Chapter 60 - Conflict (2)

Time progressed, and Asil's meditation ended. After the meditation, he ate some more of the food on the table and then went out of Medivh's room and into his room. His room was slightly smaller compared to Medivh's, and the only difference between the two rooms was the quality of the materials and the fact that there was only one toilet and bathroom in Asil's room. After entering the room, he comforted his body by taking a shower and then went to bed and slept.

After sleeping so comfortably that he hadn't slept in a long time, he got out of bed and sat on one of the seats after washing his hand and face, waiting for Medivh.

After a wait of about thirty minutes, the door of the room was knocked, and, following Asil's approval, Medivh walked in. When he walked in, he had a smile on his face and spoke directly to the Asil.:

"Asil, I found a very good job for us. We're gonna do this with a lot of mercenaries. So I don't think it's going to be too dangerous. But what we're going to do is get off to a good start, make sure we get our names out there, and get better jobs. What we're going to do is escort the stepdaughter of the leader of one of the great families of this city to the Black Dragon Mountain Range and protect the stepdaughter of this leader until she returns home."

After his brief explanation, Medivh continued talking and transferred the information he had just learned about being a mercenary.

According to Medivh, the challenges of the missions taken by mercenaries were progressing as F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SS+. The challenge level F, there were very safe jobs like escorting a vile property or reporting probable attacks on the watchtowers of fortified cities.

Levels E and D were the levels of the protection jobs for the people that are generally were not very high in status, usually, there was no danger in these tasks too. 

But in level D jobs, one could face sudden dangers at any moment. In levels C, B, and A often involved things like protecting people with status, caravans carrying a lot of important material, or auctions displaying valuable goods. Of course, depending on the status of the protected and how high the security is, the level of difficulty would naturally increase or decrease.

All the jobs above level A had a certain amount of risk of life. For example, people who wanted to do S-and SS-level missions were involved in battles in which many people died or were trying to hunt down dangerous profound monsters.

SS+ was a special level and the one taking part in it would encounter enemies that are at least in the final level of the Nascent Profound Realm or the Natural Profound Realm.

The job Medivh choose was escorting someone with status. The number of the mercenaries escorting was high and other than these mercenaries, there were people in the leader's family escorting her in this mission, and since this made the mission less dangerous and easy, a mission like this normally should be in the level C. However, the difficulty level of this mission was rated A. It was because of the place where the person to be protected would go.

The name of the place where the person to be protected would go was the Black Dragon Mountain Range, which was the most dangerous place within the boundaries of the Black Dragon Kingdom. According to Medivh, that place was home to many Profound Monsters and there were many armed outlaws. It was also the center of the Black Dragon Mountain Range, a place considered sacred by the Black Dragon Kingdom and forbidden to enter. Of course, every year many people wanted to know the cause of this sanctity, and for that, they set out to the center of the Black Dragon Mountain Range. But none of the people who left could return. Some said it was because the Black Dragon Kingdom put strong guards there, while others said that there was a powerful profound monster there and that it killed whoever entered its territory, but since none of them returned alive it was nothing more than a rumor.

When Medivh told Asil what he knew, he thought this mission was not suitable for Asil at first, but then when he learned that the person they were going to protect would only go to the outer region of the Black Dragon Mountain Range and return after some time, he concluded that it would not be so dangerous, taking into account the fact that there would be many other mercenaries.

Also, according to other information Medivh learned, the person to protect was the sixteen-year-old stepdaughter of the leader of the Vesta Family, the recently rising family of Black Dragon City, the capital of the Black Dragon Kingdom. Rumour has it that the leader of the Vesta family began to develop very quickly after adopting this girl, and had become one of the great families of the city three years earlier when it was a family whose name was never heard of. So there were a lot of people who thought this development had something to do with this girl and wanted to see her. But the leader of the Vesta family had kept his stepdaughter in touch with no one of the other families or clans for three years and had always kept her inside the family estate. He had also taken heavy measures against the leaking of information about his daughter. So there was no significant known information about her other than her age.

After explaining the necessary information to Asil, Medivh stroked the ring on his left hand and handed a white ring he had removed from inside his ring to Asil, then spoke: "Asil, this is the spatial ring I bought for you. Normally, I'd buy something more valuable, but I choose to buy the White Spatial ring because of the danger of attracting attention. It contains a twin sword that is a mid-level elementary profound item and a shield that is also a mid-level elementary profound, also some profound stones to contribute your progress in the elementary profound realm, besides some herbal pills that can help in situations like injury or burns and so on."

"Other than that, there's some money in the ring. I know you will say 'That is not necessary Big Brother Medivh.'. So before you say this, I'm warning you not to tell me you don't need it for nothing. I already got these, and they're not worth much. So you don't have to worry about things like that. Let's get your blood dripped on it in no time and take ownership. Then we'll get ready and go for breakfast. Then we'll go to the boss's mansion and get started."

The person's blood was required to take ownership of the profound items. A blood contract was formed when the person's blood was dripped into the profound items and no one else could use the items without the owner dying or breaking the blood contract on his own accord.

After Medivh's words, Asil, with gratitude in his heart, embarrassingly approved with his head, took the ring that Medivh had given him, and then slightly cut off his finger, pouring his blood onto the ring. He then transferred the profound energy to the ring and looked at the contents of the ring, and the moment he looked at it, an expression of astonishment appeared on his face.

The reason for this expression was what Medivh referred to as "they're not worth much.". Inside the ring, there were about fifty herbal pills that are power only perceived when looked into the ring with profound power and twenty profound stones that are filled the power of the elementary profound realm and five profound stones that are filled with the power of the Nascent Profound Realm.  And the amount that Medivh mentioned as ' there's some money in the ring' was exactly four hundred green profound coins!

As Asil's astonishment continued, Medivh smiled and talked while slowly moving towards the room of the door. "Asil, the armor I bought is layered armor and you can easily wear it under your clothes. But since the clothes you're wearing are not suitable for our work, you can wear them under the clothes I put on the seat while you stare at the ring with your bewilderment. When you transfer profound power to the armor, it will take up your body's shape. Come outside the inn after you've prepared. I'll wait for you there."

After Medivh walked out of the room, Asil saluted respectfully towards where he had gone, and turned to the seat behind him and took the clothes Medivh had left. These dresses were all in all black and were in a few pieces. They were a pair of jeans with bloodstains on them that looked a little pale and comfortable, a simple double vest, and a simple coat with cutouts. These seemed to have been used before, but Asil understood as soon as he saw that this was not, in fact, the case and that Medivh was struggling to make it look that way.

Asil first removed a finger-thick black plate armor, a mid-level elementary profound item, from the ring that Medivh gave him, and he dripped his blood on it and took the ownership of it. He then took off his dress and wore the thin plate armor and covered it with the clothes that Medivh gave him.

He then pulled out the twin swords inside the ring. They had almost nothing to do with the old swords he used and had a stylish appearance. It had black handles that even a large palm could easily hold, and it was made using profound iron. A little above the handles was a small section, embroidered with several small symbols, and the tips of the two swords were curved in different directions.

Asil took them in his hand and moved his wrists around several times, turning them around, then with a satisfied expression, he dripped his blood on them and made the blood contract, and then put them back in his ring.. He then put the White Spatial Ring on his left hand and then went out of the room, then out of the inn, where Medivh was waiting.