Absolute Soul
91. Next Steps

After Jack managed to persuade the male Blazer candidates to stop glaring at Haikal with hostility, then the atmosphere in the room returned light. It takes a lot of time to calm them down.

Jack himself until massaging his forehead felt something strange on the priorias of these people, even though there is a death battle out there, while they still had time to spray the situation of Haikal who looks friendly with Salvia?

If the people who participated in the battle against the onslaught of Blackout and Verg out there knew this, perhaps they had already cursed at even making a loud swearing at these male Blazer candidates.

"Well, put that aside...." Jack cleared his throat, drew the attention of the entire room and pointed to the map of Adele lying on the discussion table, "We have to think about our next move to get to the evacuation site."

Adele is a major city in Wulodhasia. In addition to public facilities and the atmosphere of the city is so safe and comfortable for ordinary humans to settle, Adele is also equipped with several evacuation sites that are underground to anticipate the existence of unwanted events like now.

Adele has six evacuation sites hidden underground. To the north and south of Adele are two separate locations, while to the west and east there is one on each side.

Evacuation sites spread like this are created to reduce the number of casualties if one of them collapses or is found by the enemy, and increase the possibility of the enemy intelligence to break the force so that it is easier to face.

There are only a few special maps that display these six evacuation locations although the location itself is not a big secret, one of which is the map currently designated by Jack.

Jack's designated location is the southern evacuation site, which is the largest evacuation site. The number of Blazer candidates and ordinary humans evacuated from the arena is quite a lot if added up, so it requires a large place as well.

Thanks to the final match of the Welcome Tournament almost one-fifth of Adele's population came to the arena to watch the fierce fight between the seeds, but no one expected this situation was actually used by Blackout to find an opportunity to attack.

"In any particular public facility there is a special evacuation route that can be used, Skymaze Academy is also one of them." Jack added that the hall building has a special evacuation route leading to the northern evacuation site.

"Wait, why are you pointing to the southern evacuation site? Isn't that the opposite direction?" One of the students expressed his opinion not understanding why Jack pointed to the map of the south.

Jack then explained that the southern evacuation site was the largest of all evacuation sites, even able to accommodate a quarter of Adele's population in one place if jostling.

According to Jack, the casual human victim that was evacuated from the arena to the first-class building is the least compared to the second or third-class building.

Candidates for Blazer second or third grade even though they do not have much experience like the official Blazer, at least their strengths and abilities are already known and recognized by the teachers, and they are not, while the candidate Blazer first class in addition to his ability is not widely known their experience is also less than other seniors.

"This is why I suggest we take the special evacuation route in the hall because the number of casualties in the first-class building is likely to be less." Jack also reminded that the number of refugees that can be accommodated in the northern evacuation area is less than other evacuation sites.

Some students argue that Jack's decision-making is too rash given that there is no sure way to know how many refugees are already there, especially the evacuation route is the closest route in the academy. It is not impossible that refugees from second or third class buildings are already on their way there.

Jack then rethinks about the evacuation route they can use in addition to the path in the hall. The evacuation site to the south designated by Jack is indeed spacious and can accommodate many people, but if from the entrance academy the location is farthest away.

As the silent atmosphere filled the room Salvia raised her voice, "What about the bunker of the noble family? Like my family's or Galvoria's?"

"Sorry Salvia, but I don't think many nobles intend to share their private sanctuary with commoners like us" Haikal said laughing dryly as he patted Salvia on the shoulder.

Salvia tilted her head in surprise at Haikal's reply, "My father once said our private bunker would always be open to anyone if it was needed, did other noble families have different rules?"

Haikal scratched his cheek at the difficulty of how to explain it to Salvia who was insensitive to the surrounding environment, moreover, he was not a noble who understood the blue blood type mindset.

"Salvia, most noble families looked at ordinary people one eye, some even like seeing insects. Such high self-worth people would not be willing to share their private place with strangers."

Seeing Haikal having trouble answering, Verna opened her voice explaining a little about the arrogance of most people of noble blood. Thanks to that Verna was glared sharply by some commoners which made her uncomfortable.

Heru noticed the commoner's gaze and intended to raise a voice trying to say something, but was held back by Verna whose face was slightly depressed, "It's okay, the reality is so."

"Even the Galvoria family is not much different, even though my father and mother strongly reject it," said Verna trying to convince herself not to be stared at like that, "You also feel it yourself, right?"

Heru was silent for a while before sighing and unbending his intentions, unable to refute Verna's words. She did not want her lover's pretty face to shrivel more than now.

The commoner disciples who glared at Verna also showed no further opposition to seeing Verna's expression and attitude that actually wanted to reject the way the noble family views the common people but the stigma of society did not allow.

Salvia who had proposed the use of the royal bunker was now silent with a frown, she did not understand why the noble family behaved so to ordinary people when they were both human.

"Ehem, get back to the original topic." Jack cleared his throat hard enough to gather the scattered attention due to the awkward atmosphere, he then pointed to the evacuation site to the east, "What about the eastern evacuation site? It shouldn't be too bad to see from the distance and the maximum amount that can be accommodated."

Before anyone could make a sound about Jack's proposal, Cecil who had been silent in the corner of the room suddenly raised a voice, "Don't go there, Jack. Many Verg hybrid types combined Predator and Aquatic results come from the east, while the west is controlled by Blackout members." He said so with one eye open.

Jack scratched his head at the latest information from Cecil, getting more and more confused by the choice he had to take. The information Cecil provided could be said to be accurate as Cecil was currently looking at the situation thanks to his Soul Arc, Jade Phoenix.

Jade Phoenix is a special Wizard-type Soul Arc that can only be obtained by a Job Blazer like a Summoner. The Blazers with Job Summoner can exert their Soul Arc which is usually in the form of living creatures and generally has the ability to unite their five senses.

This ability is not something that is easily mastered by just any Summoner because the level of concentration and the amount of soul energy needed is not small. That was why Cecil kept silent while closing his eyes in the corner of the room.

Cecil who is able to unite his five senses with Jade Phoenix at this level shows his talent is not too far from Salvia or Verna.

When a tense situation began to form after Cecil informed Adele's situation, suddenly the door of the room slammed violently startling as well as making the entire room take a standby position with their respective Soul Arc.

"Wait a minute, I'm your senior not the enemy!" The figure of the door slider hurriedly showed a badge engraved with the emblem of Skymaze Academy, "Sakuya Hirogami, one of the Skymaze Harbinger is ready to help!"