To the Pentagon!

As Lance turned to see who the 2 new members of their team, a wide look of joy first appeared on his face before morphing into one of absolute terror.

In front of him were 2 Yu Yans, identical to the last pore on their faces. That same beauty was mirrored perfectly.

One of the Yu Yans smiled at him while the others lips contorted into a thin line after recognizing who it was.

The smiling Yu Yan stretched out her arm to Lance saying, "Hi, I'm Yu Ying and this my twin sister Yu Yan. I heard that you pinched my sisters face when she tried to console you? She always does this, any stray dog or cat that she sees anywhere will not be left alone until it has been petted or consoled by Yan here." She giggled as she said the last part.

Lance felt his face burning as he shook her hand. Stray dogs and cats? He had looked like that?

Seeing Lance blush, Yu Yan sighed as she also stretched out her arm. "Lets start afresh. We are even on the same team so we will have to work together. Your loss of composure might also be partly my fault. Both of our Intrinsic Natures come under the "Infatuation" category, although there are some differences between them. Both of us have been trained since young to control it, but it still spills out sometimes especially taking effect on creatures who are feeling negative emotions. Don't worry, as you seem to have improved enough to not be affected now." Yu Yan gave a slight smile as she finished speaking.

Lance still felt a slight urge to go blank, but he could control himself this time. Seeing this, he felt proud again to have put in the work and become stronger. He shook her hand and gave a small smile, opting not to speak as he still didn't fully trust himself to be completely cool.

It was a marvel that even if the girls were wearing the standard IE training coveralls, hints of their perfectly toned and fit bodies with curves in all the right places were visible in their movements.

Darius and Entsy also introduced themselves, with the girls blushing in turn after realizing that the famous Gaia and Spring were in their team. They gushed over them and walked beside them asking them questions about cultivation leaving Lance to trail from behind.

The two had grown quite famous due to the fight and their consistent high scores.

Lance first felt an intense jealousy seeing this but remembering the scary look of fury on Yu Yan's face in their first encounter, he felt that maybe the present situation was overall safer for him in case he messed up. This though didn't help in decreasing the jealousy though.

In this fashion, the team of 5 followed the ball to another clearing about a kilometer away. In this clearing were placed pods identical to the one he had been in when he had woken up in the infirmary.

The pods were placed in circles of 5. In the center of each circle was another glass ball hovering above a stone pedestral.

"Please enter a pod. You will have 30 minutes after entering in a virtual environment to see the mission particulars and plan a course of action. Good luck initiates.", instructed the ball.

Lance and his group of 5 took a deep breath as they momentarily got mesmerized by the swirling stars in the glass ball.

Their actions in the Pentagon would decide whether they would emerge from the pods as carps that had transformed into dragons.