As for this task of his, it did not even have the most basic information marked down—"mission summary," "type," "number," and the like. It looked especially casual, as if someone had simply found a pending commission of roughly the right difficulty at the last minute and sent it to him as a promotion task for going upstairs.
On the road from River Valley Town to Newm, Xia Nan had already weighed it in his mind.
The task itself had no time limit at all, nor any penalty for failure.
No one had even mentioned what reward he might receive after completing it.
Compared with the bounties he had taken before, it could not have been more rudimentary.
Of course, there might have been reasons like a "makeshift outfit" or dereliction of duty by the relevant personnel.
But when he thought of the attitude the Association had toward Professionals in his impression, as well as the wording that Association staff member had used when handing him the small slip of paper with the mission address written on it:
—Investigate.
Yes, it was not the "handle," "wipe out," or "kill" commonly used in bounty information on the mission wall...
But the ambiguous "investigate."
To some extent, did that not also mean that he did not need to kill the central figure in this incident, "Barker," and that as long as he compiled the information he had explored and reported it to the Association, the task would count as complete?
Perhaps this so-called promotion task was only a formality?
Xia Nan felt a little subtle about it.
This involved multiple forces such as high-level Professionals, Newm's upper ranks, The Church, and on top of that, that powerful and bizarre blond Elf. This clearly was not an incident the current him could take part