Mission Hall, Beast Gymnasium

The Mission Hall was just a few walks away from the dungeon area.

In the Mission Hall, students can accept and complete missions and be rewarded with contribution points. The contribution points could then be used as the school's internal currency.

Just like the Unity coins, the school's internal currency, the Starlight coins only exist digitally. 

Using one's unique student ID number, they could log in to the school website and access their student files if they wanted to.

In the Mission Hall, one would also need to log in to their account if they wanted to view or accept a mission. They can do it on their own phone and computer, anytime and anywhere.

The missions were all listed on the school website, and the missions they can view will be based on their school year grade.

Everything was mostly automated except for some instances where human assistance was needed or when a student handed in a special mission, in which case a receptionist was always available for help.

As for those who don't have gadgets like Lucas, they can simply go to the Mission Hall and view the available missions that they could accept there. The computers there were free for use, and since most students already had gadgets of their own, there was no need to wait for a long time in order to use them.

Lucas had already been in the Mission Hall before. There were mandatory missions that students must do in order for them to stay at school. 

The free food in the cafeteria was only possible because students do the mandatory missions that don't give any contribution points or Starlight Coins.

One of such mandatory missions that Lucas liked to do was to clean a classroom once a week.

Arriving at the Mission Hall, Lucas went to the computer directly and entered his unique ID to log in on the Starlight Academy website.

The Starlight Academy has a messaging feature, a forum feature, and many others.

For now, Lucas clicked on the Mission Hall section and searched for a suitable mission he could accept.

Since he was already an awakener, he could now accept more missions aside from the mandatory ones that could only be accepted by the first and second year students who had not awakened a grimoire yet.

After searching for a while, Lucas finally found a mission that was very suitable for him.

Mission Name: Beast Cage Cleaning Duty

Mission Description: Clean the cages of the beasts kept in the academy's Beast Gymnasium. The task includes removing beast waste, washing out the cages, and the food and water dispenser. (Students with water or cleaning-type beasts are recommended to take this task.)

Mission Type: Maintenance

Difficulty: Easy, but unpleasant

Reward: 30 Starlight Coins per cage cleaned

Time limit: No limit (can be repeated multiples unless all beast cages are already cleaned.)

Mission Location: Beast Gymnasium, Beast Cage Area

Accept?

"Cleaning beast feces…"

Looking at the mission's description, though, he could not help but hesitate a little.

"But 30 Starlight Coins is a lot," he said.

Each Starlight Coin has more or less the same value as that of Unity Cent. His father earns 10 Unity Cents per hour, so 30 Starlight Coins for each beast cage cleaned was definitely a lot. If he could clean 10 beast cages in a single day, it would mean that he would be earning more than his father.

However, cleaning beast cages wasn't that easy, and one could definitely not finish cleaning a single beast cage in an hour.

However, from all the missions that were available to him, this mission was definitely the most suitable one for him.

It offers high pay for a simple and safe job inside the Beast Gymnasium.

Compared to other missions like feeding the tamed beasts, becoming training partners, and so on, the beast cleaning duty was definitely the safest.

Becoming a training partner was also an option, and he would definitely take it if the mission description did not mention that it was a week-long task that only pays 200 Starlight Coin. 

And you would become a training partner for a senior student as well, in which case it would not be suitable for him as the senior student would be too strong for him and he would be too weak to face the senior student, not benefiting either party.

Gritting his teeth, Lucas pressed the accept button on the bottom page of the mission, Beast Cage Cleaning Duty.

To enter the dungeon, the students need to pay 250 Unity Cents or 250 Starlight Coins if they have it. This price was a lot cheaper compared to others, as only students and the Starlight Academy staff were allowed to use it.

If he could finish at least 3 cages a day, it would take him at most 3 days to save enough to enter the dungeon.

He wondered if the academy would already allow the second-year students to enter the dungeon by then.

After accepting the mission, Lucas went directly to the Beast Gymnasium.

The Starlight Academy was pretty big with a lot of facilities. Although it was not considered a top academy in Eclipse City due to its recent history, it was still among the biggest academies, and it has hopes of becoming a top academy in the future as long as they accumulate enough for a few years.

The Beast Gymnasium was pretty massive. In terms of size comparison, it was even bigger than football fields in Lucas' previous world.

Lucas walked to the cage area and saw massive cages that were a lot bigger than his room.

As he approached, a man also approached him and asked if he wanted anything. From the looks of it, this man was also here for a mission, but a different one compared to what Lucas had accepted.

After telling the man that he accepted the cage cleaning mission, the person gives him an inquisitive look before nodding his head. He then led Lucas to a facility, where he handed him the cleaning tools.

"If you have a contracted beast that is suitable for cleaning, then it's better to use them than these cleaning tools. I also must remind you that the cage gauge must at least be at 90% before the job is considered done. You can just then click the mission complete button in your mission tab and enter the serial number of the beast cage you've cleaned," the man explained.

Lucas nodded his head but did not immediately don the cleaning outfit after the man left.

Instead, he found a good spot and meditated to recover some Spiritual Energy that was enough to summon the Gentle Dog twice.

After a few minutes and achieving the goal, Lucas finally started the cleaning mission.

The Gentle Dog, who always had a gentle smile on its face, was having a breakdown at this moment.

Wooof!?

It covered its nose with it's paws and looked at its owner as if saying, "Are you trying to torture me to death? "