Advancing in professional level was never easy. By the time the Chairman's orders arrived, Punk still stood just a tiny step short of the threshold of level thirty. But that tiny step was one he had ultimately failed to cross in time.
When the three moons above the Faerun plane rose for who knew how many times, the four words "Mission Begins," written in ancient Byron language, abruptly appeared on the black crystal card.
One thousand nine hundred and twenty-five years, four months, and three days after the Executors' first collective meeting ended, the mission to raid the Mage Guild had finally officially begun!
To prevent anyone from alarming the enemy through unauthorized actions such as gathering intelligence, the Chairman had not precisely marked the locations of the three Mage Guild Legendary members targeted by the mission when the task was first issued. The crystal cards' original "team leader and member communication function" had not been enabled either.
Only now, with the mission officially underway, did every team leader receive the precise locations of their targets in the blink of an eye, along with the authority to contact the crystal cards held by their team members.
Yes, it was one-way communication authority. Team leaders could send orders to their members, but members could not send information to their leaders!
It was undoubtedly a rather strange method of communication.
Punk could only guess that the Chairman had granted team leaders the authority to order their members to gather at designated locations in order to help certain "team leaders" establish a bit of authority as mission leaders. At the same time, if a member died or disappeared at the meeting point... the Chairman could more conveniently identify the culprit.
Thus, for "team members" whose strength was usually inferior to that of the