Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

Chapter 179: Capital Building

After visiting Mira's dorm and waking her up, the duo quickly made their way over to the Capital building.

With their speed, it would only take them a few minutes to reach it.

"What do you think Professor Will wants with us?" Mira asked Alex out of curiosity.

She barely had any time to even properly dress herself, only putting on some casual clothes like Alex before she was literally dragged out of her dorm, still half asleep by him.

Though, she quickly gained energy when she felt the refreshing wind press against her face as she ran through the streets.

"I have no clue, but he sounded pretty serious when he asked to meet." Alex replied, just as clueless as Mira.

Mira looked a little worried at this, but Alex quickly reassured her.

"We haven't done anything wrong, so he can't have called us to reprimand us or anything like that. The most likely case is that he's called us to inform us about something. Maybe it's just something to do with the elite class, or something like that."

Once his words reached Mira's ears, she became as calm as Alex and only felt a strong sense of interest around why Professor Will would drag the two of them out of their beds so early in the morning to meet in one of the most important buildings in the whole federation.

Ding!

While the two were running, Alex's communicator rang out with a notification.

Normally, it wouldn't make any audible noises when he was notified of anything, but Alex had set it so that it would do so if he received any important messages, and he had designated anything Professor Will sends as important.

As expected, it was a message from him.

'Floor 512, hall 2.'

"It's just some instructions telling us where to go when we get there."

Alex replied to Mira, who looked at him with anticipation, only for it to be flushed out as the message was just an ordinary message.

After a short three minute run, the two had reached the central area of the city and soon enough made it to the front doors of the Capital building.

"Wow…"

Everywhere they looked, there were droves of people coming and going from the building.

If they were to count, there were at least 10,000 people walking back and forth in the courtyard alone.

"If this is how busy this place is in the early morning, I wouldn't want to be here in the peak hours…" Alex commented, receiving a chuckle from Mira.

"Let's go in."

Mira said.

Alex agreed, and they passed through one of the many front doors.

"This place is like a maze…"

As soon as they entered, they were already lost as to where to go.

There were no receptionists, or even a front desk for them to go over and enquire at.

"So what do we do no-" Mira asked Alex, as he was the one with all the information from Professor Will, but she was cut off by a low hum coming from above them.

They looked up, only to see a hovering drone scanning them.

"Identities confirmed, Mira Mistborn and Alex [Blank], are cleared to enter. Please head to elevator #3829 to reach floor 512, please…."

The drone carried on spouting information in an emotionless tone, but Alex had other things on his mind.

'Mistborn? Mira never told me she had a last name?'

This was the first time Alex was hearing of anything like this, which was odd considering how close they were. Especially now that they were a couple.

"What did it mean by calling you Mistbo-" Alex asked Mira straight away.

But Mira's face had already fallen, like she was in a very bad mood, as she had also noticed the drone calling out her full name.

'Luckily it seems she didn't notice me asking. Phew!'

Alex didn't pry any further when he saw her face, and only silently grabbed her hand to lead her along the route the AI drone had specified.

Her grip tightened when Alex grabbed her hand, which only further confirmed to him that she was troubled by something.

'I should ask her about this in a more private location. After our next training session would be best.'

The two of them soon reached the specified elevator, and they boarded along with a few other passengers.

Whoosh!

The elevator doors closed and it instantly accelerated to an insanely high speed, putting the occupants under an intense amount of pressure, equivalent to about 9 G's.

The occupants were all awakened, so they didn't feel much.

The elevators were operated by smart AI's, which scanned each occupant when they entered to determine if they were an awakened or not, adjusting the speed of the elevator accordingly.

After all, it would take quite a while to reach all the way up to floor 512 if they had to move at the speed of an ordinary elevator.

A dozen seconds later, the elevator came to a stop, and the doors opened up, revealing a spectacular sight to the occupant's eyes.

Everywhere they looked, they could see lush greenery adorning the walls, ceiling and even a few trees here and there.

This was completely out of Alex's expectations when he first walked into this place, as he thought it would just be a bunch of boring offices.

Instead, he was greeted by basically a miniature ecosystem.

Even Mira was brought out of her bad mood at the sight, her eyes glistening as she looked around at the beautiful scenery.

All of this, couldn't compare to the sight on the other side of the floor to ceiling window though.

At over 2.5 kilometres in the sky, they could see the whole city, and even further beyond that.

'This place is breathtaking!'

Alex was jealous of the people who had the privilege of coming to work in this place every day.

He would have given anything to have a life like this back when he was a simple miner.

Of course, his priorities in life had changed drastically from that point now.

"We should get going." Alex spoke, waking up from the shock of seeing this place for the first time.

Mira gave a simple nod in agreement.

The couple made their way over to a large door, marked 'Hall 2', just like what Professor Will specified in his message, and they entered.

"It's good to see you two in the flesh again."

When they entered, aside from Professor Will, who stood alone in the centre of the room, the whole place was empty except for an odd looking piece of futuristic tech on the floor.

"You two must be wondering why I called you out of the blue to come and meet me in this place."

Alex and Mira both nodded. They were thinking exactly that.

"Well, I think you two have gotten acclimated to university life well enough now. So about that reward I promised you two for achieving first place in the entrance test?"

'So that's it! I completely forgot about that reward!'

Both of their faces lit up when they heard Professor Will's words, as they were reminded of what the reward was.

A Variant class beast core!

'Oh shit! that reminds me, I forgot about the Variant class beast core and soul orb I got from the summoned beast as well!'

A wave of emotions hit Alex and Mira all at once.