Chapter 67 - 66. A Guide’s Harem
It was the quietest the Trinity tower had been. The eyes of the guild members were glued to the video, whether it was those that watched it through the commlink stream or saw it through the conference room screen.
And the quietest of them all was the seventh floor where the guides were congregated.
Because on that recording was something that a green-zone guides like them couldn’t imagine ever doing. No—even someone who worked in the red-zone before like Nora wouldn’t dare to say that they could do it like what was depicted in the video.
It wasn’t some kind of promotional video, or a choreographed stunt. It was a real recording of a place so horrendous that Ashur’s last undead dungeon felt like an amusement park ride. The recording was done with dark-vision cameras, from the rearguard point of view and a bystander civilian.
Edited just to make it look clearer, the video depicted a guide in a SavAsh combat suit—which some of the guides were already familiar with—as well as a filtered mask and night-vision goggles. While the face was obscured due to the equipment, no one doubted the identity of the guide in question as Trinity’s new addition; the man the Guildmaster called Luzein.
The video contained a few clips that were cut and strung together for the sake of concise viewing, from the way the guide followed the espers’ movement without hesitation or delay, to the steady gaze that never showed fear even in front of attacking beasts.
But the highlight of the video was when the non-combatant members of the team were ambushed by another monster as the vanguard was busy attacking the other. The video showed how the guide moved to yank the civilian and the healer away from the vine monster, even coming forward with a dagger to save the one getting tangled in the vine’s hold.
Perhaps it was the intention of the Guildmaster to make it look as dramatic as possible, but the viewers felt as if they were watching a documentary action movie. Such movement might not mean much if it came from physical-type espers like Ashur Iddina, but from a guide?
It was eye-opening.
"Ah..." Ashur gripped the armrest of his chair tightly. Yes, this was it! This was what a guide should be inside a dungeon!
Not only protecting himself, but this guide could even protect civilians and healers. There was no hesitation in his action, no fear inside the highly focused eyes. No complaining about rough terrain and suffocating air.