military had set up a base to restrict the movement of the beasts and other creatures in the forest. 

This was done to prevent outbreaks of stronger beasts that could invade the city gate from doing so.

Even though there was an erected barrier, it was not always guaranteed protection, especially when against the beasts and monsters above the rank of B-Rank. 

Those kinds of creatures usually had their very own special abilities so it was hard to deal with them, coupled with the fact that they naturally had a strong constitution and durable skin that can protect against many attacks from humans. 

The purpose of the trip was to train the students who would be taking the university entrance examination by having them engage in combat with weaker monsters and beasts for experience, and or subjugating them in exchange for merits.

In other words, one could accumulate military points or merits which could be used to exchange for profound techniques or resources by hunting monsters and beasts during this occasion.

This was one of the perks of the special training session that Randy's Instructor talked about the week before when he informed them about their exam registration. 

As Randy was walking while thinking about how he should prepare for the special training session that would occur in the following week, he suddenly stopped in his tracks, as he saw someone standing not far away from him with an indifferent expression. 

This person was wearing fancy dressing clothes, in other words, a fancy white suit, and a fancy tie.

Another notable trait of this person was that their hair was silver-white, and they looked to be only in their twenties.

At this moment, they were glaring condescendingly at Randy who was also staring back at them with a cautious gaze.

Randy could somehow guess the identity of this person that was blocking his way based on their body features alone, which matches what was described in the message that Hong Mingyue sent him. 

At this point, the other party spoke in an indifferent tone.

"It is a pleasure to meet you. You must be Randy Smith? Can I have a word with you alone regarding some intriguing matter concerning you if you don't mind?" 

'Intriguing matter? Concerning me?'

Randy remained silent for a while upon hearing the other party's words, as he quickly thought of a solution to his current predicament.

While doing that he quickly scouted the vicinity to find anyone suspicious besides this white-haired man.

Right now, the other party was standing in the path that he always took to head home, which was an alley-like path, hence between two buildings.

Furthermore, the other party seemed to have come here alone because he could not sense anyone else around him.

Even though his range of presence detection was low compared to when he was not in his assimilated state, he could still detect presences. 

After the battle with the sunglasses man and his men, Randy could vaguely tell that he was gradually exhibiting the traits of his assimilated states, even without entering the state itself. 

And so, he was certain that the other party definitely came alone, at least based on what he could sense.

'Why did he approach me alone? Is it because he was confident in his abilities, or is he plotting something under this guise?'

'I could just decline his invitation right here and now, but that could spell more trouble for me in the future. It is better to deal with misunderstandings like this face to face rather than prolonging it for too long.' Randy silently thought to himself. 

Thinking about this, he then spoke: "Alright, I don't mind. By the way, are we going to talk here? As you can see, there are many people walking about. So I am assuming that it wouldn't be a good idea to discuss whatever it is that you wanted to talk to me about here, right? And also, I hope it won't take too much of my time."

Hearing his casual response, the white-haired man raised his eyebrows slightly in surprise.

He did not expect the other party to agree so quickly and even without asking about who he was.