Chapter 89: Chapter 79: Casually Taking a Task
Long Yi had known for a while that there were certain tasks in the Academy that could be done in exchange for academic credits. However, he had never paid attention to these tasks since he had never lacked credits before. But since they were mentioned today, perhaps he should find out how to undertake such tasks.
In the Academy, there was a special task distribution hall. Any students in their second year or above could receive tasks here, and it would not cost them anything. Anyone could also post tasks here, not being limited to those within the academy. Posting tasks, however, required a certain amount of gold coins. The rewards after completing tasks also varied: some tasks issued by the academy were generally rewarded with academic credits, while some private tasks might reward gold coins, equipment, and other items.
Long Yi and Ai Lin arrived at the task hall, finding that there were still quite a few people there. The Dragon Knight Academy encouraged its students to take on tasks from here, because the vast majority of the well-rewarded tasks required battles to be completed, which would help in honing the students’ skills.
The hall had a total of six windows, and Long Yi and Ai Lin chose a line with only three people queued up.
Once the two showed up, the surrounding people quickly recognized them. Long Yi, known as the Crown Prince Beater, was rather famous. Regardless of Long Yi’s actual strength, at least his name had given him some fame.
However, people’s eyes only lingered on Long Yi for a moment, before they turned to Ai Lin.
The majority of people here to hand in tasks were boys, and the beautiful, sexy, yet a bit shy Ai Lin naturally became the center of attention. Ai Lin felt the surrounding gazes, she felt slightly embarrassed at first, but then, for some reason, she suddenly hugged Long Yi’s arm and hid beside him.
Suddenly, Long Yi, who had become a shield against the gazes, was the target of everyone’s attention.
But am I scared?
Long Yi grinned and stared back at everyone who looked at him. Almost everyone in the room compared themselves to the Third Crown Prince, regardless of their status or personal strength, and several people immediately looked away.
However, some people completely ignored this. They continued to stare provocatively at Long Yi. From the symbols of their bracelets, these provocateurs were basically all from the fourth year or above.
Honest Long Yi just grinned, didn’t say much, and quietly remembered those people’s faces. In the future, he will have to teach them a lesson, one by one. But now, he had other things to do.
Seeing Long Yi smiling back, those provocateurs suddenly became arrogant, because it almost meant Long Yi was showing weakness.
After a while, it was finally Long Yi and Ai Lin’s turn. A massive book was placed on the table in front of them. The book, including its pages, seemed to be entirely made of metal, and each page was extraordinarily thin, unlike anything that could be achieved by common craftsmanship.
On the other side of the table was a round-faced girl with small eyes and freckles on her face, who was looking at Ai Lin with admiration.
"What should I do?"
Long Yi broke the silence.
"Ah! Sorry, sorry! Would you like to apply for a solo mission or a duo mission?" the girl asked.
"A duo mission." Long Yi answered.
"Then please place both your bracelets on this mission book at the same time," said the girl.
Long Yi and Ai Lin extended their hands at the same time. As soon as their bracelets touched the page, they started to flicker, revealing a large amount of text and images. Some were descriptions made by the clients themselves, while others showed the appearance of items for the tasks.
The tasks ranged from simple ones like delivering letters and finding lost items, to difficult ones like assassinating enemy generals on the front line. Tasks could be arranged in various categories.
As second year students, Long Yi and Ai Lin were not allowed to take tasks outside the Academy City. Among these local tasks, the number of combat tasks was not plentiful. Nonetheless, there were still some.
For example, a simple companion task for revenge.
A fourth-year student, XX, is offering a bounty of three hundred gold coins for two upper-year students to accompany him to challenge the Furious Wind Martial Arts Academy outside the Academy City. If they managed to defeat the head of the academy, he would provide an additional three hundred gold coins.
"That’s a lot of money!"
Long Yi was amazed. It seemed like this XX fellow might have been bullied at that academy, so he wanted to regain his dignity? But opening with three hundred gold coins, and another three hundred for winning the battle, this was a considerable sum of money.
Could a common person even make so much money in several years?
Long Yi recalled that the Dwarves had sold the Dragon-slaying Sword to the Third Crown Prince for three thousand gold coins, and this kid is offering six hundred just for revenge.
Should I earn this money?
In this task, the name of the student XX was not disclosed to protect their privacy. One would not know who the companion was before accepting the task. Most of the time, the client completely remained anonymous and nobody would know who they were.
"We’ll take this task."
Long Yi said to the round-faced girl.
"I’m sorry, this task is limited to students in their fifth year or above."
The round-faced girl said apologetically.
"Damn it."
Long Yi was rather upset about the money that was almost within his grasp but couldn’t be earned. He casually flipped through and, closing his eyes, randomly picked one.
"Help deliver the documents that a Second Year Magic instructor forgot in his office to the fifth research room on the third floor of the Royal Magic Research Institute."
One straightforward sentence offered a reward of one hundred study credits.
"Are you sure this is the one?"
The receptionist girl was surprised. She originally thought Long Yi would choose a world-shattering, heaven-and-earth shaking mission, but she never expected that in the end he would choose something as simple as delivering a message.
Seeing Long Yi confirm his choice, the girl immediately marked off the task from the massive book, and it disappeared. A marking appeared on Long Yi’s bracelet, signifying that he had an unfinished task.
"Thank you, goodbye."
Long Yi politely smiled at the girl, who hastily waved her hands saying there was no need for thanks.
When Long Yi and Ai Lin left, laughter erupted all around them, "Haha, we thought he would pick some kind of task, turns out he’s just a coward!"
"I’d heard rumors that this kid won against the Crown Prince by using some underhanded tactics, I never believed it. But now it seems, there’s no smoke without fire."
"Hehe, he definitely deceived Miss Ailin’s trust through cunning means! I will expose this con artist and save Miss Ailin!"
"You’re going to save Miss Ailin? Stop dreaming! Miss Arin has always been deeply infatuated with me! When I visited the General’s Mansion, General Kai Long personally praised me as a handsome gentleman!"
"Praised you? Weren’t you only seven years old at the time?"
"Nonsense! I was clearly eight years old!"
Although a group of people were arguing and making a racket here, no one really dared to step up, for any rumors were just rumors. They were true eyewitnesses of Long Yi’s strength.
Before they were completely certain, naturally no one would dare to be that fool.
Long Yi and Ai Lin quickly arrived at the Magic Instructor’s office door. Ever since Ai Lin propounded a theory that astonished the magic world, the second-year magic class had essentially fallen into self-study mode, with the magic instructor only occasionally coming back. Often, he would just sit in the office for a few minutes before rushing out excitedly.
The Magic Instructor’s office was private, and could only be unsealed with a specific magic mark. At the same time Long Yi received his task, his bracelet was imbued with the magic mark. However, he didn’t need to use it. He found that the door to the Magic Instructor’s office was actually left open.
It should be known that at Dragon Knight Academy, all teachers and instructors enjoyed their own separate offices. They could decorate their offices as they liked. Without the owner’s authorization, it would be extremely difficult to open the office door.
Unless it’s forcefully damaged!
At that moment, Long Yi detected a strong, irregular surge of Mana on the office door. This meant that someone used magic to forcibly destroy the seal on the office door!
"Hold on."
Just as Ai Lin was about to push the door open, Long Yi gently held her back, his Fighting Aura bursting out to its maximum as he charged towards the office door!
Bang!
The office door was directly smashed to pieces, and Long Yi rushed in. A dark figure was rummaging through the cabinets in the office. The sudden noise startled it and it quickly made for the doorway, running right into Ai Lin who had followed behind.
"Get out of the way!"
The figure harshly whispered in a husky voice.
"No way!"
Ai Lin kicked out a foot, but the figure only snorted coldly, raising its left arm to block it. However, it was only greeted by a loud bang as the figure was sent flying by the magic blasted from Ai Lin’s foot.
Almost simultaneously, Long Yi, who had rushed out, turned back around and caught the figure’s ankle mid-air. Just as he was about to pull down, he saw the figure suddenly draw a curved blade. With a swift movement, he cut off his leg, and at the same time, unfurled a pitch-black scroll. Gigantic amounts of magic energy surged, pushing both Long Yi and Ai Lin back. A black disc above the figure’s head then sucked it in.
Long Yi wanted to rush forth, but the figure lifted its hand, releasing a burst of light. Long Yi didn’t bother to dodge and just reached out to grab, but the disc had already disappeared, leaving Long Yi empty-handed. All that was left in his hand was the severed leg, blood was gushing out, staining the floor.
Ai Lin watched the black disc disappear in shock, feeling the strong surge of magic energy in the air, she murmured:
"That’s a black wormhole, could this person be from the Black Dragon Empire!"
