### Chapter 7: First, Earn 10 Million
The two of them started chasing **Shun** rapidly, but as time passed, the distance between them and **Shun** only grew larger, and both of them began to pant heavily.
Running was a basic exercise they both did before learning magic, so their stamina was decent, but ten kilometers was too long a distance.
Moreover, endurance in running is closely related to speed. An ordinary person sprinting 100 meters would be exhausted, but jogging could get them two or three kilometers.
Only professional athletes could run 10,000 meters—that is, ten kilometers—and that came from years of training.
"Is that guy a rabbit... he's running... too fast..."
"...Is this... **Shun**'s secret to strength?"
The two were exhausted, but **Shun** felt full of energy at this moment, a distinctly different feeling from before.
It seemed that unlocking the One-Tail form had significantly improved his physical fitness even in human form.
Maintaining a speed that wasn't slow, he didn't feel the slightest bit tired.
After about twenty minutes, **Shun** finished the ten-kilometer run.
He easily broke the men's 10,000-meter world record from his previous life, and his speed was at least twice as fast as before.
"Feels good. Next time, I'll try to finish ten kilometers in 19 minutes."
Since the long run wasn't difficult, he would add some difficulty for himself. After all, it wasn't just a system task but also exercise for his body.
Although this run was easy, it gave him a sense of unreality.
Since he was exercising, it would be more interesting if it were more challenging.
By the time **Natsu** and **Gray** wobbled their way to **Shun**, he had already finished his 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, and 100 squats.
"Water... water..."
"Tired... I'm dying of exhaustion..."
**Natsu** and **Gray** lay on the ground with their tongues out, motionless.
If it were just an ordinary jog of ten kilometers, both of them could actually complete it.
But running fast consumed stamina exponentially.
**Shun** took out a bottle of water he had prepared earlier and poured it on their faces.
As the cool water fell, **Natsu** and **Gray** acted as if they had seen a source of salvation, immediately gulping it down.
"Ah—!! Finally alive again!"
"I thought I was going to die of exhaustion!"
**Shun** said helplessly, "Really, if you wanted to know my daily routine, I would have just told you. My daily exercise is simple: a 10km run, then 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, and 100 squats, that's all."
"These are all very basic exercises, no special secret."
Simple?
These exercises sounded simple, but it depended on the execution.
Is jogging 10 kilometers the same as running 10 kilometers at a sprinting speed?
They had personally experienced just how un-simple **Shun**'s "simple" was.
After the two recovered, the three of them returned to the Fairy Tail Guild together.
**Shun** went to the Request Board to look for a job. The money he had saved before was all spent on buying equipment, and his wallet was empty.
Now that he was a Fairy Tail Mage, he naturally had to rely on completing requests to support himself.
He had yearned for this kind of life. Before, he could only watch, but now he could finally go on missions himself.
Doing a request for the first time, he was honestly a little nervous.
The Request Board had all kinds of tasks, from fighting big monsters to helping people find lost items. **Shun** had looked at them many times.
The Mage Guild was like a jack-of-all-trades agency; there were often all sorts of bizarre commissions.
Soon, **Shun** found a suitable request.
**[Eliminate the Vicious Magic Beast Vulcan!]**
**[A group of Vulcans has suddenly appeared on Mt. Hakobe, robbing passing civilians and causing great losses. We implore the Mages of Fairy Tail to exterminate all the Vulcans.]**
**[Mission Reward: 150,000 Jewels.]**
That's right, this was the mission **Macao** went on in the anime.
**Shun** knew about Vulcans. They looked like oversized monkeys, were tall, and possessed immense strength.
The magic they used was Take Over Magic, specifically a magic that took over human bodies.
For his first mission, finding a familiar one was more reassuring, and the reward for this mission was high.
150,000 Jewels was roughly equivalent to 10,000 RMB.
This mission should take about three days. 10,000 RMB in three days meant 100,000 in thirty days, and 1 million in three hundred days.
1 million!!!
**Shun**'s heart trembled at this number. In his previous life, working a lifetime might not have saved up that much money.
Earning 1 million a year in the guild just doing missions of this level—it was too profitable.
Not only that, a 150,000 Jewel mission was only a mid-level task in the Fairy Tail Guild.
If one became an S-Class Mage, the starting price for an S-Class mission was over 5 million Jewels, with an average reward of 10 million Jewels, equivalent to 600,000 RMB.
Although S-Class missions were life-threatening, for 600,000 per mission, he was willing to risk his life.
Completing ten or eight S-Class missions would mean not worrying about money for a lifetime.
Profitable, too profitable.
No wonder everyone wanted to become a Mage. In the Fairy Tail Guild, as long as a Mage wasn't lazy, earning thirty to fifty thousand a month was actually very easy.
In his previous life, that was an income only mid-to-high-level management could possess.
"Alright! Let's set a small goal first!"
"First, earn 10 million!"