Looking Forward To Working With You Boss

Jake and his group were taken aback to find the survivors of New Earth gathered in front of Ruby's building. Its exterior had changed somewhat from before. This one looked... more ordinary, so to speak.

The building was a plain cube with white walls. If it wasn't for the few luminous grooves and the widespread coldness emitted by the walls, one could have doubted that it was meant for one of the Ordeal's champions. Even the aura radiating from it was quite tame, as if it were a mere house for a regular human.

"You came too?" Craig nodded as he recognized them.

In addition to the chubby young Aetherist, there was also his friend Ryo, his instructor and vice squad captain Wang Xiaoming, and Melissa, a lovely brunette still wearing her New Earth Special Forces combat gear, or at least what little was left of it. The others had to swap theirs for other clothes because all their equipment had been severely damaged.