novelzi Chapter 459 Tasks and Quotas
Chapter 459 Tasks and Quotas
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'Well, it seems that I severely underestimated just how understaffed this camp was.'
This is Cedric's initial thoughts upon seeing the long and extensive list of missions that offers merit points for rewards.
From huge and important tasks like exploring the abyssal zone near the camp or hunting down void creatures to harvest materials from them to simple tasks like preparing MREs, cleaning, and assisting others, all sorts of missions could be found here.
The list was so long that even an incompetent life evolver would surely find something that even they could do.
It puzzled him since Cedric had seen androids around here. He thought that for menial tasks, they would use these androids instead to free up some hands, but it seems that the camp has its own considerations too.
Cedric already compiled a list of tasks that he found interesting. These tasks had varying amounts of merit point rewards, but there's not that much of a difference since they're relatively within the same level of difficulty.
He would still need time to refine his choices. After all, he couldn't do all of these tasks even if he wanted to.
Since his performance was going to be tracked, he had to be careful. According to the stipulations, he must gain a total of 1000 merit points by each year that he remains a cadet. No, this isn't a payment for him to stay; it will only serve as proof that he wasn't being lazy or tardy here. He wouldn't lose these 1000 merit points; he just needed to accumulate that total amount, and he has an entire year to do so.
Truthfully, this wasn't hard. Even for a beginner like Cedric, accumulating 1000 merit points to fill the quota isn't that difficult, even more so with the skillset he could offer. Most of the missions Cedric knew for certain he could do, the pay was at least above 70 to 100s of merit points.
So long as he's diligent enough, he could complete this quota in a month or two. And if he could, then others could too.
The reason behind the ease of this was under the consideration that even cadets have to reserve some time for their cultivation. No one here was a fool; most people applied for this position to gain access to resources, and the camp simply can't turn them away since they gravely need people.
Even though it's almost certain that most of these people are just here for the opportunities presented before them and have no desire to lay down their lives for the sake of protecting the realm and will eventually leave, they had to accept them anyway.
People who will willingly sacrifice their lives for the sake of others are far too few in between. Even if the border patrol guardians were to scour the entirety of the alliance to find such people, they'd only get a handful, and the time and effort spent to do so was simply not worth it.
But if he wants to be promoted from a cadet to an interim officer, simply accumulating merit points is not enough.
With these missions, he sees opportunities to gain more insights, elevating his practice efficiency.
Getting paid while increasing his refinement mastery? Isn't that a win-win scenario?
For cadets like him, applying to traverse the void or any other huge tasks was biting off more than he could chew. It's practically suicide. Although these tasks are available for people like him, nobody's really expecting them to apply for them. And even if they do, they'd have to go through numerous clearances before they're approved. It's just a hassle.
Besides, Cedric's not in a hurry to see what's on the other side of the realm. He's not even sure if he really wanted to, to be honest. So why would he even consider those missions?
His immediate concern was to increase his mastery over the Cosmic Furnace Spell so that he could undergo his First Transition right away, taking his first crucial step to becoming a Cosmic Level expert.
In the end, strength still speaks the loudest, and that also applies here.
Cedric can apply for all three of these tasks at the same time, and he could juggle them according to his preferred schedule. So long as he's doing something productive, the supervisors of the camp won't interfere with his actions too much, nor will they reprimand him. As long as he's making himself useful, it's all good.
After he's done considering his choices, he applied for the missions and waited for approval. Tomorrow marks the end of his little break, anyway, so he's ready to move.
For now though, since he still has time, he figured that he should reconnect with his family.
With that thought, he entered the virtual universe and appeared in the communal world. He saw that his family was online, so he sent them a message and waited for their response.
He didn't need to wait long until they arrived one by one.
This wasn't the first time he met them after he left. Actually, after his hellish first day at work, he immediately sought their presence. And even though he could only be with them in the virtual universe, it's enough to stave away his loneliness.
Fortunately, it's also the same for them. It was also fortunate that his family wasn't doing terrible, even though he wasn't by their side physically. Gerald, Gilderoy, and his wives are adjusting to their lives, exploring the properity of the alliance while Godwyn was acclimating to his new position as Prime Earth's second governor. He's still learning greatly, but he's showing remarkable progress.
In no time, Cedric knew that Godwyn would eventually get used to it and might even perform even better than he did.
Despite being away, all is fine within the Stormrider household.