New spire?
Alvin moved his gaze to the notice on the mission board, curious.
There were a lot of missions on the board.
Alvin realized most of the missions were about the new spire. It seemed like The Daylight Order was giving missions for people to explore the spire. In return, they would give them a reward like gems, cloud items, or weapons.
The normal spire was already quite dangerous, full of cloud monsters. Some more this was a new spire, with lots of unknown.
After reading the mission board, Alvin and Charles understood what was happening and why so many people were here.
They squeezed out from the crowd and walked to Mr Elias.
"Teacher, got a new spire." Alvin said as if finding a treasure. Although he read about spires in textbooks, he felt excited about the new spire. He was curious about the new spire.
"Ya, I saw the notice. On and off there will be a new spire formed out of nowhere. This is the number 145 spire that humans found. Although humans don't know why and how spires are formed, we know how to use them to strengthen ourselves through cloud" Elias explained.
"You guys also can go, but remember don't go too high. The higher you go, the stronger the cloud monster."
"Number thirty six" Mr Chris called.
"Is our number." Alvin turned his head to Mr Chris.
Under the guidance of Mr Chris, they entered a big room.
As Alvin entered the room, he saw Ben was sitting aside, tied up by a rope. There was a table in the room. Behind the table, Grace, a young lady with sharp eyes and a ponytail was sitting there.
"Miss Grace, they are here" Chris said.
"Thanks Chris"
"So, you are Alvin and you are Charles." Grace looked at them.
"Yes" Alvin said. Although this was the first time Alvin met Grace, he felt Grace was someone full of a sense of justice.
"and you are" Grace looked at Mr Elias and asked.
"I am their teacher, Elias. A librarian at Arcanum Primary Cloud Academy" Elias said indifferently.
"Elias? The scholar who found a new function of the mireleaf? " Grace's eyes widened with surprise.
"Just lucky." Elias said with a smile.
Grace took a quick glance at Elias, then she looked at the document on her desk before saying "Alright, we have done the ground check. Alvin, Charles, you guys did a good job in catching Ben. This is not the first time Ben stole at the market. We have been looking for him for quite some time."
"So, thank you for being a good cloud holder. Here is your reward." Grace handed each of them a coin with a Daylight Order symbol.
"What is it?" Alvin took the coin and looked at Grace, confused.
Seeing Alvin's expression, Grace explained. "This is the Daylight Order reward coin, you can use it to buy things at Daylight Order. 1 coin can buy a rank 2 gems, 5 coins can buy a rank 5 gems"
"Thank you Miss Grace" Alvin grinned as he heard that. Although he didn't do it for the coins, he felt great when he received it. After all, who wouldn't like free gems, which are equivalent to free money.
"By the way, do you guys want to explore the new spire? You guys can do the missions and buy the icicle fern from us." Miss Grace asked. She was in need of manpower and she knew that Alvin and Charles were looking for an icicle fern.
"You have the icicle fern?" Alvin asked. His eyes widened with surprise. He had been looking for the icicle fern and skywhisper reed for quite some time. Yet, he didn't find it here nearby Arcanum.
"We don't have it here, but we do have it at another branch. So, if you complete the missions and get 3 reward coins in total. I can ask another branch to send it here. " Grace said.
Icicle fern was a cloud plant that grew in cold weather. At first, he thought that he needed to go find a cold weather spire. But it seemed like he could do a mission here and trade with the Daylight Order.
Alvin and Charles didn't simply reply. They were thinking about it. After all, it was a new spire, they didn't have information about the spire. Maybe it was full of danger, maybe it was full of cloud monster. No one knows
After thinking for a while, Alvin blinked and looked at teacher Elias as if asking whether he should do the mission of exploring the spire. After all, Elias was more knowledgeable than his at this point.
"Spire is a special place. As long as you don't go too high, you should be safe." Elias said.
"Charles, you want to go?" Getting a suggestion from teacher Elias, Alvin nodded and looked at Charles. Although Alvin had his own decision already, he wanted to know Charles's decision.
"Sure, this is an opportunity." Charles grinned and gave Alvin a nod.
"We will go" Alvin looked at Grace with a smile.
"Mr Elias, are you coming with them? We need your expertise and we can offer a deal." Grace asked.
"Nope, not interested." Elias shook his head and said.
"Is ok. I think you will join us soon." Miss Grace said with a smile.
"Alright, Alvin and Charles, Daylight Order will be exploring the new spire two days later. Please come on time." Miss Grace said.
Then, they left the Daylight Order.
...
The next day, in the Principal room.
"Elias, you got to go to the new spire." Mr Christopher said, sitting at his desk.
"Nope, not going." Elias shook his head.
"They pay us 10000 dollars"
"I am a librarian, with no cloud spell."
"They will protect you. Elias, you have been here for three years, doing nothing. I have been paying you a salary for 3 years. Now we have a chance to earn"
"I helped the academy on mireleaf research. And that is a new spire, dangerous"
"The lady, Grace is one of the lightwardens. She can protect you. And they just need your expertise to analyse the environment."
"I know nothing, I am just lucky on the mireleaf."
"Elias" Mr Christopher glared at Elias.
''Alright, I go." Elias sighed and nodded his head.