They can only accept such facts, mainly because Fabuki was glaring at old man Johnson basically telling him not to push his luck.
Sean borrowed a lot of books at the institute, confusingly for the students of old man Johnson, he only borrowed books pertaining to the basics of evolution planner occupation, theories regarding mystique creatures and common facts about different races.
Besides, old man Johnson was happy to hear that Sean's home is quite close to the Federation, making it convenient for him to visit whenever he's free.
Back home, Yana starts sharing about her experience in the institute in her stream, she reveals only surface information, fearing that she might implicate her family if she shares too much.
Inside his room, Sean was reading books regarding evolution planner and their origins.
Mystique creatures are born from the great apocalypse decades ago.
For Sean's generation, it should had been a century or so.
With the advent of martial arts and the surge of spiritual energy that covers the entire world, there should be a couple of people that were still alive before the great change.
"Some evolution of mystique creatures actually steams from legends that were told in this world but this type of evolution has a high rate of failure." Sean reads a intriguing fact.
Before, there are still normal animals but now, after a century or so of great shift, they were phased out and their descendants either not survive the new world or evolved into mystique creatures.
"The most popular evolution method planners used at the current era is bloodline strengthening, followed by increasing physical strength, elemental enhancement is also quite favourable but hard to achieve."
This concepts are intriguing for him, he didn't train and just continue to read the books he borrowed.
Meanwhile, inside Beast World, two bunnies were looking at a patch of large grass that changes in form from time to time with gleaming eyes.
With constant consumption of basic vitality pills and rabbit grass, together with nonstop training of Basic Cultivation Technique, their level is now at five, just a couple more to reach the peak of iron rank.
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Name: Bun Bun
Race: Fighting Bunny
Grade: Common
Rank: Vital Realm (Iron Rank-5)
Innate Trait: Combat Awareness
Skills: Kick, Dash
Requirements for evolution: (-) Create a suitable humanoid form in her mind and soul; (-) Mastery of Basic Cultivation Technique; (3) Transformation Grass; (4) 100 Slime cores; (-) Fill the body with enough spiritual energy for the transformation; (6) Iron Rank 10th Tier.
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Name: Scorchy
Race: Fighting Bunny (Variant)
Grade: Uncommon
Rank: Vital Realm (Iron Rank-5)
Innate Trait: Fire Element Manipulation, Combat Awareness
Skills: Fireball, Kick, Dash
Requirements for evolution: (1) Create a synched technique with the host; (-) Mastery of Basic Cultivation Technique; (-) Basic Mastery of Fire Element Manipulation; (4) Transformation Grass; (5) 100 Fire Slime cores; (-) Fill the body with enough spiritual energy for the transformation; (7) Iron Rank 10th Tier.
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Both had been training all this time, the rank of their skills might still be at basic but they're approaching intermediate, the only thing restricting them is their rank.
Slime cores, a magical creature that can be found in any environment in this world, Sean actually wants to sign a contract with one but because they are considered reserve for evolution planners, he hadn't seen one in any shop.
He needs a lot of cores to evolve the two bunnies and once they completed their evolution, his own strength would increase.
He needs to reach silver rank fast, the feedback he receives from Wuk is growing a bit too strong for his current body.
"The two of you should continue training, I'm sorry but I can't let you out, the Federation is still searching for us, don't worry, once you evolve, I'll let you out and even create a human identity for the two of you."
The two bunnies aren't really that sad not going out since Beast World is quite large, the only thing they are feeling is guilt.
Sean has been nurturing them all this time and yet they hadn't repaid him at all, their existence even becomes a problem for him.
"Don't worry too much, you guys are no burden to me." He wants to rub their cute heads but unfortunately, he can't.
The next few days, Sean uses this opportunity to recovery from any hidden ailments he suffered from always relying on Instant Regeneration and also gather enough knowledge regarding evolution.
A week later, in Sean's courtyard, everyone were talking with each other in a relaxed manner.
Sean was watching with a serene smile, everyone was growing stronger, with the help of pills and his training, all of them has grown stronger.
"Still, I can't believe that we would reach the Vital Realm at our age." A rugged looking man speaks.
He's big but he's actually the same age as Sean, his name Sweet Fruit, one of the substitute participants in their school.
"Yeah, we owe it all to boss Sean." A man with a sharp feature answers, he's Leo, also one of the substitutes.
"Hmph! If it weren't for the fact that you guys barely clenched your spot, you wouldn't even be here." Emirose sneers.
Leo has been acting like a hotshot back at their school, pissing her off slightly, she taught him a lesson a couple days back.
The other two substitute kept quiet, especially the girl, compared to the three geniuses, she's ordinary but not once has Sean looked down on her.
This made her affection towards him twisted as she views everyone with disdain, only seeing those stronger than her.
Fabuki arrives with her sister, seeing the ten students in front of them, they can't help but feel gratified.
All of them are martial artists, one of them is even approaching silver rank.
"Everyone, we have received news from the Federation, we're traveling now."
Everyone was shocked by this, they didn't even have one day to do their final preparation?
"I know that all of you are surprised, so us too, the Messenger was actually attacked by the despicable underground forces, that's why the delay of the news, if we wait too long, we might encounter some setbacks so we decided to travel right now."
Sean raises his hand.
"You don't need to ask, as per your request, we're bringing your family with us." The principal states.
He can only put his hand down, then in the disbelieving eyes of everyone, they were teleported back in school in an instant.
Sean looks at the two sisters with shock, he felt that it was the two of them that teleported everyone to the school, not their pet beasts.
"We're going to go under the city lord's protection, you might not know this but it isn't just our school's reputation on the line but the entire city." The principal states.
"I figure as much, considering the dwindling number of cities remaining, the Federation will focus on those that are worth nurturing, abandoning those that failed to meet certain condition." Sean sighs.
Everyone stops, they instantly look at him, their eyes gleams with curiosity.
He then glances at two individuals. "By the way, we brought-"
Fabuki cuts him off. "Hurry, we need to go now!"
They arrive at a large flying ship that looks like an aircraft carrier, Sean freezes before sighing, he had forgotten that before the mystique creatures and monsters decimated this world, it was thriving in technology.
They entered the carrier that can fit a mansion, smaller than the carrier from Sean's world, it seems to minimize it's presence.
Once they're inside, the principal starts assigning them to their room, Sean was given a large room together with his family.
This treatment was reserved for him and no one actually complains.
There's only one problem, they were too much in a hurry that they brought two extra person with them.
Sean was chuckling when he saw her stunned expression.
It was Chika and Ganko, the two of them didn't expect that they would inadvertently be brought with the rest of the group.
Once they're inside the room, Sean starts speaking. "Will the two of you be okay now that you joined us accidentally?"
Chika and Ganko finally snaps out of their daze, they look at each other, not knowing what to say.
"Will your parents worry about you? Now that you're here and the ship is taking off, you should immediately call your parents." Sean advices.
Immediately, the two made the call, this made Sean chuckles, if Fabuki didn't stop them earlier, he would have informed them about the two.
Suddenly, they heard someone knocking on the door.
"Sean, the principal calls us for a meeting, wait! Is that my cousin!?" Jericho who delivers the message was dumbfounded to see Ganko.
"Yep, I told you earlier that we brought two extra person but the vice principal stops me." Sean shrugs his shoulder and waves at the girls.
Wuk and Jasmine was there to protect them, he isn't worried that they'll feel unsafe with the two.
Arriving at a large area seemingly reserve for training, eating, etc.
Sean clicks his tongue, he then looks at other people joining them and was stunned to see old man Johnson and a couple more people.
"It seems that it isn't only us but also evolution planners that achieved success in evolving superior grade mystique creatures or had successfully let one of their test subjects achieved gold rank." Jericho whispers, not knowing that Sean knows old man Johnson personally.
"This is the first time I discovered that you're actually quite good at gathering information." Sean looks at him and teases.
Jericho glares at him. "You're too busy, so I want to shoulder some of your burden, I had to become the leader of our group during your absence! Unlike you, I don't babysitting!"
Sean laughs out loud. "Kommi lacks the commanding presence of a leader, Missel is to absorbed in growing stronger, Emirose is too prideful and Bones, well, he's frankly too stupid to be the leader."
He turns to him. "That only leaves the two of us, you're a natural born leader while I don't have the sense of leadership like you, I have the strength, intelligence and wit to be one."
They went to a large table hosting all the students participating in the competition, looking at the pale expressions of the two sisters, Sean's confused.
"Are you worried that we're going to be late?" Sean asks.
The principal shakes her head. "Your words, it can't get over our mind so we contacted a couple of people we know that are more well-informed, we found something disturbing, you're spot on, the Federation decided to abandon those that they deem unworthy and started to relocate their manpower and resources from one city to another."
Sean sighs, he expected as much but for others, this is like a bomb thrown at them.
"Let me guess, those cities were either overrun by terrorist organization like Genetic Upgrade and Dark Dragon?"
The two nodded, feeling disgusted by the greed of some humans to the point they'll sell their race.
"The ones failed to come up with students that are at least bronze rank or three iron rankers is considered in this one too, right?" Sean sighs.
"Yes and no, there should be at least five or more iron rankers that were nurtured by their own school rather than other powers, they don't need bronze rankers at all." The principal shakes her head.
"Sean, you might be aware of this but your training is different from how we train normally, reaching iron rank is difficult but ranking up to bronze rank is quite easy, you just need to take pills and eat mystique creatures."
Sean was startled but was quickly enlightened by this fact.
"Unlike you, most people would burn their potential to rank up quickly in order to obtain more pet beasts, for us, they can remedy our potential as long as their grades are high enough."