Chapter 335 The Notice That Shocked Galatia (Part 1)
Chapter 335 The Notice That Shocked Galatia (Part 1)
Inside of the spaceship, Aster played with a spatial ring, the one which contained Daniel's corpse to be more accurate.
"What is the standing of the sect regarding evil sects?".
Agnes who returned from explaining the situation to the freed girls, was helping Lilia set the coordinates to the border station of Tellaria, stopped what she was doing and turned to see Aster.
"We don't meddle with them as long as they stay out of our stellar system, but if they come looking for problems, our Black Sword faction isn't afraid of anyone".
"In fact, to reach the highest spots of the Heavenly Rankings, disciples must participate in a mission which involves clashing against those guys, either extermination or escort type, there are also rewards for some of the most known members of the young generations of evil sects".
Agnes seemed to hesitate for a split of a second, before she added.
"If you want to hunt them that's fine but don't do it alone, they always have a protector accompanying them".
Aster nodded, before saying.
"What's the reward for the someone called Daniel from the Ludic Domination sect?".
Agnes took out a small book from her spatial ring and leafed through it, until she found a division with an emblem which consisted in the figure of a crowned man.
The book didn't have a picture, but the names Daniel and Julius were listed on it and the descriptions fitted them, so once Agnes showed Aster the page of the book, he was sure those were the ones they fought before.
"The second son of the patriarch and one of the vice leaders of an evil sect, it's not a bad catch for your first mission darling~", Lilia who peeked over Aster's shoulder pointed at the page on Agnes's book as she took out the spatial ring, she stole form Julius which had the same design.
Agnes's eyes sparkled as she remembered a moment when Lilia suddenly disappeared, then the next thing she knew was that there were disturbations on the atmosphere of the New Moon planet, followed by loud thunders who seemed to sound far away from them.
"Only the higher echelons of the evil sects wear things with their emblems, that means...".
Agnes gazed at Lilia, from the very beginning she knew there was something strange about her, the cultivation she has shown so far which was at the peak of the Void Manipulation realm, didn't seem to be her limit.
'Somehow when I'm near miss Lilia, it feels as if I'm looking at big sister... but that doesn't make sense, besides a few exceptions, Heavenly realm cultivators can't enter Galatia', she thought as she inwardly shook her head, before she handed her book to Aster.
"If you defeat anyone in the pages of this book, then you can claim the reward at counter on the third floor of the mission hall, unfortunately for those special rewards I can't act as your warrant, you'll have to show a physical proof of it".
Aster accepted the book and thanked Agnes, which earned him a bright smile from her.
"No problem, I had some fun too, so if you don't mind, I'll tag along in your next missions~".
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The rest of the travel was pretty much calm, they arrived at the border station and used the private gate after showing the register of the mission to the guards, to return to the neutral city.
And after a couple of hours, Lilia's spaceship arrived at the neutral city, which normally wouldn't have drawn so much attention as many spaceships transited through the private dimensional tunnel.
But this was for sure the first time they saw a sea of girls coming out of a spaceship.
"Woah, whoever owns that spaceship surely knows how to enjoy life".
"Those disciples from the Green Lotus faction, how weird their transports are always labeled with their emblem and also use green colors to decorate them".
The crowd's interest was caught as they saw Dahlia and the other girls coming out of the spaceship, and their whispers just increased as Aster and the others also did the same, before Lilia kept her spaceship in her spatial ring.
Seeing that there were women from other minor sects and even some mortals, the guards were about to question Aster, but the old man who opened the gat for him earlier, stopped them from doing so.
"Look at your registers you fools, the mission that kid had, involved saving hostages from the Dry Bone bandits", he lectured them.
Ignoring the crowd, Agnes separated them girls in different groups, since Daniel demanded for them to not be touched, their rings were still on them so they could prove their identities and be sent away to their respective sects and planets.
A guard was tasked with leading them to the respective area designated for that, but before they left, as if they previously discussed they all turned to see Aster and presented their respects.
"Thanks for saving us senior brother Aster, if you ever go to the Sea Melody sect, I'll be more than happy to entertain you~".
"Mary from the Green Sky dome sect, thanks this senior brother for his help, should you ever pay the sect a visit, just ask for me".
Some of the girls who felt confident enough, presented themselves and the forces they belonged to, before leaving while others simply thanked him and ran away like scared rabbits.
Aster could feel a couple of gazes from Alice and the girls piercing him, as well as the jealous and envy from the bystanders and he didn't know whether he should laugh or cry.
The female population admired the girls who entered the Myriad Occupation sect, but in comparison they often didn't pay attention to the men who did, because they always held low ranked positions since their limit was to be an inner disciple, they had lower exposure since they couldn't participate in the most important events in collaboration with other sects too.
The only ones who stayed behind were the girls from the Green Lotus sect, after a couple of seconds the younger girls left to meet their respective friends or family and only Dahlia remained.
"I'm going to the center capital since my aunt has a store there, and I already told her I'm here so she is waiting for me at the mission hall".
Aster nodded, there were two steps to claim the rewards of a mission, first show a proof of it, which was covered thanks to Agnes acting as a witness, with that, the monetary reward would be in Aster's bag, but for the contribution points to be awarded, the one who issued the mission as well as the one in charge of the counter had to mark the mission as completed.
As they walked towards the portal to descend to the Battle Peak's planet, Aster noticed a couple of ill intent gazes on him, but they disappeared not too long after he felt them, still he paid too much attention to it.
A few seconds later they all entered the portal and appeared at the center capital, it didn't take Aster and the others too much time to arrive at the mission hall.
As soon as they arrived a woman in the first floor rushed towards Dahlia and hugged her, while little tears formed on the corner of her eyes.
"You little girl, do you know how worried I was".
Dahlia remained silent and just returned the hug to the woman, until she felt a bit ashamed.
"Ahem, aunt, you still need to mark the mission as completed".
The elder Helena regained her composure and nodded, before she turned to see Aster.
"You are the rumored core disciple... thanks for bringing Dahlia back safe, let's go with Angela to complete the mission, then I'll tell you the options for the extra reward".
Aster nodded, and he went straight to the third floor, followed by Agnes and Helena, unlike the first floor which was the most concurred, the third one was pretty much empty with the exception of a few people here and there looking at the missions, or completing their own missions.
The line wasn't long so a couple of minutes later, Angela caught a glimpse of Aster and she was surprised to see him, while she sees a lot of people on a daily basis, it's impossible to not remember the sole male core disciple.
But the was also confused as it hasn't been too much time since Aster accepted his mission, which led her to think he failed or wanted to cancel it, until she saw Helena standing next to him.
Aster showed his ring to her and his next words confirmed her assumption.
"I'm here to complete my mission, the whole Dry Bone bandit crew was eliminated and all the hostages found were freed, including the disciples from the Green Lotus faction".
Angela nodded with a bright smile.
"Do you have the required proof or an inner elder acting as your warrant?".
It was time for Agnes to step in, she showed Angela her identity token.
"I participated as the supervisor, and give my consent to complete the mission with the best grade, as there were no loses on our side".
Angela then looked at the elder Helena who agreed with Agnes.
"As the issuer I'm also convinced of the result, please mark the mission as fulfilled".
Angela nodded, she took out a small spherical object from below the counter and asked Aster to place his hand on it, which he did, then the sphere reflected the number of the mission and Angela took out her token of authority.
The number disappeared from Aster's ring and the sphere at the same time, and then she handed Aster a small card with the number 10 million.
"You can retrieve the monetary reward from any of the treasury offices in the whole territory of the sect... since this is your first mission, I took the liberty to create the card for you, just mark it with a drop of your blood and it will be linked to you, so no one can use it, as for the points of contribution they are already awarded, congratulations on your new rank".
"Oh?", Aster was positively surprised to see the sect adopting a "bank" like system for the monetary rewards, it was a good idea since the rewards were quite big for some missions, and they couldn't just be giving spatial rings filled with spirit jades to all the disciples, every time they completed a mission.
Aster took the card and kept it in his ring to mark it later, the monetary reward didn't mean too much, since he got Daniel's ring would pay off more than that.
He took out the book Agnes gave him and opened it on the page where Daniel's description was written.
"I also happened to meet this guy; can you tell me what the reward is?", for some reason the reward wasn't written on the book and you had to ask about it directly at the mission hall.
As Angela was about to answer, a mocking voice interrupted her.
"Who are you trying to impress here kid, all the people in that book are at least Star Tribulation cultivators, from high ranked stellar systems, if you were to meet one of them, you wouldn't be here bluffing".
Aster turned around to see the "newcomer", who was accompanied by two guys with a black blazer with red sword emblems on them.
"You are the idiots who were glaring at me earlier, but who is that clown standing next to you?".
"What did you say!", the third person, a woman who seemed to be in her thirties gritted her teeth after listening to Aster insulting her.
Agnes raised an eyebrow after looking at the woman closely, she recognized some characteristics akin to the Stal family.