126 Task (1/2)

The tasks that are given by a teacher to his or her disciple would be made a quest by the system. This was one of the perks of the relationship since some of the rewards would come from the system itself.

Of course, this also came with some restriction, or everyone would want to enter such a relationship. The biggest restriction was, of course, the fact that the number of disciples a teacher could take was limited by his or her skill.

Besides that, a quest would only be created once a week for each disciple and the reward would, of course, be dependant on the difficulty of the task. This stopped the teachers from just throwing out easy tasks with huge rewards.

”First learn the technique I have just given you, then collect the ingredients needed to refine the 'Smaller Strength Pill'. The recipe, you can easily find online. If you can manage to refine at least a normal quality pill, then this task will be fulfilled and as a reward, I will give you a low-grade herb ring.”

”A herb ring?”, Ivan asked in shock. From his understanding, these were quite expensive, so getting them for such a task seemed very generous.

Miss. Klein laughed lightly, ”They are only low grade and can only be used to store herbs. Still, it is something you will need in the future. After all, you will have to collect your herbs by yourself, so if you don't have a good way to store them you will soon run into problems.”

”Still they are too expensive.”, Serge said. Unlike Ivan who had only a vague idea of their worth, he knew about it. Even the kind of ring she had talked about would cost nearly as much as his father's store.

”Don't worry about the price. They aren't that expensive to me and I can get them surprisingly cheap from the guild.”

Since she was insistent and the ring would truly help them, they could only accept it. At least it was the reward of a task and not just a gift, which made it easier for them to accept it.

<< New Quest: First steps to real Pill Refining

Task:

Learn Bea Klein's pill refining technique and use it to refine a 'Smaller Strength Pill' of at least normal quality.

Rewards:

Low-grade Herb Ring, capable of only storing herbs.

A slight increase in soul strength.

A random low-grade herb.

Time limit:

Unlimited

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After she gave them the task, she then continued teaching them about what to look out for while refining pills.

After the normal lessons had finished, it was time for dungeon training. They had slowly progressed through the first four floors, which all had the same enemies, rats. Of course, each floor was more difficult than the one before. But this came from larger groups of rats as well as new variants of rats. For example on the third floor, they had encountered a type of rat, that was able to spat small balls of acid towards them.

They were quite hard for them to handle since you could only evade them or block them with a mana shield. If you tried to block them, then you could only watch as your weapon slowly got reduced to slag.

Of course, their group had it still good, since they had a magician in their group. For those who were so unlucky to only consist of fighters, they had an even harder time fighting these rats.

Fortunately, there were only a few of them and these were sparsely distributed throughout the catacombs.

Now that they had reached floor five they would meet a new environment and foes. This time Ivan had looked it up beforehand, so he would know what to expect. The floors five to nine would be an open grassland, which was inhibited by different species. The most dangerous ones would be the wolf packs, but the vultures weren't far behind.

”Hey everyone.”, Tina happily greeted the others. She had come a bit later, which was surprising since she usually clung to her boyfriend.

”So is everyone prepared?”

”Of course.”

”Yes.”

Everyone responded affirmative and then formed the party.

”Great, then let's get started.”

As so many times before, they then entered the dungeon.

<< Congratulation, you have reached Floor 5 in Nightmare mode. As a reward, all open spaces will have an increased amount of plants to be harvested.

Reach Floor 25 in Nightmare mode for the next reward.

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The first thing, that greeted them after entering was this status message.