“Gululu…”
The girl carrying the musket placed a heavy bag on the counter, then silently looked at Sensa.
Sensa glanced at the bag, lifted it to weigh it in her hand—the weighty feel and the dull clinking sounds of Magic Crystal shells inside told her the quantity wouldn’t be small.
She opened the bag to take a look.
Wow, a bag full of low-tier Magic Crystals.
Although the grade was low, the amount was really impressive.
“Thirty First-Tier Magic Crystals. Including the magic materials you just submitted, after calculation, the total comes to 18 Coins. Please take it.”
No wonder the Adventurer Association was so efficient.
Counting First-Tier Magic Crystals was easy, but nearly a hundred magic materials collected from various Magic Beasts was quite a hassle.
It had been less than two minutes since she handed them in, yet the calculation was done and the payment processed swiftly.
Adventurer Association favorability +1.
Krexia took the money pouch, her beaming smile even more charming than Sensa’s behind the counter.
Joking aside, with economic pressure relieved, how could she not be happy?
She still had some Third-Tier Magic Crystals in stock, so no rush to buy now—better to hold onto this money a little longer.
Cradling the heavy money pouch, she finally felt much more at ease.
Behind her, a few Adventurers in line looked shocked at Krexia handing in so many Magic Crystals and magic materials in one go.
Usually, Adventurer or Mercenary teams start with at least three members; fewer than that would be risky for hunting Magic Beasts.
Even then, going out early and hunting all day, on a good day they might kill ten or so First-Tier Magic Beasts or three to four Second-Tier ones, earning maybe one or two Coins at most—and they’d have to split that with teammates.
For those Bronze or Black Iron level Adventurers, that kind of income was already pretty good; enough to eat meat and drink freely at night, even hire a pretty girl to spend the night.
But this girl in front of them, barely over 1.6 meters tall and slender, could hunt thirty First-Tier Magic Crystals in one day?
Alone?
How many First-Tier Magic Beasts did she kill?
That strong?
Does she have endless stamina?
A nuclear-powered donkey?
If Krexia knew what these people were thinking behind her back, she might just show off her latest technology and say,
“Otherworldly tech, kid!”
Then turn and walk away, leaving only a sea of envious gazes.
Actually, this thing was pretty broken—it allowed ordinary people to wield the attack power of a Second-Tier Mage.
If it became widespread, the value of low-tier Mages would plummet quickly.
Then a whole bunch of people with spears would swarm the forest, Goblins screaming everywhere, Slime slime splattered all over.
Or the inner city could jump straight to a new version, starting free-for-all gunfights…
Just thinking about it was terrifying. Better to keep it under control.
Also saves Magic Crystals from being stockpiled as war supplies—would be hard to buy even for herself then.
Leaving the counter, Krexia’s eyes were drawn to the nearby Commission Board.
At this time, there was no one in front of it. Everyone had just finished submitting their missions and naturally no one was paying attention to the board.
The board was only updated after closing by Association staff, who would replace the old commissions with new ones received that day, ready for Adventurer teams to pick up when the next day began.
Right now, what remained on the Commission Board were mostly low-yield entry-level missions or dangerously difficult ones.
Krexia took a glance—not surprisingly.
The Commission Board was huge, covering an entire wall, plastered haphazardly with yellowed papers densely filled with text.
Getting closer, she saw almost all of them were F Rank missions.
Tasks like finding cattle or sheep, short-term hauling work, collecting medicinal herbs, with rewards mostly ranging from a few to a dozen silver coins—things only the truly desperate would take.
Come to think of it, the patrol mission Fana and the others got paid fifty silver coins.
So in this ragtag lot, that reward was actually on the high side.
Looking to the side, the tasks there were more challenging.
B Rank Commission: Exterminate the Goblin Lord. Reward: 270 Coins, one Fine Steel-grade armor/weapon/Magic Wand.
Mission location and details: …
Commissioned by: Adventurer Association
C Rank Commission: Exterminate the Undead Settlement. Reward: 60 Coins, several intermediate magic materials.
Mission location and details: …
Commissioned by: Adventurer Association
C Rank Commission: Eradicate the Goblin Settlement. Reward: 80 Coins, one Fourth-Tier Magic Crystal (attribute selectable), several magic materials (convertible to 30 Coins), one Third-Tier Magical Item.
Mission location and details: …
Commissioned by: Adventurer Association
All these tasks were directly issued by the Adventurer Association, with the lowest difficulty at C Rank. D and E Rank tasks were basically nowhere to be seen.
Clearly, they’d all been snatched up.
Krexia stared at the board, thinking for a moment about whether to try a C Rank mission tomorrow.
Her current strength should be enough to handle some higher difficulty tasks, which would earn her more money.
As for the first B Rank commission, exterminate the Goblin Lord, she’d pass.
That thing was at least a Fifth-Tier Magic Beast and usually located deep within the Magic Spirit Forest—a very dangerous mission, not worth the risk.
C Rank… like the Goblin Settlement eradication, maybe she could try that.
If successful, counting the goblins and other Magic Beasts killed along the way and the magic materials gathered, she might make nearly 200 Coins in one go.
That would be quite a hefty reward.
With these thoughts, Krexia turned and left the Adventurer Association.
Since hardly anyone else was taking these missions, she’d wait a couple of days, then head to the Mage Guild to buy some materials and make a Magic Wand.
When commissions came out tomorrow, if she encountered Third-Tier or higher Magic Beasts, she wouldn’t have to keep using barehanded magic and could reduce her magic consumption.
For her now, saving mana was like saving money.
“Really, this body is completely made of gold—so delicate.”
“Other Mages spend all their money on gear, but I end up spending most of mine on food. What’s that about?”
“The Engel coefficient is flying through the roof.”
Muttering complaints, she headed toward the Mage Guild.
After a thorough shopping spree, once again she faced a hall full of strange looks from Mages before leaving the Mage Guild’s trading area.
At least this time, she spent more than last time.
But to those haughty Mages, she was still just a poor wretch.