Chapter 257: The Highest Paying Quest Ever?
"Hehe~ Okay, Soma! Keep working hard, and the person who will carry forward the trick of water cutting in the future will definitely fall on you! β
Soma smiled shyly and didn't answer. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Kako, on the other hand, was a little depressed, and I couldn't do anything about it. The cultivation of illusion, I didn't know anything about it, and I cultivated to the point of Xiangzi, which is also difficult for outsiders to get started, what she needs now is more experience and a fuller understanding of human nature, which is not a problem that can be solved in a short time, so I have to pretend not to see it.
Jingle Bell's eyes are blazing, obviously hoping to continue to grow stronger like Soma. In fact, I have always wondered why she has such a high fighting spirit, but after all, the intersection time is very short, and some questions are difficult to talk about, so I can only do what I can within the scope of not violating the bottom line of certain interests and within my ability.
However, as I became more aware of the difference between Clankbell and Bell (and the most important thing was, I didn't know why she was different), I wasn't in a hurry to show her my success, I always felt that something was wrong.
Three generations have said, "The greatest power of a ninja is not obtained after learning all ninjutsu, but only when he protects his most precious things." "So, every time I develop a new technique, I show it to others, this doesn't seem to be a good habit~!
Since there was an agreement with Clank, I wouldn't bring it up again until she had done what I had requested. So, with a simple smile, the matter is over.
Soma had proved that his body had fully recovered, so I took Miko-chan to Tsunade for a new mission.
Tsunade now knew very well that my first reaction to a quest would be to see how it would pay, so after rummaging through the many quests, I picked out one that suited me: Finding the Primordial Fire.
What is this Primordial Fire?
Through studying with Haranosuke, I have a little understanding of the way of refining weapons in this world, and I have seen some strange and unknown things, but I have never heard of this name.
Take a closer look at the list of tasks, which reads: "Within the oppressed mountains, in the deepest depths of the earth, in the brilliant gems, there are the most blazing and luminous particles of fire that existed forever at the time of creation. β
Except for this sentence, everything else about the task is unknown.
Due to the lack of an exact location where the mission can be carried out, the unpredictable dangers that may be encountered during the mission, and the fact that even the name and identity of the mission's client are all hidden, this mission is designated as an S-class, and it is an S-class mission without any time limit.
"......" means that I can take on this task and do other tasks at the same time?
However, it looks like Tsunade won't allow me to do that~!
"As far as I know, other ninja villages have received similar tasks, and our nearest ally, the Sand Hidden Ninja Village, has sent a copy of the task list: Find the Wind of Origin - among the peaks of the cliffs, in the farthest reaches of the sky, in the treetops of the moonlit night, there are the freest and most elegant particles of the wind that existed forever at the time of creation, and gather them to become the Wind of Origin. So, although it is an indefinite task, the speed and quality of completion reflect the strength of Ninja Village to a certain extent, so I ask you to do your best to complete it! β
Seeing Tsunade's expression of refusal to admit defeat, I had no choice but to accept this arrangement with a sigh.
"Moreover, while completing it, if you have the spare strength, I hope you can also help the Alliance's Sand Hidden and Cloud Hidden Ninja Villages find the corresponding mission clues, and at the same time, try your best to find out the purpose of the mission client." Tsunade said this, frowning: "Such a task is really a bit weird, and at the same time, the people of the five major ninja villages are dispatched to search for unknown items corresponding to the five elements, and it is such a high reward......"
"That...... How much is the honorarium? I cautiously interrupted Tsunade. Actually, I was most concerned about this issue, but it was not written on the task list......
"Huh? The first ninja village to complete the task will receive 10 million taels of silver, the second ninja village will be 5 million, and after that, 2 million, 1 million and 500,000 respectively. Tsunade's eyes were clear, so he looked at me so fixedly, and said in his heart, I'm not afraid that you won't take the bait~!
"And me and my teammatesβ?"
"I can only give you a maximum of 1 million taels, this ...... I'm so sorry. Tsunade shrugged helplessly. There is an upper limit on the distribution of tasks in the system, and in some small ninja villages, ninjas are completely unable to get the remuneration for the task, and their income is allocated through the unified salary of the village. In this regard, relatively speaking, Konoha has done a very fair and democratic job. Depending on the level and actual difficulty of the task, ninjas who accept the task and complete it can receive 50%-80% of the commission fee, however, there is an upper limit to this number, which is 1 million taels, and the part that exceeds this upper limit will be returned to the village.
Although I have long had a full understanding of this system, when I thought of the ratio of 1000 and 100, I still pouted helplessly, and began to doubt whether it was necessary for me to mobilize the greatest subjective initiative, after all, if I was the last to complete the task, there might be 400,000 taels in hand.
"However, if you can complete my two additional requirements, I can post them to you as official quests, and you'll be paid for two additional A-rank quests!" Tsunade seemed to have been prepared for this, and said such things without thinking.
Are you tempting me...... I squinted, but it was still necessary to take the bait......
"Okay, I know, I'll do my best!"
After receiving the task, he agreed to have a pre-war meeting at the barbecue restaurant for dinner, and sent them home to prepare their own meals. This time, it's going to be a long game, and I have a lot to think about.
The three children are also very excited, after all, the remuneration this time is too huge, according to past experience, I am still very fair in the handling of the honorarium, I will never monopolize or occupy more because of my status as a teacher and captain, and will always distribute it proportionally according to the amount of personal effort - of course, the high-level tasks they can participate in are really few, so there are few opportunities to make money.
Following the instructions on the quest list, we first need to obtain the particles of fire "in the repressed mountains, in the deepest depths of the earth's heart, in the brilliant gems", and then gather them to become the source fire.
Then "within the repressed mountains" should refer to volcanic lava, and "the deepest part of the earth's core" should refer to the magma in the center of the earth, but how to understand "among the brilliant gems"? Even if I understand the third point, if I look at the second point, it is already unattainable. In the center of the earth, neither the pressure nor the temperature can be tolerated by humans, right?
Furthermore, if the mission is really as simple as it sounds, then I haven't found any "particles of fire" that I haven't been exposed to, whether it's volcanic lava or brilliant gems. If there is no way to see it, how can it be collected?
After thinking about it for a day, I even missed lunch, and it wasn't until the agreed meeting time that I had to go to the barbecue restaurant.
As a result, Sanxiao was also at a loss, but he made a somewhat constructive suggestion, that is, we went to Haranosuke to ask if we knew anything about this so-called "Origin Fire" and other related concepts.
They don't say it, in fact, I have this idea, but I hesitate whether to teleport directly or walk on two legs......
But thinking about the huge reward that may be obtained for completing the mission first, I don't care about wasting precious teleportation stones, and I plan to set off tomorrow and directly take the Kotokui family as the first stop of the mission.
"No more tomorrow, teacher (captain)! We're all set! Let's go now! "The three little ones all look impatient.
In this case, I didn't care about the inconvenience that rashly coming to the door might cause to the master, so I took the three children back to my dormitory, and opened the portal and went to Xingdejing's house.
Haranosuke was a little numb to my frequent visits during this time, and there was no surprise at all, so he welcomed us into the mountain gate.
"Oh? Primal fire? "Hearing my general description of the mission, Haranosuke's eyes lit up.
It seems that there is going to be a breakthrough~! I said to myself, pulled out the task list and handed it over.
When Yuan Nosuke was about to take a closer look, he suddenly frowned, sighed lightly, shook his left hand, threw the task list in the air, and the five fingertips of his right hand lit up in turn, and with a move in the air, a pentagram quickly appeared, from small to large, shrouding the paper inside, and at the same time his left hand kept pinching the seal, punching into the five sharp corners of the pentagram, when the stars in the five directions were all lit up, the pentagram began to shrink slowly, and finally disappeared in the paper.
ββ¦β¦οΌβ I don't know why.
"......" Haranosuke didn't speak, he took the task list and looked at it over and over for a long time, and then he hit the law seal on the left and right, and the corners of my mouth twitched.
"Yoyo!" Just when both of us were in a trance, and the room was quiet, Haranosuke suddenly raised his head and called my name, fortunately I was sitting on the ground, otherwise I would have fallen.
"Huh!?"
"How did you get this piece of paper? What happened after that until you handed it over to me? Haranosuke looked very serious.
"I first saw it from the Hokage's fifth generation Tsunade-sama, and immediately got this task list, carefully browsed it, handed it to the three small ones to circulate, and put it in my own package. I took it out several times during the day today, until after dinner it was placed in a package and sent it to us with us, and then just now it was put into your hands. I replied earnestly.
"That's it~~" Yuan Nosuke didn't speak immediately, but thought about it again, and then spoke: "This task list has a very powerful and secret detection spell, with the function of positioning and feedback information, originally, I can't be so easy to detect its existence, but, probably because you put the task list into the package several times today, causing the person who cast this spell to lose the feedback signal, and was anxious for a while, so he took the initiative to cast a spell to sense. Even so, if it weren't for the enchantment I had laid in this mountain, which could resist foreign mana and enhance my own ability, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to detect such subtle mana fluctuations! β
Ignoring my shocked and puzzled look, Haranosuke continued, "However, I didn't destroy the existence of this technique, I just blocked the signal it sent, and I taught you the trick of unblocking, and you can unblock it at any time as you see fit." β
"Yes." I came to my senses all at once. Obviously, Haranosuke didn't want to get too involved in this matter, he didn't want to guess and understand who set up this technique, and left everything to me to choose and solve. However, after all, he taught me how to take advantage and avoid harm, and from this point of view, he was still on my side and did not want me to be hurt. As a hermitage onmyoji, this is already very rare.