Chapter 6: A Reliable Magician
The most important part of the second floor of the guild is the advanced quest release room. This room is located in www.biquge.info the center of the floor, and it is also the largest room, but the layout of the room is extremely simple, and the huge room has nothing else except a task board in the center, and it seems extremely empty. And there are only a few task lists on the task board that is exactly the same as downstairs, which is in stark contrast to the dense documents on the first floor, which is a bit bleak.
However, even though he had been to this room many times, Woz could not help but exude a solemn and solemn expression. For no one knew better than him what this room represented, and the atmosphere here was completely different from the lively atmosphere in the hall downstairs, but it was more accurate to describe it as majestic and solemn than empty and bleak.
Because the few task lists in front of me are all difficult to imagine for ordinary people, representing the highest level of S-class tasks in the entire wizarding world!
Generally speaking, the quests issued by the Council of Magic are only roughly divided into two types: S-class and S-class. If ordinary tasks are the foundation that supports the existence of a guild, then S-level tasks determine the highest level that a guild can reach. Only those who can complete S-class tasks can be called first-class guilds. S-Class missions mean "tasks that ordinary magicians can't do".
In Fairy Tail, only magicians who have been approved by the president and passed the annual promotion assessment are eligible to take on tasks of this difficulty, and such magicians are also called S-rank magicians, that is, "magicians who can complete tasks that ordinary magicians cannot". And Woz is a magician known as S, and in a sense, he is still the most powerful. That's why President Makarov often gives Woz tasks that are quite difficult even in S-class missions.
In front of the mission board, President Makarov and Woz stood silently.
Woz glanced at the few S-Class quests and saw that there was nothing that he urgently needed to complete.
"What's the matter, President, can you finally get me on a ten-year mission?" Waz asked in a joking tone.
"I remember you once said that when the new generation of guilds grows up, it will usher in unprecedented troubled times. Makarov said suddenly.
"No, that's just a joke, you know I've traveled a lot of places, and I've never seen so many potential scary kids in the guild, so I said it casually...... After all, not having a stage that is exciting enough always feels like a waste of these children's abilities. Woz hurriedly explained, he didn't expect the old man to have such a good memory, and he still remembers what he said casually years ago.
"You don't have to explain anything, Fairy Tail everyone has their own secrets, and it seems to me that you just know a little more. Makarov waved his hand, "As you said, I also feel that the world is starting to be in turmoil, albeit only by inexplicable intuition. ”
"So, what's there for me to do?" Waz thought for a moment, "Kildas needs support over there, I don't look down on my uncle, it's just that that mission is really not something that people can do." ”
"You, do you always treat everyone in our guild as children, and have more confidence in everyone, and Kildas is better than you, right?" Makarov pouted, "Don't underestimate our magicians, don't you know best?"
Woltz smiled wryly and said, "No way, life is always fragile." ”
"That's why we came together, formed guilds, and became strong. Makarov shook his head, "Forget it, let's not talk about it, it's an urgent commission from the Council, and it's the price of all the trouble we have done." He pulled a task sheet out of his bosom.
Woz took it and glanced at it, knowing in his heart: "Didn't you let me go on a ten-year mission?
"Just suspicion, a large area of forest is dead, let you investigate...... But what you said also makes sense, this is not a mandatory task, you can refuse. ”
"It's not easier than Kildas's, if it's really the one who caused it...... I went. Waz accepted without hesitation.
Makarov was not surprised, and asked lightly: "Aren't you afraid?"
"Are there any cowardly people in our guild? Besides, I've wanted to do a ten-year mission for a long time, and you haven't let me let it? The actual difficulty of this mission is not certain, if it's really Jelf, I am the only one in the guild who can contact it, right?" Woz said confidently, "Besides, the chance of encountering Jelf is very small, isn't it, otherwise, you won't let me go easily." ”
Makarov nodded: "The possibility of Gerf himself is basically ruled out, but you can't be careless, be careful all the way." ”
"Well, I'm going. Wadsz walked away with ease, seemingly unconcerned about the inexplicable task.
In fact, this kind of sudden situation is not the first time Wox has encountered it. As a veteran magician, and also an S-class magician, Woz has not completed as many S-class tasks as Elusa and Laxus, and even Mira Jenny, who has been silent for two years, is at the same number level as him. But in the guild, Woz is still recognized as the first person of the new generation, and even if the conditions are released to the whole guild, he is only the third person below Makarov and Kirdas. In other words, Woz's merits are not entirely reflected by S-class tasks, in contrast, Wolds deals more with this kind of special commission, and even S-class tasks are mostly directly assigned by the president.
As mentioned before, S-class mages are the pillars of a guild, and the S-class tasks they complete ultimately determine the status of the guild;
In 778, after a lapse of 19 years, the 17-year-old Laxus finally passed the promotion assessment and became the second S-class magician in the guild at that time, and then led by Laxus, the new generation of S-class magicians who opened the fairy tail blowout; in 779, Woz was promoted to S-class, about 17 years old; in 780, Elusa passed the assessment to become an S-class magician at the lowest age in the guild's history at the age of 15;In 781, Mira Jenny was promoted to only 16 years old;In 782, the 18-year-old Mister Hill was promoted...... Someone has passed the promotion assessment for five consecutive years, which has almost instantly expanded the high-level strength of the guild, changing the embarrassing situation of relying on Kildas alone to support the guild.
Among these new generations, Laxus is too rebellious and has a disagreement with President Makarov, and almost leads his subordinates to Thor to form his own faction, Mister Gang is too mysterious and always acts alone, and is very unsociable, Mira Jenny has temporarily lost her combat effectiveness due to personal reasons, and Elusa is the only one who is considered to be in line with people's perception of S-class ace magicians, so she has become the most dignified person in the guild.
As for Woz, he was too low-key, and for a long time kept a mystic and solitary act like Milsterhead, and only began to reside in the guild in the last two years.
Moreover, the biggest difference between Woz and other S-class mages is that Woz is a trump card directly under the command of President Makarov! If you only talk about S-class tasks, Woz can only be said to be mediocre in terms of the number of tasks, but he is the person who receives the most direct commissions from the president.
This kind of entrustment is often directly issued by the Senate, and the difficulty is above that of ordinary tasks, but there is great uncertainty and cannot be characterized as S-level tasks...... It's often dealing with unexpected events, or unknown events that are too mysterious. In short, it can be seen as a lucky draw-style mission, and if you are lucky, it will be very simple, and on the contrary, you may surpass the so-called S-class mission to reach the legendary "ten-year" level.
To deal with such a task, it is not enough to rely on superior strength, and the new generation does not have enough experience to navigate such a complex situation...... In addition to Woz, relying on his unique word magic, Woz has more magic reserves than people can imagine, enough to make up for the decades of experience gap with the predecessors of the previous generation.
So, after Wodds took over these special commissions, Kirdas was finally liberated and headed straight for the "centennial" mission. And Woz did even better, so much so that when the Council had a similar commission, he threw it directly to Fairy Tail instead of the Kingdom's First Guild, the "Ghost Dominator".
Therefore, it can be said that half of Fairy Tail's voice within the council is due to Woz's active performance. It can also be thought that the reason why Fairy Tail has been in trouble everywhere in the mission, but has always been let go by the Senate with a blind eye, and Woz's constant acceptance of the Senate's troublesome commissions to brush up on the positive score is also indispensable.
The goblins in the guild also know this to some extent, so they will be even more unscrupulous, just because everyone believes in Woz's strength and believes that he can offset everyone's "negative scores" by himself. In this regard, Woz is the most reliable person in the guild!
As always, accepting a commission of unknown difficulty, Woz did not waver in the slightest, completely unaffected by the possible encounter with Jelf, and simply turned away. This kind of calmness is also an important quality in dealing with unknown orders.
In the S-class mission acceptance room on the second floor, Makarov stood alone in the room, frowning: "Gerald's commission, he, does he have any intentions? The councillor who always says good things for us, the youngest Saint Ten Magus in history, always feels that he wants to use us to get something......"