My name is Paroni, and my family is a famous generation of swordsmen.

Except for my sister, my father let me leave my mother's protection since I was five years old and entrusted me to personally teach me swordsmanship.

And he made me always believe that a swordsman is synonymous with a hero, so I!

"Boom boom boom...!"

I woke up suddenly from my sleep and almost fell off the bed.

"Who is it! Can't you be quiet in the early morning?"

I wanted to sleep a little longer this morning...

But hearing the noisy noise outside the door, I instantly lost all sleepiness.

Who ruined my most important sleep in the early morning?!

I angrily rushed out of the room with only my underwear on, without even putting on my pants.

"Who...uh?"

As soon as the door was opened, the scene in front of me stunned me.

A group of girls were wandering around the room, and then they all looked at me together...

"Ah-!!"

"There's a pervert!"

Under the attacks of the girls' shoe soles, I fled back to the room in embarrassment.

How could I forget that because the dormitory of the academy is an apartment system, each person has a room with a complete bathroom, including a washing machine, so there is no separation between male and female dormitories!

I quickly rushed to the bathroom and of course I didn't know about this, and washed my face to wake up.

"How did they come in? By the way, where did so many girls come from around my dorm room?!"

Boom boom boom...!

"Open the door quickly, otherwise we will break in!"

The girls outside the door issued the final ultimatum, but I just pulled up my pants, otherwise I would probably end up in a lawsuit if I didn't hurry!

"Why is today so unlucky?"

I had no choice but to use my last resort - sealing my elemental power!

"Hey! Why can't the door open?"

No matter how hard they tried, the door couldn't be blown open. Only someone with power close to the user's strength could break the elemental power seal. How could a group of C-level girls break it so easily?

Well, I am a principled person. Since I am already awake (and have nowhere to sleep), I definitely need to attend the opening ceremony of the academy today.

After taking care of my daily physiological needs in the bathroom (definitely for convenience).

After finishing washing up, I looked at the ordinary face in the mirror and sighed.

"Red hair really adds a few points of confidence to a person."

Only that fiery red hair adds a few points of elegance to my appearance (in my own opinion).

I fried an egg in the kitchen in the dormitory, then skillfully took out a box of milk from the refrigerator, toasted a slice of bread, and that's all for my breakfast.

Now I rely entirely on the extra salary given by the school to get by.

Of course, sometimes when I am short of money...

(I quickly flipped the egg, almost turning it into charcoal!)

I will also take one or two E or F-level commissions to earn some extra money.

I still remember what the principal told us when we entered the school.

The annual guarantee fee of the academy is only one hundred gold coins, and these gold coins can only solve the daily food and clothing for one year. If you want more money, you have to take on commissions.

Starting from a gold coin as the bottom line for F-level, the commission fee will increase tenfold for each level up!

According to this calculation, the commission fee for an SSS-level commission will be a starting price of one hundred million gold coins!

As for SSS-level mission commissions, only teachers of this level are qualified to accept such top-level bounty commissions.

Delegation is also the best way for the country to earn money from businessmen. As the rank increases, the minimum amount of bounty will also increase to a considerable amount, while also requiring a thirty percent tax to be paid to the king.

Once a mage violates the relevant treaty, he will be wanted or even hunted down by the entire mage corps!

Of course, money is never easy to earn. The so-called S-level delegation tasks are generally of relatively high difficulty.

The first time I came to school, I passed by the entrance of the delegation center and saw several S-level delegations.

And what is written on the delegation form is either escorting rare treasures or killing a certain group. Some even propose insane conditions like destroying a country!

Destroying a country... these people are simply insane!

There are actually bounty delegations that are so inhumane?

I can't even bear to look at it...

Especially after that incident, I only take on some tasks like helping the West family catch cats or causing trouble for the East family.

In the past month, I have been to the delegation center a total of ten times and completed twelve delegations, earning some pocket money.

Someone once invited me to participate in advanced delegations together, and if successful, I would get twenty-five percent. But I laughed and refused.

"I said I only earn some pocket money, why do I need so much money?"

Money is not everything, but without money, it is impossible to do anything.

I don't know who took advantage of my carelessness and stole some of my coins. After all, there are many people in the academy who are like me, without any support.

Some people can't even snatch delegation forms from others and can only go hungry.

But! If I don't earn some money soon, I might even have to go without bread. The next person to go hungry might be me!

Seeing that my pockets were almost empty, I went to the delegation center again on my way.

I've said so much, but I haven't talked about what the delegation center is.

It is actually the school's office building, and also the largest building on campus. Inside, there are rows of computers and staff constantly processing information and taking orders.

One of the big aunties in pink work clothes is the person in charge here.

"Hi, I'm here to..."

After entering the automatic door, the person in charge of the delegation center waved at me.

"Sorry, Paroni, all the delegations below C-level have been taken by the freshmen today. How about looking at the C-level ones?"

Today is really unlucky. C-level delegations are about hunting monsters!

Although I have several hundred coins, the difficulty of the tasks has also increased by more than one level!

"Um... C-level is fine, just give me one that's not too troublesome, and no expedition delegations."

"Okay, please wait a moment!"

The person in charge immediately started reading the latest C-level delegations.

"Then it will be in the suburbs of the imperial capital, but you need to form a group of three or more, because this is a C+ delegation."

"That's fine!"

I casually took the delegation form given by the person in charge. As expected...

"Ah, exterminate the troublesome bird-dragon beast in the suburbs of the imperial capital. Is it a monster-slaying task?"

After reading the introduction on the delegation form, I shook it in front of the person in charge, hoping she could change it to a delegation in the city.

"I'm really sorry, this is currently the closest C-level delegation to the imperial capital. The others, even if they are closer, are all expedition tasks. If you change, you probably won't want to take it, right?"

"Oh, I see..."

I reluctantly accepted the commission and bid farewell to the responsible lady.

While leaving the commission center, I took a quick look at the general content of the commission.

It was something like this: an incident occurred in the mansion of a wealthy merchant on the border of the imperial capital, where livestock were being killed and eaten.

However, the merchant dared not speak up and could only watch helplessly as his pigs and cows were treated as meals by the cunning and ferocious bird-dragon beasts.

This and that... Well, it's roughly that they are willing to offer a reward of nine thousand gold coins for the bird-dragon beast.

I still remember when I first awakened my elemental power and boldly accepted an A-rank commission on my first day of school.

Although I was assessed as an A-rank genius by the evaluators at that time, I was too ignorant and unaware of my own limitations. In reality, I was just a mediocre A-rank student at best.

That time, I took on a large-scale A-rank commission that aimed to eliminate the leader of the Black Snake Group, Viper!

My momentary carelessness caused a great disaster. That Viper Knight was truly a top-notch S-rank expert. We only exchanged blows for two rounds before he sent me flying.

That damn commission was actually labeled as A+, not just A!

Recommendation: Involve three or more A-rank or higher teachers...

If it weren't for the teachers' team realizing something was wrong and arriving in time, I might have been dead by now.

"Sigh, being confined for a month is already a lenient punishment for me."

Since that day, I, the clumsy fool, became infamous. Everyone would mock me, giving me the title of "low-level mage."

Once, I couldn't help but give a fierce glare to someone, and a few days later, I gained a new title - "inferior mage!"

Now, wherever I go, people would make way for me.

"Oh, isn't this the rascal from yesterday afternoon?"

Just as I put the commission into my pocket, a girl called out to me.

The voice sounded familiar, and when I turned around, a silver-haired girl appeared before me. She was indeed the dinosaur I met the day before yesterday.

"What's your name? How dare you bump into me..."

"I already apologized yesterday, didn't I? Clearly, you were the unreasonable one."

I couldn't be bothered to waste time talking to her. The school opening ceremony was about to start, and I might miss it.

As if noticing the C+ level commission in my pocket, the silver-haired girl shouted towards the commission center.

"Boss, we found a prey! There's someone here willing to team up with us and share their commission!"

"What's going on? I didn't answer..."

Just as I was about to refuse her request, the beautiful girl I met the day before yesterday came out of the commission center with a blue crystal shoulder-length hair.

"Really? Who wants to team up with us?"

"It's the kid from the other day!"

So that guy's name is Shinobi. But it was my fault for bumping into him the other day. Looking at the C-rank badges on their bodies, I knew they had reached the level to participate in hunting.

"Then get ready. After the opening ceremony, we'll meet at the main gate!"

"Hmph, a mere worm dares to order us around. You must be quite a remarkable task yourself."

From Shinobi's words, it seemed like my status had plummeted.

There's one more thing I noticed since that day. Is that annoying expression the only one she has?

"Hehe, I'm really sorry. Our Shinobi has always been a sharp-tongued person. She's like this to everyone except me. I hope you don't mind too much!"

"No, no, I actually think that's also a unique kind of cuteness." (Nonsense)

When I heard her strong yet not feminine voice, I couldn't help but stay and savor it, even saying some nonsense.

"Um, so, we might miss the opening ceremony, should we go to the church first?"

At this point, they also glanced at the time, realizing that it was already very late and if they didn't go soon, they might face punishment!

"Then let's meet at noon. By the way, what's your name?"

"Paroni, I am a swordsman."