The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

As Rein waited for the day of his test to come, Colinde started to attend the lessons in the Demon Slaying Division. The results became clear very soon and Rein was introduced to a new power system.

He had previously thought that the sects and clans boosted the power of the skills and the books he had found also hinted at that. This interpretation of Rein was not wrong but it was not entirely correct either. He had not guessed about the existence of a brand new type of power system.

Just learning about this gave Rein a lot of achievement points. It was not enough for him to clear the round but it was definitely the most amount of points he had ever gained from a single quest so far. He was happy about it and became more excited about the techniques he would be able to find in the Divine Scale Pavillion.

The process that Rein had come up with by using his ideas from his own world now became an extremely powerful technique for the residents of this world. Rein had not gotten any achievement points for this method so he had guessed that his technique was not better than the other techniques already present in this world.

But now he knew that his technique was completely unique for this world as it was able to strengthen a skill beyond its limits.

But even then Rein did not get any achievement points. That was quite disappointing as there was a quest that rewarded a lot of achievement points for creating a new technique. So Rein started to think about why this accomplishment of his was not enough to clear that quest.

After thinking about it from various different angles Rein could think about only one reason that might be responsible for this situation.

He guessed that using any knowledge or weapon from his real world could not complete a quest. He needed to understand the rules of this world and only needed to use them to complete the achievement points. He was able to make this guess after coming across a few other quests that were also incomplete even though Rein had done things similar to those quests.

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Very soon it was time for Rein to also take his test. He went to the outer building of the Divine Scale Pavillion where the test was supposed to take place. There were quite a lot of people who were waiting for the test to start and the front of the building was very crowded.

Even though the Divine Scale Pavillion were mainly well known for their powerful techniques related to the scale type skills, that did not mean they did not have disciples with other types of skills. Any person with a decent skill could try to join their sect and they would use this test to decide who among all these people were actually worthy of the sect.

The very first thing that everyone present here needed to do was to register themselves first in the reception of this building alongside their skills which should have an authentication certificate from a reputed organization. After that only the people with decent skills would be able to advance to the next round where the quality of one's skill and that person's temperament would be judged.

Only the people who had cleared all the test rounds would be able to join the sect.

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This was the process that any regular disciple needed to go through in order to join the sect but that was not the case with Rein. His Steel Scale skill was something that the Divine Scale Pavillion almost worshiped so obviously they would have a special treatment for Rein who was the owner of that skill.

Just as Rein had expected, as soon as he submitted his skill authentication certificate with Steel Scale written on it, a commotion started happening in the building. This disturbance was so prominent that the person who was currently the supervisor of the whole process needed to come out in order to control the situation. After that Rein was taken to a special private room for his further testing.

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The room where Rein was taken to was very luxurious and there was even a maid given to him to order around. From this treatment it was clear that the Divine Scale Pavillion really really valued the Steel Scale skill. This was a good news for Rein as this made his value to be higher but at the same time he was a bit curious and cautious as to why this skill was valued so much.

After he wanted for about 20 minutes while eating the sweets and expensive tea that was prepared for him, the supervisor himself came to meet with him after taking care of the commotion. This once again showed how much the Divine Scale Pavillion cared for Rein.

The supervisor was a gentleman looking middle edge man named Hu Mao who was also one of the inner sect elders of the Divine Scale Pavillion. After having a pleasant conversation with Rein for some time, he brought him to an artifact that looked similar to the mechanism that was used to judge Colinde's skill quality.

Supervisor Hu told Rein that he was already sure about his skills rating just by looking at it and this current testing was just a formality.

But after this Rein still needed to go through a special test that would judge if he had any evil intention toward the sect or not or if he was working for a different organisation. They could not accept traitors in the sect even if they had the most valuable skill for the sect.

Rein's skill was easily able to get the 5 star rating without any problem. Now he only needed to pass the next test and his life would become easier in this world.

So for this test, Rein was taken to a special room with only a large mirror inside it. This was actually a part of one of the supreme treasures of the sect and normally it would not be used in a place like this. But Rein's position was special and to make sure that he was safe for the sect, they needed to have the strongest possible measures available.

This mirror was actually able to detect any truths or lies. It was not just a simple lie detecting method that could be cheated but was an extremely sophisticated method that involved the laws of the world. So it was almost impossible to trick this mirror.

Rein was asked many questions in front of the mirror. The questions were simple but many of such simple questions were asked in such a way that there were almost no loopholes present in his answers. Rein actually had to use his brains quite a bit to not make any mistakes in this question answering session.

But fortunately he was able to end it successfully and was able to join the Divine Scale Pavillion. Then the supervisor started to tell him all about his position and importance in the sect. This was something that Rein was also curious about and so he started to listen with proper attention.