88 A Journey III (1/2)

Their task was to search for what was reported to be 'a once in a lifetime treasure'

Apparently it was some sort herb, 9 Reincarnating Flower

A flower said to go through an aching process of 9 years for each blooming process.

The first process will allow the flower to bloom into a single flower before releasing a seed that will grow into a flower with 2 buds, etc, etc.

They were given a time limit of one week to find such a flower but in the end... they never found it.

Alexander was always tasked with having to write the report and he couldn't help but shed tears every time both Dean and Ellis would reject him.

He was always the one who had to explain their circumstances while writing embarrassing words in order to curry favor with the people higher up the ladder.

It was very difficult to come up with new phrases or more original words that would allow the higher ups to give mercy on their group.

In most scenarios, they were supposed to have a high percentage rate in completing their missions however that only applied to killing things.

Sometimes, Dean would have to give a moment to himself to not cry at how badly his two teachers were struggling, but they were always able to laugh it off.

An example when they were told to harvest Hazy Leaves from a tree.

One was supposed to slowly pry open the leaves as they tended to be curled up and then pluck the leaf off of the tree.

The two geniuses next to Dean usually were impatient at the slow rate and when it was so close for the leaf being all the way open, they would ruthlessly pluck it.

They looked proud when holding the leaf in their hand before slowly crying at the realization the leaf was slowly crumbling away.

This was a mechanism built into the Hazy Leaves mechanism so that when their leaves fell, the spores attached to them would be carried by the wind for survival.

Dean found that the origin for the name, Hazy Leaf was due to the fact that the founder liked to impress people when the leaf would crumble and seem like an illusion.

Reminded of the time they had spent on just plucking those leaves, Dean had to sigh.

In the end, they were never given another harvesting job but instead acted as scouts to look for those items and marking it on the map for the next generation.

Obviously they had failed to find such an object but Alexander still marked the places they were absolutely sure they couldn't find.

Once they had rested enough and given information to the school, they immediately received the next mission.

However Dean was able to learn why the school was going through a pandemic with that gloomy aura he noticed.

From what he had heard from Ellis, it seemed the school was going through a cleansing and repairing.