Chapter 16：Taking A Mission (1/2)

The tasks in the contribution hall were mostly given out by either the sect, the inner sect disciples, or the core disciples. There was not a single task that gave more than 10 points in the whole board.

After looking at the different tasks, Alex found that there were only 2 tasks that truly interested him. The first one was to kill and bring back some monster corpses, along with any other objects he found. The second one was to become an alchemist's aid.

The first one gave points depending on how strong the monster was. While the second one said to give hourly points.

He wanted to take them both. He looked around to see if there were anyone that he could ask to take the missions. But to his surprise, there was no one.

”Huh… how am I supposed to take the missions then?” he wondered. He looked around to see what the other disciples were doing. Most of them were just standing near the boards doing nothing.

After a while, they would leave, which confused Alex even more.

He stopped one of the disciples that were leaving, and asked them,

”Hello brother. Can you please tell me how I can take these missions?”

The disciple looked back, and asked in a confused manner, ” is this your first time?”

”Yes, I only joined the sect today,” Alex answered without hesitation.

”Oh. It's very easy. Take your nameplate and put it on one of those holders there. You can choose up to 3 missions to take at once.” The disciple answered and left.

Alex looked towards the board once more, and this time saw multiple rectangular cutouts at the bottom of the board.

”Are those indentations for the nameplate?” he thought. He walked up to one of the open ones and put his nameplate in there. Suddenly, a panel appeared in front of him with all the different tasks available on the board.

For some reason, however, neither of the 2 tasks he wanted to take was on the task list. ”What's going on?” he wondered.

He searched for a few more minutes, but he still couldn't find one. Confused he decided to ask someone again.

He stopped a female disciple who was just leaving and asked,

”Hello sister, can I ask you a question?”

The girl seemed to be an outer sect disciple but had an air of elegance to her. She didn't seem to be much older than him but seemed very mature for her age.

”What do you want to ask junior brother?” she asked.

”You see, I wanted to take those 2 missions, but I can't find them anywhere when I put my nameplate in the carvings. Can you tell me what's wrong?” he asked while pointing to the 2 missions he wanted to take.

”Hmm… ” she turned to look at what the 2 missions he wanted to take were. When she finally saw the two tasks, she laughed a little.

”Of course, you won't find them, junior brother, they are permanent mission after all.” She said as if the information she just gave was a matter of fact.

”Permanent?” he looked confused.

”What? Don't tell me you have never seen a permanent mission before?” she asked. It was her time to be surprised.