Chapter 248 - 241. Hometown
"I think seven is enough," Zein said to the commlink as he walked through the hallway of Mortix building. "I’m fine with taking four."
[Just four? You’re sure? What about that kid from Mireta?] Abel’s voice could be heard from the device.
"Hmm...his guiding was rather unstable. Not bad, but..."
[You have such high standard] Abel laughed. [Why don’t we put him on hold until we know how many espers they’ll take]
"Sure," Zein shrugged. Again, they weren’t really in a dire need of guides, so he’d rather taking the one who really met his strict standard.
[Alright, have a nice trip]
The call ended and now that Zein could focus on the road, he started to walk faster with Jock. After an exhausting day of going through joint practical assessment, Zein wasted no time to get on with his initial plan of visiting Araka the next day.
While the guide assessment had already finished--except for the thorough screening that the security department would conduct after they submit the passing applicants--the espers still had to do field assessment. They had competition yesterday, but they would be tested in their cooperation today, by forming a squad and raiding inside the dungeon owned by Trinity.
Because of that, Bassena couldn’t accompany Zein today, and was rather sulky this morning. Zein did visit the dungeon site before heading to Mortix this morning; to briefly met Arlo and coddled his puppy for a bit before heading out.
It would take days if they were to use cars, so Radia gave them permission to access the inter-zone portal. It was a teleportation device that could only be used between Mortix Headquarters and the subsidiaries in each Area. The high mana consumption made this method of transportation restricted to highly important business and emergencies, and needed permission from the Presidents of each subsidiary office.
They would use the portal in Althrea to head to Area 14’s subsidiary office, before heading to the orange-zone using a helicopter, and continued the journey to Araka using a car. If everything went by the schedule, Zein would already be in Althrea by tomorrow afternoon. Any longer and Bassena would probably head there immediately to check up on him.