Early the next morning, Vin went to the mission hall, since he had four days to spare he wanted to focus on creating the first move of his sword technique Seven sins of chaos.
So he decided to check if there were any good missions he could use for target practice.
But when he got there, he was quite disappointed, as the only good missions there were mostly beast hunting at the outer layer of the dark wind forest and he couldn't be bothered with something as insightful as that.
"You seem to be quite dissatisfied with the missions here" a voice said behind him, Vin didn't need to turn before he knew who it was.
This person was Elder Feng, the elder he had seen the first time he came into the mission hall, the other day.
"Elder Feng" Vin said bowing his head as a show of courtesy "Yes, you're right, I need something that can serve as a good training and push me to my limits a little, not something that bores me and waste my time" Vin glanced at the mission board when he said this.
"Ohh I see, then I guess you should go see Elder Ling, I seemed to have heard he was sending some inner court deciples on some missions, maybe he can pitch you in" Elder Feng said.
"Ohh, my humble thanks then" Vin said and went off to the deciplinary Hall.
When he got there, he was met with a lot of students that had the insignia of the deciplinary hall, and the moment he appeared, it caused no small amount of commotion as everyone recognized him from his battle yesterday.
"Senior brother Vin, is there something you need" a tall blonde girl girl walked up to him and said.
"Huh, yeah is Elder Ling in?" he asked, but he didn't think it was possible, after all the Round-Robbin was still going on even though it was the last day today.
"Oh, yeah, he's surprisingly here today, I had thought he was going to watch the last day of the Round-Robbin competition today though" the blonde girl replied "Where can I find him then?" Vin asked almost surprised,
"Upstairs, second floor" the blonde girl replied "Got it, thanks" Vin said before walking upstairs "Oh and by the way, I'm Mira" she called after him.
Vin just waved without looking back, when he got to the second floor, he easily located the office Elder Ling used.
He gave a brief knock on the door and waited "Come on in" an elderly voice a said behind the door.
When Vin walked in the same elderly voice said in surprise "Oh, hey Vin, why are you here"
"Well, can't I just come say hi, Elder Ling" Vin humored as he looked around him.
Elder Ling wasn't alone in the office there were three other people inside, two guy and a girl and each of them gave him a fairly good pressure.
'So this must be the inner court deciples, not bad, I wonder how strong they really are' Vin thought.
"Of course, you certainly can, but I'm sure that's not why you're here right" Elder Ling chuckled.
"Well, you said to come meet you if I need any help right, and right now I need something that can help me flex my muscles a bit, think you can help with that" Vin said cracking a few bones to show he was serious.
"And you are?" one of the guys asked at that moment "Vin. Eremiel Vin Celestra, nice to meet you" Vin replied. "So, you're that rumored guy, it's a shame I didn't get to see your battle in person" The only girl in the group said.
"Hmph, he's nothing much, he probably just got lucky" the second guy scoffed, he seemed a little prejudiced against Vin.
Vin didn't even bother acknowledging him, he only nodded at the the two that seemed nice enough.
"It seems you already heard something." Elder Ling said with a smile.
"Well, I'm just coming from the mission hall and seeing that I couldn't find something good, Elder Feng said to come see you" Vin replied.
"Then it's good you came, in fact you actually came at the right time, just when we needed one more person." Elder Ling said.
"Tch, is someone like this even worthy of joining us?" The second guy asked is disdain "And a weakling like you thinks he can judge my worth" Vin sneered, at first he didn't want to bother with him, but the idiot didn't seem want to stop.
"What did you just say?!!!!!" the inner deciple raged "Don't get ahead of yourself because you're an inner court deciple, you're just in the first stage of the Spirit sea realm, in plain words. Weak" Vin stated as he glared at him.
"You... "
"Marco that's enough" the first guy said cutting out the guy called Marco, he seems to hold a lot of authority over him as he was clearly the strongest of the three being in the second stage of the Spirit sea realm.
"Although, I've heard of your feats, I don't exactly how strong you are, but I guessing peak of Body refining realm, and since Elder Ling here says you can come along then it means I'm right. On that note, I'm Raya, this guy here is Marco and she's Fourna"
The one named Raya said, introducing themselves at the end. Vin nodded at this at it seems Raya was quite nice enough.
"So what's this mission all about" he asked turning to Elder Ling.
"Alright let me explain. I'm sure you are all aware of the five major powers and the powers under them and also the ruling power. Well there is a third party called the Eye of the midnight sun, we don't know who they are or what they want, but we've confirmed that they are the enemies of Cloud plane continent" Elder Ling said.
"If they are the enemies of the entire continent, then why haven't we banded together to exterminate them yet, unless we can't?" Vin asked with a thoughtful expression.
"You're kinda right in the assumption, it's not like we don't want to, more like we can't, that because we still haven't figured out their base yet and we have no idea about their numerical strengths" Raya replied him.
"But that doesn't mean we haven't been fighting back, over the years we've managed to locate some of their sub bases and exterminated them, and that's what this mission entails, we've managed to locate one of the sub units under them called Tenebrous faction."
"And just as their name suggests, they are in charge of the unknown aspect of the organization that can't see the light of day, they are the most hateful of all the units, the other units also consider of, the Nox Division and the Lux corps, there are also others but that's not necessary right now"
"Your mission is to infiltrate the base of this units, investigate them and if possible sabotage them, we don't know how strong they are so there's no need to engage them needlessly" Elder Ling explained.
"But on the off chance that they're not that strong?" Vin asked "Then we exterminate them, it's that simple" Fourna replied this time.
"So here's the map of their hideout, with you speed, if you hurry you should be able to get there in a day at most" Elder Ling said as he brought out a map and presented it to them.
When Vin saw the location he was quite surprised, this place was close to the border between the middle layer and core layer of the dark wind forest, these people were quite bold, he thought.
"Alright, you kids you should leave now, this mission shouldn't take more than three days to accomplish, four days at most, if you're able to investigate them properly that would be a thousand points each, sabotaging them would net you 5,000 points, and if you're able to exterminate them, ten thousand points" Elder Ling announced.
Vin's eyes widened at the generous rewards, it seems these people were quite dangerous.
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"This is the periphery of the dark wind forest that's closest to the middle layer we're targeting, so from here it's full speed to the location before we stop to rest, any monstrous beast we see must be dealt with within the shortest amount of time possible of weak, and avoided if strong, got it?" Raya said as they stood aline at the outer layer of the dark wind forest.
"Yes"
"Got it"
"Roger"
And with that they rushed towards their destination.
It only took them a few hours to enter the middle layer. Just like Raya had said, any beasts they encountered on the way of weak was dealt with swiftly and if strong avoided.
But that only applied to the middle later as every beast they encountered in the outer layer avoided them like a plague after sensing their auras.
They continued on like this till they got to their destination before stopping and hidding their auras.
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