Chapter 408 The Test Commences!

Chapter 408 The Test Commences!

The looks on Sango's bruised face showed just how badly his body and pride had been damaged. There was no fury on his face, however.

... Just pure reflection.

"I'm sorry, Boss! I'll take full responsibility for all this!" Sango groveled even further, perhaps to satiate their Party Leader's anger, but his actions were misdirected.

The Boss wasn't upset at all.

Instead, he appeared curious—having a smile on his clear and youthful face.

"How interesting. Tell me more about those two Adventurers."

"Well, they called themselves Jet and Lux."

"Jet and Lux? Hmm... go on." The Party Leader said with a smile on his face.

"Well... also..."

Sango went on to fully describe the entire incident, including how he shamefully got his arse handed to him and couldn't remember what happened after that.

His story was met with a round of laughter from the leader—naturally.

"Well, you guys are definitely going to apologize to him." The Boss finally stopped his laughter, wiping away the beads of tears that formed on his face.

"Don't worry, I'll go with you." He smiled.

"B-but—!"

"No buts. A Party Leader has to take responsibility for those in their party." The silhouette commented with a broad grin.

"Besides... I'm a bit curious about those two."

Narrowing his gaze, almost as if something new dropped in his mind, the Boss rubbed his chin and parted his lips.

"This Jet... did he have a mask on?"

"Um... no."

"Then you saw his face? How did he look?"

"He was... very attractive, or so I hear. I was knocked out cold before I could get a good look, and those guys were too drunk to serve as any reliable source of information."

"Good afternoon, Britta. We will be in your care." Jet responded with a slight bow.

"What's with that casual tone? Call me Miss Britta."

"Ah, apologies... Miss Britta." Despite Jet correcting himself and even bowing lower than before, Britta couldn't help but frown even more.

Somehow, she felt like he was being sarcastic.

"Well, whatever." She sighed, shrugging the whole matter aside.

Britta didn't consider herself petty enough to get hung over little things like that.

"We're going to be taking a bit of a tour inside there." Pointing towards the dense forest that stood to their left, she went on to explain.

"This place is known as the Dead Zone. It's considered dangerous, even by Adventurer Standards, and that's because powerful Monsters reside inside."

It was home to an entire ecosystem where the strong devoured the weak, creating a boiling pot for Monsters to grow and evolve into stronger entities.

The only reason Adventurers didn't bother clearing the forest—

assuming it was even possible to do so—was because the Dead Zone helped them to breed Monsters for free.

As long as they occasionally patrolled the forest at scheduled times, and conducted the systematic culling that held every year or so, there was no risk to the City.

An outbreak had only happened once, and after that there had been more safety measures put in place to ensure it was not a danger to the City despite being a dangerous place by every right.

"I'm sure you were already told this by the Receptionist when you returned to the Guild and she directed you here, but your goal for this Test is pretty simple."

Britta folded her arms and gave a wide smile, with a deadly gleam explicitly exposed within her eyes.

"Both of you must defeat at least one A-Tier Monster each."

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