"What do you know!? Our noble profession is greater than you brutes!" Landon roars.
Sean didn't get angry like the others, he only turned to old man Johnson and says. "There is something you're not telling him right?"
Old man Johnson's expression changes, how can he knows, he turns to look at the two girls but they are shocked too.
"How did you?" He can't help but ask.
"I don't know the whole truth but adter meeting you, I know for a fact that you do things in your own accord and doesn't really care about what others think of you, since you coming here disrupts your valuable research time, there can only be one thing in my mind, it was necessary for you to come with us."
Old man Johnson was silent for a couple of minutes, he then sighs.
"You really have sharp eyes but I can't deny the truth, yes, I came here not because I just wanted to broaden my students' horizon but introduced them to the geniuses capable of reaching Innate Realm." He sits on the floor, feeling defeated.
"As gold rankers, we start to understand some open secrets from the Federation, below Innate Realm, everyone is considered as mortals and sl*ves." The principal suddenly speaks.
"I guess, I don't want my students to know this but at least 90% or more evolution planners pledged their allegiance to people with rankers in their family."
"Do you know that we actually coined the term rankers from them, that's why it's practiced in the core cities to call themselves as bronze martial artists, bronze tamers but not rankers, it's basically an insult to them." Old man Johnson states.
Fabuki looks at the old man and speaks. "You guys don't know this but me and my sister came from the core cities, believe me when I say it but human lives there are treated like trash, not that they are mistreated in society but by the top powers."
The principal clenches her fists.
"If they find your woman beautiful, you must give her to them, if you don't agree, they'll wipe out your entire family." This was shocking for everyone.
"Planners there can obtain more resources and has access to rare ones not available on anywhere else but there's also a price, their noble status is nothing more than a joke in the eyes of those descendants."
"Their only purpose is to provide an optimum evolutionary line for their pet beasts and nothing else, if they failed, there's a high chance they would be killed." Old man Johnson shares.
"My master managed to cultivate a superior grade mystique creature, when a son of an innate ranker came to him for advice, he turned him down rudely, the success might had made him proud but after that, the father of that child, the innate ranker, breaks all the limbs of my master and takes out one of his eyes."
Old man Johnson starts trembling, not out of anger but fear.
"My master has two gold rank pet beasts but that innate ranker fed it to his pet beast without even giving them a single chance! After all of that, my master went to the Federation for help, thinking that they might support him."
Sean sighs. "He was turned down, probably even ridiculed, knowing that your master has successfully nurtured a superior grade mystique creature, he might had been tortured to get the formula."
Old man Johnson looks at him, he then laughs in a depressed manner. "Yes! You're absolutely right! Not only that, his wife! The person I owe my life to, was violated by my master's rivals and even the Federation elites that were supposed to investigate the matter."
"My master's wife wasn't able to live that down and chooses to end her life, her child, who was barely nine was also sold to some bxstards, all because they wanted to gain some recognition from that innate ranker, who, by the way, had forgotten about my master in just a matter of days, for him, disposing of people like us is normal, like taking out some trash."
Sean sighs. "Sometimes, when humans finally felt safe, they would turn into absolute beasts, especially if inequality exists and the greater the gap, the more volatile their emotions are."
He turns to everyone and says. "Don't worry, now that humanity is forced to fight, those people will be controlled and even culled by the Federation, no matter how strong a ranker is, they can't defeat the collective human force on their own."
The principal smiles. "Sean's right, those types of people are either killed or restrained by the Federation, the rules from then and from now is no longer the same."
Fabuki nods her head. "That was the time when humanity doesn't even have a hundred cities but now that we had grown, the Federation no longer acts like that but there's still an unspoken rule where you can't slight an innate ranker personally."
Sean added. "From the way the competition is initiated, even if you guys attack those that belong to ranker organization, their elders wouldn't retaliate against you in the open, of course, this also meant that the principal and your family can't avenge you if you guys are being bullied or beaten."
"I'm not that worried about that, unless they have a monstrous genius like you, there's really no danger of being bullied." Jericho wasn't the least afraid of fighting those of their generation.
Everyone can't help but smile hearing this, they believe that only monstrous genius can compare to Sean.
Sean nods at old man Johnson as gesture of goodwill, trying to tell him that he doesn't mind the words of Landon.
Once everyone was out, leaving only the principal, old man Johnson and his students in the research area.
The principal suddenly starts laughing. "Old man, it seems that your grandson is unaware that the reason why you brought them in this journey was for them to actually butter up with Sean."
Everyone was stunned by her words but seeing the look on their teacher's face, they realized that she's telling the truth.
"Golden Qi is an advanced form of metal element, I had never seen not had heard that creatures below Innate Realm actually learn how to produce it but Sean's first pet beast can, do any of you know what this means?" He asks solemnly.
"Sean's Iron Monkey, no, Sun Born Celestial Monkey can reach Innate Realm?" Asks Avhigail.
"You're looking down on the valus of Golden Qi." The principal chuckles seeing her thoughtful expression.
"Not can, will, as long as that monkey doesn't die, it will definitely reach innate ranker, no matter how valuable a gold ranker is, the difference between their status from a true ranker is like a civilian and a gold ranker, basically an ant to a dragon."
Unaware that the main reason old man Johnson came with them was to actually trying to build a relationship with him, Sean was in his room, pondering how to accomplish the third condition.
He has no idea how to fuse the two states, he always used them at the same time during his battles but according to the system, the condition still hasn't been met.
So he decided to revised his own thoughts and starts training.
Monkey Body Tempering Technique, this martial art might had become redundant after he obtained Celestial Sun Body but he decided to retrain.
'This? My body can no longer grow stronger, it seems that jade skin and a titan's body is considered the peak of the two realms.' He thought.
Military Stance!
This was a basic martial arts that drains the body of strength trying to forcibly increase muscle mass.
Sean doesn't feel his strength draining, it seems that it wasn't working in his current body.
He frowns, knowing that this may take a while, he sits to meditate to ponder about what to do in his current situation.
The next few days was relatively calm for everyone, Sean didn't go out and stays in his room, pondering on how to break through.
Jericho was assessing his current strength and would spar with Missel from time to time, even Jasmine but that would be an entire group against her.
In the cafeteria, the girls are talking about something.
"Sean is having problem? That's a bit of a surprise, do you know what it is?" Fabuki was surprised to hear that Sean shares his problem with his family.
"It seems that he wants his breakthrough as stable as possible so he's thinking of how to increase the strength of his body." Hina states with a strange expression.
"That man is greedy, he's already strong enough to survive against a gold ranker for a couple of seconds, even minutes and yet he still wants to strengthen his foundation." Fabuki complains in which all the girls agrees with her words.
"Big brother would from time to time study the way of evolution planner, he said that there's a lot of potential for it, he's just sadden that most planners cherishes too much of their safety to train their strength." Yana explains.
"That's interesting, I heard that you also wanted to become an evolution planner, it seems that he's searching a brand new path for you." Steffany states looking at Yana.
"Yep, he said that if the planner can't train, then let their pet beast roam in the wild or join a reliable hunting team to gain experience in how to work with humans and survive the wilderness."
Tsu, who's embarrassed that she was also in the round table, thinking that she's too old to gossip with the young one finally speaks. "That's what he did to Wuk and Jasmine."
"Right! He would leave those two in the Outside even if he's in the city." Hina chimed in.
"Once I reach the Vital Realm, I would also need to hunt in the wilderness, as my future is different from mother and Yana, I want to become a martial warrior like Sean." Hina proudly raises her chest.
"Sister Tsu has a dream too? What is it? Please say be a teacher, please say be a teacher." Fabuki looks at her with gleaming eyes.
PAK!
Someone slaps her at the back of her head, she angrily looks at the person responsible, upon seeing who it was, she can only smile.
"Stop guilt tripping sister Tsu, what kind of sister did I raise?"
"Principal Maki! It's great that you're finally here, we saved a spot for you." It was the principal, unlike them, she's too busy with her duties.
"Being principal is no easy work, especially, if you're one of the main defense for this ship." She sits besides Fabuki.
"Forget about my job, it'll just cause me headache, I'm more interested in knowing what sister Tsu's dream is."
"I want to be an alchemist, at first it was just a joke but Sean said that I'm quite intimate with spiritual energy and plants, together with my experience in cooking, I have a shot for it." She added.
"Cooking? Well Sean's head is always full of ideas but they never failed so probably cooking will help." The principal wasn't really that shocked.
"The youngest wants to be a planner, the oldest wants to be a martial warrior and the mother wants to be an alchemist, you guys has differing opinions in what you want." Avhigail added.
"Don't forget about the brother who can literally do anything, I mean, can you at least fail at something!?" Ganko complains causing Chika to laugh out loud.
"Ganko, I never thought my friend would wish my brother's downfall." Yana looks at her friend with a helpless smile.
"By the way, where are the other girls, don't tell me that they're still training?" The principal suddenly asks.
"Yes, they don't want to be left behind that much, they're probably sparring or training, Sean taught them his signature move and even taught him a couple of moves that can combine with that particular attack."
"I know he taught them his moves back on the city but he also told them not to train them intensively since it was still at the process of being a true martial arts."