Soul Angels & Demons

Chapter 04 - The Streets of the Limestone Cliffs

Jean along the way was silent and spoke only occasionally. It happened, because he had heard that Zee's goal was also to go to the Limestone Cliff City to hand over the registration scroll to the Mission Pavilion in the city center. So he can only curse his own stupidity which even invites Zee to go here.

'Damn!, I should have just brought him back to my town.' Jean's mind was upset.

"..."

After some time, the two of them arrived at a building with 4 floors, in the style of mid-roofed straw and large writing in front of it that read Mission Center Pavilion. Zee approached the reception desk, and handed over the registration scroll he had taken from the announcement site. Jean was allowed to go to the restroom.

"Skclass S?" asked the receptionist while frowning. "This mission is dangerous enough for a young man like you, are you sure you want to accept it?" the receptionist continued to Zee while judging her appearance from top to bottom.

"Of course I'm sure!" zee answered steadily and the receptionist took him away to a long hallway inside the building.

"Through here." said the man as he told him to enter the room which already contained several cultivators of different ages.

"Mr Chao Fu will explain your mission this time and be nice, try to stay well with the other cultivators." after saying that. The receptionist man left Zee with another cultivator who had also been in the room.

"..."

Some cultivators glanced at Zee with unfriendly gazes, while his being stared at like that was completely indifferent to him.

"Hey you!"

Said one of the thin, yellow-haired young Cultivators tapering upwards, greeting Zee with a smile.

"My name is Ji Heng greeting hehe." he said as he thrust his hand.

"Oh! hi I'm Zee, precisely Xiao Ze is happy to meet you." said Zee while shaking the hand of the young man named Ji Heng.

After a little bit of chatting they look a little familiar. Ji Heng assessed and observed Zee from top to bottom, while being observed felt somewhat uneasy because from some time ago he was always seen in such a way.

"I think we're the same age let me introduce you to some of my friends!" while pulling the arm of Zee, a young man named Ji Heng brought him to a table where his friends gathered.

"The big muscular one was Yu Kai , the fat bald-haired one named Du Jun although we often called him Dota, and the short-haired one was called Ye Niu," ji Heng said as he pointed to the names of his friends.

"Hey taper hair, who is this young man you brought? " ask Ye Niu curtly while staring at Zee.

"Oh this Xiao Ze I found him stranded in front so I thought he was alone and had no friends, so I brought him here." Ji Heng replied with a cry.

"I don't agree yet that he's joining our club. Moreover, he looks like a stranger." said Ye Niu while glaring at Zee.

"Eh. I think there's a misunderstanding I didn't expect to be a member of the club, I came here just for taking the mission scroll" Zee said.

"Oh really?. You took what class mission?" yu Kai asked with a heavy voice.

"Class S," Zee replied while showing the registration scroll he had brought. "Class S!!!" exclaimed the four of them in unison which also made some other cultivators slightly disturbed.

Ji Heng then dragged Zee backwards and reprimanded him, as he thought a cultivator with the aura of a junior warrior class late stage disciple was too imposing himself if taking on the mission.

"I don't know your problems and your family's financial difficulties until you do all this. But I advise you to cancel that mission, it's too dangerous!. Remember man!, life is worth more than money." Ji Heng said seriously to his new friend Zee. Being reprimanded was even less understanding with his words, because for the former disciples of the Emerald Sword Mountain sect who were used to taking on difficult missions, it was difficult, the slightly dangerous ones are considered as natural and good to add insight, and experience to the students. While Ji Heng who from earlier was babbling was also astonished and inexhaustible with Zee's mindset which he thought was too reckless.

"What's wrong with taking an S-level mission," Zee's answer made Ji Heng and the others gawk, but before he wanted to try to explain it to Zee. Master Chao Fu had entered the room and made all the cultivators inevitably spry and line up in front.

"Ecchem..."

"Thank you!, to the cultivators who have been willing to take jobs from the Mission Center where we are. And without lingering any longer I will announce a task for the cultivators, based on the mission class they took." said the purple-robed man in a peacock pattern with coiled black hair and a thin mustache on his face.

"For A-class mission is to go to the village of Penjala, which is near the border of our limestone cliff town, to drive out some bandit groups who plunder the village."

"For a class S mission the cultivators will be assigned to look for one of the rare medicinal herbs that is the Fire Lotus into the secret room within the Ancient Relic Cave"

The cultivators who heard the name of the relic cave were about to protest, but master Chao Fu again confirmed that the chosen mission also determined the task the cultivators would accept, but, and rejecting a mission is tantamount to treason to the Mission Pavilion.

Some of the mission cultivators and hearing Mr. Chao Fu's warning, would inevitably have to carry out the task they had chosen even though it might not be worth the risk to be accepted.

"A-class mission for a survivor cultivator will earn a hundred royal gold coins, five hundred coins for cultivators with E-class missions and ten thousand royal coins for S-class cultivators who managed to bring back the Fire Lotus Flower."

Some cultivators were very surprised because the S class mission this time whoever succeeded would be paid a huge price!, but most of them are self-aware if a mission with such high pay can be immediately ascertained if the mission received is very dangerous.

"Huh"

"Happy mission and may the ancestral spirits protect you." after saying the rules on the mission this time, master Chao Fu resigned himself and told some of his workers, after saying that, to provide each of them a map of the mission destination for cultivators.

Zee who was increasingly curious about what the Ancient Relic Cave was was even more excited and rushed out of the building, and without him realizing it, he was even more excited, the young riding woman who almost hit Jean this morning secretly watched her from a distance.

'So you're a cultivator as well?, I want to see how great you are.' The inner woman is while going towards her horse.

In front of the building Zee again met 4 new friends and he did not know what to express.

"I know maybe we've only known you for a few hours, but I'd love to see you again." said Ji Heng who somehow he was very unwilling if his new friend took on such a high-risk mission.

"This is my favorite grilled meat, nyam! nyam! bring it as a memento!", said Dota while thrusting turkey thighs at Zee who had part of his flesh in his mouth.

" We took our E-class mission self-aware with our abilities," Yu Kai added.

"If you can return safely maybe I can let you join our club" Ye Niu said in a mocking tone, although in his heart he was curious about the courage possessed by Xiao Ze.

After chatting for some time Ji Heng gave Zee a friendly and farewell hug, and they decided to head off first to the blue bamboo forest. While Zee chose to take a break for a while looking for a comfortable restaurant to fill his stomach, while looking for the whereabouts of Jean who had somehow gone where.

"Hey stupid man! I'm looking for you everywhere, go wherever you are!" furious Jean who just saw the nose of Zee after he was confused looking for it.

"Obviously I was in the cultivator's mission room, you were the one who disappeared not me." said Zee to defend himself.

"Oh yes I was going to see my uncle to discuss the registration of the tournament, but it's a pity that he's doing business out of town.. eh by the way you took what class mission?" jean asked also a little curious about the mission Zee took and who was asked only to thrust the mission scroll to Jean.

"Foolish man! are you crazy what!, this S level mission is not a mission like usual let's quickly return it to the Mission Center!" beaver Jean on Zee who too carelessly takes on the mission.

Zee, who was tired of hearing Jean's nagging, was like Ji Heng, then asked exactly how dangerous the class S mission this time was to Jean. Jean, whose uncle is the Marquis of the city, certainly knows what really happened.

Jean said that the Fire Lotus Flower was a very expensive medicinal ingredient that even one petal could buy one city, and the reason the limestone mountain kingdom wanted the Fire Lotus was. It was the matter of the crown princess of the kingdom who had been exposed to poison from the evil cultivator since childhood and the news of his life was soon, then the kingdom giving an announcement to the cultivators who were able to take that Fire Lotus from the Ancient Relic Cave would be given a huge payday.

"Heh then why didn't the kingdom directly send their cultivators alone to take the Fire Lotus?, wouldn't paying the outside cultivator be very detrimental to the kingdom?"

"Huh! you haven't been here for so long that you don't understand, the limestone mountain kingdom is one of the poorest kingdoms in the western region and only a few cultivators are willing to make an alliance with us. Even our greatest cultivators who have the aura of a king-level warrior are only one person, and plus the border wars with blue wolf monsters these decades have drained our country's treasures," jean said, looking down a little.

Zee, who began to understand the real problem, eventually chose to shut up and take Jean for a walk while looking at the view of the limestone cliff city because he was leaving tomorrow morning.

From a distance above the roof of an urban house, one in three people dressed in all black with their caping and veil on them observed the image of the young man on the paper he was holding.

"It's not wrong that it's the man" said the man dressed in black.

"We must move carefully not to be discovered," a likely senior of the three was pointing at the direction they had to go in order to remain safe and hidden as they followed Xiao Ze.

While that afternoon Zee spent his time to please Jean by taking a walk and visiting interesting places in the City of Limestone Cliffs.