Chapter 96: Temporary Teammates

The lobby of the Mission Pavilion looked like a lobby from some expensive hotel. It has a tall ceiling with three golden chandeliers attached to it along with some decorations. Outside of the lobby was the beautiful courtyard that was blocked by the fence a few dozen meters away from the lobby. The courtyard had tables and chairs for the disciples to sit on, while the maids took care of their orders.

The Mission Pavilion is also an expensive restaurant that only the rich disciples could afford. But the pavilion has good reasons for their expensive food, and it's because the food is incredibly delicious from what he heard from the people outside. Oh, and also, the maids are incredibly beautiful since they are also cultivators. The maids here are also disciples of the sect, only that they don't have enough resources for cultivation and they need the pay in the pavilion, which consists of many medicinal pills for cultivation and a bit of gold notes.

Yes, there are poor disciples in the C-Class, but they are mostly people who are not that talented in the way of cultivation so they try to push their limits to the max by using many pills to boost their mana cultivation, which sometimes causes the death of a disciple. It is rare, however, since the sect warns many disciples of this kind of risk, so most of them mostly just stay in the C-Rank where they will have a decent and comfortable life. They would do missions a few times a month just for the sake of enjoying themselves.

Anyway, I entered the lobby, and right now, floating in front of the clerk since I wasn't tall enough to see behind her front table.

"Hi, I am Anna, how may I help you?" She said, smiling brightly at me, not minding that I was using magic to keep me afloat. The clerk was also a beautiful woman in her thirties, though she looks more like a woman in her mid-twenties. Beautiful hazel nut hair, black eyes, small lips, white skin, and a very busty body. She's more like a "Milf", which I heard from tutorial bot one time.

"I am here for a mission. A C-Rank mission should do the job, though I want an experienced team to guide me through the mission first. I need it since I am going to venture through harder missions in the future, all on my own," I said to the clerk, Anna.

She took out a large stack of papers, probably have around a few hundreds of them, and browse through it faster than I could blink, before she took out a paper that says:

[From: City Merchant, Dain Kaline]

[Mission Level: C]

[Description: I am looking for capable disciples that could protect me as my caravan travels to the Albion Empire since I need to restock my goods. 5 of them should suffice]

[Mission Price: 20 Sect Points Each]

[Mission Reward: 100 Sect Points Each]

[Signed by Disciples: 0]

[Please Sign Here: ]

I looked at it, and was surprised to see such a rich merchant. You see, for city folks to give out missions, they must pay a certain price with their money. For a single Sect Point, they would have to pay 50 Silver Notes. For 100 Sect Points, Dain must've paid the sect a whopping 50 Gold Notes, which may seem not that much but trust me, that could feed 20 families for months.

"I want this mission but would I have to recruit team members for this?" I asked, just in case.

"Unfortunately so, sir. The requester wants five disciples to protect him, there can't only be one," The clerk replied.

This made me frown because recruiting other disciples is a bit difficult, I was hoping that I would be able to do the mission alone but I guess not.

As I was about to decline the mission to find another one, I heard someone say something behind me.

"Yo! I heard that you were looking for teammates!" A tomboyish voice said behind me.

I turned around to see a woman in her early twenties, having short-red hair, pretty green eyes, tanned skin, and a smirking mouth. She wore a tight long-sleeved black crop-top and tight black pants. Her petite body was perfectly detailed by her clothing, with everyone being able to see it.

There were also 2 other people behind her, one was a tall man who has a muscular physique. He has brown eyes, black hair, and greenish skin. He wore a pair of brown trousers along with a yellowish t-shirt that allowed everyone to see his muscles.

The other one was also a girl, albeit she looked like my sweet Alice; timid and meek. She held a staff which held a red orb that seemed to be the eye of a drake. Her looks consisted of blue eyes, blue hair, a heart-shaped face, white skin, and a petite figure, just like the tanned woman. She wore a white and blue hat on top of her head, and priestess clothes that are the same colors as her hat.

"Who are you?" I asked the tanned woman.

She smirked, and proudly puffed her chest, as she said, "I am Avian Arvento, someone who likes to brawl! I heard that the mission involves protecting some merchant's caravan and that you needed four more teammates. Well, here we are, albeit we are short by one!"

If I had any other choice, I would reject her offer since she reminds me too much of Scarlet but right now, I am a bit desperate for teammates.

I sighed, and said, "How about the other two?"

The tall muscular man then introduced himself, "I am Karduk, a half ogre from an ogre clan. Karduk likes lots of meat, bread and vegetables!" In that last part, the dude seems passionate about his likes.

"Umm, I'm Cecelia Pristina, a healer. I am a priestess from the Silver Continent, nice to meet you," The girl, Cecelia, said politely.

"And I am Auguste. As long as I can do this mission, it doesn't matter who my teammates are," I said to them.

"Then good, we are low on points so we had no choice but to choose a mission this day," Avian said, frowning as she remembered the amount of sect points she had.

I nodded, and said, "But we're still missing a member. Do any of you know another disciple who will join our team?"

"Yes, but all of them are occupied at the moment," The tanned woman said, sounding a bit disappointed.

"Karduk works alone, Karduk just chose to do a mission today with a team because Karduk doesn't have enough points to buy a good weapon," The first-person talking ogre said, answering my question.

"Umm, I also don't have anyone. Avian has been my only friend in the sect for years," Cecelia said, looking a bit sorry.

"Hmm, this is a problem. I also don't know anyone in the C-Class that will join our team," I said, frowning.

As we were talking about our fifth teammate, we heard an obnoxious voice coming from the entrance of the lobby.

"Hahahahaha! I expected to see beauties today but right now, I am looking at a beautiful goddess!"