Chapter 486: First Step (1/2)

Three days passed by after Unit-17's distribution of their rewards. The whole team went on several errands and had couple of meetings in order to familiarize themselves to the sect and it went surprisingly smooth.

The members who had planned on switching their cultivation techniques paid a visit to the Repository Hall to ask for opinions. At first they thought that they'll have a hard time picking and that the staff weren't going to give them any suggestion. Surprisingly however, it turns out that not only they were willing to help, they even gave them many options to choose.

The advice weren't free, they had to pay a small amount of Merit Points for it but none of them were surprised. In fact, it makes sense like this. And it's not like they were scammed by doing so. The amount of Merit Points they paid for it was worth it since the opinions and options they got were plenty. All that's left for them to do is to pick which technique was the most suitable for them and start switching to it.

On a different note though, during their tour Unit-17 discovered an important matter that was revealed to them by one of the older disciples in Tartarus. It turns out that at least 90% of the disciples around here were dual cultivators with the minority being triple cultivators.

Only a very small part of the sect's population were composed of one-trick-ponies, which was very surprising for them but its something that they should've seen coming. In truth, with how fearsome the enemies are, those who were stronger survives longer, and compared to being a one-trick-pony, being a dual-cultivator is better.

This was an unexpected news for everyone in the Unit-17. A meeting was called for it and it was decided that the members who will switch would do their best pick a dual-cultivation technique from the Repository in order to get more benefits out of it. As for the those who wasn't planning on switching, they too started deciding whether to buy an additional technique and cultivate it or to remain as they are right now. The choice was left for them to decide.

Apart from visiting the Repository Hall, the team pretty much roamed the entirety of Tartarus. They decided to explore in batches in order to cover more ground and through several discussions, they all reported what they saw, allowing everyone to know what they experienced.

Tartarus follows the shape of a ring, its surrounding the Devil's Cradle, acting like a seal to prevent the ugly creatures from escaping the interior of the mountain. There are several entrance and exit points on Tartarus. Within it are multiple infrastructures which has different functions, but all are important for the sect and its residence.

The ones near Unit-17's base are the Repository Hall, Hall of Enlightenment, Merit Exchange Market, Missions Hall and other offices for older disciples. Aside from those, there are other infrastructures such as the Hall of Challengers, Churches of Gods, Cleansing Chapels and etc.

After touring Tartarus and familiarizing themselves with it, the unit then decided to take it easy for a bit while Jason and Raven visited the Mission Hall to pick some Missions for the team to accomplish.

They originally planned on taking as many missions as they could but they found out that it doesn't work like that. Just like what they predicted, there are rules and requirements needed before claiming a mission from the hall.

Missions are divided into different grades: D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS.

Freshmen Units or individual, with 0-5 years of tenure in the sect, are only permitted to do D - C ranked missions and they are also limited into claiming five per month. The only way for Freshmen to apply for higher ranked missions is to have a 10 successful mission streak or for them to remain in the sect for more than five years.

A new batch of Missions will be issued in the hall during the 1st of each month. According to what they heard, the hall will be immensely populated during those times since missions with better rewards will always be swiped by the older disciples, leaving the boring or more complicated missions behind.

Nevertheless, neither Jason nor Raven were really affected by this. They weren't in any positions to be picky for now anyway. They're just here to claim missions in order to gain experience, they weren't here to compete with the older disciples for the better missions just yet.

The two went inside the Hall in order to check for missions they could get. After looking for a while, they realized that, even though there are still a lot of missions remaining, they were either too dangerous or have rewards which were too low for anyone's liking, which is why no one's claiming them.

In the end, they managed to find one missions for the team. It's a C-ranked mission, and their task is to kill 20 Imps. For this mission, they need to take back their victims' ear as a proof. The rewards were 250 Unit Merit Points. It wasn't a lot but it's a nice starter for the Unit to gain experience. It also has a time limit of one month.