The location the Consortium indicated was more than a day's worth of travel away from us, thus we had our work cut out for us. I couldn't help but believe that getting to such a place was a test in and of itself for the Phenom Candidates.
We've met a few other teams along the way. We killed three unprepared groups, but after them, we didn't see any of the others until we came across an entire battalion of humans. They had thousands of people in the group, and some were high-level, older people acting as guards and guides.
We didn't dare walk close enough for me to hear what they were saying, but my theory is that these people were from the Consortium. Consortium members could also participate as long as they met the criteria, and many elected to do so because it let them bypass decades of grueling work to climb the ranks.
