Mission

"Great, now that this is done we can get to what I called you here for.", his mentors impatient voice broke him out of his thoughts.

"Now put your card on that location.", he then pointed on a small rectangle of slightly brighter crystal at the edge of the table.

Ivan followed his direction and as soon as he put down the card on the indicated spot the rest of the table lit up. It now displayed a menu with many disabled buttons. Only the button for missions and trading were enabled and shone in a slightly brighter light than the others.

Carl then reached out and pressed his finger on the mission button to open up another selection where he choose the 'Local' option.

He then explained, "Here you can take the same missions that you can take at the hall but it is much more comfortable."

He then entered some word into the search bar and selected one of the displayed missions.

"Take a look, that is the first mission I have selected for you."

'Hunting Mission, Rank F

Target: Hunt at least 10 Steelback Bears rank F and bring back their pelts.

Rewards: 10 CP for each pelt , up to 100 times

Additional rewards: 5 CP for each kg of bear paw'

He had looked through the prices at the Alliance Shop, so he knew that 10 CP wasn't really all that much but it would still be enough for someone to live of for a month. It was just that compared to living costs, the items used for training or fighting were much more expensive. For example a simple sword without any special effects would cost at least 100 CP. And that was only for one made from simple steel.

As for the extra rewards for extra pelts and bear paws he guessed that it was designed like this because while most members of the Alliance had larger inventories than common they would still not be so big that they could transport huge amounts of pelts or paws.

"What do you think?"

"It looks good but I don't know anything about Steelback Bears so I'm not sure."

Hearing his cautious words his mentor nodded in satisfaction. His student was careful enough to first check out the details before accepting the mission, which was what many others failed to do. Most mission failures came from the recipient not having collected all the available information and thus underestimating the difficulty of the mission.

On the screen the word 'Steelback Bear' was in a slightly different color which indicated that one could click on it to get some more information, which Ivan did without any hesitation.

'Steelback Bear

A monster belonging to the bear category. It gets his name from the pelt on his back, which is like steel. The color of its back pelt decides the rank of this bear. For rank F it is a dark gray which isn't much different from the color of the rest of his pelt. For rank E it is a light gray. For rank D it is white. For rank C it is silver. As for higher ranks it is speculated that the next ranks change to color towards golden but it hasn't been confirmed yet.'

Then a lot of other information followed, like habitats where it lives, what it hunts, when it reproduces and finally an overview of the skills it can use which were only two. One was a simple swipe of its claws which would cause invisible wind blades to shoot out along the swipe while the other was a roar which could influence surrounding beings so that they would lose their balance as well as being stunned for a short time.

At then end these bears were some of the most dangerous monsters in the vicinity of the capital as well as the most valuable. Not only could their pelts be used to make armor suitable for cold areas, their paws too were a delicacy which was highly sought after by the rich. Their claws too could be used to make low grade knifes and even though these could only be used for menial tasks they were still quite popular since they were much easier to be maintained than ones made of metal.

But to him the most interesting part was that some parts of it could be used for pill crafting. Even though he hadn't learned how to make ones until now, he had read a lot about pill crafting as instructed by his teacher, so he had an interest in collecting ingredients for when he would finally have learned how to craft them. He had checked the prices for some ingredients and was stunned by how high they were. Of course the parts of the bear that could be used as ingredients where of such a low grade that they didn't even have a rank so nobody would sell or buy them. But he knew of a simple pill receipt that required them and some common herbs which could too be found in the area the bears lived in. So when he saw the information he decided to give it a try since he would have nothing to lose and he really was fed up with not being able to use his theoretical knowledge of pill crafting.

His mentor had watched him read the information and was satisfied with the look of concentration on his students face. When he then looked up from the screen he saw his mentors questioning eyes on his.

"It looks good. It will be a good test of abilities, while not being to difficult. Not to mentioning that the rewards are not bad."

Hearing his students evaluation of the quest which was similar to his own he once again nodded.

"That's right. So go on and take the quest."

Ivan once again checked the quest to make sure that he didn't miss anything before pressing the accept button.