Chapter 74: Beacon Academy (8)

Chapter 74: Beacon Academy (8)

~Jack POV~

*THUD*

Returning back to Beacon Academy with some time to spare for the day I saw some text messages from them wondering where I was.

I texted them back that I needed to get some weapons ready for my Red Riot and Destiny's Ward as they want to meet up in the cafeteria of the Academy. I agreed to it hiding my weapons immediately.

Passing my way around the place and moving from hall to hall I finally managed to enter the cafeteria with my teammates there as Nora waved at me, "Hey leader! Come over here!"

Smiling towards Nora I began to make my way towards her as I avoided some people in my way as I talked to them, "Sup everyone. Sorry if I wasn't around it was about time for me to get some new weapons for me to use. So, what's for today's topic."

Pyrrha began to reply as we all talked about the subject that we need to do, "Alright now that we can accept missions which ones would we need to take up for discussion!"

Hearing Pyrrha's excited voice I nodded my head as I was wondering what mission to take as well as looking through my Scroll, "Search and Rescue. Search and Destroy. Escort. And finally, Bounty? Are these common for first years to do?"

Turning their heads towards me Ren was the first to speak up with some proper experience he said, "Of course. These usually are easy ones at least from the looks of things that are close to Vale Kingdom borders. Although we also see the Huntsman or Huntresses, we have to shadow them to learn."

Right forgot we are also being led, by a professional.

Looking through some of the info some of them are restricted to Vale Kingdom-based ones as I point out something off to me, "Say? Do all of these Missions take place in the Vale Kingdom and not in other regions like Menagerie, Mistral, Vacuo, Mantle, or Atlas?"

"Ha! Good one kid."

Stopping a bit I turned around to see the person talking to us I was surprised to see her come towards us.

A young woman with fair skin, short dark-brown hair, and dark-brown eyes. She has wavy locks on one side of her face, dyed with a gradient that starts as dark brown and transitions to caramel. Her clothes consist of a long, cocoa-colored shirt with an upturned layered frill collar with a black single-strapped waist cincher. She wears black trousers that have golden lining around the pocket and ribbons attached to the back of a golden zipper seam around her knees.

A black golden studded belt is normally hidden by a large cocoa-colored belt with gun cartridges on the left side and a large golden crosshair buckle. A large piece of black fabric is attached to her belt hanging down on her right side. She wears a pair of dark black, high-heeled leather calf-high boots with golden buckles.

That's Coco Adel from Team CFVY but also to my surprise an Heiress like Weiss to major companies of clothing stores and shipments across the Mistral, Atlas, Mantle, Vacuo, and Vale stores.

Something the original story never once pointed out.

Her coming over to us with a bemused smile on her face and began to talk to us in a cheerful tone glancing at Pyrrha, "Sup first years. Sorry if I was interrupting you all. But the question your leader here was funny not to laugh at as well as yesterday's stunt. Hahaha! A Vasilias afraid of water? Ha!"

Holding in her laughter Coco began to apologize quickly enough keeping her cool appearance to us, "Sorry but the fight with a Vasilias and you have the balls to fight with a water gun was hilarious not to laugh. Oh boy. But to your earlier question though because of safety reasons and keeping you safe within Vale Kingdom grounds. Take it from your seniors of the Second Years advice. Also, Pyrrha here."

Giving her the card Pyrrha got a card Coco explains what it is as she winks leaving us alone finally, "Here. If you need a new makeover don't hesitate to call. See you all later."

Like as she came, she left Pyrrha sighed at this placing the card away as I raised my eyebrow at that in a neutral tone, "Let me guess? More of the important people trying to form connections with your title?"

She nods at this while I place my hand over my head as this won't be the end of Pyrrha's worries about having a normal school life.

Shaking my head and returning to the objective at hand though with a smile on my face as I try to encourage our team, "Well… don't let Coco's words or card distract you. We are here for you PN no need to worry. The real worry is where to get a good mission though. So many to choose from."

At this Nora raised her head as she looks at one of the missions as asked out happily, "Oh! How about this one? A Bounty Mission!"

Raising my eyebrow at this I looked at the question about the Bounty mission Nora requested as I did, so a screen pop up in front of me of the mission.

[Ding]

[The Quest is created.]

Guess I can do Quest this way as well it seems.

Now then what does this entails?

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Bounty Quest: Locate Miss Beat

Description: Beatrix Browning, or Lady Beat, was the Headmistress of her own school for socialites, Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls in the city of Vale, and secretly an agent of Spider. Following the gang war between Spider and the Xiong Family, she managed to survive but lost her career after being exposed by Neopolitan and Roman Torchwick. But some resources have noticed that she has reappeared in Vale City in hiding.

Objective: Capture or Kill Beatriz Browning or known as Lady Beat for her crimes.

Members: Team JNPR, and Huntress?

Rewards: 10000 Lien, Stat Points +3, and 500 EXP.

Please choose the following rewards:

-Blessed Chest Box

-Cursed Chest Box

Failure: Lady Beat escapes and bad reflection report.

[Accept: Y] or [Deny: N]

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Seeing the rewards for me as well as some info as well as members that must join this Bounty Quest as it got me a bit excited but then turn my head towards Nora about her asking for it, "Sure I don't see a problem getting it. Even the payment we can split evenly between us but… why a Bounty Mission first though?"

Nora shrugs at this leaving me confused as she replied back with no reason whatsoever for choosing this mission first, "Well I thought we could use a refresher and learn how to fight people in the future. That and we can work with someone that can help you out."

What?

Blinking a bit honestly, I looked at the –

What!

My eyes widen seeing who we will be shadowing a Huntress under the name of Glynda Goodwitch I gawked surprised as Ren smiled at this, "Right. Glynda is the one we're shadowing. Plus, this could benefit you leader with training your <Telekinesis> while we learn from a Huntress herself."

Well… damn.

If we take this, we can get some more favorable learning experience to learn to fight against criminals under someone we know well enough than a random stranger, add the fact that I could ask for tips on how to use my <Telekinesis> skill…

Placing a hand over my chin I glanced over to Pyrrha to see if she wanted to disagree with me as I spoke to her, "Say… Pyrrha do you have any complaints about this? I mean do you want to try this mission, or do you prefer another option?"

Listening to my words Pyrrha turns to me with a smile on her face as she replied to me, "Hmm… I think we should take the Bounty Mission. Plus, I do want to see more of Vale under different eyes plus having some familiarity with someone could be good as well. So, no issues from here."

Hmm…

Guess my team seems to agree with this.

Nodding my head in agreement we all pushed the buttons on our Scrolls waiting for more details about the quest as the First Years of Team JNPR agreed to be shadowed by Glynda Goodwitch finding the Criminal Lady Beat.

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"Whew…"

Inside the inner mind of my <Image Training> I have begun, to train more in my martial arts since I finally managed to get myself to a decent level of power for me to practice this skill after an hour of trying this.

This took some time to recreate this skill perfectly and I'm starting to think that my INT stat helps me out in creating skills trying to make this a skill.

"Whew…"

Breathing in deeply and out I began to release massive amounts of air out of my lungs since it was about time, I step up my game for the future.

Training against the past enemies inside my <Image Training> I already have a decent understanding of where I belong and my place in fighting people with a wide variety of skills and powers over me.

Thus, the need to create some techniques or skills in this case to surpass them.

My boost with my <Aura>, <Aura Amp>, <Unarmed Combat>, <Aura Combat>, <Martial Arts Mastery>, <Gun Mastery>, and <Sword Mastery> have proven to be effective enough.

Now I need to go beyond what I have to progress further.

"Whew…"

[Ding!]

[You have created a skill doing the multiple actions of breathing in and out deeply multiple times!]

[Skill <Breathing> learned!]

Perfect.

Smirking at this I began to immediately see this as I quickly go to my Skill List to see the newest skill I have to play with.

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<Breathing> (Passive) Lv. 1/100 Exp: 0.0%

Description: <Breathing> is a skill that everyone uses but doesn't know how to properly use in the effects of battle. <Breathing> is a special breathing technique of inhaling the maximum amount of air and exhaling in a pattern to maximize the user's physical and mental abilities to the max. With proper control it could achieve the peak of this skill can offer. The more you breathe the more control you have over your breathing.

-Passively increases STR, AGI, VIT, and INT by 1%.

-At Lv.10 the skill <Recovery Breathing> is unlocked.

-At Lv.50 the skill <Total Concentration Breathing> is unlocked.

-At Lv. MAX the skill <Transparent World> is unlocked.

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Smirking a bit this skill is perfect.

With this, I can stack another skill to be put into my fighting as well as learn another breathing fighting style but…

"Whew…"

At my level, I can't learn it yet so the next best thing is to continue to train my skill as much as I can till, I reach the state where I can mimic other anime or manga fighting styles in the future with my clones trying to work on it.

"Whew…"

[<Breathing> LEVEL UP!]

For now, I simply need to train my body for what's to come and get me those rewards.