“This looks like it was written in an ancient language, or it might not even be from Earth; I’ll hand it over to the vice tower master and allow her to deal with it. You’ll be informed if it can be translated and is relevant to you.” Sir people said while looking at the stone slab.

Ivan nodded while Ralph and the others glanced at each other at the back.

Sir Peter looked at the stone slab a little longer before turning to look at the five of them.

“The markers that you placed within Region 17 have been activated, and we’ve received visual footage. Groups will be sent out to set up stations around the markers after we look into your report. It will be another win for humanity; good job, all of you.” Sir Peter said with a small smile; his words almost sounded forced, considering how he had viewed the group as arrogant back then.

The five saluted and left after they were told that they could leave if they wanted to or stay a little longer; he told them to come look for him whenever they wanted to leave, and he would open the mirror gate for them.

“I can’t stand it anymore, we have to go back now so I can return home and get a good sleep!” Karin voiced out immediately after they came out of the office.

“Then why didn’t you say it just now before we came out?” Glen glared at her.

Karin pouted and looked away, not saying anything.

Ralph shook his head and looked toward Ivan, who shrugged in response; they had nothing else to do here, so they might as well leave.

“Why don’t we go get something to eat first, we can still tell Elliot that we’re leaving as well,” Ralph suggested.

“Why should we tell him? It’s not like he’s part of the group.” Glen immediately disagreed.

“Yes, he’s not, why should we tell him what we want to do?” Karin supported.

Ralph pinched the bridge of his nose, he felt a headache from the two of them.

Ivan and Clint watched them in silence.

…..

Meanwhile, inside one of the structures in the base.

In a large room with a single long black table, seven people could be seen around the table.

One of the seven people was standing alone on one side with a nervous look on his face, while the other six were opposite him on the other side of the long table; five of them sat while the last was standing behind them.

If any of Ivan’s group was present, they would immediately recognize some of the people there. These people were Elliot, who had been their driver during their mission, James Owen, Karl Owen, the vice tower master, Carl Barry, a beautiful middle-aged woman, and a young woman who was around their age; the last woman was the one who introduced Elliot to Ivan’s group after finding out that none of them knew how to operate a land carrier, she was the one standing behind James and the others.

“He’s the one you recommended to operate the land carrier for the group, right?” James asked the woman standing behind them, his eyes fixed on Elliot, which made him even more nervous.

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“Yes, he’s the driver.” The woman quickly answered.

“All right, you can leave.” Karl looked at the woman with a cold look in his eyes.

The woman was spooked and hurriedly left the room as if she was being chased by ghosts.

After the woman left, Elliot was left alone in the room with these oldies; he knew they were hundreds of years old even though they all looked relatively younger. After all, he recognized everyone sitting there.

Karl Owen, the head of the Owen family and founder of the Owen Tower. James Owen, Karl’s son and the current tower master of the Owen Tower. Freda Alex, the vice tower master of the Owen Tower. Carl Barry, one of the founders of the Dominion Tower. And lastly, Susan Riddick, another founder of the Dominion Tower.

All of them were powerful Nexulytes who had shaken the world during the battle against the dreamscape many years ago.

All of them stared at him with sharp eyes that made Elliot feel fear and caused his legs to shake.

“You followed Ivan’s group for their mission, right?” James asked in a deep voice.

Elliot gulped and nodded while saying yes.

“Then you have seen him in battle and using his talent, correct?” James continued.

Elliot suddenly felt a bad feeling rising in his heart, he hesitated before saying yes again.

” Then can you tell me about his talent, what can it do?” Karl was the one who asked this time.

Elliot’s eyes subconsciously moved over in Karl’s direction and met with a pair of aged, sharp eyes that made him sweat buckets.

” H-he can make…swords with his talent,” Elliot stated, his lips trembling.

“No, aside from the sword, can he do anything else?” The vice tower master asked this time.

Elliot had a fearful expression as the bad feeling in his heart intensified, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva before shaking his head.

There was silence for a while as everyone stared at Elliot with puzzled expressions.

After a full minute of unbearable silence, James finally spoke up.

“What do you mean just his sword? How did he kill the champions of the labyrinth and the guardian then?”

It was now Elliot’s turn to be puzzled.

‘Guardian? Champions? Labyrinth? Where did those come from?’ Elliot thought to himself before his eyes suddenly widened in realization.

Seeing how the boy’s expressions changed so quickly, James and the others immediately understood what was going on.

“How do you not know about the existence of the labyrinth if you followed them?” Karl asked.

Elliot turned to look at Freda, the vice tower master. He realized that she hadn’t told them that he had abandoned Ivan and the others halfway into the tunnel.

“I-I-I didn’t follow them all the way in,” Elliot said and proceeded to explain what had happened after they crossed the flowing blood river.

BOOM!

Immediately after Elliot finished his explanation, James exploded with Nexus energy, and the long table crumbled.

A furious expression could be seen on his face as he stared at Elliot coldly, Karl and the rest also showed cold expressions as well.

“So you are saying you were ordered by your superior to follow a team of new Nexulytes for their first mission and control the land carrier for them, but you left them to go further by themselves because of some stupid agreement? As someone who has been to the dreamscape more, what do you make of your decision?” James asked with a heavy tone.

Elliot’s heart fell when he heard James’ words, he fell to his knees and began to beg.

But no one seemed to care about him as everyone looked at him with sharp glints in their eyes.

“I took my time to scout for a perfect place and purposely prevented him from having anyone capable of controlling a land carrier on his team so that an outsider could be added but you are telling me this!” James said with strong killing intent.

Elliot’s body trembled; he couldn’t understand what James was talking about, but he knew that he was in trouble and could only beg for forgiveness.

“Enough!” Karl suddenly said, his tone was low but everyone immediately shut up. He stared at Elliot for a while before looking at Freda. “he left a group of junior Nexulytes to their deaths without thoughts for their safety; this is a grave crime since it’s forbidden to leave a fellow Nexulyte behind; dispose of him.” Karl voiced out before disappearing from where he was sitting, he directly vanished from the room and could no longer be seen.

Elliot’s eyes widened when he heard Karl’s words, his heart was drowned in despair.

“No, please. I know my mistake, It’ll never repeat itself!” Elliot cried out.

“Sigh, sorry kid.” Freda looked at him and sighed before pointing a finger at Elliot.

A small wind bullet shot out from her finger and sped toward Elliot.

Ptui!

It pierced through his forehead and came back from the back of his head.

Elliot’s body froze, his mouth was wide open as blood flowed out from the small hole in his forehead, his eyes slowly lost color and his body fell over.

James, Carl, Susan, and Freda looked at Elliot’s lifeless body with expressionless faces. They were not surprised by Karl’s ruthless decision, they were used to it.

“Get someone to clean this up, I’ll go back first,” James said before leaving the room as well.

“I understand,” Freda said from behind him.

…..

Meanwhile, Ivan and his group had already finished everything that they wanted to do here and were ready to go back. They went to Sir Peter’s office to let him know that the man had yet to submit the file that Ivan had submitted because the vice tower master had yet to return to the base.

“I’ll just send you back first.” He breathed and got up.

The group walked out of the office and soon came in front of the mirror gate that was surrounded by thick metal rings.

Just before Sir Peter could press the buttons on the metal rings, a voice called out from behind them.

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