In the end, the revised price that Kim Hee-cho and Wang Shuai agreed on was 360,000. Of course, this was still lower than the market price for a job of the same level of difficulty.

The problem was that there were no clauses on the contract covering anomaly eradications, so Wang Shuai had agreed to pay an additional fee purely as a gesture of good faith.

Adam was quite pleased with earning 360,000 for the job, and he didn't think too much about it. After returning to the academy, he took Shae back to his dorm room to test out some of his theories.

"Did you really not feel anything when Distortion jumped on you?"

Having had some time to calm down, Shae carefully recalled the event, and she was able to recollect some of the finer details. 

"I did feel something. It was like water was flowing into my body, but the feeling was sucked away as soon as it appeared."

"Water flowing into your body..." 

Adam repeated with a peculiar expression. This was very surprising for him to hear as he experienced a similar feeling whenever he...