Chapter 350: Red-Level Mission
The back mountain of White Coral Academy is typically used for planting fruit trees, vegetables, corn, and other crops. Its vast area makes it an ideal location for the strategic relocation of residents from the southern district of Duling City.
Currently, it is summer, the season for vigorous plant Growth. However, as Jia Na entered the back mountain, she found that all the plants there lacked any sense of vitality; instead, they were filled with death and desolation.
“Professor Uta, you called for me.”
In fact, the moment Jia Na stepped into the back mountain, she received a spiritual alert from her Danger Perception talent.
Just as she instinctively wanted to flee the back mountain, Uta's gaze, which then fell upon her, compelled her to stop.
“Is the white bone badge the Headmaster gave you still with you?”
Jia Na, who had just come to a stop, felt a tightening in her chest upon hearing Uta's abrupt question, yet she nodded quite honestly.
“Hmm, then take this ring as well—consider it my advance payment for the mission.”
As he spoke, an ancient ring engraved with a hexagram pattern was handed by Uta to Jia Na.
“Mission—payment?”
Looking at the hexagram ring in her hand, an absurd guess quickly formed in Jia Na's mind.
“This ring is called Star Guardian. Its effect is similar to the white bone badge Headmaster Anthony gave you; it’s also a one-time Guardian Wizard Tool.”
Ding! Just as Jia Na's mind was somewhat dazed, a clear system prompt sounded in her head without warning.
Today's Mission: Prevent the Dark Sun Church's God Descent Ritual.
Mission Rewards: 1000 Talent Experience, 3000 Skill Experience, three random rewards.
Mission Time: Unlimited.
Looking at the red text on the mission panel, Jia Na felt her eyelids twitch wildly.
“Besides that, I will also personally grant you advanced knowledge related to Guardian Studies—of course, that will have to wait until the mission is over.”
Hearing the voice beside her, Jia Na's attention quickly shifted from the mission panel back to Professor Uta’s words. The mission that the other party repeatedly mentioned naturally made Jia Na connect it with the red-level mission the system had just assigned.
“Professor Uta, the mission you are about to give me—it wouldn't be to prevent the Dark Sun Church's God Descent Ritual, would it?”
“Exactly.”
Hearing that Jia Na had guessed the mission content, a smile of approval flashed across Uta's seemingly benevolent face.
“Do you think I, a Third-level Wizard Apprentice, can truly handle this mission?”
“No one here is more suitable than you.”
Unbeknownst to Jia Na, she found that a semi-elliptical barrier had been erected around her and Professor Uta.
The two people isolated within the barrier seemed to have vanished into thin air; no matter how loud their conversation was, the surrounding residents did not notice them at all.
“So it's a combined barrier with both soundproofing and invisibility effects…”
After quickly observing the barrier technique Uta performed, Jia Na also focused her attention, listening carefully to the mission details Uta was about to explain.
“Cough, cough—Sister, my throat hurts so much, and my back hurts too—”
Beside a bush in the back mountain, a boy, about eight or nine years old, was half-lying on a short-haired girl's lap, coughing violently.
“Sean, just bear with it a little longer. The Wizard will be here soon—cough, cough!”
Like Sean, who was afflicted with the plague, his older sister, Jenny, was also running a high fever and struggling to keep her eyes open.
Jenny and Sean were orphans from the Duling City South District orphanage. A year ago, their parents had tragically died due to a large-scale Shadow Creature attack on the city.
Today, the same situation occurred again, only this time, what was taking their Life was not a Shadow Creature, but an unannounced plague.
“Hoo—”
Just as the two were on the verge of collapse, a high-pitched bird cry made Jenny struggle to lift her head.
Looking in the direction of the sound, she saw a slender figure, dressed in a dark green wizard robe but with an unclear face, walking gracefully from not far away with a beautiful bird-like creature bathed in milky white light, until they reached the two of them.
“Om—”
A milky white light slowly bloomed from Jia Na's palm. With a thought, hundreds of threads of magic power, condensed from Purification power, flowed like water into Jenny and Sean's bodies.
“The spread of the plague has indeed accelerated.”
After Jia Na, in conjunction with the Celestial Sparrow, used Purification power to expel the plague pollution from Jenny and Sean's bodies, she immediately transformed the Purification power in her hand into plant-based magic particles, casting the Organ Repair Wizardry to repair their bodies, which were on the verge of exhaustion.
“If we had arrived any later, these two would probably have died of illness right here.”
Taking a long breath, Jia Na, having completed the treatment, withdrew the magic power from her hand.
“Sister, is this person an angel mentioned in the <Bible>?”
Sean, who had slowly regained consciousness under Jia Na's treatment, couldn't help but tug at Jenny's arm beside him and ask in a low voice when he saw the sacred light in Jia Na's hand.
“Don't talk nonsense, this is a distinguished Wizard!”
Jia Na, possessing hearing far superior to ordinary people, naturally heard their whispers. But regarding this, Jia Na, whose face was hidden in her hood, merely curved her lips slightly.
“It seems the spread of faith in the Heavenly Holy World is far more widespread than I imagined.”
In the Primary Material World, although Wizards have always been revered, the ruling Wizards do not hinder ordinary people from having their own beliefs.
Of course, the object of faith cannot be a “God” hostile to the Primary Material World, or even hostile to Wizards—the clearest example of this is the Dark Sun Church.
Thinking of this, after completing the treatment for the last two children with relatively severe plague symptoms, Jia Na's gaze turned to the infant held in a woman's arms within the crowd.
“Is the root of all disaster stemming from him?”
An hour ago, Jia Na received a difficult mission from Professor Uta.
The content of this mission was for Jia Na to use the power of the Growth Law Fragment to make the plants on the entire back mountain as lush as possible.
Its purpose was not to prevent the “evil god” from descending, but to protect as many people as possible.
Due to Grace-Eva's incorrect judgment, the true “evil god container” and a group of residents from the southern district of Duling City entered White Coral Academy together.
However, due to the Law restrictions of the Magic Tower, the “evil god” who had awakened early from the container could not easily expose his identity and could only rely on absorbing the Life force of surrounding living beings to recover his strength.
