Chapter 79

Long Yi had long known that there were some tasks within the academy that could be done to earn credits. However, since Long Yi had never lacked credits, he had never paid much attention to these tasks. But since they were mentioned today, perhaps he should check them out.

There was a dedicated task hall in the academy where any student from the second year and above could take on tasks without any cost. Anyone could also post tasks here, not limited to people within the academy, but posting tasks required paying a certain amount of gold coins. The rewards for completing tasks varied: tasks issued by the academy generally rewarded credits, while private tasks might reward gold coins, equipment, and other items.

Long Yi and Ailin came to the task hall and found that there were still quite a few people there. The Dragon Knight Academy encouraged students to take on tasks from here because most of the high-reward tasks required combat, which helped to train the students' strength.

The hall had six windows, and Long Yi and Ailin chose a queue with only three people.

When the two appeared, the people around them quickly recognized them. Long Yi, the one who beat up the prince, was quite famous. Regardless of his own strength, at least his name was well-known.

However, the crowd's gaze lingered on Long Yi for only a moment before shifting to Ailin.

Most of the people coming here to take on tasks were male, and the beautiful, sexy, and slightly shy Ailin naturally became the focus of attention. Feeling the gazes around her, Ailin first blushed slightly, then, seemingly remembering something, she suddenly hugged Long Yi's arm and hid behind him.

Instantly, Long Yi, who had become a shield of gazes, became the target of everyone's attention.

But am I afraid?

Long Yi grinned, and no matter who looked at him, he glared back. As a result, almost everyone in the hall compared themselves to the third prince, whether in terms of status or personal strength, and immediately turned their heads away.

However, some people completely ignored him and continued to look at Long Yi with challenging eyes. From the marks on their wristbands, those with challenging eyes were mostly from the fourth year and above.

Honest Long Yi chuckled, said nothing more, and silently remembered their faces. In the future, he would have to beat them one by one. For now, he had more important things to do.

Seeing Long Yi smile and turn back, those challengers immediately became arrogant, as this almost meant that Long Yi was showing weakness.

After a while, it was finally Long Yi and Ailin's turn. On the long table in front of them was a huge book. When opened and placed on the table, the entire book, including the pages, seemed to be made entirely of metal, each page extremely thin, unlike anything that could be made with ordinary craftsmanship.

On the other side of the table was a round-faced girl with small eyes and freckles, who was now looking at Ailin with envy.

"What should I do?"

Long Yi reminded her.

"Ah! Sorry, sorry! Would you like to take a single-person task or a double-person task?" the girl asked.

"Double-person," Long Yi replied.

"Then please place both of your wristbands on the task book in front of you," the girl said.

Long Yi and Ailin both extended their hands, and their wristbands touched the pages. Instantly, the wristbands flashed, and a large amount of text and images appeared. Some were descriptions by the clients, while others were images of the task items.

From simple errands like delivering messages and finding lost items to more dangerous tasks like assassinating enemy commanders on the front lines, all kinds of tasks were available. Tasks could be sorted by various conditions.

As second-year students, Long Yi and Ailin could not take tasks that required leaving the academy city. Among these tasks, combat tasks were not many, but there were still a few.

For example, a simple revenge task.

A fourth-year student, XX, offered 300 gold coins to hire two older students to challenge the Stormwind Martial Hall outside the academy city. If they defeated the hall master, he would offer another 300 gold coins.

"Rich!"

Long Yi was shocked. He guessed that the XX student had been bullied at the martial hall and wanted to get revenge. But to offer 300 gold coins upfront and another 300 if they won, that was incredibly rich.

Ordinary people probably couldn't earn that much in years.

Long Yi remembered that the dwarf's Dragon Slayer sword was sold to the third prince for 3,000 gold coins, and this kid was offering 600 gold coins just for revenge.

Tsk, should I take this money?

The task did not reveal the name of the XX student, to protect privacy. The identity of the companion would only be known after accepting the task. Most of the time, the task poster was completely anonymous, and no one would know who it was.

"We'll take this task."

Long Yi said to the round-faced girl.

"Sorry, this task is only available to students from the fifth year and above," the girl said apologetically.

"Damn."

Seeing the money within reach but unable to earn it, Long Yi was very unhappy. He casually flipped through the tasks and closed his eyes to choose one.

"Help the second-year magic tutor deliver the materials he forgot in his office to the third-floor, fifth research room of the Royal Magic Research Institute."

A short sentence, the reward was 100 credits.

"Are you sure about this one?"

The girl looked surprised. She had expected Long Yi to choose a more spectacular task, but he ended up choosing a simple delivery task.

Seeing Long Yi confirm, the girl immediately raised her hand and swiped the huge book, and the task disappeared. A mark appeared on Long Yi's wristband, indicating that he had an uncompleted task.

"Thank you, goodbye."

Long Yi politely smiled at the girl, who hurriedly waved her hand and said it was no problem.

As Long Yi and Ailin left, a burst of laughter erupted around them: "Haha, I thought he would choose a more exciting task, but it turns out he's just a coward!"

"Rumors said this guy used some despicable means to win against the third prince, and I never believed it, but now it seems the rumors are not baseless."

"Hmph, he must have used underhanded methods to win Ailin's trust! I must expose this fraud and save Ailin!"

"Save Ailin? Don't dream! Ailin has always been in love with me! When I visited General Kailon's house, General Kailon personally praised me as a talented person!"

"Praised you? Weren't you only seven years old at that time?"

"Bullshit! I was eight!"

A group of people were arguing, but no one dared to approach, because any rumor was just a rumor, but they had all seen Long Yi's strength firsthand.

Before it was confirmed, no one would be the fool to act.

Long Yi and Ailin soon arrived at the magic tutor's office. Since the day Ailin presented her shocking theory, the second-year magic classes had mostly been self-study, and the magic tutor only occasionally returned. He often sat in his office for just a few minutes before rushing out excitedly.

The magic tutor's office was private, and only a specific magic mark could open the seal. When Long Yi accepted the task, his wristband received the magic mark. However, he didn't need to use it because he found that the office door was already open.

In the Dragon Knight Academy, all tutors and instructors had their own private offices, which they could decorate as they pleased. Without the owner's authorization, the office door was extremely difficult to open.

Unless it was broken!

At that moment, Long Yi saw a strong, irregular magic fluctuation on the office door, indicating that someone had used magic to forcibly break the seal!

"Wait."

Just as Ailin was about to push the door open, Long Yi gently blocked her and burst into the highest level of martial qi, then rushed towards the office door!

Bang!

The office door was directly shattered, and Long Yi rushed in. A black shadow was searching in the office cabinet and was startled by the sudden noise. He quickly rushed towards the door but was met by Ailin, who followed closely behind.

"Get out of the way!"

The black shadow growled, his voice hoarse.

"No way!"

Ailin kicked out with her leg, and the person coldly grunted, raising his left arm to block, but there was a loud explosion, and the person was blown away by the magic force from Ailin's foot.

At almost the same time, Long Yi, who had rushed in, turned around and followed, grabbing the person's ankle in mid-air. Just as he was about to pull down, the person suddenly pulled out a curved knife and slashed his own leg, severing his calf. At the same time, he unfolded a pure black scroll, and a huge magic energy surged, forcefully pushing Long Yi and Ailin away. A black disk appeared above the person's head and sucked him in.

Just as Long Yi was about to rush forward, the person raised his hand, and a mysterious light burst out. Long Yi didn't dodge, but reached out to grab, but the disk had already disappeared, and he grabbed nothing. Only a calf remained in Long Yi's hand, blood flowing to the ground.

Ailin was shocked as she watched the black disk disappear, feeling the massive magic fluctuation in the air, and murmured:

"This is a black wormhole. Could this person be from the Black Dragon Empire!"