A few days later, Thomas had just left the northern police station when he contacted the Azure Garden Society. "Thomas here, the three adepts charged guilty of unauthorized use of their powers on civilians, theft and harassment of local police force. They have been detained and handed to the association for further judgment. Sending the report about my last mission."
The leader of the Azure Garden Society, Alice, readed the report before replying. "Good work, it's our job to impedir more Adepts of abusing their powers. You can go to the association or use their app to receive your payment."
Alice ended the call and rested her back against the chair. She seemed to be thinking a lot about something.
It was then that the Deputy Head of the Association, Sebastian Krahl. "Madam, do you really plan on giving him your reserved spot? I believe the Flame Empress has a better change..."
Alice interrupted. "I know your thoughts. You should know her position, she should be more interested in strengthening her foundation before taking the next step or she may lose self on the way. As for Thomas, his physique is strong and he has a firm foundation despite his incredible speed and has missed the rank of a 3-star Adept in mere few months."
Sebastian seemed to agree with her words. "Fine, either way we have seven days to decide on who to give the spot."
....
As soon he got home, Thomas went to his bedroom and acceded the web through his wrist computed.
Thomas searched for the right app and then pressed it. According to what he knew all the wrist computers built for Adept use come with this in-build app you can use to check your balance.
[beep] [beep] [beep]
A notification appeared asking Thomas to register his fingerprint, and filling in the form before pressing confirm.
[beep]
After confirming his registration, the little screen on his wrist immediately showed Thomas' photo and bellow was his information.
Name: Thomas Ries Age: 17 Gender: Male
Adept ID: AD-355-879-0-19 Adept Level: 3-star
Address: ....Dexia City, 16 United Cities of Mars.
Balance: 60.000 Credits (1.300.000 Bonus)
Thomas just when to the kitchen and returned while he sipped a bit of his sintetic orange juice.
His gaze, however, was focused on the 1.000.000 Bonus. When first he signed the contract with the Azure Garden Society, it was said he would get um salario de 70.000 Credits monthly as well as a bonus so he could buy any techniques and equipment he's interested in.
Thomas lightly tapped the keyboard right below the screen to open the messages. The first message opened and it was a voice message.
"Welcome, Adept Thomas." A synthetic female voice spoke. "I am your AI assistant Blue JF-13. I'm sure you have already seen 1,000,000 Bonus deposited in your Adept Account."
"You can use this value to buy weapon, battle armor and anything else you can find in the Association internal market. If you have any more questions, access the assistant window on the left."
After that was said, the voice came to an end. Thomas also seemed to be thinking about something.
Thomas had actually made some research about adepts back when he was a student. He found out most adepts only gained between 10.000 to 30.000 monthly while most of their revenue came from doing Association requests, doing some merc work and closing rifts.
Even for an Adept that signed a contract with any of the city teams, the amount of bonus they received won't be greater than 400.000 which meant the Captain must have used her own money... For a team in the bottom of the rank to pay this much for newly-recruited Adept only served to affirm his belief he did the right choice.
"The Azure Garden Society is treating me really well, I should make sure to repay them sometime even if it meat carrying the whole team to number one." Thomas affirmed in his heart he would repay all the debt he owed those who helped him.
Soon he returned to the association and tapped on the market icon. This bonus came at a right time since he just broke his battle armor and lost his weapon.
Of course he had the system market where he could find many astonishing things, yet he still didn't think it was a good idea since those relics like the Spear of Ares or just the other ordinary artifacts could attract some unwanted attention.
Once Thomas became an adept he went to the Association forum to learn more about being an Adept since he couldn't before.
Most of the posts only those with an Adept ID could access so they contained a lot of information he couldn't have known before becoming one. Reading these allowed Thomas to learn a lot, and to see they weren't as weak as his some of his skills!
"Yes, these posts sure have a point"
"I can see it now. My Adept manual is ok, but I need to learn more techniques if I want to use my anima energy to its fullest." Thomas read the post and realized his own dependence on demonic energy since his skills are more effective with it, but then it is the Anima Techniques that were designed to be used with Anima Energy.
"I must find some attack-type techniques for me learn." Thomas entered section of techniques.
Suddenly, All sorts of specific classifications for goods appeared on hologram screen in front of him.
Adamantine Whirlwind Seal (Beginner Tera Rank)
Type: Defense, Vitality Attribute Only. Price: 139.000 Credits.
Adamantine Whirlwind Slash (Beginner Tera Rank)
Type: Attack, Strength Attribute Only. Price: 100.000 Credits.
Holy Ray (Beginner Tera Rank)
Type: Support, Vitality Attribute Only. Price: 450.000 Credits.
Eight Steps Storm Killer (Beginner Tera Rank)
Type: Attack. Price: 200.000 Credits
Anima Manifestation Technique (Beginner Tera Rank)
Price: 1 Billion Credits.
Unlike the armors, there were some options which attracted him. Another thing that called his attention was that some techniques could only be used by somebody with an specific attribute.
It was something Katherine has told him before but this is his first time seeing it in person.
As he didn't have that much to spend, Thomas simply bought the Adamantine Whirlwind Seal and the Adamantine Whirlwind Slash that seemed to be techniques made by the same man.
The problem became worse was when he went to look for equipement.
And so for the next four hours, Thomas searched the whole market but couldn't find any equipment that fitted him and those that he liked were too expensive for him to buy. Only the simplest of the weapons was close to three hundred thousand.
'Wait...' The second he thought about it, he recalled the memories of Prometheus. An a Titan Blacksmith who lived millenia, Thomas had seen in first hand that former experience and technique when forging were unlike anything else.
And now all the experience and technique accumulated through thousands of years was now deep inside his head.
Of course the world had changed a lot since Prometheus walked this world especially all the advancement in technology but he has some knowledge about magic as well so maybe...