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Usually guilds hand out missions and rewards like the adventurers guild in novels, but in Edea the Sects works as guilds in the same manner, from monster hunting, to escort mission, to pill making, and many other miscellaneous jobs the sects does it all. The most popular among sect missions these day are bounty hunting, the dangers and risk are high but the rewards are great. Sect, missions, adventurer guilds, sounds like Fairy Tail in a nutshell.

Since Zed is in charge of ten servants the first thing he did was get ready for the day and and went the the Resources exchange building to make some more money, sure he already has gold coins enough to last several years, but it's the principle of the matter that counts. The resources exchange building is where one can do sect jobs as well exchange valuable items for sect points. These can come in monster carcass, monster core, pills exchange, and many others can be exchanged for sect points which can then be exchange for rare items, rare techniques and rare concocting pills and recipe to rare monster beasts.

I glanced at the mission board, what I need right now is a monster hunting quest, specifically a repeatable one. Goblins extermination is out, slime hunting is too far, boar hunting is no good, what's this, Piyo hunting? It's repeatable too.

From what the description of Piyo was is that it is a low level red bird magic beast that can cast low level fire magic, it can't fly and can only walk and run, basically a magic chicken. Their habitat is located at mount Suzaku. Their egg is nutritious and their adult carcass contains small magic stones and it's meat is delicious, they are favorite among outer disciples but the biggest trait the Piyo have is their breeding, they breed all year long and their eggs hatch within a day and their maturation is one week.

Mt. Suzaku is basically infested with them, the mission proof this time is to bring the carcass of a Piyo, young Piyo carcass can be exchanged for 5 sect points, and adult Piyo can be exchanged for 25 sect points while an egg Piyo can be exchange for 50 sect points due to its fast growing trait. Most sect disciples uses a stasis talisman which can be exchanged for 25 sect points to get the Piyo's eggs. Piyos are notoriously cowardly and will run the moment one is seen. Due to the nature of of this mission outer disciples usually team up in this mission

This is the perfect mission for me. I forgot to tell you that I had gotten a new skill I didn't use before, which was perfect for this mission.

Skill:

Card formation level 1- uses cards as catalyst to cast an array formation the larger the the number of catalyst the the larger the effect and range the formation array. The higher the level the larger types of array formation can be used.

Sub-skill:

Card Sealing formation level 1- Seals territory to prevent escape. Current consumption, 1 card is equal to one meter seal territory, 500 durability.

Since I was using this mission as a cover to collect monster cards this is the perfect opportunity for me.

It took a while two hour horse ride from the sect to Mt. Suzaku. The foot of the mountain were filled with small villages filled with shops and facilities, there were many small villages that represent their respective sect, an outpost if you will. It didn't take long where I saw the Uchiha sect banner and entered the village. The guard guarding the village entrance who saw my Uchiha sect robe didn't bother me, from what I heard, each villages has a respective toll fee as each village has different specialties and products that came from their sect for business. Inside the Uchiha village there was a popular facility called the teleportation array, I could have used this array to travel from the Uchiha sect to here but that would attract too much attention as it costs ten gold coins or ten low spirit stones to activate it. I gave a quick glance at the facility and went onwards to the side of the mountain. From here it is a Dog eat world which basically means its lawless. With how big Mt. Suzaku is, nobody would think how many lives were lost here, there is another reason why this mountain is called mount Suzaku beside the Piyo regarded to be close to the legendary phoenix, it is to test the mettle of each sect disciples with the chaotic conflict here, only those who survive can be reborn as a strong disciple just like the phoenix concept.

"Friend, wanna team up?" Were many disciples shouting left and right.

"I'm sorry, but I'm actually here to test myself." I explained to them in a calm manner.

"I see." Were the response of the many sect disciples that I refused.

After the sight of Zed's body is no longer within vision the disciples quickly turned into a different tune

"How arrogant, how dare he not give me face, quick follow him and teach him a lesson."

"Fool, only an amature would accept this mission alone, what's the use of us following him, he probably won't get much Piyo and the danger increases along with many other sect disciples here, even if we don't trouble him, others will do it for us, it's like borrowing another's knife to kill him." Explained the boss disciple.

"Boss is so smart, come let us go on our own hunt."

Meanwhile, as I walked farther away I decided to run towards the deeper part of the mountain to avoid unnecessary trouble although the Piyo's there are stronger but I estimate that it is no match for me. I ran in a normal pace which is fast by normal standards, I quickly notice many people running behind me, it is as I expected, but I had that in my calculation. I ran for thirty minutes more towards the top of the mountain, my pursuers already gave up in the first ten minutes of following me. I arrived at a decent spot where I saw a gathering of Piyo's from a distance I then activated my card sealing formation and inserted fifty cards as the skill activated to form a sealing formation of fifty meters.

"It's show time, I said as summoned 2 red slime 2 blue slime and 2 holy slime. Now you must be wondering where I got those extra slimes, it's simple, most of you may have noticed that slimes can divide itself in increase its number in games, well it turned out to be true, when my slimes reach level one hundred they automatically produce a copy of itself with the same skills as the original, this is known as transcendence skill.

With the help of my slimes of very high levels and the card sealing formation I quickly turned many Piyo's into cards, it took 3 hours and I harvested a sum of 1000 Piyo's cards, and 150 Piyo's eggs stored in my inter-spacial storage skill which acts as a stasis talisman substitute.

Since I the had time, I then used card item conversion and acquired 3000 low regeneration pills, that's right my card conversion is at a high level now that there's no more failure and I get bonus items instead, as for the low regeneration pills here's its effect, restores fifty energy or health points every 20 seconds for ten minutes. I was satisfied with my haul. I headed back to the Uchiha village, along the way I encountered many bullies who who wanted my harvest my stuff, but luck was on my side as I turned the tables around and got their harvest instead, by the time I arrived at the Uchiha village the spoils I gathered turned into quite a considerate sum, I then exchanged 300 adult Piyo's carcass which were the spoils I obtained that in turn which netted me 7500 sect points, since there were 300 adult Piyo's carcass, then there is also 300 low monster core that came from the Piyo's, each low monster core cost 25 sect points which gained me another 7,500 sect points. curious I checked the rewards points needed for the cultivation breakthrough pills.

Elementary Profound Realm pill- helps breakthrough to this realm by 60%- 500 sect points.

Nascent Profound Realm pill-helps breakthrough to this realm by 60%- 2,000 sect points.

True Profound Realm pill- helps breakthrough to this realm by 50%- 6,000 sect points.

Spirit Profound Realm pill- helps breakthrough to this realm by 50%- 18,000 sect points.

Earth Profound Realm pill- helps breakthrough to this realm by 50%- 54,000 sect points.

The higher reals such as Sky Profound Realm, Emperor Profound Realm, Tyrant Profound Realm, Sovereign Profound Realm, Divine Profound Realm and Saint Profound Realm pills are simply not included as the the ingredient to make their pills are exaggeratingly expensive that they are hoarded jealously by the the sect and some does not posses it at all due to rarity.

Meanwhile the points needed for the spiritual stones where.

Low grade spirit stones- 10 sect points.

Medium grade spirit stone- 100 sect points.

High grade spirit stone- 1,000 sect points.

Finished with what I had been browsing I then headed back to the Uchiha sect and rode my horse that I had parked at the Uchiha sect stable.

Due the the many cards I spent during that card skill formation my skills leveled up and gained new skills. I just didn't expect it to be many and useful to boot.

Skill:

Card formation level 6- uses cards as catalyst to cast an array formation the larger the the number of catalyst the the larger the effect and range the formation array. The higher the level the larger types of array formation can be used.

Sub-skills:

Card Sealing formation level 6- Seals territory to prevent escape. Current consumption, 1 card is equal to six meter seal territory, 3500 durability.

Card Bewilderment formation level 1- Creates territory to make an illusion formation. Current consumption, 1 card is equal to one meter seal territory, 500 durability.

Card Barrier formation level 1- creates territory and makes a [defense] barrier, higher level can apply different types of barrier. Current consumption, 1 card is equal to one meter seal territory, 500 durability.

Card Concealment formation level 1- Creates territory to hide movement inside the territory from prying eyes. Current consumption, 1 card is equal to one meter seal territory, 500 durability.

Card dungeon formation level 1- Creates territory to make a dungeon filled with monsters. Current level of territory is equal to one meter for one card.

Dungeons available:

-Empty

-Slime

Card escape formation level 1- uses cards to stimulate energy needed to attack formations to break it. Current level attack power 1,000.

I didn't expect to obtain such a big harvest that I didn't notice I was drooling at the thought of the slime dungeon monsters although it is a nerfed version, still it will be quite an investment.

I'm finally going back in slime action baby.


Authors Note: OMG today hits the 10k word mark, usually my fics don't survive that long to reach more than 10k words. It's sad but true.