Chapter 512: Headquarters Tower

Chapter 512: Headquarters Tower

After reporting the evil person to the administration, Rachel had never seen

Ning afterward and soon forgot about him.

Since Ning's name was never publicized beyond being called an Apostle, Rachel

didn't realize that it was him that was distributing the scrolls around the

Xandria Empire.

Not that she cared about the scrolls at all. Given how bad they were compared to

her own ability to gather Aether with just a touch, she didn't need to use the

absorption techniques at all.

After that, she spent the next 2 years on doing nothing but concentrating on

her education and learning as much as she could from the tower.

With how well she did in both written and practical exams of the tower, the

President decided to not keep her in a small place like the Xandria empire and

sent her over to the Serian Empire.

So, about 2 weeks ago, she left to take the recruitment test for the Battle Force

everyone and their mother wanted to get into.

She went from Xandria to Odrain, to Shalor, where she met the other 3 men in

her group, and nally took a train from there directly to Damir city this

morning.

Now, she was sitting in the diner, next to Ning, who she had no chance of

recognizing.

Ning looked at her and the other men, and couldn't help but raise his eyes a

little.

2 Aether Magisters, and 2 Aether Kings. This wasn't a random group of people.

Ning remembered Rachel being an Aether Magister back in Xandria over 2 years

ago. It seemed that they had focused on her and helped her breakthrough

during the last 2 years.

As for Banrod, he likely had his family's help in reaching Aether King before the

age of 50.

The other 2 men were Aether Magister but that was quite a feat as well.

"Where are you from, brother Terran? I thought the Tower sent everyone

through Shalor," Banrod asked.

"Oh, I'm from the Freelands," Ning said. "So I didn't have to go to the

Kingdom, and instead came through the principality."

"Oh," Banrod said, not expecting Ning to be from the Freelands. As far as he

knew, only poor people who could not aord their own land lived there.

"Does the Freelands even have trains?" Harris asked.

"No," Ning said. "I came in a horse-drawn cart."

"What?" Banrod shouted. "You came from Freelands to Losmana in a horse-

drawn card?"

"No, I came all the way to this city in the cart," Ning said.

"What the hell?" the other members were stunned too. They were about to say

something but kept their tongue. They didn't want to call out how poor Ning

was compared to them.

Ning smiled since their thoughts were so plainly written on their faces.

After nishing their breakfast, Ning walked together with the group and

roamed around the city for the next 2 hours to get used to how the city looked.

By now, it was 11 am in the morning, so the city had fully woken up.

The 5 of them made their way to the Tower nally. All 5 of them looked in awe.

The tower was in fact the tallest thing they had ever seen in their entire life. The

tower went up nearly a hundred oors, making them wonder how it was even

possibly standing strong.

The passerby looked at them and chuckled to themselves, immediately

realizing that it was the 5's rst time looking at the tower.

"Let's go in," Ning said and moved on. The other 4 nervously walked in with

them.

The inside of the tower was not dierent from the other towers they had been

to.

The ground oor was an open oor with only massive pillars blocking their

views from seeing everything.

Ning walked towards the center where he could see some people sitting with a

desk in front of them in what looked like a reception.

For some reason, the area they were standing on was unusually bright as well,

making Ning curious about how many bulbs they had to use to get such

brightness.

When they walked over, Ning nally realized what it was. The middle section of

the tower was actually hollow all the way to the top.

From the center, the tower looked like a set of at cylindrical rings, stacked all

the way to the top.

At the center of it, where the empty area lay, there was actually a massive

statue that went up to at least 20 oors.

Ning looked in awe at the statue of Alexis.

Not only was the statue massive, but it also looked well kept. The reception area

lay on the open area where the light shined through from the top.

"I wonder why the tower is so religious," Harris questioned from the side.

"Maybe the older people who joined the tower believed in the religion of

Aether?" Peter asked.

"Don't worry about that, just get ready for the test," Banrod said and walked

towards the receptionists to ask where the test was being held.

They were each given an id of a sort to hand around their neck before they went

up to the 3rd oor to wait for the test.

When it came to their turn for them to check for Ning's, the receptionists

frowned a little.

"Sir, it says here that you don't have to go through the test and can just go

report as a new Battle Force member," the receptionist said quietly, as the

other 4 were already walking away.

"It's ne. I wish to take the test anyway," Ning said.

"A-are you sure? You were recommended by Supreme Merasi, you know?" the

receptionist said, wanting Ning to see how great of an opportunity he was

missing.

"It's okay. It's my choice anyway, right?" Ning asked. The receptionists

couldn't help but nod.

Ning then got them to get him a similar card to put around his neck, and he

went up the stairs.

He reached the waiting hall where a lot of people were already waiting.

Just a few more minutes and the exam would begin that would make or break

their future.