"They should have their reasons as to why they didn't want to tell the content of the ceremony. Perhaps, there's a possibility of failure if there's disturbance in the early stage?" Ruben speculated.

Arnold arched his eyebrows and said, "In that case, they will have to find a secluded place to do their advancement ceremony. What if there's backlash for failure?"

They didn't know the content of the ceremony, so they could only guess bits and pieces.

With how the returnees were very secretive about the content of their advancement ceremony, it was obvious that they didn't want others to disturb them. The advancement ceremony is very important and no mistakes are allowed.

So until they advanced to rank 7, they would never spread out the methods of their advancement ceremony.

As for other returnees spreading theirs?

What does it have anything to do with them?

Every profession has their own advancement ceremony and they would not care too much about other people leaking their own secret. But they would never spread out their real advancement methods.

"Let's ask them after they come back," Stephen finally said. "There's no point talking about it here."

The others heard it and could only nod their heads.

They knew very well that even if they started discussing things, they could not come to any conclusion without those two people's explanation. The information about the advancement ceremony could only be known by the returnees and the others had to wait for them.

"I'm going to wait by the door for their return!" Amelia said without hesitation and ran out.

"Wait, Mel, I'll come along." Arnold came forward and held Amelia's hand helplessly.

Amelia was stunned and she glanced at Arnold. "Do you want Brother to beat you up? I don't mind, though~."

Seeing the naughty smile on Amelia's face, Arnold rubbed his face and shrugged. Well, it will come sooner or later, so he better be prepared first.

"Do you want to go too?" Ruben asked when he saw Sean was still staying behind.

"No." Sean shook his head. "I'll just wait here for them to come."

There was no hurry.

It would be better to let his brother beat up Arnold first and then talked about serious matters.

"Then I'll be going to watch the fun." Ruben smirked and then sneaked out too.

Sean: "…"

Sophia's eyes lit up and she looked at Stephen, who could only nod helplessly.

In the end, Sean was the only one left behind.

The young man rolled his eyes and could only follow along with the others.

Seriously, it was impossible for Samuel and Riya to get lost even if they didn't know their residence. But thinking that he could watch Arnold be beaten up… Sean felt that there would be no loss with him coming along.

So all six people were standing outside the gate.

Arnold saw the gloating look of the others and his fist hardened. It seemed that after this, he should find some time to ask them to go to the training grounds and beat them up.

Amelia was laughing while holding her stomach.

Everyone is a bad friend.

…

Samuel and Riya were fast in their travel.

After all, there was nothing much to see in the ruins, so the two of them chose to run to City I Base. Occasionally, there will be an unlucky magic beast that crossed their paths but most of the time, their journey was smooth.

It didn't take that long for them to come to City I Base.

Seeing the six people standing in front of the gate, Riya blinked her eyes. "Do they really have to prepare such a grand ceremony?"

They're just planning to come and pay a visit, but this group of people actually come out of the base specifically.

"They might have something to say that's inconvenient through phone," Samuel replied. He had received Ruben's message about work and so on. But there seemed that there were some things that Ruben didn't tell him.

His eyes moved towards Arnold and Amelia.

Even though he knew about his sister's preference for Arnold, she has always been restrained and only showed some… *cough* look from time to time when looking in his direction.

But Arnold himself also knew that it was not suitable for him to get close to Amelia before.

So their relationship so far was only that of a good friend.

Now…

Samuel saw that the two of them were holding hands and his eyes narrowed. "And it seems that I need to have a good talk with Arnold."

"Huh?" Riya was stunned and followed Samuel's gaze. Upon seeing what he meant, Riya laughed out loud. "I thought that Amelia's crush has always been very obvious."

"Yes, so I need to talk with him," Samuel replied righteously.

It was one thing for him to kidnap his sister and another thing to talk with the other party. Besides, Samuel knew about Arnold's background and the few things that happened in the past.

He had never been able to make a decision because of these.

Now…

He better have a good answer.

Tep.

The two of them were close to the gate in an instant and the six people quickly noticed their arrival.

Their expression changed when they saw this.

"They're fast."

"Riya's speed is not losing to Samuel now…"

"She's really a magician, right?"

The six of them were genuinely surprised when they saw this scene.

All of them knew that one of Riya's weakness was her body. This was the weakness that all magicians has and had never been changed.

But now…

Riya was even faster than Arnold.

Their look when they looked at Riya became a bit subtle. How did a magician has stronger body than a peak rank 4 magic warrior?

It seemed a bit inconceivable.

"It seems that you have been training hard." Samuel swept his gaze and then locked onto Arnold. "Have you decided?"

Arnold arched his eyebrows and knew what Samuel meant. He smiled. "Yes."