"Hm." Headmaster Aronian nodded. "Interesting letter. You don''t want Squire Dylon to be penalized for his actions?"


    "Yes sir." Rui nodded, affirming. "He certainly didn''t mean any harm and the ident wasn''t truly his fault. I''m certain I could force a simr reaction out of every Martial Squire that wasn''t aware of that capability of mine."


    "You can, can you?" Headmaster Aronian chuckled.


    "I''m certain that I can." Rui reaffirmed, projecting confidence.


    In truth, he didn''t truly know that for a fact. But he wanted to make sure to convey that Dylon wasn''t particrly at any fault.


    "Your statement will be taken into consideration. However, not only can I not promise anything, I cannot divulge any information on the matter to a mere student." Headmaster Aronian firmly said.


    "I see, thank you for hearing me out regardless, headmaster." Rui sighed. He couldn''t really do anything beyond appealing for Squire Dylon.


    "As for the other matter mentioned in the letter." Headmaster Aronian nced back at it.


    "I believe it''s time for me to leave the Academy. I just wanted to consult you on the matter." Rui confirmed.


    "Hoho." He chuckled in response. "I do not have any input to offer outside of encouraging you to do what you feel is best."


    "I see..." Rui murmured. "In that case, I would like to graduate as soon as possible."


    "Alright then." Headmaster Aronian nodded. "That can be arranged. Your learner''s license will be updated to a full-fledged Martial license once you do graduate and the debt you undertook when you enrolled in the Acadamy will be in effect in the new contract you sign with the Martial Union. You do recall the terms and conditions of the contract, yes?"


    "A quarter of my earnings of the fifty-fifty split goes to the Martial Union until the debt is repaid" Rui nodded, sighing.


    This meant he would receive only thirty-seven-point-five percent of the totalmission paid for every mission he sessfullypleted. The silver lining of the matter was that the Martial Union did not charge any interest over debt. As long as Rui paid back the exact amount he had borrowed, the debt was considered settled.


    This was an odd policy on the surface, but Rui understood the reason for it. The fundamental and most important goal of the Martial Academy was to produce as manypetent Martial Artists as possible, not to make as much money as possible. Crippling young graduates with a brutal interest rate that wouldpound over the years and suffocate them for more than a decade was not the intention of the Martial Union.


    Enacting such a policy would only reduce the power of these young Martial Artists due to their inability to purchase techniques and training resources due to being crippled by debt. It would also result in an increase in the mortality rate of young graduates whilepleting missions due to hindered capability to purchase necessary and vital tools needed forpleting missions, like potions.<novelnext>  </novelnext>


    This was a disastrous oue for the Martial Union. Thus, the debt did notpound interest. Nor was there a time limit to the debt. It did not shackle the young graduates, merely put pressure on them toplete missions at a higher rate.


    "It''s a good thing you have umted a lump sum of Martial credits." Headmaster Aronian chimed in. "Credits can be exchanged with the Kandrian currency, and you''re going to need funds immediately after you graduate."


    Rui nodded. Once he graduated, he could no longer mooch off of the Martial Academy for providing the resources needed forpleting missions. He would need to purchase every tool, potion, mask, and other item mandated and rmended to be carried by the Martial Union.


    All this time, the Martial Academy had funded the supplies for those resources, and the debt he had incurred included the cost of three years'' worth of supplies of needed resources. It would take him a long time of sustained missions to repay all of the debt he owed the Martial Academy and the Martial Union by extension.


    "Have you decided what sses of missions you are most interested in?" Headmaster Aronian asked.


    Generally, Martial Artists used their time in the Martial Academies to get a good understanding of each ss of missions before sticking to one, sometimes two sses of missions. Generally, offense-oriented Martial Artists stick with offense-oriented missions, and asionally hunter-ss missions. Defense-oriented Martial Artists did the same with defense-ss missions and hunter-ss as well. However, the situation was usually moreplicated for non-specialists, especially non-specialists like Rui who was an all-rounder.Please check at N/?vel(D)rama.Org.


    He had no particr affinity to any of the sses of missions in particr. Since hisst training stage, he had mastered techniques that would allow him to bepetent at even shadow-ss missions.


    "I''m afraid I haven''t decided yet." Rui said. "I think I''ll just stick to all sses, I don''t have any particr affinities within them and I do think I would be better off if I periodicallypleted missions from all of them. I was especially surprised at how well a lot of misceneous missions suited me." Rui noted.


    The representative missions with Nartha gave him a chance to test himself against a wide variety of Martial Artists. He had served as her representative fighter many a time.


    "I see." Headmaster Aronian nodded. "That is a model that most all-rounders like yourself adopt, however that needn''t be the case with you."


    "Why do you say that?" Rui asked inquisitively.


    "Because you have garnered arge number of personalmissions." Headmaster Aronian replied simply. "Thanks to that you have gained ess tomission opportunities that most Martial Artists won''t."


    "Ah..." Rui scratched his head awkwardly.


    Hismission inbox had blown up withmissions from many elite and wealthy clienteles across the nation. There were a number of reasons for this. His fame as the Martial Contest finalist, his fame in the Martial Games, and the fame he acquired thanks to killing Squire Freelia Cae. He had be a bit of a celebrity in the Martial circles of the Kandrian Empire.


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