Chapter 40: Personalized Mission (3)

Chapter 40: Personalized Mission (3)

The seven enemies glared at Ja Sun. Why wouldn't they? Their clothes were slightly shuffled and while everyone thought they'd been molested at first, it turns out that reality was far more pragmatic and crueler. Belonging to one of the three most prominent clans of the Douluo Continent, despite their lower ranking, all of them held specialized items such as spirit blocking rope, and now, everyone was tied with their own items!

Their storage tools were robbed and their opponent still hadn't revealed anyone aside from the spirit master with a plain black mask and brilliant black combat robes. To the eyes of the defeated, the spirit master clearly belonged to a faction. This thought was solidified further when they gazed at the majestic gauntlets worn over his hands that extended a little further to his forearms.

"We have lost and you've robbed us of our tokens. But there is no need to further the aggravations since we both know that losing a battle, for us, doesn't mean the loss of life."

Ja Sun looked at the woman who spoke after exhaling a shuddering breath to forcefully calm herself. By now, the enemy group understood that the tactic of disguise, though never used in their previous battles, was far more efficient than any of them had expected. Especially when it is used by a spirit master as quick and strong as the black-robed individual in front of them.

Not only that, this spirit master must still have six other members in the hiding. Probably as fearsome as this one and if not, they would still be able to defeat their own group comprising of six supporters and one attacker.

Ja Sun, of course, knew the identities of the six girls.

In this continent, who hasn't heard of Seven Treasure Glazed Tile, Clear Sky, and Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?

The publicly acknowledged strongest support spirit, tool spirit, and beast spirit.

However, within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan, only the Martial Soul of Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda is considered the strongest support. This martial soul, however, is also riddled with hidden problems that have forced this clan to stay only as the richest clan but not the strongest.

Each floor of the pagoda marks the peak of a spirit master's potential. For instance, the most beloved martial soul: Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, has seven floors and this means the greatest achievement of the spirit master with this martial soul is to become a Spirit Sage. Still, with only being a Spirit Sage, this clan has reached the apex of support-type martial soul.

The girls in front of him, however, didn't have the legendary Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Instead, it only had a total of two floors Twin Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Their greatest achievement was limited to being a Spirit Grandmaster. But six of them providing support was still extremely dangerous! And that is why Ja Sun wasn't stingy in using most of the spirit-blocking ropes to tie them down.

"I don't think your clan will care too much about you. It's merely Twin Pagodas," Ja Sun made sure to add a sliver of killing intent to rattle them and squeeze out more information. Compared to him, a young devil, how can the clan-protected individuals really understand what Ja Sun really wanted to do?

Instantly freezing up, the woman couldn't help but gulp.

"Even if I don't kill you," Ja Sun continued, "Do you think your clan can intervene with the war?" This is what Ja Sun wanted to know. The fact that nobles aren't killed if they are able to survive didn't come as a shock to him. That's how humanity works. The one-percenters have higher privileges.

"Right now, you are prisoners. In war, no less. Any of these soldiers would love to bed you and brag about it in their circles: Did you know? I made a noble lady from Seven Treasure Clan squeal under me.

Now, what do you think? Will your clan intervene?" Ja Sun's words made the six girls shudder. One particular girl gazed at the youth with her large watery eyes. She was the one called 'Ya'er', who threw herself at Ja Sun when she saw the youth being stabbed.

"I'll eat you alive!" The youth hissed but Ja Sun only snapped his fingers. The soldier that stood behind him gazed at the girls with a gulp and stepped forward.

"W-wait!" The eldest of them spoke harshly.

"Stop," Ja Sun glanced at the soldier. Right now, his reputation with this group of soldiers was great. He had practically ensured that for the next five days, all that the soldiers needed to worry about was the enemy's troops and everyone knew that it wasn't going to happen. Which meant 5 days of vacation!

Stepping back, the soldier felt reluctant.

"What is it?" Ja Sun tilted his head towards the speaker.

"The clan may not intervene, and you already know. So why bully us? Aside from this confrontation, we have no hatred. Instead, we can promise you over our Martial Souls that if protected and returned safely, we will ask our caretaker to reward you greatly!"

Ja Sun already got what he needed.

Information.

Nobles, if left alive after confrontation, aren't killed but most probably banned from the war. New novel chapters are published on

Not only that, killing the nobles or mistreating them won't be considered offending the factions behind them since their authority is too low. Of course, this may change if the members have high value for the said faction.

Ja Sun was practically sure that if any of them had the Martial Soul Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then the clan would have intervened the moment they lost.

'But... this Ultimate Grandson happens to know how to revitalize the bloodline behind the martial soul and even bring out the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda or its supreme variant, the Nine Towered Castle...'

"Congratulations."

Yu Suntao looked slightly exhausted but still presented himself well. It was already evening and he has been working non-stop for the day.

Picking up the seven square tokens one by one, Suntao read the nicknames on the token and then matched it with his own journal A Bounty Book, before shaking his head.

"Most probably, these seven excelled in group battles only."

After transferring the merit points, Ja Sun found himself earning a total of 716 merit points which propelled his entire bank of merit points to a balance of 841 merit points.

"I want to see the rewards list," Ja Sun glanced at the numbers on his bloody token and spoke calmly. The benefit of merit points will only be seen by exchanging them in the rewards list. What's the point of saving them?

Smilingly, Yu Suntao took out a thick journal instead of a thin scroll.

"Despite natural talents, those who can reach the personalized missions are considered the cream of the crop so the Heaven Dou Empire and the Spirit Hall have joined their hands in creating this lucrative lists of rewards. It has many items and as long as you know its use, everything on the list has a chance to benefit you."

Ja Sun slowly flipped through the pages. There were many items he hadn't heard of in the cheaper section of the list. As he read, the stranger his expression grew.

Including the spirit bone offered to the public, there were seven spirit bones in the list but not all was as good as it looked. A Spirit Bone, ordinarily, has six slots that can be used upon. Out of these six slots, the torso and the head spirit bones are the rarest. So, these spirit bones weren't placed on the list. Not only that, every spirit bone was below the rank of ten thousand. Out of the seven, there were four spirit bones with ages ranging between 500-900.

These spirit bones were certainly noble but not useful. After all, no ambitious spirit master would waste his body by absorbing a spirit bone under the rank of 1000-year cultivation. But due to the extremely low chances of a hundred-year-old spirit beast bringing out a spirit bone, there might be a few spenders willing to acquire these particular items just for the sake of it.

Closing it, Ja Sun pushed the journal back and whispered, "Seeds of 100-year-old blood lotus."

Already having the contents memorized, Yu Suntao knew the price of each item and the stock of the items so he replied instantly.

"How many seeds would you like to exchange?"

The price of each Blood Lotus Seed was 30 merit points! That's 3000 gold coins!

Calculating in his mind, Ja Sun coughed, "28."

He was exchanging all his merit points for the seeds. Treasures that promoted the quality of blood were rare on the list and the lotus seeds were something he could afford. So, he took it.

Yu Suntao's gaze turned slightly strange but he nodded and facilitated the exchange.

The number of merit points on Ja Sun's tokens was depleted from 841 to just 1 point and he returned to the inn.

Making sure that he converged all his presence, he walked with light steps and suddenly barged in.

*Slurp*

He met the indifferent gaze of noddle eating Ah Yin as she calmly chewed and inquired, "Sorry, I'm not naked now. Can I interest you in a bowl of soup and noodles?"

Ja Sun blinked before taking large strides and sitting in front of her, "Of course. I was so excited because I love noodles."

His smile couldn't be more sincere but Ah Yin already knew that this freak will only have the brightest grin during a painful torture. After all, Ja Sun's wretched expression as he sped ran through the Mental Acupuncture Technique was still vivid in her mind.

"Oh, I know you must be dying to hear my war stories. So this one was like this..."

With that, both of them began eating as one silently hears the story and the other exaggerated the story.

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