Author's Note: Do Not Unlock Yet. Chapter Is Still Under Construction
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Which brought him to the Missions Hall, a quiet building of honeyed wood and transparent paper screens. A steward recognized him and, with a flustered bow, guided him past the general boards to a small chamber with a single table and a lacquered drawer. Inside lay a slate of core disciple missions—fewer than he expected, heavier than they looked.
He skimmed: mediate a border dispute between minor clans; eradicate a blood-leech hive in the southern marsh; retrieve a lost heirloom from a haunted pagoda where the floors remember the last battle and replay it nightly.
Then one line caught him: "Supervise and safeguard a team of new Violet Spring disciples in the Glassstep Wilds. Purpose: experience, minor bottleneck breaking. Threats: mid-tier spirit beasts, opportunistic bandit companies, terrain anomalies."
