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After having a long chat with Clair, Zero slowly walked down the stairs to the basement of the hospital and turns towards a certain broken wooden door, where the sign of no entry was hanging. Given the atmosphere of complete eerie silence and barely any light, the scene looked no different from that of a horror movie making it look like a ghost might pop out of nowhere.
Not affected by the dark, even for the slightest of the moment, Zero then entered the broken door and reached towards the end of the dark room where nothing but an empty wall was present.
Zero looked at his back, sensed if there were anyone in the proximity and after making sure no one was watching him, he began tapping at the wall at certain points.
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After tapping for a few times, a clicking sound was heard bringing out a peculiar door on which a lock screen was visible. Zero then smiled a little before typing a 18 digit code on the lock screen. The door opened without making any noise and Zero proceeded to move inside the room.
After Zero entered the room, the door closed itself and vanished without leaving any trace.
Inside the room, there were a bunch of weapons and potions along with a small laptop.
'Well, working in the organisation had some benefits after all.' Zero thought before picking up a bunch of weapons and potions. He then turned to the small laptop and opened it, revealing a complex format of letters and alphabets on it.
WIthout wasting any time, Zero started typing and after another 30 mins he was finally done with everything he needed to do.
'With this, any trace of me will be gone from this hospital and also from this room. Well, let's get out of here before security arrives here,' Zero thought and planned his exact moves as he stepped outside that room.
'Shadow step,' he spoke in his mind as he started walking stealthily without making any noise of any kind. On the way out of there, he noticed the guards dressed in casual clothes walking towards the basement and a bunch of other people searching for Zero as he was missing from his ward.
'Looks like Clair did her first job. Well, it seems like she accepted my deal.' Zero revealed a smile before finally getting out of the hospital.
Honestly, Zero had 3 reasons for choosing this hospital over the others. First, were the hidden weapons in the basement of which he knew about. After all, he was the person assigned to this particular place to carry out all the missions in the area.
In fact, he knew all the secret rooms present in the entire city, so it won't be hard for him to restock any resources as long as he was in this city.
The second reason was the location. The Urgent Healer's hospital was located in a crowded city that he knew about. Hiding in this city would be as easy as it would be for a grasshopper in a wild grassland.
Third and the main reason was Elle. One of the 12 strongest persons who survived till the end of the Cataclysms. She had some connection with this city, and something was about to happen to her within the next month.
'If I remember correctly, she told me that her sister died in an accidental kidnapping right before she gave the entrance examination to the Magic and System Academia, the best place to learn about mana and systems currently present,' Zero thought as he kept walking within the shadows.
Despite being physically weak, Zero was quite proficient in mana usage in the previous timeline. Even though he does not have the same amount of mana as he used to he could barely manage to squeeze out the minimum amount required to maintain his speed and skill.
After running around for a while, he reached a hideout which was known only to him and a few others. It was one of the places where Zero had made memories with Lucia back in his previous timeline. Though, right now, if he didn't really need it, he might have burnt the whole place down without batting an eye.
According to what Lucia told him, it was a dead couple's house, which was left desolate as no one bothered to buy it for some reason. Some left it because they said it was haunted by ghosts, while others thought that it wasn't worth it, given the location of the place. Though there were still some mysteries that were left unsolved about this whole place.
Calming his raging emotions, he moved inside the hideout and relaxed for a couple of moments before taking out the laptop he took from the basement and started searching about the Academia entrance and other stuff. After a few hours of searching he finally reached the point where he got everything he needed to know.
To summarise, the entrance exam would be 1 month later and Elle would be coming to Academia city exactly 2 weeks from now. Though her plane would probably be hijacked and after a fight, the plane would blast mid air with all the people falling from the sky.
The kidnapping was supposed to happen for a rich man's daughter, but due to Elle and few other people with her, they kind of ended up fighting the hijackers out of stupid heroism. The end results couldn't get any worse, though.
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"Hmmm… is there anybody inside?" A familiar voice of a girl came from the outside as the entrance of the apartment was opened.