Book 3: Chapter 21: Wrapping up the Tour

Book 3: Chapter 21: Wrapping up the Tour

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The rest of the day goes by pretty quickly, with the Bloody Valkyrie seemingly throwing herself into the internship as a way to forget about the duel that she lost. She shows me around the Garden, pointing out the residential buildings, the Association members personal shops, and the main building, along with various different places in the main building that I might need to go to at some point. Like the reception desk where Ill be able to exchange Association points for some of the resources the Association has, or the library.

After the tour, the three of us find ourselves at the Valkyries office, which is also in a slightly medieval style. With some modern appliances scattered throughout.

Why is everything so medieval? I ask as White and I sit down in chairs opposite her desk before adding, In the Garden, I mean.

She looks away from her desk where she was grabbing a couple documents and answers, Personal preference. I blink at that in surprise, and out of the corner of my eye, I catch the corner of Whites lips quirking slightly upwards. The underside of the Garden is more or less the same as the capital city though.

The underside of the Garden. A place meant for battle, and also a place I havent been shown around yet.

Supposedly I will be shown around the place tomorrow morning. But since no Demonic Assaults are Expected until the day after tomorrow, she didnt see it necessary to show us the underside of the Garden yet. Especially considering just how much she showed us today.

Here are a couple documents the two of you will have to sign to join us in battle during Fractures, the Valkyrie says while pushing the documents towards us. And when I pause to read it, I find it to be a simple contract. Just the basic contract that each Association has for their members, albeit with an expiration date on it marking the end of the internship.The inaugural upload of this chapter took place via N0v3l-B1n.

Both White and I sign the thing, although Im pretty sure White didnt actually need to do that. Considering the vast amount of authority the Knights have in the first place, she should be able to enter quite literally any Fracture regardless of if its claimed by an Association with priority or not.

The only issue with this is that it has a high fatality rate. Because the higher Class Guardians cannot even consider protecting their lower Class Association members unless they want most of their rewards taken away by the System for the lack of risk.

They send them in as teams of dozens of Class II and III Guardians and leave them alone, letting them handle themselves. And while they still get a significant cut in their EXP as a penalty, they still get more than they would in a regular Fracture just due to the sheer quantity of higher level demons theyll be getting at least some credit for.

Although with Associations like the Garden of Blood, most of the Guardians are personally at the top of the world in terms of their own age groups. And theres a reason everyone is this powerful in the Associations. So they have a lot less casualties than most of the other Associations that do this stuff. Which at this point just makes these Fractures into training grounds for their Association.

Something the public isnt exactly happy about but cant say much against either since theyre still fighting demons. Its just that theyre prioritizing their own growth over fighting in other Fractures.

There would probably me more complaints though if this was done more often instead of the only once every one or two months that its typically done in Associations.

Just goes to show that most Guardians arent the superheroes many people try to make them out to be.

For now, you can just get situated in your room, Ava says with a smile. Well have a meeting later in the evening that youll have to attend, but there wont be anything else going on today that you need to participate in.

I nod my head in response, Alright.

Thisll be fun.