Chapter 247 - 240. Vanity and Ability
"Pfft--" Bassena leaned on the railing, letting off the last of his laughter as the AR field was turned off and the applicants were gasping for breath down there.
A staff came up to lead them down to another room where they would receive refreshments and guiding from the twenty guides. Alice went to the guides to collect their first sheet and lead them to the same room the esper went to, along with Abel. Both division heads would rotate between each batch to provide supervision and assessment. Of course, a few Trinity guides had already been stationed there to continue the guiding after the ten minutes of assessment that the guides needed to do.
They waved to Abel as the man went down, and Bassena continued to speak. "Actually, we do," he said while glancing at Zein with a smirk.
"Huh?"
"We accept people with good skills and good appearance," Bassena said, shifting his gaze to the applicants that had started to move toward another room.
It was hard for guides to not be good-looking due to their natural trait, but it was different with espers. They were people who regularly needed to face extreme dungeon environments and did physical training--not to mention being prone to injuries and scars. That being said, Trinity had succeeded in gathering at least decent-looking people, who managed to look even better after they joined the guild and enjoyed the many facilities here--including the spa and sauna that Rina vehemently requested from the management. Being regularly guided well also contributed to the espers looking brighter and healthier, on top of doing regular medical check-ups in Mortix’s affiliated hospital.
Zein did not pick it up until a few weeks later, even though Han Shin had already mentioned it before. And he only realized how many members were involved in showbiz after he started watching television shows because of Bassena. Most of them were modeling for clothing lines or taking advertising gigs, while some took acting or singing careers on the side. He found out that some of the members were already in the entertainment industry before getting scouted or registering with Trinity after they earned their esper licenses.
It wasn’t like Trinity opened the recruitment by saying it was an audition for entertainment talents, but after four years of being known as that kind of guild, people who registered this year were usually quite confident in their looks.
"It’s nothing uncommon; guilds--or, hell...any working place--chose people in their own category all the time," Rina shrugged.
"Like Glasswing?" Zein tilted his head, and the others snapped their fingers in affirmation.
"Like Glasswing," Bassena nodded. "There’s a guild that only chose orphans, guilds that are established based on skin color, and even guilds that only allow people from a certain academy," a corner of his lips lifted a bit while he made notes on his evaluation sheet for the first batch. "It’s kind of ridiculous to judge a guild based on their way of choosing members instead of their performance."