Sherlock looked up at the night sky full of stars, he smoked a cigarette while remembering his past.
A transmigrant whose soul entered the body of a handsome boy named John and then he changed his identity to Sherlock constantine when he arrived in the Magical continent.
His life is long, he enters the mystery school Buildum of Adintium and finds out that his talent is average, there is no cheat in this world like in the novels he has read.
So he lived hard to level up, it was almost impossible for someone like him with average talent to become an official mage, because at the age of 128 he was still an Acolyte.
Luckily he has a handsome face and good body due to his training as a knight, so he sometimes becomes a gigolo to female Acolytes and Zelanthors, For the sake of resources he is willing to do anything from prostitution to murder.
because he get older make him can not sell his good looks even though he still looks handsome but most women like young men.
His crimson golden eyes stared up at the starry sky, as if he wanted to reach for the stars.
The ranking of mage in this world starts from Neophyte then Acolyte after that is Zelanthor then Philosopus and finally the official Mage or what is often referred to as Minor Mage.
After that the major Mage, Mage master, then Great Mage, High Mage, Supreme Mage, Ultimate Mage, Adamas Mage, and so on until the peak of rank, Empirio Mage.
To become an Acolyte is hard to die for, especially if being a minor Mage requires talent, knowledge, and hard work.
Many talented people are stuck at Zelanthor or Philosopus rank, especially for someone whose talent is mediocre like him, at least being able to get to Acolyte and even becoming Zelanthor himself is already very lucky.
During this life he had many friends as well as enemies, once this mission was over he would probably live in the mortal world to retire.
He threw away his cigarette, a cigarette specially made for Acolytes which replenished their mana and increased the effects of meditation, spells, and rituals.
Cigarettes are very expensive plus do not damage the body like cigarettes in the mortal world. The leaves used are made from crystal tobacco, dew flowers, and emerald leaves, each of which is very expensive per gram.
Sherlock goes to the old hut which is the target of his mission.
[Mission : investigate the old hut in the black forest
Rating : Acolyte
Several citizens in the kingdom of Anatakia began to disappear, one of the residents who disappeared returned with a frightened face from the black forest, according to information there was a mysterious old hut that made travelers enter it and disappeared. Possibly a mimic who likes to disguise himself as a chest or a house. Investigate the mysterious hut and kill it if possible.
reward : 60 magic crystals/60,000 magic credits]
Sherlock used the [Identification eye] spell he cast instantaneously to see the mysterious hut's information.
[Mysterious hut
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"It's amazing that as soon as I want to retire, the mission I get is not so easy as I imagined", he scratched his short black and white hair which was like his beard.
Since it wasn't the mimic as said in the mission and the usual hut looked dangerous to the point where he couldn't identify it so he took out a transparent tablet that had the functionality of a smartphone in his previous life, only hundreds of years more sophisticated.
The hologram screen started to appear and he told the A.I.S (artificial spiritual intelligence) to connect it to the mission department of the Buildum of Adintium school.
He started recording his report and sent it to the staff in the mission department then turned off his magical cell phone and left here, even though he only got half of his pay as long as he survived. Who knows what kind of monstrous monster the hut is.
As he started to turn around a voice called out to him, "John"
Sherlock got goosebumps, he turned towards the voice coming from the hut.
He thought there was someone other than himself but as soon as he recalled the past that the name of the original body he occupied was named John, cold sweat started to appear behind his back.
His instincts told him to run, this was dangerous! Danger!
So John used the [fly fast] spell, his body started to float and he went towards the nearest town.
But things weren't going his way ever since the hut called him.