Adrien looked at the soldiers gathered before him. Men and women who had been stationed here mostly as guards and assistants for the research personnel.
For most of them, this posting was supposed to be simple because this was just a quiet facility in the middle of nowhere, far from the chaos of the cities.
Their duties were meant to be routine of patrol, standby, and help if the staff needed something. Any issue with the candidates or the Magic assimilation experiments would usually be handled by those in charge, people like Captain Adrien himself or the researchers overseeing the operation.
But today, everything seems to change.
They were gathered in the first-floor hall, not the basement, and from here they could hear the storm raging outside. The wind howled like a living beast and the rain hammered the facility's walls with relentless fury.
It wasn't just a normal storm. It sounded as if the nature itself was angry.
