Claiming the Points

Chapter 40 Claiming the Points

Author: M_W Cancer

Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral

At this moment, the whole of West Sewer Management was shocked beyond belief because of Leo.

Over one hundred heads of Magical Beasts were killed in just a day.

No!

Specifically, less than half a day.

Moreover, he had also killed a 1 Star Magical Beast, a matter they truly can't believe that a 1st-year student could be capable of killing.

Brian was the most shocked compared to the others, as he didn't believe in the slightest that Leo could even kill a single Magical Beast. He had even treated it as a joke when Leo asked if he could give him more net bags.

However, he became calm again since he had more or less expected this after he received the reply from the Sword and Magic.

To tell the truth, he had actually reported to Sword and Magic a while ago about who Leo was since they had boldly sent a 1st-year student to him for such a kind of mission.

In just a matter of a few minutes, the Sword and Magic made a response. It was even Madam Silva who personally informed him.

It was quite clear that Madam Silver was afraid that Brian would report Leo's identity to the Silver City the moment he became shocked by the latter's capability. In short, she had already prepared for Brian's reaction, hence she purposely made the reply herself.

After all, Madam Silva doesn't want any others, aside from her and some of Leo's trusted allies, to know about his secret because she wanted to recruit him after graduating from Silver Mage Academy to Sword and Magic.

So, Madam Silva tried to cover it up by simply stating that Leo wasn't just a student of the Silver Mage Academy, but also a potential trainee to the Sword HQ of Sword and Magic.

Hearing that, Brian immediately changed the way he talked to Leo afterward. He has become respectful towards the latter.

Unexpectedly, the Sword and Magic's cover-up for Leo's sake has also unexpectedly brought a huge help to him at this moment.

After Leo brought over one hundred Magical Beast heads, Brian didn't ask any further questions about why he also brought the Magical Beast bodies. Instead, he simply made a quick check of all the Magical Beast heads and then gave him the corresponding points before finally letting him go.

Leo earned a total of 1,150 points as he had exterminated one hundred and fifteen Magical Beasts. Moreover, he was also given 100 bonus points due to killing a 1-star Magical Beast, the Sewer Lizard.

After receiving the Official Seal of Completion from Brian, Leo decided to go to the Silver Mage Academy to report. He still hasn't yet received his points from the last mission, so he plans to claim both at this moment. He also had nothing to do, so he thought that he might as well walk around the Silver Mage Academy to kill some time since it was still pretty early to go home.

Indeed, it was still early, maybe around six and seven in the evening.

Before doing that though, he plans to report back to the Silver Mage Academy first as he intends to leave his loot at Sword and Magic first. The net bags were heavy, so carrying them around would be very stupid of him to do. Moreover, what was inside those net bags were the 12 large Mana Stones, thus he can't just casually carry them around.

Arriving in the street outside of the West Sewer, Leo called out for a public carriage and told the driver to take him to Sword and Magic.

Roughly twenty minutes later, the public carriage finally arrived.

After paying the driver, Leo went inside the Sword and Magic while carrying the net bags full of Magical Beast bodies and the hidden 12 pieces of large Mana Stones. Fortunately, he encountered Angel just after a few steps... a few hard-to-take steps.

Seeing Leo's struggle, Angel called out to some people to help him. Of course, it was also because she realized after seeing what he was carrying that he didn't come here just to have a casual conversation with Madam Silva. 

After handing the net bag to the staff, Leo headed to Madam Silva's office along with them to report to her what he had found.

.....

Madam Silva couldn't help but be astonished and excited at the same time while looking at Leo's harvest from his mission. Moreover, she became surprised as soon as he told her that he was going to sell to her half of the 12 large Mana Stones along with all the other Magical Beast bodies that he had hunted in the west sewer.

To be honest, Madam Silva finds it slightly hard to accept Leo's offer since she wants him to use those large Mana Stones to make himself stronger.

However, Leo insisted on it and also told her that he wouldn't accept any gold coins and instead suggested exchanging it with the Glacier Bow that he wanted the moment he had laid his eyes on it, hundreds of arrows compatible with the bow, and also to make him an armor from the Sewer Lizard's skin.

Naturally, she agreed without any hesitation. She was basically giving Leo only half of the amount earned from the 6 large Mana Stones and all the Magical Beast bodies. Specifically, only 50,000 gold coins for the Glacier Bow, around 15,000 gold coins for a hundred arrows compatible with the Glacier Bow, and a little more than 10,000 gold coins for the Sewer Lizard's skin armor. Furthermore, accepting this deal would boost Leo's strength, which was also her original intention. 

Leo became excited as he kept touching the Glacier Bow the moment he received it from Madam Silva. For him, the Glacier Bow was the last missing piece that would perfect his personal fighting style.

Regretfully, Madam Silva could only give him two dozen arrows at the moment since the Sword and Magic don't have any more stock of arrows compatible with the Glacier Bow.

Arrows compatible with the Glacier Bow, specifically the Crystal Arrows, weren't popular merchandise. In fact, only a few people choose to buy such kind of arrows. It wasn't because the Crystal Arrows weren't powerful, since to be honest, the arrows could bring about great force. To be exact, it was capable of easily penetrating armor made of steel.

The exact reason why the Crystal Arrows weren't selling that much was simply because only a few bows were compatible with it, such as the Glacier Bow. And bows in that rank were always expensive.

Based on their checklist from their warehouse, only a few Noble Households have chosen to equip their soldiers with Crystal Arrows and bows compatible with such arrows since it was so expensive to maintain that type of army. It wasn't something that their finances could easily handle.

As to why Leo had ordered Crystal Arrows instead of just ordinary arrows, it was simply because he wanted to use them for important situations. An example of such a situation was if ever he would meet a 1 Star Magical Beast again.

"Supposed that 1 Star Magical Beast wasn't seriously injured back then, then I would have faced a deadly situation..."

That was Leo's reason. He realized that he needed a powerful weapon so that he could avoid a troublesome situation again that might cost him his life. Hence, he specifically chooses the Crystal Arrows.

However, since there were only two dozen Crystal Arrows, then he could only choose to accept them and wait patiently until the remaining arrows arrived later.

After leaving Sword and Magic, Leo quickly called out for another public carriage to finally take him to Silver Mage Academy.

It didn't take that long before he finally arrived at the Silver Mage Academy's gate.

After paying the chauffeur 1 silver coin for the ride, Leo then disembarked from the public carriage.

Getting inside Silver Mage Academy, he quickly looked at the map on the side of the gate to locate the Job Bulletin Office. He actually knew where it was already, he was just making sure that he was right.

The Job Bulletin Office was the designated establishment where every student of the Silver Mage Academy who had completed their missions reported their completion and received their corresponding reward points.

Soon, Leo arrived at the Job Bulletin office of the Silver Mage Academy.

Leo was shocked at the Job Bulletin Office size when he arrived at its entrance. It was again a building like the Admission Office, but much larger than it. He estimated that its size was the same as one football field.

"This building only has one floor, yet it was built this huge?" Leo felt confused.

The Second Prince has again shown every student of the Silver Mage Academy the difference between them and him. Comparing themselves to him was like a child comparing a toy car to an adult's sports car.

At this moment, he realized that it would be much better for him to just stop comparing himself to the Second Prince since they aren't even on the same level.

Getting inside the Job Bulletin Office building, Leo was dumbfounded at the size of the Job Bulletin board in front of him.

It had actually covered the entire wall in front of him; it was gigantic and long.

However, Leo soon after shook his head as he realized that the Job Bulletin board in front of him was basically useless since no one would be able to use it.

Evidently, not a single person in their right mind would bother choosing missions by looking at them on the huge Job Bulletin board. Even a blind person would rather use the Book of Missions despite still not being able to see its content. In short, it was a waste of time and effort to look for missions on such a gigantic and long Job Bulletin board.

Arriving in front of a vacant counter, Leo handed his Official Seal of Completion to a female staff inside.

After receiving the two Official Seals of Completion, the woman took out a blue crystal. She pressed the top of the blue crystal, making it sink to the bottom, and suddenly a blue screen made out entirely of Mana appeared in front of her.

The woman began typing something on the blue screen before pressing it back again, making it return to its former shape, and putting it back in a hole as the hole suddenly closed.

Soon after, an ID card appeared out of the hole, and the woman picked it up before she gave it to Leo.

Leo wasn't shocked while watching the process that the woman had done. In fact, he was actually amused about it.

"Magic Technology is truly cool!"

Magic Technology replaced Earth's technology after the Humans were transported to the Celestial World.

As the name suggests, Magic Technology was simply technologies invented by the Mages to make the Human Race's lives easier in the Celestial World.

Naturally, the Science of Earth and the Magic of the Celestial World had a lot of similarities, thus Humans used the same research back in their home world to recreate some of their existing technologies in the Celestial World. Though not completely and not everything.

Some technologies related to specific categories back on Earth can't be reproduced in the Celestial World not because the Human Race still can't reproduce them. Instead, it was simply because not all of the science back on Earth can be applied in a world of Magic.

It was quite clear that Mana itself intervened in the further development of science. No one knows the reason why. So, the Human Race doesn't have any choice anymore but to follow the rule of the jungle.

Survival of the finest!

If Humans don't adapt, then they will surely die and become extinct.

Hence, the invention of many more Magic Technologies.

The ID card that Leo has received from the woman contains his own face, name, age, year, and class section, some kind of numbers unique only to him, and lastly the number of points he currently possesses, specifically 2,678 points.

Leo was shocked at the amount of points he had. It's because it was more than he initially expected. Considering that his first mission was shared by six students, specifically 833 points since Ban wasn't counted anymore due to the latter's death and betrayal, plus his 1250 points from his second mission, having 2,678 total points was really confusing.

"This should be 2083 points!"

Leo quickly asked the woman about the reason for him having 2,678 points.

The woman nodded in response before pressing some buttons in front of her once more.

"Your first mission has rewarded you 1,428 points plus your new 1,250 points, so you have a total of 2678 points. The reward of 5,000 points from your first mission was divided into seven parts since seven people had taken part, and what was supposedly given to one of your members that have died was transferred to you alone through a majority voting which was done by all the students who had completed the mission along with you."

Leo was dumbfounded after hearing the reason. It was reasonable though why he had earned the points since he was the one that killed Ban. But it was still incredible since the four people, excluding Cassandra, since she would surely agree without any hesitation, had actually come to an agreement to concede 714 points to him.

The points were basically everything to a student, so the majority of the students wouldn't dare concede 714 points. Unexpectedly though, the four students didn't care about it.

Feeling grateful for their 714 points gift, Leo promised inside that he would surely help them in the future in return if ever they needed his help later on.