Chapter 81: Dr. Genus: Your potion is garbage.
"What? Join the Hero Association, fight monsters, and get paid?" Saitama said excitedly with his face flushed.
He had never heard of such a thing!
In other words, had he been doing voluntary labor for the past three years?
"That's right. Becoming a professional hero and joining the association will give you different treatments based on your hero level and contribution. With your strength teacher, you should be well rewarded for joining the association!" Genos explained.
"Let's join the Hero Association now!" Saitama said seriously.
He was already tired of being poor, so if he could be a hero and get a generous reward at the same time, he couldn't think of any reason to refuse!
Before Genos could say anything, Saitama looked at Bane and said, "Bane, shall we join the Hero Association together?"
"I don't mind," Bane shrugged.
Zoro hesitated when he saw this, and at this time, Bang said: "There is a great swordsman in the Sword Saint Association, and he is in the Hero Association, and he is a colleague of this old man."
"I see. Then it's no problem for me to join this association." Upon hearing that, Zoro immediately agreed.
When Genos saw that his three 'teachers' all agreed, he immediately said, "I want to join too!"
Bang actually had some concerns about the Hero Association, but at the same time, he also hoped that the Hero Association could develop in a good direction. If it could absorb more outstanding talents, perhaps there would be a chance?
Of course, if he felt uncomfortable after joining the Hero Association, he had no objection to quitting at that time.
Seeing that everyone had this intention, Bang said with a smile: "I am the third S-rank in the Hero Association, so I have some connections. If you want to join, I can recommend you, but there is only one quota."
As an S-class hero, Bang could naturally recommend some people to join the Hero Association, starting at at least A-class, but the number of places each year was limited, and there was only one.
Before he could finish his words, Saitama said righteously, "No need. Didn't you just say that the Hero Association has a branch in City Z? They hold examinations to recruit new members all year round. Let's just go and take part in the examinations!"
"I don't have time." Bane waved his hand and said, "From now on, most of my energy will be focused on Senior Bang's dojo, and I also need to cooperate with Dr. Genus, so I won't participate in any assessments with you. Senior Bang, please recommend someone for me..."
Bane would not be polite to Bang. Human relationships were based on exchanges. If you didn't bother others, how could you continue the human relationship?
Soon, after a discussion, the few of them decided that Bane was lazy and decided to go for internal recommendation, while Zoro, Saitama, and Genos went directly to take the hero assessment. After that, Zoro and Genos went to G City together to visit the Sword Saint Association.
The main reason was that Zoro was illiterate and had a poor sense of direction, and Bane didn't have time. If he let him go alone, he might never find this guy again. After realizing this difficulty, Genos immediately stepped forward and said, "If there is any problem, I will do the hard work," and insisted on helping.
Anyway, the problem of Bane and Zoro being illegal immigrants had been solved by Dr. Genus in the House of Evolution as early as now. Now that Bane and Zoro both had legitimate identities, they could naturally take public transportation and take the high-speed rail to City G, which wouldn't take long.
In the next two days, everyone was busy with these trivial matters. Bane was alone at home studying and reciting the knowledge points in "General Essentials." If there was anything he didn't understand, he would call Bang directly to ask. At the same time, he also took the time to write a note to be handed over to Bang later.
The next day, Saitama, Genos and Zoro went to take part in the hero assessment in City Z.
As expected, Genos, who was an all-rounder and proficient in both civil and military affairs, was directly hired by the association as an S-class hero, ranking 17th, which was the last one.
Zoro, like Saitama, got full marks in the physical fitness test, but Saitama not only got full marks, he also broke all records by a large margin. And the two of them, one was a real illiterate and the other was a single-celled organism, were completely wiped out in the written test.
Originally according to this result, Zoro would have to start as a C-class hero like Saitama, but in the eyes of the Hero Association, this guy had a particularly outstanding advantage, that is, Zoro was a lightning-type esper!
This could be said to be very rare, especially after the Hero Association found after a simple test that they currently seemed to have no means to hurt Zoro, which greatly improved Zoro's score. After repeated consideration, the association arranged a B-level tenth position for Zoro.
At this moment, Genos officially became the Demon Cyborg, Zoro was called the Thunder Swordsman, and we won't mention Saitama, the bald caped man.
Bang was a very experienced guy. When Genos and others went to take the Hero Association assessment, he did not take immediate action to introduce Bane to the Hero Association, but waited for the results.
According to Bang's initial estimation, Genos, Zoro, and Saitama, who was called "invincible" by Bane, should all be able to pass the assessment and become S-class heroes directly. In this case, his recommendation to Bane would have a stronger effect.
One S-level was his junior fellow apprentice, one S-level was his apprentice, and one S-level was his good friend. With his heavy recommendation as the third-ranked S-level, Bang believed that he could definitely arrange a position for Bane in the top ten of S-level.
As a result, after two days of waiting, the 'weakest disciple' Genos became an S-rank , and Saitama, was ranked 388th in C-rank! If it weren't for his special superpowers, Zoro would have been ranked over 300th in C-rank.
This just made Bang, who was waiting for good results, stupid!
After learning from his mistakes, Bang decided not to wait any longer. After all, there was Bane's apprentice in the S-class, which was enough. In addition, Bang's strong recommendation might not be enough to directly raise Bane to the high position of S-class, but it should be no problem to let Bane enter the S-class hero sequence.
After preparing Bane's information, Bang went directly to the headquarters of the Hero Association in City A, recommended Bane to the association as the third S-level hero, and explained the relationship between them.
At the same time, Genos, who had already gone to G City with Zoro, also strongly expressed his opinions to the association. He highly praised his teacher Bane and also mentioned Saitama, the teacher who had suffered "unfair" treatment.
However, the association ultimately only considered Bane's recommendation and did not pay too much attention to Saitama.
After some discussion, Bane successfully joined the Hero Association and became the seventeenth S-class. That's right, Genos became the eighteenth, and Bane became the second to last.
The main reason was that the association didn't want to offend other S-class heroes for Bane. After all, he was a newcomer. If he was directly assigned to a higher position, it was equivalent to stepping on other heroes to get to the top. How could those heroes feel comfortable? At least he had to achieve some results.
Only Genos didn't mind, so the association finally put Bane before Genos.
Bane's hero name was also very outrageous. Considering that Bane also possessed dark superpowers, and his only previous proven record was killing the monster farmer, a demon-level monster, the association gave Bane the hero name "Black Demon Killer," which meant that Bane possessed dark superpowers and could crush demon-level monsters at the same time.
Bane, who was studying hard at home in City Z, had no objection to this arrangement. The title didn't matter at all. He could change it when he had time. His main focus now was to learn martial arts from Bang. In his eyes, the association was just a platform to communicate with other strong people. As long as he was S-level, he would not be discriminated against.
After all, the atmosphere of the association was not very good, and only S-level heroes would be particularly respected. He did not have a broad mind like Saitama, who would not care about other people's discrimination. He was afraid that he would not be able to control his temper and tear down the association.
Rankings and such didn't matter.
Just like that, a few more days passed, in the deserted area, at Saitama's home.
At this time, Bane was lying on the sofa, holding "General Essentials" in his hand, reading diligently. In the past few days, he had read this book several times and was almost able to fully master these basic knowledge points.
Zoro and Genos were not here, they had gone to the Sword Saint Association. Thanks to Bang's introduction, they received a friendly reception at the Sword Saint Association. Zoro also called yesterday to say that the place was very good and he would study there for a while and would not be back in the short term.
Naturally, Genos lived with Zoro in the Sword Saint Association.
Saitama, as a guy, once again fell into a state of doing nothing. Every day, apart from going to the streets to complete his C-level hero indicators, he just stayed at home watching TV series, playing games and so on.
Just as Saitama was watching TV and Bane was reading a book, Bane's phone on the coffee table rang.
Saitama picked it up from the table and threw it to Bane without even looking at it.
Bane picked up the phone and asked, "Doc? Any progress?"
"Well, there has been no real substantial progress in the research on your body samples. I contacted you today to tell you that I have figured out the RC cells you gave me." Dr. Genus said on the other end of the phone.
"Really? How is it? Is it valuable?" Bane immediately sat up and asked.
"It can't be said to be worthless, but it can also be said to be garbage." Dr. Genus commented immediately, followed by a lot of scientific explanations and descriptions that Bane couldn't understand at all.
All in all, this RC cell had some stuff, but not much. Referring to the rest of the technology in his House of Evolution, it had no value worth paying attention to and could be regarded as "garbage."
"Damn, I sold my house!" Bane cursed after hearing this.
Although he was mentally prepared, he was still a little disappointed with the result.
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