THE MISSION CENTER

THE MISSION CENTER

As I walked toward the booths in the Mission Center, I recognized some of the apprentices that I defeated during the Audition for the Apprentice Conjurers. Their heads held low before me as I passed them, their looks filled with fear like they were greeting a demon.

However, not every apprentice in this place was afraid of me. They haven't been bullied by me yet.

"Who do you think you are, scum? The Mission Center is for people who come to cooperate on missions, not arrogant fools who want to show off their wealth", an apprentice shouted to me.

The whole Conjurer Court now knew that I was so powerful because I could afford expensive potions before my fights. I was fighting against the apprentices with money rather than skill.

"You don't deserve to see my wealth", I replied to him.

"Yes, this place is not for you. Nobody in their right mind will have you in their teams", another apprentice added and said to me.

"Who says we need to have teams to do these bloody missions?" I asked them.

Then one of the staff in one of the booths explained to me.

"The missions we offer are extremely dangerous, apprentices usually band together to complete them", he told me.

"Banding with fools like these, they will be a hindrance more than help", I replied to him as I pointed to those two who spoke to me for no reason earlier.

"How dare you?" one of them spoke as he charged toward me.

Before he reached me, he was struck and entangled by my magical rails. No matter how hard he tried, it was impossible for him to break from my rails.

"Ah... do you think I will come here to this bloody place where all you scums gather without taking a few expensive potions beforehand", I told the guy who was now hanging in the air.

"Release him now", the guy's friend asked me.

"This scum started to attack me first. Under the laws of the Conjurer Court, it is permissible to retaliate with at least one punch", I replied to him.

Suddenly, the guy who was hanging in the air pulled toward me with his legs opened wide.

"What the hell are you doing?" he screamed at me.

"I'll show you what a real Bully does, Eunuch", I replied to him before I struck him between his legs, shattering whatever that was there.

"Arrggghhhhhhh"

The guy screamed as I released him from my magical rails. 

He had to be carried away by his friends. The rest of the apprentices in the hall were shocked, even those senior apprentices who were much stronger than the newcomers.

"Nobody will band with you. You will never advance in the Conjurer Court", the other apprentice who picked a verbal fight with me scolded me.

"Give me all the missions that you have", I asked the guy manning the booth before me.

"You can only take one mission at a time", he told me.

"Says who?" I asked him back.

"That is the usual practice although it is not the rule", he replied to me.

"I don't follow your bloody rules and what more some stupid practices, give me all the missions", I insisted.

"Yeah, give him all the missions. He will have so many demerits that he will lose the only star on his Conjurer badge", the hostile guy said to me.

"If you insist", the guy manning the booth said to me as he scanned the vouchers in his hand with my Conjurer Badge, sealing a contract between us, before he said to me, "you must complete all these missions within one month's time".

"Fine", I replied to him before walking to the next booth and said to them, "I'll have all your missions", to their surprise and shock.

"If you insist", they replied to me again.

Soon, I've collected all the missions for the apprentices in the Mission Center and I have one month to complete them all.

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"Have you heard that this Bully of Starri city, single handedly took every mission that we offered in the Mission Center", one Master conjurer told the others in their regular meet.

"Are you sure? Doing one mission for an apprentice alone will be tough enough, he wants to do all of them. Who does this boy think he is?" Conjurer Ivior said to them.

"He is not banding with other apprentices for the mission too", another conjurer added.

"What is wrong with this guy? Does he want to advance to the rank of Conjurer immediately?" a third conjurer asked.

"I don't think he needs help from other apprentices if he has money", Conjurer Iras said to them.

"Why do you say so?" a conjurer asked him.

"This apprentice of our Supreme didn't bother to choose a reward from our vault like they were worthless to him", another conjurer added.

"Is he that wealthy?" Conjurer Ivior asked.

"He destroyed the Mithridocus family in Tarah city and took hundreds of millions Aur from them, do you think he is short of wealth and treasures", Conjurer Iras asked them.

"He may be rich, but he is still an Earth tier", Conjurer Ivior said to them.

"He has the Medicine Affinity. The Medicine Affinity templar will grow powerful temporarily after taking gathering magic potions but most of the magic goes into his temporary transformation, leaving little for his templar magic to grow, which explains why this Bully of Starri's magic is still so weak despite all the potions he took", Conjurer Iras explained to them.

"No wonder he is a big snob", a conjurer added.

"A high tiered potion costs millions of Aur each and that wouldn't last longer than a day's use for him.", someone added.

"He is wealthy, and his wealth is his talent", Conjurer Iras replied to them.

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For days, we prepared a magic arraye in a clearing outside of Kaleon town.

"What is this magic arraye?" Raven asked Sara.