Chapter 254 – The Road to a Life of Decadence (1/2)
Not for the common people, only so that he could live a decadent lifestyle.
He’s done well all this time, despite depending on using his cheat skill of accumulating magic power through sleep and already reaching a terrifying seventh level and also learning many powerful techniques and possessing a strong mental state and magic control that far surpasses the norm, but he’s never revealed his true strength. Other than a few people, Elena, Shen DaiYing, and Snow, everyone else thinks that he’s a normal magician, a slightly above average student at Loran Academy, completely shadowed by someone else’s brilliance.
And that person, is called Caesar.
Naturally, Lin Xiao pushed all the contributions at the Academy Tournament this time to Caesar. However this time, even Caesar wasn’t the shining star, this time’s largest winners was a small unknown academy, Bamboo Academy.
In order to hide the fact that he finished off the Lesser Devils, Lin Xiao pushed all of that to Yao Zi and Lin Tian. Even if the fact that Yao Zi possesses the Wizard’s bloodline wasn’t spread, Bamboo Academy was already known and became a star in the spotlight.
“Hehe, so there’s something called an honorary champion… if I knew that then I wouldn’t have gone for the championship.”
Winterless City
Lin Xiao’s broken-down house
A black-haired youth was lying lazily on the couch, holding the silver hexagonal badge over his head.
The silver badge was quite textured and had a beautiful metallic sheen. A woman’s head is engraved on the front of the badge, said to be the profile of a goddess. The air of holiness that comes over you is reverent.
This was the alliance investigator badge, it was originally the prize for the champions but now it was also awarded to Loran Academy as the prize for the honorary champions. Afterwards, many thought it was the official’s mercy and compassion for Loran Academy, it was just a handout to them, saying that Loran Academy lost to a hick team.
Caesar and Rosie was in protest of that, but Lin Xiao didn’t care since he knew the truth.
The end goal of the academy tournament was to select excellent talents, to become alliance investigators, strengthening the Four Kingdom Alliance.
The tournament was a sham, recruitment was the truth.
The Four Kingdom Alliance weren’t idiots, they obviously knew Loran Academy’s strength, and they knew that Caesar was highly regraded by the hero Greenton, and he might even succeed him becoming the new hero. In comparison, Bamboo Academy only won by luck, although the Wizard’s bloodline was powerful, they still didn’t know whether she would awaken or not, so it was more advantageous for Loran Academy to join the alliance.
Of course, all that comes later.
For Lin Xiao, with this badge, then this trip to Heino Kingdom was all worth it!
Lin Xiao stuck the badge on his face and rubbed it around while laughing like an idiot, and it was like he was even more intimate with it than his wife.
Even though he doesn’t have a wife…
Now that he’s an investigator, he’s not just a normal student anymore, but he has investigation powers! From now on, he could accept investigation missions from the alliance offices all over each continent, and contribute to humanity’s resistance against the demons. If he does well, then becoming a reserve hero was in the bag.
But that wasn’t what he was most happy about.
What Lin Xiao was happiest about was that once he becomes an alliance investigator, then he was an official employee for the Four Kingdom Alliance.
This meant that from now on, he can receive a handsome paycheck every month and a plethora of other benefits. Insurance and pension, quarterly bonuses, and special gifts during the year, he might even be given a new house, or wife… cough, anyways, Lin Xiao’s life leaped from a poor student to an affluent and dignified investigator!
Finally, Lin Xiao took his important first step towards his path to greatness!
“Sigh, everything is good about it, except the work is too tiring and dangerous. Although you can get rewarded after completing missions, but that kind of life doesn’t suit me…”
Other than the benefits, when Lin Xiao suddenly though of the imminent responsibility, he couldn’t help but worry.
The alliance offices would occasionally issue missions like the mercenary guild but it was of a totally different nature. The majority of missions was to hunt monsters, search for treasures and other adventurer-like work, but investigator missions was more official investigation missions, it was more dangerous and complex.
For example, investigating the distribution of high-level demons, providing reinforcements to defensive lines against the demons, purging demon nests.
Anyways, all the so-called ‘investigative missions’ are all strenuous and unrewarding, so only idiots like Caesar would go and take a mission immediately after getting the badge. Smart ones would be like Lin Xiao and choose to relax at home.
“But, I have to hurry up and get verified…”
In order to get his paycheck, he has to get his identity verified. The alliance may be generous, but they don’t support useless people. So Lin Xiao would still need to put in a minimal amount of effort.
“But anyways, I finally have money!”
His idea of happiness was simple.