Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Chapter 246: Mission Hall Part One

The Mission hall was carved out of the side of the mountain. The entrance was nothing more than a large pavilion with stone pillars holding up the ceiling. In the back was a window with a counter and sitting behind that counter was an old man leaning back on a chair with his eyes closed and his arms crossed across his chest. 

As Mei walked into the mission hall all eyes were on her. She seemed to have risen to fame during her entrance test. But it wasn't just because of her battles but also because of the way she had made the female tyrant retreat earlier had already spread across the sect. Some gazes were that of admiration while others were that of pity. 

Those who looked at her with pity knew very well that the tyrant would not leave things as it was. Xie Zemin was known for her tyranny. Now that she had suffered such a loss in front of so many there was no way she would let Mei go. They all felt that this new junior sister would not have much time left in this world. Xie Zemin might be hated amongst the female disciples but she was very well liked among the male disciples of the sect and had a huge following that would do anything she asked. This was mainly due to Xie Zemin having a powerful backing which she used to throw her weight around and also because she had good looks to match.

Mei ignored these gazes and walked up to the board with the missions posted on it. She looked at the board and saw that all the missions were basically for gathering resources. It was either to collect herbs or kill some kind of demonic beasts and retrieve their parts to make this. Mei felt this was not much different than the Adventurers Guild back on Phantasia. 

Each mission had a star on the bottom, some had more than one. Mei figured this was the ranking system to tell those who are going to take on a mission how difficult the mission actually was. 

Next to the large board was another smaller board. When Mei went to look at this board she was surprised to see a number of kill orders not on demonic beasts but humans. These missions had at a minimum of seven stars on them and the rewards surpassed the gathering missions by a large amount. Mei found this to be reasonable seeing how the difficulty was much higher. She had read through some of these kill orders that explained the crime and reason for each request. Some of them were due to the mass murder of normal people or what they called mortals, people without cultivation. While others were due to even worse acts that would make even Mei's stomach go queasy. 

As Mei was reading the missions a group of male disciples walked in. As they did everyone quickly got out of their way. "Look, it's Xie Wen! Xie Zemin's older brother and a core disciple!" One person shouted out. 

Low chattering could be heard throughout the Mission Hall. Xie Wen walked in and with his cold gaze filled with killing intent that made everyone there freeze when his eyes fell on to them. Those same eyes scanned everyone in the hall until it landed on a certain small figure reading missions on the mission board. Seeing this small figure Xie Wen snorted and walked over towards the girl. Mei felt a large amount of killing intent bearing down on her and turned around. When she did Xie Wen's ice cold gaze faltered as he looked at the beautiful girl in front of him. He did not understand what was going on. His sister had said some ugly girl had embarrassed her in front of a large crowd and came to seek revenge but how can such a beautiful and innocent looking girl do such a thing. 

Clearing his throat and completely extinguished his killing intent. His cold gaze turned into one as bright as the sun as he smiled at Mei asking: "Are you the new disciple that was taken in as elder Hong's direct disciple?" 

"Hmm? Yes, that is me? Is there something you need?" Mei asked a bit confused as to why Xie Wen had given off such killing intent before.

"Did you run into a girl earlier today in the inner sect courtyard?" Xie Wen suddenly felt his cheeks grow hot as he looked at the girl in front of him. Deep down inside he was hoping she did not feel his killing intent earlier. For some reason, he did not want this girl to have a bad impression of him!

"You mean the girl who asked me to give up the divine something or another title that Sect Master Li forced on me? If it's her, then yes I did. After I asked her a few questions she stormed off in a huff. She had a skinny frame, long black hair, and a fairly pretty face. If it's her then yes I did run into her. Or more like she ran into me to cause trouble for no reason." Mei answered, not noticing that the people around her were slowly backing away waiting for Xie Wen to blow up in rage. Mei did not think anything she said earlier was wrong and it was not like she said anything mean to the girl. But Mei still misunderstood one thing about this world. Face and Pride were very important. Some would rather kill themselves than to lose face or have their pride smashed.

The crowd of disciples all cringed as they waited for Xie Wen to lash out at Mei but what they expected did not come as Xie Wen cupped his hands and bowed his head saying: "I am sorry for my little sister's actions earlier. I will make sure to punish her for her actions later." 

Mei was confused as to why the girl would be punished. She shook her head and waved her hands back and forth as she said: "It's fine, it is not like anyone was hurt or anything. Just a few words were spoken, no harm done."

Xie Wen lifted his eyes and looked at Mei's face that had a slight smile on it. He felt as if the girl in front of him was a goddess sent down from the heavens to bring peace to the land. He decided right then and there that he would punish Xie Zemin severely when he returned.

Mei had no idea her kindness was about to cause Xie Zemin to befall a great tragedy.

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