CHAPTER 169: CHAPTER 169: LIN YE’S REQUEST, PRACTICAL VISUALIZATION DEVICE

The Golden Lake Hotel is the highest-class hotel in Shan City.

At this moment, the largest banquet hall of the hotel has been exclusively reserved by the Iron Blade Guild to hold a celebration banquet.

"Chairman, just like we said, we never left the camp for a single step. All the achievements were made entirely by the boss himself."

At the head of the main table, Hook, beaming with joy, patted his chest and spoke to Huo Hongyuan.

Everything inside the Secret Realm is not exactly a secret...

Since Lin Ye could summon the Giant Dragon Combat Pet right in front of everyone, it proved he had no intention of keeping it under wraps.

However, what Hook said was still somewhat beyond Huo Hongyuan and the guild higher-ups’ imagination...

They had thought that the people who went in with Lin Ye might at least be able to help a bit, yet the result left them greatly surprised.

Huo Ting, Hook, and the other ten people didn’t even step out of the initial camp for three days and nights in the Secret Realm!

This meant that they were only useful for meeting the conditions to open the Secret Realm and had no other function.

If Lin Ye could open the Secret Realm alone, he wouldn’t even have needed to take them.

Lin Ye could single-handedly handle a medium-sized Secret Realm!

"What Hook said is indeed true; we never left the camp..." Huo Ting said with some embarrassment.

This time the ’Battle of West City’ was a remarkable success...

But the ten of them were essentially just along for the ride and contributed absolutely nothing beyond opening the Secret Realm.

Only Hook would shamelessly go around telling people that he followed a great leader and could pass a test while idling...

Huo Ting, however, still cared about saving face and was too embarrassed to boast about it.

"This is beyond what I imagined..." Even Huo Hongyuan couldn’t help but shake his head.

Leaving behind a Level 30 Giant Dragon Combat Pet to protect teammates, then leaving alone to slay the BOSS and complete a hidden task.

Such an operation was truly beyond Huo Hongyuan’s wildest thoughts.

"Really impressive!"

"It was truly wise of the chairman to invite Master Lin Ye to assist us in passing this assessment!"

"This time, when the assessment team from the Alliance sees our results, they’re bound to be flabbergasted."

"Hahaha! Exactly!"

The banquet hall was filled with the cheerful laughter of Iron Blade Guild members.

In contrast, there was one table with a few people who wore odd expressions and remained silent...

Looking at Hook and others sitting with Huo Hongyuan and the other top executives, chatting and laughing, they could only feel envious.

Originally, they could have been sitting at that table too!

But, at the last moment before entering the Secret Realm, they chose to quit.

Now they could only watch others embark on another path in life...

While they could only remain where they were.

"By the way, it seems like Chairman Lin Ye still hasn’t taken the guild treasure..." a burly man at the head of the table said with a strange expression.

"Could it be that he simply wanted to help us?" a woman, smiling with her brows, looked at Huo Ting.

It was clear that she meant Lin Ye might have come for Huo Ting.

Huo Ting just awkwardly bowed her head and didn’t speak...

She and Lin Ye had never even met or chatted privately, so how could he possibly be interested in her?

Not to mention, Li Fei had a closer relationship with Lin Ye and was more beautiful than her...

"I also don’t understand what he’s really after..." At this moment, Huo Hongyuan showed a wry smile.

To be honest, the Iron Blade Guild is merely a second-level guild, and even though there are a few guild treasures, they probably wouldn’t catch the eye of someone as distinguished as Lin Ye.

Initially, when he invited Lin Ye, he was already prepared for the possibility of being rejected.

Unexpectedly, Lin Ye didn’t refuse, and the cost was merely to take one guild treasure.

Though the guild treasures are indeed valuable, the value Lin Ye brought to Iron Blade is far beyond that of one or two guild treasures.

Based on Lin Ye’s results alone, the Iron Blade Guild could absolutely leverage it to have the potential to advance to a First-level Guild!

"Let’s see! If Chairman Lin is not interested in the guild treasures, maybe I can come up with some extra rewards..." Huo Hongyuan said.

In good conscience and reason, he couldn’t let Lin Ye work for nothing.

Moreover, he hoped to maintain a good relationship with Lin Ye...

What if in the future Lin Ye rose to great heights and remembered that he once served as the chairman in this small guild?

That would truly signify the rise of Iron Blade!

"Absolutely, absolutely!"

"We definitely should properly thank Chairman Lin for his contributions!"

The other high-ranking members nodded repeatedly.

But just then, Huo Ting noticed something and said with a peculiar expression: "Ladies and gents, it seems... the Practical Visualization Device has been taken..."

Upon hearing this, the people at the head of the table looked at each other in confusion.

Meanwhile, Huo Hongyuan immediately checked the guild’s internal assets and also had a strange look on his face.

"The Practical Visualization Device has been taken by Chairman Lin..." he said.

"Ah, this... why did he take it?"

"I truly did not expect him to take this thing."

"It was indeed unexpected..."

Several people were somewhat puzzled, unable to comprehend why Lin Ye would take it.

It wasn’t that they were unwilling to let Lin Ye take the Practical Visualization Device, but in their perspective, Lin Ye should have had better options.

Because this device is essentially used to generate a field, manifest some monsters, and provide Professionals with practice for real combat.

Every guild has such treasures; they’re worth a lot and require at least a second-level guild to manufacture on the guild panel.

But given Lin Ye’s level, does he really need this kind of thing to practice combat?

It was indeed a bit hard to understand.

...

"Got it!"

Lin Ye looked at a half-man-high cylinder in front of him, rubbing his hands in satisfaction.

This was the so-called Practical Visualization Device.

According to Iron Blade Guild members’ understanding, its function was to manifest some monsters in specific areas for Professionals to practice combat.

But that was the ordinary usage. If, like Lin Ye, he had his own Secret Realm and a batch of followers and combat pets, he could directly summon his followers and combat pets.

Of course, generally speaking, that wouldn’t be very useful either.

But now Lin Ye had his own estate, which meant it had great value!

He could use this device to transform the estate into an extension of his Secret Realm!