"The information is true."
As soon as the message was received by the Anomaly Containment department of The Human Federation, they immediately mobilized into action.
A stern-looking, blonde-haired man immediately began organizing his team. Unlike Professor Melissa, who trained the Academy's students with weak or easy to contain Anomalies, he led a team frequently assigned to handle the dangerous ones.
As the team began preparing for the upcoming mission, a red-haired man approached the blonde.
"I'll be joining this mission. I want to personally see through the safety of my younger sister."
Turns out he was the call operator who had talked to Eryndor earlier.
"Get lost, Sander, your days are over. You no longer have the authority you previously had. You can't force yourself into my team.
"The Federation gave you the job of call operator as a pity for your past. Stay in the office, leave the field work for people who are actually capable."
The red haired young man, Sander, listened to everything without retorting. In the end he added.
"I don't want anything to do with how you manage your team nor will I interfere with your containment and rescue process.
"I just ask that you add my name to your team so I have the permission to leave the headquarters. I wouldn't even utilize your team's resources."
The blonde simply sneered.
"You are dreaming Sander. Go back to your little cubicle. Stop thinking it's the past where you can throw your weight around."
A hint of warning crept into Sander's voice as he laughed lightly before speaking.
"I am being polite here Colt, do you still think we're rivals? I stopped considering that a long time ago.
"I may be injured but I am sure I can still take out trash like you. Wanna have a go?"
Just as the blonde man, Colt was about to flare up, warning bells rang in his mind.
At a certain point Sander's knife had already been placed on his neck.
Fear flashed in Colt's eyes as he begrudgingly agreed.
Watching Sander walk away as if nothing happened, fury flashed within his eyes.
Just you wait, I'll get back to you.
Colt turned his attention back to his team. They were instructed to move out on a short notice since this was an emergency case.
Everyone knew the legend of Sander. The most talented person on the path of Demons.
So much so that the Outer Domain of Demons invited him to train within their world, and that he was free to leave whenever he wanted.
Sadly, a disaster struck on one of his missions. His talent got to his head, deluding him into thinking that everyone would be as talented as him, as strong as him, would pick up things as quickly as him.
He made a risky decision which wiped out his entire team, and ended up returning alone with a serious injury.
The mission was completed, but at what cost?
For not following the protocols, The Human Federation banned him from ever going into field missions, relegating him into an office job.
What they wanted were soldiers who saved the people, not those who risked other's lives, no matter how talented they were.
He was still given resources to cultivate himself depending on his contributions as a call operator, but everyone could see it was a downgrade in his position.
Could a call operator make as many contributions as a field agent?
Sander verified himself on a device on his way out, which checked if the person was under a mission or not and headed towards an aircraft in the distance.
Since the distance between the Kantos town and the Dawn city was too large, the Federation had arranged an aircraft for the team.
Trains were not an option anymore as due to the expansion of earth, almost all of the tracks had been broken off at certain points.
Being a well authorized member of The Human Federation, Sander researched everything he could about the young man Rodrick.
Even the details he had hidden on the Academy's website were all visible to Sander.
He compiled all the information and sent them to the young man Eryndor, because even by taking the quickest approximation, it might take them a couple hours to reach Kantos town.
Although unlikely that he could dig out even more information, Sander wanted to support Eryndor on the off chance that he found something.
No amount of preparation was enough to calm him down when it came to his younger sister.
*****
In the Kantos town, Eryndor had just gone to sleep when a notification beep on his phone woke him up.
He sat up straight immediately after checking out what the message was.
A lot of information about Rodrick had been sent to him from the call operator who had talked to him moments ago.
Apparently his name was Sander and was also included in the rescue team which was going to be dispatched.
The Human Federation had confirmed the authenticity of his information and would reward their group after the matter had been taken care of.
Eryndor opened his laptop and began going through the numerous information about Rodrick.
His senior had apparently joined the Academy three years ago with numerous missions under his belt by now.
Eryndor went through all of them starting from the beginning, ultimately finding nothing of importance.
The only thing which could be gathered was that Rodrick had always displayed cautious behaviour but was willing to take the risks in the moments where the advantages of success far outweighed the disadvantages of failure.
Eryndor continued going through his class history, his performance in various subjects and even his battle footage during combat sessions.
I can't fully figure out the intricate details of this battle, maybe I'll have to ask Paulina about this since she is aiming to be a mage. She would know more details about the spells Rodrick is using.
In the information he was given, there was also a section which listed all the anomaly containment missions he had taken under different professors.
As Eryndor went through the details of the missions from one to another, one finally caught his eye.
Not wanting to miss out on anything, he checked the rest of the missions including the details about the current anomaly containment mission headed by professor Melissa.
But nothing stood out as much as the one he found earlier, at least to him.
Clicking on the file of that anomaly containment mission for more details, he eagerly waited for it to load.
This might be the anomaly which Rodrick is controlling.