Soul Association.
An organization with enormous influence, wealth, and power. It was established instantly after life turned into chaos, because of the different dimensional zones all around the world.
After the calamity, when everything turned peaceful again, every city all around the Federation built a Soul Association center where people can register freely to clear the dimensional zones for rewards.
With it and the five Great Families, the Federation could keep the balance and peace all over the world.
At the moment, Greg and his friends were before a huge building, which top had the sign of 'Soul Association'.
"Let's get going.", said Joe and started to walk forward the entrance, while Greg and the two girls followed him closely from behind.
After arriving before the door, it automatically opened and a robotic voice greeted them.
"Welcome into the Soul Association."
Greg and the others stepped inside and looked around with awe.
From the outside, the building was already huge, but after going inside, everything changed and looked even bigger.
It was like a whole new world opened before them in an instant.
There was no ceiling above them, only an illusion could be seen, which showed them outer space with thousands of stars, small planets, and moons all around.
"Amazing!"
As the three were amazed by the sight, Joe chuckled and said, "Let's go and register. This won't be the last time you will see this."
Emma, Mila, and Greg hearing this just nodded and followed Joe toward the reception, but from time to time they looked above them, trying to remember the amazing sight.
"Welcome. How can I be onto your help?"
Arriving before a table, a man in a black suit and black tie behind the registration table, smiled at the four.
"Hello. We would like to clear a zone and register as a team.", answered Joe with a smile too.
Hearing this, the man nodded and while looking down onto his computer he said, "Before I can give you any information about the zones or what zones are available to clear, I need some information about the team members, which want to register."
Joe nodded and after taking out four cards, he handed them over to the man.
"These are our student ID and everything on it has what you need, I guess."
The man took over the cards and looked at them for a while.
"Greg Hyde, Emma Moore, Mila Bady, and Joseph Dia. So you four want to clear a zone, yes?"
Joe nodded and said, "Yeah, and if it's possible, we would like to clear more than one zone."
Hearing this, Greg and the two girls were in awe and instantly asked, "More than one? Why?"
Joe turned around and asked, "Of course we aren't going and clear zones for fun. We want to rank up, no?"
Listening to this, Emma and Mila looked at each other, while Greg nodded slightly.
"What we will do is to clear as many zones as we can and kill every creature in them while dividing the rewards and the energy crystals fairly. With that, ranking up will be fast and smooth."
After explaining everything, the others approved the idea, so with a nod, Joe turned back to the man and asked, "So if it's not a problem, we want to clear as many Manifester ranked zones as you can give us."
The man heard this and was shocked.
"I-It won't be an impossible task to give you more than one zone to clear, however, if you don't clear them before the given time, there will be punishments, like money payments or limited time ban to clear other zones. Are you sure that you want to clear more than one?"
Without any hesitation, Joe nodded.
Seeing the determined eyes from all the four kids before him, the man sighed and said, "At the time, there are only three Manifester ranked zones, which are not cleared or booked yet, so you need to pay 3 bronze coins for each zone. That will be 9 bronze coins."
Nodding, Joe took out a silver coin and said, "Here is one silver coin. As for the remaining one piece, just think as a thanks for the Soul Association help."
Hearing this, the man was shocked and with a slight bow he gave back the four cards while saying, "No, it was not a problem at all. If there is anything I can help with, do not hesitate to call me. As for the locations of the zones, the data are already on your devices."
Greg heard this and looked down onto his watch and a second later a piece of information popped up before him.
{Zone Clearing}(SA Task Time: 32 hours)
▪︎Rank: Manifester
▪︎Amount: 3
▪︎Locations are Given. Show map? - Y/N
After seeing that they had one and half a day, Joe nodded and turned toward the others.
"Let's go. We don't know what will happen, so we need to hurry."
With that, the four walked out of the Association, leaving the receptionist behind with a confused face.
"They are for real? Four students clearing three Manifester ranked zones all alone? This could be some kind of joke, right?."
***
After walking for half an hour, the four arrived before a floating crack. It was around two meters in height, while its color was light blue.
Confirming that they were before the right zone, without any hesitation they stepped into the crack.
In an instant, the scenery around them changed as always.
The vicinity around them turned frozen, while the snow started to fall from the sky above them.
Holes and cracks with a deepness of thousands of meters could be found everywhere, while small hills and mountains could be seen in the distance too.
"The temperature here is definitely below minus 50, so Mila, please. Can you give us a bit of fire?", asked Greg, while turning toward Mila.
"Sure."
With a gentle motion with her left hand in the air, a fire circle appeared above each of them.
Each had a width of one meter, while it released a small amount of warmth at them from time to time.
"Thanks."
With a thank, Greg started to look around carefully.
"So, which direction should we go?", asked Mila, while she looked around too.
"There. I think we should go in that direction.", said Greg, while pointing before him.
"How do you think that's the right way?", asked Joe confusedly.
Instead of answering, Greg picked up a small ice cube and threw it before him.
In an instant, the ice flew a few hundred meters and a second later it got sliced into two, because of something.
Seeing this, Joe, Emma, and Mila were a bit shocked.
"Those are ice silks, which happens to be appearing only that way. They are very hard to notice, because of the icy environment, so if you are not careful, their sharpness can easily cut you or even kill you."
"How did you see that thin silk from here? It's almost impossible to notice that from this distance.", asked Emma with a surprised expression.
As an answer, Greg could only shrug and say, "I was lucky enough to get a useful Soul Creature, which enhances my sensory abilities."