In the end, all the fifteen guides signed their new contract, and Zein immediately informed SavAsh to get their uniforms ready. The siblings had to recalculate the fifteen guides' schedule to accomodate Zein's training regime, but all in all, everything went smoother than Zein thought.
He visited Mortix again, still with that shady driver. The shard didn't show him anymore memories, nor replaying the last one. But he could communicate with it still, to some extent. It helped with the researchers' effort in dechipering the shard 'language' as Zein called it, interpreting mana waves with certain means.
Aside from that, they had been having fun watching the shard dissolving the miasma coming out of the corrupted mana stones that Han Joon gave to the Chairman. Zein, on his part, just watched the researchers having fun devising formulas to explain the way the shard attacked the miasma.
