Just after Bobby left the room, the space fluctuated and a handsome youth who seemed to be in his late teenage appeared out of the blue from the thin air.
"Nice kid!"
"Good day, Assistant Chief!" Vice-Chancellor Kuppo greeted as he saluted by hitting his fist on his chest. (* Assistant Chief was in charge of the entire Blue Lagoon Unit. By book, a Chief should be, but that chair had been vacant for several centuries. * Vice-Chancellor was the authority head of the Elite group. )
"You too!" Assistant Chief Bruno asked, "Aight, what did you think about this Loki Bradworth?"
"A truly gifted genius! I've already checked his credentials a few days ago. It hasn't been ten months, but somehow after four months of physical training under Captain Shiko, this kid joined the Elite, passing all the tests with flying colors, and has been ascending the ladder without stopping from level 1 all the way to level 9." Vice-chancellor Kuppo responded.
He added, "And, with this mission completed, the decision to promote him to level 10 has already been set in the stone, and I believed he could fill the seat of the Chief."
"How about his current strength and the concentration of the Grace Energy? Have you gotten a figure in your head?" Assistant Chief Bruno asked.
"That's the most interesting part. Earlier I used my sensory skill, scanning his body, but something interrupted me." Vice-Chancellor Kuppo answered with doubts written all over his face. "Yes, I can't really fathom the depth of his strength."
"So, you have already decided to use your sole quota on him, right? What about Juno Tempest?"
"Yes, I'm going to bet this one on Loki. And about Juno Tempest, he's a Tempest, after all, they have many other sponsors supporting their family. Honestly, I don't want to make another Captain Shiko because of their stupid privileges system." Vice-Chancellor Kuppo said with a frown.
Captain Shiko was once a candidate for Chief, but due to dirty politics and all those schemes, his quota was given to the son of another privileged family.
"I hope he might accomplish what I have failed to do in the past... Hmm, it would be better for me, too. I'm tired of running this Lagoon unit while I'm just an assistant. All the other three units have their Chiefs but not us." Assistant Chief Bruno responded.
"Yes, let's hope that we can have a Chief this time." Vice-Chancellor Kuppo agreed.
"Alright, get all the ten board members of the Chief Selection Committee to announce your candidate for this coming Chief Selection Trial. Anyway, it's just 2 months away. But, let me remind you of this; all the noble families will start questioning your judgment the moment they hear you pick an illegitimate heir of the Bradworth family. Therefore, you need to prepare yourself for the political nonsense crap you are about to encounter." Assistant Chief Bruno said and warned him at the end of his statement.
"Okay, I have some more things to attend to. Have a great day, Kuppo?" Assistant Chief Bruno bid with a friendly smile. Then a space fluctuation appeared around him.
"You too, sir!" Vice-Chancellor Kuppo saluted, thrusting his fist on his chest. And in front of his eyes, Bruno disappeared into the thin air and the space returned to normal.
As Kuppo trudged around the room, he called out loud after pondering for some time. "Gutcsko!" He used a trace of the Angelic Grace in his voice and his voice echoed outside the room.
Soon, the old man came rushing into the room.
"Gutcsko, they are the Black Lagoon Unit's rascally rogue elite agents, popularly known as the Truth Of Vanishment Gang. The one who had plundered and massacred the entire Cantoon City." Vice-Chancellor Kuppo ordered, "Put these fourteen in level 10 super-cells, and four days from now we are going to kill them in public."
He walked toward the exit of the room. But he halted just before the door, turned around, and said, "And one more important thing. Inform all the ten board members of the Chief Selection Committee in the conference room…. About the subject of the invitation, just write; I'm ready to announce my candidate!" He then walked out of the room.
Gutcsko glanced at the fourteen lying unconscious on the ground. He approached them and spat in the handsome face of Faf as he cursed. "Fucking scums of the society!"
In the Vice-Chancellor's office, there were four officials affiliated with promoting the elites after reviewing their missions sitting around the primary seat, which was occupied by Kuppo, the Vice-chancellor himself.
Now the four senior military officers were currently checking on the mission logs of Bobby Bradford, which was actually under his new disguise name, Loki Bradworth.
They began from the very first mission of killing the bandits when Bobby was level 1 elite, then until the level 8 files.
"Excellence!" One Senior officer blurted out, seeing the last mission Bobby completed as a Level 8 elite.
Sensing everyone eying on him, he made an awkward smile and apologized to Kuppo. "A thousand apologies, sir!"
"It's okay, Brigg! Continue your work. I need a complete review of Loki's mission logs within an hour. This work means a lot to me." Vice-chancellor Kuppo demanded. "Aight, my dear officers, focus!"
Instead of berating Brigg for losing his composer, Vice-Chancellor Kuppo insisted on encouraging them to complete the rating of the reviews of this specific agent.
Seeing how serious Kuppo was, the four senior officers glanced at each other and a new realization struck their minds as they all screamed in their heads. 'He's the candidate.... the next chief's candidate! '
Then they all analyzed with more enthusiasm and even began rechecking the earlier review of the mission logs they had already rated. It was not just a matter of favoritism because they knew if the Vice-Chancellor found even a speck of dirt of recklessness, then they were going to be in trouble through the entire course of their careers.
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