The Tales of Draconic Warlock

After the spar with Angela, I returned to my new quarters, which I like very much but I won't be able to enjoy them much as most of them are not at all useful for me. Moreover, I would pick a mission in the morning and that means I wouldn't be here to enjoy anything.

Even more so with the Nexus and the number of secret realms I have access to, I can recover much better than here. So it would be a waste to assign me such a place but it is what it is.

They don't know that I have a better place to train and recover. I can't blame them on that but as a fifth year, they should have expected that I may not live here most of the time. Maybe they did and the reason why they assigned our quarters in this area.

If they had done that in the first year, the improvement would have been much more than what it was. My status panel would have shown a different data than it is now.

Giving us these resources in the fifth year should be considered a waste. Most of the students would be away on missions and could not enjoy the benefits much.

Sure they would return to their quarters once in a while after their mission succeeds but that maybe only once a month. This was because the missions would give more points than for diving into a dungeon. Unless the dungeon is very high ranked, no one can enter many points through dungeons.
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This was because most awakened can enter and clear the low-ranking dungeons and that means the materials at that stage are abundant, even though those are in high demand. It means the items gained in those dungeons are not costly.

Low cost means fewer points that can be obtained from them. Low points mean that they can't progress further easily.

It would mean, they would not be here no matter how much they like to train here. To gain points they have to leave the academy.

For me, points may not be an issue but fourth and fifth-year students have to complete at least one mission in a year. So, even though I don't need the points, I need to complete a mission.

This was why I decided to be at the mission hall early in the morning. Sooner I complete the mandatory mission, the better. I can use the remaining time to improve my skills and rank.

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As usual, when I arrived at the mission hall, there were a lot of students in the hall. All of them are fourth and fifth years.

It looks like the third years are yet to be aware of the saying, Early Bird gets the Worm.

I know that there are no third-year students because the queue for third-year students is different from other students. So it would be easy to spot them and there were none.

I walked towards the mission board, where I could pick the mission. I am not looking for a mission that grants me more points, and my priority is to return quickly. So the best mission would be that would be over quickly and not far away from the capital.

With the presence of the Capital in the area, there won't be any major outbreaks near the capital, unless monster tides appear. Even then, the guards can easily take care of the small monster tides that appear near here.

Huh?

There is a collective mission for the fifth-year students. These are usually are but once in a while, they pop up. Most of the time, they are repetitive missions to collect herbs or other materials that are consumed a lot.

The thing was that this was a request to repel the monster tide.

I pulled out one of the pamphlets. There are a lot more nearby that gave similar information. So there was no need to worry that I was taking away the information and blocking others.

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The mission was regarding a monster tide that was going to happen in three days.

A large town known by the name Repest is going to face this disaster and so they sent requests for help. We are not the only ones that got this. Adventure guilds got them too. So there would be a lot of competition but there would also a lot of chances for improvement.

A monster tide means, a lot of EXP. It would help me to quickly increase my rank. The suspected monsters are to be in the rank up to Tier-6. Though hunting Tier-6 may not yield much EXP as I am at Tier-6 myself and also might expose my secrets, I have to accept this.

If there are Tier-6 then that means there are monsters that are lesser than Tier-6 and their number would be very high. If could clear these lower-level monsters, though individually they may only net me very small EXP as I already crossed their ranks, the collective EXP would help.

Moreover, I need to make a name for myself.

My targets would be up to tier 4. Though others might wonder how I did those, others may attribute that I trained my skills more than I did to increase my rank. It wouldn't be the first time it happened in such a manner.

There are others who concentrated on skills rather than rank when they were in the academies. This was because the academies have better equipment and once you graduate, you can't use them.

So they make better use of it, while they can.

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As I read the information, I was more than sure that this was the perfect mission for me. Though I may not become someone at the pinnacle in a single step but in taking a multitude of steps.

If I become one of the most recognized person by the time this monster tide ends, then that would be a plus for me. This could make it easier when I meet Angela's parents.

I mean they would surely check what I accomplished. Even if it would be a meagre tide, that would be more than enough for a student.

Moreover, the points that I gain depend on the monsters that I would be able to kill before the end of the tide. The more the monsters, the more points I would earn. The points distributed would also change depending on the quality of the monsters.

Having decided that I went to the counter to register for the mission.