Chapter 308 Debt Problem

On the afternoon of July 8th, Joan returned to Leiden College after the hunting trip.

According to yesterday's agreement, Joan first went to the swordsmanship hall, returned the "Ram Ring" to Edward, and practiced swordsmanship for an hour under Edward's guidance. Afterwards, the two went to the boxing gym next door to find Thomas, the three classmates, and went to the cafeteria to eat together.

At first, Thomas saw Edward and Joan walking together, and wondered how the relationship between the two of them had suddenly improved. Then he remembered that Joan had saved Edward's life in Brother Jack's cabin yesterday.

Although Edward is a little narrow-minded, he is not an ungrateful person. It is reasonable to be grateful afterwards and take the initiative to repair the relationship with Joan.

After dinner, Joan suggested that everyone go to the laboratory together and greet the long-lost mentor, which was unanimously agreed by Thomas and Edward.

After this hunting trip, Master Rawls found that his three genius disciples had grown a lot, and their relationship with each other had become more harmonious.

Although Master Rawls was quite old, he was actually a very simple-minded person who was not very good at observing his words. When he saw Thomas showing off his silver medal, he turned around and asked Edward what ranking he had won.

"My hunting performance is not as good as that of Joan and Thomas," Edward rubbed his hands in embarrassment, "I only got fourth place, 6 points behind the third place."

"Only 6 points away? Oops! What a pity!" Master Rawls slapped his thigh in regret, and comforted Edward: "Actually, you are just a little unlucky."

"Compared to the two teammates who unfortunately died tragically, I am lucky enough to come back alive." Edward said bitterly.

"Accidents are inevitable during hunting, so I didn't approve of you going to Wild Boar Island at the beginning. Now you know the danger?"

Master Rawls took the opportunity to teach his disciples a lesson.

"It doesn't matter how high or low the ranking is, as long as you naughty ghosts come back safely, you can't take risks next year!"

"Even if your old man gives me a holiday next year, I'm not interested in going to Wild Boar Island again." Thomas said with a smile.

"What, you're going to cock your tail if you win a runner-up?" Instructor Rawls glared at this most unmotivated disciple.

"That's not true. The main reason is that we have already killed the most powerful beast on the island, 'Prince Razor'. Without the King of Wild Boars, Wild Boar Island is no longer challenging."

Thomas pretended to be calm and showed off the biggest achievement of this trip.

"What? You hunted and killed Prince Razor?" Master Rawls jumped up in disbelief, "Just with you three little guys? I don't believe it!"

"Teacher, I dare not lie to you, Joan can testify! Of course, this is not all due to us, and the team that won the championship of this year's hunting competition is also assisted..."

Thomas, the "cowhide king", did not perform very well when he was hunting Prince Razor. Now he told the hunting experience vividly and excitingly, which frightened Rawls for a while.

The four master and apprentice chatted until midnight.

Instructor Rawls found out the ins and outs of hunting Prince Razor before he was satisfied and let the students go back. At the gate, Joan was left alone, encouraging him to focus on his studies and strive to go to Midgard University for further study as soon as possible.

Joan certainly understands that everything the mentor does is for his own good.

Although he was somewhat reluctant to leave the familiar and comfortable environment of Leiden College, and the friends he made in Leiden, every time he thought of the distant, strange, and cold Midgard, he felt anxious and worried that his academic standards were not up to par. He didn't meet the admission standards of Midgard University's Arcane Institute, but he still couldn't bear to live up to his mentor's painstaking efforts, let alone disappoint him, so he nodded silently, expressing that he would obey his mentor's arrangement.

The peaceful time is like flowing water, passing away quietly without leaving a trace.

Counting from the day when I returned to school after the hunting trip, a week passed in a blink of an eye.

On Saturday, July 13th, Joan walked out of the campus early in the morning and took a public carriage to Yangbo Firm.

Mr. Javier Yampo treated Joan with a cup of hot coffee with milk as usual, and asked him about his hunting experience on Wild Boar Island.

Although he had already heard about Joan's miraculous feat of killing "Prince Razor" from Xiaomiao and Azhi before, he still wanted to hear more thrilling details from Joan himself.

After chatting for half an hour, Qiao An took the initiative to explain the purpose of his trip.

There are two main things.

The first is to pay off the arrears.

At the beginning, Joan bought a "life-support ring" from Mr. Havel in the form of installment payment, and repaid the loan several times in succession. Now there is still a debt of 1,000 gold Dujia.

The prize money for the champion and the runner-up of the hunting competition totaled 5,000 gold Duga, all of which were collected by Joan alone. Since he had ample money, the first thing he thought of was to pay off the arrears.

In addition to the loan owed to Mr. Havel, Joanne also has a debt, which is the student loan he applied for at the beginning, which is 1,500 gold Dujia per academic year.

After returning to Leiden College, Joan went to Martin Smith and asked the student loan "on-campus agent" if it was possible to repay the student loan in advance.

If possible, Qiao An would also like to end the student loan contract ahead of schedule and rely on part-time jobs to earn tuition fees.

The result was both disappointing and expected. Martin told him regretfully: "The student loan can be repaid in advance, but this will at most save you from paying some loan interest. After graduating from Leiden College, you still have to fulfill the black and white provisions in the contract." obligation - to serve the Colonial Company for at least 5 years."

After listening to Martin's explanation, Joan's face was a little ugly.

Doesn't this mean that your future has been kidnapped by the company?

"Senior Smith, if I insist on rescinding the student loan contract, will I have to pay the company a large amount of liquidated damages?" Joan asked Martin holding back his anger.

"That's right, the liquidated damages are calculated at ten times the principal and interest of the student loan. Even if you can graduate next year, you have to pay the company 20,000 gold Dujia."

Martin patted Joan on the shoulder sympathetically, calmly persuading him to think about it.

"I know that you earned some bonuses in the hunting competition, and I believe that you will have a bright future. If I were a genius like you, I would not be willing to serve the company for five years with a low salary and waste my youth, but there is no way , who made us come from humble backgrounds and poor families when we entered school?"

"Joan, this society is too unfriendly to the poor. You are eager to improve your class status, want to join the upper class, and become a master. This is very good, but the process of climbing the 'tower' of social class It's so tough, talent and luck are not enough, you need a little more patience."