They got into her car, although Zayden hesitated to get in and only after Lina urged him that he got into her car. After putting on their seat belts, she brought the car into a roaring life and drove off at high speed towards their destination.

  As they rode along the road at high speed, Zayden grew concerned and asked, “I had forgotten to ask but don’t you think you’re speeding too much?”

  “You think so?” She asked in surprise. “I’m simply following the speed limits.”

  This surprised him and he asked, “Huh? You’re doing the speed limit? Then why does it feel like you’re driving off fast?”

  To that, she chuckled and replied, “It’s probably because I accelerate at such a high speed that you got that initial impression that I drive fast but trust me. I’m not breaking the rules.” Then she glanced at him sideways and asked with a shrewd look, “Were you thinking I’m a rule breaker?”

  “No, no! That wasn’t it,” he replied quickly while raising his hands in a defence gesture. “I never rode in this kind of car before so it felt like you’re driving fast.”

  “That makes sense,” she said with a smile and continued driving at the same speed as before.

  It did not take them long before they began arrived outside a tall building that had a large logo built into the front of the building. The logo had the head of a lion with its mouth open with a fearsome expression and underneath it was the name ‘Beserkers’ to indicate that as their guild headquarters.

  She drove the car through the entrance way and rolled down the window to speak to the guards, who saluted to her in surprise. Then they lifted up the gate and she drove inside and parked in one of the empty parking spots.

  “Here we are,” she said after switching the engine off cheerfully.

  Zayden got out of the car and looked up at how tall the building was before commenting, “It’s quite tall.”

  “Yeah. It’s my dad’s idea to build a tall skyscraper,” she said with a grin before saying, “Let’s go in,” and led the way with him following after her.

  As they arrived outside the entrance doors, there were two security guards that were stationed there. They immediately stood at attention and saluted to her upon recognising who she was. She nodded at them with a smile before they opened the doors for her to allow them entry into the guild building.

  Once they entered the building, Zayden marvelled at the construction of the incredible interior design of the building. The moment they entered was when he saw a large chandelier hanging high off the ground at what seemed like the centre of the inside. Then he saw what seemed like statues of knights wearing fear inspiring armours situated at almost every section of the inside.

  On the floor, he noticed an orange carpet leading straight from the entrance towards a desk with the insignia of the guild. There was another insignia of the guild symbol embedded into the wall behind the desk where several smartly dressed people were speaking to those on the other side of the large desk. He looked up and saw what looked like walk ways connecting between floors while the same walkways were used to connect the same floors separated by the space made for the chandelier.

  Lina took a few steps in and then turned to face him before saying with a cheerfully smile, “Welcome to Beserkers guild!”

  He was taken aback by the bright smile she showed him and felt a strange sensation in his chest. This startled him because this was a foreign feeling for him as he, Asura, had in all his years ever felt a throbbing sensation in his chest.

  “What is this strange feeling…?” He thought to himself silently as he followed her towards the desk.

  On their approach, one of the women noticed them and instantly recognised who Lina was. The lady immediately jumped to her feet and greeted her with a bright smile.

  “Hello, young miss! What brings you here?”

  At her words, several of the people that overheard her stopped what they were doing and turned to look at her. There was an audible muttering with them muttering amongst themselves about the sudden appearance of the guild owner’s daughter at their headquarters. Then their eyes shifted to focus on Zayden, who felt their penetrating stares and felt quite uncomfortable.

  “Hey,” said Lina with a wave at the lady. “I came here to speak with uncle.”

  “Your uncle? Okay, young miss. I’ll call him right now.”

  “Ah, there’s no need,” said Lina quickly. “If he’s in office, I’ll head there myself.”

  “Contrary to her wishes, the lady behind the counter shook her head negatively and replied, “Sorry, young miss, but the guild master will have our heads if he finds out you were made to walk there.”

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  “Ugh…!” Lina groaned and lowered her shoulders in defeat. “Fine.”

  Smiling again, the lady lifted her arm and began clicking on the watch she was wearing on her wrist. It immediately caused a holographic display to appear, and she began navigating through the menus. Soon, she pressed on a certain option and that caused a round circle thing to appear that continued to spin in circle.

  While that was happening, Zayden asked, “Your uncle? What do you need him for?”

  “Recruiting you, of course,” said Lina with a smile. “He’s the head of all the recruitments that are done in the guild. No one gets accepted into the guild without his approval.”

  “I see,” he said with a look of amazement on his face.

  A moment later, the spinning wheel disappeared and the hologram face of a man appeared hovering above the watch.

  “Yes?” Asked a tired voice of the man in the hologram which appeared to look quite grumpy.

  “Sir, young miss Lina is here to see you.”

  “What? Lina?” The man said in surprise and the holographic face spun around to look at them. His grumpy expression quickly vanished and was replaced with a look of pure delight as he said, “Lina! You should’ve called when you’re coming here. Wait there. I’ll be there shortly.”

  With that, the holographic head vanished and the light disappeared from her wrist watch. Not too long after, they saw the door somewhere on the side open and the same man appeared out from it.

  Zayden’s first impression of the man was that of someone that constantly kept themselves busy. He wore glasses over his face and his head hair looked dishevelled like he never cared for it. Not only his hair but his entire attire looked like the man never cared about his appearance of the clothes he was wearing.

  “Lina!” He said happily on seeing her. “It’s good to see you.”

  “Yes, it’s good to see you too, uncle,” she cheerfully.

  “So, what brings you here today and specifically for it to do with me?”

  “Well, I came here to talk to you about him,” she said and indicated Zayden, who was standing behind her. Then she introduced him to her uncle by saying, “Uncle, this is Zayden.”

  “Hello, Zayden. I’m Martin Morris,” the older man said and extended his hand out in greeting.

  Zayden shook it with his own and greeted him with, “Hello, sir. I’m Zayden Kardos.”

  “Kardos…” Martin muttered to himself, trying to remember if he knew the family name from somewhere.

  “Uncle, don’t bother with his family name,” snapped Lina in annoyance.

  “Alright, alright,” he said with a smile. “So, what does my cute little girl bring this gentleman here for?”

  “Let’s discuss in your office,” she suggested, and he accepted readily.

  “Alright. Follow me,” he said, and he led them towards the sliding door he came out from.

  As they reached it and the older man slid open the door for them, Zayden was confused to find the inside of the room to be small. It was so small that he felt it could fit about ten people at a time while only standing.

  He was feeling doubtful when he saw Lina step into the small cubicle and decided to follow after her before the older man walked in and slid the door shut. Then the man clicked his fingers, causing a magic circle to suddenly appear beneath their feet much to Zayden’s surprise.

  “Floor 29,” said Martin casually.

  In an instant, Zayden felt his surrounding shaking and the colours began to distort out of control. Then he felt a heavy motion like movement that made him feel sick but the sensation lasted for only a moment because it vanished within a second and the door was slid open by Martin.

  “Here we are,” he said and walked out first.

  Lina stepped out next and then finally Zayden, who breathed a deep sigh and clutched his head with a pained look.

  “Are you okay, Zayden?” Lina asked, suddenly realising he was not okay.

  “Um… Kind of,” he said simply while still keeping his hand over his forehead with his eyes closed.

  “Did you feel a strange sensation when the teleportation activated?”

  “So, that was teleportation…” Zayden said slowly with a sigh. Then he removed his hand from his forehead and looked at them before saying, “Yes, I did.”

  “Ah, you must have magic sickness,” said Martin coolly.

  For a moment, Zayden stared at him with a dumbfounded look before asking, “Magic… sickness…?”

  “Yes. A lot of people experience it and it’s quite common actually,” the older man explained in a matter-of-fact tone. “In fact, I experienced it all the time until I got used to it. I mean, you would have to since my office is located on Floor 29.”

  “I… see…” said the young man in amazement.

  “Well, let’s head on to my office to discuss, shall we?” He asked them and after receiving their nods, he turned and led the way.

  As he followed after them, Asura thought to himself, “Me? Having magic sickness? That’s ridiculous! There’s no way I could be sick of magic when I had tested some of the basic spells when I found myself in this world at that hospital and I was perfectly fine. That could only mean one thing,” and he turned to look back at the door.

  “That teleportation magic circle has some flaws in it.”

  He remembered from the past witnessing many accidents conducted by his clansmen trying to master the magic circles of the High Elves. The slightest mistake and the intended purpose changes and ultimately many accidents happened, some permanent. As such, he never bothered himself with using it and chose to rely on Voiceless Incantation to use the Magic Force.

  “So, the reason everyone feels sick was because that Magic Circle has flaws in it that no one is aware of,” he thought to himself and inwardly sighed. “Does that mean the people of this world have limited knowledge of how to properly use Magic Circles? If that’s the case, it’s a miracle that circle even functions at all and doesn’t do something terrible to the user.”

  Just then, Lina asked him, “What’s the matter, Zayden?”

  “Oh. Nothing,” he reacted in surprise and looked to the front.

  “Are you still thinking about the Magic Circle, Zayden?”

  Asura thought for a moment whether to bring up his doubts and decided might as well share his thoughts with them.

  “I just thought that there might be some kind of flaw or something for everyone to feel so sick from just teleporting.”

  “A fair point,” said Martin in agreement, “but not everything in life can go smoothly, right, youngster?”

  “Um… I suppose so, sir…”

  “And besides, with the knowledge and experiments we were able to conduct in the past 200 years, we should appreciate the Magic Engineering Workshop were able to come up with a method to teleport. Don’t you agree?” The older man asked with a serene smile.

  “Yes, sir. You’re right,” said Zayden with a nod of ascent, but inwardly he was taken aback.

  “Wait? It took them 200 years to get this far? Huh? No way!” He thought to himself in alarm.

  That was when Asura began to realise that he perhaps has a better knowledge of how magic works compared to the people of this world.