Unlike the Reincarnators, whose thoughts were twisting and turning.
The North District Wizards piloting the Edge Type-1s on patrol were rather annoyed, nervously exchanging information over their internal channel.
"—Damn! Why are there people here?"
"How should I know? And they're dressed in such strange clothes... They don't look like students from the university, or merchants from Beta Town... Are they outsiders here for the School Hunting Meet?"
"What are they doing?"
"Looks like they're conducting an Alchemy Magic experiment? The kind with fairly serious contamination, at that... Isn't this sort of alchemy prohibited by the university? Did they submit an application?"
"Never mind conducting experiments here... Under normal circumstances, outsiders aren't even allowed into the Silent Forest! Should we drive them off the island?"
"We don't have that much authority... But we can make them leave the Silent Forest."
"Holy shit... The detector shows at least three Archwizard-level beings on the other side, while the other five are all High-Tier Registered Wizards... What the hell are these people trying to do?"
"Don't report this to the university or the Guardian Formation just yet! This area is under our academy's jurisdiction. Most likely, these outsiders are guests our academy is responsible for receiving. Let's notify the academy first and see what the arrangements are... Then, no matter what, try to negotiate normally and have them leave this area on their own!"
"What are they doing here? If I'd known, I would've kept the internal channel on the whole time... Damn it!"
Listening to Zoe's somewhat irritable voice through the communicator, Nicholas could not help but give a wry smile. He had not expected this patrol to run into such a complication.
Though the Edge Type-1s they were piloting were still called "Type-1," they had in fact gone through many iterations