Author: M_W Cancer 

Proofreader: M_W Miss Fierce

When noon came, the Mischievous Lion Guild finally finished exchanging a total of 2 million points. Hence, they announced that they will momentarily stop exchanging their points for today and would continue tomorrow early morning. 

All the representatives that were very eager to exchange the Magic items and Magical resources that they have brought with them instantly became dumbfounded after hearing the announcement. 

"Wait, can you make some consideration for us... No, I mean for all of us?"

"Indeed, since you are planning on selling all of your points before the Emerald Event ends anyways, then might as well sell all of it today, right?"

"How about we will buy it twice the price that you are exchanging? Or we can discuss for more if you want to insist further increasing the price,"

All of the representatives, especially those representatives who were in the top 100 rankings of the Emerald Event back then, but has dropped out due to being so slow in getting more points for the Emerald Event, quickly began persuading the people in charge of exchanging the points of the Mischievous Lion Guild, hoping that they will continue selling all of their remaining 3 million or so of points today.

The reason for this is simply because they really can't wait anymore for another day. 

Almost all the participants in the top 100 rankings of the Emerald Event, at least except for the top five, are constantly switching spots. 

Every passing minute, some participants would either drop out from the top 100 rankings of the Emerald Event or rise up from their rank, implying how intense the competition was to grab one of the spots in the top 100.

With such an ever-changing situation, no one can afford to waste any time and opportunities, or else the other participants would definitely replace their spots. 

There's absolutely no one that wants that, especially those people that want to qualify for the Emerald Elven Battle Competition. They even can't bear to imagine the scene of them just sitting on the spectators' stand, suffering in silence while watching the participants fight against each other to become the champion. 

Of course, merely watching someone become the champion of an event wasn't something that would make them feel any suffering. After all, there are a lot of other Magic games and Magic sports out there in the Emerald Tree Kingdom that they can watch where participants would fight against each other for the championship. It is the thought of wasting the opportunity to cultivate in the Emerald Tree that would exactly cause them to suffer.

Everyone who has experienced cultivating in the Emerald Tree in the past returned with a very fruitful harvest.

Some became highly talented in taming Magical Beasts, an example of that is the current President of the Magical Beasts Tamer Association branch in the Emerald Tree Kingdom.

Some became a highly skilled warrior, an example of that are the Patriarch of the Pierce Noble Household, and Nero Noble Household, and the Matriarch of the Clarity Noble Household. 

And the most important and anticipated reward of all, returning with a really powerful Magic item with them, such example was the bow given by King Elfin the Fourth to Second Prince Elmore. 

These were what participants in the Emerald Event that wanted to qualify to participate in the Emerald Elven Battle Competition really wanted to get, at least aside from the other rewards. 

"We deeply apologize, but we can't do that," One of the people in charge of exchanging the points replied while shaking his head. 

Unfortunately, no matter how much they persuaded and how desperate the representatives were, the people in charge of exchanging the points still didn't bend. Some of them even offered an officer position in their Guild, thinking that they could easily tempt these people who they expected should only have a low rank in the Mischievous Lion Guild, but only to end up receiving a cold stare from them.

Unbeknownst to all of the representatives, these people in charge of exchanging the points were actually all Leo's slaves, which means to say that they are the core members of the Mischievous Lion Guild. 

All of the Executives of the Mischievous Lion Guild had naturally long expected something like this to happen. That's why during the meeting yesterday, they have all agreed that the people they will be assigned to sell their points are going to be the core members of the Mischievous Lion Guild. In such a way, no matter what the other participants of the Emerald Event would do, it would be impossible to make them betray the Mischievous Lion Guild as that would mean that they will die. Unless, of course, if those participants have a method to make the slave contract that they have signed in the past invalid, which doesn't exist in the entire Celestial World. 

Seeing that it was impossible to persuade the people of the Mischievous Lion Guild, the representatives decided to come here really early the next morning so that they can hoard as many points as they can. But, of course, they still didn't choose to give up since there is still a lot of time left before the end of the day, thus they quickly left and began looking for other people to buy points. 

Only Fate knows where these representatives would be able to find those people and whether they could succeed or not. Nevertheless, they still choose to do their best because giving up is not one of their options.

Although the Mischievous Lion Guild had decided to stop selling their points, that doesn't mean that the others would also do the same thing.

Unlike the Mischievous Lion Guild, the other participants who were selling their points couldn't just simply choose to stop selling whenever they wanted to stop, or at least in this case, when they realized what the Mischievous Lion Guild should be planning on doing in the next day. This is exactly because they don't dare to offend all of the representatives that were sent by the participants in the Emerald Event that went to purchase their points. Choosing to offend them might indeed allow them to earn more benefits, but what is the use of all of those benefits that they have earned when they will not be able to spend it? 

Hence, the top 100 rankings of the Emerald Event continued to change, though some of the higher spots had noticeably become stabilized already since the amount of points that is being exchange had dropped to a considerable degree, at least only for today, because evidently the next day another wave of points would be circulating in all of the participants that wanted to grab a spot in the top 100 rankings of the Emerald Event.

Meanwhile, inside one of the cultivation rooms located in the underground facility, one of the doors of the cultivation rooms could be seen slowly opening.

In the next moment, Leo's figure could be seen slowly walking out of the cultivation room while wearing a triumphant smile on his face. From his expression showed alone, it is very easy to guess that he had finally succeeded in shaping his Star into the Ferocious Lion's Wrath form, and not only that, it also seems like he had found that he was compatible with the Ferocious Lion's Wrath Magic Combat Technique. 

The person who was in charge of the cultivation rooms quickly approached Leo and greeted, "Congratulations on your successful cultivation, Guild Leader Loki!"

"Thank you," Leo nodded his head to express his appreciation and to greet back. As he was in a really good mood, he asked, "By the way, what is your name?"

Hearing Leo's question, the person in charge of the cultivation rooms, whose name was Aaron, immediately started sweating profusely as he asked while hesitating, "Is... is there something wrong, Guild Leader Loki, sir...?"

"You don't have to worry. I'm not displeased or anything of the likes with what you did before. It's just that, I've seen you from the moment I entered the cultivation room and when I left, and it made me thought that it would be very awkward if I don't even know your name," Leo explained with a smile of assurance in his face. He wasn't a petty person, and he also completely understood that this person doesn't have any other choice left but to follow what Angel has wanted him to do at that time. 

As much as he wanted to not reply, Aaron knew clearly that is impossible for him to do that since he was one of Leo's slave, so he replied, "My name is Aaron, Guild Leader Loki, sir," 

"Aaron? What a great name. Anyways, Aaron, what day is it today?" Leo quickly changed the topic and asked.

While cultivating inside the cultivation room, although he occasionally takes a break and eats his meal on time, he still can't help but forget about the time. This was exactly because all of his focus was on shaping his Star into the Ferocious Lion's Wrath form.

"It is the 29th day of this month, which is also the second to the last day before the Emerald Event is finally going to be over," Aaron quickly replied so as to not break Guild Leader Loki's delightful mood.

Contrary to that though, the moment Leo heard Aaron's reply, his face quickly changed from those of triumphant to solemn and worry. He quickly followed up another question, "Did something huge happened during my absence?"

"Yes, really huge! In fact, the entire Emerald Tree Kingdom was affected by this huge event," Aaron replied excitedly. He continued, "Aside from that, there are also a lot of good things that had happened in the Mischievous Lion Guild,"

Hearing Aaron's words, Leo finally realized that he had misunderstood and that there is actually nothing for him to worry about. But just to confirm if it was really true, he quickly decided to leave the underground facility and temporarily put aside his plan of trying the Ferocious Lion's Wrath so as to ask all of the Executives of the Mischievous Lion Guild for updates during his closed-door cultivation.