Chapter 168: the embassy
Dozens of minutes after rk took off with his entourage of soldiers, he finally arrived at the border territory of Vatican City.
On arriving, he reduced the speed at which he traveled on the highway before navigating directly to the city hall, where the current diplomatic leaders of the city were waiting.
After informing them some minutes ago that he wasing, they all quickly converged from wherever they were to the city hall.
After another 2 minutes of driving without sidelining, he finally arrived at therge city hall.
All the influential leaders of the city stood outside the hall like a group of students weing their principal with respectful expressions on their faces, as they weed their new superior.
rk did not go inside the hall to discuss with them. He just exchanged greetings with the leaders, thanked them for finding time toe out and wee him, before apologizing as he had to go.
After leaving his soldiers to stay with them to act and make decisions on his behalf, he finally bid them farewell before driving away alone.
A few minutes after, he arrived at his ancestral home. The house was still the same way he knew it years ago, it experienced little wear or degradation throughout the years.
On entering inside the house, he met only Emily at home as Kate already reported to the Python military division base.
The little girl no longer lived here with her sister, she now lived in an apartment that is specially made for doctors in the military base.
After undergoing a lot of tests, the military division quickly confirmed her qualifications, so she already settled therepletely. Her career was already back and kicking off.
Emily was dressed in a red tacticalbat vest, with a pair of red skin-tightbat jeans topliment it. Her ckbat bag and boots increased her adventure-like look further.
She tied her originally long ck flowing hair into a bun, making her face look more dignified and militaristic.
With this new outfit, she looked wildly tenacious like the famous Lara Croft during her adventures in the wild. The tight outfit did a good job in outlining a clear outlook of her nicely contoured curves.
rk quickly greeted with a smile on seeing her, as he tried hard to keep his eyes from going to inappropriate ces. He didnt waste time though, as they both quickly left the house.
On entering the car, he ordered it to take them on autopilot to the nearest airport. To get to their destination in the most efficient way possible, they needed to board a ne.
The big 5 acts simrly to most of the advanced countries of the 21st century. They have authoritative embassies built in all the important countries of the world, to make their leadership easier.
The nearest embassy of the Mercenary Alliance was located in the Landmark Kingdom. It was also the closest high-grade country to the Spartan republic, in terms of border and boundaries.
5 minutes after they started driving, they finally arrived at the Vatican central airport. With rks identity, they experienced no dy as a ne was left for him to monopolize for his journey after he paid.
In less than 10 minutes, the paperwork for departure and everything was finalized as the ne quickly took off without dy, going directly to the Landmark kingdom.
Using this opportunity that they had together alone, Emily actively engaged in conversations with rk for them to spend the time. ording to the pilot, the journey would take 2 hours, which was more than enough time for them to discuss and free themselves.
After making small jokes for few minutes, they both finally eased themselves to each other, as they discussed random matters and gossip, mostly led by Emily.
Hourster, after contacting the authorities, asking for permission, and to get authorization, the Spartan airline ne finally docked in the Landmark airport.
The ne was booked down for days by rk, so the pilot would also have to stay and wait for them here in the Landmark kingdom until they are done with their activities.
Despite the eye-catching wears that they both wore; rk and Emily drew only a little attention as they quickly navigated their way out of the airport.
They already hired a car online, that was waiting for them in the garage. After meeting thepany driver who parked the car, rk left his signature for him after his identity was confirmed, before he took the car away.
He drove straight to the direction shown by the cars GPSwork, that led to the embassy of the Mercenary Alliance.
After another 20 minutes drive, the enormous silhouette of the Mercenary Alliances embassy finally starteding into sight.
The building looked simple yet imposing. Its enormous size towered up to the skies while taking a shape like that of the headquarters of the Avengers squad from the ancient Avengers movie.
It was a skyscraper building, with walls made from reinforced exotic ss. The ss wall was mildly reflective, so it does not affect the eyes of peopleing from outside.
In the middle of the enormous building stood its identity board. Arge signboard indicating the name of the Mercenary Alliance, and their signature image of a diator shield and sword greeted every neer who was seeing it for the first time.
After arriving at the foot of the building and parking at the garage, rk finally came down with Emily in tow.
They took a few minutes to admire the splendor of one of the big 5s embassy, just like the way some neers like them were also standing to admire in awe.
After admiring their fill and imprinting this memory at their receptive brain, they finally proceeded to enter the huge building.
They underwent a simple identity check at the door of the embassy by a group of armed officials before they were finally allowed in.
Inside the embassy looked like a pce where divine light was shining and smiling on. Bright blue and white lights illuminated therge hall where they emerged, making it look like a 1st rate countrys main airport waiting hall.
The ce was extremely boisterous, as both soldiers eyes had a rare feast by looking curiously at their fellow humans of different shapes, sizes, and forms from all over the world.
People from different tribes and nations were here. Both the ck, the white, the red, and the yellow were all gathered in the Mercenary Alliances embassy. Even the blueish yellow was present.
As one of the central figures of humanity and the most visited organization among the big 5, the Mercenary Alliance was a ma for people who looked to make good use of their strength and knowledge to make money.
rk led Emily, as they quickly blended into the growing line of people who were moving to the various side chambers to do whatever they wanted.
Most activities of the embassy were governed and administered by A. Is, as humans were simply not capable enough to attend alone to such hordes of pestering people.
After about an hour of waiting by the side, their turn finally came as rk quickly led Emily into the now free chamber.
Inside the chamber waspletely white. It faintly looked like the room where rks diator team once entered back when they just went for their tournament, to ess the outer headquarters of the Sea Farers alliance.
Only a single holographic film hovered in mid-air, showing that they didnte into the wrong room.
Hum, wee to the inquiry chamber. My name is Mercenary 9, I am the 9th A. I that is responsible for basic activities in the embassy. It''s nice to meet you. Please, can I know the reason for your visit?
The strangely smooth voice of the A. I echoed out, reverberating sweetly round the thin walls of the room.
Seeing this, rk and Emily were not surprised, as this was a daily urrence for them back when they still stayed in the outer headquarters of the Sea Farers alliance as diators.
rk took the lead, as he quicklyid bare the main reason for their arrival.
After understanding their need, the A. I quickly got them started on the right procedures to take to implement and finalize their registration into the Mercenary Alliances circle.
They both quickly got busy, as, under the guidance of the A.I, they finished the virtual work before leaving the room to go and meet the embassy officials to finalize their registration.
This is where the problem came, as they joined therge horde-like queue waiting for their turn.
Not everyone in the embassy came to register as a mercenary, most were already mercenaries. They just came to get a new mission, or maybe engage in a business transaction, the possibility was endless.
After hours of patiently waiting, when it was already past 4:00 pm, their turn finally came to be attended to.
They didnt waste any more time, as the professional workers in the embassy finalized their registration in less than 10 minutes. They finally received their identity badge, indicating them as mercenaries under the Mercenary Alliance.
Emily finally heaved a sigh of relief after getting her hands on the badge. She was happy, as this was her goal all along.
After getting her badge, she didnt leave immediately. She instead applied for a mission. As a new level 1 mercenary, only a small fraction of the avable missions were avable to her.
The Mercenary Alliance group their mercenaries into levels. This was to better keep track of their abilities, to know the kind of mission that they were capable of undertaking.
You can only upgrade your level, after proving your capability by fulfilling groups of missions. Efficiency and how clean missions are done also affect the leveling rate.
In the end, Emily settled for 5 of the missions that were ted. rk did not take any of the missions, as he was not sure if he had the time for those currently.
He was not anxious though, as after bing a member, he could ess the Mercenary Alliances online portal anywhere to ept missions virtually.
After all these, they both finally turned to leave the embassy. They already booked a hotel, as they initially predicted that they would most likely not finish their registration today. Everything was done faster than they predicted.
On entering their hired car, rk took the steering wheel as he drove in the direction of the hotel. It was alreadyte; he would visit the weapons specialist town the next day.
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