The notification remained before Sage for several seconds before fading, leaving the completed gates of the Adventurer Guild Grand Complex in front of him.
One month ago, he had stood in almost the same place looking through a crumbling military entrance at weeds, abandoned barracks and roads cracked by decades of neglect.
Now two enormous gates stood open between reinforced stone structures bearing the emblem of the Adventurer Guild, and beyond them stretched an avenue so broad that several heavy merchant carriages could travel beside one another without blocking either direction.
Mina was already several steps ahead before Sage had properly started moving, while Boren and Pax followed more slowly, both staring into the complex with expressions that were difficult to read.
There had been construction plans, projections and thirty days of watching buildings rise, but seeing pieces of the Headquarters separately had been nothing like standing before the finished whole.
