The following day, after Megan and Zac practiced their new abilities, Camille's plan to move them to another house was set in motion.
Zac and Sophia had to attend their lessons at Novis University while Dante and Megan helped move the boxes from their apartments into the truck.
Their new home wasn't even ten minutes away from their old building, which was perfect as they still wanted to be close to the campus.
When they arrived, Megan and Dante seemed satisfied with the house's facade. It looked like a modest family home with a small flower garden in the front and tall hedges around its perimeter.
It was located in the corner of the street, and Dante could feel the presence of people watching them from the top of the buildings surrounding it.
"Is that… Miss Maya?" Dante pondered as he glared at the top of a building across.
Camille chuckled. "As expected of Dante…" she said.
"Yes, the one over there is Maya. The two Tylers are taking care of the street on the other side, and I have two more agents in the adjacent buildings… I told you this place was going to be overly protected," the handler clarified.
Inside the home, Camille gave the pair a tour, starting from the ground floor after entering through the main door.
There was a small living room with two couches and a flat-screen TV next to the dining table, followed by the kitchen area and the door leading to the backyard.
"Dante said he wanted an open but somewhat inconspicuous place. Check this out…" Camille commented as she opened the back door.
The backyard was wholly surrounded by tall hedges that obstructed the view of the property, with a single wooden picnic table placed on the side of the green grass.
"Mhmm, this is perfect," said Dante with a nod of approval.
Back inside the house, they went up to the second floor, which had four bedrooms—each with its own bathroom.
One of the bedrooms was slightly bigger than the others, as it was supposed to be the master bedroom, so Dante suggested that Megan take it for herself. While the brunette didn't care what room she got, she didn't deny Dante's proposition.
On the third floor, they had a small study lounge with a couch, a desk, and two circular windows that allowed them to see the house's front and back.
"This is nice…" said Dante as the group went back downstairs.
"It's almost sad that it's being used as a bait house," Megan commented.
Still, Camille wasn't done with her tour, as she had one more thing to show them on the first floor—a set of stairs hidden behind the staircase wall leading to a dark basement.
Before going down, the handler pressed the light switch next to her and guided the pair to the bottom.
The air was damp and humid. The brick walls were slightly eroded, and there were a few wooden cupboards with nothing on them.
In the corner of the room, Camille pushed a random brick on the wall, activating a contraption that showcased a hidden passage behind the worn-down wall.
"This is an emergency tunnel. It leads to a warehouse three blocks away…" Camille explained.
"I got some agents there too, so even if someone were followed through the tunnel, they would get a big surprise on the other side," she confidently continued.
After the tour of their new home was finished, Dante and Megan started unpacking their things, although the warlock didn't have much to organize.
A few hours later, Sophia and Zac arrived at the new home, making the redhead nervous, thinking that he would have to start paying rent.
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A few days after moving in, Camille kept calling Zac and Megan to practice their skills at the lab, where Paige could keep studying them.
The scientist wanted to test Megan's accuracy with her pistol, so she was brought into the MET room alone while Zac and Dante watched from the safe room.
With the press of a button, Paige made dozens of different targets appear all around Megan, half of which slid across the walls while the others were static in place.
Before shooting a single bullet, the brunette closed her eyes and raised her gun forward, surprising the three spectators.
Without opening her eyes once, Megan aimed and shot at the targets out of pure intuition, hitting a bullseye and shattering them all.
"Dante, how did she do that!?" Paige asked the warlock with enthusiasm. However, Dante was just as surprised as the others.
"Heh…" Dante scoffed with a chuckle.
"I can't say I'm completely sure, but I have a theory…" he continued.
Since it was the first time that he had done a contract with other people, there were a few variables that Dante didn't fully comprehend. Still, that didn't mean that Zac and Megan were in trouble.
"Do you remember how I said that being a warlock was mostly determined due to innate talent?" Dante asked, making the scientist nod fervently.
"It's pretty much the same thing for wizards, warriors, and priests. However, since the people in this world don't perceive these energies, they never really know if they have the talent to control them…" the warlock explained.
The first warlocks to ever appear in his old world were people who had the talent to control umbra, but they couldn't see this energy until they were exiled and made a contract with a demon.
When those warlocks were able to perceive the umbra around them clearly, their magic and skills developed much faster.
"So, you are saying that Megan is developing the skills you gave her even further?" Paige asked, writing it down in her little notebook.
"That's what I think. These targets are not living beings, so they don't extrude any umbra… Even I would have trouble locating them with my eyes closed," Dante replied.
"But there is something about Megan's keen senses that allows her to find these targets without even looking at them…" he continued.
Zac was listening to Dante's explanation attentively, wondering if he would also be able to develop his skills and clenching his fist with determination.