298 An Unusual Mission
Ajax thought that he guessed the newly generated mission correctly but when he saw the mission information in the quest tab, he pinched himself to know whether it was real or a dream.
'When did the system become this cruel?' Ajax thought in his head about the system when he sensed the pain from his pinch and once again checked the mission.
'Ding,
Mission name:- Don't get into unnecessary trouble
Danger rating:- None
Reward:-?an energy orb (that contains the energy to help the host to break through two minor realms).
Description:- The hawk tribe already owes the host a great amount of favour, so there is no need to trouble yourself to help them anymore since they have their own strength and the system suggests the host concentrate on the main thing that the host has come to the five elemental world.
Penalty for helping:- The host will lose two minor realms of cultivation from his strength.
'What the heck wrong with the system today?' Ajax worried about the system that was behaving a little cruel today as he carefully read the information of the mission.
In the past, whenever, Ajax decided to do something, the system used to generate a mission in his favour; however, this time the system asked me to do nothing and he would get a free reward.
'But...But I,'
"Ajax, you also go inside and take a rest. We will take care of these spirit beasts and talk."
Before he could complete his thinking, he heard Elder Qwerek's voice that told him to go inside the tribe leader's house.
Although he knew that Ajax could help them with his average commander realm strength in killing the spirit beasts, he didn't want Ajax to help them.
The reason for that was his tribe already owed a great favour and he didn't want to ask Ajax to help him as he was embarrassed to ask another favour from Ajax.
'...'
Ajax was speechless at Qwerek's voice and didn't know what to say to him since he already knew what Elder Qwerek was feeling inside his heart.
'He must be thinking that they owed me too much already and decided not to ask any help from me,' Ajax thought to himself, looking at the fighting that was going outside.
From the fight up to now, the Hawk tribe was in the advantageous position but he knew it would not last much longer looking at the spirit beast horde from a distance.
"I already rested enough, Elder Qwerek and I want to test my strength. So, I will fight no matter who you think," Ajax shook his head and flatly rejected Qwerek's idea.
'Pucchi'
'Ding,
The host killed a rank 4 spirit beast
The host gained 200 units of the essence of nature.
'Ding,
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With every strike, Ajax was making a hole in the spirit beast's body and along with the strikes, he got his usual essence bonus from killing the spirit beasts.
However, one thing, Ajax didn't understand that the essence of nature he was getting from killing the rank 4 spirit beasts was way less than the spirit beasts he killed in his world.
'Swoosh'
'Puchi'
'System, help me clear my doubt,' Ajax didn't stop his spear strikes even when he asked the system about an answer for his question.
'Ding,
Since the host's strength is equal to the opponent's strength, the essence of nature gained from killing them would be less. So, if the host wants more essence of nature, please kill the enemies that have higher strength than the host.
'Huh? So, it's like this. No problem,' Nowadays, Ajax was not worrying about the essence of nature much as he had fewer uses of it; however, it motivated him to kill higher realm opponents.
When he first started his cultivation journey, he had to use the essence of nature for every little thing like upgrading his cultivation, skills, techniques, elemental spirits etc.
However, after breakthrough, he could not use that method to upgrade his cultivation and all his cultivation techniques required more essence of nature than his current spirit consciousness capacity.
So, he didn't bother with it much.
'What's happening?'
As he was thinking about the essence of nature, he suddenly felt something in his spirit consciousness that made him shocked.
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