The administrative interviews continued inside the Grand Guild Hall the following morning, but Sage was no longer sitting behind a desk.
More than nine thousand applications still required initial processing, and temporary recruitment staff had been reinforced overnight with the first clerks who passed their interviews, allowing Sage to shift his attention toward the applicants who couldn't be judged through paperwork.
Across the Grand Complex, facilities that had stood silent since construction were opening their doors for practical examinations. Smiths carried hammers and toolboxes toward the Production Quarter.
Alchemists arrived with ingredient cases and personal equipment. Healers gathered outside the Grand Medical Center, while monster processors were directed toward receiving bays that had been stocked with purchased carcasses specifically for testing.
