Chapter 118: Merit Exchange
Deep in the academy territory, near the final waypoint.
"Found it, Elemental Slime!"
Harvey climbed up the tree and used his Marksman's natural skills to detect a slime settlement a hundred meters away, and exclaimed, "They're really amazing creatures."
"After evolving attributes, fire slimes and water slimes can still coexist, and they are quite close to each other, won't these two completely opposite elements affect them?"
"Maybe that's their counterbalance?" Roy looked at the slimes in the distance with the scope of the black sniper and replied casually.
Ordinary slimes have five evolutionary directions, which are fire, water, earth, wind, and thunder.
After evolving into elemental slimes, the spiritual power in their bodies has been further enhanced, and they have advanced to third-order magical beasts, and they can also manipulate the elements to carry out spell attacks.
At this time, their sense of territory, offense, and group will be greatly strengthened.
Although the combat power of each Elemental Slime alone is relatively limited, if you fight against an entire Elemental Slime army, it is no less difficult than fighting a fourth-order demonic beast.
"We don't need to attack head-on, we can reduce their combat effectiveness with long-range fire, and then we can just wait for them."
Roy had a countermeasure in mind, and he locked onto a thunder slime and pulled the trigger.
The special spiritual arrow hits the thunder slime, and the explosive arrow blasts a large hole in its dark purple outer layer of gelatin, and further produces a secondary explosion with the thunder-rich slime condensate inside.
With a "boom", the Thunder Slime was blown up into fireworks on the horizon.
The sudden attack caused a riot in the slime group, and the three wind slimes controlled the air flow and floated in the direction of Roy and the others like hot air balloons.
It's just that their flight speed is as flattering as that of a hot air balloon, which is a fixed target for shooters.
Under the protection of Ritsu Sword, Harvey temporarily ascended to the third order, and he put three arrows on the string at once, each of which lit up with a different light, and each arrow aimed at a different target.
Harvey narrowed his eyes, and at this moment, he released all his inheritance skills-
Sharpshooter third-order skills;
Sharpshooter first-order skills;
Sharpshooter second-order skills;
Sharpshooter third-order skills;
and the second-order skill of the Marksman!
With a soft snap, three arrows with different skills turned into three streamers of different colors, accurately hitting the wind slimes in mid-air.
Elemental slimes have higher defense than regular slimes, so the Piercing Arrow does not pierce after hitting, but instead deals full damage, tearing the slime to pieces in the air.
The Ice Bolt quickly froze the Wind Slime's body, causing it to fall from the sky and completely incapacitate.
The effect of the Heart-Destroying Arrow is even more vicious, and after the hit, the dark attribute power wrapped around the arrow begins to rapidly erode the gelatinous matter on the surface of the slime.
The surface of the Wind Slime evaporated with thick green smoke, as if it had been baptized with concentrated sulfuric acid, and after falling to the ground, it was quickly corrupted into a pool of cyan liquid.
At this time, slimes of other attributes also launched a fierce charge towards the Roy trio, and after rushing in front of them in front of them under the rain of arrows, they were greeted by a great sword that shone with golden rays.
Arya condensed the Divine Armor and the Sword of Dawn, and the Joyeus in her hand swept across the battlefield with a golden light, and no slime could get close to her.
With the blessing of Ritsu Sword, she is already a fourth-order holy knight, and the holy armor is especially good at resisting spell-type attacks, so the attack of the elemental slime is not a threat to her.
Seeing that the conventional attack methods were not effective, several fire slimes gathered together and pounced on Arya in unison.
At the same time, their red-colored spherical bodies swelled abruptly twice at this moment, like bombs that ignited their fuses, and were in danger of bursting at any time.
Arya's expression remained unchanged, and the shield of her left hand, the Wish of Light, lit up with a misty halo, and a curtain of light rose from beneath her feet.
With the Holy Light's Wish, she used the Holy Knight's sixth-order skills, and even the fire slime's self-detonation could not cause her the slightest damage.
They slammed into the light curtain like moths to a flame, and then turned into flames in the sound of a loud explosion, leaving only a thick red condensate.
After engaging the slime at close range, Roy also put down the black sniper and went forward, and the dark color three styles in his left hand turned into a spiritual fist blade, killing all the slimes in front of him.
With the blessing of skills, even the rock slime, which is known for its defensive power, can't resist the sharp edge of the Xuanxun three.
Soon, the battle also ended in a resounding victory for Roy and the trio.
It might be extremely tricky for a normal freshman squad to face a horde of nearly two dozen elemental slimes, but they are an exception.
Under the protection of Ritsu Jian Guivause, the overall strength of the team has directly risen to a notch, and the opponents who usually fight with each other have become extremely easy to cook at this time.
After the battle, Roy and the others began to clean up the battlefield.
After evolving into an elemental slime, the slime will continue to purify the attribute elements in the body, and those who are excellent will form an elemental core in the body.
Therefore, there are not many elemental slimes that form elemental cores, and they annihilated more than two dozen elemental slimes in one go this time, and finally liquidated, and only harvested a total of three elemental cores.
Nothing more, nothing less.
In this way, when they returned to the Inheritor Academy, the sun had not yet set, and there was still some time before the meal.
Returning to the headquarters of the Strategy Department on the second floor of the Strategy Hall, Roy knocked on the door of the Minister's office.
"Please come in."
The office resounded in the deep voice of the Burning Hall Miracle, Roy walked in, handed him the three elemental cores, and said succinctly:
"We went to the depths of the academy to hunt the elemental slime, and we have already obtained the elemental core."
"Not bad." Burning Hall Miracle bowed slightly, as if he was not too surprised by their performance in completing the assessment on the same day.
His gaze crossed over Roy and rested on Arya, a gleam flashing in his eyes:
"Your files have been transferred to me. After learning the identities of the three of you, I knew that this entrance examination would not be difficult for you in the slightest.
"Arya Christian, since there is this Joyeus Lawyer in the team, it will certainly not be difficult for you to kill those elemental slimes."
"So, now that you've passed the entrance examinationβ"
Burning Hall Miracle stood up and held out his hand to Roy, "Welcome to the Raiders Department, from now on, we will be teammates." β
Gu Yu
The three of them shook hands with him one after another, and Rantang miraculously returned to the chairman's seat and pressed the button on the side.
A bell rang faintly outside the room, and after a while, a silver-haired girl holding a file entered the office.
No, it's not so much a maiden as a young girl, her height doesn't seem to be even one and a half meters, and a regular-sized shirt is put over her like a fluffy robe.
"She's Cocoa Grexiu, our deputy head of the strategy department, and she's in charge of the logistics of our department."
Rantang Miracle smiled, "Don't look at her small appearance, she is the head of the third-year priest class, and she can be said to be the strongest school priest in the entire Inheritor Academy at present."
"She is not only our angel, but also the mascot of our department, we are a group of rough men, and we are usually cared for and treated by Cocoa."
"Don't call me a mascot, gorilla Rantang!"
The silver-haired young girl Cocoa stomped her feet in protest, then sighed and raised her eyes to look at Roy and the others, "Come with me, I'll take you to familiarize yourself with the daily work of the Raiders Department."
"On weekdays, our strategy department will receive various commissions from the management institute of the strategy group, and these commissions will be published on the commission board in the strategy hall, and in principle, all students in the school can receive the commission.
"But after all, the people in our strategy department can get the entrusted tasks first-hand, and the strength of our department members is often stronger, so the more tricky commissions are completed by ourselves."
While speaking, Cocoa took Roy and the three of them downstairs to the strategy hall, stood on tiptoe and took down a commission from the commission board, and pointed it out to them:
"First of all, let me teach you how to understand the commission, let's take this commission as an example-
"Title: Twenty copies of Slime Gel required, Assignment Type: Bounty, Assignment Difficulty: Two Stars.
"You should understand the meaning of this commission, right? The title already states the content of this commission, which means that this commission can be done by everyone.
"As long as you have the things that the client needs, you can immediately tear off this letter of entrustment, take the things and go to the counter to apply for the completion of the commission and receive the payment.
"The difficulty of the commission is expressed in the number of stars, and the maximum will not exceed nine stars, and if the management institute evaluates that this commission is suitable for inheritors with the lowest two levels of strength to undertake, it will give the difficulty of the commission two stars.
"Every day, the staff of the management institute will bring the strategy commission with a difficulty rating of between 2 and 5 stars to the strategy department of the academy, and this kind of difficulty commission is also the most suitable for the students in the academy."
"I see." Roy nodded, "So, how do I get a commission of more than six stars?" β
"Hey, you newcomers must not be too ambitious, above six stars is a difficult commission that only high-level inheritors are capable of accomplishing!"
Ke Keya rolled a pile of documents in his hand into a paper stick, knocked on Roy's chest, and said solemnly, "The strength of the third order will accept the commission of the three stars, and the behavior of accepting the commission across the stars is strictly controlled.
"Before you become a high-level inheritor, you should obediently stay here and take the commission below the six-star level!"
obviously has the size and appearance of a young girl, but the words she said are as detailed as the old mother's words, and Luo Yiwan nodded: "We remember." β
"That's good." Cocoa crossed her waist and nodded in satisfaction.
"There are actually quite a lot of low-star commissions sent from the management institute every day, even if there are students from all over the school to help together, we can only finish it, and the members of the strategy department rarely have time to rest.
"Generally speaking, our staff members have to complete the commission at least once a week, and if they receive more than four star commissions, they can relax to half a month.
"You're new students, so there's a one-month commission waiver period, and the strategy department won't have any hard requirements for you until the freshman competition.
"However, every Monday afternoon you should remember to come to the ministry for a meeting, and we will summarize the completion of the previous week's commission, and share some information......
Next, Cocoa talked for more than ten minutes, until it was confirmed that Roy and the three had roughly understood the operation of the strategy department, and then he said meaningfully:
"That's about it, I'll go back upstairs and continue working, and if you have any questions, you can always ask me."
"Thank you, Cocoa-senpai." Roy and the others all bowed slightly.
It wasn't until her back disappeared at the end of the stairs that Arya walked briskly to the commission board and unveiled the bounty commission that Cocoa had just held.
"We hunted so many slimes during the day, and we've already saved up enough of these twenty condensates!"
She patted the package on her back as if showing off, then went to the reception counter and entrusted the commission to the staff along with twenty copies of slime condensate.
The staff at the reception counter was a young man wearing monocles, and after confirming the quantity and quality of the consignment, he stretched out his hand and smiled:
"Please give me your merit card, and I will transfer the reward for you."
"Young Master."
Arya looked back and also stretched out her hand, "Quickly bring your merit card and settle the reward!" β
Roy walked over and smiled, "It's all your work to clean up the battlefield, and this reward should be settled in your card, Harvey, what do you think?" β
"I'm okay with that." Harvey nodded, "If you weren't careful, Roy and I probably wouldn't have bothered to collect condensate." β
"It's not good." Arya hesitated, "It's like I'm alone with the reward." β
"If the three of them are in a team, it's actually very convenient."
The staff interjected, "You can give me all the merit cards, and I can divide the remuneration equally into your account." Of course, if you can't divide it evenly, the captain's Kari will divide more. β
"Yes!" Arya nodded happily, "Then divide it evenly." β
The three of them handed over their merit cards in turn, and the staff operated on the special spiritual power machine for a while, and said:
"The reward has been received, a total of 40 merit points, according to your requirements, two of the cards are worth 13 points, and one card is worth 14 points."
"Okay, young master, let's earn meritorious service!"
Arya couldn't put it down and stroked the card face of the merit card, her eyes full of excitement, "I don't know what these merit points can be exchanged for?" β
"This ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to change anything good. β
Roy smiled bitterly, the instruction manual for introducing the merit card issued at the beginning of the school had a list of merit exchange items, and he had studied it carefully in his free time,
He can't look down on ordinary goods, and some rare equipment and props often start with nearly 10,000 meritorious deeds, and even the talismans that can be sold on credit and claimed to be sold at cost price require 500 meritorious exchanges.
The only thing they can exchange for at the moment is sol coins, but they are not short of money, and it is foolish for the inheritors to exchange their exploits for money.
"Then let's save it!"
Arya solemnly put away the merit card, leaned into Roy's ear and said, "I asked before, it costs at least 3,000 merit to rent a detached house in the accommodation area!"
"In order to live together as soon as possible, we have to work hard!"