Under Bai Shuang Er's reign, the Hero League renamed the dungeon into Realm. It was changed after people learned that Realm was an actual world that split into many dimensions.
Not only the Hero League changed the naming. But the Hero League graded the Realm based on size and how dangerous the Realm was. Based on the size, Level 1 Gate was the smallest dimension while the biggest dimension was Level 10. While the dangerous level was determined by color. White meant no danger and it went up to the green, yellow, orange, and dark red.
There was one particular color used to mark a special realm. It was black, it indicated the Realm was Specter's territory.
Since all cities followed the new system of the Hero League, the world was now under the Hero League's protection. They regulated rules that the dimension gate would be handled by the Hero League.
Today, the reporters gathered in front of a gate. The dimensional gate was twenty meters tall and ten meters wide, it was a humongous dimensional gate.
10 Gold Class Heroes and 20 Silver Class Heroes guarded the gate from the outside, making sure no one came closer to the gate. It was because the gate was Level 6 Black Gate. If ordinary people accidentally entered the gate, death was their ending hence the heroes tasked to guard the gate.
As for why the media gathered around the gate, that was because they were waiting for the expedition team to come back. Yes, the Hero League sent an expedition team to neutralize the gate so the dangerous creature inside did not come out outside.
Of course, that was not the main reason why the gate was crowded by the reporters. The main reason was that the two new rising stars were the ones who led the expedition, Xu Lingxun, and Kang Dong-Woo. The First President's direct disciples.
"They come out! They come out!" A yell resounded as a man came out of the dimension gate.
The man was wearing all black attire with SES word on his left chest. It was the official attire of SES, an elite squad that specialized to fight the specter. One after another, the SES elite members came out of the gate.
Five squads were sent to the Realm, a squad consisting of fifty people, meaning two hundred and fifty heroes were sent to clear the Realm that was Specter territory.
After the first ten heroes came out, the two heroes that the people waiting for stepped out of the dimensional gate. Kang Dong-Woo and Xu Lingxun the famous City Hunter walked out side by side.
"It's them! It's them!" A reporter shouted while pointing at the two young men, "Huh!? Who's that bearded old man?" The young reporter found out an old man with a thick beard together with the two rising stars.
"Tch, are you a newbie?" The older reporter next questioned the young reporter. The latter nodded his head, he was a new reporter that got lucky to be sent here to cover this news.
"No wonder you don't know him," the older reporter then looked toward the bearded old man, "Have you heard the First President's second direct disciple?"
The newbie nodded his head vigorously. He might be new, but he had heard a lot and did a lot of research about the First President's direct disciple. He had heard about the mysterious second disciple as well. The First President had five direct disciples, four of them were heroes and the second was not a hero.
"Don't tell me he is the second disciple?" The young reporter looked back at the three men. He had seen the photo of the second disciple on the forum, and he did not have a beard, let alone such a thick beard.
"Yes, he is the famous legendary hunter who killed Level 7 Beast, the Wyvern King four months ago. The picture you saw on the forum was him without a beard," the old reporter proudly shares the crucial information to the young reporter.
"The rumors say he is equal or even stronger than a few Emperor Class Heroes? Is that true?" The curious young reporter tried to get more information about Butcher Wang.
"That's not a rumor but a fact. The Sword God Sun Zhou Yi and The Invincible Sword Musashi Hirata admitted openly that they could not win against him," the old reporter shares the information he had, "What's more frightening is that the five disciples tried to beat their Master, but even five of them working together they still lose to The First President," the old reporter mentioned this with admiration. This matter was not a secret since Sun Zhou Yi and Musashi Hirata expressed openly in an interview that their dream was to defeat their Master.
"They are here, get ready, young man!" The old reporter reminded the young one to get ready as Kang Dong-Woo and Xu Lingxun were close.
"Good afternoon, everyone," Kang Dong-Woo greeted the reporters with a smile while Xu Lingxun nodded and smiled toward the camera. As for Butcher Wang, he disappeared without a trace as he did not like to be in the spotlight.
"I am here with good news. SES has killed all specters inside the Realm, and this evening we will start the purification so the land can be occupied by us," Kang Dong-Woo announced the good news.
The reporters could tell that SES had successfully conquered the Realm. However, they came here not because of this issue, they believed SES would not fail in specter subjugation.
"I heard you will be replacing your father to be the Head of the Kang Family, is that true?" The rumors about the eighteen years old Kang Dong-Woo would be the Head of the Kang Family had spread out. The reporters wanted to confirm this issue.
"Yes, that's true!" Kang Dong-Woo nodded confidently.
"What about the Emperor Class Hero assessment? Are you and Hero Xu Lingxun going to take the assessment?" The reporter raised the question.
The Emperor Class Hero assessment had been reopened for six months. Many people tried to take the assessment, but only one hero that passed the assessment so far. Elazaro Tania was the only hero who passed the assessment after challenging the six Emperor Class Heroes and witnessed by three Supreme Guardians.
The rumors said that the First President's two young direct disciples would take the assessment soon. That was why many reporters rushed over here, they wanted confirmation about the rumors from the involved person.
"Yes, I am going to take the assessment before my ceremony. I will be the first Emperor Class Hero in my family!" Kang Dong-Woo proudly and confidently declared in front of the cameras.
Even though his grandfather, Kang Myung-Chul was the retired Emperor Class Hero, he still declared himself to be the first Emperor Class Hero in his family. It was because the old system was no longer valid so the past emperors were no longer emperors.
Then the reporters looked toward Xu Lingxun, they were waiting for him to give them his response. Xu Lingxun was more reserved, he nodded, "Yes, I am going to take the assessment after Dong-Woo,"
"What's your target? Are you going to aim for the Emperor Class Heroes recognition or do you want to defeat them?" This was what the reporters wanted to know because this kind of news could be a headline.
Kang Dong-Woo smirked toward the camera, "Since my Master is not the barrier, I am going to beat everyone who blocks my path. Especially my senior brothers, Sun Zhou Yi, and Musashi Hirata. I come to beat them, get ready, Senior Brothers, I am coming for you!" Kang Dong-Woo pointed his index finger toward the camera.
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Heero was sitting cross-legged on the couch while watching the live interview. He had retired completely but he still followed the news about his disciples on tv.
His son, Xing Zixin was sitting on his lap, munching the sweat popcorn with his father with his newly grown teeth.
"He has grown big and getting cocky, huh!? Should Father teach him some lesson to be humble, Zixin?" The father asked his son who was busy munching the popcorn.
"Bububu, Bubba!" The one and half year old baby let out incomprehensible words. Then he grabbed a handful of popcorn with his tiny and brought it up to the air.
Crunch! Crunch!
The baby crushes the popcorn in his hand as he nodded his bald head, indicating he agreed with his father.