"You're going back already, why don't you co with then?"
A familiar jovial voice sounded from behind them. Sir Peter's hand paused before he could touch the button while Ivan and his group mbers hated their steps as well, all of them turned around to look at the sa ti to confirm the voice that they just heard.
"Tower Master?!" Sir Peter's eyes widened when he saw Jas walking toward them; he imdiately stood straight and saluted.
Ivan, Ralph, Glen, and Karin were surprised to see Jas, they also saluted. Clint, on the other hand, wore a cold expression while saluting as well.
Jas was the Tower master of the Owen Tower HQ after all so Karin and Clint knew him too.
Jas had a kind smile on his face as he walked over with both hands behind his waist, his eyes roaming their faces.
"I heard you finished your mission; I was told that you did well; Well done, everyone," Jas said to them, his tone was very gentle.
Glen, Ralph, and Karin showed confident expressions as they were praised by the Tower master. anwhile, Ivan's face was calm, and Clint's face turned colder.
Jas turned to look at Sir Peter.
"You can return to what you were doing, I'll take them back myself since I was planning on returning as well." He said.
Sir Peter straightened up and accepted the order while saluting, he quickly escaped right after.
After Sir Peter left, Jas turned back to look at Ivan's group as he stepped toward the ta ring.
" So how was the mission?" He asked while pressing the buttons on the tal rings.
" It was all right," Ivan responded plainly.
The tal ring opened with a hissing sound and created a part for them to approach the squirming mirror gate.
Jas stepped toward it and the rest followed behind him.
" You didn't encounter any difficulty during your first mission, right? I made sure to try and help you get an easy mission for your first ti in the dreamscape." Jas smiled at them.
" It was fine, we didn't face any difficulty." Stated Ivan.
Jas nodded before asking about the other's well-being and how they fared during the mission. Glen and Karin were excited to receive the concern of the tower master and answered energetically with sparkling eyes.
Ralph's response was calm and he wasn't overly excited as the other two. Clint was the most shocking, he directly ignored Jas' question.
The others were surprised by this action but didn't ask, at least not in front of the Tower master.
Jas didn't seem to mind this and walked into the mirror gate, he imdiately vanished into it. The group also approached and walked into it as well; it was their second experience using a mirror gate, and they could not help but marvel at the surreal feeling when they passed through it.
They appeared on the other side instantaneously, and a wave of fresh air crashed into them. When they appeared outside the mirror gate inside the base of the real world, they all felt alive and free; the five of them couldn't help but breathe in deeply.
"Ah, it's so good to be back; I've missed the real world so badly," Glen said while making sobbing sounds.
"Sa here, sa here. I feel like I've been locked in a cave for years." Karin nodded her head in agreent with Glen's words as the two of them sucked in the oxygen hungrily.
Ivan looked at the two of them with a small smile on his face, he felt the sa way as the two but did not think it was enough to overreact like them. Ralph facepald at the two and let out a sigh.
"Once again, welco to the real world from your first mission." Jas, who was standing a few ters ahead of them and had already opened the tal ring said to them.
The group looked toward him and imdiately walked over, leaving the area of the mirror gate.
It was dayti in the real world when they returned and the bright sun was hanging high in the sky, bathing the base with harsh sunlight.
The group looked around, they saw many Nexulytes moving around in protective body suits and black uniforms; the situation here was more peaceful and wasn't as intense as the situation on the other side of the mirror gate.
They could see that the base had been expanded and more structures had been built in the base. They could also hear loud explosive sounds in the distance, it sounded as if there was a fight going on.
"Don't bother about that. It must be a group of monsters attacking, but there are already people dealing with it." Jas said when he saw them looking into the distance.
The eyes of the group flashed in realization and they nodded in understanding.
"I presu that you'll want to return imdiately instead of staying here in the base. After you, all have families to return to. I'll arrange for soone to take you back, you can walk around the base in the anti." Jas said to them.
" Ummm, Tower master. Is there perhaps a place where we can get equipnt in the base?" Ralph suddenly asked. Everyone imdiately turned to look at him, surprised by his request.
Jas paused for a few seconds before saying.
" Yes, of course. You can go to the equipnt vault to take a look, but you'll have to pay as the tower can't give out the equipnt there for free; there won't be enough resources to make it for every person in the tower if that's the case." Jas explained before walking off.
Ralph saluted and turned around only to see Glen and Karin staring at him.
" What?" He raised an eyebrow.
" What equipnt do you want to buy?" Glen asked.
" Sothing to defend myself," Ralph said casually.
Glen was confused and asked why he didn't just summon his undead to do the fighting; Ralph only smiled and shook his head without saying anything.
He had similar thoughts before they entered the dreamscape, but his experience insisted Region 17 opened his eyes to a whole new world. He realized that depending on his talent wasn't enough.
In a situation where his undead were being occupied by strong opponents and were temporarily unable to protect him, wouldn't it be easy for him to die if a monster that he couldn't handle with his physical strength attacked him? Besides, it wasn't every ti that he would spend Nexus to summon his undead for every opponent; he didn't go through so much training for nothing.
For this reason, Ralph decided that he needed sothing that he could use to fight whenever the enemy was sothing beyond his power.
Ivan looked at his friend in silence; he seed to have figured out Ralph's thoughts but didn't say it out loud; he silently supported it, though.
"Has anyone checked their balance yet? How much did you receive?" They suddenly heard Karin's voice. Everyone's attention was imdiately drawn to this matter and they all took out their communicators from the storage devices to check their balance in their profiles.
Ivan also took out his communicator to take a look, the instant he turned it on…the screen of Ivan's communicator was flooded with ssage notifications.
He was stunned as he saw the hundreds of ssages flashing on the screen, many of them were from a long ti ago. Precisely from the ti they ca here for their mission.
Ivan felt strange when he saw the notifications. He didn't know a lot of people, and very few people had his contact so who could have spamd him with so many ssages?
He curiously opened his communicator to see, and his eyes flashed; next to a small bubble profile was a number tag that displayed 99.
Explore hidden tales at empire
It was from the anonymous person who had ssaged him the morning after the New Year evening, the one whom Ivan regarded as a scam and didn't reply.
'Why is this person ssaging so much? Don't you have anything better to do with your ti?' Ivan thought to himself with a frown.
"Ivan, is everything all right?"
He suddenly heard Ralph's voice and raised his head, he saw that everyone was staring at him after hearing Ralph's question. Ralph had apparently seen him frown all of a sudden and couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, I'm good. Don't worry about ." Ivan waved his hand and returned his gaze to the communicator before opening the anonymous person's ssage. Ivan's expression turned strange again when he saw the long line of ssages.
He started scrolling with his thumb and his expression turned even more strange.
Most of the ssages were asking about his well-being, like: "How are you?" "Good day," "Good morning (afternoon, evening)," "Good night, sweet dreams," "Are you in the dreamscape yet?" "Stay safe," "Please respond when you get back," "Not back yet?"...
Ivan felt weird reading the ssages; there was nothing important in any of the ssages, and everything was this person asking about his well-being and wishing him to be safe.
'Who is this person? So persistent' Ivan wondered inwardly as he thought of the people who had his contact. Of everyone he knew, only Glen would be crazy enough to do such a thing, and that was even a guess, as he wasn't entirely sure.
As for their families, they had no reason to send him so many ssages.
'It can't be Miss Elora either, she's not so free.' Ivan thought.
At the ntion of Miss Elora in his mind, Ivan's heart skipped a beat, and mories with Kira flashed appeared in his mind.
Reviews
All reviews (0)