199 Mission

After that, Alex used all the time he had to master the Tempered Muscle Pill. The difficulty of this pill was lower than Soul Refining Pill. He noticed it after he refined the actual pill. It took him a week before he completely mastered the refining of Tempered Muscle Pill, using his normal Fire, not his Pure Fire. Using his Pure Fire was like a normal difficulty game while using his normal Fire was a hard difficulty game. At least, the fire ferocity between his Phoenix Flame and his Pure Fire flame wasn't that different, if not, he might need to take a longer time to master those two pills.

After mastering those two pills, Alex made the real pills with the medicinal ingredients he bought in the Alchemist Guild in Heavenly Sword Town. He made the Tempered Muscle Pill first. He can make three Tempered Muscle Pill from one set of ingredients. But for Soul Refining Pill, Alex can only make one pill per set of ingredients. At first, he thought he could make more because usually, if there was a Monster Core as one of the ingredients. Alex can make more than one pill from each set of ingredients. But he was mistaken.

Soul Refining Pill was a special pill. Unlike the normal monster core, the monster core in the Soul Refining Pills ingredients was a ferocious beast monster core. That was the reason why Alex failed on his first time.

Refining Tempered Muscle Pill took around half an hour. He didn't eat it first. Instead, he refined the Soul Refining Pill. Finally, one purple and three orange pills were in front of him. He swallowed the Soul Refining Pill first. After recalling the Muscle Refining Pill back then, he decided to eat the one without pain first.

The Soul Refining Pill got inside his mouth, It slowly melted inside his mouth. Alex felt the efficacy of the pill as he felt his awareness expanded bit by bit. He also felt something that can't be described, but he knew it was beneficial to him. After refining the pill efficacy for an hour, Alex slowly opened his eyes. His awareness expanded, his sense became sharper, etc.

After checking the change inside his body, Alex finally swallowed the Tempered Muscle Pills one by one. When he swallowed the first one, he had prepared for the pain. And to his surprise, the pain he had waited, was nowhere to be seen. The process went smoothly without any pain, and he also felt his strength became stronger. He took another one and refined the efficacy.

He didn't know how strong he was since he never measured it. Maybe, after this, he should ask his Senior Sister about how to measure one strength.

Alex finally finished his business. And just like that, Alex used his nine months inside the sect. There was only two months more before the Outer Disciple Ranking Tournament. It was time for him to gather some more experiences, trying to get used to his Martial Arts by using it in battles. This was also the reason why he agreed to the mission, arranged by Charya.

Alex then came to Sherry's room. Inside the room, as expected, Sherry still laid down lazily while sucking those Spiritual Energy from Spirit Stones. His Gathering Array helped her in devouring the Spiritual Energy. Alex shook his head, helplessly. "Sherry, time to go."

"!!!" Sherry's eyes widened after she heard her Master suddenly called her. She looked at Alex and knew her leisure time would be gone for the time being.

"Wuu!" Without saying anything, or actually, she didn't dare to complain. If not, Alex will confiscate her food. She got up and came inside Alex's body.

Alex was astonished, he thought Sherry would complain...based on her activity this whole time. Alex did not bother with it anymore, as long as she came with him, everything was alright. Then, he went to Anna.

"Young Master, should I go with you?"

Alex shook his head, "It should be fine. After all, Senior Sister Putri was a 7-Star Martial Grandmaster. Well, I will call you if needed to be, so Don't worry."

"Alright" Anna said, a bit lonely.

Alex comforted her a bit, before going to the Crystal Room and notified his Senior Sister that he was ready. After half an hour, the Crystal dimmed down, and Alex finally went to Putri's house. Putri was waiting for him on the field. She was ready to go at any moment.

Alex landed and greeted her, "Senior Sister."

Putri nodded, "Let's go to Master's house, I have notified her, so she should come down soon enough."

Alex nodded. They flew to the usual meeting place with Charya. But surprisingly, Charya was nowhere to be seen. They had waited for her for three hours, and finally, she came. To their surprise, Charya didn't come from her house on top of the mountain. She was coming from the south. It seems, she rushed to here.

"I got three missions for you. You can choose one of them. Don't worry, they are still fresh. After all, I just grabbed it a few moments ago" Charya said.

Alex and Putri immediately knew the reason why they waited for her a few hours. She was choosing the mission personally for them. They can't help but smile, this elder of them truly cared for them. At least, Alex won't be able to receive such treatment if he stayed in Himura Minami's mansion. Then they saw the missions.

Mission: Kill Ultrans Bandits

Requirement: 1-Star Martial Grandmaster

Reward: 5000Spirit Stones/ 500 Sect Points

Description: The last report, the boss of the bandits was 10-Star Martial Master. They made their base in Moonlit Forest.

Mission: Kill Choedon (Bounty)

Requirement: 2-Star Martial Grandmaster

Reward: 6000 Spirit Stones/ 600 Sect Points

Description: A Criminal who had massacred an entire village. He was last spotted in Chasm Town. The current position is unknown.

Mission: Evil Sect (Scouting)

Requirement: 1-Star Martial Grandmaster

Reward: 3000 Spirit Stones/ 300 Sect Points

Description: A new evil sect was spotted in the Nugget Village.

Alex looked at them carefully, then he looked at Putri. Since she was going to go with him, He thought he should ask her opinion first. "Senior Sister, what do you think about these missions?"

Putri only shook her head and smiled. She said, "You can choose any mission you want. I'm here only to accompany you. You are the head, so don't mind about me."

Seeing she didn't have any opinion, Alex pondered for a bit. Then he chose the Evil Sect. "I choose this"

Charya was astonished a little bit. She looked carefully at Alex's face and asked, "Why you chose that mission?"

"Because it was the clearest mission. For the first mission, the bandits have built a base, that means their own stronghold. If we weren't careful when we entered their territory. I'm afraid, the mission would be even more dangerous. Sometimes, quantity can beat quality. Of course, I don't say, Senior Sister will lose. But since the missions were for me. I need to consider my own strength." Alex explained.

Charya nodded in approval, then she asked, "How about the other one?"

"The other one wasn't an option in the beginning. First of all, his current position is unknown. Searching for him without any clue will take too much time. If we are fated, I meet him, then beat him and turn him to the sect, thus claiming the bounty. So, the third was my only option. Since they are a new evil sect, their foundation should be that deep, and this mission only requires us to scout them."

This time, Putri also nodded along with Charya. "Then It's decided. When will you two go?"

Alex looked at Putri. Putri only smiled to him, "I'm fine whenever you are ready."

Alex nodded, "Then now. There are only two months left before the Outer Disciple Ranking Tournament. So I think finishing this mission as soon as possible would be better for me."

"Good. I wish you luck" Charya said.

After bidding their goodbye with Charya, Alex and Putri flew toward Chasm Town. Because of the distance, they would need three days before they arrived in Chasm Town. In the meantime, Alex asked many things to Putri, including how to measure his strength. According to Putri, there was a stone that can measure one's strength. They can measure up to one dragon. Each elder inside the sect should have one. In Charya's case, she put it in her house at Song Yu's house, not her house on the top of the mountain. She said she could guide him after they had done the mission, which Alex agreed.

The journey inside went smoothly, Alex also found out that Putri was from Hazel Kingdom. As for her family, she didn't say anything about it. Judging from her expression, Alex can find his old self in her. But he didn't say anything about it.

After three days, they decided to take a rest first in a nearby city to recuperate their energy as well as gathering information. According to the people, the evil cult had massacred the people in Nugget Village. The Lord of the city had dispatched the soldiers to check the situation. At first, when they dispatched the soldiers in the day, they didn't find anything. So, the Lord sent the soldiers to patrol at night. But surprisingly, they never came back.

He tried to send the soldiers in the day again, and as expected, they came back with nothing. So, the Lord made a decision to send a 1-Star Martial Grandmaster to check at night. But he also didn't come back. The Lord was going to make a move personally to check the situation. He had sent a new post about the mission to Heavenly Sword Sect with a higher requirement. Unfortunately, they had arrived before the new mission posted. Alex asked his Senior Sister since she was the strongest fighter.

They decided to scout for now with Putri as the head. After all, the mission should be higher. To kill a 1-Star Martial Grandmaster, they should be careful since Alex was still 7-Star Martial Master. Although Alex can also kill 1-Star Martial Grandmaster, this time it was an unknown enemy, they should be cautious in this. So they decided to visit the city lord first. At first, the City Lord was a bit doubtful on Alex since he can see Alex was only a 7-Star Martial Master. But after seeing, Putri, who was stronger than him. He said no more.

They were currently talking about the incident. The City Lord was a middle-aged man, but even though he was a middle-aged man, his hair had turned white like an old man, his name was Dennis Davidsen. According to him, there was a purple light around Nugget Village at night. At first, he had personally scouted the spot, but the sudden appearance of the purple light made him dread. Unknowingly, his hair turned white overnight. He didn't know why his hair turned to white, either.

Alex was unsure what of that purple light was. But after listening to that, he felt his cultivation got suppressed by the appearance of purple light. Alex immediately thought of something. It was an array.

Alex asked, "City Lord, Do you have awaken any element?"

Dennis didn't understand why Alex asked this, but nonetheless, he answered. "Yes, my element is earth."

Alex finally understood the reason. Putri was confused by Alex's action. "Junior Brother, do you know something?"

"I think, I know what the purple light was" Alex said.

"Is that true?" City Lord immediately asked. After all, he was the one who had experienced it personally. Putri furrowed her eyebrows.

"It was an Array, specifically it was a Rank 4 Array called Elemental Suppressing Array. It can suppress everyone who have an element inside their body. But that was only effective for Martial Grandmaster or below. And the other weakness was the array can only be activated at night. I'm certain that was the reason why the people at night never came back. I assumed the evil cult killed them using the array. City Lord, I want to ask if there was any Array Master who had resided in that place?"

Putri and the City Lord were astonished by Alex's wisdom. Putri was curious about why Alex knew such knowledge, was he an array master? On the contrary, City Lord wasn't bothered to that. He suddenly recalled some records about it. "I think I have the record about it. But I need to ascertain it again in my study room."

Putri nodded. "We will follow you to see it too."

City Lord nodded and guided them to his study room.