There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 410

Chapter 410: Chapter 402. Keeping Your Enemy Closer

"Why are we here?" Senia looked at the place that couldn’t be anything more than a simulation chamber.

They were talking big about some kind of test and education and whatever as if it was the hardest obstacle, but what? A simulation chamber? She only did this kind of thing when she was yet to get her esper license, meaning it was basically for students!

Was this the training that Trinity did? How pathetic.

She turned toward the three men with a mocking sneer. "This is your test? Simulation chamber? Are you afraid to fight or something?"

"Oh, don’t worry. This one won’t be as boring as the other," Radia said with a sweet, business smile. "Just treat it as...an appetizer."

Senia scoffed and walked inside. It was a private simulation chamber that only Radia used, lodged inside the secret room behind the wall. It had the best features and was set to the highest sensitivity. Radia used it to train coordination between his summons, but this time, it would be employed to give the fallen princess of Celestia a taste of the Deathzone.

They watched Senia enter the simulation pod haughtily, and the big screen behind the pod showed them what happened inside the virtual reality simulation; a familiar dark space with toxic air and heavy pressure.

"Is this the latest one?" Zein asked as they watched the girl stand in the middle of the field while looking around.

"Well, you told me it was disappointing, so I told the developer to crank it up," Radia chuckled. "What’s the rate for our members?"

Unlike the guides, whose training was only designed so they could get used to the harsh environment and stay in the Deathzone as much as possible, the espers used the simulation training for combat practice.

Utilizing the experience they had during the first excursion, they replicated the path and the terrain up to the underground city’s ruin. Instead of reaching the shards, however, they were given a mission to establish a safe zone in other points, using the purification devices.

"The advance party had reached the surface of the ruin, but they still struggling with the Specter’s isolation barrier," Bassena reported. "The others...hmm, there’s still one-third who hadn’t managed to beat the first Specter."

"Well, there’s still time," Radia nodded. "What’s important is the advance troop and the scouts."

Radia paused to ponder for a while, before turning his gaze to Zein. "Please tell the borderland that we will proceed with sending our scouts for advance learning."

"Mm," Zein nodded, eyes still trained on the screen showing the weird girl from Celestia had started to move. It took a while for her to walk around the clearing where the simulation dropped her. "What’s her mission?"

Obviously, they couldn’t give her the one where she would have access to the purification device, since the product hadn’t been released to the public. "Just a simple exploration," Radia shrugged. "She’d pass if she could beat the Wood Specter."

Bassena, who seemed to have been suppressing himself, finally let go and asked in annoyance. "Are you really going to let her into the project if she passes?"

Radia glanced at Zein, who just shrugged with a subtle smile, before replying. "You become so hostile once someone is affiliated with your enemy, huh?" Radia chuckled.

It was already established that Senia had no idea about Varion’s affiliation with the Horins or the use of the Specter cores. She was just a spoiled tool raised to be a fake princess. But Bassena still couldn’t shake her affiliation with Varion itself, so of course, he would build up hostility.

"Even though Zein didn’t seem to care too much."

"It’s because he lacks self-preservation," Bassena grumbled, which Zein couldn’t really deny. "Besides...didn’t you say you don’t want her near your kids?"

"She doesn’t have to," Zein shrugged. "The one who will guide her is me, after all."

There was a few seconds of silence before the secret room was filled with a string of curses that made Radia chuckle. Unlike Bassena, Zein and Radia were driven more by rationality. For them, an additional five-star esper was beneficial, provided they could control her.

"The Deathzone is a vast area," Radia said while watching the girl traverse the grotesque forest, who kept on flinching in dread and disgust every time she encountered weird plantations. "No matter how powerful you are, you only have one body. Later on, once we established more than one safe-points and branched out our advances, we would need more vanguard."