I JUST WANT A PEACEFUL LIFE

After Lily fully grasped the transmutation magic, Angus immediately returned to the royal academy. He already missed Jayna's presence. Arriving at the spring dorm, Angus gets welcomed by Anna and Jayna like before.

The little troublemaker instinct is really unpredictable. She even knows Angus is coming from far away. It feels like she has a sixth sense. After playing with the little troublemaker and having some intimate time with Jayna, Angus continued his research at Firecast skill.

Currently, Angus is reading a book in some ancient language. This is a copybook that he got from the research center. During the time inside the research center, Angus also managed to copy a few copies from the book Archmage Bern left behind.

The research center even has a piece of Archmage Bern's personal notebook from when he was young. Apparently, the archmage is very creative from a young age. This could be seen in how he writes his personal note.

His note is written in a very complex code and his own language. Even the research center only managed to translate half of them and still couldn't break the code after many years of research.

Fortunately, not all his books are coded. Some of his books are only written in an ordinary ancient language. One of these books happens to be about elemental and their relation. Inside the book, Archmage Bern's insight about fire elementals is also noted.

Like his previous research, Archmage Bern also concluded that fire elemental is a wild element. If it reaches the pinnacle, it could destroy anything though there is no concrete proof of this claim yet.

Reading the Archmage Bern about the elemental insight, Angus also finds some interesting things. He finds that at its pinnacle of elemental mastery, all the elements seem to be correlated one after another.

The elemental principles could affect the others once it reaches a certain degree. This statement makes Angus think for a while.

As an expert martial artist and weapon master, Angus knows that once people reach the end of weapon mastery, people can even wield any kind of weapon easily. He found that Archmage Bern's statement is almost the same as the weapon mastery principle.

'Hmm… If this is true, then to truly master fire elemental, I not only need to learn about the fire elemental but also other elemental basic principles.' thought Angus.

After knowing this, Angus begins to research other elemental principles and mastery while keeping his Firecast training. Currently, he still needs all his concentration to manipulate a big fire using the help of Hellfire.

One month passed by while everyone kept their activity to improve themself. On one afternoon, Angus and everyone gather in the Spring Dorm's garden like usual. In their hand, there is a paper about the mission that they could take in starting from the term.

Like everyone suspected, they need to complete at least three level two missions during one year to graduate from the royal academy. Now, they are discussing which mission they should take. Some of these missions could be taken in groups and or individually.

Looking at the list, "*Sigh* I don't know that there are so many level 2 missions available to us." said Ian.

"Well, the level 2 mission fee is too low for the teacher or other experts in the academy. But, it is also too difficult for other students to take. Usually, most of them are subjugated low-grade monsters and stuff." explained Axel.

"Well, fighting monsters is good, but…" said Ian.

"Their place is too far from one another." continued Mia.

"Yeah, we need to plan carefully which mission we should take." said Millie.

While everyone is discussing, "Angus, which mission will you take?" asked Jayna.

"I get one private mission from my father and probably will take two subjugated monster missions near my home. How about you? Didn't you decide to take a group mission with Anna." replied Angus.

"Yeah, since we can't leave Anna alone, I planned to bring her to the Dark Forest border to subjugate some low-grade monsters there." said Jayna.

"Dark Forest??" exclaimed everyone.

"Yeah, I think it will be a good experience for Anna and me. Besides, I could take multiple missions at once at that place." said Jayna.

"Hmm… Dark Forest? Interesting. How about I join you? The Dark Forest border is also part of my home territory. I will join you after finishing my father's private mission." said Angus.

"Sure." said Jayna happily as she could spend time with Angus.

"So, how about you all?" asked Angus to the others.

"Well, I planned to accept some private escort missions from my father and probably take some available subjugation missions near the area." said Ian.

"Me too. However, I will take more gathering missions after my family's private mission." said Axel.

"Huft, my family didn't have any private mission that I could take at the moment. But, I think I will take some subjugating missions near my home." said Mia.

"My family also didn't have any available private missions. So, I planned to take some mission as a healer at the Temple of Death." said Millie.

"Temple of death? Isn't it the current most promising religion group?" asked Axel.

"Yeah, since the last monster overlord incident. Their popularity is on the rise. Apparently, they are in dire need of a healer at the moment at some rural arena." said Millie.

"I hear they are quite an odd group despite being a religious organization. Still, their healer is quite good. My family often hires them when we get sick or something." said Ian.

'Temple of Death, huh? Interesting…' though Angus inwardly.

Unlike other religious organizations, Temple of Death is a group that completely acts neutral while helping the poor. Their organization is doing a lot of charity deeds and always refuses any kind of power.

Therefore, they are also more famous and have a lot of followers around the world. Moreover, they specialized in fighting the undead from the last monster overlord's attack. Their popularity has been on the rise more in the past few years.

At first, the Temple of Death is a religious organization that the rich and influential people use as the third party to make special contracts. Like other religious organizations, Temple of death is also proficient at making contracts.

However, their contract penalty is harsh among other religious organizations. In their term, breaking their contract means eternal sleep or, in other words, death. So far, there is no other contract with the harsh penalty like death from other religious organizations.

They are also the only ones that could make a soul-bound contract. Because of this, some said that this religious group only served the wealthy and influential people. However, they are also famous for their neutrality and charity deeds without expecting anything in turn.

After discussing the missions, they are back at doing their own in preparation for the mission. Besides Millie, who will work as a healer with the Temple of Death, the others may fight against low-grade monsters.

Although they may not fight third-grade monsters, they will still fight at least second-grade monsters alone. Therefore, they need to prepare themself.

Unlike Jayna, Angus, and Anna, who could easily beat second-grade monsters on their own, others need to be careful and a lot of preparation. After some training and sparring with the teacher, they also get a lot of experience in battle.

Although their power has not increased a lot this year, their combat capability has grown by leaps and bounds. It could be said they even fight a third-grade monster without the help of Angus, Jayna, or Anna.

Another month passes, and Angus is standing in the backyard with candles surrounding him. Despite the wind in the area, none of the candle fire is extinguished. They keep flickering as if they almost died out but never truly extinguished.

Suddenly, Angus opens his eyes, and all the candle fire becomes bigger. Then, they become one in the air, dancing and turning into 3D letter shapes. The letter is changed from A to Z. After that, it shifts once again into a magic circle.

During this moment, Angus is already sweating and full of concentration. He even used some of his mana to maintain the Hellfire power controlling the fire in the air. After some time, the fire managed to complete the magic circle and shine.

*ROARR* [3rd Circle - Fire Wyrm] A big Fire Wyrm appears from the magic diagram. After casting the spell, Angus seems exhausted and in a rough breath. But, he still has the strength to control the burning fire Wyrm in front of him.

"Huft.. Finally success. Still, it consumes me more than half of my mana just to create this Fire Wyrm." said Angus.

As he controls the Fire Wyrm to run around, "Angus, throw the Fire Wyrm to me." said Jayna in a serious tone.

"Ehh.. Sure." said Angus before controlling the Fire Wyrm to Jayna.

As the Fire Wyrm goes towards Jayna, she takes out her sword and imbues it with fire mana [Sword Art - Crimson Slash]. Jayna's attack clashes with the Fire Wyrm and creates a heatwave towards the surrounding area. *Whoosh*

"Hmm… Like I thought."