Strongest Hammer God novel Chapter 264

'Ah shit, it's the overprotective brother,' Kyle thought.

"Eh, just tell her Kyle was here," Kyle said.

"That's it?" the man asked with furrowed brows.

"Yeah, that's it," Kyle said.

The man blinked once slowly.

"As far as I know, you wanted to join a nearby Fighter Guild. The closest Fighter Guild to the Big Bazaar is the Stark Brotherhood. Did you join the Stark Brotherhood?" the man asked.

Kyle was a bit surprised that this guy knew so much about him.

"Yeah, I joined the Stark Brotherhood," Kyle said.

"Starkhold is almost a thousand kilometers away from here," the man said. "Are you saying you traveled all this way simply to tell her that you were here?"

"I mean, not exactly," Kyle said, "but I wanted to discuss the details for my visit with Selene."

The man snorted. "What's the point of leaving such an empty message? Do you expect her to travel that far just to ask you what you want? Leave me a message with a purpose and some merit to it."

Kyle scratched the back of his head. "Yeah, okay, I can see how that can be a bit sub-optimal."

"Then, can you tell her that I wanted to ask her if she wanted to join my squad?"

The man's brows rose. "Join your squad?"

"Yep," Kyle said with an awkward smile. "That was my original intention for coming here, but after seeing the power of the Forthing Family for myself, I feel like there's no hope for that. I was a bit naïve. You probably have way better options."

"Tell me more about this squad," the man said, leaning back in his chair.

"Well, we need new members. A couple of our members… didn't make it, and I'm building a new team."

"What happened?" the man asked evenly.

Kyle told the man about the tournament and the following attack by the Late Knight.

"You took down a Late Knight?" the man asked with a brow raised in skepticism.

"We were lucky," Kyle said. "Very, very lucky."

"Why? Did somebody else get involved?" the man asked.

"No, it was just us five plus an Initial Sorcerer, who's now part of my new team."

"Wait, you have a Sorcerer in your team?" the man asked.

"Yes," Kyle said. "We also have an Early Artificer who specializes in Golemancy."

The man frowned. "Are you building a tournament team?"

"No," Kyle said. "I simply want to make a varied team. With that, we can take on much more dangerous missions."

"You mean rewarding," the man said.

"Yes, that as well," Kyle said, "but I realized that the mission itself can be more rewarding than the reward. "

In fact, Kyle got that from Theodor.

Theodor said that Momentum and experience were important.

The reward was nice and all, but specifically for Kyle, it was not the most important.

Normal people needed to spend a ton of money on Ether to advance, which made the rewards more important for them.

However, Kyle could just eat his way to a higher level.

This made his path forward much easier and faster, but that meant that he would have much less experience than other people on his level.

Fewer than one in a million people who have reached the Second Realm became Transcendents.

So, if Kyle wanted to become a Transcendent, he needed to be better than a million others who were on his level.

Training was good and all, but practical experience in dangerous situations was the best teacher.

Kyle needed to face true danger.

He needed adversity.

For normal people with normal goals, undertaking one dangerous mission after the other would be stupid.

However, Kyle wanted… NEEDED… to become a Transcendent.

If Theodor believed that Kyle couldn't fulfill his last wish, he would just detonate himself.

Becoming a Transcendent or death.

These were Kyle's choices.

This "choice" essentially boiled down to choosing 100% death or 99.9999% death.

So, might as well try, right?

"Why the effort?" the man asked. "Is becoming a Grandmaster not enough?"

"I mean," Kyle said with an awkward smile, "we only get one chance at life, right? Might as well go all-out."

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