There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL)

"It’s an orange-level dungeon of medium density," Radia flicked the screen containing the dungeon information over to Zein. "We schedule it for next week, and the briefing will be in five days."

Zein read the information sheet for a bit, before shoving the hovering interface aside. "I thought we’ll be having the trial run in one of the eternal dungeons?"

With the birth of the new division, Trinity had been withholding sending any guide inside the dungeon for a month. They were waiting for the new division to shape up before starting their official duty. Of course, since it would be their first time, the initial plan was to have them inside the more controlled environment of the eternal dungeon.

"But isn’t that too shabby for your public debut?" Radia tilted his head, making a disappointed face.

"I don’t need a public debut," Zein frowned. He started to think that Trinity was really an entertainment agency. Almost twenty percent of espers and guides affiliated with the guild had a side job as actors or models. There were even streamers, as far as Abel told him.

"Worry not, I won’t ask you to do any work you don’t want to," Radia waved his hand. It was a waste of a pretty face, but Zein would only make a deadpan face in front of a camera anyway. "But aren’t you actually like it more? This dungeon, I mean..."

The crimson eyes observed the guide keenly. He could see flashes of interest on Zein’s face as the man read the dungeon’s information. Zein also didn’t protest vehemently, unlike the time he pulled out a debate over his subordinate’s guiding schedule with the esper’s management.

"You actually prefer new dungeons to prepare them for Deathzone’s unpredictability, aren’t you?" Radia chuckled as the guide let out a smirk.

It was harsh, but they did try to speedrun the process. The annual sentinel association meeting was in five months, and the bid over the reclamation project would be held then. This new division and the development of the purification device were their weapons to win the rights.

"I was thinking of going with the eternal dungeon if nothing came up," Radia explained. "But something quite fitting popped out, so shouldn’t we just use it?"

It almost came like a divine intervention. A dungeon with quite a high difficulty, but not to the point of deadly. It was prestigious enough for a debut as Radia called it, because anything over the yellow level would have media coverage. But it wasn’t anything hard for them.