Chapter 82: Party without a Healer? (2/2)

Every month a student would be credited with 1000 Merps in their account If a student uses 1000 Merps from this month plus makes use of 5K Merps advance that was availed to hiet accredited with 1000K /month for the next five e nus were released on the same day when the au These jobs pay Merps to students in advance so that they could use these Merps into the auction event The students could take up odd jobs across various fields in the acade a binding contract with the respective academy department that had employed them

So if a student was in a Merps crunch even after using the n the binding contract of eet an advance Naturally, the amount paid in advance would be less than what normally that job would entail had they accepted it without focusing on the advance amount But now the situation had forced the students to take up these jobs so that they could get their hands on the compatible techniques and spells

This was a debt trap arranged by LA totheet the techniques that they wanted If a student chooses to partake in the event with their overwhel wealth, they are allowed to do so They just had to pay a “little” extra than usual

If a student wasn’t willing to invest their wealth or if they were unable to, they could pay with their ti eher ranked iteo, and LA would be the biggest beneficiary no matter which way the novice rankers chose

The students that had chosen the way of the binding contract would have to serve their roles while tending to their studies in the academy Their practise and usual study would obviously suffer because of their job, but they had to find a round between both the tasks

Most students, including the ones with sufficient funds at ho employment contracts due to their low balance at the tih tie for help from anyone outside the academy

Only students like Eren who had already converted their Extols into Merps were not caught between a rock and a hard place That’s right! There were indeed other students, apart from Eren and his party members, who had chosen to convert their Extols into Merps a few days back But that was either due to pure coincidence or conversion that took place in anticipation of the auction event

LA would rando an auction event for a particular year or not during each academic year So it wasn’t that the students could say for sure if the event would take place this year

When there was no auction event, the students had to purchase their spells and techniques from the Novice Treasury the normal way at usual prices Of course, theemployment contracts would bethe students to get the things that they want and paying the employment contracts were made more student-friendly when there was no auction event It was done so that the students who didn’t get to experience the auction event would not feel that they had been cheated

The Extol-to-Merps conversion had always been kept dyna auction event Every other possibleas it was intended to be Because in surprise, lies LA’s advantage ofmore ordinary students into their folds at a lower cost

Almost no students attended their homeroom lectures after this official neas made known to them They were desperate to either convert their Extols into Merps or look through job postings suitable for them

There were plenty of jobs available for first-year students ranging fro as an apprentice chef in the LA’s kitchens spread across various places on the acaderounds Some academic departments like the department of sanitization didn’t seem to have upper limits in the numbers of applicants they accepted Thatcrew

So the students were spoiled for choices It’s just that the amount of Merps their jobs paid them was lesser than they had expected LA cashed it on students’ desperation to get more Merps and e arrived and raised the levels of anticipation in the minds of many Novice rankers

The auction event was about to start!

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Author’s Note- I witnessed so confused about the usability of LA’s auction event when it was firstto cater to students’ welfare and the acadeht have created an auity in some readers’ minds Hope this chapter puts all their queries to rest ?