The Martial Unity

Rui had two goals with the next phase of mission completion.

The first was to diversify his experience with different classes and types of missions. He intended to sign up for different missions outside of the standard bodyguard or protection missions. He had long grown bored of these kinds of missions and wanted to at the very least try out different kinds of missions before returning to a bodyguard mission.

The second goal was to accumulate an even larger number of merits and purchase powerful trump cards that he would hopefully be able to master before the Kandrian Martial Festival would roll around. His foundation was not truly solid as Outer Convergence bolstered his offense and Inner Divergence that solidified his defense, perhaps he ought to strengthen his grappling since it had been neglected a bit, but that wasn't a big issue.

The best way forward was to purchase the most powerful techniques within the library with the highest compatibility with the VOID algorithm that he possible could purchase. This would most definitely cost him a bomb of martial credits. So, he needed to complete as many high-grade missions as he possibly could to stack as much martial cash as he could.

With these two goals in mind. He strode into the Martial library with a determined expression. He pointedly ignored defense-class of missions that called out to him, instead glancing at the other four sections of the library, considering all of them carefully

The first class of missions he immediately crossed out was the Shadow class. This was the class of covert and furtive missions; the requirements of these missions were almost certainly beyond him. Most of the non-trivial mission would likely require multiple stealth-oriented techniques and multiple sensory oriented techniques for surveillance, reconnaissance and espionage.

He had initially sworn off covert operation missions because he wasn't particularly interested them, but since then he had come to realize that if he truly wanted to be able to adapt to any Martial Art, any foe and any threat, he needed to obtain some degree of proficiency in all fields. There would always be certain

But for now, he felt no urge to take up any Shadow Class missions, nor was he particularly qualified.

And with that, he added the shadow class of missions to no-go club where it gave the lonely defense-class of missions some company.

Rui's attention turned to remaining three classes of missions that had yet to be striked out.

Hunter class.

Offense class.

Miscellaneous class.

Miscellaneous class was also not something he was particularly interested in, perhaps even less so than his interest in the Shadow class of missions. The entire class was just a storage place for a bunch of missions that didn't fall into the other four big categories of missions.

That left the hunter and offense class of missions.

The offense class of missions while quite desirable did not offer anything to him from the private sector within the Kandrian Empire. Since Martial Apprentices did not receive international missions, asides from highest grades of Martial Apprentices. If he wanted an offense class mission, it would have to be a Kandrian-authorized mission, which he would have to directly apply for at the commissions department of the Academy.

The hunter-class of missions was much more accessible.

He shrugged, walking towards the hunting-class section of the Martial library.

He had always been interested in hunting-class missions and had wanted to give them a go, but had lacked confidence in his foundation. But now he was quite confident, and now was good as any a time to apply for a hunting mission.

The hunter-class section of the library was further divided into multiple subclasses and sub-sections.

Extermination-subclass; Missions centered around the extermination of non-human organisms.

Procurement-subclass; Missions centered around procurement of a specified non-human living or non-living target located within a sufficiently uncolonized natural environment.

Reconnaissance-subclass; Missions centered around the procurement of information related to or involved operating within a sufficiently uncolonized natural environment.

Extraneous-subclass; Missions that involved operating within a sufficiently uncolonized environment that did not fall into the former three categories.

Rui noticed that all of them specified 'sufficiently uncolonized natural environment' as a condition for the mission to fall into the sub-class. This was because this was the defining feature of the hunting class of missions. If they did not involve natural environments that weren't colonized by humans, then they simply weren't in the hunter-class of missions.

He didn't have any particular preference for any of the sub-class of missions, so he walked right into the reconnaissance-subclass.

A lot of the missions were centered around overgrowth or over-population of a certain species of flora or fauna in certain parts in the regions in the geographic vicinity of the town of Hajin. Many of them were missions centered around dangerous beasts that had wandered and inhabited areas to close to dense human population.

They were quite intriguing and compelling; it had taken Rui a while to let it sink how different from defense-class missions these missions were. The mindset and the protocols were quite different as well.

Just as he was skimming through the mission bills, one particular mission caught his eye.

[Hunter-class: Reconnaissance-extermination nested-mission

Mission description: 1) To investigate and deliver a report on a single(suspected) unknown beast responsible for the destabilization of the ecosystem of the Shaia plains via mass hunting and 2) to eliminate said unknown beast(s) if difficulty grade as evaluated by the Martial Academy is within the evaluated difficulty grade of mission

Difficulty Grade: 5

Target location range estimate: Within 10-kilometer radius of (48.5, 39.7)

Initial mission time period: 30 days

Mission commencement: Immediate

Skillset pre-requisites: 1 mid-grade sensory technique, 3 offense-oriented techniques, 3 defense-oriented techniques, 2-maneuvering oriented techniques.

Successful Completion Renumeration: 17 gold coins and 3 silver coins/450 martial credits.]

The reward had drawn him to the mission. He was quite intrigued by the mission as whole as well. Apparently, a myste beast or a group of beasts were responsible for destabilizing the ecosystem dramatically, however the species of the beast was unknown. Thus, the first part of the mission was merely reconnaissance, where he had to observe and gather as much information and intelligence on the beast. The second part of the mission was to exterminate it if the Martial Academy evaluated the difficulty of the mission to be within grade five.

Rui picked up the mission bill, he definitely wanted to know more about this mission.