" So Reign is still Reign, Lee is Shadow, Brainy is Beast and Agarlic is Wolf, ok."
Tank nodded with a serious expression, Wolf, however, gave an annoyed expression again and shouted at him from the side.
"For the thousandth time, Adarlic, with a D, D, not g, it's not garlic you dumb fu-"
Reign held Wolf from behind and tried to calm him down. Tank just looked at him before shrugging his shoulders and looking at Beast.
"But damn, to think you would have such a name, Beast huh, I don't want to sound obnoxious or anything but I don't think it suits you right now, well with your ability it maybe will, oh and yeah, my ability is rank B, just like you, it's called Copper body.
"That too suits you just like your name, so you really are like a tank character huh, strong body and a shield, it will come in handy with fights, we wouldn't have gotten as injured if we had you previously.
Shadow examined Tank and said.
"You guys got injured?!"
Tank suddenly shouted in anger.
"Who did that, let's go, I'm gonna kill the bastard!"
"Umm, T-Tank, it's right behind you."
"Huh?"
Tank turned around and saw the corpse of the cockatrice, realizing that the perpetrator was already dead he quickly calmed down and turned to face Reign and the others with a worried face.
"Are you guys ok then, did you break anything, are you bleeding anywhere, are –"
"Tank, don't worry, just scratches and light injures, we'll be ok."
Reign approached Tank and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Now, we need to go and find the captain, the system told us that he will explain everything to us."
"Oh, well he's in the castle, I think he is on top of the tower."
Everyone looked up and felt a sense of annoyance, to climb all the way up there will take an eternity, they wished there was a faster way.
"Everyone is in the castle, getting their rooms and trying to familiarize themselves with it, we're going to be living there from now on so, hey, wait, what's that on the tower?"
Tank suddenly stopped speaking and asked everyone to look up again and saw a small figure on top of the tower of the castle, squinting their eyes they tried to see it better but failed to do so. After a little bit, the shadow moved and jumped, it jumped from the 90m tall tower and started getting increasingly larger.
"Is someone trying to kill themselves because of everything, well I guess some people would get depressed."
Wolf calmly said, whether or not some students died did not bother or interest him, he knew that now the world is a different place, a place even more dangerous than the ones he went to when doing his job, his 3, now 4 teammates are the only ones whose wellbeing he cared about.
"W-what should we do guys, s-should we try to catch the person?"
Beast asked as he watched as the shadow fell. Nobody moved, catching someone falling from that height was impossible, all of them knew it, whoever it was, they were as good as dead.
The person fell down, but, right before hitting the ground, it stopped, standing upright, the man's feet were a mere millimeter above the ground.
A strong wind formed from underneath his feet and blew all the nearby dust away, everyone quickly shielded their eyes from it before looking at the man.
The man looked average at first, his wavy black hair that fell over his forehead was being blown up by the wind. Wearing a black and white suit, he looked more like an adventurer than a soldier. He wasn't big, his height was just shy of 175cm (5 feet 10 inches), no noticeable muscles were present on his body either, but one place drew everyone, his eyes. His irises were pitch black and upon looking at them one would think they were able to see the whole universe inside them, it was that mystical feeling that made the party a bit wary of him.
{ Lvl 45 Captain Eldar }
Wolf looked at him and gulped, death, an inescapable death was what he felt from this man. There was nobody that could compare to him, even when seeing the best in the world of assassins, Wolf had never sensed something like this from anyone. The boar, the white tiger, the vice-captain, all of them were like toddlers compared to the man in front of him.
"Well well well, so we already have a group that went hunting here."
Eldar said with a grin present on his face.
"You even managed to kill an elite monster, good, very good, seems like I'll be getting a nice promotion after all of this hahahahahaha!"
He looked at the beast and started laughing, the laugh was one of pure joy and happiness.
"Well don't just stand there, come here you guys, at least introduce yourselves to me, we're going to be spending a lot of time together you know?"
Eldar quickly waved at them and sat down on a nearby chair, with a flash of light 5 more chairs were placed around him.
"Come, come, tell me all about yourselves, looking at how you killed that thing all 5 of you are pioneers right?!"
Eldars beckoned at them again and asked with a beaming smile, his eyes were open wide, almost popping from their sockets.
Reign and the others slowly make their way toward him, they were very confused but with the system telling them before that the captain is supposed to explain everything to them, they had no choice.
Everyone sat on a chair and started answering the barrage of questions the captain had for them.
After a while.
It was already nighttime and everyone looked sleepy and tired.
"Hahahahahaah so not only did I get a place with 5 pioneers, but one of them is also a seed of hope, hahahahahaaha!"
Eldar was still full of energy, actually, he was even more energetic than before, the more questions everyone answered the happier and happier he got.
"Captain please do behave yourself, I know you're happy and all but let these guys go, I'm sure they're very tired from everything they had to do today, especially from listening to you."
The vice-captain suddenly showed up, he was standing right next to the captain and started berating him, instead of him being below in rank, right now it looked like he was the captain who was berating one of his men.
"I guess you're right, sorry for that guys, I'm sure all of you must have questions you want to ask me and things to do, go and rest, Jack has notified a couple of soldiers to take you to your rooms, I'll send someone in the morning to bring you to my office."
Eldar got up and calmly told them before turning around and walking away from them.
"Oh and don't worry about that monster, I'll take care of the corpse and give it to you tomorrow, the blacksmith will probably want it."
Reign and the others perked up when they hear that, they were happy that their effort of bringing the corpse back here wasn't wasted.
"Alright guys, these soldiers will take you to your rooms, I'll see you with the captain tomorrow so get some rest, you deserved it."
Jack told them and left, leaving 5 soldiers with them. Everyone got up and followed the soldiers into the castle.
The inside of the castle looked the same as they expected, except for some details. There were no candles or torches to light it, instead, there were stone-like crystals inside, when they asked the soldiers about it they calmly explained everything.
Underneath a castle was a huge array that drew surrounding mana towards it, which coupled with the huge source underneath it made it so that everything inside the castle had power. The crystals shone by using mana, the water in the showers is heated by it, stoves and other kitchen appliances were inside too, only differing in looks. By using the mana gathered by the array everything was quite comfortable, the castle even has teleportation circles to help with going up and down the floors.
"Teleports, wow, so those really exist? "
Shadow asked one soldier in an amazed voice.
"Yes, we're going to one right now, you guys should get ready, the first time using one of those is always rough."
"Oh and by the way you guys will be getting different rooms from the others, one of the privileges of being pioneers, your rooms will be right underneath the captain's quarters."
After walking for a bit longer they arrived at a circular light right next to the staircase, it looked surreal, the ethereal light was slowly moving from the floor, it looked like it was dancing in the air, only to disappear at the top.
"Alright, just walk inside and you'll be on your floor, just don't forget to clench your stomach."
A soldier said before he entered the teleport circle, in a flash he disappeared.
"So, shall we?"
Reign asked everyone and moved forward. He slowly stepped inside the circle and took a deep breath. The teleport flashed and he disappeared.
Teleportation felt incredibly nauseating, imagine being on a roller coaster that moved in all directions with a speed of 1000 km/h. Even if only for a moment, it was enough to make anyone unprepared puke.
A light flashed and Reign jumped out of the teleporter, he immediately fell on his knees and tried to calm himself down.
After a while everyone arrived, Wolf and Tank were able to endure like Reign but Shadow and Beast vomited immediately after teleporting, there was no mess, with a flash everything on the floor disappeared and the soldiers came to them and took them to their rooms.