"I can pick a mission as of this very moment?"


    "Indeed, as long as the difficulty grade does not exceed our evaluation of your capability toplete missions."


    Rui noted her choice of words. "How does the Academy evaluate our capability toplete missions and how is it measured?"


    "The Academy evaluates missionpletingpetence by looking at academic records,patibility between Martial Artist and mission, experience and mission track record. Your evaluation is indicated on a grade from 1-10, just like missions." She exined.


    Rui nodded. "Am I qualified to jump right into missions even if I have never attempted one before?"


    "Yes, however the Martial Academy strongly rmends beginning with the lowest of difficulty grades of missions for your initial missions, regardless of your Martial skill, it''s best to steadily umte experience with the process of missionpletion before undertaking missions of higher difficulty grade."


    "I see." Rui nodded. "I believe I need only pick a mission bill and have it assigned to me in themission department, correct?"


    "Yes."


    "Alright, thank you."


    "If you have any additional questions, you can read the missionpletion guide created by the Martial Academy to learn more." She said, handing him a small booklet. "Or you can approach the Commissions Department for rification."


    "Got it, thank you." Rui said as he began reading the missionpletion guide.


    Thankfully the missionpletion guide was not an extremely borate read. It mainly focused on basic missionpletion protocol. Premencement protocols, mission protocols and postpletion/failure protocols to ensure smooth management. It was only thanks to ever Martial Artists following these protocols that the Martial Union could smoothly and speedily function as a whole.


    Premencement protocols involved registration as the assigned Martial Artist to themission, it involved recording the time of dispatch, verification with the client, recording the time ofmencement.


    Mid-mission protocols were more norms rather than rules about how to go about different kinds of the mostmon missions among different sses.


    Postpletion/failure protocols were report submissions and remuneration protocols.N?velDrama.Org owns this text.


    "Simple stuff." Rui shut the book, having speedily digested it. "Now time to pick a mission." he muttered to himself excitedly. After a year of training in the Academy, he had finally reached the stage where he couldplete a mission!


    "I''m graded three, huh?" Rui scratched his head. He wasn''t entirely sure what that meant. Hecked the necessary context and experience to discern what it meant. Maybe he could ask Kane, Fae and Milliana their evaluated grades so he can have a frame of reference to understand how much the Academy actually evaluated him to be.


    "Well, I don''t intend to pick a grade three mission right off the bat."


    For his first mission, he decided to pick the most straightforward mission possible. He did not grow arrogant and assume that he would be able to nail the mission because he was oh-so-great.


    "Grade one is the way to go." he concluded. "But what ss?"


    He eyed each section, carefully considering them.


    "Covert ops and misceneous are a definite no-go." Rui had no intention of being a shadow or a weirdo for his very important first mission.


    "Assault is also a no-go." He didn''t want to engage in royally-authorized missions for his very first mission.


    "That leave defense and hunting ss." Rui concluded, before making his decision.


    "Hunting ss missions are much less straightforward and have more sophisticated objectives and conditions and pre-requisites." For his very first mission, he wanted to be down to earth.


    "Defense is the way to go." He decided.


    He began scanning through the outer-mostyer of the defense ss section, theyer with grade one missions.


    "Hm?" Rui squinted as he paused upon a mission bill.


    [Defense ss: Bodyguard mission


    Difficulty grade: 1


    Target of protection: Be


    Specified/estimated location/range of mission: within 30 kms radius of (2.5, -1.8)


    Time Period of mission: 3 days


    Missionmencement: immediate


    Sessfulpletion renumeration: 20 silvers / 52 Martial credits


    Skillset pre-requisite: one apprentice-level defense-oriented technique]


    It caught his eye because its remuneration was higher than most other missions of its grade, and it was rtively close to the Academy inparison.


    He picked up the bill from the slot, and flipped through it to learn more.


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    "We haven''t received any word from the Martial Union as of this yet, miss." A young woman anxiously reported.


    The recipient of the report turned to face her handmaid with a grave expression. "If only I had enough money at hand for the rapid assignment fee."


    There was usually a time period between the submission of themission and the eptance of the mission. This was usually anywhere between zero and three days. Thus, most clients of the Kandrian Martial Union were ustomed to cingmissions well ahead in advance and specifying the date of the missionmencement. Thus, regardless of when it was epted, the missions wouldmence when they wanted.


    However, the Martial Union offered to have missions be epted immediately in exchange for an extremely expensive fee rtive to the mission to the cost.


    "Miss Be..." The handmaid sullenly responded.


    "We even had to undersell the difficulty of the mission just a little to be able to pay the up-front expense." Be sighed, hoping the Martial Union would not notice. "Thankfully we didn''t vite the rules of themission contract explicitly."


    "We will have to wait here until the Martial Artist arrives." She gestured to the small quarters they were in. A toilet and a single bedroom were all they were able to afford in the hotel they were in.


    "Do you intend to dispatch as soon as the Martial Artist bodyguard is dispatched?" Her handmaid asked with a worried expression.


    "We have to." Be nodded. "We will inevitably be discovered if remain here indefinitely. The sooner we leave, the lower our chance of being discovered. We need to get away the Town of Hajin as soon as possible." She nced out the window. "The Lowminers have too much influence in Hajin. We need a Martial Artist who can stall their pursuers when they inevitably discover us."


    She sighed.


    "I hope our bodyguard arrives soon."


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