?"Thank you, Hera," Nick said with a smile of his own as he shook her hand in greeting.
"Co, I'll show you around," Hera said, leading Nick to the back of the hall.
Naturally, Hera knew that Nick was here for so business-related matters, but it was common courtesy to show soone around the facilities when they visited for the first ti before getting down to business.
"Of course. Thank you," Nick said politely.
For the next couple of minutes, Hera introduced the building to Nick.
Surprisingly, even though the building was much bigger than Dark Dream's, it only had ten floors.
However, each floor was almost ten ters high, which made Nick feel like he was in so huge and grand hall.
Apparently, the floors were designed to be of this size so that Solace could hold huge Specters.
Most Specters were not that big, but there were a few that were quite big.
And if one didn't have a Containnt Unit of a fitting size, one wouldn't be able to contain such a Specter.
Having high ceilings allowed Solace to use Containnt Units that were up to ten ters high, and a couple of them were already in use.
"Do you want to have a little fight?" Hera asked suddenly as she stopped in front of one of the Containnt Units.
"Against you?" Nick asked in surprise.
"No, of course not," Hera answered with a laugh.
Hera was an Expert already.
The next mont, she knocked on the door. "Against the thing in here. It's a Blood Specter at the Late Adolescent level."
Nick looked at the door a bit.
In the past, fighting seed exciting but also frightening to him.
But ever since that huge incident happened, Nick hadn't felt the sa.
He felt like all the fights had lost their stakes.
The thing he would lose if he lost just wasn't as valuable as it used to be, making the fights lack excitent.
"Sure," Nick said neutrally.
When Hera heard that, a small glimr appeared in her eyes.
Her asking the question had several purposes.
First, politeness. Offering an Extractor a fight with a Specters was essentially giving them a bit of Zephyx.
Second, information gathering. She wanted to know how Nick felt about fights and how he viewed them. And if Nick accepted, she would also get to see how Nick would fight.
Lastly, personal interest. Hera just wanted to see Nick fight because she was interested in him as a person.
Not in a romantic way, but in a friendly way.
Nick was soone from the forr Dregs, and he had beco a Chief Zephyx Extractor while being so young.
Naturally, many people were interested in Nick.
Nick's most interesting aspect was that he hadn't been replaced yet.
Wyntor was an heir to the lfion family, and he had a scary number of connections with powerful people.
While he hadn't had the resources to get a good Chief Zephyx Extractor when Dark Dream was still new, the sa thing wasn't true anymore.
Dark Dream had over ten Specters by now, and Wyntor could easily convince one of the Veteran team leaders from Kugelblitz to join as his Chief Zephyx Extractor.
Naturally, the difference between soone like that and Nick was huge.
And yet, Wyntor kept using and relying on Nick as Chief Zephyx Extractor.
There had to be sothing that made Nick special, but Hera hadn't seen that special sothing yet.
Nick was friendly, but he also seed insecure in many things.
He didn't seem like a Chief Zephyx Extractor.
Of course, that made Hera interested in Nick.
What was so special about him?
"Good to hear!" Hera said with a smile. "I heard you got the Blood Hawk and Blood Horse from the city. So, you should know how to fight a Blood Specter."
Nick wasn't surprised that Hera knew about the Blood Hawk and Blood Horse.
The Specters had belonged to the city, and everyone who worked for the city basically knew all the Specters that the city's forces had access to.
The absence of two Specters definitely attracted attention, and it wouldn't be difficult to find out where they were now.
Nick just nodded.
Hera opened the door and walked inside.
"It should be in its recovery phase. Beating it once should be enough," she said.
Nick entered as well and quickly saw a huge red wolf.
It was almost three ters high and about five ters long.
At this mont, Hera was calmly holding it back by just pushing it away whenever it tried to run forward.
It was important to note that experienced Extractors could use their Zephyx to build a powerful connection with the ground.
If Hera didn't do that, she would be flung away, even though she was much more powerful than the Blood Wolf.
It was simply a matter of weight.
But by using her Zephyx to connect her to the ground, she could make perfect use of her power.
"Ready?" she asked.
"Sure," Nick said.
"Here it cos," Hera said as she jumped to the side.
The huge Blood Wolf imdiately ran aggressively towards Nick.
It jumped forward and opened its mouth to consu him.
But the Blood Wolf missed.
Nick seed to have vanished from its vision!
In truth, Nick had simply sidestepped at an incredible speed just monts before the wolf clamped down on him.
At this mont, the wolf didn't know where Nick was, and Hera was behind the wolf.
She also didn't know where Nick was.
Nick's ability activated, and he jumped forward.
BOOOOOOM!
Nick punched the Blood Wolf's head, which separated from its body, hitting the wall.
BANG!
Then, Nick kicked the wolf's body toward one of the walls, but since his ability wasn't active anymore, the wolf basically only stumbled backward toward the wall.
Then, its body collapsed.
It was in recovery mode.
The head started to vanish rapidly.
Nick turned to Hera and nodded.
When Hera saw that, a gleam appeared in her eyes.
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