The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 159  My first mission from the academy (1)

I returned to the academy and got the keys to my new quarters. As it was in the second year, the third year quarters are away from the first two years.

The quarters are better accommodated when compared to the quarters I was assigned in the first or second year. The living conditions here are better too, but too bad that I have to spend most of the time away from the academy doing missions.

I need to complete as many missions as possible or take on missions that can give me a lot of points so that I can exchange them for a lot of rare resources that are useful to improve my Dragon Blood Evolution skill, thereby improving the purity of my Black Dragon Bloodline.

I am still seventy levels away from reaching the peak of Tier-5. I need to reach that as soon as possible, so as not to attract any prying eyes.

Even if it is not for that, resources are needed to improve myself faster in other aspects like skills and attributes. As I said long before, there are resources that can improve attribute values without the need to increase one's rank.

These are rare and not easily available.

Training improves skill levels but no matter how strong one is, there is a limit one can endure during training.

How to overcome this?

Of course, it is through potions that mana and stamina that were burned can be recovered. There are many potions that could do it, and they come in all qualities. The highest quality would have less side effects and have the best benefits in less time.

These would be costly and can't be purchased easily. It is only possible for academies and the military.

The military is the defender of the nation. So there is no suspense that they would have access to the best quality resources.

Academies are where the future pillars of the nation grow. To have a bright future, these pillars are to be protected and the reason why it is easy for one to obtain rare resources in the academies when compared to the outside market.

So unless I find a source that can constantly supply me with resources, the academy is the only way that I could get my hands on many of the rare resources.

There is the cosmic market but there gold has no value. Nothing could be brought with gold. There is only the barter system available there.

though items are usually sold and bought using credits, unless you sell an item there, there is no other way to get the credits.

Wait a minute.

Where do these credits come from?

When this market first opened, there should be no items to buy using credits, no matter who was willing to buy. So the first credits should have come from the administrator. Whatever he paid should have been the price of an item. Hmm, it looks like the administrator must have gained a lot of resources for free, or maybe I should say that they are gaining instead of saying gained.

Well, I can't say that they were free, as this person has provided many to break through the restraints that the world has. Anyone who can access this market can buy items that are not native to their world or are rare in their world but are cheap in other worlds.

This was the greatest treasure that anybody could get their hands on. If the existence of such a thing was leaked then it means war. I mean this tool can help them exchange resources from other worlds.

From the time I got my hands on this to now, can see that the items have increased and so do the worlds that are accessible.

The cosmic market guide has said that not everyone can use the market, even if they get their hands on it. There are only a few that could do it. This makes the war of this treasure less likely but that also means if the holder dies, the resources from that world would disappear too, unless a new holder who can access the market appears.

There was another problem. If by chance any idiot leaks that not everyone can access it, instead of killing the greedy ones would definitely enslave the person who can access this market. It would be worse than death.

Though this is a treasure, I say that this is a disaster. So I am not going to be that idiot who spilled the secret.

--- Nôv(el)B\\jnn

When I returned to the academy and collected the keys to my quarters, they provided a small guidebook. This was given to all third-year students.

This was a guidebook for the third years, who want to go out and complete missions, that were available in the academy.

There were a lot of classes that were held on this top last semester but the academies love talented students to live and reach greater heights, not to die because of a clumsy mistake.

No matter how many guidelines were provided, there were always idiots who believed that they were invincible and died at the hands of monsters or other people which could have been easily avoided.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with me. Let's rest for the night and wake up early so that there would be fewer students present in the mission hall.

I don't like wasting time by standing in line for long, and this is the only way to avoid that. Coming in late means that I have to waste more time in the queue.

So as soon as I entered the quarters, I ate the food that my mom packed up for me. Then I went to bed to rest.

To take up the mission, I need to be in my best state. Training or meditation is the not best way to relax a body. I can think about those later.

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Next Day...

It's time for me to select a mission. The teachers had advised us to form groups while taking on the missions. For third years it was not compulsory to take on missions outside the academy but those are the only ways for one to gain experience and points.

When I say experience, I don't mean EXP required to upgrade ranks, rather I am speaking about life experience.

Staying in the academy might sound nice and safe but living in a world like this, it is best to learn how to live sooner rather than later. It's not just this world but it is important to learn how to live and survive, no matter what world you live in.

I mean, everyone has to learn how to act, depending on the situation. If not the consequences would be frightful. The missions are like introductions to what life would be like after becoming an adult. Everything that you learn will be helpful later in life, whether to rule your territory or to work as a soldier or mercenary.

After the academy, I have no idea what to do exactly.

There was an idea of becoming a merchant but that is not easy. There is a profession known as Merchant and the skills they have would make them spend less to buy an item while they can sell for a profit.

Of course with how rare the awakeners are, Merchant professional awakeners are not that many. So most of the merchants are commoners or ones who are too old to go out and hunt.

I should check what happens in and around the world by the end of the academy. It would make my decision for the future easy.

Anyway, in the morning I woke up, freshened up, had my breakfast and then went straight to the mission hall. If possible I would like to go and meet Angela but that has to wait for now.

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Mission Hall...

The mission hall was buzzing with students even though it was still early in the morning. I thought coming early would give me a chance of taking missions easily but that doesn't look like a choice now. Most of these students are probably from the fourth and fifth years.

Making my way through the crowd, I reached the mission board that was specifically for third-year students.

The academy has the idea that not everyone was born to be adventurous but to survive in this harsh world, one has to be combat-ready, even if they are not combat-oriented professionals. I don't need to tell about what the combat professionals had to do separately.

There are a lot of missions that were separately placed for the third-year students. These are mostly in the capital or around the capital. The academy knows that the third years who have no experience would probably fail if the missions are too difficult or far away.

So most of the missions that were near the capital belongs to the third years as long as these missions were of not much importance.

I neared the mission board and started to sweep through the missions. What I want is a mission that can give me a lot of points. The threat would be minimal for me by default as these missions would require Tier-2 at the highest.

I am Tier-5, so there is no need to worry about that.